Mitigation grant

At the city council meeting Monday, the council and I divided up the names of all the people that responded to the city survey regarding flood or water damage, and had indicated they had damage. So far that was 60 some people.

We are calling those folks, and asking them if we can get copies of receipts to repair the damage, or receipts for expenditures to prevent future damage.

I talked to 8 different people tonite, and was really pleased by their willingness to help. Here's how they are helping, and how you can help if you did not respond to that survey, but had water damage of some kind.

The city, if we can verify enough damage, or expenditures to prevent damage, can use that towards receiving a grant for funds to help us prevent future issues. If we receive the grant, it will be a 1/1 match of receipts. So if we can prove $250,000 worth of damage/mitigation, we can get a grant for $250,000. We then have to use that money where it can help the most people in Roland, though the city would have to kick in an additional 15% of the cost of whatever we do.

We have not decided yet on what we will do, as we don't know how much money we can get yet. The thing we would love to do is build a new sewer trunk line to the treatment plant, which would help prevent backups around the city.

So if you have receipts, or insurance statements, or you did any work to fix up a basement after flooding, we'd love to get a copy of that receipt, and use that in our grant application. Please contact me or City Hall if you have any questions.

Oh yeah, if you responded in the affirmative already, you should be getting a call from me or one of the city council folks in the next couple days.