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CAO reports loaned $50M and $23M remaining; committee presses FEMA reimbursement process and staffing for long-term recovery
Summary
The City Administrative Officer reported a $50 million transfer to a wildfire recovery account, with roughly $38 million requested/approved so far and about $23 million remaining if all current requests are approved. Committee members pressed CAO, EMD and consultant Hagerty on FEMA reimbursement pacing, contracting and staffing gaps for recovery.
Jacob Wexler of the Office of the City Administrative Officer presented the CAO—0s monthly expenditure update on the General City Purposes wildfire emergency response and recovery account and said the account was established after the council approved a $50 million transfer from the Building and Safety Building Permit Enterprise Fund as a loan.
Wexler reported spending details through March 14: $1.4 million had been spent on an engineering project to clear a blocked intersection and shore a hillside; in the week before the meeting about $14 million more was approved (largely LAPD overtime), an additional $15 million request (from the Fire Department) was under review, and approximately $8.2 million was being held pending further cost detail. "If all the…
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