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The Goldsboro City Council is set to consider a $641,452 contract to expand the fitness center at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base during its Monday meeting. The council also plans to review an economic incentive grant for a new business and nearly $700,000 in budget amendments for costs related to Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts.
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders dared Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday to sign the state budget soon heading to his desk - a very unlikely result, given the repeated criticisms of both Cooper and other Democrats. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, holding a news conference before the final House vote on the two-year spending plan, said it contains middle-class tax cuts, teacher pay raises of nearly 10 percent on average over two years, and money for reserves and Hurricane Matthew relief that Cooper had sought publicly.
The city has more than $1.2 million in state money to repair its water treatment plant so that area residents won't ever again lose service for more than a week as happened when it was swamped following Hurricane Matthew. The city has also received almost $700,000 from FEMA that can be used for repairs, and the city expects another $1.2 million in FEMA money to build a berm around the plant to protect it from future flooding.
A group has announced plans to restore and rebuild 1,000 homes in eastern North Carolina damaged by Hurricane Matthew. The Fayetteville Observer reports that North Carolina Baptists on Mission, based in Cary, plans on completing this goal within two years.
Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday that he has approved $15.8 million for emergency beach and dune restoration projects in four Northeast Florida counties impacted by Hurricane Matthew in October. The money will be split by St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties to restore critically eroded beaches and to repair dunes where there is "an imminent threat to beachfront structures, such as roadways, homes and businesses," according to the governor's office.
In early October residents of Lenoir County experienced one of the worst floods in the state's history Hurricane Matthew. The Neuse River reached flood levels just days after Hurricane Matthew hit Eastern North Carolina and peaked Oct. 14 at 28.31 feet, passing the previous 27.71-foot record set by Hurricane Floyd on Sept.
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Her ruined furniture, books, pictures and other belongings lie stacked at the curb, left there by volunteers with Samaritan's Purse. They've placed family photos that might be saved on the porch.
One of the first orders of business for the Chatham County Commission in the new year, or sooner, is to enact a local ordinance that gives clear legal responsibility for storm debris clean-up to the county government. The lack of such an ordinance, according to U.S. Rep Buddy Carter and others, has apparently been a stumbling block in getting the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse Chatham County for clearing storm debris from inside gated communities.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 4,800 people have registered for aid since wind and flooding struck two months ago. FEMA has approved nearly $8 million in aid so far, while the National Flood Insurance Program has paid policy holders $30 million.
Republicans in North Carolina are attempting to limit incoming Democratic governor Roy Cooper's power two weeks before he takes office. In a surprise last-minute special session on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a host of legislation that would neutralize some of the gains Democrats made in the Tar Heel State on Election Day.
Many displaced Hurricane Matthew survivors face a challenging holiday season. Governor Pat McCrory has called a special session of the legislature to address pressing needs.
Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the costliest storm since Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Emergency management officials are now renewing calls for residents to get flood insurance, saying a vast majority of homeowners in areas vulnerable to major hurricane storm surge lack coverage.
Local residents impacted by Hurricane Matthew have more time to register for assistance, so officials want everyone to get registered and know the facts about receiving aid. The deadline to register for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is Jan. 9. That's a month beyond the original Dec. 9 registration deadline.
More than a dozen states have enacted tougher requirements for registering and voting since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act three years ago. That has led to confusion and claims that certain groups, mostly minorities who tend to vote with Democrats, are being disenfranchised.
Hurricane Matthew might have been the death knell for many Eastern North Carolina farmers, according to federal officials touring devastated farms Thursday in Edgecombe County. U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-1st District, said many farmers were already operating at a margin when the storm blew into town in early October.
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has been unable to quash the firestorm over his signing of a law limiting protections for LGBT people, while trying to focus his re-election bid on North Carolina's economy, taxes, teacher pay and his recent response to historic flooding. That legislation has reinforced this election as a referendum on North Carolina's conservative shift under McCrory and the Republican-led legislature.
Taking advantage of federal and state funds, Effingham County commissioners agreed Monday to hire debris removal and monitoring companies to clean up after Hurricane Matthew. Clint Hodges, the director of the county's Emergency Management Agency, said the county will be reimbursed more funding if it cleans up the debris quickly - up to 85 percent of the cleanup cost by FEMA and 13 percent by the state.