News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 7, 2005

ODNR AWARDS MORE THAN $540,000 IN GRANTS
TO HELP MAINTAIN BOATING SAFETY ON OHIO WATERWAYS

2005 Marine Patrol Grant recipients Recipient Amount County Butler County Sheriff’s Office $14,970 Butler Columbus Police Marine Patrol Unit $8,233 Franklin Five Rivers Metro Park $9,592 Montgomery Geauga Park District $6,175 Geauga Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office $17,777 Hamilton Henry County Sheriff’s Office $6,000 Henry Huron Police Harbor Unit $16,093 Erie Knox County Sheriff’s Office $17,777 Knox Lake County Sheriff’s Office $24,888 Lake Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office $16,280 Lawrence Lorain Port Authority $24,327 Lorain Lucas County Sheriff’s Office $26,385 Lucas Mahoning CountySheriff’s Office $6,175 Mahoning City of Mansfield, Clear Fork Lake $20,771 Richland Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District $32,000 Multiple ODNR Division of Parks & Recreation $22,643 Multiple Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office $31,150 Ottawa Perrysburg Township Police Marine Patrol $12,912 Wood Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office $12,912 Pickaway Port Clinton Harbor Patrol $15,157 Ottawa Portage County Sheriff’s Office $23,578 Portage Put-In-Bay Police Department $20,584 Ottawa Rocky River Police Department $25,584 Cuyahoga Ross County Sheriff’s Office $16,093 Ross Sandusky Police Department $25,263 Erie Scioto County Sheriff’s Office $17,964 Scioto Springfield Township Marine Patrol $3,555 Summit Summit Sheriff’s Office $35,000 Summit Toledo Police Harbor Unit $20,397 Lucas Vermilion Police Department $17,403 Lorain Total $547,638

COLUMBUS, OH - Thirty Ohio law enforcement agencies will share a total of $547,638 in Marine Patrol Grants from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources that will assist in efforts to enforce laws and maintain boating safety on state waterways.

“Supporting local marine patrol programs improves our ability to serve boaters needs and to work in partnership with other law enforcement agencies to ensure marine-related public safety needs are satisfied,” said Ken Alvey, chief of the ODNR Division of Watercraft Chief.

Funding for these Marine Patrol Grants comes from the Waterways Safety Fund, which is administered by the ODNR Division of Watercraft. The fund consists of watercraft registration and titling fees, a fractional percentage of the state gasoline sales tax and funding from the U.S. Coast Guard. A minimum 25 percent local match is required of grant recipients.