Marinette County approves funds to support City of Marinette Airboat after reconsideration

Last month the Marinette County Board of supervisors accredited contributing $43,900 to the City of Marinette in direction of the acquire of a new 24 ft lookup and rescue airboat with the caveat that the county be equipped to use the airboat. Having said that, at yesterday’s County Board conference a motion was brought forth by Supervisor Allen to reconsider motion taken by the County board to transfer the $43,900 to the City of Marinette for invest in of the Airboat. Since the Town of Marinette has not long ago allotted $500 for every personnel for COVID-19 vaccinations working with ARPA resources when they could have used their ARPA money in the direction of the funding of the airboat as an alternative of asking the County for funding. County Administrator John Lefebvre suggests, “the Town of Marinette got $1.1 million in ARPA funding.”

Supervisor Ken Keller says, “there is a motive why the town is looking for participation in the obtaining of the airboat.”

Just after a lengthy dialogue, the board voted, and it arrived in at 14 in favor of the airboat to 13 not in favor.  The predicted supply date of the airboat is mid-January.