Sandy Relief Aid: Matawan and Keyport Among Communities to Receive Financial Assistance
Middletown, Manalapan, Beach Haven, Neptune and Oceanport top the list so far; more money to come from $60 billion federal relief bills just passed by Congress
More than $780 million in disaster assistance has been approved to speed recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - and some of the beneficiaries are hardhit Bayshore communities. It's not yet clear how the money will be spent - and how the additional $60 billion aid package, which the U.S. Senate gave its seal of approval Monday evening, will be dispursed. Middletown tops the list of funding recipients so far (see chart below), according to the state Office of Emergency Management. The town has received a total of $2,315,482.91. Keyport and Matawan were included in the aid package and were allocated $38,250.00 and $193,576.32, respectively. Union Beach, which was devastated by the storm, was allocated $448,842.93. The Federal …
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debra
3:34 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
i think the townships are getting money to pay back all the overtime they had to pay for clean up of branches and stuff probably in matawan and manalapan. but dont you think they would have a surplus of funds since we had little or now snow last year,nearly nothing this year. I cant wait to see what matawan does with this money. more ›