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Supervisors hear latest on siren project during brief meeting

T-R PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY Marshall County Emergency Management Director Kim Elder, left, discusses the siren project with the board of supervisors while Sheriff Joel Phillips, right, looks on during Tuesday morning’s meeting.

During a regular meeting that clocked in under 20 minutes on Tuesday morning, the Marshall County Board of Supervisors handled several matters of routine business and heard the latest update from Emergency Management Director Kim Elder on federal funding for the tornado siren project.

Elder reported that she had applied for $394,000 in funding through the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), and she was told $386,000 would be available. She is now in the process of waiting for federal approval before sending the project out to bid, and she is hopeful she will receive word within the next three weeks.

“That would be moving at lightspeed for the federal government,” Board Chairman Dave Thompson said.

The board did not take any official action. During the public comment portion of the meeting, Elder shared that she, 911 Communications Director Rhonda Braudis and some members of Braudis’s staff will be attending the National Homeland Security Conference later this month.

“It’s extremely important training, and when you’re looking at it on the national level and even the regional level, there are even those higher level classes that they can get involved in,” Braudis said. “It’s amazing.”

Supervisor Bill Patten said he was “very glad” to hear that county staff would be attending the conference. In response to another public comment from Supervisor Steve Salasek on the recently enacted changes in ATV/UTV law allowing their use on county highways, Sheriff Joel Phillips said his deputies have not yet had any contact with operators and “everyone seems to be following the rules.”

“They are out and about more frequently,” Phillips said. “I think the education piece is going to be key to the successful implementation of these laws, but I think everything is going well so far.”

According to Salasek, the drivers he has seen so far on country roads have been driving slow and exercising caution.

IN OTHER BUSINESS, the board:

• Approved the hiring of Lisa Crouch as a full-time administrative assistant in the county attorney’s office at a pay rate of $16.50 per hour.

• Approved the RACOM 911 radio and tower staging acceptance following a test on June 29.

• Approved a lease agreement between CICS and Marshall County for space in the Annex building effective July 1.

• Approved a business associate agreement with CICS relating to safeguarding public health information.

• Approved assigning a tax sale purchase certificate to the city of Liscomb for a property at 111 Dubuque Street in Liscomb.

• Approved Marshall County applying for Iowa Grants to Counties.

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Contact Robert Maharry at 641-753-6611 ext. 255 or rmaharry@timesrepublican.com.

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