[FoCHAT] CHAT Meeting: Wed. 6:30, 7/30/08; LRA Bd. Mtg.: Wed. Housing at 10 AM

[Melanie Ehrlich]

FoCHAT Members,
 
Newcomers are welcome to our biweekly CHAT meeting that will be held tomorrow evening.

Time: Meetings on Wed. at 6:30 PM at UNO, usually every other week 

Place: Room 179, UNO Old Business Administration building, on Milneburg Rd. (the road where the brand new dorms are, past the stop sign and the University Center and opposite the Fitness Center.
Building #7: Directions to the Business Bldg are given on the Campus Map for UNO http://www.uno.edu/university/maps/maincamp.asp

NEXT MEETING Wed., July 30. 
 
 
The LRA Bd. meets begins tomorrow morning. The public is allowed by law to make comments for 3 min. Comments are scheduled for the end of the Housing section. You may read them or speak ad lib. They should be polite and nonredundant and can be on any aspect of the Road Home (RH) or the one RH reform bill that survived misleading facts from OCD-LRA to become law, SB 755. It faces an involved pathway to actually take effect, as explained in previous FoCHAT messages and summarized at our website http://chatushome.com . 
 
Note the reference to individual mitigation measures below. That was the $7500 per qualified rebuilding applicant for storm shutters, raising air-conditioning etc. The RH policy book had mention of that grant category deleted in the latest version but it might come from the HMGP money, that $1.2- 1.4 billion fund which was promised by the last administration to RH applicants alone for house elevation and individual mitigation measures but which has been partly disappearing to other, non-RH uses in 2008.
 
 
AGENDA and MEETING NOTICE
Louisiana Recovery Authority Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 – 9:00 a.m. **
State Capitol Building, HC1
I. Call to Order 9:00 am
II. Prayer
III. Pledge of Allegiance
IV. Roll Call
V. Reading and approval of the minutes of the preceding meeting
Approve minutes of 4/21/08 board meeting
VI. Executive Reports
Chairman of the Board report, David Voelker 9:10
Executive Director’s Report, Paul Rainwater 9:30
VII. Committee and Task Force Reports and Discussions
a. Housing Task Force, Walter Leger 10:00
i. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of resolution to approve
Soft Seconds Program
ii. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration for final approval of $3.3
million to be reallocated from Technical Assistance to Code Enforcement
Activities
iii. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of resolution to submit Action
Plan to develop Individual Mitigation Measures program
iv. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of resolution to submit Action
Plan Amendment on Senate Bill 755
v. Public Comment
b. Infrastructure Task Force, Paul Rainwater 11:00
i. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of a resolution to approve
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Allocations for Statewide Program
ii. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of resolution to approve
Livingston Parish plan
iii. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of a resolution to approve
Phase II of Fisheries Infrastructure Program
iv. Public Comment
c. Rita Task Force, Mayor Randy Roach 11:45
i. Discussion, Public Comment and Consideration of resolution to update the
Rita Report
ii. Public Comments
LUNCH 12:15
VIII. Agency Status Reports
d. Legislative Session Report, Lynn Bankston 1:00
e. Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness 1:20
Mark Riley, Asst. Deputy Director – Disaster Recovery;
Casey Levy, State Hazard Mitigation Officer Mitigation Branch Chief
i. Public Assistance update
ii. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Update
iii. Public Comments
IX. Unfinished Business 2:00
X. Public comments
XI. New Business
XII. Announcements
XIII. Adjournment 2:30
** All times are tentative and subject to change
 
Best wishes,
 
Melanie Ehrlich
Co-Chairman, CHAT
Member, LRA Housing Task Force
 
 
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