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City staff outline resilience plan, projects and funding after recent storms
Summary
Assistant City Manager James Clinch and Assistant City Engineer John Kramer briefed council on Venice’s resilience work, including the city’s Coastal Resilience Plan, ongoing and proposed projects funded through HMGP and Resilient Florida, and suggested next steps such as a possible resilience manager and a water-plant feasibility study.
Venice — City staff presented an overview of Venice’s resilience planning and projects, linking recent storm damage to an expanded set of adaptation priorities and grant opportunities.
Assistant City Manager James Clinch said resilience is "the ability to survive, recover, and adapt to a disaster or community," and described how resilience now touches infrastructure, environmental management, economic stability and social welfare. He reviewed federal and state funding programs, including the Federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) and the state’s Resilient Florida grant program; he noted the state recently released a statewide sea-level-rise and flooding vulnerability assessment and that state and…
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