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Long Term Recovery Group urges Sarasota County to shift disaster-recovery model, cites large per-home cost gap
Summary
United Way-led Long Term Recovery Group told commissioners the county's current CDBG-DR contracting approach may be inefficient, arguing LTRG can repair far more homes per dollar. County staff said federal rules, procurement and reimbursement requirements limit how programs operate and create administrative costs.
A coalition led by the United Way of South Sarasota County told the Board of County Commissioners on March 11 that county-managed CDBG-DR programs are allocating substantial administrative dollars and slowing recovery for some homeowners, and urged the county to partner more deeply with the Long Term Recovery Group (LTRG).
Chris Johnson, chief operating officer at United Way of South Sarasota County and lead for the LTRG, said the group has completed 81 rebuilds, has 10 sites in progress and 35 in queue for Hurricane Ian recovery, and that deduplicated FEMA data show nearly 4,000 homes were damaged by recent storms Helene and Milton. Johnson contrasted the…
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