Plains Better Hometown Program

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“Better hometown program - festivals and other special events such as the annual plains peanut festival, haunted house and community center events and other projects to promote the home town of the 39th president of the united states. The plains better hometown is partnering with the friends of jimmy carter national historic site to have more events and bring more tourist into plains. A new project was undertaken to publish a book about the lifestyle in plains,georgia. The books have been published and are currently being sold. There is an ongoing project to stabilize the oldest house in sumter county (1830) once occupied by the carter family. A plan was undertaken in 2009 to replace the roof, remodel the porches, kitchen etc. And streghten the structure so it may be utilized within the community. Since then the house has been painted and all windows replaced. Because of the history of the house, this project is known as the haunted house project. The national park service has expressed an interest in acquiring the haunted house and the billy carter service station. A usda grant was received in 2014 to add new front porches all the way from the inn to the end of the street. New tops and posts were put in all the way down the street. The alley had been open so that if it was raining you were not covered at the alley and that was covered in this project; cleaned and painted all store fronts and added new lighting down the porch area.”

“Insurance 5,842 9,991 0 community center 14,246 0 0 padget expenses 8,329 0 0 office expense 7,715 0 0 utilities 7,303 0 0 usda grant expenses 7,250 0 0 christmas program costs 5,019 0 0 plains & simple project 4,893 0 0 advertising 0 4,842 0 taxes 4,453 0 0 travel 3,781 0 0 supplies 2,804 0 0 internet 0 900 0”