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<br />maintain the City's eligibility for future disaster reimbursement and federal preparedness grant <br />opportunities. All applicants for federal grant funding and disaster reimbursement funds will be <br />required to certify as part of the application process that they have met the NIMS requirements. <br /> <br />Fortunately for governmental entities within California, the NIMS system is much the same as <br />the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) which has been used in California <br />since 1993. As a result, the actions that the City will need take in order to become "NIMS <br />compliant" include documented NIMS training for disaster response personnel, formal adoption <br />ofNIMS through executive order, proclamation, resolution or legislation and completion of the <br />National Incident Management System Capability Assessment Support Tool (NIMCAST). <br /> <br />NIMS Training <br />NIMS training has been conducted throughout the month of September for all EOC members. <br />Attendance has been documented via rosters and certificates of completion have been obtained <br />from all EOC personnel who attended training. These records have been filed with the Disaster <br />Preparedness Manager at LPFD. <br /> <br />NIMS AdoDtion <br />Formal adoption ofNIMS through Resolution as outlined in Attachment A of this report. <br /> <br />NIMCAST <br />The National Incident Management System Capability Assessment Support Tool (NIMCAST) is <br />a web-based self-assessment tool designed to aid state, local, and tribal organizations and <br />jurisdictions in determining their capabilities and compliance against the requirements <br />established in the recently released National Incident Management System. This assessment is <br />scheduled to be conducted in November / December 2006. <br /> <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br /> <br />No net cost to the City. <br /> <br />Respectfully Submitted, <br /> <br />~~~~ <br /> <br />William Cody <br />Fire Chief <br /> <br /> <br />Jv <br /> <br />'" <br />-~ <br /> <br />avid Culver <br />irector of Finance <br /> <br />Nelson Fialho <br />City Manager <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT A: <br /> <br />Resolution <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT B: <br /> <br />Tribal Government And Local Jurisdiction Compliance Activities: <br />Federal Fiscal Year 2006 (October 1,2005 - September 30, 2006) <br /> <br />SR: 06:243 <br />Page 2 of2 <br />