Wheeler EMC manages disaster recovery grant compliance for municipalities, nonprofits, and utilities — from first obligation through the appeal FEMA hoped you wouldn't win.
Not the pitch — the actual reasons the phone rings.
Jason Wheeler spent 30+ years in emergency management, including a tenure as an FDEM Bureau Chief. We know exactly where a project file gets challenged, because we used to be the one challenging it.
You're the only client in the room. Wheeler EMC represents the municipality, nonprofit, or utility carrying the compliance risk directly, and advocates on their behalf through every determination, appeal, and closeout.
Nearly $10 billion in federal Public Assistance obligations overseen across a 30-year career, including a 2026 arbitration ruling that opened up to $160 million in road-mitigation funding for Washington County.
Picked for what each one took, not for size.
Represented Washington County before the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals. The February 2026 ruling holds that paving dirt and gravel roads is eligible mitigation when cost-effective.
Wrote the Local Mitigation Strategy for Washington County, FL and led the All Hazards Mitigation Plan update for the Municipality of Anchorage, AK. Both plans were adopted.
A course written around the client's own staff and systems: instructor guide, student manual, exam and seven modules for the City of Jacksonville. We build training to fit the people who will use it.
Grant management from appraisal and title work through relocation and closeout. Seventeen homes in the Reeds subdivision acquired and demolished with nearly $10 million in funding.
Field debris monitoring for a Florida university, a Georgia county and a Texas city, with the documentation FEMA reimbursement depends on.
Contractor of record for the City of Frankfort's new BRIC application for the Mero Street pump project, building on the prior cycle's application and FEMA review comments.
Every declared emergency and major disaster in Florida, 1995–2009, from the state's side. Then the same work from the applicant's side.
Each is a page of its own — worth going to, not scrolling past.
FEMA Public Assistance, HMGP and CDBG-DR program management, reimbursement, and closeout.
Debris monitoring, field verification, and emergency mobilization.
First and second appeal, and CBCA arbitration representation.