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Emergency Management director warns FEMA grant cut will force training reductions, city to seek replacement funds
Summary
At an Oct. 7 budget committee meeting, Emergency Management Director Rachel Sayer told the Minneapolis City Council Budget Committee that FEMA funding for the department will drop from about $900,000 to $10,000 next year, prompting a $25,000 training reduction and plans to pursue mayoral or other replacements for grant revenue.
Rachel Sayer, director of the Emergency Management Department, told the Minneapolis City Council Budget Committee on Oct. 7 that a federal grant the city has relied on for several years will fall dramatically for the next grant cycle, and the department will cut one specialized training as a result.
"For the upcoming fiscal year grant that would start sometime next year for us, we were allocated just $10,000," Sayer said, describing a prior planning assumption of about $900,000 for the FEMA grant the city had received in the earlier cycle.
The cut matters because the Emergency Management Department has a small staff and relies heavily on grant funding. Sayer said the department has 10 personnel (one part time) and a 2026 budget of about $2,300,000, with roughly 64% of that budget related to personnel. She said approximately 40% of…
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