The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced last Friday an end to its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program in an announcement that hits Savannah.
The city of Savannah received a $30 million BRIC grant in fall of 2024 for drainage improvements along the Springfield Canal, a project aimed at mitigating decades of flooding in some of Savannah’s historically Black neighborhoods west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. FEMA said in a release Friday the program’s cancellation cut a “wasteful” and “politicized” initiative.
The city has not yet received an official grant cancellation letter from FEMA, but said in a statement city staff is “reviewing the implications of this notice” and arranging meetings with its federal elected officials to discuss the grant’s status. That statement from the city was first reported by the Savannah Agenda…