Energy Company Tenaska Donates $5,000 for Carroll County EMA Office Upgrades

Tenaska provided Carroll County’s Emergency Management Agency with a $5,000 grant. Commissioners approved allowing EMA Director Tom Cottis to purchase new furniture and office equipment for the agency’s new annex building offices.

Commissioner Donald E. Leggett II confirmed with Commissioner Robert Wirkner that the grant was originally for a new truck for the EMA office.

“Tenaska granted this to buy a new truck, but Encino donated a truck before these funds,” Wirkner said. “The EMA contacted Tenaska to see if they wanted the money back, but Tenaska agreed to allow them to use it for furniture or equipment for the new building.”

Tenaska is a private energy company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. It develops, owns and operates a mix of natural gas, wind and solar power plants, and also handles natural gas and electricity marketing and project development. In Ohio, Tenaska is advancing plans for a Tri-State carbon capture and storage project, including test wells.

In other business, commissioners:

— Approved issuing a Notice of Award, Notice to Proceed and Agreement to Kinsey Excavating & Trucking LLC in the amount of $162,454.22 for the Leesville Storm Sewer Project. 

— Learned Melissa N. Schaar, clerk, appeared before the board to advise viewers that the Subaru Loves Pets Carroll County Dog Pound Adoption Event will be held Saturday, Oct. 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Huebner Subaru, 1155 Canton Road NW, Carrollton. Food trucks will be on site and the Carroll County Humane Society will offer $30 microchips and $10 rabies shots. All animals must be on a leash or in a cage. 

— Paid bills totaling $138,432.71.