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Board committee backs layered Homeland Security grants, sets conditions on regional UASI control
Summary
The committee approved forwarding a package of DEM grant acceptances and reserve releases — including a $22.656 million Super UASI grant and $776,000 buffer-zone funds — but amended items to require quarterly reporting, waiver of indirect costs where grantors don’t provide them, and limited release of reserves pending grant-extension decisions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee on [date] forwarded a package of Homeland Security grant measures for full-board consideration, approving most items with amendments aimed at preserving local oversight and fiscal clarity.
Laura Phillips, executive director of the Department of Emergency Management, told the committee the packet includes multiple awards and requests: a State Homeland Security pass-through of $1,667,904, a $22,656,000 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant requiring regional governance, authorization to extend 39 grant-funded positions through June 30, a $776,000 buffer-zone protection award for 16 sites, and a request to release $1,322,067 of homeland-security reserves to support…
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