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Lee County commissioners table proposal to create dedicated disaster reserve fund
Summary
At a Lee County work session, a commissioner proposed seeding a new disaster reserve with a $15,268.70 management-fee check and formal criteria for use; after debate about timing and reserves the item was tabled for further review and possible inclusion in upcoming budget work sessions.
Miss Smith proposed creating a dedicated Lee County disaster reserve and seeding it with a $15,268.70 management-fee check the county received for administering an East Alabama COVID claim. She outlined specific criteria for using the fund: a local state of emergency declared by the chairman of the Lee County Commission and approved by majority vote, occurrence of injury or loss of life due to a man-made or weather-related emergency, debris on roadways exceeding the Lee County Highway Department’s capacity as determined by the county engineer, or…
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