For City Council Meeting [February 13, 2024]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: David Carmany, City Manager
AUTHOR: Mark P. Kling, Chief of Police
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Request City Council to (1) Adopt Resolution No. 8185 Amending the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year Budget; (2) Accept the Fiscal Year 2022 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Award in the Amount of $30,869; and (3) Authorize the City Manager to Execute all Related Documents.
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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 2022 funds for law enforcement were coordinated through the San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services. The City of Rialto Police Department was awarded $30,869 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 has reviewed and supports this staff report
FINANCIAL IMPACT
Operating Budget Impact
Accepting the 2022 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) will increase revenue in the amount of $30,869 to be appropriated in the Homeland Security Grant Revenue Account No. 22476992-47560/211-32 and offsetting the increase of expenditures in the amount of $30,869 in the Account No. 22476992-52021/211-07 for the expenditures associated with the purchase of equipment for this grant award.
This grant requires no local City match.
Capital Improvement Budget Impact
This report does not impact the Capital Improvement Budget.
Licensing
This action does not trigger a requirement for a business license.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
(1) Adopt Resolution No. XXXX amending the 2023-2024 fiscal year budget;
(2) Accept the FY2022 Homeland Security Grant Program in the amount of $30,869; and
(3) Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all related documents.