Yes, we definitely have a winner in JDA Director, David Keating!

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I attended this morning's 9:30 to 10:15 JDA Board meeting at the county annex next to the library off Gross Rd.

JDA Executive Director David Keating gave an excellent and highly professional presentation. There is not a scintilla of doubt in my mind that this gentlemen will, in his first year on the job, expend more actual effort and achieve more actual results than his two immediate predecessors did during the entirety of their combined sinecure tenures. It is obvious to me that the JDA Board of Directors is well pleased and impressed with David and eager to support his efforts. I would hope that the Camden County Commission is similarly impressed and willing to step up to the plate.

Above, as the first item, you will find today's press release (you saw it here first) detailing a new partnership between the bankruptcy trustee for the old Durango mill property and the JDA, with hopes to soon bring in the St. Marys DDA as a third partner, with a goal of finding a serious, well financed buyer / developer for the property at the earliest opportunity. Note that David is also pursuing a $1 million dollar grant from the federal EPA fro environmental remediation.

David also gave an excellent "Progress and Accountability Report" (what a novel concept for a JDA director). See copy above. Clearly, he's ben busy.

He also debuted the above sheet of "Camden Quick Facts" for interested businesses.

Finally, there is a proof of the sign which will be erected on the north- bound side of I-95 just south of Harriets Bluff Rd. Inquirers will be asked if they called as a result of that sign to track effectiveness.

Also, I gave David the entire Corps of Engineers report which Wyman Westberry gave me on that container handling project in Kingsland.

Keep the faith and look for good things coming to Camden in the not too distant future.