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The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and the Virginia Wireless E-911 Services Board are pleased to announce the availability of the FY2007 SHSP Grant opportunity for Citizen’s Alerting Systems.
Localities are encouraged to compete for $1 million dollars in 2007 Homeland Security Grant funding that is currently available to support the establishment of these alerting systems as a communications resource statewide. The grant application and guidelines are provided below to assist you with your submission.
All submissions must be submitted through the locality CAO’s office and only one submission per local government will be accepted. Multiple submissions from any locality may result in all submissions from that locality being deemed ineligible. Grant proposals must be received by close of business on June 20, 2008 for consideration. The Virginia Wireless E-911 Services Board’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Grant Committee will evaluate applications and finalize their recommendations for awarding funds by the end of July.
Additional technical questions may be directed to the VDEM Grants Management Office at 804-897-6500.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is pleased to announce that the Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) grant committee along with VDEM has finished their review of the Citizen's Alerting System grant applications. To greatly improve the overall preparedness of the Commonwealth during major events $1.6 million dollars will be awarded to the following localities from the 2007 and 2008 State Homeland Security Program grants:
The localities listed above will receive their grant allocation letters within the next two weeks. If you have any questions, please contact your VDEM grant specialist: