1. “Normal” vs Freeze Recovery Programs
Comparing what we have in a typical emergency to what is available in an event like the 2007 freeze

2. Types of Recovery Programs
Public Assistance (assistance to public agencies and certain private non-profit organizations)
Individual Assistance (assistance to homeowners, renters, businesses, and/or farmers)

3. Public Assistance Programs
Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG)
State Public Assistance through California Disaster Assistance Act (CDAA)
Federal Public Assistance under the Stafford Act

4. “Thresholds” Federal Public Assistance: No set threshold for State PA
State Threshold = $1.22 per capita (just over $41 million)
County Threshold = $3.05 per capita
No set threshold for State PA

5. Freeze Public Assistance
Not enough damage to meet Federal threshold
Governor’s 1/12/07 Proclamation was for all Counties and activated CDAA
Damage to public facilities is eligible but minimum is $2500 (after insurance)
Response costs eligible (such as warming centers)
State agencies are not eligible

6. Individual Assistance
No state program that can be implemented independent of a federal declaration
Individual and Households Program and other assistance under the Stafford Act
US Small Business Administration loans for physical damage and/or for economic losses
US Department of Agriculture loans for crop loss

7. Freeze Individual Assistance
USDA Primary and/or contiguous designations for 47 Counties
SBA Primary and/or contiguous designations for 52 Counties
Governor’s request for Presidential Disaster Declaration for 31 Counties – Disaster Unemployment, Food Coupons and Commodities, Crisis Counseling
No IHP (no physical damage) and former Mortgage and Rental Assistance Program no longer exists

8. Freeze Recovery Issues
No longer have Mortgage and Rental Assistance Program
Assistance available for undocumented workers
Assistance for community based organizations
Which counties are included in “the proclamation”
Scope and duration of the emergency/impacts
Special federal legislation
Unemployment earnings exemption