County Coroner Cyndi Dykes asked for an additional $100,000 for autopsies through the end of the year – 490,000 to pay for the pathologist and $10,000 for Northwest Health Porter’s
The county’s ARPA steering committee and four subcommittees devoted 25 meetings and more than 80 hours to the process of reviewing requests for funding, County Auditor Vicki Urbanik said.
Of the 53 proposals from 48 applicants, at least nine have already been knocked out of the running, said County Auditor Vicki Urbanik, who is leading the steering committee.
The ARPA Fiscal Recovery Funds: Compliance and Monitoring sessions will be 11 a.m. Tuesday and 5 p.m. Thursday at the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Ave., Valparaiso.