Community Development Block Grants Mitigation

Overview:

• Provides funding for communities impacted by the DR-4317 disasters, primarily in southern Missouri, to improve resiliency to future disaster events.  
• Applications are periodically accepted through a competitive process.

Programs:  

Critical Facility Generators

This program increases resiliency for critical public facilities, such as fire and police stations, shelters, hospitals, and so forth. The CDBG-MIT funds will allow local communities to identify the critical facilities necessary to support community lifelines and install generators that will assist with reducing damages and loss of life. The generators will be permanent fixtures integrated into the broader systems to ensure continuity of services.

Mitigation Planning & Capacity Building

This program promotes planning to increase resiliency through updating local hazard mitigation plans, codes, and land use regulations to encourage wind engineering measures and construction techniques, and provide staffing for planning and management capacity to local governments to implement their mitigation activities.

Public Facility Hardening

This program increases resiliency and mitigation for future impacts from disasters for public facilities, public shelters, and all critical public facilities (e.g., potable water facilities, wastewater treatment facilities). CDBG-MIT funds will allow local communities to fund previously identified public facility mitigation needs and/or identify public facility mitigation needs that will harden the facility and reduce or eliminate damages and loss of life and property. Examples of specific projects include adding safe rooms to public buildings, increasing wind resistance to protect against tornadoes, and elevating a critical facility out of a flood zone. Eligible projects will ensure that engineering designs include features that mitigate against current and future disasters.

Warning Systems

This program increases resiliency and safety from future severe weather by installing warning systems in vulnerable communities. The CDBG-MIT funds will allow local communities to identify areas of vulnerable populations and install the warning systems necessary to assist with reducing damages and loss of life. Warning systems can include text alerts and other means of reaching the community to notify residents about hazardous conditions.

Citizens Advisory Committee