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C. 47
To: Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Board of Directors
From: Lewis T. Broschard III, Chief, Contra Costa Fire Protection District
Date: November  5, 2019
The Seal of Contra Costa County, CA
Contra
Costa
County
Subject: FY 20 Urban Area Security Initiative Grant - Hooklift Modular Transport Vehicle

APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On:   11/05/2019
APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:
John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor
Contact: Lewis Broschard, Fire Chief, 925-941-3300
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED:     November  5, 2019
David Twa,
 
BY: , Deputy

 

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Fire Chief, or designee, to apply for and accept grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Grants Program in an amount not to exceed $295,000 for the purchase of a hooklift modular transport vehicle.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (District) could receive up to $295,000 in federal funds if awarded. There is no local agency cost sharing requirement. The grant award may be lower than the amount requested.


  




BACKGROUND:

The UASI Program assists high-threat, high-density urban areas in efforts to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. The UASI program is intended to provide financial assistance to address the unique multi-discipline planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high-threat, high-density urban areas and to assist these areas in building and sustaining capabilities to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism using a "Whole Community" approach. Activities implemented with UASI funds must support terrorism preparedness by building or enhancing capabilities that relate to the prevention of, protection from, mitigation of, response to or recovery from terrorism in order to be considered eligible. However, many capabilities which support terrorism preparedness simultaneously support preparedness for other hazards. Grantees must demonstrate the dual-use quality for any activities implemented that are not explicitly focused on terrorism preparedness. Urban areas must use UASI funds to employ regional approaches to overall preparedness and are encouraged to adopt regional response structures whenever appropriate. UASI program implementation and governance must include regional partners and should have balanced representation among entities with operational responsibilities for prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities within the region.   
  
The District is seeking approval to apply for the UASI grant to purchase a hooklift modular transport vehicle. This project will provide us with a vehicle that can deliver modularized rescue containers to multiple locations in a large incident with one vehicle. This project is based on a vehicle that Phoenix Fire Department has used for a number of years and has been deployed to multiple major disasters with FEMA USAR AZ TF-1. The vehicle is a three axle commercial chassis truck that has a specialized system built on it that allows it to move up to a fully loaded 20 foot intermodal container. The containers will each be designed for different rescue disciplines (heavy breaching, shoring, etc.). This vehicle would give our department and the region the ability to build multiple caches of equipment and deliver them with one vehicle.   
  

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