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Tuesday to support using the 211service.
Wenande said the city wouldwork with Scherschligt on how todirect information during emer-gencies. She added that it pro-vides an efficient way to obtaininformation about services forcitizens.
“It’s really a wonderful wayfor our citizens to navigate thevery complex and ever-growinghealth and human services in ourarea,” Hanson added. “By makingthese services easier to access,we believe that 211 encouragesprevention and self-sufficiencyfor our citizens so they can bemore productive. We believe thatis important.”
She said 211 tracks the needsof the community based on thecalls it receives and issues an an-nual report to the county thatcan be used as a tool to better re-spond to community needs.
A couple of commissionersexpressed concerns about thecosts of 211.
“What you’re telling us is, thissum of money is it? We’re notgoing to be asked to furnish per-sonnel, office space or anythinglike that down the road?” askedCommissioner Allen Sinclair, whosaid past experience has shownthat programs often accumulateadditional costs.
Scherschligt said that wouldnot be the case with 211.
Commissioner Garry Moorewas worried that Yankton Countyis funding too much of the serv-ice compared to Bon Homme andHutchinson counties.
“Most of the support servicesthat go along with this come outof this county,” he said. “We’rethe ones who are going to be pro-viding the support for a lot of the
basic human needs ... I’m notsure we should pay a larger por-tion. We should probably belooking at 30-40 cents and maybethe others should be paying 70cents per citizen.”
United Way spearheaded aneffort to get 211 in YanktonCounty in 2005, but it could notobtain sufficient funding.
The estimated set-up cost ofthe service then was $3,750,while it was expected to cost ap-proximately $11,500 annually tokeep afloat.
At that time, neither the Yank-ton County Commission nor theYankton City Commission werewilling to provide an initial$2,000 contribution to cover theset-up costs and splitting the an-nual cost with United Way.
United Way does help fundthe service in Sioux Falls, andSinclair asked why that wasn’tbeing offered in Yankton County.
“We are fully in support ofdoing so, if needed,” Hansonsaid. “But our funding is not avery consistent funding source.In the last five years, we have notmet our (fundraising) goal. We’restruggling to continue to provideservices to our currentagencies.”
No action was taken on theagenda item.
The commissioners askedthat Scherschligt inquire whether211 would agree to a multi-yearcontract to lock in the price andgather some other price-relatedinformation for consideration atthe County Commission’s June 4meeting.
In other business Tuesday,the commission:
• discussed whether or not tobring Yankton Search and Rescueunder the umbrella of the Yank-ton County Emergency Manage-ment Office. It was once underthe auspices of the departmentuntil its members thought thegroup would be able to gainmore access to grants and otherfunding sources by breakingaway from the county. No actionwas taken Tuesday, but if thegroup did re-join the emergencymanagement office, it would be-come Yankton County Searchand Rescue;
• heard information about theYankton County GovernmentCenter’s problematic phone sys-tem. Staff said new Cisco phoneshad been installed by Knology acouple months ago and problemswith sound quality and usability
ensued. A couple departmentheads said they would not spendtheir own money on the phonesand noted that, on top of theproblems, their monthly phonebills are excessive. Lori Mackey,the director of equalization, saidshe could get cell phones for herentire staff for less expense thanthe landline service. Knology rep-resentatives said they will workto resolve the problems with thephone system;
• heard a complaint fromRoger and Carolyn Holtzmannabout a neighbor’s dogs. Theylive along Timberland Drive andsaid the dogs come on theirproperty and rip the siding offtheir house. After notifying theneighbor of the problem, thecouple said the problem per-sisted. Poison was put out, and itkilled one of the dogs. After that,the Holtzmanns said they founda dead goose stuffed in theirmailbox. Currently, the county’snuisance ordinance does nothave language that applies to do-mesticated animals ruining prop-erty, and the commission said itwill pursue amending the ordi-nance so something can be doneabout the situation. In the mean-time, Yankton County Planning
and Zoning Administrator PatGarrity said he will send a letterto the neighbor asking that thedogs be kept under control andthat remedies would be sought atthe county level if the animal in-cursions don’t stop;
• heard information presentedby Moore about the possibility ofcombining county offices, specifi-cally the auditor and treasurer’soffices. It has been done in othercounties. The commissionagreed it couldn’t hurt to lookinto the possibility and toldMoore to gather more informa-tion for consideration at a futuremeeting;
• opted to stay with a Well-mark health insurance plan; and
• approved an ambulance rateincrease.
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because there were no streetsigns left. Some rescuers usedsmartphones or GPS devices toguide them through areas with norecognizable landmarks.
The death toll was reviseddownward from 51 after the statemedical examiner said some vic-tims may have been countedtwice in the confusion. More than200 people were treated at areahospitals.
By Tuesday afternoon, everydamaged home had beensearched at least once, Bird said.His goal was to conduct threesearches of each building just tobe certain there were no morebodies or survivors.
The fire chief was hopeful thatcould be completed before night-fall, but the work was being ham-pered by heavy rain. Crews alsocontinued a brick-by-brick searchof the rubble of a school that wasblown apart with many childreninside.
No additional survivors orbodies have been found sinceMonday night, Bird said.
Survivors emerged with har-rowing accounts of the storm’swrath, which many endured asthey shielded loved ones.
Chelsie McCumber grabbedher 2-year-old son, Ethan,wrapped him in jackets and cov-ered him with a mattress beforethey squeezed into a coat closetof their house. McCumber sang toher child when he complained itwas getting hot inside the smallspace.
“I told him we’re going to playtent in the closet,” she said, be-ginning to cry.
“I just felt air so I knew theroof was gone,” she said Tuesday,standing under the sky where herroof should have been. The homewas littered with wet gray insula-tion and all of their belongings.
“Time just kind of stood still”in the closet, she recalled. “I waskind of holding my breath think-ing this isn’t the worst of it. I did-n’t think that was it. I kept waitingfor it to get worse.”
“When I got out, it was worsethan I thought,” she said.
Gov. Mary Fallin lamented theloss of life, especially the childrenwho were killed, but she cele-brated the town’s resilience.
“We will rebuild, and we willregain our strength,” Fallin said.
In describing the bird’s-eyeview of the damage, the governorsaid many houses were “takenaway,” leaving “just sticks andbricks, basically. It’s hard to tell ifthere was a structure there ornot.”
From the air, large stretches oftown could be seen where everyhome had been cut to pieces.Some homes were sucked offtheir concrete slabs. A pond wasfilled with piles of wood and anoverturned trailer.
Also visible were large patchesof red earth where the tornadoscoured the land down to the soil.Some tree trunks were still stand-ing, but the winds ripped awaytheir leaves, limbs and bark.
In revising its estimate of thestorm’s power, the NationalWeather Service said the tornadohad winds of at least 200 mph andwas on the ground for 40 minutes.
The agency upgraded the tor-nado from an EF4 on the en-hanced Fujita scale based onreports from a damage-assess-ment team, said spokeswomanKeli Pirtle. Monday’s twister wasat least a half-mile wide. It wasthe nation’s first EF5 tornado of2013.
Other search-and-rescueteams concentrated on PlazaTowers Elementary, where thestorm ripped off the roof,knocked down walls and de-stroyed the playground as stu-dents and teachers huddled inhallways and bathrooms.
Seven of the nine dead chil-dren were killed at the school, butseveral students were pulled alivefrom under a collapsed wall andother heaps of mangled debris.Rescue workers passed the sur-vivors down a human chain ofparents and neighborhood volun-teers. Parents carried children intheir arms to a triage center inthe parking lot. Some studentslooked dazed, others terrified.
Neither Plaza Towers nor an-other school in Oklahoma Citythat was not as severely damagedhad reinforced storm shelters, orsafe rooms, said Albert Ashwoodis director of the Oklahoma De-partment of EmergencyManagement.
More than 100 schools acrossthe state do have safe rooms, hesaid, explaining that it’s up toeach jurisdiction to set spendingpriorities.
Ashwood said a shelter wouldnot necessarily have saved morelives at Plaza Towers.
“When you talk about any kindof safety measures ... it’s a miti-gating measure, it’s not an ab-solute,” he told reporters.“There’s not a guarantee thateveryone will be totally safe.”
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