For Immediate Release
Board of Supervisors authorizes acceptance of $6 million BRIC grant award and transfer of matching funds
SANTA ROSA, CA | April 18, 2023
The Board of Supervisors today accepted the award of a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant in the amount of $5,727,692 toward the first phase of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities or BRIC grant.
Permit Sonoma had applied for a total of $48.8 million in BRIC grant funding in December 2020 to go toward a series of vegetation management, defensible space and structural hardening work in three predefined areas of the county. President Joe Biden announced in June 2021 that Sonoma County would be awarded the grant. In November 2022, FEMA and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services announced that the first phase of the grant was funded.
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