Community Development Block Grant - DR

Manatee County has been awarded $252,711,000 from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to rebuild disaster-impacted areas and provide crucial seed money to start the long-term recovery process through the Community Development Block Grant―Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) program. This appropriation is intended to accomplish the following:

  1. Rebuild disaster-impacted areas and provide crucial seed money to start the long-term recovery process.

  2. Grants are to help low- and moderate-income areas (please see map below) to recover from Presidentially declared disasters.
 
Staff will compile and present the list of eligible projects for the BOCC to prioritize for funding. To submit a request for funding, please complete an online form. Approved projects will be published in an Action Plan on a designated website this Spring.



What is the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery Program?

CDBG-DR Project Contracts

The CDBG-DR grant is complex and requires the soliciting of project ideas (which will take at least 60 days) and a 30-day comment period before we are able to identify which projects will be funded. Then, after we have submitted the Action Plan to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for review, it will take approximately another 45 days for them to provide us with the Grant Agreement that will authorize us to fund the programs. At that time (roughly July), we will begin soliciting for construction contract bids. We will be putting the bids for contracts on our Lasting Manatee CDBG-DR website as well as follow our normal Procurement processes to ensure that they are publicly available to everyone.
Low to Mod Income Map