TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Douglas J. Hewett, City Manager, ICMA-CM
FROM: Kristoff Bauer, Deputy City Manager
Jay Reinstein, Assistant City Manager
DATE: February 5, 2018
RE:
Title
Update on the Dams, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and Golden Leaf projects
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 1: Safe and Secure Community
Goal 3: High Quality Built Environment
Executive Summary:
The City has been working to gain access to various funding sources to assist the community in recovering from Hurricane Matthew including:
* Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recover ("CDBG-DR"), $198 million statewide, $34,945,000 to Cumberland County;
* FEMA Hazard Mitigation ("HMGP"), $4.7 million; and,
* Disaster Act of 2016 administered by Golden Leaf Foundation ("Golden Leaf"), $3.8 million received to date.
Staff will update the Council on efforts to expend funds received and plan for funding yet to be allocated.
There are 55 dams in the City regulated by North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality ("NCDEQ"). To the best of the City's knowledge, 11 of these were damaged during Hurricane Matthew. The City has some degree of ownership and maintenance responsibility for six dams, two of which were damaged. The Council Policy in place at the time of the storm did not allow the City to spend any funds on the repair of these facilities. After much discussion, the Council revised its policy and staff will discuss actions to date in implementation of that new policy.
Background:
CDBG-DR: The State of North Carolina is receiving $198 million dollars of CDBG-DR funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Cumberland County is expected to receive $34,945,328 million of this amount over a three year period. Eligible Cumberla...
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