TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Bernard Molloy, Fire Chief
PREPARED BY: Crystallee Miller, Management Analyst - Fire
SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant Award
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RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt Resolution No. 25-4861 entitled: A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Murrieta, California, Accepting the Fiscal Year 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant Award and Amending the Fiscal Year 2024/25 Operating Budget to Allocate and Appropriate the Grant Funds;
Accept the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant award;
Amend the FY 2024/25 Operating Budget to allocate and appropriate the grant funds for $15,978; and carry over any unused grant budget to Fiscal Year 2025/26; and
Authorize the City Manager, and/or Designee, to sign and submit all necessary grant-related documents and take actions required to accept and implement the grant.
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PRIOR ACTION/VOTE
On June 6, 2023, the City Council of the City of Murrieta adopted Resolution No. 23-219, approving the Operating Budget for FY 2023/24 and 2024/25 (Operating Budget) (Vote: 4-0-1).
CITY COUNCIL GOAL
Maintain a high performing organization that values fiscal sustainability, transparency, accountability and organizational efficiency.
BACKGROUND
Murrieta Fire & Rescue (MFR) submitted a sub-grantee application for the FY 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant (SHSP) to continue working with the California Office of Emergency Services. The grant is part of the federal Homeland Security fund that, in part, provides supplies, training, and equipment for emergency personnel and disaster preparedness at the state and local levels. The County of Riverside Emergency Management Department received its annual SHSP grant award from the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and has been authorized to allocate awards to the approved sub-grantee applicants. On April 23, 2025, MFR received the SHSP grant award letter via email from the granting agency for $15,978.
The grant performance period for the SHSP grant commenced on April 23, 2025, and ends on May 31, 2026. The purpose of the grant is to provide supplies and equipment to the public, covering disaster preparedness for medical operations, disaster response, fire safety, light search and rescue, and team organization. The FY 2024 SHSP grant funds will be allocated in the Homeland Security Grant Fund 376 for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) supplies, equipment, and a field-based CERT training course to support the grant program activities.
FISCAL IMPACT
A new budget appropriation is needed to establish the revenue and expenditure budgets for the acceptance of the grant. This action establishes a revenue budget in the amount of $15,978 in the Homeland Security Grant SHSP (Fund 376) as Intergovernmental Revenues-Federal (42222) and establishes the appropriation in the amount of $15,978 between the operating accounts for safety supplies in Object Code 64200, equipment in Object Code 60800, and training services in Object Code 60480.
ATTACHMENTS
1. FY 2024 SHSP Grant Award Letter from the County of Riverside Emergency Management Department
2. Resolution No. 25-4861