MONTICELLO – Sullivan County officials are grateful for whatever cash flows from Albany to help pay for critical services. But, money is not all that comes with it.
Commissioner of Public Safety Richard Martinkovic told county legislators on Thursday that they need to keep up to date on documenting how they are spending the money.
For 2016, the county is getting $210,000 in homeland security funding. The Sheriff’s Office gets $52,000 of that for legal enforcement.
For the remaining $158,000, Martinkovic said they need to do some quick paperwork.
“And right off the bat, we have to do a proposal on how we want to spend that money and it’s got to be in Albany by March 29.”
Martinkovic said the bulk of it will go to the continuing effort on installing countywide emergency radio access.
There is slow but steady progress on that front. E911 Coordinator Alex Rau said bids are out now for the last phase of construction.
“Hopefully we get the award made at the Executive Committee this month so that we can get going on construction,” Rau said.
That’s in just two weeks that they hope to have the bids back.
Martinkovic said there is growing confidence they can complete the radio project by summer of next year.
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