TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Bernard Molloy, Fire Chief
PREPARED BY: Diana Lozano, Senior Management Analyst - Fire
SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year 2023 State Homeland Security Program Grant Award
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RECOMMENDATION
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Authorize the City Manager to accept the Fiscal Year 2023 State Homeland Security Program Grant (SHSP) award;
Authorize the City Manager to amend the Fiscal Year 2023/24 Operating Budget to allocate and appropriate the grant funds for $15,978; and
Authorize the City Manager to carry over any unused budget related to this grant from Fiscal Year 2023/24 to Fiscal Year 2024/25.
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PRIOR ACTION/VOTE
On June 6, 2023, the City Council of the City of Murrieta adopted Resolution No. 23-4671, approving the Operating Budget for Fiscal Years 2023/24 and 2024/25 (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 Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 SHSP grant to continue working with the California Office of Emergency Services. This is a federal grant from the Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Grant Program, passed through to the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) and the County of Riverside Emergency Management Department. The grant funds partly provide supplies, training, and equipment for emergency personnel and disaster preparedness at state and local levels. The County of Riverside Emergency Management Department received its annual SHSP grant award from CalOES and has been authorized to allocate awards to the approved sub-grantee applicants. On April 18, 2024, 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 9, 2024, and ends on May 31, 2025. 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 2023 SHSP grant funds will be allocated in the homeland security grant organizational code 376 for 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 in the Fiscal Year 2023/24 Operating Budget. 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 2023 SHSP Grant Award Letter from the County of Riverside Emergency Management Department