Greene County Trustee

Greene County Trustee, doing business as Trustee Of Green County, is a U.S. local government entity (a county trustee division) headquartered in Greeneville, Tennessee, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient for disaster recovery, environmental restoration, emergency management, and public health programs. The entity is a child unit of Greene County government and does not hold federal contracts; all federal activity flows through cooperative agreements and grant sub-awards from state and federal agencies.

Greene County Trustee operates predominantly as a sub-recipient (76% of recent awards) channeling federal funds through state intermediaries—principally the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, the Tennessee Department of Health, and the Department of Environment & Conservation Tennessee—for pandemic-response emergency protective measures, local health services, and disaster management. The entity also holds a smaller set of prime grants (24% of awards) from the Department of Agriculture. The top five funding sources account for 72% of recent awards, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (8 awards), the Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (4 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (3 awards), with the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region rounding out the active set.

The most significant recent activity is a $3.124 million Cooperative Agreement from the USDA Forest Service awarded June 24, 2026, under the Good Neighbor Authority program (CFDA 10.691) for disaster-resilient infrastructure engineering and post-hurricane recovery. Greene County Trustee will serve as lead entity for planning, design, bidding, management, and construction oversight of post-disaster recovery and sustainable recreation infrastructure across National Forest System lands in Tennessee through June 1, 2031, with a full-time Disaster Project Engineering Manager expanding county technical capacity for hazard mitigation design, resilient recreation infrastructure, and watershed and trail stabilization. A second prime grant from NRCS, awarded March 24, 2025, funds streambank stabilization and debris removal across five Greene County sites (completion December 19, 2025).

Sub-recipient activity reflects emergency and pandemic response. Greene County Trustee has received multiple sub-awards from Tennessee Emergency Management Agency for emergency protective measures reimbursement (emergency medical care, medical sheltering, vaccine distribution, and community engagement), with awards dating from January 2026 through June 2025. Additional sub-awards from the Tennessee Department of Health and the Department of Environment & Conservation fund local health services, CARES Act renovations, and Hurricane Helene disaster debris management under the American Relief Act of 2025. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $67.2 million. Activity has accelerated in 2025 and 2026 following Hurricane Helene, with nine awards in 2025 and six in 2026, compared to one or two annually in 2020–2021.