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_ 119 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 102. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 b. The department shall develop criteria and guidelines for the program on or before December 1, 2025, which shall include eligible recipients and identify permitted sources of matching funds as necessary, which may include federal, state and other funding programs and sources as sources for match for funding from the program. Eligible activities shall be construction and improvement projects designed to mitigate the impacts of future disasters. Funding under paragraph Q.2. of this item shall be available for projects within communities eligible under paragraph Q.1.and those communities whose residents sustained property damage as a result of a flood disaster, mudslide, storm damage, wind damage, or landslide that was subject to a Major Disaster Declaration occurring on or after August 1, 2021. Grants to individuals shall not exceed $500,000. Funding may be used to satisfy match requirements for federal, state and other funding programs and sources, including U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency public assistance and hazard mitigation grant funding, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development community development block grants, and funding from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. c. Out of the amounts in this paragraph, the department shall direct $350,000 to pilot a statewide emergency management mobile application communications platform in Health Service Area 3. The platform shall provide care coordination across local, regional, and state entities for mass casualty, evacuation, and other events involving patient transport. The pilot program will evaluate the effectiveness of an emergency management mobile application communications platform in Southwest Virginia by measuring its impact on key performance indicators, including: number of participating organizations/personnel, platform usage, time to treatment, and user satisfaction. An interim report detailing the pilot program launch will be submitted to the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee and the House Appropriations Committee by December 1, 2025. A final report including quantitative data and qualitative feedback gathered from participating organizations and personnel will be submitted to the Chairs by October 1, 2026. 3. The Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to reduce funds provided for major weather event disaster mitigation in paragraph Q.2. if eligible claims for relief as provided in paragraph Q.1. exceed $25,000,000, to the extent that unobligated funds from paragraph Q.2. are available. 4. The department shall report to the General Assembly on the expenditure of funds from paragraph Q.1. within 90 days of the completion of this assistance program to include total assistance deployed by type of loss, total victims served, and completion of funded repairs or new residential construction. The department shall report to the General Assembly on the expenditure of funds from paragraph Q.2. on or before December 1, 2026, except as provided in Q.2.c. At a minimum the report shall contain information on the number and type of applicants, the number of grants made, and expenditure of grant funding, and the projects completed. 5. The department may recover administrative costs from the amounts provided in this paragraph including any necessary costs for partnerships with individuals and entities, including local departments of social services, entities of local government, planning district commissions, and non-profits to effectuate the provisions of this paragraph. The amounts provided in this paragraph Q. shall not revert to the general fund at the end of any fiscal year. R. Out of this appropriation, $675,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided to support the organizational capacity and administrative needs of the Continuum of Care lead agencies in Virginia, including local planning groups in the Balance of State Continuum of Care, as they serve persons at risk of or experiencing homelessness in their regions. The department shall determine, with input from Continuum of Care lead agencies and other stakeholders, the activities that are eligible for funding, which shall include but are not limited to: (i) the development and management of homeless crisis response systems; (ii) grant administration and reporting; (iii) staff training; and (iv) essential operational tasks. The department shall provide these funds as grants in a formula determined by the department with input from stakeholders.