July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Flood aid focus narrows (3/2/04)
Grant request covers fewer New Corydon homes
What began as a wide-ranging effort to ease flood damage in a historic northeast Jay County community has been narrowed in scope.
A lack of funding and concerns about the historical value of the county’s first settlement have led state and local officials to focus on a handful of the homes in New Corydon that have suffered the most frequent and great amount of damage.
When first discussed late last summer, plans called for a flood mitigation grant application that would cover the entire community.
Ralph Frazee, director of Jay County Emergency Management Agency, talked briefly with Jay County Commissioners about efforts to obtain grant funding for the unincorporated town, located on the northern banks of the Wabash River just south of the Jay-Adams county line.
Jan Crider, a hazard mitigation officer with the Indiana State Emergency Management Agency, said this morning that Jay County has been asked to narrow its grant focus on four or five of the homes that sustained the most damage in last year’s July and/or September flooding.
“There were some other problems that were popping up because we were going to take an entire town. The state historical people ... were leery because ... there are some historical buildings,” Crider said.
Frazee, who made a visit to New Corydon earlier this month to take some photographs and gather other information, will finish the grant application and submit it to state officials.
Crider, who came to Jay County for a public hearing last summer that drew 25 to 30 New Corydon residents, said that the state has received $13 million in requests from areas damaged in 2003 flooding, but has only $2.2 million available.
“At this point, we’re trying to focus on those people who can’t get back into their homes” in New Corydon and state-wide, Crider said.
Crider said that any assistance approved for New Corydon would likely be a buyout program, because the damaged homes are close to the river.
Also Monday, Commissioners Gary Theurer, Mike Leonhard and Milo Miller Jr. approved, at Frazee’s request, a change in policy that reduces the number of times per week the Rescue 19 truck is started.
The current policy calls for the truck, which is housed in a garage at the Jay County Sheriff’s Department, to be started each day.
That will be reduced to three times per week.
The commissioners also agreed to cancel a contract that provided eight pagers for members of Rescue 19, a volunteer rescue unit overseen by emergency management.
Canceling the contract with Teletext Indiana Paging Network one year into a three-year agreement will cost $1,147.03.
Frazee said that the popularity of cellular phones has made the pagers unnecessary.[[In-content Ad]]
A lack of funding and concerns about the historical value of the county’s first settlement have led state and local officials to focus on a handful of the homes in New Corydon that have suffered the most frequent and great amount of damage.
When first discussed late last summer, plans called for a flood mitigation grant application that would cover the entire community.
Ralph Frazee, director of Jay County Emergency Management Agency, talked briefly with Jay County Commissioners about efforts to obtain grant funding for the unincorporated town, located on the northern banks of the Wabash River just south of the Jay-Adams county line.
Jan Crider, a hazard mitigation officer with the Indiana State Emergency Management Agency, said this morning that Jay County has been asked to narrow its grant focus on four or five of the homes that sustained the most damage in last year’s July and/or September flooding.
“There were some other problems that were popping up because we were going to take an entire town. The state historical people ... were leery because ... there are some historical buildings,” Crider said.
Frazee, who made a visit to New Corydon earlier this month to take some photographs and gather other information, will finish the grant application and submit it to state officials.
Crider, who came to Jay County for a public hearing last summer that drew 25 to 30 New Corydon residents, said that the state has received $13 million in requests from areas damaged in 2003 flooding, but has only $2.2 million available.
“At this point, we’re trying to focus on those people who can’t get back into their homes” in New Corydon and state-wide, Crider said.
Crider said that any assistance approved for New Corydon would likely be a buyout program, because the damaged homes are close to the river.
Also Monday, Commissioners Gary Theurer, Mike Leonhard and Milo Miller Jr. approved, at Frazee’s request, a change in policy that reduces the number of times per week the Rescue 19 truck is started.
The current policy calls for the truck, which is housed in a garage at the Jay County Sheriff’s Department, to be started each day.
That will be reduced to three times per week.
The commissioners also agreed to cancel a contract that provided eight pagers for members of Rescue 19, a volunteer rescue unit overseen by emergency management.
Canceling the contract with Teletext Indiana Paging Network one year into a three-year agreement will cost $1,147.03.
Frazee said that the popularity of cellular phones has made the pagers unnecessary.[[In-content Ad]]
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