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The AFG Regional Interoperability Project reflects the DHS's overall investment strategy priorities in: 1. Enhancing National Capabilities grant funding will assist in moving the City and the Regional Partners closer in meeting one of the national priorities under the National Preparedness Goal by strengthening interoperable communications capabilities. 2. Risk Based Prioritization grant funding will assist in moving the City and the Regional Partners closer to cost effective, sustainable and interoperable communications systems with seamless integration into existing communication infrastructure. The City and the Regional Partners will build and /or leverage on existing resources to strategically invest in enhancing future communications capability'. 3. Interoperability grant funding will allow the City and the Regional Partners to develop short and long term goals, activities and a training program to continue to enhance regional interoperability, consistent, in concert, and /or in parallel with the State Communications Interoperability Plan (SCIP). IV. Responsibilities of the City As the financial administrator for the 2008 Assistance Firefighters Grant, the City will: a. Oversee the grant implementation and coordinate with the state grantor. b. Act as the fiscal agent for the grant including i. Invoicing the Regional Partners for their share of cost of equipment ii. Arranging payment to vendor iii. Preparing fiscal and program reports for the state grantor iv. Auditing and tracking grant funds and deliverables c. Manage grant activities including, but not limited to, project and fiscal reports for the state grantor. d. Coordinate with the Regional Partners throughout the grant term. e. After receiving input from the Regional Partners, make the final determination of the Radio Equipment type(s) to be ordered for the Regional Partners. f. Coordinate procurement of the Radio Equipment. g. Procure through a competitive bidding process as established by the Purchasing Policy of the Alameda County Fire Department the Radio Equipment and deliver the Radio Equipment to the assigned Regional Partner. h. Develop and provide training curriculum to the Regional Partners and ensure completion. i. Verify that standard frequencies for Radio Equipment will be used by the Regional Partners in concurrence with the Alameda County Fire Mutual Aid Plan. The City and the Regional Partners have joined a ten County Consortium agreeing to leverage and pay a share of cost in a multimillion dollar communication infrastructure project to procure and /or maintain repeater towers and additional interoperable communication systems (East Bay Regional Communication Systems EBRCS)