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Mayor says FEMA mitigation award for Lighthouse Pier reduced after appeal; city to submit revised design
Summary
Biloxi's mayor told the council that appeals reduced the cost estimate for Lighthouse Pier repairs and that the city will submit a revised pier design for additional mitigation funds; MEMA support was noted for other Katrina infrastructure appeals.
Biloxi's mayor reported that the city's appeal of a federal grant award for Lighthouse Pier produced a lower mitigation cost estimate and that staff plan to submit a revised, mitigated pier design to request additional funding to rebuild with the desired materials.
The mayor said an initial FEMA figure of roughly $1.2 million was cut to $519,000 after mitigation analysis, and that appeals raised the total federal award (without mitigation) to about…
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