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Sheriff's office awarded 911 grant

By Greg Bebermeyer/Heidi Wolfgang

09/25/2019

(KMZA)--The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Department has been awarded a grant for the purchase of recorders for the dispatch office phones.

Sheriff Rich Vernon informed county commissioners Monday of the grant for just over $22,000 through the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council.

The grant requires a 40 percent local match.

The recorders cost just over $37,000.

The cost to the county will be $15,000, which will come from the 911 fund.

In other business, the Commission approved the purchase of two portable defibrillators for the Community Building and Pioneer Building at a cost of $1,800 each.

County Emergency Preparedness Director Russ Lierz reported to commissioners on the active shooter training exercise that took place at the Nemaha Central Schools September 16.

He said they used Marshall County’s mobile command center for the training and would like to outfit the Nemaha County emergency preparedness trailer as a mobile command center. Lierz said he palns to ask for public donations for the project.

The zoning presentation that had been scheduled for Monday’s meeting was canceled because the attorney who was to give the presentation had a family emergency. A new date has not been set for the presentation.

The Commission held a 15-minute executive session with the county’s windfarm attorney, James Neeld, to talk about the road use agreement for the Soldier Creek wind farm project. No action was taken after the session.

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