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DOLA
January 24, 2025
COLORADO
Department of Local Affairs
Division of Local Government
The Honorable Kevin Ross, County Commissioner
Weld County
1150 O Street
Greeley, CO 80631
Re: POMH 25-008 Weld County - Peace Officers Behavioral Health Support and Community
Partnerships Program, Notice of Intent to Award Funds and Next Steps.
Dear Chairman Ross:
The Department of Local Affairs received your application for the Peace Officers
Behavioral Health Support and Community Partnership (POMH) Grant Program.
Congratulations, after thorough review, I am pleased to offer a grant award in the
amount of $31,000.00 for the purpose of providing behavioral health support
services to peace officers, peace officers immediate family. This award does not
include funding for co -responder programs.
In case you are not aware, POMH funds expire 3 years after DOLA receives the appropriation. At
the end of those three years, the unexpended and unused fund balance expires and becomes
unusable. Due to this restriction, DOLA is implementing a new funding strategy to ensure all
POMH funds are expended prior to expiring, which for this appropriation is June 2027. To help
ensure this occurs, we are awarding a portion of your initial request and shortening the length of
the initial contract to expire one year before the associated funding expires, which for this
contract will be June 2026. Program staff will closely monitor the contract spend rate and allow
each local government to request supplemental funding, once it demonstrates the need for
additional funds and provided funds are still available. In some cases supplemental awards may
require extending the contract one additional year. As the original fund balance becomes
depleted, each local government will be encouraged to apply in the next upcoming NOFA to
request additional funding in a new contract.
To ensure this process works smoothly, each grantee needs to abide by the contract requirement
to submit quarterly reports, which will help staff monitor the spend rate on each individual
contract. Be sure that all funds expended in the quarter are immediately reflected in the
quarterly report and are not delayed and identified in a future quarterly report. Stay in constant
communication with program staff to ensure everyone is closely monitoring contract expenditures.
Together we will be able to effectively determine when a contract may require supplemental
funds or when it makes sense to apply in the next upcoming NOFA, which will generally occur each
year around May/early June. Working together we can help ensure that all local governments will
consistently have an opportunity to receive these important funds to assist their Peace Officers.
Governor Jared S. Polis I Maria De Cambra, Executive Director I Eric Bergman, Director DLG
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Your Grant Agreement will be unilaterally signed by the State and issued as a
"Grant Award Letter including Terms and Conditions". Grantees of these funds
wilt not need to sign and return the document packet to DOLA. Payment requests
will be made using DOLA's online portal.
Next Steps:
• Please complete and return the W-9 (required) and the EFT form
(optional) included in this packet to the addresses indicated on the
forms as soon as possible.
• You will receive the fully executed Grant Award Letter including Terms and
Conditions packet via email only. This document packet does not need to be
signed or returned by you.
Grant funds awarded will come from state tax proceeds that may cause you to go
to an election to receive and spend these funds. Please confer with your
appropriate budget and legal staff to determine if such an election is necessary.
Thank you for your interest in the Peace Officers Behavioral Health Support
Program. Please contact Ella Bowman at (303) 864-7896 if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Mania De' 'ambra, Executive Director, DOLA
Cc: Sonja Kohigraf, Finance Manager
Ella Bowman, Program Manager
Governor Jared S. Potts I Maria De Cambra, Executive Director ► Eric Bergman, Director DLG
1313 Sherman Street, Room 521, Denver, CO 80203 P 303.864.7720 TDD/TTY 303.864.7758 www.dola.cotorado.gov
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