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Asheville council frames four recovery priorities and calls for coordinated federal, state and philanthropic support
Summary
Council and staff at a retreat grouped recovery work into four action buckets—People, Economy, Infrastructure and Housing—while staff highlighted an upcoming FEMA inspection schedule and a $225 million HUD CDBG-DR allocation; speakers urged coordinated advocacy with state, federal and philanthropic partners to move funds to projects and capacity-building quickly.
At the retreat facilitators proposed four recovery priority buckets—People, Economy, Infrastructure and Housing—and council members debated scope and sequencing as staff flagged partner actions and funding sources.
Bridget Herring, the city’s sustainability director and deputy recovery coordinator, highlighted operational milestones already completed and under way and noted an important funding resource: "We ended up in a $225,000,000 direct allocation from HUD for CDBG-DR," she said, describing the size and significance of that federal…
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