REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Approve Budget Modification No. 27 to Appropriate $110,567 of Bay Area UASI Grant Funds for a New Project, FFY 2017 UASI Preventative Radiological Nuclear Detection (PRND) Equipment Grant
Report
GRANT SUMMARY
On July 27, 2017, the City was awarded grant funds in the amount of $110,567 to the Department of Public Safety for the purchase of Preventative Radiological Nuclear Detection (PRND) Equipment.
This grant will equip Sunnyvale Public Safety personnel with combination Personal Radiation Detectors (PRD's) with built in dosimetry capability to be utilized as primary screening devices. The grant also provides funds to acquire secondary screening devices, which will utilize a Radioisotope Identifying Device (RIID) to verify the specific isotope identified by a primary screening activity.
The equipment will be used by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to respond to catastrophic disasters and emergency events throughout the City. DPS will also use this equipment when deployed to mutual aid events throughout the region, for primary detection, secondary screening and technical reach back missions; during augmented PRND detection based on threat analysis/large public gatherings; or in active intelligence driven search for radiological or nuclear material.
The Division of Special Operations in the Department of Public Safety will be responsible for the management of the grant.
Granting Agency
This grant is funded by the Area Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), through a Department of Homeland Security grant administered by the California Office of Emergency Services. The City and County of San Francisco is the designated grantee for UASI funds and will execute a sub-grantee agreement with the City of Sunnyvale (Attachment 1).
Bay Area UASI sustains and improves regional capacity to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks and catastrophic disasters. Designed to enhance public safety...
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