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“Normal” vs Freeze Recovery Programs

“Normal” vs Freeze Recovery Programs. Comparing what we have in a typical emergency to what is available in an event like the 2007 freeze. Types of Recovery Programs. Public Assistance (assistance to public agencies and certain private non-profit organizations)

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“Normal” vs Freeze Recovery Programs

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  1. “Normal” vs Freeze Recovery Programs Comparing what we have in a typical emergency to what is available in an event like the 2007 freeze

  2. Types of Recovery Programs • Public Assistance (assistance to public agencies and certain private non-profit organizations) • Individual Assistance (assistance to homeowners, renters, businesses, and/or farmers)

  3. Public Assistance Programs • Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) • State Public Assistance through California Disaster Assistance Act (CDAA) • Federal Public Assistance under the Stafford Act

  4. “Thresholds” Federal Public Assistance: • State Threshold = $1.22 per capita (just over $41 million) • County Threshold = $3.05 per capita No set threshold for State PA

  5. Freeze Public Assistance • Not enough damage to meet Federal threshold • Governor’s 1/12/07 Proclamation was for all Counties and activated CDAA • Damage to public facilities is eligible but minimum is $2500 (after insurance) • Response costs eligible (such as warming centers) • State agencies are not eligible

  6. Individual Assistance • No state program that can be implemented independent of a federal declaration • Individual and Households Program and other assistance under the Stafford Act • US Small Business Administration loans for physical damage and/or for economic losses • US Department of Agriculture loans for crop loss

  7. Freeze Individual Assistance • USDA Primary and/or contiguous designations for 47 Counties • SBA Primary and/or contiguous designations for 52 Counties • Governor’s request for Presidential Disaster Declaration for 31 Counties – Disaster Unemployment, Food Coupons and Commodities, Crisis Counseling • No IHP (no physical damage) and former Mortgage and Rental Assistance Program no longer exists

  8. Freeze Recovery Issues • No longer have Mortgage and Rental Assistance Program • Assistance available for undocumented workers • Assistance for community based organizations • Which counties are included in “the proclamation” • Scope and duration of the emergency/impacts • Special federal legislation • Unemployment earnings exemption

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