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Region 51 emergency management reports grants, trainings and winter response activity to Lincoln County commissioners
Summary
Brandon Myers, director of Region 51 Emergency Management, told the Lincoln County board on Jan. 21 that multiple grant reimbursements were submitted, hazard mitigation plans are current, staff provided training and public outreach, and crews monitored several minor fires and winter weather events during the quarter.
Brandon Myers, director of Region 51 Emergency Management, briefed the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners Jan. 21 on quarterly activity, including grant reimbursements, planning updates, training and weather-response tasks.
Myers reported the 2024 AMPG grama second-quarter submission totaled $12,954.60 and noted a planned distribution to partner counties. He said the office submitted several HMGG/SHSP grant reimbursements this quarter, listing totals including $39,746.38 and $46,124.77 for specified grant periods and additional 2024 reimbursements of $29,659.95. Quarterly invoices to partner counties—Dundee and Hitchcock—were also sent to recover approved budget shares.
Myers said Lincoln County’s hazard mitigation plan is up to date and that the office represents Lincoln County in the Loess Canyon and Southwest Community Wildfire Protection Plans. He told the board the state (NEMA) has stopped funding the BOLD planning portal that previously hosted LEOP (Local Emergency Operations Plans); Myers said the office has downloaded and maintains LEOPs locally and continues to update contacts.
Myers described recent local activity: staff taught CPR classes to police and hospital staff, assisted with boil-water notifications, monitored several minor fires and winter weather events, and participated in planning and training exercises including pipeline and fertilizer-plant briefings and an IPPW workshop. Staff attended multiple conferences and conducted outreach such as county-government day. He said recovery scoping and damage inventories were underway for DR-4808 and DR-4822 severe-weather incidents and that the office is assisting partners with disaster paperwork.
Commissioners thanked Myers for the work and noted positive public outcomes from training when constituents reported that CPR instruction helped in a recent emergency.
Myers listed upcoming exercises, psychological first-aid train-the-trainer sessions, CERT trainings and spring storm spotter classes.
The board did not take formal action on the report; Myers’ presentation was entered for the record and will inform ongoing emergency-management planning and grant administration.
