A total of six organizations that serve the developmentally disabled in Newton County have requested applications for funding from the county SB 40 board, also known as the Newton County Developmental Disabilities Service Board. 

This will be the first funding cycle for the organization, which has hundreds of thousands of dollars to allocate after voters approved the $.06 per $100 assessed valuation property tax in November 2013. 

The board was appointed last November by the co

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