Elected officials get emergency management seminar
The Minnesota Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Joe Kelly was in Glencoe speaking about natural disaster emergency management in the old board room in the basement of the courthouse last Tuesday, March 5. His audience was many of the elected leaders of McLeod County, ranging from city council members to county board commissioners to police chiefs.
Kelly made it clear that natural disasters happen in Minnesota despite “blue sky budgets,” a term he used to describe the lack of disaster mitigation dollars in an ordinary Minnesota county. He said even small disasters could be crippling to a small town or county, even with proper preparation and budgeted money.
(For the complete story, see the March 13 print edition of The Chronicle.)