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Committee recommends allocating $359,169.43 in ARPA funds plus contingency to upgrade fire/EMS radios
Summary
The Finance Committee recommended that the county board allocate $359,169.43 of ARPA funds to a fire and EMS radio upgrade project and cover the remaining $57,497.46 from the contingency fund; committee noted no remaining unallocated ARPA funds for other requests.
Members considered a Public Safety Committee recommendation and local fire departments' request to reallocate ARPA funds for a radio upgrade project for fire and EMS.
The committee voted to recommend allocating $359,169.43 of ARPA funds toward the radio upgrade and covering the remaining $57,497.46 from the contingency fund (motion by Dan Matthews, second by Megan Myers). Committee minutes note that reassigning $100,000 originally granted to Farmer City Fire would make $359,169.43 available, and the remainder would come from contingency. Committee also recorded that all ARPA funds are otherwise allocated, meaning requests such as Heyworth Ambulance’s could not be funded from the remaining ARPA balance.
