DeKalb County Awarded Grant for Health Department Improvements

October 24, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County has been approved for a special needs grant in the amount of $65,130 to replace the current HVAC system, phone system and to repave the parking lot at the local health department.

Michael Railing, Director of the DeKalb Health Department applied for the grant from the Upper Cumberland Primary Care Project, supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

County Mayor Tim Stribling said there is no local match requirement for the grant.

“We received a grant for our health department and this is through the Tennessee Department of Health. No matching funds are required for the county. It’s to repave the parking lot at the health department, to install a new phone system there, and to put in a new HVAC system with some air purifiers. They have two. One went out about two years ago and we had to replace it. This is to replace the other one with the air purifiers and to put air purifiers on the one we replaced about two years ago. There will probably be a budget amendment coming for that and it might be one of those where we have to spend it and then get reimbursed by the state. We have done that before,” said County Mayor Stribling.

October 24, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County’s share of local option sales tax collections for September 2021 outperformed the same month in 2020 by more than $26,000 according to the Tennessee Department of Revenue. For the county and the four cities therein combined collections were up by more than $42,000.

According to the report, DeKalb County brought in $164,809 in September 2021 compared to $138,476 for September 2020.

All four cities within DeKalb County also hauled in more local option sales tax revenue.

The comparisons between the two months for each municipality are as follows:

Smithville: $318,877 ( September, 2021), $309,782 (September 2020)

Alexandria: $30,394 (September, 2021), $28,890 (September 2020)

Dowelltown: $2,678 (September, 2021), $2,251 (September, 2020)

Liberty: $10,581 (September, 2021), $5,812 (September, 2020)

NET COLLECTIONS (LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX): $527,341 (September, 2021), $485,214 (September, 2020)
September sales tax collections reflect previous month activity.

October 23, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County School District reported only 1 positive case of COVID all week from Monday, October 18 to Friday, October 22 and that was at DeKalb County High School.

The number of those under quarantine dropped from 14 on Monday, October 18 to 8 on Friday, October 22.

According to Attendance Supervisor Joey Reeder, the number of those under quarantine at each school on Monday, October 18 were: DCHS 5, DeKalb Middle and Northside Elementary each with 3, DeKalb West 2, and Smithville Elementary 1. By Friday, October 22 the numbers were: DCHS 4, DeKalb Middle School 3, and DeKalb West School 1.

The district reported 4 absences among the staff on Friday, October 22 due to positive cases or quarantine including 1 at Smithville Elementary and 3 in the Transportation Department.

Meanwhile the number of active COVID cases in DeKalb County as of Friday, October 22 was 37 with 6 new cases.

There have been 70 deaths in DeKalb County since the pandemic began in March 2020 and 108 have been hospitalized.

At last report a total of 8,593 people (41.9%) have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine and 7,380 (36.8%) are fully vaccinated in DeKalb County.

Over the last seven days, (October 15-21) DeKalb County had a case count of 22 for a daily case rate of 15.3 per 100,000 residents.

For the most recent 14 days, (October 8-21) DeKalb County’s case count was 54 for a daily case rate of 18.8 per 100,000 residents.

For the 14 days prior (September 24 to October 7), the case count was 126 for a daily case rate of 43.9 per 100, 000 residents.

From March 5, 2020 to October 21, 2021, DeKalb County has had a total of 4,180 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 for a daily case rate of 34.3 per 100,000 residents.

Over the last 7 days the average percent positive was 10.7%.

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