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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced the grants along with state Housing Commissioner Evonne Klein.
The $303,795 will be used to upgrade generators to ensure continuity of operations at two critical sites: the Government Center and the Smith House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Both generators are undersized and beyond their useful life.
“The damaging effects of storms along Connecticut’s shoreline are just a reality these communities must face,” Malloy said in a statement. “With these grants, however, we can assist these municipalities and their cleanup efforts from the devastation of one of the most severe storms in Connecticut’s history, and help them to establish resiliency plans so they can be better prepared in the years ahead.”
Last year, the state was awarded a second tranche of funds in the amount of $66 million through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program. The CDBG-DR program, administered by the Department of Housing, was established to assist the most impacted and distressed areas recover from Superstorm Sandy.
“Earlier this year, DOH disbursed nearly $32 million in several communities ravaged by recent storms. This second round of federal funding will build on the momentum started in rebuilding infrastructure projects,” Klein said in a statement. “It’s also helping these same cities and towns take measures that will diminish the impacts of future storms.”
The primary goal in allocating funding for the rehabilitation and resiliency of infrastructure is to restore a suitable living environment in disaster impacted communities by rehabilitating or reconstructing existing infrastructure and adding resiliency to minimize damage from future storm events.
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