TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steve Lederer - Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Andrew Butler - Senior Engineer
SUBJECT: Increase Appropriations Project 20031 FEMA House Elevation Grant
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve a Budget Amendment to increase appropriations for Project 20031 FEMA House Elevation Grant to partially fund the elevation of private homes that have generated multiple damage claims resulting from flooding. (Fiscal Impact $368,281 Expense and Revenue, General Fund 1000, Not Budgeted; Discretionary)
[4/5 vote required]
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BACKGROUND
On October 12, 2017 the Board approved the filing of a Hazard Mitigation grant application to CalOES and FEMA to partially fund the elevation of private homes that had generated multiple damage claims resulting from flooding in recent history in Napa County and for the Director of Public Works to serve as the Authorized Agent for the grant. Napa County received approval of this grant application on August 19, 2019. The grant provides a 75% reimbursement from FEMA, through CalOES, for eligible costs resulting from one of the approved house elevation projects. The owner of the property provides the remaining 25% of the total required funding. The grant has a maximum reimbursement cap based on estimates for the elevation projects that were produced in 2017.
Due to rapidly escalating costs of construction, particularly residential construction after the Napa fires during this timeframe, it became evident that the actual costs of the elevation projects would far exceed the original total project estimates and the estimates for the 75% federal share based on which the maximum grant reimbursement cap was set. Napa County requested a budget adjustment in October 2021 to increase the estimates and grant reimbursement cap based on the increased construction costs that were being realized at that time. This request was approved in April 2022. Since the reimbursement funds must pass through Napa County before they ar...
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