Hundreds of thousands of dollars are streaming into the city of Fall River’s coffers.
Mayor Sam Sutter announced today that the city has received nearly $350 thousand dollars in what he calls “long-awaited relief money” from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funds are meant to cover damages caused by Hurricane Sandy that struck the area in 2010, and from winter storm Nemo that hit in 2013.
“It was brought to my attention soon after taking office that a substantial amount of disaster relief money from 2012 was never received by the city,” Sutter said. “With the difficult fiscal situation we faced going into FY16, I felt that I needed to make securing those funds a top priority.”
In an effort to secure the federal funding, Mayor Sutter met with United States Senator Edward Markey earlier this summer to discuss the matter.
Sutter says, “I asked Senator Markey to meet with me to discuss two pressing matters to the city, our SAFER grant application and the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to us by FEMA. In our lengthy meeting, the Senator assured me that he understood how important it was for the public safety of Fall River’s citizens to secure the SAFER grant, and he said he would do everything he could to remove the red tape keeping us from receiving our relief funds.”
Mayor Sutter is pleased to announce the success on both fronts, and gives Senator Markey credit for helping to make the monies available.
“I would like to thank Senator Markey for the exceptional effort he made on these two projects,” Sutter says.
The roll out of the funding is scheduled to occur over the next few weeks.
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