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Taylor County outlines nine CDBG-DR projects totaling millions for storm recovery
Summary
County staff presented nine Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery project proposals — including road paving, canal dredging, stormwater and an emergency shelter — and explained how projects will be evaluated against state LMI and storm tie-back eligibility criteria.
Taylor County staff presented nine proposed projects for Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding, outlining requested amounts, project purposes and how applications will be positioned to meet state eligibility and scoring criteria.
The county emphasized it is targeting projects that meet the federal low- and moderate-income (LMI) national objective and that also show a “storm tie‑back” to the Hurricane events that triggered the CDBG‑DR allocations. Staff said the state will allocate the majority of funds to projects in LMI areas and that applicants should document how each project links to storm impacts to score competitively.
The nine projects described were: - Canal dredging (Beckia Beach, Dark Island, Cedar Island and Spring Warrior Canals) — staff requested about $30,000,000 to complete dredging, engineering and design for Spring Warrior Canal and other identified areas. The presenter said some engineering is complete while other portions require…
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