Offered to all that qualify:
Quick Start is a program, offered by the State of Georgia, for training your employees at no cost to you and can be custom designed depending on your needs. This will mainly be used by warehousing and manufacturing industries and will be done through Central Georgia Technical College’s Putnam County Campus. For more information, go to http://www.georgiaquickstart.org/.
100% Freeport is an exemption from inventory taxes based on raw materials, goods in process and goods to be shipped out of state. This can be offered to all manufacturers and some warehousing facilities. The industry must reapply for it each year with the tax assessor’s office.
Certified Work Ready Community is a designation that Putnam County is in the process of establishing. It will confirm possession of measured skills in Applied Mathematics, Reading for Information and Locating Information, as well as a Personal skills test that measures attitudes toward work. Job applicants with a Georgia Work Ready Certificate arrive with those skills critical to job success, enabling employers to cut training cost and reduce turnovers. It also guarantees to raise the level of number of High School graduates to a minimum of 70%. This process should be completed by April 2010. For more information call (404) 657-0361 or go to www.gaworkready.org.
Better Hometown Facade grants are available through Better Hometown Eatonton. Qualification depends on location of downtown building, approval by their review committee and matching dollars.
Downtown Development Revolving Loans are made through the city of Eatonton. Loans must be collateralized and approved by their finance committee. This is meant to be a stop gap source of financing and only available under certain conditions.
Putnam County is in the process of becoming an Entrepreneurial Friendly Community. This process should be completed in the summer of 2008. There will be programs geared toward helping small businesses reach their potential.
Additional incentives maybe offered by the Putnam Development Authority. Each is considered on a one on one basis and is judged by the number of jobs created and the capital investments made.
