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Resolution to Accept and Approve the 2012 Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Ann Arbor Fire Department ($87,876.00), Appropriate Matching Grant Funds to the Fire Service FY 13 budget ($21, 969.00), Establish and Appropriate Funding to a Major Grant Fund Account for the Project ($109,845.00) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
This resolution authorizes acceptance of a grant award in the amount of $87,876 from the Department of Homeland Security under the auspice of the Assistance to Firefighters grant program (AFGP). This grant program is a competitive peer review program and Ann Arbor Fire Department has received an award notification of funding of its submitted grant proposal for Modifications to Fire Stations.
The Fire Department submitted a proposed project to completely replace all of the department’s Source Capturing Exhaust Removal Systems that were installed over twenty years ago. In addition, the project will provide capturing exhaust systems for apparatus that have never been fitted for capturing exhaust. In total, the grant would enable the replacement/outfitting of our stations with fifteen (15) Magnetic Nozzle Exhaust Removal Systems.
Matching funds in the amount of $21,969.00, required under the grant, will need to be appropriated from General Fund Balance to the Fire Service Unit’s FY 13 budget, documenting the local match. For grant administration, all funds (both grant funds and matching City funds) will then need to be appropriated the Major Grant Fund established for the Project.
Approval of this resolution will allow the department to accept the grant, establish a grant administration fund account, appropriate matching funds to the Fire Department 2013 expenditure funds and finally appropriate all funding to the major grant fund for for the management of the grant and expenditure of the funds for the life of the Project without regard to fiscal year.
Staff
Prepared by: Tammy Jones, ...
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