SO THIS IS WHERE DV FIRE GRANT MONEY IS GOING?
$42,500 for 6.7 acres of DEFENSIBLE SPACE?
This Tuesday night at 5:00 PM the Alpine Fire Board will be asked once again to endorse a Back Country Land Trust (BCLT) project for suburban Alpine. These are the same Fire Grant Funds many DV residents were were denied this year. And 43% of the grant is just for management, administration, and monitoring. This is just plain wrong.
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Sunrise Powerlink Fire Mitigation 2017
Community Protection Grant Application
FROM BACKCOUNTRY LAND TRUST TO SPFMG*
(Sunrise Powerlink Fire Mitigation Group)
(Sunrise Powerlink Fire Mitigation Group)
Asking the endorsement of the Alpine Fire Department Board of Directors.
OUR SUMMARY OF THE REQUEST: $42,500 for 8 weeks of work to clear two species of invasive plants from 6.7 acres around Alpine Creek. $18,500 for Overhead/Admin [43%]. This is on top of the already high (17%) admin costs for Grant Administration. DV'ers who receive grants are allowed to charge only $15/hour for this kind of work. Not so these Alpine people.
- 960 hours of field crew labor @ $25/hour = $24,000
- 200 hours of Administration/Monitoring @ $50/hour = $10,000
- Archeologist @ $2,500
- Administration, insurance, office supplies @ $2,400
- Chipping by Fire Safe Council @ $3,600 [Doesn't this seem like double-dipping? The Alpine Fire Safe Council also applies for Fire Grants funds. Why do they charge a fellow community group so much? That's not what we do in Deerhorn. That's a city thing.
Full application is here on pages 41-54:
Here's the actual budget request.
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"Underground transmission lines [all of Alpine] do NOT have the capacity to result in long-term operational wildfire ignitions..." — SDG&E SPL Final Mitigation Report 2011
"All of Alpine is now eligible to take advantage of the grant. I fought to...have them be part of the total area of eligibility.” —Alpine Fire Marshal, voting member of SPFMG 2016
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