For City Council Meeting February 10, 2026
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
AUTHOR: Chris Jensen, Acting Fire Chief/ Fire Marshal
Title
Request City Council to: (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8462 Amending the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Accept the Fiscal Year 2023 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Award in the Amount of $16,916 and the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Award in the Amount of $16,466; and (3) Authorize the City Manager or Designee to Execute all Related Documents. This Grant Requires no Local City Match.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1) Adopt a Resolution amending the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget;
2) Accept the FY2023 Homeland Security Grant Program in the amount of $16,916 and the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program in the Amount of $16,466; and
3) Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents.
BACKGROUND
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) is the lead 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 maximum potential to respond to and recover from the effects of 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 years 2023 and 2024 for the fire service were coordinated through the San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services. The City of Rialto Fire Department was awarded funds for Fiscal Year 2023 in the amount of $16,916 and Fiscal Year 2024 in the amount of $16,466.
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 through the General Plan. The acceptance of these funds through the HSGP is consistent with meeting these objectives:
Goal 5-3.1: Provide for fire personnel, equipment, and fire stations to have adequate and appropriate resources to meet the needs and serve all areas of Rialto.
LEGAL REVIEW
The City Attorney's Office has reviewed the staff report and approved the resolution as to form.
FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Operating Budget Impact
Accepting the 2023 and 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) will increase revenue in the amount of $33,382.00 to be appropriated in the FY 2023 Homeland Security Grant Program, Account No. 22055188-47560-G1123-90 (FY23 $16,916) and FY 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program, Account No. 22055188-47560-G1124-90 (FY24 $16,466) and offsetting the increase of expenditures in the amount of $33,382.00 in FY 2023 Homeland Security Grant Program, Account No. 22055188-52021-G1123-42 (FY23 $16,916) and FY 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program, Account No. 22055188-52021-G1124-42 (FY24 $16,466) for the expenditures associated with the purchase of the equipment for this grant. This grant requires no local City match funds.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
There is no impact on the Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This action does not require a business license.
ATTACHMENTS
(1) Resolution