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RESOLUTION NO. 2023-153
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA ACCEPTING GRANT FUNDS FROM THE
CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY FOR THE
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FIRST RESPONDER
EQUIPMENT PROGRAM AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR
WHEREAS, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides grant funding
made available to the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) who provides innovative,
evidence-based education and enforcement programs and technologies designed to improve road
safety; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the OTS grant program is to effectively administer traffic
safety grants that deliver innovative programs and eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries on
California roadways; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department has been awarded $50,000 of grant funding to assist in
the purchase of extrication equipment; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department utilizes two different types of extrication equipment on
its Truck Companies and Heavy Rescue; and
WHEREAS, utilizing the same equipment department-wide will increase the efficiency
and safety of the City’s firefighters and decrease the extrication time of a trapped victim providing
for increased survivability; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department will augment these funds with previously appropriated
Measure P Sales Tax funds totaling $52,244 to purchase the extrication equipment and do so within
the performance period ending date.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula Vista
does hereby accept $50,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety and appropriates $50,000
in the capital category of the Fire Grants Section of the Federal Grants Fund for the Emergency
Medical Services First Responder Equipment Program.
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Presented by Approved as to form by
Harry Muns Jill D.S. Maland
Fire Chief Lounsbery Ferguson Altona & Peak
Acting City Attorney
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 3rd day of October 2023 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Cardenas, Chavez, Gonzalez, and McCann
NAYS: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: Preciado
John McCann, Mayor
ATTEST:
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Kerry K. Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2023-153 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a regular
meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 3rd day of October 2023.
Executed this 3rd day of October 2023.
Kerry K. Bigelow, MMC, City Clerk
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