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Nevada emergency management announces staff reorganizations as FEMA grant rules shift
Summary
The Division of Emergency Management/Homeland Security outlined staff reassignments, a planned move to an Office of Emergency Management and anticipated changes to FEMA grant thresholds and cost shares at the June 3 Nevada Tribal Emergency Coordinating Council meeting.
Brett Compson, chief of the Division of Emergency Management/Homeland Security, told the Nevada Tribal Emergency Coordinating Council on June 3 that the division has reassigned several staff roles and is preparing for federal changes to disaster grant requirements.
Compson said mitigation has been moved from the preparedness portfolio into the resilience portfolio and named new assignments: Heather Lafferty is serving as the state hazard mitigation officer and chief resilience officer; Bill Elliott is special projects manager; Lindy Downey is preparedness portfolio manager; Eric Wilson is state exercise officer; Blaney Pero is leading the mitigation and recovery grants team; Janae Johnson is leading nonprofit security grants; Janelle Woodward moved to financial…
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