Sandy Expenses to be Lessened by Federal Aid, Fair Lawn Officials Claim

Overtime costs account for roughly $150,000 in Fair Lawn, but officials say FEMA grants should cover the majority of expenses.

Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy, the Fair Lawn Borough Council received some of the numbers on the storm’s overtime costs, as well as a report on the federal funding that might lessen the burden on taxpayers. The good news reported Tuesday night was that no insurance claims need to be filed on borough property, as the town saw no damage to buildings. The borough did lose 36 shade trees, but manager Tom Metzler pointed out that only one of those needed to be cleared by a private contractor. “A very large part of the success in the number of trees we were able to take care of by our own staff was the fact that we didn’t have flooding going on. We literally transferred everybody into Shade Tree,” he reported to the council. And, he says, …

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