Marinette County approves funds to support City of Marinette Airboat after reconsideration
1 min readPast thirty day period the Marinette County Board of supervisors authorised contributing $43,900 to the Town of Marinette towards the buy of a new 24 ft lookup and rescue airboat with the caveat that the county be equipped to use the airboat. Nonetheless, at yesterday’s County Board meeting a motion was introduced forth by Supervisor Allen to rethink motion taken by the County board to transfer the $43,900 to the Town of Marinette for obtain of the Airboat. Because the Town of Marinette has a short while ago allotted $500 for each worker for COVID-19 vaccinations utilizing ARPA funds when they could have employed their ARPA cash to the funding of the airboat as a substitute of asking the County for funding. County Administrator John Lefebvre states, “the Town of Marinette acquired $1.1 million in ARPA funding.”
Supervisor Ken Keller claims, “there is a rationale why the town is seeking for participation in the buying of the airboat.”
Just after a prolonged discussion, the board voted, and it came in at 14 in favor of the airboat to 13 not in favor. The expected shipping date of the airboat is mid-January.