FEMA Approves Funds for 13 School Districts, School for Deaf in the State of Texas
Release Date: December 17, 2005
Release Number: 1606-109
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AUSTIN, Texas -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted $302,621 in Public Assistance (PA) grants to the State of Texas as reimbursement for Hurricane Rita-related storm damage to school properties impacted by Hurricane Rita.
The funding, earmarked for 13 Independent School Districts (ISD) in nine counties and the Austin-based Texas School for the Deaf, includes costs for temporary sheltering and other emergency protective measures, buildings and grounds damages, debris removal and road damage. FEMA has obligated funding in the following counties to the school districts listed below:
- Brazoria County: Angleton ISD, emergency measures, $8,102;
- Cherokee County: Alto ISD, emergency measures, $10,913;
- Galveston County: High Island ISD, building and grounds damage, $40,487;
- Jasper County: Jasper ISD, debris removal, building damage and emergency measures, $50,000; Kirbyville ISD, debris removal, building damage and emergency measures, $14,000;
- Newton County: Deweyville ISD, building damage, $10,000.
- Polk County: Corrigan-Camden ISD, emergency measures, $52,373; Livingston ISD, debris removal and emergency measures, $57,408;
- Rusk County: Carlisle ISD, building damage, emergency measures, $5,000; West Rusk County Consolidated ISD, emergency measures, $2,851.
- San Augustine County: Broaddus ISD, debris removal, road damage, buildings and grounds damage, emergency measures, $29,579; San Augustine ISD, debris removal, road damage, buildings and grounds damage, emergency measures, $8,661; and
- Shelby County: Shelbyville ISD, emergency measures, $11,293.
The Texas School for the Deaf received $1,949 for emergency measures. The State of Texas administers FEMA's PA program under which eligible and documented disaster-related costs are reimbursed to state and local government entities.
Last Modified: Thursday, 22-Dec-2005 11:59:43