Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to apply |
for, accept, and appropriate a grant from the Federal Emergency Management |
Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security for the period September |
10, 2003 to February 9, 2005 in the amount of one million one hundred |
thousand dollars ($1,100,000) to meet the continued expenses of the Fire |
Department's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Team as they equip and train |
to respond to natural disasters and/or weapons of mass destruction (WMD) |
incidents; and authorizing the City Manager to competitively bid and award |
contracts for the purchase of trucks, trailers and forklifts as required by FEMA, |
without return to Council up to a total amount not to exceed four hundred |
thousand dollars ($400,000) |