News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
Clay County wants to add an assistant to the EMA Director to help with emergency needs in the community.
EMA Director Kyle Haney serves in the National Guard. Clay County Commissioner Bryan Coons said Haney could use help beyond that important role.
“Sometimes when Kyle is here he needs some help at the other end of the county,” Coons said. “If they have an emergency he needs somebody that can make decisions while at one end of the county while he is at the other, or if say somebody there’s an accident or somebody passes away they have to have someone there.”
Clay County Finance Clerk Donna Hamilton said that the EMA department does so much for the county.
“To know what they actually do other than just the ambulance, just the EMS and EMA,” Hamilton said. “They wear a lot of hats.”
Commissioners reviewed the budget this week for the upcoming fiscal year. The Clay County Board of Education is losing $218,000 in grant funding. Clay County Schools Director of Finance Ashley White said the school system is walking a fine line with its enrollment and could potentially lose more funding.
“We are going to be on the teeter-totter for the rest, I mean maybe forever I don’t know,” White said. “If we stay on that and we teeter-totter back and forth every year that we are facing a budget, we can lose $350,000 like that with a July final report from TISA.”
Some TISA funding is based on 1,000 students. Clay County currently serves 992.
Solid Waste has a two percent raise in the department’s budget.
