10/22/2024 Resolutions 2024-277 RESOLUTION 2024-277
WHEREAS, the City Council approved in March 2023 to apply 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 approximately $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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, that the FY24 Community Project Funding
Grant award and $375,000 local match 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, October 22, 2024.
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Rogq��G.Ste e, Mayor
Attest:iJ. Granere, City Clerk