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Carter County commissioners approve disaster-related payments, reject three vendor invoices for further review
Summary
At a March 6 special session, the Carter County Board of Commissioners heard a TEMA contractor update and approved a series of disaster-response payments and purchase orders while rejecting three vendor invoices pending additional vendor information; commissioners also authorized volunteers to remove debris and to pay an estimated $11,500 landfill fee from county funds.
Chairperson Ginger Holdren convened the Carter County Board of Commissioners’ special called session on March 6 to hear a disaster-recovery update and consider a sequence of disaster-related payments and purchase orders.
The meeting’s primary substantive item was a presentation from Sonya Shows of Schaus, LLC and Shannon Ball, TEMA’s State Hazard Mitigation Officer. Shows told commissioners that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is handling 52 projects and that debris collection finished Feb. 22; she estimated roughly 200 tons of debris remained at some sites and said volunteers had offered to help remove it. Ball said roughly $73 million is currently in the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and that those funds become available about one year after the disaster; he urged the county to designate a single point of contact to streamline grant applications and technical…
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