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NC House to restart hurricane recovery committee
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state House is reconstituting an oversight committee that will keep monitoring challenges state government has had in distributing federal long-term housing grants to hurricane victims in eastern North Carolina.
House Speaker Tim Moore announced Tuesday that the House Select Committee on Disaster Relief has been authorized to meet again.
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The panel met in 2018 and scrutinized why the state was slow giving out $237 million in federal community development grant funds received after Hurricane Matthew in 2016 for housing repairs.
A report by the legislature’s government watchdog agency last month quantifying that slowness again led House Republicans from eastern North Carolina to seek the committee’s reauthorization. The agency issued a follow-up report Monday.
North Carolina also will receive $337 million in similar housing grant block money after Hurricane Florence.