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Freestone County OKs procurement readiness for disaster-recovery grants with GrantWorks
Summary
The commissioners authorized issuing requests for proposals and qualifications to pre-position administrative and engineering services so the county can quickly apply for FEMA, TDEM and other disaster-recovery funding; GrantWorks will serve on a contingency, paid as a percentage of awards over a five-year term.
Freestone County commissioners voted to authorize procurement to pre-position administrative and engineering services to pursue federal and state disaster-recovery grants.
A representative of GrantWorks told the court the county is currently eligible under a disaster declaration (referenced in the meeting as "d r 55 52") and that pre-authorizing a broad procurement would allow the county to have an administrator and an engineer ready to apply for funds from FEMA, the Texas Division of Emergency…
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