Mayor Al Haas had an important clarifi cation note to share from the regular council meeting April 17: the City of Stanley had not and would not be receiving FEMA funds in relation to the tornado of December 15.

“I just want to clarify to everybody that the City of Stanley did not get any FEMA funds, nor are we going to get any FEMA funds,” Mayor Haas shared the bad news truth with meeting attendees April 17. “We are working with Chippewa County to try and reimburse some. We have spent approximately $75,000 out of the City of Stanley’s fund for the tornado so far,” he said. The lack of FEMA funding was due to a failure to meet the total damage threshhold for such funding from the Decem- ber 15 tornado, the clarification being made necessary after Haas said he had heard from people assuming the city had received such funds and wondering what the city was doing with these. The City of Stanley had applied for funds from the Wisconsin Disaster Fund, Haas said in turn, but no funding was guaranteed.