SR-03-25-2014-3Atam
City of City Council Report
Santa Monica
City Council Meeting: March 25, 2014
Agenda Item:A
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Scott Ferguson, Fire Chief
Jacqueline Seabrooks, Chief of Police
Subject: Acceptance of 2013 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Grant Funds
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Authorize the City Manager to accept a grant award in the amount of $799,076
from the 2013 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) to purchase equipment and
training that supports regional homeland security goals.
2) Authorize the budget changes outlined in the Financial Impact and Budget Actions
section of this report.
Executive Summary
In 2013, $799,076 was awarded to the City of Santa Monica Police and Fire
Departments as a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal
Emergency Management Agency's UASI grant. Funds were requested to purchase
equipment and training that supports regional homeland security goals, specifically an
automated license plate reading system for the Police Department, terrorism liaison
officer training, hazardous material (HazMat) training and equipment, urban search and
rescue (USAR) training and equipment and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
and explosive (CBRNE) training and equipment for the Fire Department.
Discussion
The UASI program focuses on enhancing regional preparedness in major metropolitan
areas. The UASI program directly supports the national priority of expanding regional
collaboration within the national preparedness guidelines and is intended to assist
participating jurisdictions in developing integrated regional systems for prevention,
protection, response, and recovery from natural or man -made disasters.
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The UASI grant program was created to support large, "core" cities and those other
cities with contiguous borders to the core city. The UASI grant program is 100%
federally funded from the Department of Homeland Security to the State of California.
The City of Los Angeles acts as the core city for the UASI grant and allots funds to the
City of Santa Monica.
The City of Santa Monica has directly received over $4.0 million of Department of
Homeland Security no -match grant funds since 2001. These funds have purchased
necessary equipment, supplies, and training in direct support of overall regional goals to
promote effective information gathering, sharing, and response to threats and /or acts of
terrorism.
The Police Department would use $47,000 of the $799,076 UASI 2013 grant to
purchase automated license plate readers (ALPR), which is an expansion of the
department's current ALPR system. ALPR is utilized to capture images of all license
plates that come into view of cameras and query criminal databases to compare the
scanned license plates with those entered in the databases as stolen or wanted. The
Fire Department would use the remaining $752,076 to fund terrorism liaison officer
training, hazardous material (HazMat) training and equipment, urban search and rescue
(USAR) training and equipment, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive
(CBRNE) training and equipment, and funds to purchase training props and equipment
which support regional homeland security goals.
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Financial Impacts & Budget Actions
Award of $799,076 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, requires the following FY 2013 -14 budget changes to
reflect receipt of the 2013 Urban Security Initiative (UASI) grant.
Establish revenue budgets as follows:
20304.406799
20312.406799
$ 47,000
$ 752,076
$ 799,076
Appropriate operating expenditures as follows:
20304.555399
20312.555399
$ 47,000
$ 752,076
$ 799,076
Prepared by: Terese Toomey, Principal Administrative Analyst
Approved:
Scott'Ferguson
Fire Chief
Approved:
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Forwarded to Council:
Rod Gould
City Manager