Sandy Expenses Total $80K in Kinnelon
Council authorizes emergency expenditure while mayor thanks residents for their assistance following the storm.
The Kinnelon Council authorized a special emergency appropriation of $80,000 to be used for expenses associated with Superstorm Sandy during its Thursday meeting. Mayor Robert Collins said the expenses include overtime, gasoline and other emergency costs. Borough Chief Financial Officer Donna Mollineaux explained that this appropriation will give Kinnelon an account to charge its expenses. The hope, she said, is that the borough will get 75 percent of that money back from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after reimbursement forms are filed. After Thanksgiving, the borough will perform a post-storm assessment of its Sandy response to analyze what it did well and what it could do better in the future. Collins and the council …
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