Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Carlos G. Bolanos, Sheriff
Subject: FY 2019 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 2019 Urban Area Security Initiative grant funds for the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, for a term commencing November 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $4,990,371; and
B) Authorizing the Sheriff or Sheriff's designee to execute interagency agreements in amounts that do not exceed $325,000, utilizing solely the $4,990,371 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, territoria...
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