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Board approves FEMA‑funded K‑9 evaluation contracts and clarifies lead evaluator fee
Summary
The board approved multiple FEMA-sanctioned K-9 evaluator contracts for a nationwide canine evaluation event and amended one contract to reflect a $4,000 not-to-exceed payment for the lead evaluator; approvals are funded by a federal USAR grant/cooperative agreement.
The Board of Public Health and Safety on April 2 authorized contracts for evaluators to conduct a FEMA-sanctioned canine evaluation scheduled April 25–27. The evaluations will certify teams in live‑find and human‑remains detection, a FEMA requirement for national deployment.
Tom Neil, division chief and program manager for Indiana Task Force 1, said the city is hosting the evaluation and has 16 teams from across the country scheduled to take the…
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