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CONSIDERATION OF A GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $281,693 FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS METROPOLITAN MEDICAL RESPONSE SYSTEM (MMRS) AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Presented by: Claudia Blackburn, Health Director, Sedgwick County Health Department.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept the grant award; sign the award documents to authorize acceptance of the grant and establish budget authority as provided in the financial considerations section of this request.
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Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline:
Since 2000, the Health Department has received MMRS funding from the federal government. The MMRS program, along with state pass-through federal funding for bioterrorism preparedness enhances preparedness and readiness efforts to respond to a mass casualty event, whether caused by WMD attack, epidemic/pandemic disease outbreak, large scale HAZMAT incident, or natural disaster. The core requirement of the MMRS program is the integration of the health and medical community into the disaster response framework. This grant will continue to focus on a regional response within the 19 county South Central Kansas Region. The grant is non-competitive and program areas of focus coincide with previous MMRS contracts.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: September 1, 2011
Grant period ends: May 31, 2014
Source of funding
Grant: $281,693.00
Required Match: $0.00
Required Cash Match: $0.00
Required In-Kind Match: $0.00
Other funding: $0.00
TOTAL SOURCES: $281,693.00
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $281,693.00
Personnel: $134,647.00
Contractual services: $7,103.00
Operational supplies: $139,943.00
Equipment: $0.00
Indirect administrative costs:$0.00
Capital projects cost: $0.00
TOTAL USES: $281,693.00
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: Yes, for $281,693.00; funds to be managed through a new fund center.
Personnel considerations: None at this time.
Analysis:
The grant amount of $281,693 will allow MMRS to continue multi-agency coordination and development of plans, bring incident response training to the region and conduct disaster exercises. Over the last several years, the program has worked to improve regional health and medical capacities for responding to disasters by expanding the Health and Medical Surge System (Hospital Tent and Trailer) and hosting an annual health and medical symposium to provide more training for health and medical response leaders to help coordinate the health and medical response to a disaster. With this year's grant, the plan is to continue to increase regional collaboration by updating the current Mass Fatality Plan and to continue to provide more training and exercises to improve response in a disaster throughout the region.
Expected measurable outcomes:
Successful implementation of grant equipment purchases such as the Health and Medical Surge System and Patient Accountability Tracking System to increase the ability of health and medical personnel to respond to a natural or man-made disaster.
Complete and exercise a regional Mass Fatality Plan in conjunction with the Regional Forensic Science Center and other regional partners.
Over the grant period, meet or exceed expectations for at least 95% of all disaster exercise objectives regarding health and medical response plans.
Alternatives:
To not accept this funding would limit Sedgwick County/South Central Kansas's capacity for preparedness and response. Additionally, the funding would default to Wyandotte County (only other MMRS jurisdiction in the State of Kansas) where Wyandotte County would use the funds to support the communities in their region, leaving Sedgwick County/South Central Kansas with zero funding.
Policy considerations: N/A
Legal considerations: The MMRS Homeland Security Grant Program is found in the CFDA (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) at 97.071. See also Public Law 107-296. The grant pass through is from the Kansas Highway Patrol to the Health Department and County is authorized to enter into the grant contract by K.S.A. 19-101. Approval is by simple majority vote.