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Woodfin updates Helene recovery efforts, FEMA project submissions and grant-funded police hire
Summary
Town Manager said engineers submitted revised damage inventories to FEMA and the town is pursuing several grant streams; council accepted a DOJ grant of $183,069 to fund a specialist and modest facility upgrades, and staff described timelines and potential FEMA pass-through delays tied to federal processes.
Town Manager Shannon told the council Oct. 21 that the town is advancing its Helene recovery work with engineers submitting a revised damage inventory and more-detailed cost estimates to FEMA in hopes of qualifying several projects as large projects (which carry different eligibility rules). Shannon said stormwater and roads are priority categories for FEMA public-assistance projects and that staff is preparing detailed stormwater estimates to apply similar…
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