Governor Perdue and members of the One Georgia Authority Board met recently for a regularly scheduled meeting at Ogeechee Technical College in Statesboro. The Thomaston-Upson County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) was given an Equity Grant Award of $500,000 from Governor Sonny Purdue. The Equity Fund is designed to assist communities and regions in building the necessary infrastructure to support economic development. The grant money will go towards an estimated $11,106,913 Water and Rail Infrastructure. The project will be constructed off the rail spur on the Norfolk Southern rail line to the Central Georgia Business and Technology Park, to serve Innoware Plastics Inc. The project will retain 134 jobs and create 45 new jobs. Pictured above from left to right: Chris LaBorde, IDA Director; Maurice Raines, IDA Vice Chairman; Governor Sunny Perdue; Thomaston Mayor Hays Arnold; Aronda Smith, McIntosh Planner and Jeannie Brantley, McIntosh Director of Planning.