03/14/2023 Resolutions 2023-69RESOLUTION 2023-69
WHEREAS, the City of Grand Island- is applying to the FY24 Community Project
Fund for federal assistance to purchase and install two ASR tower sites, nine consoles, and seventy-
five P25 multi-band radios.
WHEREAS, in order to communicate via radio with surrounding departments the
City of Grand Island must upgrade their current equipment to be P25 complaint; and
WHEREAS, the cost for the purchase and installation of the two ASR tower sites and
nine consoles is $3,000,000 with $2,250,000 of that cost being requested in federal grant funding and
$750,000 is required in local match funding for FY24; and
WHEREAS, there is an existing interlocal agreement between the City of Grand
Island and Hall County for the local match to be split 50/50 between the two entities with $375,000
in funding requested in local match funding for FY24 from the City of Grand Island; and
WHEREAS, the cost for the purchase of seventy-five P25 multi-band radios is
$550,000 with $412,500 of that cost being requested in federal grant funding and $137,500 is
required in local match funding for FY24.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, that the FY24 Community Project Funding Grant
applications and $512,SOO local match in FY24 is hereby approved.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to
execute such grant applications on behalf of the City of Grand Island.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska, March 14, 2023.
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Roge . Steele, ayor
Attest:
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Ji Granere, Deputy City Clerk
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March 13, 2023 tt City Attorney