Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Grants Emergency Management topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Board approves emergency-management and youth grants, funds joint operations center planning
Summary
Supervisors combined and approved three FEMA/state grants to support a new joint emergency operations center, hazard-mitigation planning and EMPG operations funding, and accepted a 3‑year youth grant with Year 1 funding of $199,778 for mental-health and substance-abuse supports in alternative high schools.
The Coconino County Board of Supervisors approved a set of federal and state grants during its Dec. 10 consent agenda, voting to accept three emergency-management awards and a separate education-focused grant.
Wes (identified in the meeting as the county’s emergency management director) described three awards: a congressional FEMA-contributed award of $849,000 (about $637,000 federal with the balance from county general funds) to support a new emergency operations/joint operations center; a $75,000 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) award with a $25,000 county match to update the county’s multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan; and an Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) of roughly $381,000 federal (with a 50% county match) that funds a large portion of daily emergency-management operations.
"That entire award has been carved and allocated toward the new emergency operations center, joint operations center with flood control district," Wes told the board, noting coordination challenges in tracking FEMA reporting and environmental/historic-preservation requirements for construction projects.
Supervisors moved to combine items 10, 11 and 12 into a single consent motion and passed it by voice vote. Later, Cheryl Mango Padgett described a three‑year award from the governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family totaling nearly $600,000, with a Year 1 budget adjustment of $199,778 for substance-use primary prevention and mental-health supports at alternative high schools. The board voted to accept the award and approve the FY2025 budget adjustment for Year 1 funding (motion by Vice Chair Horstman, second by Supervisor Fowler, voice vote).
Board members praised emergency-management staff and noted the importance of sustaining programs and complying with strict federal reporting requirements. The emergency management director—who the board and staff honored in remarks for his leadership—said the department is in good standing on grant compliance and is coordinating procurement and design work on the new facility.
No separate public testimony was recorded against these grant items during the consent discussion; the approvals were processed under the consolidated consent motion.
