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Friday, March 15, 2024(web versionnewsletter version

  • Four Long Years: We Remember in Our Hearts
  • Welcome to Month Two: Prepare in A Year Action Plans
    1. Be Aware of Vashon-Specific Risks
    2. Make Your Action Plans
  • Constantly Training: EOC Team & CERT Classes
  • Cuatro Largos Años: Que Recordamos en Nuestros Corazones
  • Bienvenidos al Segundo Mes: El Plan de Acción de Prepárese en un Año
    1. Tenga Consciencia de los Riesgos Particulares en Vashon
    2. Hagan sus Planes de Acción
  • Entrenamiento Constante: Equipos del EOC y Clases de CERT

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Trump Budget Blueprint Cuts $667M of Emergency and Disaster Funding

Mar 16

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3/16/2017 7:50 AM  RssIcon

Although this is still evolving, the initial blueprint of the federal budget has the following language:

DHS starts on page 23 of the 62 page document.  FEMA preparedness grant language is on page 24.

Eliminates or reduces State and local grant funding by $667 million for programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that are either unauthorized by the Congress, such as FEMA’s Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program, or that must provide more measurable results and ensure the Federal Government is not supplanting other stakeholders’ responsibilities, such as the Homeland Security Grant Program. For that reason, the Budget also proposes establishing a 25 percent non-Federal cost match for FEMA preparedness grant awards that currently require no cost match. This is the same cost-sharing approach as FEMA’s disaster recovery grants. The activities and acquisitions funded through these grant programs are primarily State and local functions. •

Link to the Trump budget blueprint released at 7 am today

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf

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