AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

December 1, 1999

AASA: BH #99-025
RE: BH Fire Sprinkler Grant Application

Dear Boarding Home Provider:

As many of you know, the 1999 Washington State Legislature appropriated $2.5 million to help pay for the cost of retrofitting fire sprinklers in boarding homes that are not equipped with fire sprinklers. On September 3, 1999, the State Fire Marshal (SFM) and Aging and Disability Services Administration (AASA) sent you a letter outlining the requirements for grant eligibility. Many of you participated in a pre-application meeting on October 1, 1999 in order to express your questions regarding this grant. These questions have been considered in the publication of the grant application, which is now available.

124 boarding home were identified in the Governor's Fire Protection Task Force Report as not having fire sprinklers; if your facility was identified in this report or if you have requested an application, a grant application is enclosed with this letter. You may also obtain a grant application in two other ways:

• You may contact the Application Coordinator listed below to receive a grant application through the postal mail:
  
  
  Jeff Hugdahl, Contracts Manager
  Aging and Disability Services Administration
  P.O. Box 45600
  Olympia, WA 98504-5600
  Telephone: (360) 407-0922, fax (360) 438-7903
  e-mail: hugdajr@dshs.wa.gov
  
  
• You may also download the grant application from the Internet

Applications must be received by the Application Coordinator no later than 4:30 p.m. local time on January 28, 2000. Please contact the Application Coordinator if you have any questions ro concerns about this grant program.

Sincerely,

Mary Corso
State Fire Marshal
Washington State Patrol

Patricia K. Lashway
Director, Residential Care Services
Aging and Disability Services Administration