TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: Approve the Application to the Resilient SRQ Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Program in the Amount of $50,310,000 for the Price Boulevard Widening Phase II Project and Authorize the City Manager or the Mayor, as Applicable Under the City Charter, to Execute all Funding Documents After Legal Review, Should the Grant be Awarded to the City.
Recommended Action
Approve the application to the Resilient SRQ Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Program in the amount of $50,310,000 for the Price Boulevard Widening Phase II Project and authorize the City Manager or the Mayor, as applicable under the City Charter, to execute all funding documents after legal review, should the grant be awarded to the City.
Background Information
Sarasota County is a direct recipient of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR). Sarasota County has named this grant initiative Resilient SRQ. The County will be awarded $201.5 million in funding to deliver unmet needs assistance to the community from the impacts from Hurricane Ian.
CDBG-DR funds activities related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization and mitigation in the most impacted and distressed areas and generally fall into the following categories: housing, restoration of infrastructure, and economic revitalization.
The City of North Port's Public Works Department is requesting funding for the Price Boulevard Widening Phase II project. This road is a major evacuation route that was severely impacted by Hurricane Ian, rendering it unpassable. It is to be expanded to an urban, divided, four-lane roadway from Sumter Blvd to Biscayne Drive. The road will be widened, and improvements will be made to the stormwater management sys...
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