Feature stories: A message from Board Member Larry L. Melton, Jr., creating safe communities through FEMA mitigation reimbursement, understanding federal funding opportunities, helping communities through the Coronavirus Relief Fund, protecting our water resources using state funding, financial planning for transportation projects, helping communities receive grant funding following a disaster, delivering creative funding solutions for critical infrastructure, winning bond referenda propositions, grant writing for private and public clients, and funding resilience projects through financial bonds.