City Of La Marque

City of La Marque is a municipality located in Texas, approximately 45 miles south of Houston in Galveston County. As a U.S. local government entity registered in SAM.gov since 2004, the city has established itself as a recipient of federal grant funding to support public safety and infrastructure resilience initiatives. The city provides federal grant services focused primarily on law enforcement capacity building and community policing enhancement, as well as emergency management and infrastructure improvement projects that address identified public safety and environmental challenges within its jurisdiction.

The City of La Marque has received substantial federal grant funding through the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, securing four prime grants totaling $2,130,624 under the COPS Hiring Program and the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710 and 16.068) between October 2022 and October 2025. These grants, awarded on October 1, 2022 ($750,000), October 1, 2024 ($580,624), and October 1, 2025 ($500,000), support the hiring and retention of additional law enforcement officers to enhance community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts through community partnerships and officer de-escalation training. Additionally, the city received a $300,000 Rural Violent Crime Initiative grant (CFDA 16.039) from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance in October 2023, designed to address significant violent crime challenges related to gangs and drug trafficking by employing a crime analyst, partnering with crime prevention experts, and establishing partnerships with resource and crisis centers. Beyond law enforcement grants, the city has received multiple sub-grant awards through Texas state agencies including the Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas General Land Office, and Texas Department of Agriculture, supporting disaster recovery from Hurricane Laura and severe winter storms, as well as infrastructure projects including stormwater management improvements on Wisteria Street, inflow and infiltration prevention, and wastewater treatment and lift station resiliency upgrades. These sub-grants demonstrate the city's engagement in comprehensive emergency management and critical infrastructure resilience work spanning from 2021 through 2024.