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Resolution to Approve Funding Agreement with Washtenaw County for 2009 Homeland Security Grant Program Projects and Appropriation of Funds to the Office of Emergency Management ($70,000.00) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Washtenaw County has been awarded a Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Grant. The award provides funds through the Michigan State Police Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division to the Washtenaw County Emergency Management Division. A portion of the HSGP award amount must be dedicated to strengthening local jurisdictions preparedness planning through planning, training and exercising activities.
The Funding Agreement between the City and Washtenaw County will commit a portion of the FY 09 HSGP award to City training exercise and preparedness planning efforts. Two training exercises are planned that will test response capabilities of City staff. Under the Funding Agreement the City on the completion of its planned exercises, submission of invoices and reimbursement approval from the State of Michigan, Washtenaw County will reimburse the City for project costs not to exceed $70,000.
As a pass-through funding recipient, the City is required to comply with all applicable financial and administrative requirements of the grant.
In order to report the City’s allocated proportionate amount of the FY 09 HSGP on the City Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEPA) report separate grant accounts have been established by Finance for each exercise.
Approved of the Funding Agreement is recommended.
Staff
Prepared by: Sgt. Ed Dreslinski, Director, OEM; Mary Joan Fales, Senior Asst. City Attorney
Approved by: Roger W. Fraser, City Administrator
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Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor Office of Emergency Management has been allocated a portion of the FY09 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) award from the Michigan State Police Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division to Washtenaw County Emergency Management for t...
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