Commissioners Approve Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
January 9, 2019 at 6:40 p.m.
Commissioners Approve Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
By Mark [email protected]
Tuesday morning, it was the commissioner’s turn to follow FEMA’s lead.
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At Emergency Management Director Ed Rock’s request, county commissioners approved the plan Tuesday morning during its regular meeting. Rock said from there, local government agencies would also have to approve the plan. Approval by the remaining entities will allow the county’s flood insurance to take effect.
Rock submitted the plan to FEMA in 2017, but only recently received word of its approval.
Also on the agenda was a request to seek a $541,000 grant from Anna Bailey, director of Community Corrections. She said the grant, from the state Department of Corrections Community supervision fund, is much needed by her department due to an increase in jail program participation.
“Over the past month we’ve been adding about four participants per week, and at this point, I just don’t have the staff to accommodate the numbers that are coming in,” Bailey said. “By next year, with the new court coming in, we’re probably going to be upward of 200 participants that we’ll be supervising at one time.
“We are also requesting two additional officers; a drug court case manager and a home detention officer. Our program is growing at an alarming rate.”
She described the grant as “a necessary evil, since we are helping to get these people rehabilitated, and back out in the community and out of jail.”
Bailey said her department has saved the county around $5.7 million since June 2016, and that the cost to house an inmate is just under $53 a day.
County Highway Superintendent Scott Tilden had several items for the commissioners.
First, he presented an ordinance that turns over the responsibility for maintenance of Bellair Road from the subdivision to the county. The road begins at CR 200W north of CR 400N and runs west into a cul de sac.
The second was an ordinance to place a stop sign on the same road at CR 200W. The board approved each measure separately.
Next, the board approved an amendment to a 2014 ordinance making the speed limit 45 mph on Old 30 between Huffer Road to 990 feet west of CR 650W, which is the eastern boundary of Atwood.
Bids were then opened for a new three-fourth-ton pickup truck for the highway department. Bids were taken under advisement for review and Tilden will make his recommendation at the 9 a.m. Jan. 22 commissioners meeting.
In other business, County Administrator Marsha McSherry presented three board appointments. County Council member Jon Garber will continue to serve on the Bowen Center board, with Doug Baumgardner and Rob Parker on the Michiana Area Council of Governments Regional Economic Development District. The appointments were approved.
Tuesday morning, it was the commissioner’s turn to follow FEMA’s lead.
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At Emergency Management Director Ed Rock’s request, county commissioners approved the plan Tuesday morning during its regular meeting. Rock said from there, local government agencies would also have to approve the plan. Approval by the remaining entities will allow the county’s flood insurance to take effect.
Rock submitted the plan to FEMA in 2017, but only recently received word of its approval.
Also on the agenda was a request to seek a $541,000 grant from Anna Bailey, director of Community Corrections. She said the grant, from the state Department of Corrections Community supervision fund, is much needed by her department due to an increase in jail program participation.
“Over the past month we’ve been adding about four participants per week, and at this point, I just don’t have the staff to accommodate the numbers that are coming in,” Bailey said. “By next year, with the new court coming in, we’re probably going to be upward of 200 participants that we’ll be supervising at one time.
“We are also requesting two additional officers; a drug court case manager and a home detention officer. Our program is growing at an alarming rate.”
She described the grant as “a necessary evil, since we are helping to get these people rehabilitated, and back out in the community and out of jail.”
Bailey said her department has saved the county around $5.7 million since June 2016, and that the cost to house an inmate is just under $53 a day.
County Highway Superintendent Scott Tilden had several items for the commissioners.
First, he presented an ordinance that turns over the responsibility for maintenance of Bellair Road from the subdivision to the county. The road begins at CR 200W north of CR 400N and runs west into a cul de sac.
The second was an ordinance to place a stop sign on the same road at CR 200W. The board approved each measure separately.
Next, the board approved an amendment to a 2014 ordinance making the speed limit 45 mph on Old 30 between Huffer Road to 990 feet west of CR 650W, which is the eastern boundary of Atwood.
Bids were then opened for a new three-fourth-ton pickup truck for the highway department. Bids were taken under advisement for review and Tilden will make his recommendation at the 9 a.m. Jan. 22 commissioners meeting.
In other business, County Administrator Marsha McSherry presented three board appointments. County Council member Jon Garber will continue to serve on the Bowen Center board, with Doug Baumgardner and Rob Parker on the Michiana Area Council of Governments Regional Economic Development District. The appointments were approved.
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