VDEM Seeks Additional Applications for FY23 Emergency Shelter Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund
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Published: February 20, 2024
RICHMOND –The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) is seeking additional applications for the FY23 Emergency Shelter Upgrade Assistance Grant fund (Shelter Upgrade Fund). This funding source was approved as a result of Senate Bill 350, introduced by Senator Lucas, which went into effect July 1, 2020. The General Assembly approved $2,500,000 for this grant fund in state FY23. The Shelter Upgrade fund shall be used solely for the purposes of providing matching funds to localities to install, maintain, or repair infrastructure related to backup energy generation for emergency shelters, including solar energy generators, and to improve the hazard-specific structural integrity (wind retrofit) of shelter facilities owned by the locality.
Funding Priorities
- Project supports/protects vulnerable and marginalized populations.
- Project is a long-term risk-based solution.
- Localities that submit applications for their primary shelter solutions will have priority.
- Project identifies alternative solutions.
Who Can Apply?
Local governments, as defined as political subdivisions in the Emergency Services and Disaster Laws §44-146.16 “any city or county in the Commonwealth and, for the purposes of this chapter, the Town of Chincoteague, West Point, and any town of more than 5,000 population that chooses to have an emergency management program separate from that of the county in which such town is located.”
Application Submission
All project applications, and supporting documentation, must be submitted through the application portal by May 1, 2024.
Program Guidelines
For more information on the application process and eligibility criteria, please visit www.vaemergency.gov/divisions/finance/grants or contact Lauren Tanner, Hazard Mitigation Grants Administrator, at Lauren.Tanner@vdem.virginia.gov or by phone at 804-659-1030.
VDEM works with local government, state and federal agencies and voluntary organizations to provide resources and expertise through the five mission areas of emergency management; prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery. To learn more about ways VDEM is working to improve disaster preparedness, response and recovery, visit www.vaemergency.gov.
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For more information, please contact us at PIO@vdem.virginia.gov
Agency Contact
Lauren Opett
Director of Communications and Chief Agency Spokesperson