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County commissioner briefs Waterville council on RMS vendor, FEMA payout and watershed work
Summary
County Commissioner David Priesler told the council the county selected a new records management system vendor, confirmed a final FEMA payment of $141,000 for ditch damage, said a deputy embedded in Human Services helped recover or prevent about $160,000 in fraud last year, and described progress on watershed retention basins including a ~30-acre‑foot site north of town.
County Commissioner David Priesler updated the Waterville City Council on several county initiatives during the Jan. 6 meeting. He said the county has selected a new records management system (RMS) vendor and that the county will purchase and own the system; participating cities will be assessed annual maintenance fees based on the number of users. Priesler told council members to coordinate with the County Sheriff’s Office to confirm compatibility with local systems, including body-worn camera integration.
Priesler reported the county received the final FEMA payment of $141,000 for drainage ditch damages; those funds are allocated to specific ditch accounts or benefited systems rather than the county general fund. He also said a deputy embedded in Human Services for fraud prevention recovered or prevented roughly $160,000 over the past year, though he noted much of recovered funding flows back to the state. On watershed projects, he said staff are securing sites and landowner agreements for retention basins and that one site north of town is about a ~30-acre‑foot retention area; the Rock Arch Rapids rehabilitation at Schmidtke Dam has been postponed until next winter.
