AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Augusta Commission members held a budget workshop session Thursday, and there was much discussion about the Housing and Community Development Department.

That’s the department that left the city on the hook to pay back millions in federal grant money.

The city got more than $6 million in grant money during the COVID pandemic, supposedly to help people who were in danger of eviction.

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Days after opening sign-ups for emergency rental and utility assistance, Augusta-Richmond County suspended applications.

The city never spent the money for that purpose, so the government demanded it back.

The department didn’t have the money on hand, so the city had to repay it, and then some

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