Ed Rock, Kosciusko County Emergency Management director, told the county commissioners Tuesday that the county needs to have an evacuation plan for the Justice Building and courthouse.

Basic, simple instructions for county employees have been put together and posted around the two buildings in the various different departments.

When an alarm goes off, the instructions indicate, everyone should evacuate the buildings and meet in designated areas. Each department head is responsible for conducting a head count and reporting anyone missing from their staff.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department and Jail already had a plan in place and that was incorporated into the new plans, Rock said.

Visitors in the buildings are to be escorted out by each department.

Rock said he also is working on an evacuation plan for the county highway department.

In other business, the commissioners:

• Approved a stretch of road to be taken off the state inventory map for roads the county maintains because the county does not maintain that stretch. The stretch of road is CR 1100N, east of Syracuse-Webster Road to the CR 500E intersection.

• Approved an application for a property owner to transport a building down CR 1050N across Ind. 19 to south on CR 900W sometime in June or July. It will take approximately four hours to move the building two miles.

• Approved Shadow Lakes Subdivision to keep up their own stop signs and road marker signs with lettering that is 4 inches instead of the required 6 inches. If the subdivision does not keep up the signs, the county will replace them with county-standard signs.

Kosciusko County Commissioners are Brad Jackson, northern district; Ron Truex, middle district; and Avis Gunter, southern district. They meet at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse, Warsaw, every other Tuesday. [[In-content Ad]]