About $15 million will help the city build a tsunami evacuation tower.
WESTPORT, Wash. — The City of Westport will get its tsunami evacuation tower funding after all.
In 2023 the city was awarded approximately $15 million in grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program.
In April the agency announced it was cancelling $3.6 billion in BRIC grants as a move to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.”
“The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than
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