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City of Kenai
ORDINANCE N0.2025-2003
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA INCREASING
ESTIMATED REVENUES AND APPROPRIATIONS BY X205,027 IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR AN ALASKA STATE HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT TO PURCHASE A DIGITAL
WIRELESS STATEWIDE SHARED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.
WHEREAS, the City of Kenai received an Alaska State Homeland Security grant for
X205,027 to purchase a digital statewide shared public safety communications system
consisting of a radio tower, antennas and base station radios for the Kenai Emergency
Operations Center, and mobile and portable radios compatible with the Alaska Land
Mobile Radio Network; and,
WHEREAS, in 1997 the City of Kenai, with support from the Federal Aviation
Administration and the Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management,
built the Alaska Regional Aircraft Firefighter Training Facility; and,
WHEREAS, the top floor of this facility, nearly 8,000 square feet, was designed to FEMA
specifications as an Emergency Operations Center with the intent of the City of Kenai to
equip the Emergency Operations Center and make it functional for disaster
management and emergency operations training; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Kenai, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the Alaska Division of
Emergency Services see the equipping of the Kenai Emergency Operations Center as a
vital step in protecting the critical infrastructure of Southcentral Alaska by assuring the
stability and continuity of command, control and communications in time of disasters;
and,
WHEREAS, on May 27, 2003, the City of Kenai applied for an Alaska State Homeland
Security Grant through the Office of Domestic Preparedness to procure funding to equip
the Kenai Emergency Operations Center; and,
WHEREAS, the Alaska Office of Domestic Preparedness has awarded the City of Kenai
X205,027 for the purchase of an Emergency Operations Center radio tower, radios, and
ALMR mobile and portable radios for the City of Kenai Police and Fire Department
personnel.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI,
ALASKA that estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as follows:
Emer~ency Operations Center Capital Project Fund
Increase Estimated Revenues:
State Grants ~205~027
Increase Appropriations:
Construction 205 027
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PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AI, AL thi 19~ of
November, 2003. /1 ~ _
A ST:
Carol L. Freas, City Clerk
Approved by Finance:-~
(10/24/2003) hl
HN J ILLIAMS, MAYOR
Introduced: November 5, 2003
Adopted: November 19, 2003
Effective: November 19, 2003