On Wednesday, Indiana County Commissioners heard from the county’s Emergency Management Director concerning Covid-19 and a request for the PA National Guard.
During his Covid report, Director Tom Stutzman said that he would be working with Indiana Regional Medical Center on a request to have members of the Pennsylvania National Guard deployed to Indiana to help with IRMC’s Emergency Department at their main campus and at the Urgi-Care facility at IRMC at Chestnut Ridge. Stutzman talked about why the request was made.
Stutzman and the Commissioners continue to encourage people to get vaccinated as soon as possible, and not use the IRMC emergency department for those purposes.
In other business, Commissioners approved a request for $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to be used for the ICCAP food Bank Warehouse project. The project is a multi-phased project that will consist of the acquisition and renovations to an industrial building at 2131 Shelly Drive in White Township, which will provide them more room to store food than their current facility on South Sixth Street. In connection with this, Commissioners also approved a request for the county office of Planning and Development to enter into a memorandum of understanding with ICCAP so they can help with the project.
