Scott County Commission approves updated emergency plans

BENTON, Mo. -- Scott County commissioners approved updated emergency plans for the county and the courthouse during their regular meeting Tuesday.

"One is 300 pages long and the other is about 25," said Amber Scudder, county emergency management director.

Scudder said the emergency management director goes over the Scott County Emergency Operations Plan every year with the area's State Emergency Management Agency coordinator.

"It has to be updated yearly," she explained.

In addition to small updates, a medical annex was added to the plan this year.

"There were nine and we added one, so now there's 10 annexes altogether," Scudder said.

For the courthouse emergency operations plan, "I added a color-coded alert system for inside the courthouse to alert all the county offices of different emergencies going on within the building," Scudder said. "I also added a new medical emergency operation plan and updated the organizational chart for each floor due to personnel changes."

Emergency evacuation routes for each floor were also updated to include the locations of fire extinguishers and the automatic external defibrillator, according to Scudder.

In other business during Tuesday's meeting, commissioners said the county is doing better this year on sales tax receipts than last year.

"We're running about $3,000 ahead of what we had last year at this time," Commissioner Dennis Ziegenhorn said. "We had a really good February -- it was quite a bit more than what the previous February was. That is a pretty good sign for all of us in Scott County."

Pertinent address:

Benton, MO