This letter to the Regional Director dated August 28, 2005 is a request a total of $130,000.000 for Special Need Shelters, Hospital shelters, generators, support staff for shelters and the following:
1) Louisiana State Police (LSP) Costs to support evacuations -$500,000 for a direct landfall
2) Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries(WLF)-Cost to support evacuations -$500,000
3)Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) –Cost to Support evacuations -$5,000,000
Nowhere in this letter is it stated that she requesting FEMA to be directly and physically involved. To put bluntly the letter says we will take care of it, you send us the money.