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Rye $3.0m Flood Mitigation Grant

The City of Rye will be getting a $3 million government grant for storm recovery project(s) and your help is needed in figuring out what to do with it. There is a public meeting to get your input on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 from 7 to 9 PM at the Rye Town Park Pavilion, 95 Dearborn Avenue (next to Seaside Johnnies). By attending, you can learn more about the grant and help shape how we use the funds in Rye.

They'll be other public meetings to follow.

Where did the money come? The grant is part of a post Hurricane Sandy reconstruction program and is for projects to protect our community from future storm damage. This is not a matching grant, City doesn't have to put up any local tax dollars or raise donations, we just need to figure out how best to spend the $3 million (and possibly more, because if we come up with some awesome project ideas, City could qualify for even more funds).

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Why am I writing to you? Because the local planning committee (NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program – City of Rye Planning Committee) has 10 other Rye City residents, some of the nation’s leading storm and flood mitigation engineers, and members of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, and we need City resident input to develop the strategic plan for where Rye targets the grant.

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