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Floyd County ratifies local emergency, seeks FEMA mitigation funds and approves $51,256 local match
Summary
After widespread storm damage, the Board of Supervisors ratified an emergency declaration, authorized FEMA grant pre‑applications for generator and critical‑facility work and approved the county's local match for a federal mitigation pre‑application.
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors on Thursday ratified a local emergency declaration tied to a severe winter storm and approved moving forward on federal mitigation and public assistance requests tied to the outage and cleanup.
The ratification formalizes emergency actions the county's emergency manager and chairman had already taken to open warming centers and request state and federal assistance after the storm left dozens of roads blocked, downed power lines and many residents without electricity. The board also voted to submit a FEMA mitigation pre‑application for backup generators and other critical‑facility equipment; total equipment estimates for the first pre‑application are about $978,000. The county's locally required share for that request was set at $51,256.38 and the board authorized signatures…
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