Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Christina Corpus, Sheriff
Subject: FY 2024 Urban Area Security Initiative Grant
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution:
A) Authorizing an agreement with the City and County of San Francisco for the distribution of FY 2024 Urban Area Security Initiative grant funds for the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, for a term commencing November 1, 2024, through December 31, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $5,857,265; and
B) Authorizing the Sheriff or Sheriff’s designee to execute interagency agreements in amounts that do not exceed $350,000 each, utilizing solely the $5,857,265 of grant funding, with other public agencies, for the purpose of reimbursing those agencies for the cost of personnel assigned to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.
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BACKGROUND:
Over the past 20 years, the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (NC HIDTA) program has provided a stable source of federal funding and collaborative regional leadership to combat organized drug trafficking and related crime. In 2004, the Northern California Regional Threat Assessment Center (NC RTAC) was established under the NC HIDTA management to make it possible for public safety agencies to identify and assess terrorist threats in the San Francisco Bay Area. The NC RTAC was co-located with the NC HIDTA to form an information “Fusion Center” for the federal Northern District of California.
In 2009, the Fusion Center began doing business as the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC). The United States Department of Homeland Security and the State of California have designated the NCRIC as the regional Fusion Center for the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as the focal point for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal government and state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners. The NCRIC is funded by federal State Homeland Security Program funds, for which the State of California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) serves as the grantee as well as the federal Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) funds, for which the City and County of San Francisco serves as the regional Administrator.
DISCUSSION:
The Sheriff’s Office is requesting this Board to accept the agreement with the City and County of San Francisco for the distribution of FY 2024 UASI grant funds to support the NCRIC for a term commencing November 1, 2024, through December 31, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $5,857,265. This request is late as the agreement was not received by the NCRIC until December 17, 2024. In addition, the NCRIC needed additional time for budget negotiations.
The Sheriff’s Office is also requesting this Board to authorize the Sheriff or Sheriff’s designee to execute interagency agreements in amounts that do not exceed $350,000 each, utilizing solely the $5,857,265 of grant funding, with other public agencies, for the purpose of reimbursing those agencies for the cost of personnel assigned to the NCRIC.
In addition, the Sheriff’s Office is requesting this Board to authorize the Sheriff or Sheriff’s designee to execute amendments to agreements which modify the County’s maximum fiscal obligation by no more than $25,000 (in aggregate), and/or modify the agreement term and/or services so long as the modified term or services is/are within the current or revised fiscal provisions.
The County Attorney has reviewed and approved the resolution and the FY 2024 UASI grant agreement as to form.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The agreement is for a term commencing November 1, 2024, through December 31, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $5,857,265. All costs associated with the NCRIC are 100% grant reimbursable from federal and state funds. There will be no Net County Cost.
EQUITY IMPACT:
The NC HIDTA/NCRIC will positively impact communities across Northern California through their diverse programs that protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties, while reducing the harmful impacts of crime on underserved areas and communities that are disparately impacted by the distribution of dangerous drugs, human trafficking, organized crime, and violent crime. The NC HIDTA/NCRIC programs are actively advancing a vision of equitable access to public safety resources, opportunities to live in communities free from the harmful impacts of crime, and provide justice for every member of our diverse communities across the region.
The NC HIDTA/NCRIC will impact drug trafficking organizations, human trafficking organizations, illicit weapons trafficking organizations, terrorists, and other violent criminals through multi-disciplinary public safety partnerships, training, analysis, technology, and investigative support that will enhance community collaboration to identify, investigate, mitigate, and prevent threats to the communities that we serve in fifteen counties. NC HIDTA/NCRIC personnel have engaged with communities impacted by organized crime through community meetings, working groups, and direct outreach with community and public safety leaders.
Personnel have also been working on mitigating negative impacts that have hindered equitable outcomes for underserved and protected communities by providing federal, state, local, and tribal public safety partners with California Values Act compliant information sharing, analytical, technology, and training resources to focus the whole of government on the greatest threats to our most vulnerable communities, while protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.