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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 12, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5-E?„ <br />SUBJECT: Memorandum of Agreement with North Carolina Department of Crime Control <br />and Public Safety for Locally Managed Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention <br />Program (LETPP) Grant Funds <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />12/20/04 Orange County Letter re: <br />Revisions to LETPP Grant <br />Memorandum of Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jack Ball, ext 3030 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a memorandum of agreement that will govern a previously awarded <br />State pass-through grant award of federal Homeland Security funds in the amount of $54,000 to <br />reimburse Orange County for interoperable communications system planning. <br />BACKGROUND: The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded the <br />State of North Carolina funding for homeland security equipment, planning, and training <br />activities through the FY2004 State Homeland Security Grant Program- Law Enforcement <br />Terrorism Prevention Program Section. Federal funding is allocated in accordance with a DHS <br />formula of 80% for local government use and 20% for state use, <br />In Spring 2004, Orange County Emergency Management submitted a competitive grant <br />application to the State of North Carolina for infrastnacture and interoperable communications <br />planning. In April 2004, the County was notified that it had been awarded a total of $1,868,000 <br />for this purpose. The Town of Chapel Hill, which submitted a companion grant application, was <br />notified that it had been awarded $832,500. For the joint partnership project, funding totaled <br />$2,700,500, Of this amount, $.54,000 was provided to Orange County and $262,500 was <br />provided to Chapel Hill as locally managed funding, leaving $2,384,000 in funding for <br />infrastructure managed by the state. <br />As a condition of receiving the 2004 LETPP funding through the State, the remaining funding <br />must be administered by the North Carolina Division of Highway Patrol, which will build two <br />towers on the 800 MHz radio system. A separate Memorandum of Agreement for that portion <br />will be forthcoming from the State for future action by the Board of Commissioners. The <br />accompanying Memorandum of Agreement between the County and North Catalina Emergency <br />