Former Gov. Pat McCrory is criticizing the Cooper Administration for moving slowly on dispersing federal block grants for Hurricane Matthew victims.
- Former Gov. Pat McCrory is criticising Gov. Cooper's lack of use of $236 million worth of federal housing block grant money for Hurricane Matthew relief.
- Overall, McCrory says the Cooper administration is not moving quickly enough to help the state recover from Hurricane Matthew.
- McCrory says he feels passionately about relief because he was in office when the storm hit.
In our interview, Gov. McCrory says the issue is personal to him, as he was still in the Executive Mansion when the storm hit.
McCrory says he visited flooded areas in eastern North Carolina and promised those who lost their homes that the state would not forget them.
The Cooper Administration says more than $630 million has been spent for Hurricane Matthew relief. But there is $236 million in federal housing block grant money that is yet to be dispersed. State Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry said on Capital Tonight that those grants would be flowing soon. Gov. Cooper's office says the first reimbursements from this block grant fund has been sent and home repairs are set to begin in June.
As of Friday, NC Emergency Management says that three counties and one city will receive $2.2 million in federal hazard mitigation funding. That's going to Camden County, Moore County, Nash County, and the City of Fayetteville.
Former Gov. McCrory says, however, that the Cooper Administration is not moving fast enough it getting federal money to the areas that need it the most -- and he puts that squarely on the leadership of Gov. Roy Cooper.
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