Emergency Management ARPA fund request update

Each week last month, Payne County commissioners spent discussing a request presented by Emergency Management Deputy Director Troy Choplin for $11 million in American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds for a county-wide radio system update.

Payne County ARPA funds total is $15,885,583 meaning if the request is approved nearly 70 percent of the funds would be put towards the radio system update. An appr…