The Village of Fairmount and four area volunteer fire departments will receive some federal ARPA funds from Vermilion County. But the Finance and Personnel Committee of the County Board tabled action this evening (Monday) on a new salary schedule for county officials who will be elected this fall.
Acting committee chairman Jerry Hawker outlined where the ARPA funds will be going…
{AUDIO: “Seventy-five-thousand dollars for the Carroll Township Fire Protection District for new air packs. Then for the fire departments of Blue Grass, Westville, Georgetown, and Ridge Farm – each of those departments got twenty-nine-thousand dollars to utilize in special projects that they have in their departments.”}
The Village of Fairmount will also receive $56-thousand, 700-dollars to help upgrade its water system.
The allocations are the last of the $1.4 million dollars in ARPA funds the committee set aside earlier for community projects and agencies. Hawker noted the county board still has considerable ARPA funds available…
{AUDIO: “We still have the six-million-dollars in the bank that we’re utilizing for projects that the county is needing. Such as the firm that we hired last month to go through and see what a roof, and windows and energy-savings that we could use. And we’re still looking at having to put in a new elevator.”}
The new elevator will be going into the Joseph G. Cannon Building where several county offices are located. ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds are designed to help in the recovery from the earlier pandemic. In addition to the Cannon Building – improvements are planned at the Rita B. Garman Vermilion County Courthouse, the Vermilion County Health Department, and the EMA building.
