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AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, INCREASING
ESTIMATED REVENUES AND APPROPRIATIONS BY $4,000 IN THE GENERAL FUND
FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR A STATE GRANT.
WHEREAS, the City of Kenai was awarded a $4,000 grant from the FEMA Department
of Homeland Security through the State of Alaska Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 2006
State Homeland Security Program to purchase mobile data terminal; and,
WHEREAS, a mobile data terminal will allow the City's Fire Department to complete
incident run reports immediately upon completion of each run increasing both
efficiency and accuracy; and,
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Kenai to accept this grant for its
intended purpose.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI,
ALASKA that estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as follows:
General Fund
Increase Estimated Revenues:
State.Grant $4,000
Increase Appropriations:
Fire -Small Tools $4,000
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this fourth day of
February, 2009.
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PAT PORTER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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Corene Hall, Acting City Clerk
Approved by Finance: ~ L-~-W'
Introduced: January 21, 2009
Adopted: February 4, 2009
Effective: February 4, 2009
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INTER FFI E RAND
KENAI FIRE
DEPARTMENT
Date: January 13, 2009
To: Rick Koch
From: Chief Tilly
Subject: DHS Grant
The purpose of this memo is to explain the rationale for requesting this
DHS grant money and explain the proposed uses.
With the current utilization of mobile data terminals becoming more
standard within many aspects of emergency services for immediate on
scene data retrieval, we feel that these terminals can and will be utilized
for multiple applications within our community.
The application of such technology will assist us in developing and
maintaining instant access pre-fire plans that will include building
description, photos, known area fire flows, known hazards such as on site
hazardous materials, initial response plans, construction type and any
alarm and suppression systems that are present that may affect tactics or
strategies. Information will be accurate and will be able to be accessed
immediately upon arriving on scene.
Being able to create, and expand on our current data base, structural
information will be utilized to direct safe and efficient deployment of
firefighting resources by utilizing instant access of accurate information.
Instant access to GIS (Geographic Information Services) software that is
shared by dispatch centers can be loaded and utilized for multi agency
responses to incidents as well as mutual aid responses for directions,
topographical information for wild land fires, search and rescue and even
water based locates.