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CONSIDERATION OF A STAFFING FOR ADEQUATE FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAFER) GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $967,377 TO PAY FOR THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS OF SIX FIREFIGHTER POSITIONS.
Presented by: Larry Tangney, Deputy Fire Chief.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the application for the grant, and if awarded, authorize acceptance of the grant and the establishment of budget authority as provided in the Financial Considerations section of this request.
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Grant Renewal: No
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: SAFER grants provide financial assistance to help fire departments rehire firefighters that have been laid off, retain firefighters facing imminent layoffs, fill positions that were vacated through attritions or hire new firefighters. The goal is to assist departments to improve or restore staffing levels to ensure they have adequate personnel to respond to and safely perform at incident scenes, thereby providing protection from fire and fire-related hazards. The grant provides two-years of assistance to fire departments by paying the salaries and benefits of the SAFER-funded positions.
If the grant is applied for and approved, it will pay the salary and benefits for six firefighter positions. At the end of the two-year grant period, the Fire District will not be required to retain those positions.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: June 1, 2015
Grant period ends: The grant will pay the salary and benefits for the positions for 24 months.
Source of funding
Grant: $967,377
Required Match: $0
Required Cash Match: $0
Required In-Kind Match: $0
Other funding:$0
TOTAL SOURCES: $967,377
Uses of funding (Note: Include any Required Matches in your totals)
Operational costs: $0
Personnel: $967,377
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