October 7, 2011
Marksville, LA

FEMA and the state officials explain and answer questions about Public Assistance at the Louisiana School Facility Manager’s Association Fall Conference.

Dr. Bob Cage
President Elect
LSFM
Today’s speaker primarily was invited because of the catastrophes we had with the hurricanes and the flooding to get a perspective as to what can we do to prepare these catastrophes rather than what do we have to do after they are done, so the gentleman were very good in giving us that information today.

Mike McCloskey
Public Assistance Div. Supervisor
FEMA Louisiana Recovery Office
Pre-disaster inventory and stuff like that, that’s important too, because is easy to demonstrate damages, but sometimes is not as easy to demonstrate what was there before.

James Clark
Disaster Recovery Division
GOHSEP
There were a of questions about debris, there were a lot of questions about the rate that we can pay for certain individuals and the difference between contract staff versus force account labor.

Mike McCloskey
Public Assistance Div. Supervisor
FEMA Louisiana Recovery Office
They have had difficulties in the past particularly dealing with response and recovery from Katrina and Rita because of such a large event and so we were able to enforce here was lessons learned and little tips that we leaned along the way for a smoother recovery and response from a major disaster.


Dr. Bob Cage
President Elect
LSFM
So the purpose was for information what do we do to prepare for any catastrophe 

Mike McCloskey
Public Assistance Div. Supervisor
FEMA Louisiana Recovery Office
This particular setting we have done a number of times and we find it to be very helpful for the audience and I think is a good opportunity for FEMA to go out there and do some outreach efforts to have folks prepare for the future 




James Clark
Disaster Recovery Division
GOHSEP
They had some good questions we got some good feedback from them and all and all I think they are going to be better prepared for the future.

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www.fema.gov