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Manatee County staff outline $252 million HUD resiliency award and next steps; HUD pause noted
Summary
Manatee County staff briefed commissioners on a $252,000,711 HUD CDBG‑DR award for disaster recovery and resiliency, outlined eligible uses and the public‑comment process and warned that a temporary federal pause on some grants was under review.
Manatee County officials told the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday that the county has been allocated $252,000,711 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG‑DR) funds to support rebuilding and resilience from recent storms.
Michelle Davis, the county’s grants administrator, said the funds are targeted to activities HUD does not typically reimburse through FEMA — for example, projects to strengthen communities against future storms in low‑ and moderate‑income areas. “This was allocated to be able to rebuild the disaster‑impacted areas,” she said, describing the award as focused on resilience and repairs FEMA may not cover. She outlined eligible project types: land acquisition for flood control or stormwater mitigation, widening constrained evacuation roads, elevating infrastructure and buyouts of flood‑prone properties.
Tracy Adams, deputy director of Community and Veterans Services, displayed HUD’s mapping of low‑ and moderate‑income census blocks that HUD used…
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