Carter County Commissioners request more information about Hurricane Helene expense payments

On Thursday, three motions failed to pass during a called meeting of the Carter County Commission to appropriate funds and facilitate expenses related to the Hurricane Helene disaster response, recovery, and reimbursement efforts for work done by three firms to assess damage and structural integrity to infrastructure after the major flooding. For the last five months, the mayor and finance director had the sole authority to make such purchases. This is allowed under an emergency declaration. Commissioners who voted against these motions wanted more detailed information about the work that was done. The three motions to pay Crawford & Company, YA Engineering Services and Unified Building Sciences will go up for another vote on March 17.