§31-9-62. Salary supplement; allocation of federal funds.

(a) Each state-recognized local emergency management agency that employs and retains a local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local emergency management director and is so designated by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency shall receive an annual salary supplement from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency in an amount necessary to provide the local director with a total salary of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year. The amount of the salary supplement shall be the difference between the salary paid to the local director on the date of his or her certification and forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year. In no case shall the salary supplement paid as provided herein be more than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per county and such supplement shall not be paid to any local agency that does not increase the salary of such certified local emergency management director to at least forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year. The subsidy shall be paid quarterly as a reimbursement for the salary paid to the local director in the prior three months, under rules and procedures established by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. There is annually appropriated from the State General Fund to the Alabama Emergency Management Agency such funds as are necessary to meet the requirements of this subsection.

(b) If the amount of the supplement provided in subsection (a) is less than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), the local agency shall be eligible for the additional allocation of federal funds as provided in subsection (c). However, the total supplement received by any local agency from the provisions of subsection (a) and the additional allocation of federal funds provided in subsection (c) shall not exceed a total of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year.

(c) Each state-recognized local emergency management agency that employs and retains a local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local emergency management director, is so designated by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency and is receiving total salary of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) or more on the date of his or her certification shall not be eligible for the supplement provided in subsection (a). However, such local emergency management agencies employing such certified directors shall be entitled to an additional allocation of federal funds made available to the department for local mitigation, planning, and program purposes as provided herein. Beginning on October 1, 2007, and each year thereafter, the department shall set aside federal funds in an amount equal to 25 percent of the total increase in such funds above those amounts received in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007. These funds shall be divided equally among those state-recognized local emergency management agencies qualifying as provided herein. However, the total supplement received by any local agency from the provisions of subsection (a) and the additional allocation of federal funds provided in this subsection shall not exceed a total of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year.

(d) No monies provided for in this article may be expended for any purpose unless they have been appropriated by the Legislature and allocated pursuant to this article. Any funds appropriated shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 41-4-80) of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations act or other appropriations act.

(Act 2007-462, p. 968, §3.)