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Author    Post   untanglingwebs El Supremo S o Michign received $0 in 2009 for this grant. So was Delrico Loyd pulling a fast one? Flint Fire dept should have been applying for grants! Your Funding Search Stops Here. Look No Further. Apply Today www.USAFundingApplications.org Welcome to Assistance to Firefighters Grants Click here for AFG grant awards Click here for SAFER grant awards Click here for FP&S grant awards. Lamar County Volunteer Fire Department Thanks to an AFG ... http://www.firegrantsupport.com/ - 22k - Cached - Similar pages Welcome to Assistance to Firefighters Grants The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants (SAFER) was created to provide funding directly to fire departments and volunteer ... http://www.firegrantsupport.com/safer/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages Fire Safe Council http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages USFA Grants and Funding : Assistance To Firefighters Grant Program ... The purpose of the SAFER grants is to award grants directly to volunteer, combination, and career fire departments to help the departments increase their ... http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/grants/afgp/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages Mar 31, 2010 ... The SAFER grants program awards grants to assist local fire departments throughout the nation with staffing and deployment capabilities so ... SAFER Grant Program Guidelines Posted Program guidance for the new SAFER grants to help fire departments with staffing shortages is posted online. The four-week application period begins May 31. http://firechief.com/ar/safer-grant-guidance052005/ - 62k - Cached - Similar pages Sponsored LinksFire Safes, Lower Prices Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:59 pm  untanglingwebs El Supremo DHS Announces 2009 SAFER Application Extended to January 15 Add Feedback Share | During the recent application period, Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant applicants have requested that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) waive their prohibition of using SAFER funds to replace money applicants have lost due to local budget cuts. In a news release from the U.S. Fire Administration, DHS announced today they will consider petitions for waivers from 2009 grantees on a case by case basis and under certain conditions: 1. 2009 SAFER grantees that lose firefighters during the period of performance and find that they are unable to back-fill vacated firefighting positions due to documentable economic hardship may petition for a waiver. In order to qualify for this waiver, the economic hardship must affect the entire public safety sector in their jurisdiction, not merely the fire department. 2. The causes of the vacancies could include retirement, voluntary or involuntary separation, or calls to active duty in the reserves or National Guard. 3. In the absence of a granted waiver, the policies stated in the present guidance would still apply, i.e., vacancies caused by one of the circumstances cited in #2 above do not have to be replaced and will not cause a cancellation of the grant if not replaced. However, the amount of the allowable reimbursement of SAFER positions would be reduced by the number of vacated positions, not replaced. (Example – A grantee has 20 firefighters (FF's) and receives a SAFER grant for five more FF's. One of the 20 FF's retires and is not replaced. The grantee would then be eligible to receive reimbursement only for four FF's instead of the original five.) 4. The policy regarding the prohibition against layoffs has not changed. No waivers will be granted for layoffs and SAFER grantees are prohibited against laying-off any firefighters during the SAFER grant's period of performance. 5. We remind applicants that while the previous requirement that newly created positions be maintained for an additional one year past the period of performance, there is no requirement to maintain the positions past the period of performance for awards made to rehire vacated or laid off firefighters. So all potential applicants have time to consider the revised policy's, DHS will be extending the 2009 SAFER application period to January 15, 2010 5:00 p.m. EST. Applicants that have already submitted an application and would like to amend it, can do so by calling the Help Desk at 1-866-274-0960. Author:Barbara Brooks - FDNNTV.com Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:58 pm    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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