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Council approves health department emergency-preparedness renewal and EMA BRIC grant application
Summary
The council approved a five-year emergency-preparedness renewal for the health department at $25,000 per year and authorized the EMA director to apply for a FEMA BRIC grant with a 25% local match for a flood gauge on a frequently flooded county ditch east of Argos.
The Marshall County Council voted to support two grant actions: a renewal of the health department’s five-year emergency-preparedness grant at $25,000 annually and a local endorsement for an application to the FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program to install a flood gauge on a ditch that frequently overtops State Road 10 east of Argos.
Sandy Dunfee, Marshall County Health Department administrator, said the $25,000-a-year grant pays roughly half the salary for a preparedness/environmentalist position; the council voted to approve submitting and accepting the renewal.
EMA Director Chet Garner described a proposed $10,000 project budget (county share approximately 25 percent) under the BRIC program to install a gauge on the Deep Ditch below State Road 10 east of Argos. Garner said the gauge would transmit hourly readings that EMA staff could view remotely to better anticipate flooding and place signage before travel lanes are impacted; he told the council the ditch had flooded last summer and a vehicle was stranded. The council voted to support applying for the BRIC grant and providing the local match if awarded.
Both motions passed on voice votes without recorded opposition.
