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Wed April 02, 2025

By Bren Yocom

Politics State

Sanders Signs Executive Order to Provide Funding for Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding Expected to Occur on or About April 2, 2025

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sanders Signs Executive Order to Provide Funding for Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding Expected to Occur on or About April 2, 2025
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME – GREETINGS:                            EO 25-07: EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROVIDE FUNDING, AS AUTHORIZED BY ARK. CODE ANN. §§ 12-75-114 , AS AMENDED, FROM THE GOVERNOR'S DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY FUND
WHEREAS: On or about April 2, 2025, severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding are expected to occur in Arkansas, and continue thereafter, which may cause danger, hardship, and suffering throughout the state, which in turn, warrants this executive action; WHEREAS: Adverse circumstances may be brought to bear upon citizens and public properties in the State of Arkansas; and
WHEREAS: Affected political subdivisions may require supplemental assistance from the state to recover from these losses. NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, acting under the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Arkansas, and pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. §§
12-75-101 , et seq. , do hereby declare a state of emergency and direct the sum of $250,000.00 to be obligated from the Governor’s Disaster Response and Recovery Fund, to be used at the discretion of the Director of the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management to defray both program and administrative costs. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF
, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 2nd day of April, in the year of our Lord 2025.
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