Over $391,000 in funding will be coming to Grayson County after a flooding disaster declaration was initiated by FEMA in May of this year.

According to Lead External Affairs Officer Don Jacks, the county was awarded public assistance for things like infrastructure, utilities and sewage systems.

“This is for the period of May 3 through May 20,” he explained, “looking at the same meteorological event where grounds were saturated or flooding began.”

Grayson County Emergency Management officials were notified of the available assistance during a meeting in western Kentucky last week. The state explained to each county how to fill out paperwork for the funding.

While this is good news, the county is still waiting on over $2 million from the state for reimbursements from January’s ice storm.

To date the Emergency Management office has only received over $119,000 of the $2.7 million they were granted by FEMA.

Emergency Management Public Information Officer and Deputy Director Larry Holeman explained the county was in dire need of the funding.

“We are in a tremendous cash flow problem right now,” he mentioned. “It has been a tremendous strain on the counties budget for brush removal, to pay for things like diesel fuel, labor and maintenance.”

Jacks advised that the county filled out paperwork for 41 different projects for FEMA relief. Over 30 of those projects have been obligated or finished by FEMA, and are now in the hands of the state.

Grayson County Judge-Executive Gary Logsdon said that workers were only halfway done with the brush removal from January’s storm.

“We are working everyday and running wide open,” he explained. “We will keep going until all the limbs are taken care of. They (the state) have sent in two or three checks to us, we are doing alright, it (the funding) is just coming in slowly.”