City Of Lavonia

City of Lavonia, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Lavonia, Georgia, receives federal grants as a prime recipient to fund community policing and regional infrastructure development; the municipality does not hold federal contracts or IDVs. The Lavonia Police Department Division operates within this grant structure, receiving direct federal funding for law enforcement hiring and capacity-building under the Community Oriented Policing Program and related infrastructure initiatives.

The city's federal customer base spans five agencies with concentration in Appalachian regional development. The Appalachian Regional Commission funds six awards totaling regional economic and community infrastructure work under CFDA 23.002 (Appalachian Area Development program). The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration placed three awards for economic development support. The Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program funded one award; the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 and the Federal Emergency Management Agency each placed one award. Two representative recent grants illustrate the scope: a $2,000,300 project grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission dated July 1, 2025, supporting community infrastructure improvements with a June 30, 2028 completion date, and a Community Oriented Policing Hiring Program grant (COPS Hiring Program, awarded October 1, 2023) extending through September 30, 2028 to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers and build community policing capacity.

City of Lavonia serves as prime recipient on 11 of 12 awards (92% of the portfolio). The municipality acted as a sub-recipient on one grant sub-award from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority dated August 26, 2024, for lead service-line identification work. Activity is sparse but consistent — one award per year across 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025 — with $11.1 million combined in obligated dollars across the multi-year footprint. One award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and is therefore subject to recompete or renewal.