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Emergency management requests funds to replace aging weather sirens
Summary
Evansville emergency management reported no major facility or vehicle needs but seeks CIP funding to replace aging weather sirens.
Cliff Weaver, director of Evansville-Vanderburgh County Emergency Management, told the joint budget meeting that the department’s vehicles and facilities are in good shape but identified weather siren replacement as a capital need.
Weaver said some sirens are "getting rather old" and the department has funding in its capital improvement program to replace them next year. He described a busy season for emergency management and noted routine exercises and planned tabletop drills with the airport and fire department.
Weaver did not supply specific replacement costs in the presentation and said he would check the calendar for upcoming exercises. He also mentioned the recent planning for fall festival safety and a routine schedule of exercises with partners. The siren replacements appeared in the CIP request rather than the department’s operating budget.
