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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 182
BY REPRESENTATIVE TALBOT
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the division of administration, office of community development,
disaster recovery unit, to require individuals who receive grant awards for individual
mitigation measures to accomplish those measures within one year of the award.
WHEREAS, independent federal research shows that every dollar spent on mitigating
a home against hazards saves four dollars in loss from a future disaster; and
WHEREAS, Louisiana suffered billions in housing loss in Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita, with more than two hundred thousand housing units damaged by the hurricanes and the
failure of the federal levees in the New Orleans area; and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
funded the individual mitigation measures program which provides seven thousand five
hundred dollars to homeowners for storm-proofing activities such as installing window
protection, installing hurricane straps or clips, bolting walls to foundations, strengthening
doors, anchoring propane tanks or heating fuel tanks, and elevating electrical panels, air-
conditioning units, washers and dryers, and furnace and water heaters; and
WHEREAS, the office of community development, through the Road Home Program
began distributing the funds for this program by issuing checks in November 2010 and have
disbursed more than one hundred sixty million dollars to over twenty-one thousand
homeowners; and
WHEREAS, in order to receive the grant award for individual mitigation measures,
the homeowner had to enter into an agreement to accomplish the mitigation measures within
three years; and
WHEREAS, a report from the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development stated that the "...success or failure of this program is contingent upon the
development and implementation of a compliance monitoring strategy..."; and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 182
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WHEREAS, the length of the three-year term will make managing compliance by
the office of community development, disaster recovery unit, difficult as well as, since the
term will span multiple hurricane seasons, the homeowner and the taxpayers will not receive
the full benefit of the program by increasing the risk of storm damage before the individual
mitigation measures can be accomplished.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the division of administration, office of community development, disaster
recovery unit, to require individuals who receive grant awards for individual mitigation
measures accomplish those measures within one year of the award.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
executive director of the office of community development, disaster recovery unit.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE