For City Council Meeting December 9, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
AUTHOR: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
Title
Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8436 Amending the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Accept the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Award in the Amount of $34,120; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to Execute all Related Documents. This Grant Requires no Local City Match.
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Adopt a Resolution amending the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget;
2) Accept the FY2024 Homeland Security Grant Program in the amount of $34,120; and
3) Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents.
BACKGROUND
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) is the agency vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdictions previously held within the Governor’s Offices of Homeland Security (OHS) and Emergency Services (OES).
Specifically, Cal EMA is responsible for designing and implementing homeland security initiatives and ensuring the State’s readiness is at its maximum potential to respond to and recover from the effects of all crises. Through these efforts, Cal EMA remains committed to the four mission areas of the HSGP - to prevent, prepare, respond and recover.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The California Governor’s Office of Homeland Security allocates funds through the Office of Emergency Services. Proposed projects must relate to any of the State’s priorities, which are as follows:
• Interoperable Communications
• Catastrophic Planning
• Medical Surge
• Citizen Preparedness
• Critical Infrastructure
• Training/Equipment
• Food and Agriculture Safety
Applications for fiscal year 2024 funds for law enforcement were coordinated through the San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services. The City of Rialto Police Department was awarded $34,120 for the purchase of equipment.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
The proposed action does not meet the definition of a project as defined by Section 15378 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A “Project” means the whole of an action, which has a potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and excludes the following: (1) Continuing administrative or maintenance activities, such as purchases for supplies, personnel-related actions, general policy, and procedure making. (2) Organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY
The City of Rialto has outlined key goals and objectives relating to public safety. The acceptance of this award is consistent with meeting these objectives.
Goal 5-8: Provide effective and comprehensive policing services that meet the safety needs of Rialto.
LEGAL REVIEW
The City Attorney's Office has reviewed the staff report and resolution and approved it as to form.
FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Operating Budget Impact
Accepting the 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) will increase revenue in the amount of $34,120 to be appropriated in the Homeland Security Grant Revenue Account No. 22476992-47560 24HSG-32 and offsetting the increase of expenditures in the amount of $34,120 in the Account No. 22476992 53030 24HSG-07 for the expenditures associated with the purchase of equipment for this grant award.
This grant requires no local City match.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
There is no impact on the Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This action does not trigger a requirement for a business license.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Resolution amending FY2025-2026 budget
2. Office of Emergency Services notification of grant approval and authorization to expense grant funds
3. FY2024 Homeland Security Project Grant approved project