City Water Light and Power says it’s out of appeals and out of options… so it will have to repay nearly $800,000 in money it got from FEMA for expenses incurred in response to the tornadoes that struck Springfield in 2006.
The utility insists it followed FEMA’s own rules in applying for reimbursement of expenses. But FEMA says CWLP claimed, and received, payments that it shouldn’t have gotten.
The repayment to FEMA will wipe out nearly half of the city’s $2 million electric emergency repair fund.
