Heads roll in Palmetto's $6 million grant mistake

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 9:05 p.m. February 19, 2010
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The city of Palmetto is typically eligible to receive up to $1.5 million a year in federal community development block grant funds. But bad advice resulted in those funds not being applied for from 2006-2009, costing the city up to $6 million.

 

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