Priorities
Priorities
The project is spending an insane amount of money. There are probably about 200 working on Long Term Recovery Planning. Some of them are FEMA employees, but most of them have other jobs and are working on a short term contract (contractors). Others are local hires (people who lived in one of the counties affected by the hurricanes). Finally, there are personnel from other agencies that are being lent to FEMA for the project. In any case, most of these people are working 60 hours a week at prevailing wages and have a hotel room, rental car and food budget of $50 a day. You can do the math.
Now, compare this to a request from the outreach team. They wanted $6500 to mail a newsletter to all the residents of the county to tell them what is going on and how they can be involved. They were turned down.
The project is spending an insane amount of money. There are probably about 200 working on Long Term Recovery Planning. Some of them are FEMA employees, but most of them have other jobs and are working on a short term contract (contractors). Others are local hires (people who lived in one of the counties affected by the hurricanes). Finally, there are personnel from other agencies that are being lent to FEMA for the project. In any case, most of these people are working 60 hours a week at prevailing wages and have a hotel room, rental car and food budget of $50 a day. You can do the math.
Now, compare this to a request from the outreach team. They wanted $6500 to mail a newsletter to all the residents of the county to tell them what is going on and how they can be involved. They were turned down.
posted by JNA | 12:44 PM
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