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(W F <br /> INDIAN RIVER COUNTY,FLORIDA <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: Joseph A. Baird, County Administrator <br /> D TMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE <br /> Robert M. Keating, A P; Co i Development Director <br /> FROM: Sasan Rohani,AICP <j '4 <br /> Chief, Long-Range Planning <br /> DATE: July 9, 2012 <br /> SUBJECT Request for the Board of County Commissioners to Approve a Technical <br /> Assistance Grant Agreement between the Department of Economic Opportunity <br /> (DEO) and Indian River County <br /> It is requested that the following information be given formal consideration by the Board of County <br /> Commissioners at its regular meeting of July 16, 2013. <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> On May 31, 2013, the Community Development Department submitted a Community Planning <br /> Technical Assistance grant letter of request to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity <br /> (DEO) for implementation of several actions of the Gifford Neighborhood Plan. Subsequently, the <br /> Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) approved the county's $25,000.00 Technical <br /> Assistance Grant and provided the county with a funding and program agreement. To obtain the <br /> approved grant funding, the Board of County Commissioners must now formally accept the grant <br /> and authorize the chairman to execute the attached agreement with DEO. <br /> DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br /> In 2002,the Board of County Commissioners adopted the Gifford Neighborhood Plan. One of the <br /> initiatives in that plan is to make streetscape improvements to Martin Luther King Boulevard(45th <br /> Street). That roadway is the Gifford community's"main street",an east-west collector road corridor <br /> that traverses the heart of Gifford and provides access to a range of institutional, commercial, and <br /> residential uses. <br /> 73 <br />