Press Release- April 18, 2007
OFFICE OF GOV. BILL RITTER, JR.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007
Contact:
Evan Dreyer, 720.350.8370
Polly White, 303.852.6630
TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS TO ARRIVE IN HOLLY THURSDAY
Fifty travel trailers and mobile homes will begin arriving in Holly on Thursday, providing temporary shelter to families who lost their homes in last month¿s deadly tornado.
The housing units include 30 travel trailers and 20 mobile homes. The cost of transport, being paid for by the state, is $5,000 per mobile home and $1,500 per travel trailer, for a total of $145,000.
The units are coming 750 miles from Hope, Ark., to Holly and have been declared surplus by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"Since the tornado struck Holly on March 28, FEMA has been extremely responsive," Gov. Ritter said. "These housing units will help provide some stability to those families in Holly whose homes were destroyed. They also will be invaluable as plans for rebuilding Holly move forward."
Ritter is tentatively scheduled to visit Holly again on April 28 with former Gov. Roy Romer, who grew up in Holly. Ritter toured the town the day after the tornado.
Some of the housing units have never been used, but most were previously lived in by Katrina/Rita hurricane victims. All units have been refurbished and are fully furnished.
The units are valued at more than $1 million and will now be the property of Colorado.