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County staff is pleased to confirm that Caroline has won the Southern Economic Development Council CEDA Award (Community Economic Development Award) for Business Recruitment in 2005.

The CEDA Award is highly competitive and is sought after by Seventeen States and the District of Columbia. Caroline won the Virginia CEDA Award earlier this year for all communities in Virginia with a population of 15,000-40,000. By winning the Virginia competition, Caroline was automatically entered into the larger regional award covering all of the south and southwest with communities of the same population category of up to 40,000 residents. Caroline had 23,000 residents at the time of the competition.

Caroline County is the only entry from Virginia to win the top prize in its population category.

The CEDA Award for Caroline represents the success of the policies of the Board of Supervisors in making Caroline business friendly with low taxes on industry--- encouraging private land owners to develop their land for industrial purposes—and leadership of the County Administrator of staff in working to bring business to Caroline.

The awards will be distributed at the SEDC Conference in Orlando, Florida in late October 2006. Much of the travel cost to receive the CEDA Award will be offset by a grant from the Virginia Economic Developer’s Association of $1,100 and the waiver of the $400 conference fee for Caroline’s winning the CEDA award.