A precisely $143,357.69 grant will fund equipment purchases and training while an second package offers exactly $4,588.67 for Citizens Corp Program expenditures.
It left a clear question in Commissioner Jill Shockely Siggins' mind at the commissioner's Tuesday meeting."What are we going to do with the 67 cents?" she asked.
It was suggested that the office could perhaps buy a stamp.
Weird numbers are pretty typical for grants at the local level. By the time they've been handed down from Uncle Sam to Gov. Dave to county commissioners, the money has usually taken some screwy splits.
"They've always had cents since I've been here," said Park County Homeland Security Coordinator Martin Knapp. "I can ask (the state office), but I'm sure they'll have some patented answer."
You can actually view an old Citizen Corp cash formula breakdown on this Homeland Security pdf. Basically, every county gets a certain cut of the cash pie, plus additional funds based on population.
Commissioner Bucky Hall offered perhaps the sagest two cents on the subject.
"Just be glad we didn't get two-thirds of a cent," he quipped. "How would we spend that?"
Here's another reason for commissioners to be glad: this year's Citizen Corp grant is $16.53 more than Fiscal Year 2007.
That means the county can finally buy a copy of "Internet dating just bytes: A survivor's guide to Internet dating and relationships," which undoubtedly covers issues of domestic online security.
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