(Spencer)– City officials in Spencer say they’ve been informed FEMA will NOT be providing funding for a flood mitigation project at the fire station. City Manager Kevin Robinson informed the council earlier this week they’ve been denied funding through the General Public Assistance program to relocate some boilers that were damaged in the 2024 flood…
“We were advised by FEMA coming into the winter to fix the boilers, and we would still qualify for mitigation because winter was coming. The people who are evaluating it now say that because we repaired them to pre-flood condition, that counts. So essentially there’s a deduction of cost already applied to what we have done, versus moving them up. Essentially leaving about $5,200 to apply towards mitigation. So we are going to appeal that and try to get those paid for to be moved up out of the basement so that if we were flooded again at the fire station the boilers don’t get knocked off line.”
Robinson says city officials will be in contact with the northwest Iowa Congressional delegation as part of the appeal process.
