How many applied for the new station construction grant?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on July 27, 2009 at 9:27am

Our department applied and I'm very hopeful for all of us. Since 1991 I can remember us discussing the idea of a new station, so this is a LONG time coming. We already have the land purchased in our township name, we just need the building.

The current station isn't the worst in the world, but we're just crammed in like sardines and could use more space. Honestly I think we have two very pressing matters that should be considered for our department

1.) The building isn't tall enough, so whenever we purchase a new truck, we have to worry about height restrictions
2.) We're located at the point of two one-way streets, with each of those restricted in two different directions. So we're either a.) going up the wrong way or b.) driving down a narrow street into a busy intersection where it's hard to see

Best of luck to you and I'll keep my fingers crossed for you as well as long as you do the same! ;o )

Chris
F.D. Web Design

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Permalink Reply by Greg Hickman on July 30, 2009 at 3:35pm

Received this the other day----and passing it along. Good luck to those that applied.

Subject: Info on Fire Station Construction Requests

We have learned that the unofficial number of grants submitted for fire station construction is 6013, with a total requested value of $ 9.76 billion dollars. Given that there is $210 million, there is a significant gap between money available and funds requested.

This is FYI only, and numbers are not official from the AFG office.

Mark

Mark W. Light, CAE
Executive Director IAFC

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Permalink Reply by tony on August 3, 2009 at 1:15pm

sorry to say but our dept. was not able to put in for the station grant.After going through to outline for the application and talking to our grant writer we were not far enough along in our construction planning to even try for it (didn't own the property, no permits, no architect or plans ect,ect,ect.)

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stahl on August 4, 2009 at 1:48am

Sorry to hear of it Tony.
We still are hoping that we get something for our efforts.
Thanks,
Tom

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Permalink Reply by Greg Hickman on August 19, 2009 at 5:39pm

Received another e-mail, not for sure where it came from, but this is what was received.

Subject: Update on AFG series grants

Fire Station Construction:

. All efforts are being concentrated on these grants.
. Congress/Obama Administration pushing hard to have funds awarded ASAP.
. 750 went to PR
. 150 top scorers were contacted for additional documents.

2008 AFG, SAFER & FP&S:
. Come after the station grants.
. All of the funds need to be awarded before the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30th

2009 FP&S:
. PG has been approved
. Application period September-October.

2009 SAFER:
. In the process of a re-write to reflect changes by Congress.

2009 AFG:
. Everything else is ahead of the 2009 AFG applications.
. 2500 still need PR
. PR scheduled Sept. 8-12th.
. Do not expect AFG awards until the end of the calender year.

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Permalink Reply by David Nelson on October 26, 2009 at 10:56am

Our department did made it to second round just got bumped.

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