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Kalamazoo County commissioners take up $27,000 Texas Township tornado-relief request; decision deferred
Summary
Texas Township Supervisor Joanne O'Rourke asked the county to allow $27,000 in remaining county-administered storm relief funds to be used for private property repair; board members split over precedent and function of public dollars and took no formal vote, opting to return the issue for a formal decision on Sept. 16.
Joanne O'Rourke, supervisor of Texas Township, asked the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 2 to amend the county’s agreement so that the remaining roughly $27,000 in tornado-relief funds could be distributed to homeowners for private-property recovery needs.
O'Rourke told commissioners the township had received $1.8 million in requests and currently had a pool of about $300,000 to distribute. “I would like to request that our agreement with the county be amended to allow us to allocate the remaining funds designated by the county for Texas Township after the storm to increase the pool…
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