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File #: 0600-25    Version: 2 Name: Request Council authorization to accept an award for the Fire Training Incentive Grant in an amount up to $4,347,043 for FY 2026 from the Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel, Standards, and Education for Training Incentives for Firefighters.
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 6/11/2025 In control: Urban County Council
On agenda: 7/1/2025 Final action: 7/1/2025
Enactment date: 7/1/2025 Enactment #: R-320-2025
Title: A Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor, on behalf of the Urban County Government, to accept an award for the Fire Training Incentive Grant in an amount up to $4,347,043 for FY 2026 from the Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel, Standards, and Education to provide eligible Firefighters with supplemental pay for participation in training programs and authorizing the Mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the Grant Budget. [Div. of Fire and Emergency Services, Wells]
Attachments: 1. 25-Blue Sheet Memo - Fire Train, 2. FY2026 Budget Amendment FIRE_TRAIN_2026, 3. FY26 KLEFPF Rates, 4. 600-25 fire training grant 4935-4662-0750 v.1.pdf, 5. R-320-2025

Title

A Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor, on behalf of the Urban County Government, to accept  an award for the Fire Training Incentive Grant in an amount up to $4,347,043 for FY 2026 from the Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel, Standards, and Education to provide eligible Firefighters with supplemental pay for participation in training programs and authorizing the Mayor to transfer unencumbered funds within the Grant Budget. [Div. of Fire and Emergency Services, Wells]

 

Summary

Authorization to accept an award for the Fire Training Incentive Grant in an amount up to $4,347,043 for FY 2026 from the Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel, Standards, and Education to provide eligible Firefighters with supplemental pay for participation in training programs. (L0600-25)(Wells/Armstrong)

Budgetary Implications: Yes

Advance Document Review:

Law: N/A

Risk Management:  N/A

Fully Budgeted: FY26 Budget amendment is in process.

Account Number:                     

This Fiscal Year Impact:                     $ 4,347,043

Annual Impact:                      $0

Project: FIRE_TRAIN_2026

Activity: STA_GRANT

Budget Reference: 2026

Current Balance: BA in process

Body

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT:

                     Section 1 - That the Mayor, on behalf of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, be and hereby is authorized and directed to accept an award for the Fire Training Incentive Grant in an amount up to $4,347,043.00 for FY 2026 from the Commission on Fire Protection, Personnel, Standards, and Education to provide eligible firefighters with supplemental pay for participation in training programs.

                     Section 2 - That subject to the provisions of Section 7-48 of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Code of Ordinances, the Mayor is hereby authorized, in her discretion as Chief Executive Officer of the Urban County Government, to transfer the unencumbered balance of any operating or capital account appropriation to another operating or capital account appropriation within the Grant budget previously established for this Grant.

                     Section 3 - That this Resolution shall become effective on the date of its passage.

                     PASSED URBAN COUNTY COUNCIL:

 

                                                                                                                                                   ______________________________

                                                                                                                                                   MAYOR

 

ATTEST:

 

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CLERK OF URBAN COUNTY COUNCIL

600-25:MRS:4935-4662-0750, v. 1