Memorandum
Date: April 8, 2025
To: The Honorable E.J. Crandell, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Terre Logsdon, Chief Climate Resiliency Officer/Tribal Liaison
Subject: Adopt Resolution Amending Resolution No. 2024-34, a Resolution Approving an Application for Funding and the Execution of a Grant Agreement and any amendments thereto from the 2023-2024 Funding Year of the State CDBG Mitigation Resilience Infrastructure (MIT-RIP) Program
Executive Summary:
The purpose of MIT-RIP is to assist local jurisdictions with mitigation-related infrastructure needs to support risk reduction from the three primary hazards (wildfire, flooding, and earthquake). MIT-RIP Projects must meet the HUD definition of mitigation, "activities that increase resilience to disasters and reduce or eliminate the 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."
A Public Hearing was scheduled before your Board on March 26, 2024, for consideration of a Resolution approving an application for funding and the execution of a grant agreement and any amendments thereto from the 2023-2024 funding year of the State CDBG Mitigation Resilience Infrastructure (MIT-RIP) Program. The County of Lake had been allocated an amount not to exceed $2,346,659.90. There was no County match of funds required. Resolution No. 2024-34 was adopted by your Board and submitted to the State for the grant funding.
After a review of documents by CDBG staff, it was brought to the attention of our department that the signed resolution submitted was missing Section 5. Our department is asking to amend Resolution No. 2024-34 and approve the resolution before you today that adds the following section to Resolution No. 2024-34:
Section 5. If an application is approved, the Board of Supervisors, or designee, is authorized to sign and submit Funds Requests and a...
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