FEMA to pay Houston $2.4 million - Houston Business Journal:

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million after losing two appeals relatex to emergency housing reimbursement expense related toHurricane Katrina. “We will finally receiv e the outstanding federal funds that Houston is entitled to be repaidx for our considerable financiao commitment in the wake ofHurricane Katrina,” said City Councilwomabn Ann Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck and fellow councilman Ronald Green defended the appeals to FEMA Disastedr Assistance representativesin D.C., in May. Aftert Katrina devastated New Orleans and large swaths ofthe Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabamqa coastlines, the City of Houston volunteerer to be FEMA’s regional agent, organizingy disaster-related assistance for evacuees.
The city’s management of the interimn housing program provided housing for morethan 150,0000 evacuees for about 18 months. FEMA reimbursef the city almost $49 million but rejected additiona l repayment requests forthe $2.4 million, Mayod Bill White’s office said in a statement issued July 14. FEMA then rejecteed the first appeal undet the incorrect assumption that it had alreadygbeen billed.