Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2024 Council Approved Budget to Accept and Appropriate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Award through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) for the City of Hampton - North Armistead Avenue Resilience Project [FEMA-DR-4512-VA-0002]
Purpose
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program provides funding to state, local, tribal and territorial governments so they can develop hazard mitigation plans and rebuild in a way that reduces, or mitigates, future disaster losses in their communities. This grant funding is available after a presidentially declared disaster. FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs provide funding for eligible mitigation activities that protect life and property from future disaster damage to build a more resilient nation. FEMA provides funding through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) to local government.
The North Armistead Avenue Resilience Project, elevation of a segment of North Armistead Avenue, between Convention Center Boulevard and the LaSalle Avenue Bridge, to reduce flood related road closures and build resilience and transformation of the project area to Green-gray infrastructure by incorporating nature-based solutions along the North Armistead Avenue project area in order to slow, store and redirect stormwater. This project will reduce risk of flooding from hurricanes, nor'easters and other severe storms, as well as heavy rainfall events.
The City of Hampton, Department of Public Works applied to the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Disaster 4512, Virginia COVID-19 Pandemic in 2022 for the North Armistead Avenue Resilience Project. Of the total grant award of $13,838,664; FEMA will provide $12,520,969 ($11,861,712 for the project and $658,984 for sub-recipient management cost funds), and VDEM will provide $1,317,968. No local match is required.
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