Mobile County authorizes $25 million grant bid for Little Dolphin Island and approves multiple contracts and appropriations

Mobile County commissioners on May 27 authorized county staff to submit proposals to two national conservation funds seeking up to $25,000,000 for the Little Dolphin Island restoration project and approved several related contracts and small appropriations.

The commission voted to authorize submittal of proposals to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund and the National Coastal Resiliency Fund and to authorize project development work for the Little Dolphin Island project “for an amount not to exceed 25,000,000” with “no local match required,” according to the motion presented at the meeting. The motion was moved and seconded and recorded on the agenda as approved.

The commission also authorized cooperative agreements with municipalities that wish to join the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Entitlement Mobile Urban County and authorized the county commission president to seek renewal of urban…