North Ala. City Stimulus Job Report Called "Erroneous" FORT PAYNE, AL (APR - Alabama Public Radio ) - The director of the Fort Payne Housing Authority says her agency mistakenly reported that a $540,071 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would create 7,280 jobs.

The Birmingham News reports that authority director Pamela E. Darwin says the grant to re-roof 154 apartments owned by the authority has created 14 jobs.

Darwin says someone at the authority meant to type on a federal survey that the grant would create 7,280 hours of work.

Darwin says federal officials contacted the authority last month and said the report of 7,280 jobs didn't look right. She says the authority made the correction at that time. © Copyright 2012, APR - Alabama Public Radio