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FEMA spent $535,000 to heat, cool flood-damaged Cedar Rapids library
Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
Feb. 20, 2010 12:48 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS – In Cedar Rapids, it cost FEMA $535,000 to heat and cool the Cedar Rapids Public Library in 2009, according to Greg Eyerly, the city's flood recovery director.
The future of the library building at 500 First St. SE hasn't been decided - the city could sell it or raze it - so it was necessary to maintain its interior. Eyerly said the city is checking into getting the building off generators and back onto the power grid, which would lower those costs. There's no need to do that work, though, if the building is going to be demolished.
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