GRANT APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

GRANT APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

Since it's inception, the ALT-FSIC has been directly awarded grants totaling $2,800,722. These Grant projects have ranged from clearing and maintaining our 8-mile Perimeter Shaded Fuel Break (PSFB), Clearing of rights-of-way (Evacuation routes), Weed Abatement, Fuel Materials Reduction, free Neighbor-to-Neighbor curbside and cul-de-sac Chipping Service, and Training, Coordination and Management of our ALT Fire Risk Educators who perform our annual residential property inspections in compliance with Public Resources Code 4291.

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A curbside chipping service to ALT residents has been provided since 2007 via governmental grants or ALT funds. The service is currently completed with help of our ALT Maintenance Crew. ALT resident volunteers have given valuable time in the past. Over the years the FSIC has also assisted the ALT General Manager and Board of Directors to seek additional Grant funds through other sources.

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• On April 15, 2010 three different Grants of this kind were completed. Two Prop 40 Community Assistance Grants (CAG) totaling $125,000 were awarded directly to ALT - for extreme hazard fuel reduction work along our 8 mile PSFB. $50,000 of which was allotted for work on common lots adjacent to or on the PSFB; while $75,000 was for work on private lots in or adjacent to the PSFB.​

• In 2013, a $96,000 Prop 40 CAG grant was received and completed to further reduce fuels on parcels along or near to the perimeter shaded fuel break. The El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation District (RCD) managed all three grants.​

• A U.S. Forest service grant for $130,250 to remove 100 dead or dying trees and extending the Parameter Shaded Fuel Break by some 65 acres was completed September 31, 2018. The shaded fuel break work was sub administered by Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation District and the dead tree removal portion was administered by ALT FSIC.

• A Cal Fire grant to extend by 60 acres, and complete, the 8-mile-long Shaded Fuel Break for $110,000 was completed March 15th, 2019. Grant was sub administered by Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation District.

• A Cal Fire grant of $200,000 to remove 500 dead or dying trees from ALT was completed March 15th, 2019. Some 200 individuals removed 870 dead or dying trees. This grant was administered entirely by ALT FSIC.​

• In 2021, the FSIC obtained two grants from PG&E.  The first grant (ALTFSIC 2021-01), for $95,000, provided for the construction of a new SFB on Cool Cave Quarry land, along the entire perimeter of ALT that borders the Quarry.  This was the only remaining section of ALT's northern boundary without a SFB.  The second grant (ALTFSIC 2021-02), for $38,384.50 provided for Roadside Fuel Reduction through the use of chemical treatments.  Both of these  grants commenced in late June, 2021, and  at the Grantor's requirement, were completed by November 30,2021.  These two grants paid 100% of the costs of administering and performing the work.​

• In 2021, the FSIC assisted the ALT POA in obtaining a $38,721 grant from the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) for control of invasive species through chemical treatment.  The award was made in September, and the grant begins in 2022 and runs through 2025.​

• The year 2024 was a successful year for the FSIC. We received $1,552,400 in Grants for wildfire resiliency measures, more than in our previous 20 years of existence combined.  In 2023, the FSIC applied for and were awarded a Grant for $99,975 from CAL FIRE for the purchase of a new chipper.  In 2024, the FSIC applied for and were awarded a CAL FIRE Grant (5TR23101) for $1,349,400 for the development, through maintenance and new work, of a 350.0-acre Shaded Fuel Break (SFB) along ALT’s northern boundary with the Auburn State Recreation Area (ASRA). In 2024, the FSIC applied for and was awarded a Grant from PG&E. The Grant (ALTFSIC 2024-1), for $97,500, provided for the construction/maintenance of a 33.12-acre SFB on POA property along Liberty Hill Court and through Sweetwater Trail and Secret Diggins Court to Cascade Trail.​

We continue to pursue local, state, and federal grant opportunities to reduce risks in our Wildland-Urban Interface zone and improve the American River Canyon watershed and forest habitat.