City leaders are knocking on doors this week in an attempt to obtain federal grant money that would repair an oft-flooded section of Statesboro. Code enforcement personnel, City Manager Frank Parker and a pair of councilmen — Phil Boyum and Gary Lewis — walked door to door Wednesday to properties located on or near Gordon Street, to meet with residents and discuss issues the community faces with standing rainwater in its streets and yards. The effort is part of an application process for a Community Development Block Grant — a federal program designed to address the infrastructural and community development needs of low-income portions of a city — that could be worth as much as $500,000.
City seeks grant for flood relief
Surveys residents in effort to receive $500,000