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CONSIDERATION OF GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $317,419 FROM THE KANSAS HIGHWAY PATROL (KHP) FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH INCIDENT PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Presented by: Claudia Blackburn, Health Department Director.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept the grant award; establish budget authority as provided in the Financial Considerations section of this Request, and authorize the Chair to sign the grant agreement.
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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 Metropolitan Medical Response System (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 year the 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 21, 2011
Grant period ends: April 30, 2013
Source of funding
Grant: $ 317,419.00
Required Match: $ 0.00
Required Cash Match: $ 0.00
Required In-Kind Match: $ 0.00
Other funding:$ 0.00
TOTAL SOURCES $317,419.00
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $ 317,419.00
Personnel: $ 106,477.00
Contractual services: $ 11,500.00
Operational supplies: $199,442.00
Equipment:$0.00
Indirect administrative costs:$0.00
Capital projects cost:$0.00
TOTAL USES $317,419.00
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: Yes; $317,419.00 will be managed through fund center 38085-274, MMRS.
Personnel considerations: None at this time.
Analysis:
The grant will allow MMRS to continue:
1) multi-agency coordination and development of plans,
2) to bring incident response training to the region and
3) to conduct disaster exercises.
Over the last several years, the program has worked to improve regional health and medical capacities for responding to disasters by:
• purchasing a Health and Medical Surge System (Hospital Tent)
• hosting an annual health and medical symposium
With this years grant, the plan is to continue to increase regional collaboration by expanding the Health and Medical Surge System and to provide training and exercises for health and medical response leaders to help coordinate the health and medical response to a disaster.
Expected measurable outcomes:
1. Successful implementation of grant equipment purchases to increase the ability of health and medical personnel to respond to a natural or man-made disaster.
2. Complete and exercise a regional Health and Medical Response Plan.
3. 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 Kansass capacity for preparedness and response. Additionally, the funding would default to Wyandotte County (only other MMRS jurisdiction in the State of Kansas) who would use the funds to support the communities in their region, leaving Sedgwick County/South Central Kansas with zero funding.
Policy considerations:
Legal considerations: The specific federal and state administrative requirements are set forth in the Special Conditions FY10, beginning on page 4. Approval is by simple majority vote.