{"id":431,"date":"2006-08-02T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/richardson-declares-disaster-in-eight-counties\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T20:45:00","slug":"richardson-declares-disaster-in-eight-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/richardson-declares-disaster-in-eight-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson declares disaster in eight counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. Bill Richardson has declared a state of disaster in eight counties, including Do\u00f1a Ana, which will free up funds to aid repair efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The order also applies to <st1:city st=\"on\">Grant<\/st1:City>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Hidalgo<\/st1:State>, Sandoval, San Miguel, Sierra, Socorro and <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Valencia<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u201cThis disaster declaration frees up necessary money to help rebuild as quickly as possible,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> said. \u201cThe recent flooding has been widespread and devastating. It is imperative that we respond quickly and help these counties, cities and towns get back on their feet.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\"><span style=\"color: black;\">New Mexico<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><span style=\"color: black;\"> has been deluged with heavy rain and thunderstorms during the past week, causing communities and cities to incur damage to roads, canals, and other public infrastructure.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: black;\">The declaration makes all affected counties eligible for reimbursement at a rate of 75 percent for expenses such as overtime for public safety personnel, road, water line, and sewer repairs, and other public assistance needs created by the storms.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson has declared a state of disaster in eight counties, including Do\u00f1a Ana, which will free up funds to aid repair efforts. The order also applies to Grant, Hidalgo, Sandoval, San Miguel, Sierra, Socorro and Valencia counties. \u201cThis disaster declaration frees up necessary money to help rebuild as quickly as possible,\u201d Richardson said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}