The Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) is pleased to announce the release of the first funding opportunity under the new Geographic Information System (GIS) grant program for enabling NextGeneration9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) services.
Donor Name: Wisconsin Office of Emergency Communications
State: Wisconsin
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/25/2022
Size of the Grant: $1.5 million
Details:
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (DMA) is allocated $1.5 million annually for awarding grants under the GIS grant program.
OEC, as part of the DMA, provides program management for the implementation of the statewide emergency services IP-based network (ESInet) for NG9-1-1 services and is responsible for administering this new grant program.
Funding Information
A maximum of $1.5 million in FY2023 has been made available for grants under the NG9-1-1 GIS Grant Program.
Eligibility Criteria
- County land information offices located in a county that has either:
- Fully executed a Participation Agreement to join the AT&T ESInet under the DMA state contract;
- Are in the process of executing a Participation Agreement to join the AT&T ESInet and the Participation Agreement has been submitted to DMA for final signatures;
- Are in the formal process of procuring a local/regional ESInet for NG9-1-1 services in the county; or
- Contracted for a local/regional ESInet for NG9-1-1 services in the county.
Eligible Costs
- Data preparation, gathering, and creation of the required NG9-1-1 data sets
- Supplemental GIS staffing except general staff overhead costs
- Contracts for NG9-1-1 data preparation and collection, such as software and other contractual services
- Training
- Examples include:
- Hiring additional staff like limited term employees to produce initial data sets such as road centerlines, address points, PSAP boundary polygons, including creation of the datasets, remediation of critical errors specifically identified in 2020-21 county remediation report1
- Activities related to remediating gaps/overlaps and edge matching with bordering jurisdictions
- Legacy database clean up, such as MSAG and ALI synchronization with GIS data
- Personnel training directly related to NG9-1-1 GIS data implementation
- Consultant or contractor to provide services above.
For more information, visit WOEC.
