Glynn County commissioners voted to award a $172,100 contract to Early Alert Inc. to create and update a suite of emergency management plans, using FEMA disaster assistance funding. The motion to award RFP 26-013 passed after the county’s emergency management presenter described a multi-year planning and exercise schedule.

County emergency management staff told commissioners the project follows a gap analysis that identified required updates and new plans to meet FEMA and GEMA requirements. The list includes a search-and-rescue coordination plan, a continuity-of-operations plan, a family-assistance center plan, an updated emergency operations plan with a hazardous materials annex, volunteer and donations management, points-of-distribution planning, animals-in-disaster protocols, mass-fatality planning, short-term recovery damage assessment, and emergency fuel/petroleum planning. The presenter said planning is an eligible use of FEMA direct administrative/management (DAC) funds and that the work will take about two years, including tabletop exercises for each plan.

Commissioner (mover) made the motion to award the contract to Early Alert Inc. (RFP 26-013) in the amount of $172,100; the motion received a second and was approved by the commission. The county chair put the question and called for those in favor. Meeting remarks emphasized that the contract is intended to move local emergency procedures from siloed departmental standard operating procedures to countywide, coordinated plans that will guide future exercises and trainings.

The contract is explicitly funded with FEMA disaster assistance administrative funds; the presenter and staff noted the county must follow FEMA and GEMA eligibility and procurement requirements as the plans are developed. The county also plans to run tabletop exercises tied to the new plans over the next two years to operationalize the documents. No timeline for final deliverables beyond the two-year planning-and-exercise horizon was provided at the meeting.

The commission approved the award and moved on to other business.