North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper approved more than $600 million worth of funding on Friday to go toward disaster recovery from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. The bill Cooper signed to approve the spending was passed by the General Assembly on Thursday.
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Helene brought widespread devastation to western North Carolina, causing 1,400 landslides and damaging over 160 water and sewer systems, according to the state budget office. It also disrupted transportation networks across the region by damaging at least 6,000 miles of roads and more than 1,000 bridges and culverts, the budget office said.Ivey has No.
from the Republican-controlled legislature, the legislation includes $50 million for small business loans, $100 million of loans for local governments to use on water repairs and $5 million to fund mental health resources for public school students. The monetary amount agreed upon on Thursday was much less than the $3.9 billion that Cooper had requested to aid businesses, agriculture and utility repairs. Republican legislative leaders said they would consider Cooper’s funding request in the next few weeks. The General Assembly is slated to return to work on Nov. 19.
“The assessment of what needs to be done is still in progress,” Senate leader Phil Berger told reporters Thursday. “What we’ve done is deploy an adequate amount of resources at this time to deal with some of the more immediate things that have some time sensitivity.”Thursday into state law requiring at least one early in-person voting site for every 30,000 registered voters in 13 western North Carolina counties as soon as possible.
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