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4/24/2015 Request Grant Amendment Request Grant Amendment Amendment N umber: EMW-2011-FF-00724-003 Federal share awarded: Federal share requested: Amount paid to date: Amount of pending payments: Balance of federal funds: Reviewed on/By Grantee Comments History Grantee Comments 1,157, 491.00 557,400.00 557,400.00 0.00 600, 091.00 05-30-2014 by SHARON CARGO View Grantee Comments History Dear Mike Schweigert: This letter is written in response to your amendment request regarding your scope of work. Your request was reviewed by the Program and Grants Office and is hereby approved.You may make the changes described in the amendment. All other terms and conditions of the grant remain unchanged. If you have questions about this amendment, please contact Tina Godfrey, SAFER Program Specialist, at Tina.Godfrey@fema.dhs.gov. Please save copies of all bids, quotes, purchase receipts, vouchers, etc., along with a copy of this letter in your grant file. If you have other grant -related questions or concems, you may contact me by e-mail at Sharon.Cargo@fema.dhs.gov, or by telephone at (202) 786-9434. You also may contact the AFG Helpdesk toll-free at 1-866-274-0960 or by e-mail at firegrants@fema.dhs.gov. Sincerely, Sharon Cargo Grants Management Specialist Department of Homeland Security/FEMA Grant Amendment Request You may either type your request in the space provided below; or create the text in your word processing system and then copy it into the space provided below. This is a summary of the detailed amendment sent to Tina Godfrey. 1. GRANT ADMINISTRATOR PAY The Grant Administrator and Recruitment Coordinator positions have been combined under one person. The has increased the demands and skillset required to complete all necessary duties. We propose increasing the salary of the current Recruitment Coordinator to the national average and changing the operating title to Grant Administrator. We forecast the increase in salary and benefits to be $51348 over the remaining life of the grant, and propose we use the forecasted surplus of $78396 in Administration Costs to cover this Amendment. 2. MARKETING CAMPAIGN AND WEBSITE We have negotiated a one year contract with our marketing and website vendor to provide a mass marketing campgaign and website update. The marketing campaign will include content creation, physical signs & banners, social media, branding, video production, website changes including automated database responses for referrals, paraphemalia design, and assistance rolling out daily/weekly updates on all media channels. Total cost is $128013 for a full year of marketing and website updates. We forcast a surplus of funds is $203245 in other line items, of which $128013 would be used for this amendment. 3. EMS TRAINING The current grant amendment covering EMS training has been successful, but we have found that it does not meet the needs of 75% of the fire departments in our county. The current amendment only covers EMTB training, but most departments only train to the First Responder/EMR level of certification. They are not able to use the grant funding due to this issue. The Minnesota EMSRB goveming board has also recently updated the educational standards which includes 30% more training hours required. We forcast surplus in other line items to fund the EMS Training budget for a total of $155100. This will allow us to reimburse up to $950 for each student. 4. IMMUNIZATIONS