Title
Enter into 2024 Readiness Cooperative Agreement with FEMA (Ordinance S-51263)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to retroactively apply for, accept, and disburse Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds totaling $1,402,384 for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System Readiness Cooperative Agreement. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA provide support and funding for the maintenance and readiness of the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System. This readiness cooperative agreement aims to support the continued development and maintenance of a national US&R capability. It provides direction to the Phoenix Fire Department regarding the use of funding to provide administrative and program management, training, support, equipment cache procurement, maintenance, and storage.
The Phoenix Fire Department is the sponsoring agency of Arizona Task Force One (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. In addition to search and rescue, task force members provide immediate medical treatment to survivors, hazardous materials monitoring, and stabilization capabilities. In the past, AZ-TF1 has been deployed to flooding in New Mexico, Hurricanes Florence, Harvey, Irma, Rita, Katrina, Ike, Gustav, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 9/11 World Trade Center in New York City.
Contract Term
The agreement's term is three years, from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2027.
Financial Impact
The Fire Department will receive an amount not to exceed $1,402,384 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Urban Search & Rescue Response System Readiness Cooperative Agreement.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Fire Department.