MEMORANDUM
To: Ronald Drathman, Assembly President
Members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly
Thru: Mike Navarre, Borough Mayor
From: John Alcantra, Emergency Management Coordinator
Subject: Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities
Date: April 8, 1999
The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify the Borough's participation in Project
Impact. Project Impact is a pre-disaster mitigation grant program that will provide
$300,000 in federal funds for specific mitigation projects. Pleas see the attached
Peninsula Clarion articles dated March 24 and April 7.
The KPB was selected from a field of over twenty-five local governments throughout Alaska
invited to participate in Project Impact. On December 10, 1998, the Kenai Peninsula
Borough was announced as the selected Alaskan community for FFY 1999. The Borough joins
the Municipality of Anchorage as the only two selected communities in Alaska to date. The
grant funds will expire at the end of FFY 2000, or September 30, 2000.
The required 25 percent local match ($100,000) is described by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) as a "flexible" match. Office of Emergency Management
and Planning Department time spent on the proposal qualifies as matching funds.
Furthermore, any private industry donations to Project Impact (similar to Unocal's
donation for the Community Alert Network) would also qualify as matching funds under the
flexible match criteria.
I am requesting that this Ordinance be included on the April 20, 1999 assembly agenda and
be granted a shortened hearing so the full Assembly may vote on this ordinance on May 4,
1999. This will allow the Borough to begin implementing mitigation measures and work
toward completing the projects simultaneous with the conclusion of FFY 2000.
If you have any questions regarding Project Impact or this ordinance, please call me at
262-4441, extension 319.