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ARF- 283

Regular Agenda Item 3- K

Regular BOS Meeting

Meeting Date:	01/04/2011
Submitted For:	Matthew Bolinger, Epidemiologist/Emergency Mgt & Health Preparedness Div Dir
Submitted By:	Debra Williams, Emergency Management
Department:	Health & Emergency Management	Division:	Emergency Management
Fiscal Year:	2011 and after	Budgeted?:	No
Contract Dates Begin & End:	Begins on date of FEMA award ltr; ends 3 yrs after	Grant?:	Yes
Matching Requirement?:	Yes	Fund?:	New

Request/Subject

FEMA Mitigation Grant Application-Elevation Project

Background Information

As a result of rain and flooding in January 2010, Presidential Disaster Declaration #1888 authorized the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) to be administered by the State of Arizona Division of Emergency Management. The HMGP provides federal funding for projects that will: 1. reduce the effects of natural hazards and/or vulnerabilities and, 2. meet State and Federal mitigation goals, which can include private properties.

Funding is provided to eligible applicants competitively with a cost share of 75%-Federal; 25% Applicant. Applicants may use soft or in-kind costs to meet the 25% match.

Evaluation

Mr. & Mrs. Roy Goodwin of Tonto Basin acquired a 24' x 60' manufactured home and placed the home on their existing property. The Goodwin property is currently located in FEMA Flood Zone AE-areas subject to inundation by 1-percent-annual-chance flood event. The home in question currently does not meet FEMA or Gila County Floodplain management codes.

To date, estimates for work needed to elevate the home to code compliance are approximately $50,000.00. The Goodwins have reported their sole income to be Social Security Disability and payment to accomplish code compliance represents a severe financial burden.

The cost share for this project will be Federal 75% (estimated $37,500.00) and non-Federal 25% (estimated $12,500.00). Due to the nature of this mitigation project, the owners, as beneficiaries of federal mitigation funds, must provide the non-Federal 25% match requirement. Proof of Funding for the match will be required prior to any recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to accept a mitigation grant awarded as a result of this application. Due to the complexities of the application process the homeowners could have several years to establish the matching funds prior an award.

Additionally, the property is subject to the following deed restrictions: Owners of a structure elevated with funding from the HMGP must maintain an NFIP policy for the life of the structure; use of the structure’s ground floor must be maintained as open space, and any ground flood structure must be NFIP compliant. A sample model deed restriction is attached.

Conclusion

Emergency Management is develping an application on behalf of the Goodwins for assistance under the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for several reasons. An HMGP is only available after a federally declared disaster and the program can provide funds for homeowners who did not have a National Flood Insurance Program policy in place at the time of the declared disaster. There is no other federal mitigation program that provides this opportunity. The last federally declared disaster that triggered a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program that included Gila County was in 2005.

Recommendation

The Director of Health and Emergency Services recommends that the Board of Supervisors authorize Emergency Management to submit an application for FEMA Mitigation Grant Application-Elevation Project funding in the amount of $50,000.

Suggested Motion

Information/Discussion/Action to authorize the Gila County Emergency Management Department to submit a FEMA Mitigation Grant Application-Elevation Project to the Arizona Division of Emergency Management for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding in the amount of $50,000. (Matthew Bolinger)

Attachments
HMGP 1888 Fact Sheet
AE Zone Firmette
Standard Flood Hazard Determination
Sample Deed Restriction
Goodwin Elevation Project Grant Application