Connecticut Counties Prequalify for FEMA Funding

Fire Marshal Ray Occhialini said this afternoon that all counties in Connecticut have prequalified for for Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursement for the Jan. 11-13 storm.

All FEMA thresholds were met, Occhialini said, and starting on Friday, FEMA will be performing random spot checks of towns' paperwork.

Montville's costs, according to the , were $94,333.83.

The figures work out this way:

Overtime labor costs: $23,962.76

Equipment: $31,016.01. Occhialini explained that the way this is figured out, for the purposes of this paperwork, is $X per hour for a truck, $x per hour for a sander, $X per hour for a plow under 15 feet long, etc. The money per hour is set by the federal government.

Materials: $19,432.52

Overtime for police and fire dispatchers, including fringe benefits: $2,983

Overtime labor for the Board of Education: $4,228.46. Occhialini explained that these costs include pay for the people who do the snow-blowing, and for maintenance workers to run the plows.

Equipment costs for the BOE: $6,159.75

Plowing contracts: $6,642.50

Gov. Dannel Malloy has written to President Barak Obama, asking for additional funding for the series of storms that has followed.