4663-17 Approving MOA between the City of South Bend Fire Department regarding Task Force One

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Ldn Office �IVLEMEMORANDUM OF AGREEMEN f BE��!°.�� BETWEEN THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS,INDIANA,DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CITY OF SOUTH BEND FIRE DEPARTMENT REGARDING INDIANA TASK FORCE ONE THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT(hereinafter referred to as"Agreement"), entered into by and between the Department of Public Safety of the City of Indianapolis,Indiana(hereinafter referred to as"DPS"), and City of South Bend,Indiana,a political subdivision of the State of Indiana, acting through its Board of Public Works,and on behalf of the South Bend Fire Department("SBFD"). RECITALS: WHEREAS, pursuant to federal law, principally the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121 through 5206 (hereinafter referred to as the "Stafford Act"), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, acting through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (hereinafter referred to as "FEMA"), operates the National Urban Search & Rescue Response System(hereinafter referred to as"System")in conjunction with State and local governments;and WHEREAS,the DPS is the sponsoring agency for Indiana Task Force One(hereinafter referred to as "Task Force"), an urban search and rescue task force of the System, established in 1992 pursuant to an agreement between FEMA and the City of Indianapolis,Indiana;and WHEREAS,the DPS in its capacity as sponsoring agency is responsible for recruiting and organizing the Task Force such that the Task Force consists of individuals occupying certain specified positions plus additional support personnel, all of whom have been properly trained with the requisite skills and capabilities required for urban search and rescue operations and/or deployment of the Task Force;and WHEREAS,the Task Force may be deployed as a single unit or it may be reorganized into teams for purposes of modularized responses for limited or specialized activations, and members of the Task Force may also be deployed as members of a management or other technical team; and WHEREAS, the DPS in the performance of it's responsibilities may enter into cooperative arrangements with federal, state,or local government entities, or non-profit or for-profit entities,to serve as participating agencies in the Task Force, and with individuals to serve as affiliated personnel of the Task Force; and WHEREAS, the DPS in its capacity as sponsoring agency is obligated to enter into written agreements with those participating agencies and affiliated personnel setting forth the relationship between the parties;and WHEREAS, the SBFD desires to be a participating agency in the Task Force, subject to all of the provisions of this Agreement; NOW, THEREFORE, the DPS and SBFD (hereinafter referred to as "Participating Agency"), in consideration of the foregoing recitals and the following promises, hereby agree as follows. I. CONSTRUCTION 1.01 With respect to National Urban Search &Rescue Response System activities of the Participating 1