Lake Patrols To Improve With Grant Money
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
With more than 100 lakes in Kosciusko County, water safety is a concern of the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department.
Tuesday, Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine told the county commissioners his department applied for and received a $35,000 Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Law Enforcement 2005 Marine Patrol Assistance grant. No matching dollars are required.
"This will allow us to get more equipment for boater education," Rovenstine said.
According to the grant application, a lake patrol program, in one form or another, continuously has been supported and authorized by the KCSD on the two largest lake chains in the county since the 1970s. A recognized need for law enforcement lake patrols on some of the larger local lakes can be traced back to as early as the 1940s.
The grant will cover such items as salaries, uniforms and new marine equipment including a siren, vehicle radio, portable radio, personal floatation devices, First Aid kits, fire extinguishers, towing equipment, etc.
In other business, the commissioners:
• Opened the bids for the highway department for aggregates and signs and posts. Bidders for aggregates included Phend & Brown, IMI, Hanson and Rock Industries. Signs and posts bidders include Vulcan Signs, Rocal, Hall Signs, Michael Todd and 3M.
• Approved accepting an offer from Hill Truck Sales for the purchase of two complete dump trucks for a total of approximately $240,000, as recommended by Kosciusko County Highway Superintendent and Engineer Rob Ladson.
• Approved signing the contract with SRI for the county tax sale to be held Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. The lists of properties three payments behind in tax payments will be available sometime after July 1.
• Reappointed Tabitha Fair to the Child Protection Team.
• Approved the fourth quarter 2004 operations and voucher report from Kosciusko Area Bus Service.
Kosciusko County Commissioners are president Avis Gunter, southern district; Brad Jackson, northern district; and Ron Truex, middle district. Their regular meetings are at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse, Warsaw, every other Tuesday. [[In-content Ad]]
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With more than 100 lakes in Kosciusko County, water safety is a concern of the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department.
Tuesday, Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine told the county commissioners his department applied for and received a $35,000 Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Law Enforcement 2005 Marine Patrol Assistance grant. No matching dollars are required.
"This will allow us to get more equipment for boater education," Rovenstine said.
According to the grant application, a lake patrol program, in one form or another, continuously has been supported and authorized by the KCSD on the two largest lake chains in the county since the 1970s. A recognized need for law enforcement lake patrols on some of the larger local lakes can be traced back to as early as the 1940s.
The grant will cover such items as salaries, uniforms and new marine equipment including a siren, vehicle radio, portable radio, personal floatation devices, First Aid kits, fire extinguishers, towing equipment, etc.
In other business, the commissioners:
• Opened the bids for the highway department for aggregates and signs and posts. Bidders for aggregates included Phend & Brown, IMI, Hanson and Rock Industries. Signs and posts bidders include Vulcan Signs, Rocal, Hall Signs, Michael Todd and 3M.
• Approved accepting an offer from Hill Truck Sales for the purchase of two complete dump trucks for a total of approximately $240,000, as recommended by Kosciusko County Highway Superintendent and Engineer Rob Ladson.
• Approved signing the contract with SRI for the county tax sale to be held Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. The lists of properties three payments behind in tax payments will be available sometime after July 1.
• Reappointed Tabitha Fair to the Child Protection Team.
• Approved the fourth quarter 2004 operations and voucher report from Kosciusko Area Bus Service.
Kosciusko County Commissioners are president Avis Gunter, southern district; Brad Jackson, northern district; and Ron Truex, middle district. Their regular meetings are at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse, Warsaw, every other Tuesday. [[In-content Ad]]