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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH MSA SAFETY SALES, LLC FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWENTY-SEVEN SELF-CONTAINED BREATHING APPARATUS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
Brief Description: This request will enable Hudson Fire Department to replace their existing fifteen-year-old SCBA's that are expiring in August of 2022. We estimated and budgeted $300,000 for this project. In March of 2021, $202,827.27 in grant funding was requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighter Grant (AFG). In August of 2021 the Hudson Fire Department was awarded $174,872.73 to assist with our SCBA project. The additional portion of the project that was not eligible to be covered by the grant is $88,697.45 and is currently approved in the HFD 2022 budget. The total cost of this SCBA project is $263,570.18 which is $36,429.82 below our initial project estimate.
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Legislative History
Resolution No. 21-31, a resolution affirming the application submitted by the City Manager's designee to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant; Passed 3/16/21
Resolution No. 21-97, a resolution affirming the acceptance by the City Manager's designee of an Assistance to Firefighters Grant awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Passed 9/21/21
Purpose & Explanation
Our current SCBA cylinders expire in August of 2022 and will no longer be able to be used per the U.S. DOT Code of Federal Regulations. We started preparing for replacing our SCBA's in early 2021. We applied for the FEMA AFG grant in the amount of $202,827.27 on 3/16/21. We were notified on 8/27/21 that we were awarded $174,872.73 to assist with our SCBA project. Only certain parts of the SCBA project were eligible to be included in the grant. The balance of the project, $88,697.45 needs to be purchased from HFD funds.
A committee of five members from the Hudson Fire Department was ...
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