Deadline: 15-Feb-22
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is inviting applications for the 2022 Virginia Emergency Shelter Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund.
Moneys in the 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.
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. This will be verified by Local Capabilities Assessment Report (LCAR) submissions.
- Project identifies alternative solutions
Funding Information
- For FY 22, there is $2,500,000 appropriated by the General Assembly to this fund.
- Limit of $450,000 (state share) for any single grant award.
- The period of performance (POP) is 18 months.
Eligible Projects
- Purchase and installation of generator for a local shelter
- Purchase and installation of generator transfer switches or “quick connects” for a local shelter
- Purchase and installation of a solar power generation solution for a shelter
- Wind hardening or “retrofit” of a local shelter
Eligibiltiy Criteria
- Local governments must have a current and locally-adopted emergency operations plan, in compliance with the Code of Virginia by the application deadline.
- Local governments, as defined as political subdivisions in the Emergency Services and Disaster Laws “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.”
For more information, visit Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
For more information, visit https://www.vaemergency.gov/grant_opportunities/fy-22-virginia-emergency-shelter-upgrade-assistance-grant-fund/