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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 19, 2008 <br />Action Agend~ <br />Item No. ll....~~.. <br />SUBJECT: Acceptance of 2008 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Grant Award Packet <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Montes de Oca, 968-2050 <br />Clint Osborn, 968-2050 <br />PURPOSE: To accept the 2008 Emergency Management Performance Grant from the State <br />Emergency Management Agency to help support the County emergency management program. <br />BACKGROUND: The State provides grants to local governments to support local emergency <br />management programs. The grant is based on the county population and a share of the <br />program cost. Counties with a population over 200,000 are eligible fora 100 percent matching <br />cost grant based on certain emergency management functions. Counties with a population of <br />less than 200,000 are eligible for a fifty (50) percent match. The grants are awarded each year <br />and may vary depending on the federal funding available. This grant has been awarded to <br />Orange County for multiple years and can offset fifty percent of the personnel costs of the <br />Emergency Services Director, and a portion of the Health Department position coordinating the <br />Community Emergency Response Team program, as well as other operating costs. Associated <br />revenues have been included in each year's budget. <br />Staff was notified that the County could again apply for funding .under this program for the <br />period from October 1, 2008 -September 30, 2009 with the application due no later than June <br />3, 2008. The grant was awarded during the BOCC summer break. <br />FY Grant Award <br />2003-04 $39,694 <br />2004-05 $40,366 <br />2005-06 $32,354 <br />2006-07 $29,887 <br />2007-08 $27,873 <br />2008-09 $51,825 <br />