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electric_blue68

(14,913 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:27 PM Sep 2020

NYC Subways, classrooms to loose FEMA $ ...

as well as other places for disinfectant supplies etc.

from gothamist

*As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to kill thousands of Americans every day, the Trump administration announced that they will no longer reimburse cities and states for disinfecting transit systems and classrooms.

While the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been reimbursing localities for pandemic-related cleaning since march, a new FEMA memo signed on September 1st states that as of September 15th, the operation of schools "and other public facilities" no longer qualify for reimbursement. "

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