MARQUETTE, MI-- The state is giving more than $1.8 million to Michigan counties and communities affected by last winter’s deep freeze.
Thursday Governor Rick Snyder approved the funding from the Disaster and Emergency Contingency Fund, which is used when municipalities exhaust their own resources during a disaster or emergency. The money can be applied toward the immediate prevention, response and recovery of a disaster or emergency, as well as cover overtime for public employees, contracts used during the response, shelter supplies, gasoline used during the response and repair of public buildings and infrastructure.
Snyder declared a state of emergency in Marquette County April 17 due to extended frigid temperatures and deep frost lines. The declaration was amended May 7 to include Delta, Chippewa, Gogebic, Luce, Mackinac, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet counties.
In July Northern Michigan counties learned they didn’t meet FEMA’s threshold for a presidential disaster declaration. By October the Michigan Strategic Fund released more than $7.6 million in Community Block Grants to repair damaged infrastructure in Northern Michigan Communities.
Northern Michigan Deep Freeze Emergency Awards
Name Amount
Marquette County $100,000
City of Marquette $100,000
Marquette Township $100,000
Ishpeming Township $ 32,609.85
City of Ishpeming $100,000
City of Wakefield $83,101.97
Charlevoix County $65,415
City of Charlevoix $100,000
Cheboygan County $10,800
City of Cheboygan $25,275.84
City of Mackinac City $84,809
Village of Mackinac
Island $27,193
Maple Ridge
Township $16,689
Kinross Township $1,854.14
City of Sault Ste.
Marie $92,930
Chippewa County $100,000
City of Escanaba $100,000
City of Bessemer $92,251.60
Village of Newberry $28,457.97
Republic Township $59,165.85
Ely Township $18,746.22
Ford River Township $10,344.65
City of Ironwood $100,000
City of Gladstone $100,000
City of Negaunee $100,000
Clark Township $53,587
City of St. Ignace $100,000
TOTAL $1,803,231.09
