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preliminary list of the types of equipment that would be purchased with these grant funds includes: • Radiological monitoring equipment • Self-contained breathing apparatus for Law Enforcement Special Emergency Response Teams for the Orange County Sheriff's and Chapel Hill Police departments • A computerized Tracking and Event Management System to network the County's and Towns' emergency operations centers (EOCs) • A pharmaceutical stockpile for the Orange County Health Department An exercise subcommittee has been formed from interested members of this planning committee as well as the public health bioterrorism committee to plan and evaluate the potential use of funds from the exercise component of the grant. These members will engage in special training to facilitate their participation in this manner. Training funds from this grant would be used to retain a contractor to develop a curriculum at a terrorism awareness level and offer classes to interested first responders within the County. In an undertaking in FY 2002-03 similar to the approach for this proposed grant acceptance, the BOCC accepted roughly $50,000 in funding provided through the Department of Justice for terrorism preparedness equipment. The County used a similar consultative process for determining emergency response agency needs and the decision was made to purchase gas masks and accessories for use by community public safety and emergency response personnel. That equipment has been received, and coincidentally, will be distributed to users in emergency response agencies during training scheduled for the evening of August 19. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no County match required for the receipt of the State- administered reimbursable Federal grant. 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 Chair to sign Annex A, accepting all portions of the grant award; • Authorize the Manager to identify Nick Waters, 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.