Town Of Andes

Town Of Andes, doing business as The Town Clerk's Office, is a U.S. local government entity in Delaware County, New York that acts as a federal grant sub-recipient (94% of recent awards) and prime recipient on disaster-recovery and watershed-protection grant work funded by the federal government. As a municipality, the Town operates outside traditional SBA designations and competes for federal assistance on a non-competitive basis through state pass-through agencies and direct federal-agency awards.

The Town's federal footprint is concentrated in emergency management and natural-resources recovery. Fifteen of sixteen awards flow through the New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services as prime grantee, with the Town receiving sub-grant funding for road stabilization, culvert repair, retaining-wall restoration, and washout remediation across town-wide infrastructure — work completed or in progress on Lower Dingle Hill, Upper Dingle Hill, Felton Road, Cross Mountain Road, and Wolf Hollow Road between 2021 and 2026. The single prime award is a $525,804 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (CFDA 10.923), effective September 30, 2025 through November 20, 2026, funding implementation of recovery measures and debris removal on Lower Main Street to address watershed impairments and imminent hazards resulting from a natural disaster event. The Town acts as project sponsor and is responsible for accomplishing installation, furnishing local cost-share contributions, obtaining land rights and permits, and maintaining operation and maintenance records through project completion.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards represent 100% of the Town's award count by volume, with fifteen sub-grants from FEMA flowing through New York State. The combined dollars obligated across all awards total $2.2 million. Activity has been sporadic — two awards in 2020, five in 2021, four in 2022, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — tracking to disaster declarations and emergency supplemental appropriations rather than programmatic funding cycles. One award reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, placing limited recompete exposure in the near term. The Town's grant work is operational and maintenance-focused rather than capacity-building; sub-recipients perform debris removal and infrastructure stabilization under state administration of federal disaster assistance.