STARRS Board Packet for September 7, 2007, Monthly Board Meeting

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Executive SummarySt. Louis Regional ApplicationFor Homeland Security Grant ProgramFunding for Fiscal Year 2007Total amount requested: $16.93 million. Summary descriptions of the St. Louis area’s elevenInvestment Justifications are outlined below:I. Regional Planning - $1.79MThis investment will continue work on the regional catastrophic plan that began in fiscal year2006. Funds will be used for consultant fees and staff assigned to this project. Additionally, itexpands the Incident Management/Support Teams and creates a regional Medical ResponseCorps.II. Regional Operations - $2.34MThis investment will provide funds for a Mobile Command Center for St. Clair County, Illinoisto boost the region's capacity to provide on-site management of major incidents. In addition, itwill upgrade the Virtual Emergency Operations Center (VEOC) to be in sync with the MissouriEmergency Resources Information System (MERIS). It will provide a digital pen system thatwill expedite damage assessment, incident report forms and continue develop of a VEOCOperations Manual.III. St. Louis Regional Microwave Network - $3.12MFunds from this investment will begin the second phase of the Point to Point microwave systemthat will go beyond voice communications by supporting data, video and voice over internetcapabilities required by other regional investments, i.e, the VEOC, Emergency Tracking System(ETS), Universal ID (UID), aerial video surveillance and the region’s area-wide diseasesurveillance system. The microwave system will connect with MO & IL communicationssystems & will provide redundancy for critical assets like 911 centers.IV. Citizen Preparation and Recovery - $3.14MThis investment justification provides funding in support of the Gateway Council of CitizenCorps which represents the various Citizens Corp groups throughout the region. These groupsprovide Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and National Incident ManagementSystem (NIMS) training to citizen volunteers anywhere within the region. This investment alsofunds the Citizen Sheltering Project by purchasing sheltering resources that will be needed forcooling or heating shelters and during a pandemic. The project provides each of the eightjurisdictions in the Urban Area with response trailers that are equipped with sheltering suppliesconsisting of indirect heaters, HVAC, cots, and blankets for 200 people. In addition, it willprovide 5 generators for use when power is lost.
V. Enhance Public Health Capabilities - $1.68MThis will expand the Gateway ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the EarlyNotification of Community based Epidemics) syndromic surveillance project to include trackingpharmaceutical sales and reports from physician's office visits. This will also expand theFirstMeds program that provides pre-placement of prophylactic medicines for first respondersand will support mass prophylaxis sites by adding language translation devices and tow vehiclesfor mobile dispensing units.VI. Hospital Emergency Preparedness and Response Software Program for Healthcare IncidentCommand - $900KFunding will provide incident management web based software called "Live Process" that allowseach hospital in the region to track medical resources and develop a hospital hazard vulnerabilityand risk assessment.VII. Multi Area Hospital Medical Surge - $150KThis investment will produce a special population/medical surge cache that will support regionalcoordination of medical supply management & distribution in both Kansas City and St. LouisUrban Area's. The cache will provide scalable (in size), modular and rapidly deployable healthand medical care support to those patients who have medical, mental health, or other healthrelatedneeds that cannot be accommodated or provided for in general shelter population.VIII. St. Louis Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group - $710KThe St. Louis Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group is a multi-lateral, multi-jurisdictional andmulti-disciplinary effort integrating law enforcement, fire protection, health services andemergency management agencies to address the intelligence needs for combating terrorism andprotecting critical infrastructure. This project will continue with intelligence gathering softwareupdates and subscriptions and will provide terrorism detection and prevention training within theregion for three years.IX. STARRS Critical Infrastructure Protection - $450KThe investment will create a sustainable program to inventory and monitor critical assets withinthe UASI region. This includes asset identification as well as prioritization through threatassessment. This investment will collaborate with the Terrorism Early Warning group as theprimary storage location and data steward for the aggregate data, thereby making the TEWresponsible for any use or dissemination. The project funds continuation of one position tocollect the data and development of data management software.X. WMD/CBRNE and Urban Search & Rescue Response Capabilities - $1.08MThe region's heavy rescue teams work together to provide a search and rescue responsecapability. This project will enhance heavy rescue's canine search capacity, purchase additional
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