Title
2016 Fire Prevention & Safety Grant Application (Ordinance S-43596)
Description
Request retroactive authorization for the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for and, if awarded, accept $9,372 in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 2016 Fire Prevention & Safety (FP&S) Grant Program. The application closed on May 19, 2017. This request for retroactive authorization is due to the extremely short grant application timeline. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and for the City Controller to disburse, any grant monies awarded. If this request is not granted, the Fire Department will not accept any grant monies awarded.
Report
Summary
The purpose of FP&S grants is to enhance the safety of the public and firefighters with respect to fire and fire-related hazards by assisting fire prevention programs, supporting firefighter health, safety research, and development. The grant application requests $9,840 to conduct a pilot Floor Warden training program for high-rise buildings in the City of Phoenix. In the event of a fire, floor wardens are responsible for the safe, orderly, and timely evacuation of occupants from a high-rise building. Floor wardens also ensure that disabled occupants, who cannot utilize stairwells to evacuate, are placed in a designated safe refuge area.
Procurement Information
If awarded, the Fire Department will administer the grant in accordance with Administrative Regulation 3.10.
Contract Term
Grants are anticipated to be awarded on or around Aug. 1, 2017 and will have a one-year period of performance.
Financial Impact
If awarded, the Fire Department would receive $9,372 in funding. A five percent cost share is required of all awardees. The Fire Department would be responsible for a matching cost share of $468.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney, Jr. and the Fire Department.