In recent weeks, Carroll County has received more than half a million dollars to fund clean up of the devastation left by the March 24 tornado.
“It cost a little over half a million dollars to pay the contractors to do the clean up and the monitoring,” said Beat One Supervisor Jim Neill.
He said the payment is a 100 percent reimbursement check for what county officials have spent toward debris clean up and removal.
The county received $500,466.78 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency by way of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, Neill said.
“We had to pay it as we went out of county funds,” said Neill.
The county had to have contractors clean up debris from the sides of roads, he said.
“Then you had to have a monitor company to watch the debris being taken out. Then you need a debris company to watch the debris burning,” said Neill.
County officials have been paying for the debris clean up and removal out of ARPA funds.
“Now, we are reimbursing the [ARPA funds],” Neill said. “There’s a little bit more clean up we’ve done in the last weeks that will be reimbursed at 75 percent.”
The cost of debris clean up paled in comparison to the millions of dollars in damage in Carroll County and the loss of three lives caused by the tornado.
