davSpecial Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Shruti Dhapodkar, Director, Department of Emergency Management
Subject: Updated Memorandum of Understanding That Governs the Bay Area Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the County Executive, or their designee, to execute an updated 2025 Memorandum of Understanding between the cities of Oakland and San Jose, and the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Sonoma, as well as the City and County of San Francisco.
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BACKGROUND:
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operates a Homeland Security Grant Program, which includes the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Program. This program addresses the unique planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high-threat, high-density "Urban Areas" and assists those areas in building an enhanced and sustainable capacity to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from threats and acts of terrorism. DHS requires each Urban Area receiving grant funds to establish an Urban Area Working Group (UAWG) to act as an executive steering committee and provide overall governance of the UASI Program across the regional area encompasses within the defined Urban Area.
In 2006, the core cities and counties of the Bay Area Urban Area (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Alameda, and Santa Clara) entered into an MOU setting forth their agreements regarding the objectives, governance structures, responsibilities, and financial agreements to use in applying for, allocating, and distributing UASI grant funds to the Bay Area Urban Area, and establishing the Bay Area UASI Approval Authority as the oversight body and the UAWG of the Bay Area Urban Area. The 2006 MOU designated the City and County of San Francisco as the "primary" grantee, and the fiscal agent for UASI funds.
After the expi...
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