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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a contract and all necessary amendments, including term extensions, with the City of Los Angeles to receive and expend Department of Homeland Security grant funding for the 2008 Port Security Grant Program, in an amount not to exceed $4,346,342 for a period of three years; and increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Fire Department (FD) by $1,240,333 and in the General Grants Fund
(SR 120) in the Police Department (PD) by $4,554,790. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has approved the Long Beach Police Department’s and Long Beach Fire Department’s grant proposals for the 2008 Port Security Grant Program (PSGP). The Area Maritime Security Committee, under the leadership of the United States Coast Guard Section Los Angeles/Long Beach (Coast Guard), selected these projects as being essential to ensure the safety and security of the nation’s busiest port complex.
The Coast Guard has appointed the City of Los Angeles as fiscal agent for the distribution of these funds, requiring a formal funding agreement between the two cities. This agreement is in the amount of $4,346,342 and will be in effect for a period of three years. These funds will be used primarily for infrastructure protection and reflect DHS’s overall investment strategy, in which two priorities have been paramount: risk-based funding and regional security cooperation. These PSGP funds support increased port-wide risk management; enhanced maritime domain awareness; training and exercises; and further capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from attacks involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other non-conventional weapons.
In addition, the enhanced capabilities provided by these projects offer significant benefits throughout the City and the region by improving the daily emergency response capabilities of the Fire Department and the crime prevention and app...
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