From the Legislature: Could be a wait for disaster money

This spring, we had a flood that did damage throughout my district, Senate District 14. The damage was in Hill, Chouteau and Liberty counties, plus three other Montana counties.

This past week, the State Emergency Management Services folks, along with Federal Emergency Management Agency people, were in our area helping counties figure out the paperwork.

I attended the meeting in Havre in the hopes that the new e-system, which is the way FEMA processes paperwork and payments, has been improved since I worked with it last. As a county commission, we dealt with flooding in the past and ac...