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File #: 2019-2202    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 10/18/2019 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: 10/22/2019 Final action: 11/4/2019
Enactment date: 11/4/2019 Enactment #: 743
Effective date: 11/6/2019    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into a grant agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, to receive an FY 2018 Assistance to Firefighters Grant, and further providing for an agreement or agreements for the purchase of the Halo Escape System and subsequent training for Fire Bureau personnel.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)
Attachments: 1. Summary 2019-2202
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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into a grant agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, to receive an FY 2018 Assistance to Firefighters Grant, and further providing for an agreement or agreements for the purchase of the Halo Escape System and subsequent training for Fire Bureau personnel.

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of Public Safety are hereby authorized to enter into a Grant Agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, to receive an FY 2018 Assistance to Firefighters Grant in an amount not to exceed Three Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand, Five Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars and Twenty-Seven Cents ($349,527.27), which shall be used by the City to purchase the Halo Escape System and provide subsequent training for Fire Bureau personnel. The Grant Agreement shall be approved as to form and substance by the City Solicitor, and monies shall be deposited into Grants Trust Fund JDE Account 2529400291.45703.00, Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Fire.

Section 2. The Mayor, the Director of Public Safety and the Fire Chief, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby further authorized to enter into an Agreement(s) or Contract(s), and/or utilize existing Agreement(s) and/or Contract(s), in a form approved by the City Solicitor, for any or all services and/or goods, and to make all legitimate expenditures for services and/or goods required under the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, outlined in Section 1 of this resolution. Said Agreement(s) or Contract(s) for expenditures shall not exceed Three Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand, Five Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars and Twenty-Seven Cents ($349,527.27), chargeable to and payable from Grants Trust ...

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