Lee County gets $500K in emergency reimbursement funding

ALBANY, Ga. – Coming up on the one year anniversary of Hurricane Michael impacting southwest Georgia, Lee County is seeing some compensation.

The county commission announced that they will be receiving more than $500,000 in reimbursement from both FEMA, and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.

“The biggest part of that money, over $300,000 of that money is for debris pickup. So when the storm happened and there was all that debris. I don’t know if you were here then. But what basically happened was that the president declared us a disaster area,”  said Vice Chairman of the Lee County Commission Rick Muggridge.

The remainder of the reimbursement money will go toward agencies that incurred expenses working through the storm last October.