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CONSENT <br />AGENDA <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: <br />Joseph A. Baird; County Administrator <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />Stan Boling, P <br />Community Development Director <br />THROUGH: Sasan Rohani, AICP <br />Chief, Long -Range Planning <br />Bill Schutt, AICP%-- <br />Senior Economic Development Planner <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />SUBJECT: <br />April 13, 2016 <br />Request for the Board to Authorize the Community Development Director to <br />Apply for State Residential Construction Mitigation Program (RCMP) Funds and <br />Negotiate with Guardian Community Resources, Inc. for Grant Administration <br />Services <br />It is requested that the following information be given formal consideration by the Board of <br />County Commissioners at its regular meeting of April 19, 2016. <br />BACKGROUND <br />As pa of Florida's ongoing efforts to improve its residential property P p operty owner insurance market, <br />the state annually allocates $7 million from its Hurricane Catastrophe Trust Fund to a Residential <br />Construction Mitigation Program (RCMP). As part of the RCMP, $3.4 million of the $7 million <br />allocation is reserved for local governments, non -profits, and some for -profits to be used to <br />improve the wind resistance of residences through loans, subsidies, grants, demonstration <br />project, direct assistance, and cooperative programs. Recently, staff learned about the RCMP <br />retrofit program and that wind mitigation funds provided from that program can be used with <br />SHIP applicants when qualifying wind mitigation improvements (e.g. roofs, window and door <br />treatments) are involved. Re -roofing, for example, is a fairly common improvement associated <br />with SHIP rehabilitation projects. <br />1 <br />92 <br />