May 16 draws closer
Preparations begin
Bureau of Prisons to compensate Board of Public Works with $40,000
By Peter Ciancone
Tribune-Star
The Terre Haute Board of Public Works approved Monday an intergovernmental agreement with the Bureau of Prisons to provide city support for crowds anticipated during the scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh.
The city has agreed to provide police, fire and ambulance service in exchange for an amount not to exceed $40,000.
Specific services include extra patrols throughout the area of the U.S. Penitentiary, police escorts for bureau buses carrying demonstrators, crowd control at Fairbanks and Voorhees parks where demonstrators will gather, and a SWAT team, ambulance and fire truck on standby to respond to emergencies.
The agreement includes a provision that allows the city to look for additional funding from other federal agencies.
City Police Chief Jim Horrall said the city added the language allowing it to seek additional funding elsewhere because it could not predict the amount of expenses.
"We won't know how much it'll actually cost until it's over," he said.
Horrall said U.S. Rep. Brian Kerns, R-7th, has offered to help Terre Haute any way possible.
Dan Dunne, spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, said the agreement had been accepted by the federal agency.
"It's a matter now of the city determining what their expenses are and submitting a bill," he said.
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