Fort Plain Village

The Village of Fort Plain, a U.S. local government entity based in Fort Plain, New York, receives federal grants as a prime recipient, not a contractor, with federal funding flowing to support family self-sufficiency coordination and emergency management and infrastructure work. The village operates without federal contract prime positions and does not compete on civilian or defense contract vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based and mission-driven by local public housing and emergency management needs.

Fort Plain's grant portfolio is concentrated in two primary federal agencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency accounts for fifteen awards across its financial assistance programs; the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office accounts for eleven awards, all centered on the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program under Section 23 of the 1937 Housing Act. Together these two agencies represent 97% of the village's recent award activity. The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance, and FEMA separately account for the remaining three awards. Across all thirty awards in the source data (covering 2009 to 2026), the village has obligated $5.7 million in federal funding.

The FSS awards to Fort Plain fund salary and fringe benefits for family self-sufficiency coordinators who serve public housing and Housing Choice Voucher residents. The village received five consecutive annual FSS grants from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office (2022 through 2026), with award dates of January 1 in each calendar year and ultimate completion dates at year-end. Each FSS grant requires the village to hire and retain one or more full-time equivalent FSS program coordinators and to maintain a minimum of 25 participating families for the first coordinator position, with 50 additional families required per additional funded coordinator. Coordinators enroll families, prepare individual training and services plans, and build partnerships with local employers and service providers.

In its sub-recipient role, Fort Plain received a sub-grant for Village of Fort Plain Sanitary Sewer Improvements (awarded March 7, 2025) and a Byrne JAG law enforcement equipment sub-award from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (awarded January 28, 2025). Activity has been sparse and episodic; the village received one award in each of 2022, 2023, and 2024, then three awards in 2025 and one in 2026. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Fort Plain operates as a municipal housing and emergency management recipient, not as a federal contractor or subcontractor seeking to pursue competitive procurement vehicles.