RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION MITIGATION PROGRAM RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION MITIGATION PROGRAM COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM
The Division of Emergency Management is providing you with notification of its intent to open the State Fiscal Year 2007-2008 cycle for competitive awards from the Residential Construction Mitigation Program. Funding for SFY 2007-2008 is $3.4 million.
The RCMP provides competitive grants to state or regional agencies, local governments, and private non-profit/for profit (by RFP process) organizations to implement projects that will further the RCMP program objective of enhancing residential wind mitigation. Eligible applicants may submit multiple applications, however, no single application shall seek or receive an award in excess of $200,000 per state fiscal year. All eligible applicants, with the exception of counties and state agencies shall be limited to no more than three (3) application submissions in an application cycle in a state fiscal year and additional one (1) application submission per category.
The Division encourages all interested and eligible parties with projects that will enhance wind mitigation capabilities within the State of
APPLICATION CATEGORIES:
Applications are accepted in the following six categories:
1. Residential Mitigation Retrofit Program (Retrofit Program): Assistance to primarily low and moderate-income residents, which promotes wind mitigation (including retrofits, education, inspections and related activities). All retrofit or other installation of mitigation devices on residential structures MUST comply with the Blueprint for Safety Standard (BFS). The link to BFS: http://www.blueprintforsafety.org.
All contractors or installation personnel must be BFS certified.
Retrofits/Installations should be systemic, i.e. not just shutters, or just roof improvements, but a system that ties together all aspects of wind mitigation/BFS, to the maximum degree possible on the structure to be retrofitted. Where a systemic approach cannot be implemented, this must be clearly justified (i.e., structure has already been partially mitigated or structure does not otherwise require or cannot accept all aspects of BFS). Funding is on the basis of 75%/25%, match may be in-kind or direct. Recipients MUST include pre and post inspections to determine the scope of work and to certify completion. Recipients may contract for installation of BFS compliant retrofits or make allocations to homeowners for retrofit work, to be inspected and certified under the auspices of the subgrantee and the RCMP.
2. Projects that will promote public education and public information about wind mitigation and wind mitigation related areas, including but not limited to maintenance and enhancement of RCMP/wind mitigation on line information availability and program visibility.
3. Projects that encourage and/or increase integration of wind mitigation into comprehensive planning and local mitigation plans and compliance with the State Hazard Mitigation Plan.
4. Projects that will promote market based, non-regulatory approaches to mitigation, including, but not limited to, training in regard to wind mitigation (construction) techniques, products and procedures, codes and standards, and related areas).
5. Projects, which enhance program effectiveness, measurement and attainment of, project goals and recommendations for improvement.
6. Other projects that will further wind mitigation/RCMP objectives, which have been designated by the Program as priorities in the applicable Notice of Fund Availability/RFP.
Priority Areas:
A) Projects which implement wind mitigation/projects as identified in the State Hazard Mitigation Plan (SHMP)/ (applicable) Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) and are clearly identified as projects/programs which can be initiated and completed within the grant contract period. The applicant must make clear reference with citations to the applicable sections of the SHMP and provide a copy of the Local Mitigation Strategy priority initiative list reflecting inclusion of their project(s). An endorsement letter from the chair of the
B) Projects, which will provide for product testing, measurement or enhancements, which will improve, wind mitigation in residential structures.
C) Projects, which will address the effectiveness of early warning systems.
D) Projects, which promote residential wind mitigation through the code, trade or construction industries, including related or affiliated programs and organizations.
E) Projects which provide for public awareness about RCMP, its programs including support and maintenance of the RCMP website and on-line applications, including the Mitigation Incentives Database.
Applications must identify which priority is being addressed; multiple priorities may be addressed, but a PRIMARY priority must be identified.
TO DOWNLOAD SECTION 215.559, FLORIDA STATUTES, APPLICATION PACKET AND related information please visit our website at http://www.floridadisaster.org/brm/rcmp/index.htm.
Applications must be prepared in conformance with the application packet instructions. Applications must be received on or before June 11, 2007, 4:00 p.m. eastern standard time at the address below:
Shemeeka Hopkins, Community Assistance Consultant
Division of Emergency Management
Attention: RCMP
(850)922-4079
