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Klamath County commissioners approve exception to hire assistant emergency manager amid grant risk
Summary
Klamath County commissioners voted to grant an exception to a hiring freeze so the emergency management office can replace an assistant, a move county staff said is required to retain federal EMPG funding and complete the county's natural hazard mitigation plan.
Klamath County commissioners voted Jan. 28 to provide an exception to the county's hiring freeze so the emergency manager can recruit an assistant emergency manager.
The board made the decision after Emergency Manager Ian Fick described the office as a two-person shop and warned that losing the assistant would put an $83,091 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) and the county's Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (NHMP) at risk.
Fick told the commissioners the county currently expects about $83,000 in EMPG money that covers most of the assistant position and said the assistant's absence would force him to allocate time away from the…
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