Sarasota County still awaits $268M in FEMA, state disaster funds

Sarasota County still awaits $268M in FEMA, state disaster funds

In 2016, Hurricane Hermine made the first Florida landfall in the Big Bend area since Hurricane Wilma 11 years earlier. It wasn’t a direct hit on the peninsula, it travelled up the center of the Gulf, but its impact left just more than $7 million in damage for Sarasota County government to address.A decade later, the county is waiting for $3.38 million in reimbursements from FEMA and the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM).And that…