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Funding available for changes

Warren County’s Early Intervention Program report includes a host of recommendations that have tentacles into each office of county government.

While the plan lays out a series of top priorities, action plans, ideas and suggestions are included for each of the recommendations.

And there’s state grant funding available.

“We’re trying real hard to change the name of the project,” Ed Fosnaught, local government specialist with the state Department of Community and Economic Development. “As long as the legislature continues to fund it, we can live with that.”

Fosnaught called the report “pretty thorough.”

“I think it’s a good study,” he said. “(It) makes a lot of good recommendations.”

He then said that the county needs to be willing to apply to DCED for a grant to address the recommendations in the report.

“Ask us for the money,” he said. “You’re probably going to get it.”

He suggested that DCED would be willing to fund the creation of a new comprehensive plan for the county.

A new accounting system is also recommended in the report and Fosnaught encouraged the commissioners to apply for a grant if they decide to execute that replacement.

Mark Morgan, the director of the consulting firm that completed the report, said he would provide a recap to the commissioners of all the items he believes the county could seek grant funding for.

Public Safety Director Todd Lake raised several regional projects the county has been involved in and Morgan noted that “the western part of the state is much further ahead than the rest of the state” on those collaborative, cost-sharing projects.

“So I commend you for that. There are good things occurring.”

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