Finally, a government program that is an unqualified success. Too bad that very success has led to its early termination.
In August 2006, then-Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher kicked off the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program, a $250 million mitigation program to help Floridians strengthen their homes against hurricanes and to reduce property losses in Florida. Under its legislative mandate, the program was to provide inspections for at least 400,000 site-built, single-family, residential properties and to give mitigation grants to at least 35,000 applicants before June 30, 2009.
Mission accomplished. Grant goals were met in May. The inspection goal was achieved in June, a year ahead of the legislative-set end date, and the program has stopped accepting new applications.
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