17-0807_ORANGE, COUNTY OF_Staff Memo CI
MEMORANDUM
DATE: August 7, 2017
TO: Ben Siegel, City Manager
FROM: Lynn Mata, Emergency Services Manager
SUBJECT: Homeland Security Grant —Transfer Agreement
The attached document is a Transfer Agreement for your signature.
The Orange County Operational Area has received a grant from the State of California, through
the Office of Emergency Services, to enhance county-wide emergency preparedness. This
agreement must be signed in order for the City to qualify as a sub-recipient of the grant.
The items that will be distributed on this grant will be CERT backpacks. Jurisdictions like San
Juan Capistrano who are members of the CERT Mutual Aid Program (CMAP), will receive
approximately 25 filled, CERT backpacks with a value of $42 each. In speaking with our CERT
leadership, I was advised that we have received similar items in the past on similar grants. This
Agreement will also serve, if any additional grant funded equipment is distributed on this grant.
I have reviewed the agreement and questioned the County on the mention of "Attachments"
on page 4. Their reply was that this is a standard template for each grant year.and there may
not always be attachments, as in this case. I also spoke with City Clerk's office and was advised
that this agreement does not need to go to Council with your signature authority in place.