Public hearings will be held in June to discuss how Vermont’s allocation of $21,660,211 from HUD in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery funds will be spent.
Vermont’s Department of Economic, Housing, and Community Development will be soliciting comments during the hearings on its soon to be released draft action plan. The plan must identify the unmet and long term recovery needs of the area’s most impacted and distressed as the result of declared major disasters in Vermont in 2011. These disasters include flooding that occurred April 23-May 9, May 26-27 and in August 27- September 2 with Tropical Storm Irene.
The Public Hearing schedule is as follows:
• June 5, 2012 – 11:30am - 1:30pm, Latchis Theater Studio 4 in Brattleboro, VT
• June 7, 2012 – 3:30 – 5:30pm, Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction, VT
• June 12, 2012 – 5:00 – 7:00pm, Montpelier Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier VT
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