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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 <br /> actual disaster whatever that disaster was are the general criteria for disaster <br /> grant eligibility. <br /> Everything that you do has to tie back. You need to document and have a <br /> logical argument as to why doing "X" addresses the actual...the original event. <br /> Examples are rebuilding homes, infrastructure damaged by disaster or providing <br /> assistance to unaffected...affected business owners. <br /> Housing recovery with DR, there's to...a standard waiver that allows new <br /> construction, the CDBG generally doesn't allow new construction, but with the <br /> disaster grant you can spend it on new construction, rehab, re-construction, <br /> single family, multi family, home owner or rental activities, a whole variety of <br /> housing. There's very little housing activity that's not eligible. <br /> Infrastructure, again, this is repairing, replacing, infrastructure that was damaged <br /> by a storm but also with a resiliency component. So you might be doing some <br /> infrastructure that will...that will have a mitigating effect for future storms. And <br /> certainly anything you build, any infrastructure project, you want to be <br /> considering mitigation and resiliency so that you're making it...you're not <br /> just...like I said not replacing what was there before but making it bigger, better, <br /> stronger having a better long lasting positive influence in case of future events. <br /> So a lot of bridge and road repair, water and sewer, extending water and sewer <br /> to housing...new housing development. And there's even some flexibility for <br /> buildings of kind of local government or that sort of thing which is generally <br /> excluded from CDBG and DR it can be eligible. <br /> Economic development activities. This is a difficult way to spend DR money but <br /> that doesn't mean it's not a good way to spend DR money. There's the job <br /> training workforce development for a lot of the trades that you might need, <br /> construction trades that you're funding with the disaster assistance, you can <br /> include a component to train people, local people, to take those jobs and then <br /> they have that ability going forward. You can do loans and grants to businesses <br /> and improve commercial rental districts. Like I say, the tie back to the disaster, <br /> we talk about it a lot, it's an important thing, it a thing that sometimes gets <br /> missed and causes troubles down the road, so you need, like I said, you need to <br /> document an a logical argument as to why what you're doing ties back to the <br /> storm the original...or storm...whatever the original disaster was. Like I said we <br /> usually deal with storms and floods but...whatever the event is, you need to <br /> have a tie back to that. Restoring the housing infrastructure, the economy that <br /> was effected by whatever the disaster was. <br /> Ineligible activities is something that doesn't respond to the disaster. Anything, in <br /> all the appropriations laws, there's always little tweaks, special rules, so you need <br /> Page 7 of 31 <br />