City of Mobile, Baldwin and Mobile counties receive disaster recovery grants

The city of Mobile and Baldwin and Mobile counties have received grant awards of $1 million each as precursors to larger awards for long-term recovery efforts from Hurricanes Sally and Zeta that struck Alabama in 2020, Gov. Kay Ivey announced. The latest awards under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program will enable the two counties and the city of Mobile to assess remaining damages and unmet needs. (Hal Yeager/Governor’s Office, YHN) The three governments will each submit recovery action plans to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. Once those pl