County tornado warning sirens are set to be sounded at 10:15 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Emergency Management Director Ed Rock.
Should there be severe weather Wednesday, the sirens will be set off Thursday.
Rock appeared before the Kosciusko County Commissioners this morning to let the public know about the sirens as well as ask for permission to accept an $89,200 grant for emergency training and supplies for the district Kosciusko County is in.
The board approved going forward with potential orthophotography, or aerial photography. The cost is $53,692 but at least $30,000 has been set aside from the county Geographical Imaging System, surveyor's office and the Michiana Area Council of Government.
An upgrade to the county's radio system for the sheriff's department and emergency personnel was approved.
According to County Administrator Ron Robinson, the last such upgrade was in 1982.
The cost of the upgrade is $25,627.
A resolution was passed to allow commissioner Brad Jackson to sign documents concerning the Enchanted Hills storm drainage improvement project.
Due to a pending bridge project at CR 700S, known as the Claypool overpass, the speed limit on CR 700S heading west was set this morning at 30 mph for the first 800 feet then 40 mph for the next 1,570 feet.
Speed limits on that section of road had previously not been posted.
Two road vacation requests were approved by the commissioners. They were both in the Roy Hohman Subdivision on Yellow Creek Lake.
The first was on the northside of Yellow Creek Lake. Gerald Shank petitioned to vacate an unused roadway between his two properties on CR 850S.
The second vacation request came for Roy Drive in the Roy Hohman subdivision.
The commissioners' next meeting is March 29 at 9 am. in the old courtroom at the Kosciusko County Courthouse.
