FEMA approves $10 million for Missouri disaster assistance
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
As parts of Missouri continue recovery efforts from June's severe storms, the Boone County Commission is now planning to get some assistance from the federal government.
Several area businesses were hit hard by straight-line winds and flooding in June. Now Boone County could get hundreds of thousands in assistance thanks to Governor Mike Parson for requesting it and FEMA for approving it.
"This type of disaster recovery efforts cost thousands of dollars and thousands of man-hours of work all across the state," said Justin Aldred, a Boone County Commissioner.
The Biden Administration along with FEMA approved $10 million in recovery assistance Wednesday to help build back after the storms that hit Missouri in June.
21 Missouri counties are eligible to receive the funding:
- Andrew
- Audrain
- Boone
- Buchanan
- Caldwell
- Callaway
- Carroll
- Chariton
- Clinton
- Cooper
- Davies
- Grundy
- Holt
- Howard
- Lincoln
- Livingston
- Moniteau
- Montgomery
- Ralls
- Ray
- Saline
Boone County is now looking to SEMA to set parameters for the assistance, which will be followed by negotiations between the state and counties.
"So the Boone County Emergency Management, worked with other political subdivisions within Boone County, those are nonprofits, those are our other municipalities in order to show FEMA that we've met monetary thresholds here," Aldred said. "Things like fixing the roads around a river bottom, the extreme flooding that we've seen in Columbia, and damages as well."
SEMA will decide how much the counties get. However, the money must go to the recovery efforts.
The funding will be a 75% match. So the federal government will provide 75% of the recovery funding and the county will come with 25%.
Right now the assistance is expected to cover damages from June 24 through July 1 but Aldred says the county is looking to get that start date extended to June 19.
