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Commissioners back staff to advance several post-fire and mitigation grant applications
Summary
Baker County emergency management staff outlined fire-management assistance pre-applications and hazard-mitigation projects for Huntington and countywide generator/trailer assets; commissioners gave direction to proceed and discussed matching obligations.
Emergency management staff briefed the Board of Commissioners on a package of Fire Management Assistance (FMA) and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) pre-applications and related projects developed after county fire incidents.
Staff said they submitted several pre-applications so the county would be ‘‘first in line’’ for available FMA funds; four projects advanced from the pre-application round. Those four included a Huntington fuels-reduction project, a generator for the Huntington municipal well, a Baker County public-works generator project (originally proposed for the road…
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