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Ulster County committee approves FEMA fire-safety application and new grant-funded planning position
Summary
The committee approved a county application for a FEMA fire prevention grant worth $386,444 (county share $19,322), accepted a delayed DCJS grant for an assault-crisis program, and amended the budget to create a grant-funded emergency management planning specialist position.
Ulster CountyLaw Enforcement and Public Safety Committee members voted Aug. 6 to advance several grant-related items, including a county application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a fire prevention and safety grant and a budget amendment to establish a grant-funded emergency management planning position.
Director Erickson told the committee the FEMA application totals $386,444; the county would be responsible for $19,322, which Erickson described as the local share. "This is for a, fire prevention trailer that would be used throughout the county, as well as some, personal protective equipment for our fire investigation unit, and then, gear an an additional gear washer, for decontamination of gear for for the year," Erickson said.
The committee adopted the resolution authorizing submission of the FEMA application. Erickson said the countygrants division worked collaboratively on the application.
The committee also approved a resolution authorizing execution of an annual grant from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services for an assault-crisis and prevention program; Director Naccarato said DCJS had been delayed in processing the paperwork and the county received the information about a month earlier than the meeting. The resolution was moved and carried.
Separately, the committee approved an amendment to the 2025 Ulster County budget to establish an emergency management planning specialist position in the Department of Emergency Communications, Emergency Management. Erickson said the position would be 100% grant-funded; "We received this grant, yearly for the past 2 years with a 3 year period of performance, and our grant would cover this position in its entirety," he said.
Why it matters: the FEMA grant would fund a county fire-prevention trailer and equipment that county officials said will be used in outreach and investigations across Ulster County; the new position is intended to support emergency planning work without drawing on the countygeneral fund.
Ending: All three measures were adopted by the committee without recorded roll-call dissent in the meeting transcript; committee members moved the resolutions and votes were announced as carried.
