Freestone County Emergency Management Coordinator Leonard Smith briefed the county court members at their June 27 meeting on the status of the county’s emergency declaration for the extended extreme rain period that ran from April 26 to June 5.
“FEMA will cover 75 percent; we have to cover 25 percent,’’ Smith told the court. “However, that 25 percent isn’t us monetarily putting anything out per se. So we can use donated resources, such as volunteer hours, equipment, food, materials, things that were donated possibly to us to help get things cleaned up. We can deduct that 25 percent off of that to help with that.”
Smith continued reading a summary of the meeting he attended on the subject and explained that summary to the court members, including Continued from Page 1
