Barbour announces $150 million in Katrina aid to help build school
GOVERNOR BARBOUR: $1.5 MILLION IN KATRINA FUNDING SLATED TO REBUILD LONG
BEACH SCHOOL
Jackson, Mississippi – Governor Haley Barbour and the Mississippi
Development Authority Disaster Recovery Division MDA/DRD today announced a
$1.5 million grant for completion of Long Beach’s Harper McCaughan
Elementary School.
“This is yet another project funded through our state’s $5.4 billion Katrina
Recovery Package, composed of flexible Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) funds,” Governor Haley Barbour said.
“The goals of Mississippi’s recovery remain three fold: providing housing,
incenting jobs and rebuilding and improving our public facilities and
infrastructure. Certainly completion of McCaughan Elementary School is a
major step toward rebuilding a vital public facility that’ll help hasten
recovery in Long Beach.”
Specifically, the funding will be sourced from MDA/DRD’s $500 million
Community Revitalization Program, one of 17 recovery programs which
constitute the $5.4 billion package.
“Governor Barbour’s vision of not merely rebuilding, but rebuilding better
than ever is certainly reflected in this project,” Jon Mabry MDA/DRD Chief
Operations Officer said. “When finished, McCaughan Elementary will be a
more storm resistant, modern facility that’ll be much better than it was
before. This is a perfect example of how flexible CDBG funds can be used to
address specific, locally defined and locally driven needs.”
Magnolia Tribune
