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R -23 -35 A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH'S RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES PILOT PROGRAM GRANT APPLICATION TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program focuses on disadvantaged communities by providing funding for projects that seek to remove, retrofit, or mitigate highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development; and WHEREAS, the environmental conditions and flooding in the northwest corner of the Prentis Park neighborhood in the vicinity of the Mt. Calvary Cemetery Complex is directly attributable to the construction of Interstate 264 and the CSX railyard; and WHEREAS, RCP Planning Grants are intended to support future construction projects; and WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth intends to submit an RCP Planning Grant application for a $500,000 grant to perform a drainage study and complete the design for the improvements necessary to alleviate flooding in the above- referenced corridor; and WHEREAS, City Council desires to declare its support for the RCP Planning Grant application; and WHEREAS, City Council acknowledges that a local match in the amount of $100,000 will be required should the application be approved and funded; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia that it hereby declares and affirms its support for the City's application for an RCP Planning Grant in the amount of $500,000 to perform a drainage study and complete the design for the improvements necessary to alleviate the flooding in the northwest corner of the Prentis Park neighborhood in the vicinity of the Mt. Calvary Cemetery Complex. ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia at a meeting held on August 8, 2023. Teste: City Clerk