Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Mitigation (CDBG-MIT)
Infrastructure
San Castle
Grant Allocation:$16,500,000
Funding for mitigation efforts to upgrade drainage, utilities, and roadway improvements in a neighborhood known as San Castle, located east of 95 and south of Hypoluxo Road.
Infrastructure
Fire Station #2
Grant Allocation:$571,611
Funding for hardening the City of Boynton Beach’s Fire Rescue Station No. 2, located at 2615 Woolbright Road. To properly mitigate the facility and its equipment from wind damage.
Infrastructure
East Water Treatment Plant
Grant Allocation:$2,100,000
Funding to provide a safety power to the East Water Treatment Plant. Complete the design of the new generator system, purchasing of the equipment, completing construction, testing and finalizing training and maintenance.
What is CDBG- Mitigation?
Activities that increase resilience to disasters and eliminate long-term risk of loss of life, injury, damage to and loss of property, and suffering and hardship by lessening the impact of future disasters.
CDBG-Mitigation Activity Requirements:
Meet the definition of a Mitigation Activity
Address current and future risks identified in the Territorial Hazard Mitigation Plan
CDBG-eligibility activities under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act 1974 (HCDA)
Meet a Housing & Urban Development (HUD) National Objective
Address a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Community Lifeline
The City of Boynton Beach is committed to fair and equitable administration of all grant programs. The following contacts and resources are available to residents and program participants.
Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator, Dom Hobbs