Title
Authorization to Enter into Affiliated Personnel Agreements for Arizona Task Force One (Ordinance S-50774)
Description
Request authorization for the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into agreements with Justin Chandler, Christopher Courtney, Todd Davis, and Jordan Jacobs to serve as Affiliated Personnel of the Arizona Task Force One (AZ-TF1). Affiliated Personnel will be reimbursed through Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds. Further request authorization for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
The Phoenix Fire Department (PFD) is the sponsoring agency of AZ-TF1, one of 28 national Urban Search and Rescue response system task forces that can rapidly deploy skilled personnel and state-of-the-art equipment to sites of natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and building collapses.
AZ-TF1 consists of individuals occupying certain specified positions plus additional support personnel, all of whom have been properly trained with the requisite skills and capabilities required for urban search and rescue operations and/or deployment of the AZ-TF1. As a requirement of the Urban Search and Rescue Readiness Cooperative Agreement, PFD is charged with the recruitment and training of new task force members to an operation-ready state of deployment.
Contract Term
The agreements shall be effective upon approval and execution and shall remain in effect for a term of five years.
Financial Impact
Affiliated Personnel will be reimbursed through FEMA funds.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Fire Department.