Triumph Gulf Coast gears up for 2018

PANAMA CITY - With their senior level staff in place, Triumph Gulf Coast members will begin 2018 by taking a serious look at projects – from eight NW Florida counties - in front of them vying for the first $300M in funding as the result of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During a Dec. 27 conference call, the board voted unanimously to offer the program administrator job to Cori Henderson, currently the director of business development for Enterprise Florida Inc. The new gig would pay $96,914 annually. Board member Don Gaetz, who takes the chairmanship Jan. 1, expects the administrator’s office to be in Destin. During the next weeks, Triumph Executive Director Susan Skelton, and her team, will begin separating pre- and ready-to-move applications into projects. The list will be presented at the board’s Jan. 29 meeting in Apalachicola. (Source: News Herald 12/27/16) TGC is a non-profit corporation organized to oversee the expenditure of 75 percent of all funds recovered by Florida for economic damages from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. TGC is required to administer the distribution of the funds to be used for the recovery, diversification, and enhancement of the eight affected NW Florida counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, Gulf, Franklin and Wakulla.