TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Robert Espinosa, Fire Chief
Ron Laursen, Battalion Chief
Walberto Martin, Sr. Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Resolution No. 15-0026 Portal-to-Portal Compensation for the City of Manhattan Beach to Continue Portal-to-Portal Reimbursements from the California Office of Emergency Management (Fire Chief Espinosa).
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 15-0026 Portal-to-Portal Compensation for the City of Manhattan Beach in order to continue to receive full reimbursements for all suppression personnel on a portal-to-portal basis for all mutual aid deployments throughout California.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Unless the City of Manhattan Beach adopts a resolution requiring the California Office of Emergency Management (Cal-OES) to reimburse the city for travel time to and from mutual aid incidents, the state will only pay for actual work time on-scene at the emergency. In August, 2014 the City of Manhattan Beach deployed five (5) firefighters in a South Bay strike team to Siskiyou County in Northern California. The total drive time to and from the incident base of operations was more than 24 hours. If this incident were to occur without a portal-to-portal agreement, the City would be responsible for more than $13,800 in costs for employee wages to and from the deployment. The unreimbursed costs would then come from the City's general fund.
Local agencies that do not have an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), Governing Body Resolution (GBR) or equivalent, indicating that the City must be compensated for all costs, including travel to and from the site, we would not be reimbursed for travel time to and from the emergency incident location.
BACKGROUND:
Prior to March 31, 2015, C...
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