Perhaps it was holiday spirit, or maybe just looking to end a bad year on a good note.
Something sure had the Triumph Gulf Coast board in a giving mood Thursday, as its membership voted to hand out almost $18 million in new grant awards.
Four grants were provided or agreed to in principle that will help fund projects in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Bay and Walton counties. Each of these programs will bring either or both new high-paying jobs and certified workforce training, a news release from Triumph said.
Santa Rosa County
The largest actual grant award $6 million went to the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners for infrastructure improvements at Santa Rosa Industrial Park East.
Walton County’s Efforts to Boost Census Response Falls Short The data shows that while many households didn’t respond, those who did mostly used the Internet. The low response rate sets the county at 63rd out of Florida’s 67 counties. Jim Thompson, Northwest Florida Daily News | December 16, 2020 | News
(TNS) Despite efforts by Walton County, Fla., officials to boost response rates to the 2020 census, only 33.9 percent of county households responded on their own to the decennial count of the U.S. population. Walton County did not have a great response to the census, admitted Dede Hinote, one of the county s two deputy administrators. Hinote said she and other county officials really do not know why the self-response rate was so low.