‘Lebanon County should have applied for their own direct aid from the Federal government’
why should they have done that when none of the other 66 counties did not...?
I believe 4-5 counties applied directly for the aid outside the DCED process. That often happens with these Federal grant programs. Most counties don’t have the staff resources to get through a complicated application process for Federal money, so they just go through the state. The bigger counties often file their own applications.