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CASS COUNTY <br />COMMISSION POLICY MANUAL 13.72 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: COUNTY SALES TAX FOR FLOOD RISK REDUCTION AND RECOVERY <br />PROJECTS <br /> <br />ADOPTED DATE: DECEMBER 4, 2017 PAGE 3 OF 4 <br /> <br /> <br />Types of projects eligible for funding: <br /> <br />1. Levee construction or recertification for cities or rural subdivisions. Generally levee <br />projects should be constructed to FEMA and/or US Army Corps of Engineer standards <br />and be able to bring the benefited area out of the 1% chance (100 year) floodplain. These <br />levees would also need to be maintained at that standard by either the city or township <br />that is a member of the National Flood Insurance Program. Rural subdivisions seeking <br />this funding would need to complete an agreement with the township and form an <br />assessment district for the long term maintenance of the levee. <br />2. Flood control projects. <br />3. Water retention or detention projects. <br />4. Dam construction or maintenance. <br />5. Lift Stations for removing storm water from within a levee protected area. <br />6. Rural Farmstead Ring Levees (in conjunction with the ND State Water Commission 50% <br />cost share) as outlined on the ND State Water Commission website under “Cost Share” <br />at http://www.swc.state.nd.us/project_development/cost_share.html. Generally levee <br />projects should be constructed to FEMA and/or US Army Corps of Engineer standards. <br />However, individual rural farmsteads cannot be “certified” by FEMA or the US Army Corps <br />of Engineers as they not maintained by either a city or township that is a member of the <br />National Flood Insurance Program. <br />7. Road Projects that provide infrastructure protection to prevent significant future flood <br />damage. These requests may be standalone projects or in conjunction with post-flood <br />damage repair with or without FEMA cost share. <br />8. Road access (road raises or other infrastructure improvements that will allow access to a <br />city, subdivision, or rural residence/farmstead). <br />9. Embankment slumping along the Red River, Wild Rice River, Sheyenne River, Maple <br />River, Rush and Lower Rush Rivers, and Legal Drains. River slumping projects may <br />include road and infrastructure repair, home buyouts, and repair to legal drains. <br />10. Home buyouts for flooding and bank slumping. <br />11. Flood Recovery projects to include: Levee repair, road repair, bridge repair, and other <br />infrastructure related repair projects. None infrastructure flood recovery such as debris <br />removal and sandbag cleanup will not be eligible. <br /> <br />Cass County Sales Tax Cost Share: <br /> <br />1. Generally the cost share will be 50% of the “local” share of the non-retention projects, i.e. <br />if a $100,000 project had a 50% state cost share, the local share would be $50,000 and <br />the County cost share would be $25,000. <br />2. Policy for Retention Projects: Cost share is 75% of the “local” share if they are approved <br />by the Red River Joint Water Resource District. <br />3. Home buyouts for flooding and bank slumping: Cost share is 90% of the “local” cost with <br />the homeowner paying 10% of the “local” cost. <br /> <br />