The Christian County Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Planning Committee met today at 2 pm at the Taylorville Fire Department. 33 various officials from townships in Christian County appeared today to render new mitigation project plans to be added to Christian County’s request for state funding.

The Illinois Emergency Management Office of Homeland Security (IEMA-OHS) is responsible for reviewing and granting funds based on requests sent in for each county in the state of Illinois. The varying counties mention projects that they have completed, projects that are currently ongoing, as well as projects that have not yet been started. That information will assist the IEMA-OHS in determining what types of grants to issue and to which counties.

Committee Organizer, Andrea Campbell, mentioned that in order to be approved for IEMA-OHS grants, the projects that each jurisdiction is requesting funding for must be hazard and emergency mitigation-related. Also, according to Campbell, the proposed projects must be only for the requesting jurisdiction.

The list of mitigation projects could potentially include installation of power generators to provide uninterrupted power to critical systems, or landscape barriers like living snow fences to keep emergency routes to critical facilities, such as schools or hospitals, safe and open.

The next Mitigation Meeting will review topics from today’s meeting. Also in the upcoming meeting, officials from Christian County towns, villages, or cities will hand in their lists of projects.

Stay tuned to taylorvilledailynews.com to find additional information following the next mitigation meeting.