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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 <br /> to make sure that you read the appropriate federal register and make sure that <br /> what your doing doesn't violate anything in there. An activity that's ineligible for <br /> the...the CDB...standard CDBG regulations unless there's waivers...in that <br /> federal register notice or you apply and secure a waiver that gets published in a <br /> later federal register notice. And then if it fails to meet a CDBG national <br /> objective, that's for any non-admin and planning activities are exempt from the <br /> requirement to meet a nation objective but everything else needs to meet that <br /> low-mod benefit or urgent need national objective. And there are some special <br /> new national objectives related to relocation and buy-outs and incentives for <br /> homeowners to move to safer areas, its variations on the low-mod and the <br /> urgent need national objective. <br /> So generally and except when we came out with the special mitigation funding, <br /> mitigation...strictly mitigation activities aren't allowed but stuff that you doing, <br /> you need to consider mitigation and resiliency and what you're doing but you <br /> can't have unrelated mitigation effort funded with DR. It needs to still have that <br /> tie back to the funded...to the identified disaster. Let's see... <br /> I guess, yeah...FEMA...our general argument, usually, other agencies provide <br /> mitigation fundings, like I said just this last year...this year...we've been making <br /> mitigation...special mitigation funds available and the expectation is that will be <br /> eligible going forward but typically it hasn't been. <br /> Purchasing equipment is generally not eligible with CDBG funds. There's some <br /> special exemptions for purchasing equipments. People can buy fire trucks and <br /> equipment that can constitute all or part of a public service, that's the standard <br /> rule and equipment that's att...permanently attached to a structure and <br /> integral to a fixture is allowed. Generally where that comes into play in disaster <br /> is that you can't buy generators...small portable generators with disaster <br /> assistance money. It's a...so you have to bolt it to the ground. <br /> So there's a variety of...ahhhh, this picture...this is an interesting picture...this is in <br /> Dubuque Iowa and there was a creek running through the town and 100 years <br /> ago they capped it and they...they...they built a...they topped the creek, <br /> channelized it and put a top over it and built houses on top of it and every time <br /> it rained that neighborhood would flood so... so with this was in nat...RBD...NDR <br /> grant...this was a National Disaster Resilience Grant, they were able to take <br /> some money, open up that creek again and create a flood way on either side <br /> of it and it looks very nice...it's a nice park but it's a flood way and now it <br /> doesn't flood anymore when it rains. That's an example of a resilient activity. <br /> There are waivers that we can provide except for the fair housing labor <br /> standards and environmental laws. We do not have the authority to grant <br /> waivers but a, you know, there's a whole variety of waivers and like I've shared <br /> Page 8 of 31 <br />