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Coffee County EMA outlines tornado-siren upgrades and mitigation grant work
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Coffee County EMA staff described mitigation grant opportunities and planned upgrades including polygon-based city sirens, trailer-mounted portable sirens for the Bonnaroo venue, road-raising applications for flood-prone roads and consideration of a backup generator for the EMA operations center.
Coffee County EMA staff on Wednesday described mitigation projects under development, including tornado-siren upgrades, a road-raising application for flood-prone local roads and a potential generator to power the EMA operations center.
Alan (Coffee County EMA staff) told the advisory board that presidential disaster declarations open mitigation funding in which the federal government contributes roughly 75 percent of a project, the state 12.5 percent and the local municipality the remaining 12.5 percent (the local share may be provided as in-kind match). “Because the feds pay 75% of a mitigation project,” he said, “that can be in kind match with work.”
The board heard two siren efforts:…
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