AGENDA CAPTION:
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Receive a staff presentation regarding the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Mitigation Action Plan, and provide direction to Staff.
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Meeting date: November 6, 2019
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Background Information:
On August 30, 2019, the Federal Register published a notice providing the use of $24,012,000 in CDBG-Mitigation funds to the City of San Marcos. The U.S. Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) definition of mitigation is any activity that increases resilience to disasters and reduces or eliminates the long-term risk of loss of life, injury, damage to and loss of property, and suffering and hardship, by lessening the impact of future disasters.
The City's Action Plan is due to HUD on March 2, 2020.
The notice provides additional details for the City to consider.
* CDBG-MIT funds do not require a disaster "tie-back" to the 2015 flood events.
* CDBG-MIT funds cannot be used for emergency response services. May be used to enhance the resilience of facilities.
* HUD emphasized the i...
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