The city of Longmont is getting a $46,000 grant from the state to help boost the city’s emergency management exercises and training.
The Emergency Management Performance Grant is from the Colorado Department of Public Safety. The grant is part of a “cost-share program that assists state and local governments in sustaining and enhancing the effectiveness of their emergency management programs,” according to a city staff report.
City council earlier this week approved an intergovernmental agreement with CDPS to release the grant to Longmont.
The federal government uses a formula to calculate the total grant amount given to states. The states then allocate that money to local jurisdictions that have dedicated emergency management staff, the city report states.
Grants are to be used to offset the cost of emergency management programs. Longmont receives the grant on a yearly basis, the city report states. The first grant given to the city was in 2007 for $11,000.
The highest amount the city received was $65,900 in 2013, the city report said.
Project expenses allowed under the grant include costs for salaries and benefits for the city’s emergency manager and emergency management staff, travel, emergency management office operating costs and the costs associated with emergency management exercises, training and planning activities, according to the city’s work plan for the grant.
No more than 5% of the grant may be used for management and administration costs, the work plan states.
