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Solano County accepts $19.84 million FEMA hazard-mitigation grant for Fairfield justice campus; board approves fast‑track delivery
Summary
The Solano County Board of Supervisors approved acceptance of a $19,844,231 FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award to fund major flood‑protection work at the Fairfield justice campus, but the shortened federal performance window forced staff to accelerate procurement and construction plans.
The Solano County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to accept a $19,844,231 Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to augment a planned asset‑protection project for the Fairfield justice campus.
The grant, announced at the board’s meeting, covers part of a roughly $33 million project to protect the Hall of Justice, county jail, courts and adjoining emergency services buildings from rising stormwater and Suisun Bay inundation. Director of General Services Megan M. Grevy told the board the project is at 100% design and ready to begin construction, but FEMA’s award carries a compressed 20‑month period of performance that forced a change in delivery approach.
“That’s the good news. The bad news is that the 36‑month project length that we needed has been reduced to 20 months,” Grevy said, explaining why staff recommended an expedited procurement plan and a narrow exception to the county’s project labor agreement policy.
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