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Hernando County adopts disaster housing approach, board debates emergency authority
Summary
County emergency management outlined a temporary housing plan that has placed travel trailers for storm-displaced homeowners and seeks state Elevate Florida support; commissioners debated delegating limited authority for donation agreements and voted to end the rolling local state of emergency.
Hernando County emergency management presented a disaster housing plan and update on temporary travel-trailer placements and state mitigation outreach, while commissioners debated delegating limited signature authority to the county administrator and voted to end the rolling local state of emergency.
The county’s emergency management director, Aaron Thomas, opened the item with an overview of Elevate Florida — the Florida Division of Emergency Management program that funds residential mitigation work — and said Hernando has 82 Elevate applicants so far. He told commissioners the state will host full-day applicant workshops in Hernando County March 17–19 to provide hands-on technical assistance for homeowners completing Elevate applications.
The county’s case-management partner, Fallon Alo of iPerametrics, described the workflow for vetting homeowners for the county’s travel-trailer placements: septic inspections required by the Department of Health, income and occupancy…
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