BLOOMFIELD — David Wyman, of the Missouri Department of Transportation, presented the Stoddard County Commission with an agreement to reimburse the county for a recently completed road project at Monday’s meeting.
The county was approved for a Community Development Block Grant for more than $434,000 for the widening of the intersection at state Highway 25 and county Route Y.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development oversaw the funding for the project, which required environmental studies.
HUD considered the widening of the Highway 25-Route Y intersection as one project and the work on Route Y to be separate projects.
MoDOT chose to combine the projects into one to save money, Wyman told the commissioners.
HUD said that the county no longer qualified for the grant because of the combining of the projects, according to Associate Commissioner Steve Jordan.
MoDOT has been working on a way to reimburse the county the money it would have received on the grant for several months.
• Lesley Rone, a field representative for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, spoke to the commissioners about the process being used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to draw floodplain maps in Missouri.
Rone said that FEMA takes an aerial view of drainage systems but not all are viewable from the air. She said that the county should have this in mind when the proposed floodplain maps are released to the county.
When reviewing the map with FEMA, the county should make sure the organization knows about any underground drainage systems, she said.
• Stoddard County Floodplain Manager Joe Pulliam recommended to the commissioners that the set of administrative procedures to do this job and informational kiosk should be located in the accessor’s office.
Pulliam and the commissioners previously discussed placing the kiosk in the county clerk’s office, but representatives from both offices said that it would be better off in the accessor’s office.
The kiosk makes information available for someone who plans to build or renovate a structure in the floodplain.