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CONSIDERATION OF GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $321,221 FROM THE KANSAS HIGHWAY PATROL (KHP) AND PASSED THROUGH TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH INCIDENT PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM.
Presented by: Claudia Blackburn, Health Department Director.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept the grant award; establish budget authority as provided in the Financial Consideratons 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 mass casualty events. These effforts are in response to incidents caused by a Weapons of Mass Destruction attack, epidemic/pandemic disease outbreak, large scale Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) incident or natural disaster. The core requirement of the MMRS program is the integration of first responders, medical treatment, public health, and emergency management components for a coordinated response to the health and medical aspects of a disaster. 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, 2012
Source of funding
Grant: $ 321,221.00
Required Match: $ 0.00
Required Cash Match: $ 0.00
Required In-Kind Match: $ 0.00
Other funding:$ 0.00
TOTAL SOURCES: $321,221.00
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $ 321,221.00
Personnel: $ 106,477.00
Contractual services: $ 11,500.00
Operational supplies: $ 203,244.00
Equipment:$ 0.00
Indirect administrative costs:$ 0.00
Capital projects cost:$ 0.00
TOTAL USES: $ 321,221.00
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: Yes; $321,221.00 will be managed through fund center 38085-274, MMRS.
Personnel considerations: None at this time.
Analysis:
This grant will allow the 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 as follows:
• implementing an electronic patient tracking system which was recently used for victims of the Joplin tornado coming into our region
• hosting an annual health and medical symposium
• purchasing medical surge and incident command equipment
With this grant, the plan is to continue to increase regional collaboration by sustaining a regional Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8 Task Force to respond to disasters to help coordinate the health and medical response. The money will also be used to increase interoperable communications among the health and medical community, host ESF 8 symposiums, and coordinate regional exercises.
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. 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, which would limit Sedgwick County/South Central Kansass capacity for preparedness and response. Additionally, the funding would default to Wyandotte County (the only other MMRS jurisdiction in the State of Kansas) to 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 compliance statutes and regulations are listed under Special Conditions FY09 found on pages 4 and 5 of the attached FY09 MMRS Grant Contract. Approval is by simple majority vote.