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PROPOSED GRANT AWARD
Department: Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Grantee: Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Grantor: Illinois Emergency Management Agency
Request: Authorization to accept grant
Purpose: The purpose of the FFY 2014 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Grant is to build an enhanced and sustainable capacity to prevent, protect against, mitigate the effects of, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events, whether man-made or natural.
Grant Amount: $27,650,598.95
Grant Period: 9/1/2014 - 3/31/2016
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Accounts: N/A
Concurrences:
The Budget Department has received all requisite documents and determined the fiscal impact on Cook County, if any.
Summary: The FFY 2014 UASI grant program will allow for Cook County to continue to support our cyber security threat and awareness posture, sustain our community preparedness and outreach efforts, countering violent extremism program, maintain our interoperable communications capabilities, support our CBRNE protection, detection, and response capabilities through training, exercising and equipping our first responder community, while continuing to provide a coordinated and collaborative framework to gather, validate and share information relative to intelligence, public safety and security and all hazards events. Funding categories include planning, management and administration, equipment, training and exercises.
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