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ATTACHMENT 4 State Homeland Security Grant Program 0 Grant Project Ordinance Be it ordained by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners that pursuant to Section 13.2 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the following grant project is hereby adopted. Section 1. The project authorized is the State Homeland Security Grant Program as awarded to Orange County by the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. These funds are a State pass-through grant allocation of federal funds through the Department of Homeland Security, This grant program provides funding for the purchase of equipment, costs of exercises, and training costs associated with homeland security activities of the County, its municipalities, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Part 1), funds to improve domestic terrorism preparedness through the purchase of equipment for first responders, and to provide funding to train and exercise for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive incidents (Part 11), and upgrades to the 9-1-1 Center communication system. Section 2. Under the terms of the agreement, Orange County will administer the grant as fiscal agent. The officers of the County are hereby directed to proceed with the grant project within the grant document, and the rules and regulations of the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Section 3. The following revenue is anticipated to be available to complete this project Intergovernmental (2003-04) - Part I Funds $121,625 Intergovernmental (2003-04) - Part II Funds $363,908 Intergovernmental (2004-05) - Part I Funds $236,868 Intergovernmental (2005-06) - Part I Funds $2,000 Intergovernmental (2005-06) - 2004 LETPP Funds $54,000 Total $778,401 Section 4. There is no required County match for this grant. Section 5. The following amount is appropriated for this project: Public Safety - Homeland Security Grant Program $778,401 Section 6. The finance officer is hereby directed to maintain within the grant project sufficient specific detailed accounting records to provide the accounting to the grantor agency required by the grant agreement and federal and state regulations. Section 7. Funds may be advanced from the general fund for the purpose of making payments due. Reimbursement requests should be made to the grantor agency in an orderly and timely manner. Section 8. Copies of this grant project ordinance shall be made available to the finance officer for direction in carrying out this project. Section 9. There are no positions authorized through this grant project ordinance Section 10. This project ordinance is in effect until March 31, 2007, Adopted this 9th day of February 2006.