Additional FEMA Funds To Go To Delgado Community College
Nearly $12 million in additional funds to benefit library and other buildings across campus
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Release Number: 1603-565
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NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today that an additional $11.9 million has been obligated to help Delgado Community College recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
These latest funds were obligated by FEMA for two main areas: the library, and replacement of contents for various administration buildings and classrooms throughout the campus.
Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters caused extensive damages across the Delgado campus, and the Moss Memorial Library's learning resource center suffered the loss of much of its contents. The funds obligated today will help pay for new books, serial publications, CDs, and audio-visuals, to name a few. In addition, the funds will also help replace the contents of several administration buildings and classrooms on campus, to include things like computers, lab equipment, classroom supplies and furniture.
The money announced today will raise the total obligated funds for Delgado Community College to more than $20 million, including money for damaged vehicles, a new electrical distribution system, HVAC units, warehouses, athletic facilities and locker rooms.
When projects are obligated by FEMA, the funds go into an account the state can draw money from through a simple transaction. The state generally receives the funds within 72 hours. It then disperses the money to the agency doing the project. The state may require additional documentation before it releases the money to the local applicant.
The Public Assistance program works with state and local officials to fund recovery measures and the rebuilding of government buildings, roads and bridges, schools, water and sewer plants, recreational facilities owned by government agencies, some facilities owned by nonprofit agencies, and other publicly owned facilities. FEMA can set aside money to bring each project back to its pre-disaster function and capacity, and the state distributes the money. In order for the process to be successful, federal, state and local partners coordinate to draw up project plans, fund these projects and oversee their completion.
FEMA manages federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident, initiates mitigation activities and manages the National Flood Insurance Program. FEMA works closely with state and local emergency managers, law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other first responders. FEMA became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 24-Oct-2006 13:17:47