TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Robert Espinosa, Fire Chief
Eve Irvine, Police Chief
Bruce Moe, Finance Director
SUBJECT:Title
Re-Appropriation for Temporary Use of a Portion of General Fund Reserves for a Joint Funding Agreement Between the Cities of Manhattan Beach, Gardena and Hawthorne to Provide Advanced Funding to the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority (RCC) for a Department of Homeland Security, Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Reimbursable Grant for Construction of Interagency Communications Interoperability Systems (Finance Director Moe).
APPROVE AND RE-APPROPRIATE FUNDS
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council re-appropriate $2.25 million from General Fund Financial Policy Reserves in FY 2016-2017 (originally appropriated in FY 2015-2016) to provide advanced funding to the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority (RCC) for a Department of Homeland Security, Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Reimbursable Grant for construction of interagency communications interoperability systems. City funds will be reimbursed by grant funds after project completion (expected within six months of award of grant).
In the event the $2.25 million in funds are not fully advanced during Fiscal Year 2016-2017, staff further recommends that City Council authorize re-appropriation of the remaining balance in future years until fully expended.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The interoperability project has a total cost of $5 million. The grant requires pre-funding by the lead agency (RCC on behalf of its member agencies) which DHS will reimburse the RCC, and the RCC will reimburse the contributing agencies, within six months once the expenditures have been completed.
Because the RCC does not have sufficient reserves to fund such a large expenditure, the member agencies (owners) must pr...
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