The Fairhope Times

Fairhope, Alabama thefairhopetimes.blogspot.com      Safe room design,   SPRING'S GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BLAMED What to do about a hold-up in FEMA grant funding for the city's new $1.9 million hurricane safe room at the city's Pecan Avenue building was debated by the city council during their last meeting. Last spring's federal government shut down caused the approval of a period of performance (POP)  extension requested by the city to be delayed according to city engineer Johnson; such one-year extensions have previously been routinely approved.  Johnson: "On June 20th our POP expired ... we requested a one-year extension ...  paperwork was delayed ... going to get it eventually (we were told) ... one of the ramifications of the government shut down .. it does have local effects ... ." He said since a construction contract was awarded 60 days ago (to low bidder Roy Lewis Construction), the biggest problem now is "we gotta release him to go .... issue a ...