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Conn. town receives grant for emergency operations center
By REGINE LABOSSIERE
The Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER, Conn. — Town officials announced Thursday that Manchester is receiving more than $1 million in grants to bring a regional animal control facility, a regional emergency operations center and other projects to town.
The grants are coming from the Capitol Region Council of Governments, which received funding through a program of the Office of Policy and Management to help towns forge partnerships to deliver services.
Manchester is receiving more than $1 million of the $5.2 million towns will get through the program.
"It's just terrific," General Manager Scott Shanley said. "It speaks very well to the work that people all over the region have done to create efficiencies and savings."
Manchester will receive $515,000 to build a regional animal control facility that will be run by the Humane Society on land on the Manchester-South Windsor border. The facility will serve Manchester, South Windsor, East Hartford and Hartford. Town officials have said that the town's current dog pound near the town dump is not a regional facility and is in major need of repairs.
Manchester also will receive $515,000 to help create a regional emergency operations center. The grant will help renovate the second floor of the public works building, which will become the site of a regional coordination center, where officials would coordinate emergency response in case of a catastrophe that is too much for individual jurisdictions to handle. Mayor Louis Spadaccini said the town is hoping to receive about $500,000 from the federal government to buy equipment for the regional center.
The town also is part of a group of towns receiving grants for a variety of projects, including creating Web-based tools for coordinating information among health departments, creating a mobile unit for investigation of traffic incidents and creating a network that would allow police officers to share information about arrests and other police work.
"This is excellent news," Spadaccini said. "I really have to commend CRCOG and I have to commend our general manager and town staff for being able to secure these grants."
Shanley also praised CRCOG and other state officials for making the projects possible.
"I think it's terrific for the region," he said. "It was a great initiative by the governor and the legislature to provide this opportunity. We will make sure it shows results."
Shanley said town staff has design schemes for the animal control facility and the emergency operations center and will meet to discuss a timeline for when both projects will begin.
Copyright 2008 The Hartford Courant Company
The Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER, Conn. — Town officials announced Thursday that Manchester is receiving more than $1 million in grants to bring a regional animal control facility, a regional emergency operations center and other projects to town.
The grants are coming from the Capitol Region Council of Governments, which received funding through a program of the Office of Policy and Management to help towns forge partnerships to deliver services.
Manchester is receiving more than $1 million of the $5.2 million towns will get through the program.
"It's just terrific," General Manager Scott Shanley said. "It speaks very well to the work that people all over the region have done to create efficiencies and savings."
Manchester will receive $515,000 to build a regional animal control facility that will be run by the Humane Society on land on the Manchester-South Windsor border. The facility will serve Manchester, South Windsor, East Hartford and Hartford. Town officials have said that the town's current dog pound near the town dump is not a regional facility and is in major need of repairs.
Manchester also will receive $515,000 to help create a regional emergency operations center. The grant will help renovate the second floor of the public works building, which will become the site of a regional coordination center, where officials would coordinate emergency response in case of a catastrophe that is too much for individual jurisdictions to handle. Mayor Louis Spadaccini said the town is hoping to receive about $500,000 from the federal government to buy equipment for the regional center.
The town also is part of a group of towns receiving grants for a variety of projects, including creating Web-based tools for coordinating information among health departments, creating a mobile unit for investigation of traffic incidents and creating a network that would allow police officers to share information about arrests and other police work.
"This is excellent news," Spadaccini said. "I really have to commend CRCOG and I have to commend our general manager and town staff for being able to secure these grants."
Shanley also praised CRCOG and other state officials for making the projects possible.
"I think it's terrific for the region," he said. "It was a great initiative by the governor and the legislature to provide this opportunity. We will make sure it shows results."
Shanley said town staff has design schemes for the animal control facility and the emergency operations center and will meet to discuss a timeline for when both projects will begin.
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