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County and delegation outline capital priorities: coroner facility, 9-1-1, dog pound, radio tower and grant strategy
Summary
At the June 20 meeting, Trumbull County commissioners and state representatives reviewed prioritized capital needs, possible reuses of county property, grant strategy using hired consultants and short-term options to rehouse the coroner and EMA.
Trumbull County commissioners used a June 20 meeting with state lawmakers to outline immediate capital needs — a replacement or renovation for the county coroner’s workspace, a new radio tower to improve communications, upgrades to the county’s emergency-management facilities and improvements to the dog pound and 9-1-1 dispatch center.
County commissioners told the delegation that the coroner is currently operating out of temporary space (a garage and an EMA facility) and that retooling a vacated health-department building would cost about $2,000,000 because of ventilation and elevator work. Commissioners described a lower-cost alternative: renovating a county-owned fire-department building at the fairgrounds to house EMA and related services, which they estimated would need roughly $300,000 to $1,020,000 depending on scope.
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