The Cammack Village City Council met on Tuesday evening, April 8, 2007 at their regularly scheduled meeting. Headlining the agenda was tornado damage updates. Several community utility representatives were present and gave their reports as to progress with regard to restoration of services.
Entergy should have all service restored at this point and will begin removing the debris such as broken poles, wires/lines, transformers etc that may be located in backyards as of Wednesday. They were made aware of streetlights still out on Greenwood and will have a crew take care of that this week also. Please help us by reporting other street lights that may still be out/broken.
Mike Wilson and a Comcast engineer were present and reported that there were three crews from Comcast working in the Village and that now that Entergy has made their repairs, they can begin to start running new cable and hope to have all Comcast customers up by Friday. If you have not gotten good response with Comcast customer service, please post a comment here for your specific problem if you still do not have service by Friday. We can contact Mike Wilson directly for you.
Stan Benton with Central Arkansas Water was present also and indicated that his crews continue to be in the Village and will be ready to make repairs to lines as they arise. He speculates that there may be some broken lines that make themselves known as tree trunks and stumps are being removed. IF...............you have a break from the meter to your residency, YOU will be responsible for that repair and will need to contact a provate plumber. In some cases, if the break is within three feet of the meter on the residences side, Mr. Benton indicated that they would probably go ahead and make that repair for you.
FMEA and Arkansas Disaster Management officials were present and reported that they are still investigating the areas affected and have been inspecting the Village for the past two days. Cammack Village will NOT qualify for FEMA assistance alone and the plan is to add up all damage to Pulaski County in hopes that that total dollar figure will make the amount necessary for Federal relief. They hope to know something by end of the week. If we are approved for FEMA assistance, there will be signs posted through the Village, announcements made in the media and flyers will be attached to each residence. You can monitor this progress be going to the FEMA website.
Pulaski County Road and Bridge is working tirelessly and for FREE to remove debris that is at the curb. They are taking this debris to the Little Rock landfills and this is NOT FREE! As we have been declared a disaster by the state, there will be some state assistance for this bill, but perhaps only about 30%. The Little Rock landfill charges $30.00 per ton so this can add up quickly. If we are granted federal relief with FEMA, the amount for removal billed to Cammack should be covered by 85-90%, leaving about 10% of this bill to be paid by us in Cammack Village. We will have to wait and see what FEMA determines and then deal with the cost at that time.
A representative from the Arkansas Insurance Commission attended the meeting and informed the Council of their services should residents have trouble with their private insurance carriers regarding claims. See this information below.
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