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The Braselton News
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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Local grants
Jackson EMC Foundation awards $g6k locally in grants
Submitted photo
A $6,000 Jackson EMC Foundation grant to Families of Children Under
Stress (FOCUS) will help provide 18 children with developmental disabil
ities the opportunity to build skills at Camp Hollywood in Lawrenceville.
Pictured are (L-R) Jennifer Fennell, Jackson EMC Gwinnett district manag
er; Frances McBrayer, executive director, FOCUS; Beauty Baldwin, Jackson
EMC Foundation board member; and Kenny Lumpkin, Jackson EMC Foun
dation representative.
The Jackson EMC Foun
dation board of directors
awarded a total of $96,000
in grants dining its recent
meeting for organizations
serving area residents.
•$15,000 to Camp Kud-
zu, to support 18-20 chil
dren, teens and their fam
ilies in the 10 counties
served by Jackson EMC
to attend a variety of camp
activities for children and
teens with diabetes.
•$15,000 to Camp Twin
Lakes, a not-for-profit
organization that offers
year-round recreational,
therapeutic and educational
programming for children
facing serious illnesses and
other challenges, to help
children in Jackson EMC’s
10-county service area at
tend its state-of-the-art,
fully-accessible camp.
•$15,000 to Spectrum
Autism Support Group,
for a parent-run nonprof
it group in Suwanee that
provides Gwinnett and
Hall County families with
support, education and re
sources for the entire spec
trum of autism disorders, to
help disadvantaged autistic
individuals ages four to 22
attend the organization’s
weeklong summer camp
program, with daily activi
ties that teach social skills
lessons.
•$15,000 to YMCA of
Athens, to help enable chil
dren in Barrow, Clarke,
Jackson, Madison and
Oglethorpe counties to par
ticipate in its nine-week
summer day camp project,
which offers supervised
sports and other activities,
as well as teaches math,
reading and values.
•$15,000 to YWCO of
Athens, to help 30 girls
from low-income families
attend the summer girls
camp program, a structured
recreational and education
al summer program target
ing young girls ages 5 to
14 from low-to-moderate
income families.
•$10,000 to Camp Am
plify, Winder, to provide
15 children ages eight to
12 from underserved com
munities with a week-long
camping experience to de
velop character, leadership
and teambuilding skills
through a high adventure,
overnight camp.
•$6,000 to Families of
Children Under Stress (FO
CUS), a nonprofit agency
serving children, teens and
adults with developmen
tal disabilities and their
families, to help provide
18 children the opportu
nity to build social skills,
self-respect, character and
community living skills at
Camp Hollywood in Law
renceville.
•$5,000 to Foster Sib
lings Reunited, to enable
children in the 10 counties
Jackson EMC serves to at
tend Camp to Belong sum
mer camp, which reunites
siblings living separately
in foster care or other out-
of-home care to strength
en relationships, increase
self-esteem, create health
ier attitudes and childhood
memories.
Jackson EMC Foun
dation grants are made
possible by the 209,979
participating coopera
tive members who have
their monthly electric bills
rounded to the next dollar
amount through the Oper
ation Round Up program.
Their “spare change” has
funded 1,837 grants to or
ganizations and 421 grants
to individuals, putting
more than $19.2 million
back into local communi
ties since the program be
gan in 2005.
Any individual or chari
table organization in the ten
counties served by Jackson
EMC (Clarke, Banks, Bar-
row, Franklin, Gwinnett,
Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin,
Madison and Oglethorpe)
may apply for a Foundation
grant by completing an ap
plication, available online
athttps://www.jacksonemc.
com/foundation-apply or at
local Jackson EMC offic
es. Applicants do not need
to be a member of Jackson
EMC.
Ward continued from lA
Burns (R - Sylvania),
Senator Sheikh Rahman
(D - Lawrenceville) and
Lumpkin County Board
of Commissioners Chair
man Chris Dockery on the
committee.
“I look forward to the
members on the service
delivery study committee
bringing forward recom
mendations on if and how
intergovernmental negoti
ations can be improved,”
Jones said in a press re
lease.
For all information re
lated to these joint study
committees, follow this
page:
https://www.senate.
ga.gov/committees/
en-U S/2023 Study Com
mittees.aspx
Hearings continued from lA
which would bring a com
bined 1,400 homes and a
shopping center to the city
if approved.
The council took no ac
tion on the requests during
its May voting session due
to insufficient notice pro
vided to allow Jackson
County leaders time to ob
ject to the annexation re
quests. Due to that issue,
the council is offering the
additional public hearings
before a potential vote on
June 19 (6 p.m.). The coun
cil also opted for a second
round of public hearings
due to space constraints at
the old city hall building,
which residents filled to ca
pacity for the May public
hearings. The new commu
nity center space holds 200
people, allowing more resi
dents to attend.
As for the proposals,
Providence Group calls for
a planned unit development
(PUD) of 399 residential
units on nearly 110 acres
fronting Pendegrass and
E.G. Barnett roads, East
Jefferson St. and West Jack-
son Rd.
As part of this plan, it
seeks to annex and rezone a
combined 33 acres fronting
Pendergrass and E.G. Bar
nett roads to PUD (planned
unit development). Shannon
Sell owns 25.6 acres of that
land, and Paul and Brenda
Cheek own 7.4 acres.
The property currently
holds an agricultural-rural
farm district (A-2) zoning
in Jackson County.
Additionally, Providence
Group asks to rezone 84.46
acres contiguous to the pro
posed annexation tract from
agricultural district to PUD.
Of that acreage, 58.86 acres
are owned by Sell and front
East Jefferson St., while
17.86 acres are owned by
West Jackson, LLC, and
front both East Jefferson St.
and West Jackson Rd.
Development plans for
the proposed PUD call for
291 detached single-family
units and 108 townhomes.
On Hoschton’s southern
border, Rocklyn Homes
requests annexation and
rezoning of 287.14 acres
owned by Mary Ann Ken-
erly and New Hope AME
Church along Hwy. 53 from
an agricultural-rural farm
district to a planned unit
development (PUD) for a
major mixed-use develop
ment of 651 single-family
lots, 404 townhome units
and 200,000 square feet of
commercial space with 6.6
acres of outparcels.
The project calls for 3.6
acres of civic space and 5.5
acres of church expansion.
OTHER PUBLIC
HEARINGS
The Hoschton City Coun
cil will also hold a June 15
(6 p.m.) public hearing for
proposed variance requests
to increase the units allowed
and decrease the minimum
square footage for a 24-
home townhome develop
ment on 2.4 acres on Henry
St.
George Flanigan of G.P’s
Enterprises, and Aaron
Frampton, applicant and
property owner, seek to in
crease the maximum num
ber of dwelling units in a
townhome building from
six to eight and reduce the
minimum lot size from
2,400 to 2,000 square feet.
The applicant also re
quests to reduce the mini
mum lot frontage on a pub
lic street from 24 to 20 feet.
Additionally, the
Hoschton City Council will
hold a June 15 (6 p.m.) pub
lic hearing over proposed
modifications to conditions
of an approved zoning to
authorize a convenience
store with gasoline pumps
on 2.4 acres at Hwy. 53
and Crystal Lakes Pkwy. at
Twin Lakes. The property is
zoned PUD.
The applicant and prop
erty owner is KLP Twin
Lakes, LLC.
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