Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program
Appendix B
Florida Department of Community Affairs Projects
Mobile Home Projects
State Fiscal Year 2000-2001
| Partnering Grantee | Grant Award | Project Description |
| Consolidated City of Jacksonville | $525,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Manatee County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Marion County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Martin County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Okaloosa County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Pasco County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Pinellas County | $525,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Polk County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| Volusia County | $250,000 | Install, tie-down or replace tie-down hardware on selected mobile home units in the county, allotting no more than $1,600 per unit |
| TOTAL PROGRAM ALLOCATION: | $2,800,000 |
Type I Hurricane Center ProjectsState Fiscal Year 2000-2001
| Partnering Grantee | Grant Award | Project Description |
| Florida International University | $98,700 | Prepare a research agenda and assist the Department with an annual report of the Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program |
| Florida International University | $601,300 | Complete
five research initiatives including:
1) Sheltering for Mobile Home Parks 2) Mobile Home Recycling Program 3) Land Development and Zoning Issues 4) Homeowner Insurance and Issues of Incentives or Barriers to Mitigation 5) Issues of Structural Performance and Retrofitting of Loss Reduction |
| TOTAL PROGRAM ALLOCATION: | $700,000 |
Florida Department of Community Affairs Projects
State Fiscal Year 2000-2001
| Partnering Grantee | Grant Award | Project Description |
| Florida Alliance for Safe Homes | $400,000 | Produce hazard mitigation outreach materials and Public Service Announcements, and maintain and track the use of a 24 hour toll free number and a website to address homeowner questions on mitigation |
| Florida Department of Community Affairs | $250,000 | Support efforts of the Building Safety Day at the Capitol and the Governor's Hurricane Conference to promote residential mitigation, reproduce mitigation outreach materials and develop software to web-enable a user interface for the Florida Building Code |
| Florida Windstorm Underwriters Association | $50,000 | Reproduce public outreach materials |
| Federation of Manufactured Home Owners of Florida, Inc. | $150,000 | Prepare and produce public outreach materials on mobile home safety issues |
| Florida Manufactured Housing Association | $150,000 | Prepare and produce public outreach materials on mobile home safety issues |
| Florida Homebuilders Association | $125,000 | Support efforts of the South Eastern Building Code conference to promote residential hurricane mitigation, produce magazine articles in the Florida HomeBuilder magazine and public outreach materials for contractors on the Florida Building Code |
| Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council | $75,000 | Support efforts of regional trade shows to promote residential hurricane mitigation |
| University of Florida | $300,000 | Construct 12 homes in various areas in the state to document the cost of constructing a new home according to the new Florida Building Code |
| University of Florida | $250,000 | Install pre-wiring in 10 homes in the Florida Panhandle for monitoring equipment to expand the Coastal Monitoring Program to test the structural performance of homes in hurricane events |
| Florida State University | $50,000 | Maintain the Resource Identification Strategy database to assist local governments in obtaining funding for wind mitigation projects |
| Consolidated City of Jacksonville | $50,000 | Retrofit homes undergoing livability rehabilitation |
| Volusia County | $50,000 | Retrofit homes undergoing livability rehabilitation |
| Brevard County | $50,000 | Retrofit homes undergoing livability rehabilitation |
| City of Key West | $50,000 | Retrofit homes undergoing livability rehabilitation |
| Miami-Dade County | $50,000 | Retrofit homes undergoing livability rehabilitation |
| Florida Department of Insurance | $400,000 | Perform an quality assurance analysis of homes previously receiving a wind inspection and analyze all technical data collected statewide |
| Florida Department of Community Affairs | $300,000 | Produce and distribute copies of the Florida Building Code to all 67 Florida counties |
| Florida Homebuilders Association | $400,000 | Develop a Disaster Contractors Network to train local associations of the major contractor organizations in disaster management issues |
| Emergency Response Planning and Management, Inc. | $150,000 | Provide all 67 Florida counties with mitigation planning software to assist Local Mitigation Strategy working groups in prioritizing wind mitigation projects |
| TOTAL PROGRAM ALLOCATION: | $3,300,000 |