(Spirit Lake)– Dickinson county municipalities and the county itself will be asked to increase the amount of funding they contribute to the county’s Emergency Management Agency effective with the upcoming fiscal year.
At a meeting last week, the county’s Emergency Management Board voted to increase the amount of funding being requested from the county and cities from a dollar per capita currently to $1.45 per capita.
David Gottsche, who represents the county on the Emergency Management Board, told fellow supervisors Tuesday the request for increased funding is the result of a funding shift. He says the county’s 911 board had been subsidizing Emergency Management to the tune of 36-thousand dollars annually in recent years. Gottsche says that money is now needed by the 911 board to pay for the new communications center and equipment needed in conjunction with the new courthouse.
The cities and county will be asked to consider the request for increased funding in upcoming talks as they start working on the 2005-’06 fiscal year budget.
