Comment Submitted by Gary Robert Schelley

Document ID: FEMA-2006-0035-0071
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency
Received Date: September 12 2008, at 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 12 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: October 11 2007, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: September 29 2008, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 807019da
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Management Costs

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As the State Public Assistance Coordinator for the State of Vermont I am still struggling to understand why FEMA felt it necessary to change the way that the administrative allowance was allocated and distributed to the subgrantees. The previous procedure was simple, easy for the states to administer and effectively covered the administrative costs incurred by the subgrantees. If the intent of the change was to save money for FEMA, then it certainly has accomplished that here in Vermont. Because we find the interim so complex and difficult to comprehend, we have opted to not distribute any admin funds to the subgrantees at all in the FEMA declarations that Vermont has recieved during the summer of 2008. As a State Public Assistance Officer here in Vermont, I sincerely hope that this interim rule is scraped and that FEMA will return to its previous policy on administrative allowance.

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