Hidalgo County Urban County Program is requesting consideration and approval for the following items regarding proposed revisions to Hidalgo County’s Texas Department of Rural Affairs 2008 Disaster Recovery Fund: Hurricanes Ike and Dolly, Non-Housing Activities Application Round 2:

1. Conduct a Public Hearing to advise the public of the proposed application revisions to Hidalgo County’s Round 2 application regarding: 

a.  removal of project known as “Sebastian Channel”, formally within the application as Project #1:   Repair Weirs/Bridges/Sebastian Channel, and remove the amount of $5,278,578.00 allocated to Willacy County in the Partial Method of Distribution (MOD), and;

b.  removal of Project #7: Raymondville Drain and the allocated funding amount of $3,162,500.00.

2. Request authorization to amend TDRA Round 2 application to include reduction of funding and scope of work for the above reference projects and reflect the amount of $20,942,306.00 allocated to Hidalgo County under Round 2 Phase 1 LRGVDC Partial MOD Allocations. (please see attached MOD)

The Urban County Program has been coordinating with TDRA and S & B Infrastructure in an attempt to make revisions as required for the Round 2 Application. The revisions to the Round 2 application will reflect the State of Texas allocations of $20,942,306.00 to fund Non-Housing projects to address damages caused by Hurricane Dolly in Hidalgo County in 2008.  (Please refer to pg. 8 of allocation summary).