By Taelor RyeThe Dodge County Board of Commissioners voted on Monday, September 21 to allow funds from the 2013 Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) to supplement a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to go to the Roddy Volunteer Fire Department (VFD).
In order to receive the FEMA grant, the Roddy VFD is required to match at least five percent of the grant. The combined funds will go toward “thirteen firefighter outfits, ten sections of eight-foot attack line and twenty sections of supply line to be placed in service with the fire department,” county manager Bobby Peacock informed the board.
Because the FEMA grant amounts to $38,240.00, the VFD requested $2,013.00 to come from the 2013 SPLOST.
When county commissioner Brian Watkins asked whether the $2,013.00 would fall within the scope of the allotted VFD funds from that SPLOST, Peacock clarified that, even with these funds taken out, the VFD would still have more money allotted from the 2013 SPLOST.
The board voted unanimously to approve the motion.
The board also voted to approve the advertisement for sale of a one-mile tract of land in Rhine at the intersection of Highway 117 and Don Durden Road.
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