Burleson County to pursue GLO mitigation grant, issue RFP and skip TDEM DR‑4781 application

Burleson County Commissioners on Feb. 24 voted to apply for federal hazard‑mitigation funding through the Texas General Land Office’s CDBG‑MIT Local Hazard Mitigation Plans Program and to issue a Request for Proposals to update the county’s Hazard Mitigation Plan. Commissioner Dwayne Faust moved to apply to the GLO program, and Commissioner Vincent Svec seconded; the court approved the motion unanimously.

The court also approved issuing an RFP to solicit a consultant to prepare the hazard‑mitigation plan update. Commissioner David Hildebrand moved the RFP authorization, with Commissioner Svec seconding; that motion likewise passed on a unanimous vote.

At the same time, the commissioners voted to strike out and not pursue an application tied to Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) DR‑4781 (April 2024 severe storms). Commissioner David Hildebrand made the motion to postpone/not apply, and Commissioner Dwayne Faust seconded; the court approved the action unanimously.

County officials did not provide a dollar amount for the proposed plan update in the meeting record. The court’s actions create three parallel steps: seek GLO CDBG‑MIT funding, open procurement via an RFP to find a plan contractor, and forgo the TDEM DR‑4781 application pathway for this update. The decisions set the procedural path for the next phase: preparing the RFP responses and pursuing the GLO application.

Next steps are administrative: the county will publish the RFP and accept proposals, then award a contract consistent with procurement rules and any grant requirements if the GLO application is successful. The meeting record does not specify a timeline for the RFP or the projected cost of the update.