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Joint committee action authorizing the Stormwater Management Commission (SMC), submittal of grant applications to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Programs.
Staff Summary
* The PDM and FMA grant funds being requested are from FEMA, administered through the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA).
* SMC has managed and operated a voluntary floodplain property buyout program for over 20 years as a core mission flood mitigation practice.
* The SMC role will be to act as grant coordinator on behalf of the local government partners.
* The local match, to be supplied for the grants, is in accordance with the SMC Comprehensive Plan.
* If the two grants are approved, they will be brought back to the Lake County Board for acceptance and allocation of the necessary funds.
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To: Chair, Planning Building and Zoning Committee
Chair, Financial and Administrative Committee
From: Mike Warner, Stormwater Management Commission
Date: December 6, 2017
Re: Approval of the submittal of an after-the-fact direct-match grant application
1. Section III.A.6. of the Budget Policy requires all departments to obtain standing committee and Financial and Administrative Committee (or the County Board if so required by the agency) approval on new grant applications that require a direct County-match. In instances when the deadline to apply for a grant does not allow the department sufficient time to obtain prior approval, the department may apply and submit for approval to the committees at the next available committee meeting(s).
2. Staff has submitted application for two grants, totaling $6,497,112 of project funding, which would require a direct match of $218,117 from Lake County.
3. The grants would be utilized to remove at-risk floodplain residents from their flood-damaged homes.
4. The County-match of $218,112 would be funded through the SMC Floodplain property buyout Fund, acco...
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