The Flowery Branch City Council (FBCC) Thursday will consider seeking a loan from the state to finance a portion of its Lead Service Removal Project.
The amount listed on the agenda for the meeting is “up to $120,000.
The Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) recently okayed such low-interest loans to six communities around the state. The money is to be used to help them “complete lead service line inventory projects and lead service line replacement projects.”
Flowery Branch received was awarded one earlier this year. Flowery Branch getting state $$$ for lead pipe inventory (wgtjradio.com)
Gainesville also received one. Getting the lead out: Gville gets $200K for lead service line inventory (wgtjradio.com)
About the Author
Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.
Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.
He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.
He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.
