Title
Enter Into 2025 Readiness Cooperative Agreement with FEMA (Ordinance S-52289) - Citywide
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to retroactively apply for, accept, and disburse Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds totaling $1,418,311 for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 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 US&R Response System. This readiness cooperative agreement aims to support the continued development and maintenance of the 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 US&R 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 deployed to a wide range of disasters and emergencies, including flooding in New Mexico, wildfires in New Mexico, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11 World Trade Center response in New York City, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike, Harvey, Irma, and Florence, as well as more recent events such as Tropical Cyclones Helene and Milton and the Kerr County, Texas floods.
Contract Term
The agreement's term is three years, from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2028.
Financial Impact
The Fire Department will receive an amount not to exceed $1,418,311 from FEMA for the FY 2025 National US&R Response System Readiness Cooperative Agreement.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Lori Bays and the Fire Department.