IEMA announces emergency management performance grants
Posted: 01.22.2010 at 3:20 PM
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The following is a press release from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency:

Grants totaling more than $4 million awarded by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) will help 118 city and county emergency management agencies throughout Illinois support local disaster preparedness and response efforts.

“Every disaster begins as a local emergency, and that’s why it’s so important to have a sound local emergency management program,” said IEMA Director Andrew Velasquez III.  “Particularly in difficult fiscal times, these grants provide needed support to ensure local emergency management agencies are prepared to respond to disasters in their communities.”

The Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) are funded through a grant IEMA receives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  The grants, which are awarded annually, can be used for day-to-day operations of local emergency management programs.  Velasquez said his agency increased the total grant funds available for local emergency management agencies by more than $1 million this year.

Federal EMPG funding totaling more than $6.7 million also enables IEMA to provide dozens of training courses, emergency response exercise support and emergency planning assistance to emergency management agencies statewide.

County and municipal emergency management agencies receiving the grants include:

Adams County

30,502.52

Alexander County

11,150.50

Aurora

46,372.13

Bloomington

29,765.68

Bond County

2,817.23

Boone County

24,875.64

Brown County

5,444.92

Bureau County

21,348.09

Calhoun County

6,327.74

Carbondale

21,436.98

Carroll County

18,577.80

Cass County

10,982.56

Centralia

3,787.35

Champaign

30,434.99

Champaign County

39,728.01

Chicago

631,134.93

Christian County

10,898.44

Clark County

16,896.08

Clay County

9,055.00

Clinton County

12,284.00

Coles County

17,170.00

Cook County

490,180.58

Crawford County

6,284.00

Cumberland County

5,356.11

De Kalb County

34,897.67

De Witt County

19,568.01

Des Plaines

28,095.55

Douglas County

20,231.58

Du Page County

180,477.37

Du Quoin

17,369.61

Edgar County

20,185.29

Effingham County

23,277.94

Elmhurst

15,823.50

Evanston

31,768.91

Fairview Heights

4,071.41

Fayette County

17,191.75

Flora

7,967.50

Ford County

5,512.00

Franklin County

24,290.04

Fulton County

18,750.00

Gallatin County

17,368.97

Granite City

14,959.06

Greene County

4,101.40

Grundy County

23,972.70

Hamilton County

8,421.52

Hancock County

9,982.50

Hardin County

9,536.00

Henderson County

6,169.64

Henry County

5,972.50

Iroquois County

17,445.00

Jackson County

23,228.23

Jasper County

8,041.85

Jefferson County 

15,645.84

Jersey County

9,595.50

Jo Daviess County

20,734.34

Johnson County

5,121.89

Joliet

30,932.37

Kane County

80,523.40

Kankakee County

38,054.88

Kendall County

26,845.20

Knox County

20,554.66

La Salle County

39,685.32

Lake County

152,917.52

Lawrence County

19,282.12

Lee County

23,659.83

Livingston County

11,646.61

Logan County

22,623.51

Macon County

40,364.39

Macoupin County

24,284.44

Madison County

64,354.32

Marion County

10,923.00

Marshall County

11,739.19

Mason County

13,858.72

Massac County

19,220.31

Mc Donough County

13,547.15

Mc Henry County

71,241.82

Mc Lean County

34,187.38

Menard County

9,930.60

Mercer County

19,601.80

Monroe County

21,866.48

Montgomery County

22,510.72

Morgan County

23,777.49

Moultrie County

19,034.65

Mt. Vernon

19,455.67

Naperville

43,264.19

Ogle County

26,839.56

Palatine

29,908.22

Peoria

39,988.42

Peoria County

30,974.08

Piatt County

19,476.90

Pike County

17,655.50

Pope County

11,371.50

Pulaski County

9,543.68

Putnam County

11,343.22

Randolph County

23,199.12

Richland County

7,226.50

Rock Island County

47,731.11

Rockford

41,840.75

Salem

10,454.82

Saline County

21,678.29

Sangamon County

56,134.58

Schuyler County

10,582.61

Scott County

4,520.63

St. Clair County

67,197.60

Stark County 

5,415.68

Stephenson County

26,403.50

Tazewell County

43,291.15

Tinley Park

27,544.76

Union County

11,094.00

Vermilion County

33,613.66

Wabash County

12,405.50

Washington County

18,980.91

Wayne County

11,753.00

White County

10,752.40

Whiteside County

28,882.71

Will County

90,764.17

Williamson County

29,019.73

Winnebago County

43,965.25

Totals

$4,004,027.60