TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: Discussion and Possible Action Regarding the Approval of Proposed North Port Projects for Sarasota County Resilient SRQ Program Funding
Recommended Action
Approve proposed North Port projects to submit to Sarasota County for Resilient SRQ program funding consideration.
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) funds. The County will be awarded $201.5 million in funding to deliver unmet needs assistance to the community from the impacts from Hurricane Ian. The funding supports the Sarasota County Program, Resilient SRQ program. The County has undertaken a process of gathering input from its communities to understand potential opportunities and projects that will help with assessment of unmet needs, develop an action plan, and determine potential overarching funding allocations to HUD eligible use topic areas, such as infrastructure and mitigation.
CDBG-DR funds come with many rules. Projects that are nearing the end of design may not be suitable for CDBG-DR funding because of the required specialized environmental review process, particularly for projects where digging is required. Other program rules require that these funds:
* Be used for housing, infrastructure, economic revitalization or mitigation.
* Address an unmet need without an alternative revenue source (i.e. not funded from current City revenues or reimbursable by another governmental agency from Hurricane Ian related programs).
* Must meet one of the following HUD national objectives:
o Benefit Low to Moderate Income (LMI) persons;
o Eliminate or prevent slum or blight;
o Address an urgent demonstrated need (an immediate threat);
o Tie back to Hurricane Ian.
* Be expended within six (6) years.
City staff met on June 21, 2023 t...
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