Gov. Gavin Newsom said $42 million was available for Pajaro evacuees. The real amount is just over $300,000

PAJARO — In his pledge to aid the hundreds of families who have been evacuated from the farm town of Pajaro in Monterey County after recent floods, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that $42 million would be made available to help evacuees through the United Way — but the aid organization said the correct amount currently available is just over $300,000.

United Way of Monterey County Director Katy Castagna said Gov. Newsom may have “conflated” the $42 million in the statewide United Ways of California COVID relief fund with the smaller, local allocation of $300,000 given to Monterey County out of that fund, inadvertently adding to the miscommunication and

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