This ordinance, 2025-281-E, concerns a continuation grant appropriating $257,409.00 in supplemental State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program grant funding. The funds are provided by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. The purpose of the SHIP program is to serve very low, low, and moderate-income families by creating partnerships to produce and preserve affordable homeownership and multifamily housing. The funds can be utilized for various purposes including emergency repairs, new construction, rehabilitation, down payment and closing cost assistance, impact fees, construction and gap financing, mortgage buy-downs, property acquisition for affordable housing, matching dollars for federal housing grants, homeownership counseling, and the Foreclosure Intervention Program. These funds are supplemental and were originally held back for disaster recovery efforts.