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Hernando County ratifies disaster housing plan, delegates limited authority and ends local state of emergency
Summary
The Board ratified the county's disaster housing plan to place travel trailers for storm-displaced homeowners, authorized the county administrator to ratify donation agreements and voted to end the rolling local state of emergency that had been used for rapid approvals.
Hernando County commissioners on March 11 ratified a disaster housing plan to place temporary travel-trailer units for homeowners displaced by recent storms, approved procedures to execute donation agreements for units already placed and voted to end the county's local state of emergency while delegating limited signature authority for immediate placements.
Emergency management director Aaron Thomas told the commission the state-run Elevate Florida program has drawn 82 county applicants so far and that the county had secured on-site applicant workshops from the Florida Division of Emergency Management to help residents apply. "We have a total of 82 applicants here specifically in Hernando," Thomas said. He described staffing and eligibility steps the county is using to screen and place units and said staff will continue case…
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