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Council appoints Jared Bollinger, funds flood sensors and hears EMS report
Summary
Warrick County Council appointed Jared Bollinger to fill a vacancy on the Economic Development and Redevelopment commissions, approved a $50,000 appropriation for a county flood-sensor program, and heard an EMS annual report noting nearly 8,000 calls and two remounted ambulances.
Warrick County Council made several administrative and public-safety decisions and received service updates during its regular meeting.
Appointment: Jared Bollinger The council appointed Jared Bollinger to replace Eric Pryor on the Economic Development Advisory Council and the Redevelopment Commission. Staff described Bollinger as "senior vice president of commercial business banking at Heritage" and an active Chamber of Commerce member. The motion to appoint was moved and seconded and recorded as carried unanimously.
Flood sensors appropriation Economic development director Steve Raleigh and EMA staff requested $50,000 from EDIT funds to deploy flood sensors countywide. Raleigh said the sensors would give EMA, fire, police and highway departments better, faster information to warn residents and manage road closures. Matt from EMA told council, "Warwick County will be the first to have these in the state, and the state homeland security will be monitoring these as well." The council approved the $50,000 appropriation.
EMS update Tony O'Neil, Warrick County EMS, summarized 2025 operations: the service added remounted ambulances to save replacement costs, installed a digital paging system at three stations, updated medical protocols, and increased training. O'Neil reported 7,991 emergency calls in 2025, roughly equal to 2024, with 5,377 transports to local hospitals and 1,185 patient refusals. He said two remounted ambulances are now in service and the county operates a bariatric ambulance for oversized patients in the south county.
Other items Surveyor Stephen Spinks briefed the council on beaver-dam removals and a new trapping contract with Southern Indiana Wild Game Management to address recurring clogging of legal drains. The highway engineer asked for routine appropriations to bring the road/street repair budget to its normal level; that request also passed.
