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

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

Final thirty day period the Marinette County Board of supervisors authorized contributing $43,900 to the City of Marinette in direction of the invest in of a new 24 ft lookup and rescue airboat with the caveat that the county be ready to use the airboat. On the other hand, at yesterday’s County Board conference a movement was brought forth by Supervisor Allen to rethink action taken by the County board to transfer the $43,900 to the Metropolis of Marinette for order of the Airboat. Considering that the Metropolis of Marinette has a short while ago allocated $500 per employee for COVID-19 vaccinations making use of ARPA cash when they could have applied their ARPA funds to the funding of the airboat as a substitute of asking the County for funding. County Administrator John Lefebvre suggests, “the City of Marinette received $1.1 million in ARPA funding.”


Supervisor Ken Keller claims, “there is a purpose why the town is wanting for participation in the purchasing of the airboat.”

Soon after a lengthy discussion, the board voted, and it came in at 14 in favor of the airboat to 13 not in favor.  The anticipated delivery day of the airboat is mid-January.