City of Milwaukee - File #: 021795

• File #: 021795
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/25/2003
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 4/9/2003
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to the application, acceptance and expenditure of a Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant by the Milwaukee Fire Department for the expansion of its Survive Alive program.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: FEDERAL GRANTS, FIRE DEPARTMENT, FIRE PREVENTION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/9/2003	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
4/9/2003	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	16:0
4/3/2003	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Speakers: Deputy Chief Gary Miller, Milwaukee Police Dept. Lt. Deb Weber, Milwaukee Police Dept. Sandra Lenier, Milwaukee Police Dept.	Pass	4:0
3/26/2003	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/26/2003	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/25/2003	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
021795
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution relating to the application, acceptance and expenditure of a Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant by the Milwaukee Fire Department for the expansion of its Survive Alive program.
Analysis
This substitute resolution authorizes the Milwaukee Fire Department to apply for, accept and expend grant funds of up to $200,000 from FEMA's Assistance for Firefighters Grant for the expansion of the Survive Alive program.

Body
Whereas, The Milwaukee Fire Education Center's Survive Alive House was created in 1992 as a non-profit, cooperative venture between the Milwaukee Fire Department (MFD), Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), and the Milwaukee Safety Commission to provide fire safety education to children, adults, and school systems in the Milwaukee metropolitan area; and

Whereas, The mission of the Survive Alive House is to educate school-aged children about fire safety and teach them the skills they will need not only to prevent fires, but also how to stay alive during an actual fire; and

Whereas, Opportunity currently exists and the City of Milwaukee appears to be eligible to apply for a grant to allow the MFD and MPS to make structural improvements to the roof and floor, to replace aging equipment, such as interactive audio/visual equipment and fire extinguishers, and purchase interactive audio/visual equipment, computer programs, smoke machine, and portable ladders for a second Survive Alive facility; and

Whereas, The MFD is eligible to receive up to $200,000 in grant funds, and the Survive Alive Foundation will match 30% of grant funds, contingent upon grant approval; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that application to FEMA is authorized and MFD shall accept FEMA's Assistance for Firefighters Grant of up to $200,000 for the expansion of the...