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roads is causing problems it brings up the water. They are seeing damage from the flooding soft base grades and hard wet winter. There are 8 miles of road that they are trying to get open. Hartman questioned if the new hospital is causing problems on Cedar Hollow he also noted the issue with the viaduct at Wood River may have to hire someone to do some of the work Steve stated they have talked to some companies and they are busy and the big contractors stated the County would have to have the prep work done and then they would come in and overlay. Steve stated they are using crushed rock or gravel where they can. Hartman questioned about taking Friday off when there are so many road issue. This is their summer schedule and Steve stated that they have discussed this issue and considering recruiting groups to do the additional work. Steve said they still have to look at what they can do with the budget restrictions. He knows they will to use the asphalt resurfacing dollars to do the patching. They have to determine how many miles and decide what they can get done. They have spent $24,000.00 for crushed rock. Have to have discussion if they leave all of these road asphalt. The will have to put together how many miles. May have to patch some and try and make it through. Lancaster questioned if Hartman was talking about overtime and Hartman stated he is. Steve stated they will have to find the dollars. Comp time can be a double edged sword. Steve stated there are issues on the following roads Airport Road, Engleman Road, Schimmer Road, Webb Road, Meadow Lane Subdivision, Cedar Hollow, Potash Road, Gunbarrel Road, and North Road, Bredthauer also noted that the department will be working the summer hours of 4 10 hour days. Steve stated they started this week. She said the frost is out of the ground and it is starting to dry out. She also ask if someone is going to check the bridges and expressed concern on the county's liability. Steve stated he checked with the Department of Roads and they may not be able to do this. He has some employees that are inspecting some of the bridges and the culverts. Some of the culverts have been undermined and they are working to identify them. He thinks they can do it themselves. C) UPDATE ON THE FEMA PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — Steve stated that there is $2.3 million on road repair and $700,000.00 to $900,000.00 for repairs to the asphalt roads. He is putting all the information into the Orion software for FEMA that Jon Rosenlund uses and they are also putting it in the road and bridge software. His employees have been using comp time and it can be a two edge sword will have to use it in the next 2 months. Now FEMA will reimburse for comp time. They had a conference call with NEMA and there will be a briefing regarding the public assistance program. FEMA is still accepting application for public assistance from other counties. Steve stated that threshold is $211,000.00 once you reach that amount they are eligible. The reimbursement is 75% from FEMA and 13% from NEMA, and 12% for local, this is for the roads. Karen noted this is for cities counties, NRD, public power district, irrigation districts and other nonprofit entities, but it is a 3 or 4 year process for the reimbursements. Lancaster stated they have discussed loaning money to ourselves and then reimburse the county. This is what is used for the disaster fund. Have to keep records. 10