FEMA Fails Again

摘要

Tamara glise doesn't consider herself a crusader, but FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has turned her into one. To her dismay, Glise, interim director of Cedar Rapids Public Library (CRPL), IA, has found that her library is not entitled to FEMA funds to support services to the city's residents when they need them most-after the 31' flood crest that devastated downtown Cedar Rapids and its main library in June 2008. That's because of a now-antiquated 1988 law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which doesn't include libraries among essential city services-unlike animal shelters, which apparently make the cut, says Glise.