Monessen to add police vehicles with ArcelorMittal settlement
By KRISTIE LINDEN
klinden@yourmvi.com
Monessen’s police department will soon have three new police Interceptor SUVs thanks to the long-awaited funds from a settlement paid by ArcelorMittal over air pollution.
Councilman Anthony Orzechowski announced during Thursday night’s meeting that the city has been awarded $100,000 from the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County’s Vehicle Emissions Reduction Fund to go toward the purchase of new police vehicles.
Orzechowski said two new, fully equipped, hybrid SUVs will cost $94,000. The city hopes to leverage the remaining $6,000 in grant funding into a third police SUV through a state grant process.
Once the SUVs are in the city, it will close a chapter on a controversial situation that was born of the 2017 Department of Environmental Protection consent decree that forced the ArcelorMittal coke plant to pay an $1.8 million settlement over air pollution caused by the facility.
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