DATE: June 4, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Fire Department
TITLE: ACCEPT GRANT FUNDS FROM THE STATE HOMELAND SECURITY PROGRAM FOR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council accept $80,122 in grant funds from the 2024 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) for Police and Fire Department equipment; appropriate these funds to the Fire and Police Departments; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute all related grant documents.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
The SHSP assists state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts to build, sustain, and deliver the capabilities necessary to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism. In 2024, the SHSP awarded $373 million to support the implementation of State Homeland Security Strategies to address capability targets set in Urban Area, State and Regional Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments (THIRAs). The capability targets are established during the THIRA process, assessed in the Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) and identify planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercise needs to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.
Section 2006 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended (6 U.S.C. ? 607), requires SHSP to dedicate 35 percent of SHSP grant-appropriated funds to law enforcement terrorism prevention activities including planning, organization, training, exercise, and equipment purchase activities. The San Diego County Unified Disaster Council manages the local area's SHSP grant funds and allocated $80,122 of reimbursable grant funds to the City of Oceanside ($42,305 for non-law enforcement activities and $37,817 for law enforcement activities).
The performance period for this award starts retroactively on September 1, 2024, and ends on May 31, 2026.
The equipment that will be purchase...
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