A Hazard-resident grant-administration micro-firm running FEMA Public Assistance close-out, FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) forward, HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Action-Plan support, and ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) close-out as a sub-contracted documentation service to Perry County Fiscal Court, the City of Hazard, the Housing Authority of Hazard, the Housing Development Alliance, and the Hazard-Perry County Economic Development Corporation. The firm works across two simultaneously open FEMA disaster ledgers — DR-4663-KY (July 2022) and DR-4860-KY (February 2025).

The dual-ledger temporal coupling is in-flight, not future-horizon. The DR-4663-KY FEMA Public Assistance Categories A-G project-worksheet close-out tail runs through roughly 2026-2027 on the standard four-to-five-year cadence. HMGP Period-of-Performance runs through roughly July 2029. The DR-4860-KY FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet development cycle runs 2025-2027, with HMGP Period-of-Performance through roughly February 2032. The CDBG-DR statewide pipeline of roughly $298 million HUD allocation is in Action-Plan amendment cycle. The SLFRF December 31, 2026 expenditure deadline drives a Q1 2027 close-out reporting surge. ARC POWER+ in its 2024-2029 docket adds Perry-resident sub-recipient pass-through addressability. The 2026 entry year sits inside the DR-4663 close-out tail (Year 4) overlapping the DR-4860 acute phase (Year 1).

Six addressable Perry-resident principal categories. Local-government tier: Perry County Fiscal Court, the City of Hazard, the City of Vicco, the City of Buckhorn, and the City of Hardburly. Judge-Executive Scott Alexander is referenced as office of record. Mayor Donald "Happy" Mobelini is the City of Hazard office of record. The May 19, 2026 Kentucky primary is referenced as procedural electoral fact only. Housing tier: the Housing Authority of Hazard runs HUD-CFR-24 and CDBG-DR replacement-housing volume; the Housing Development Alliance is a Hazard-resident affordable-housing developer with FAK affiliation. K-12 tier: Perry County Schools under Superintendent Jonathan Jett and Hazard Independent School District under Superintendent Sondra Combs both sit at 315 Park Avenue, with dual single-audit threshold applicability. Triple-aggregator pass-through: KRADD at 941 North Main Street under Executive Director Michelle Allen; LKLP Community Action Council under Executive Director Tawny R. Acker since 2024; and the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky at 420 Main Street under CEO Kristin Walker Collins since December 2023.

Five revenue lanes. FEMA Public Assistance close-out for DR-4663 (Year 4 chronic) — project-worksheet documentation, Category A-G close-out support, appeals support, final-inspection coordination, and de-obligation defense — at $8,000 to $25,000 per engagement. FEMA Public Assistance active for DR-4860 (Year 1 acute) — new project-worksheet development, scope-of-work documentation, force-account labor and equipment tracking, and sub-grantee coordination with Kentucky Emergency Management and FEMA Region IV — at $10,000 to $30,000 per engagement. HMGP forward (both ledgers) — property-acquisition pre-applications, benefit-cost analysis, 24 CFR Part 58 Environmental Review Record (ERR), and grant-application packaging — at $12,000 to $40,000 per engagement. CDBG-DR Action-Plan amendment support against the roughly $298 million HUD statewide pipeline runs $10,000 to $35,000 per engagement plus a $1,500-to-$3,500 monthly retainer. SLFRF expenditure close-out plus 2 CFR 200 single-audit preparation for principals crossing the $750K federal-expenditure threshold runs $6,000 to $18,000 per engagement, recurring annually.

The triple-procedural-credential bundle is a regional supply moat. The 24 CFR Part 58 ERR officer responsibility, 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance procurement compliance, Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage, Section 3 and 24 CFR Part 75 sub-recipient monitoring, FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet and HMGP application experience, and Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS) or AICPA single-audit experience form a constrained regional supply. Most regional consulting firms do not carry the FEMA Public Assistance, HMGP, and 24 CFR Part 58 triple stack simultaneously. Most HUD-side compliance shops do not carry the FEMA Public Assistance side. Most FEMA Public Assistance shops do not carry the 24 CFR Part 58 side. The dual-ledger window is what makes the triple stack billable. A single-disaster county does not generate enough per-project volume to sustain a one-to-two-person firm at the $260,000-to-$420,000 mature book.

Concentration discipline as a design feature. A direct CDBG-DR or ARC POWER+ sub-recipient posture would carry federal-grant cyclicality, project-cliff risk, and zero collateral against SBA 7(a) underwriting. It is a banker auto-decline. The founder owns documentation labor as a sub-contracted advisory service to the Perry-resident pass-through principal, who carries the prime federal-grant relationship and the federal compliance liability. That distinction is the moat, and the credit-structure discipline that keeps the lane financeable.

Per-engagement scope. FEMA Public Assistance close-out documentation for the DR-4663 Year-4 tail runs $8,000 to $25,000 per project-worksheet engagement at 6 to 12 engagements per year at maturity. FEMA Public Assistance active project-worksheet development for the DR-4860 Year-1 acute phase runs $10,000 to $30,000 per engagement at 4 to 10 engagements per year. HMGP forward applications (property acquisition, benefit-cost analysis, 24 CFR Part 58 ERR, and packaging) run $12,000 to $40,000 per engagement at 2 to 5 engagements per year. CDBG-DR Action-Plan amendment support runs $10,000 to $35,000 per engagement, plus a $1,500-to-$3,500 monthly retainer at 2 to 4 retainers at maturity. SLFRF expenditure close-out and 2 CFR 200 single-audit preparation run $6,000 to $18,000 per engagement at 4 to 8 engagements per year, with a Q1 2027 acute surge against the December 31, 2026 cliff.

Year 1: founder solo or founder plus 0.5 FTE admin. One close-out engagement, two to three ERR-per-project flows, and one SLFRF close-out engagement. Revenue base $80,000 to $140,000. Founder take-home $50,000 to $90,000.

Year 2: founder plus 1.0 FTE admin. Three to five close-out engagements, one or two HMGP forward applications, one CDBG-DR retainer, and two to three single-audit preparations. Revenue base $160,000 to $300,000. Founder take-home $90,000 to $150,000.

Year 3 mature: founder plus 1.0 to 1.5 FTE admin. Two or three sub-recipient close-out engagements, one or two HMGP forward applications, one CDBG-DR Action-Plan retainer, and two or three single-audit preparations annually. Revenue base $260,000 to $420,000. Sustained founder take-home $140,000 to $220,000. Above $220,000 requires expansion into a statewide CDBG-DR sub-recipient bench across the Eastern Kentucky 8-to-14-county disaster-declared footprint — a Year-5-plus practice.

Founder-side capital $100,000 to $300,000. Office lease, secure document management, a Microsoft 365 GCC tenant, and encrypted storage run $8,000 to $22,000 Year 1. Errors-and-omissions, professional-liability, and cyber-liability insurance run $6,000 to $18,000 annually. Founder credentialing (CGMS or NIGP or AICPA single-audit, plus 24 CFR Part 58 ERR officer, Davis-Bacon compliance documentation training, FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet training, and HUD-certified Public Housing Manager where applicable) runs $6,000 to $18,000 Year 1. Subject-matter consulting library, Federal Register subscription, and single-audit workpaper templates run $3,000 to $10,000 Year 1. A 0.5-to-1.0 FTE admin support hire in Year 1-2 runs $35,000 to $65,000 annualized. A 12-to-18-month working-capital reserve and six-month payroll buffer runs $30,000 to $90,000.

There is no platform-rollup arithmetic, no add-on EBITDA multiple, and no direct sub-recipient posture. The capital range sits inside the owner-operator advisory-services envelope. Family-capital deployment plus an SBA 7(a) cash-flow term loan, an SBA Microloan, or a FAK bridge grant is realistic at the lower end.

• Perry County Fiscal Court

  County government; DR-4663 and DR-4860 sub-recipient surface for FEMA Public Assistance, HMGP, and CDBG-DR

  Active in market

  Judge-Executive Scott Alexander, office of record. The May 19, 2026 Kentucky primary is referenced as procedural electoral fact only.
• City of Hazard

  Home-rule city; downtown rebuild scope under DR-4860

  Active in market

  Mayor Donald "Happy" Mobelini, office of record.
• Housing Authority of Hazard (HAH)

  Public housing authority; HUD CDBG-DR replacement housing and PHA-side ERR-per-project volume

  Active in market

  Executive Director to be verified.
• Housing Development Alliance (HDA)

  Hazard-resident affordable-housing developer; FAK-affiliated single-family and multifamily replacement under CDBG-DR sub-grant

  Active in market

  Hazard. Post-flood rebuild scope.
• Perry County Schools (PCS)

  K-12 district; post-flood facility recovery through FEMA Public Assistance, HMGP, and KDE SFCC

  Active in market

  315 Park Avenue, Hazard. Superintendent Jonathan Jett. Buckhorn Elementary and Robinson Elementary severely damaged July 2022.
• Hazard Independent School District (HISD)

  Municipal K-12 at the same 315 Park Avenue address, legally separate; dual single-audit threshold applicability

  Active in market

  Superintendent Sondra Combs.
• Hazard-Perry County Economic Development Corporation

  Local economic-development entity; CDBG-DR small-business and EDA pass-through coordination

  Institution

  Hazard.
• Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD)

  Eight-county pass-through aggregator; disaster-recovery coordination, Title-III OAA, and economic development

  Institution

  941 North Main Street, Hazard. Executive Director Michelle Allen.
• LKLP Community Action Council

  Four-county pass-through aggregator; Head Start, WIOA, LIHEAP, and housing counseling

  Institution

  Hazard service center. Executive Director Tawny R. Acker since 2024.
• Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky (FAK)

  Donor-advised and post-flood philanthropic-relief fund administration

  Institution

  420 Main Street, Hazard. CEO Kristin Walker Collins since December 2023. Founder-in-Residence Gerry Roll.
• Kentucky Office for Disaster Recovery

  State sub-recipient compliance gate for DR-4663 and DR-4860 CDBG-DR

  Out-of-county

  Frankfort.
• Kentucky Department for Local Government

  Action-Plan amendment routing for the $298M statewide CDBG-DR pipeline

  Out-of-county

  Frankfort.
• Kentucky Emergency Management

  FEMA Public Assistance and HMGP state-channel coordinator

  Out-of-county

  Frankfort.
• FEMA Region IV (Atlanta)

  FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet and HMGP Period-of-Performance federal channel

  Out-of-county

  fema.gov.
• HUD Region IV (Atlanta)

  CDBG-DR Action-Plan, Section 3, and 24 CFR Part 58 ERR federal channel

  Out-of-county

  hud.gov.
• DOL Wage and Hour Division

  Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage compliance counterparty

  Out-of-county

  dol.gov/agencies/whd.
• City of Vicco, City of Buckhorn, and City of Hardburly

  Small-municipal CDBG-DR Action-Plan participation and HMGP small-project administration

  Institution

  Perry-resident home-rule cities.

The founder profile is mid-career federal-grant administration with one of three on-ramps. First, prior county-government or city-government finance or grants-coordinator tenure inside an Eastern Kentucky principal, with the triple-procedural-credential bundle (24 CFR Part 58 ERR, 2 CFR 200, Davis-Bacon, FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet, HMGP application experience, and CGMS or AICPA single-audit experience) built inside a 9-to-18-month launch arc. Second, prior CDBG-DR or CDBG sub-recipient or PHA-side compliance tenure with willingness to add the FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet and HMGP forward legs through targeted credentialing. Third, prior CPA or auditor tenure with AICPA single-audit experience and willingness to add the FEMA Public Assistance, HMGP, and 24 CFR Part 58 ERR side through targeted credentialing. Perry-resident or KRADD-region residence and prior relationship density with the Perry County Fiscal Court, City of Hazard, HAH, HDA, PCS, HISD, and the KRADD, LKLP CAC, and FAK aggregator trio is the customer-trust seed. Out-of-region grant-administration shops from Lexington or Cincinnati cannot replicate that density without 18 to 36 months of buildup.

Relationship portfolio at launch: the Perry County Fiscal Court office of record, finance officer, and Emergency Management coordinator; the City of Hazard office of record, finance officer, and public works coordinator; the Housing Authority of Hazard Executive Director and board chair; the Housing Development Alliance Executive Director; PCS Superintendent Jonathan Jett, the federal-programs director, and the Buckhorn and Robinson rebuild coordinators; HISD Superintendent Sondra Combs and the federal-programs director; KRADD Executive Director Michelle Allen and the federal-pass-through coordinator; LKLP CAC Executive Director Tawny R. Acker; FAK CEO Kristin Walker Collins and Founder-in-Residence Gerry Roll; the Kentucky Office for Disaster Recovery sub-recipient compliance contact; the Kentucky Department for Local Government Action-Plan amendment coordinator; the Kentucky Emergency Management FEMA Public Assistance liaison; the FEMA Region IV Atlanta point of contact for Public Assistance and HMGP; and the HUD Region IV Atlanta point of contact for CDBG-DR and Section 3. Twelve named contacts by end of Year 1.

Entity and credentialing posture. Kentucky business registration, KOSHA workers' comp, errors-and-omissions, professional-liability, and cyber-liability insurance. Credential stack: 24 CFR Part 58 Environmental Review Record officer training; 2 CFR 200 Uniform Guidance procurement compliance; Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage; Section 3 and 24 CFR Part 75 sub-recipient monitoring; FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet and HMGP application experience; CGMS or NAHRO Specialist of Grants Management; and AICPA single-audit experience or AICPA Yellow Book exposure. eMARS Kentucky state-procurement vendor registration, SAM.gov UEI, Kentucky Office for Disaster Recovery sub-recipient registration, and FEMA SID. An Eastern Kentucky federal-grants-experienced insurance broker of record structures the multi-coverage stack.

The practice operates as an owner-operator documentation-labor advisory firm. National federal-grant administration firms — Witt O'Brien's, Tidal Basin, Hagerty Consulting, and the Horne Group disaster-recovery practice — compete at master-vendor scope and run Eastern Kentucky deliverables from Atlanta or Washington, D.C. hubs. The sub-contracted, Hazard-resident, per-project and per-retainer scope sits below their floor. The Hazard-resident operator carrying the triple-procedural-credential bundle, same-week mobilization, and the dual-ledger documentation discipline is what national platforms cannot replicate.

Boundary. This candidate does not operate as a direct CDBG-DR or ARC POWER+ sub-recipient. The Perry-resident pass-through principal carries the prime federal-grant compliance liability. The founder firm carries the documentation labor as a sub-contracted advisory service. That structure preserves senior-debt financeability against banker auto-decline on federal-grant cyclicality.

• — DR-4860-KY Perry-allocation FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet dollar figures, HMGP property-acquisition pipeline, and CDBG-DR Action-Plan Perry sub-grant allocation amounts.
• — DR-4663-KY FEMA Public Assistance close-out balance at the 2026 capture date and HMGP forward Period-of-Performance status.
• — Housing Authority of Hazard and Housing Development Alliance post-flood CDBG-DR scope and PHA-side ERR-per-project volume.
• — DR-4860-KY business-impact, damage estimate, and February 28, 2025 Disaster Recovery Center opening confirmation.
• — ARC POWER+ FY26 docket, Kentucky Office for Disaster Recovery sub-recipient cycle, and FEMA Region IV staff point-of-contact roster.
• — Perry County Fiscal Court FY26-FY27 SLFRF balance and December 31, 2026 close-out posture.
• — PCS and HISD FEMA Public Assistance project-worksheet roster for Buckhorn and Robinson rebuild, plus KDE SFCC pipeline coordination.
• — KRADD, LKLP CAC, and FAK Action-Plan amendment sub-recipient access policy.
• — Single-audit threshold crossings for PCS, HISD, HAH, City of Hazard, Perry County Fiscal Court, KRADD, LKLP, and FAK against the $750K threshold.
• — Incumbent grant-administration firm scan — whether any Eastern Kentucky shop already holds the dual-ledger triple-procedural-credential bundle for the Perry principal stack.
• — Davis-Bacon, Section 3, and 24 CFR Part 75 sub-recipient monitoring deliverable scope at HAH and HDA.
• — HUD CDBG-DR statewide Action-Plan amendment current cycle and Perry-allocation line items against the Kentucky DLG portal.

Tonight, this week, this month — in that order. Each step produces a yes/no or a number, not a deeper understanding.