Wednesday, October 19, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Release No. 2022-042<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HONOLULU<\/strong> \u2014 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the release of over $1.5 million to the County of Maui to reimburse the public funds it spent to test people for COVID-19 from October 2020 through September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The payment covers the cost of testing equipment, supplies, and personnel who administered more than 33,000 tests at three locations over the course of a year, including during the surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the delta variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The federal government agreed to reimburse 100 percent of certain qualified expenditures for the COVID-19 emergency response under the Presidential disaster declaration for the incident. The Hawai\u2018i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) works with government offices and nonprofits in the state to document their spending during declared federal disasters and assist with obtaining reimbursement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than $219 million worth of projects have been approved so far by FEMA for reimbursement of spending on emergency protective measures by organizations in Hawai\u2018i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) operated three COVID-19 testing sites in Kahului, K\u012bhei and Lahaina through a contractor. The state\u2019s Maui District Health Office assisted with completing the testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HI-EMA is continuing to work with local organizations and FEMA to seek reimbursement for eligible COVID-19 expenditures. \u201cThe expense of COVID-19 fell hard on local organizations and county governments, and HI-EMA is working hard to make sure that all those qualified expenses are reimbursed,\u201d said Luke Meyers, Administrator of the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam Weintraub adam.b.weintraub@hawaii.gov Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Release No. 2022-042 HONOLULU \u2014 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the release of over $1.5 million to the County of Maui to reimburse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"6889,7912,9887,4594,3173,8183","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[221,354,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-covid19","category-354","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15590,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/15590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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