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Mayville council discusses tornado damage, establishes disaster relief fund and schedules public hearing on distribution
Summary
After a tornado damaged roughly a quarter of the city, the Mayville Common Council heard updates on cleanup, insurance limits and a new city disaster-relief fund; a public hearing on distribution criteria was scheduled for the next council meeting.
Mayor (title) reported that a tornado struck Mayville earlier this month and “we estimated around 25% of the city was hit with with some of some kind of damage.”
The mayor outlined city cleanup progress, said the city is “roughly 95% cleaned up,” and described conversations with county and state emergency-management officials about reimbursement. He said Dodge County submitted preliminary damage costs to the state and that the city applied for a state emergency-management assistance program in the amount of $380,000.
Why it matters: the storm damaged public and private property, and many cleanup items — uprooted trees, cemetery headstones and debris in waterways — may not be…
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