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In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema format to call for the First Comprehensive assessment of disaster cost and losses in over 20 years. We also wanted to reform several Disaster Assistance programs to make them more efficient. If february, the house passed the fema legislation and we hope the senate will take up hr1471 and pass it soon. The purpose of todays hearing is to discuss what we have learned so far and begin exploring potential solutions, particularly the principals that should be driving those solutions. While there are si
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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Supervisor cowen okay how is everybody doing. Good. Lets look alive were talking about land use transportation thank you, very much. So this the meeting will come to order the regular meeting of the sfauvengs im supervisor cowen the chair and supervisor wiener the vice chair and supervisor peskin and our clerk is andrea ashbury i want to thank jesse larson mark that are troifg via sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the may 3rd i 2016 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you so much please call item one a planning code to modify the measurement of roof line no the c3 district colleagues weve heard and continued this i got a request from the sponsor to table this item before that open up for Public Comment. Item one. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed thank you so much all right. Id like to mak