Residents encouraged to report property damages
MONROE - Green County Emergency Management Director Tanna McKeon is asking county residents to call the Green County Emergency Management Office at 608-328-9470 to report their personal property damages from the recent storms or to request assistance.
She advises property owners to take pictures of their damages, to save all receipts and to document all cleanup or replacement expenses.
If hiring a contractor to help in the cleanup or repairs, always make sure they are insured, McKeon added.
MONROE - Cost estimates for damages from storms that crossed the county beginning Monday are still coming in to the Emergency Management office in Green County, which has now declared itself in an emergency state of natural disaster.
Tanna McKeon, Emergency Management director, said cost estimates for her state uniform disaster report need updating daily. She gets estimates from townships and the county for their expenses for damages and for cleaning up debris on public property.
She has a broad estimate so far of $150,000 in damages to private residences.
McKeon said two barns in the county were destroyed, and five more received severe damage. Five large sheds were also destroyed and another four have severe damage. She has no cost estimates on these buildings yet.
Personal damages and cleanup costs are not reportable to the state, she added.
Wisconsin Emergency Management Operations Center reported Thursday 80 homes in Green County were damaged, and county officials had reported about $100,000 in debris removal costs so far.
County Board Chairman Art Carter signed a disaster declaration for Green County on Wednesday.
Declarations of disaster are needed when a municipality is stretched financially beyond what it can handle or if it needs to call in mutual aid, McKeon said. Brodhead had its own declaration of disaster signed Tuesday.
Getting the county disaster declaration signed is just one step in the process for requesting state disaster aid, she added. When the state makes its declaration of disaster, it will request costs estimates to be submitted from the counties' compilations.
McKeon said she is looking ahead and preparing Green County's documentation for that anticipated state declaration.
Tanna McKeon, Emergency Management director, said cost estimates for her state uniform disaster report need updating daily. She gets estimates from townships and the county for their expenses for damages and for cleaning up debris on public property.
She has a broad estimate so far of $150,000 in damages to private residences.
McKeon said two barns in the county were destroyed, and five more received severe damage. Five large sheds were also destroyed and another four have severe damage. She has no cost estimates on these buildings yet.
Personal damages and cleanup costs are not reportable to the state, she added.
Wisconsin Emergency Management Operations Center reported Thursday 80 homes in Green County were damaged, and county officials had reported about $100,000 in debris removal costs so far.
County Board Chairman Art Carter signed a disaster declaration for Green County on Wednesday.
Declarations of disaster are needed when a municipality is stretched financially beyond what it can handle or if it needs to call in mutual aid, McKeon said. Brodhead had its own declaration of disaster signed Tuesday.
Getting the county disaster declaration signed is just one step in the process for requesting state disaster aid, she added. When the state makes its declaration of disaster, it will request costs estimates to be submitted from the counties' compilations.
McKeon said she is looking ahead and preparing Green County's documentation for that anticipated state declaration.