The state of Florida will receive funding to support long term hurricane recovery efforts in Monroe County through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO’s) CDBG-DR Program. Among other aspects of the funding, DEO has chosen to fund ...

 

FLORIDA HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation announces a public meeting to which all persons are invited.

DATE AND TIME: November 2, 2018, 2:00 p.m.

PLACE: The workshop will be available by telephone or interested parties may attend in person at Florida Housing’s offices located at 227 N. Bronough Street, Seltzer Room, Suite 6000, Tallahassee, Florida.

GENERAL SUBJECT MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED: The state of Florida will receive funding to support long term hurricane recovery efforts in Monroe County through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO’s) CDBG-DR Program. Among other aspects of the funding, DEO has chosen to fund programs for the creation of workforce affordable rental new construction housing as well as to support the acquisition of land to build workforce affordable rental housing. FHFC will be DEO’s partner to administer these programs. The programs are set forth in detail in DEO’s State of Florida Action Plan for Disaster Recovery (Action Plan), which can be found at: http://www.floridajobs.org/docs/default-source/2015-community-development/community-revitalization/dr/stateofflactionplanfordr.pdf?sfvrsn=2.

The workshop is intended to provide high-level preliminary information about the funding available for Monroe County, with the opportunity for the public to provide comments and suggestions.

A copy of the agenda may be obtained by contacting: Marisa Button, [phone].

Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Jean Salmonsen, [phone]. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).

If any person decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at this meeting or hearing, he/she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceeding is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence from which the appeal is to be issued.