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Memorandum of Agreement between the County and North Carolina Emergency Management expresses the conditions for the grant funding., In keeping with the approach used for prior Homeland Security grant awards, Orange County staff have pursued a stakeholder involvement process to determine the needs of response agencies within the County, Based on stakeholder discussion from prior meetings, the emergency response agencies agreed to recommend allocation of mast of the funding to interoperable communications. The agencies agreed that radios should be distributed to public safety agencies throughout the County. Invited to these meetings were representatives from Chapel Hill fire and police, Carrboro fire and police, UNC Public Safety, Hillsborough Police, Orange County Sheriff, Orange County Public Health, and Orange County Emergency Management. Among the topics discussed at the mast recent stakeholder meeting on October 13, 2004 was the importance of having the commitment of elected and staff leaders to seeing the project through by pursuing full funding for the 800Mhz related infrastructure and equipment, Similar grant projects were undertaken in FY 2002-04, using the same approach as for this proposed grant acceptance. Through these grants, the BOCC accepted funding for the County distributed through the Department of .Justice (now Department of Homeland Security) for terrorism preparedness equipment, exercise costs, and training expenses. Utilizing a dedicated part of prior year's funding, an exercise design team developed a series of three exercises to test the capabilities of the County's contagious disease response plan and other County and municipal agencies' plans associated with such an incident. These exercises occurred over the summer with successful outcomes and remarkable participation from the community. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no County match required far the receipt of the State- administered reimbursable Federal grant of $236,868,34. The County will seek reimbursement from the State pursuant to the terms of the grant. There may be some incidental use of existing staff time; however, no additional County costs should be expected. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board: • Accept the allocation award; • Authorize the Manager to sign the Memorandum of Agreement; Authorize the Manager to sign the Assurances of Participation; • Authorize the Manager to identify Rad Visser, Interim Director of Emergency Management, as the Designated Agent under Annex B; and • Authorize the Manager to identify Eric Griffin, Emergency Management Specialist, as the Point of Contact under Annex B,