City Of Sylacauga

The City of Sylacauga, a municipality headquartered in Sylacauga, Alabama, receives federal project grants as the prime recipient from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, focused on airport infrastructure rehabilitation and emergency management. The city operates as a U.S. local government entity and does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; all federal awards in its recent portfolio are grants, with the city serving as prime recipient on 57% of tracked awards and as sub-recipient on 43%.

Airport infrastructure dominates the city's federal award footprint. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Southern Region has issued thirteen awards totaling approximately $2.9 million in combined obligated dollars, predominantly under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117). Representative projects include a $768,891.11 grant awarded September 3, 2024, to rehabilitate 6,380 feet of existing paved taxiway and connectors at Sylacauga Regional Airport (ultimate completion September 2, 2028), a $497,777.78 grant from the same date to rehabilitate 6,830 feet of taxiway (completion September 2, 2028), a $171,103.16 grant from August 4, 2025, to reconstruct 550 feet of existing drainage pipe (completion August 3, 2029), and a $538,014.74 grant from July 17, 2026, to construct new drainage controls and erosion management systems (completion July 16, 2030). All airport drainage and taxiway projects are coordinated with companion FAA grants that fund remaining eligible portions.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards division represents the second-largest customer by award count (nineteen awards) but a smaller dollar footprint. FEMA grants have included an Assistance to Firefighters grant obligated August 17, 2022 (completion August 16, 2024), and an American Rescue Plan Act economic relief grant obligated October 29, 2021 (completion October 28, 2025), directed to airport operations, personnel costs, cleaning, sanitization, and pandemic response. The city also appears as a sub-recipient on a March 26, 2025, grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, where the Sylacauga Police Department used grant funding to replace Taser X26P equipment with Taser 7 units.

Activity has been modest but recent. The past five years show one award in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026, with the most recent grant obligated August 3, 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all tracked awards total $17.6 million, with the city serving seven distinct federal agencies. A subsidiary entity, BB Comer Memorial Library, appears in the corporate structure but carries no separate award activity in the source data.