Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement.
Following the completion of Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments, the State of Mississippi has requested a Major Disaster Declaration for Public Assistance following the February 11-19, 2021 Winter Storm. During this event, multiple rounds of wintry precipitation impacted that state resulting in dangerous road conditions, widespread power outages and damage to public infrastructure.
At this time, 31 counties and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians met their thresholds with an estimated total of approximately $25 million worth of damage. The counties included in the request for Public Assistance are: Adams, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Grenada, Hinds, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Kemper, Lafayette, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Lincoln, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Pike, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Tallahatchie, Walthall, Warren, Winston, Yazoo.
The purpose of the Public Assistance Program is to support local governments and certain nonprofits to recover from major disasters by providing them with grant assistance for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and the restoration of public infrastructure.
The request must be approved by the president for federal assistance to become available to local and county governments as well as certain nonprofits. Some counties could be added to this declaration request at a later date if the damage threshold is met following damage assessments.
8 comments:
Federal welfare.
Mo money, mo money!
Do a follow up in 6 months to see how much is actually spent on rebuilding. I wager about 10%.
That federal "free" money tree in WDC is producing one hell of a crop this year.
3nd paragraph, 2nd line....those 2 words......''grant assistance''.........definition: money the feds print and give to the states and ''non profits''......can anybody tell me how many millions have been stolen by certain ''non-profits'' in the past year?
MEMA is a state administrative agency, created and funded by the mississippi legislature. obviously the legislature didn't set aside much money for MEMA, which is why MEMA wants 25 million from the feds.
but you can be sure of one thing, the legislature funded all the big salaries for the MEMA fat cats so they can sit on their asses and ride around in their state cars.
administrative agencies like MEMA and PRVWSD a/k/a the reservoir, and ms dept of marine resources, are nothing but political BS that allow politicians to hand out high paying government jobs with full benefits to their stinking cronies.
Not so fast 4:17.
MEMA pays half of the non federal share of damage costs. That is a big deal in a major disaster. If FEMA pays 75%, MEMA picks up 12.5%, so municipal or County governments only pay 12.5% of damage costs. Don’t be complaining about MEMA, they play a big role in recovery efforts.
to 9;33pm...you talk like MEMA has been around for ever.
MEMA was just one more political knee jerk created after 9/11, after the feds created FEMA.
as for MEMAs ''big roll'', where was MEMA after the great 1927 flood which coverd the entire mississippi delta?
where were after hurricane camille in 1969?
where were they after the easter flood of 1979?
and i can assure you that the february 2021 ice storm was not the first one in the history of this state.
your precious MEMA didn't even exist then , yet people recovered.
anyone who believes a stinking state government agency plays a ''big role'' in disaster relief or any other problem for that matter, doesn't know much about how government really operates .
you would have people believe we could not exist without MEMA, but we've done it before. go back to school and learn a little history.
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