Full Notification

August 11, 2017

The Township of Toms River has scheduled three public meetings to provide information regarding federal mitigation grant opportunities that will potentially provide grant funding to assist property owners with elevating their residence.
The funding is anticipated to be available incrementally over the next several years, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) program. The FMA program provides resources to assist communities in their efforts to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings that are insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The FMA program was created in 1994 with the goal of reducing or eliminating claims under the NFIP. Consistent with the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, the FMA program focuses on mitigating Repetitive Loss (RL) or Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL) properties. The FMA program is funded through Congressional appropriation, is available nationwide, and is not tied to a particular disaster declaration.

RL and SRL properties are defined by the NFIP and FEMA, based on the number of claims made on the structure under the NFIP. For more information about these definitions, please visit https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-…/definitions…

The meetings will be held in Town Hall (33 Washington Street) on the following days and times:

Monday, August 21st – 6pm

Tuesday, August 22nd – 10am

Wednesday, August 23rd – 6pm

To assist with the application process, the Township has contracted with Witt O’Brien’s, LLC, an emergency management consulting firm currently working with the Township on our Sandy recovery. Witt O’Brien’s will conduct these meetings, which are intended to provide interested property owners with information regarding program eligibility, an overview of the application process, the timeline of the program, and how the Township’s program will work.

Anyone interested in possibly participating in the program or that would like additional information is invited and encouraged to attend one of these meetings.