{"id":7617,"date":"2022-03-07T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:20:05","slug":"governor-ivey-awards-10-million-for-volunteer-fire-department-covid-recovery-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=7617","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ivey Awards $10 Million for Volunteer Fire Department COVID Recovery Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY<strong> \u2013 <\/strong>Governor Kay Ivey on Monday awarded $10 million of the State Fiscal Recovery Fund from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to establish COVID recovery grants for volunteer fire departments.<!--more--> This program is an initiative of Governor Ivey and the Alabama Legislature to provide support to Alabama\u2019s volunteer fire departments impacted by the covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlabama\u2019s first responders, including our community\u2019s volunteer fire departments, are vital in keeping our state safe. While states across the country and the entire globe dealt with the curveballs the pandemic threw, our volunteer fire departments kept going,\u201d said Governor Ivey. \u201cI am proud to have worked with the Alabama Legislature to direct these funds to good use as our local volunteer fire departments recover. I am pleased to support them and encourage them to take advantage of this grant program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state of Alabama will offer grants in an amount up to $10,320 for providers that meet eligibility requirements. The application period for the Alabama Volunteer Fire Department COVID Recovery Grant program will be open from noon, March 7 through noon, March 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama received $2.1 million in ARPA funds, and the Alabama Legislature appropriated $136,796,346 from Alabama\u2019s State Fiscal Recovery Revenue Replacement Fund for this program.<\/p>\n<p>General information and application materials is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/frf.alabama.gov\/\">https:\/\/frf.alabama.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For questions, please contact the Coronavirus Recovery Funds Office at (334)353-2749 or <\/em><a href=\"mailto:submissions@finance.alabama.gov\"><em>submissions@finance.alabama.gov<\/em><\/a><em>. Please include \u201cVolunteer Fire Department Grant Program\u201d in the subject line of the email. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY \u2013 Governor Kay Ivey on Monday awarded $10 million of the State Fiscal Recovery Fund from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to establish COVID recovery grants for volunteer fire departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}