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State Grant to be Sought for New Bern Fire Station

By Greg Bebermeyer and Heidi Wolfgang

01/13/2016

(KMZA)-- A state grant will be sought for the construction of a new fire station in the Nemaha County community of Bern.

Representatives of Bern Fire District #4 met with the Nemaha County Commission Monday to ask for their support in seeking a KAN STEP grant through the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Commissioners set a public hearing for January 25th at 10:00 in the morning on the grant application in the Commissioner’s room at the Courthouse.

The fire district representatives haven’t determined yet how much grant funding they plan to seek.

KAN STEP grants require the use of volunteers to match the grant funds. The maximum grant is $300,000.

In other action, the Commission, meeting as a canvassing board, canvassed the ballots from the January 5th special election in Sabetha on a half-cent retailers sales tax to fund the construction of a new outdoor aquatic center.

The Commission decided to count four of the nine provisional ballots cast in the election. All four were in the yes column. That brought the final vote tally to 407 in favor of the proposal to 121 against.

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