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Libby council approves police grant applications and a spectrometer purchase request
Summary
Council approved allowing the Libby Police Department to apply for a METAP tourism grant to help buy a patrol vehicle and voted to request county opioid-settlement funds to purchase an Apex R7 spectrometer (approx. $33,000) to improve officer safety and in-field drug identification.
The Libby City Council voted to allow the police department to apply for a Montana Emergency Tourism Assistance Program (METAP) grant and approved requesting county opioid-settlement funds to purchase a spectrometer for drug identification.
Police leadership told the council that METAP offers approximately $50,000 in this funding window and that the department would use capital improvement…
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