Hopkins County Fiscal Court Sheriff

Hopkins County Fiscal Court Sheriff's Office, a Kentucky county government entity operating as a recipient of federal emergency-management and disaster-recovery grants, has received direct federal grant awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service and serves as a sub-recipient on federal disaster-assistance and community-resilience grants managed through the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs.

The Sheriff's Office is a U.S. local government entity — a county fiscal court agency — with no contract vehicle seat and no contract prime awardee history. Its federal footprint consists of grant work only: three prime grants and six grant sub-awards across nine distinct federal awards spanning from 2006 through mid-2025. The vendor operates in a sub-recipient-dominant posture, with sub-awards accounting for 67% of recent activity (six awards) against three prime grants.

Federal grant work centers on disaster recovery and emergency preparedness. As a prime recipient, the Sheriff's Office has received two cooperative agreements from the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program: one awarded August 17, 2022 (completion date September 29, 2023) for debris removal and recovery measures following a prior event (DSR#21-01-22-5073-002), and a second awarded July 16, 2025 (completion date March 31, 2026) for implementation of recovery measures and debris removal following the May 26, 2024 tornado event in Hopkins County. In its sub-recipient role under the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, the Sheriff's Office has received five grant sub-awards as of early 2025 covering debris removal, emergency protective measures, roads and bridges reconstruction, and community safe-room infrastructure (Phase I and Phase I additional funding awards made November 29, 2023 through February 6, 2025).

Customer agency concentration is narrow. The top three agencies by award count account for 89% of recent awards: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (5 awards), the Department of Agriculture's NRCS (2 awards), and the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (1 award). Combined federal dollars obligated across all nine awards total $3.9 million. Activity has recently accelerated: one award per year in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, rising to four awards in 2025, driven by post-tornado recovery operations and associated federal disaster-assistance flow-through from Kentucky state government. The most recent award (July 16, 2025) carries a completion date of March 31, 2026, representing immediate recompete exposure as that contract matures.