RECOMMENDATION(S):

ADOPT Resolution No. 2018/500 approving and authorizing the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to enter into Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with the Counties of Lake and Shasta for cost recovery associated with the emergency mutual aid response to the July and August 2018 California Wildfires, Federal Emergency Disaster Funds, FEMA FM-5262 and FM-5259.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Cost Recovery. (100% Federal)

BACKGROUND:

On July 26, 2018, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared a State of Emergency in Shasta County due to fires. On July 28, 2018, he declared a State of Emergency in Lake, Mendocino and Napa Counties also due to fires. Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff provided law enforcement mutual aid to Shasta and Lake counties. Federal and State funds are now available for reimbursement of actual costs associated with providing mutual aid services. In order for the Office of the Sheriff to participate in the cost recovery program, FEMA requires all affected counties to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with those entities that provided mutual aid during the disaster. Approval of the MOU will enable the Office of the Sheriff to participate in the cost recovery program.