Kentucky Revised Statutes Title V. Military Affairs § 39C.060.Request for financial aid; review and evaluation criteria

(1) Local emergency management agencies requesting financial aid from the fund created pursuant to KRS 39C.010 and 39C.020, shall submit, not later than July 15 of each year, a local “Annual Program Paper” application to the area manager of the division.

(2) The area manager shall review the application and accompanying documents and forward them to the director of the division along with the area manager's assessments and recommendations, not later than August 15 of each year.

(3) The director shall submit the request for financial aid to the advisory committee for its review and recommendations. The advisory committee shall review the application, accompanying documents, and the assessment and recommendation of the area manager and make a recommendation to the director with regard to the application and the request for funding.

(4) Requests for funding shall be evaluated by the following criteria:

(5) If available funds do not meet the total funds requested by all local emergency management agencies, then funding allocations may be reduced after a reevaluation of the criteria set forth in subsection (4) of this section.

(6) The director of the Division of Emergency Management shall then review and evaluate each application, together with the recommendations thereon, and not later than September 15 of each year, designate and approve funds for eligible local emergency management agencies and notify the local director.