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Board accepts $19.84 million FEMA grant for downtown justice campus flood protection, approves fast‑tracked delivery plan
Summary
The board voted 5‑0 to accept a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award and authorized expedited contracting and construction to protect the downtown justice campus from tidal and stormwater flooding. Staff warned the FEMA performance window is compressed to about 20 months, prompting a change to multiple prime contracts and an exception to the board
The Solano County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award of $19,844,231 on June 24 to augment a larger capital project that will protect the county’s downtown justice campus from repeated tidal and stormwater flooding.
General Services Director Megan Grevey and Capital Projects manager Mark Hummel described the project as a $33 million asset‑protection program to defend the Hall of Justice, the county jail, emergency services, the cogeneration plant and related campus facilities. Design is complete; the county has already spent a portion of the total design and planning budget. FEMA’s award will cover a large portion of remaining costs, but FEMA’s grant requires work to be…
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