2013-995 RESOLUTION NO. 2013 -995
A resolution authorizing the acceptance of an `Assistance to Firefighters Grant" and 20%
local match for the purchase of Fire Department breathing apparatus.
WHEREAS, the Fire Department previously submitted an Assistance to Firefighters
Grant request to the Department of Homeland Security; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department has received notice that Eighty -Five Thousand Five
Hundred Sixty and 00/100 Dollars ($85,560.00) ( "Grant ") has been reserved and
awarded for this grant purpose to the City of Janesville by the Department of Homeland
Security; and
WHEREAS, Twenty -One Thousand Three - Hundred Ninety and 00/100 Dollars
($21,390.00) is the required Twenty Percent (20 %) local match necessary from the City
of Janesville to secure the Grant; and
WHEREAS, the GRANT will be used to acquire self contained breathing apparatus
equipment for the Fire Department; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of Janesville, pursuant to Section
67.12(12) Wis. Stats., may and hereby express their intent to include the Twenty -One
Thousand Three - Hundred Ninety and 00/100 Dollars ($21,390.00) required local match
in a future municipal promissory note borrowing to finance this and related public
projects and purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council hereby find the acceptance and use of this
Assistance to Firefighters Grant by the City in the manner proposed by the Janesville
Fire Department to be in the best interest of the public, of benefit to the City, and in
furtherance of the health, welfare, safety, good order, peace, and tranquility of the City's
inhabitants and businesses.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of
Janesville that:
1. Each of the above recitals is hereby reiterated herein by reference as if fully
set forth verbatim.
2. The Common Council hereby authorize acceptance of the Assistance to
Firefighters Grant in the amount of Eighty -Five Thousand Five Hundred Sixty
and 00/100 Dollars ($85,560.00) for the proposed purposes.
3. The Common Council hereby authorize the City's Twenty Percent (20 %) local
matching share in the amount of Twenty One Thousand Three Hundred
Ninety and 00/100 Dollars ($21,390.00). The City's local matching share shall
be included in a future City borrowing. No funds from sources other than the
Notes or the Available Funds identified above are, or are expected to be,
reserved, allocated on a long -term basis, or otherwise set aside by the City
for the project, except as permitted by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended. This declaration of official intent is consistent with the budgetary
and financial circumstances of the City. The purpose of this Resolution is to
satisfy the `official intent requirement" of Treasury Regulation Section 1.150-
2.
4. The Common Council also hereby authorize the filing of a 2013 grant request
in an effort to reduce the amount of local funding necessary for the
replacement of the SCBA in 2014.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Manager and his designee(s), on behalf of
the City of Janesville, is /are hereby jointly and severally authorized and empowered to
negotiate, draft, review, revise, modify, amend, execute, enter into, file and /or record
additional agreements, amendments, documents and letters of understanding
concerning this matter, and to take whatever additional other actions that the City
Manager may determine in his sole discretion, from time to time and at any time,
necessary and /or desirable in the public interest to effectuate the intent of this
Resolution.
ADOPTED: March 11, 2013 Motion by: Steeber
Second by: Kealy
APPROVE D
/ Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Dongarra -Adams X
Farrell X
Eric J. evitt, C' /(nager Kealy X
Liebert X
ATTEST: Severson X
Steeber X
Voskuil X
-an Ann W City Clerk -T
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wald Klimczyk, City Attorney
Proposed by Fire Department _ . _
Prepared by Fire Department