Article submitted by James Master, The Pilot News Managing Editor
Executive Director Janice Jeffirs Holiday presented the Marshall County Council on Aging’s MCCOA) quarterly report to the County Commissioners during their last meeting. She started by stating that their first quarter’s claim to the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is $99,466.
“That is, again, all CARES Act money. So we still have, we’re using it up. It was actually supposed to end at the end of last year. But, we still have some additional funds to use up. After this claim, we’ve still got about $50,000 or so. That will go on next quarter’s claim. And then, after that’s depleted then we’ll go back to the regular 5311 funds where it’s 50-50,” said Holiday.
She also informed the commissioners that the MCCOA were up by 780 trips when compared to the prior quarter.
The commissioners unanimously approved the quarterly claim.
Holiday then presented the 2023 INDOT Application. “We actually have three projects within that claim.”
She said that INDOT was going to give the MCCOA additional CARES Act funds. “Out of our budget for next year, $28,224 is going to be paid from the CARES fund, which should still be at 100 percent, and then they budgeted us $610,448 for 5311. That’s for our operating funds. Along with that, the state then gives us $56,000 that we can count toward our match.”
Holiday recounted that she had recently found out about there might be some vehicles available for purchase. “So, we did put in for one of those.”
The vehicle purchase from INDOT would be an 80-20 match. The MCCOA was supposed to purchase a bus last year, and while that order hasn’t been canceled yet, they still haven’t received it.
“They told us all along that it’s probably a 20 percent chance that we actually might get one,” said Holiday. “But we could really use that more than the minivans, actually, but they don’t have any buses available for next year.”
For those three items, Holiday reported that $700,000 and that the match for MCCOA would be $239,000.
County Attorney James Clevenger explained that Resolution 2022-11, once approved by the commissioners, approves the grant application for the Federal Transit Authority for the MCCOA’s transportation services. The resolution also authorizes the president of the commissioners (Kevin Overmyer) to execute grant contract agreements on behalf of Marshall County.
The commissioners unanimously approved the resolution.
