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 $1,810,000 for a Fire Mobile Command Unit 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 $1,810,000 for a Fire Mobile Command Unit 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; generally, fall into the following categories:
> Housing
> Restoration of infrastructure
> Economic revitalization
The City of North Port's Fire Rescue Department is seeking funding for the purchase of a Fire Mobile Command Unit. During Hurricane Ian, the City activated a shared Emergency Operations Center (EOC), but the Fire Rescue Department's Operations Center (DOC) was displaced from the EOC due to heavy structural damage and backup generator failure at the Fire Administration building. As a result, the fire rescue operation operated 24-hours per day out of a da...
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