SUBJECT: Adoption of Resolution Approving a Collaboration Between the City of Merced, the Fire Fighters Union and the California Fire Foundation to Provide Financial Assistance to Victims of Fire and Natural Disasters REPORT IN BRIEF Considers the adoption of a Resolution approving the collaboration between the City, the Fire Fighters Union and the California Fire Foundation to implement a Supplying Aid to Victims of Emergency (SAVE) program thereby enabling firefighters to provide gift cards to residents who have lost property and material possessions in an emergency through the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding and development of a Standard Operating Guideline. RECOMMENDATION City Council - Adopt a motion: A. Adopting Resolution 2019-54, a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Merced, California, authorizing the Fire Chief to act for the City Manager by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the California Fire Foundation (CFF), Merced Fire Department, and the bargaining unit, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF Local 1479), representing Firefighters within the City of Merced, (City) to implement the Supplying Aid to Victims of Emergency (SAVE) within the City: and, B. Authorizing the Fire Chief to adopt and submit to CFF, the CFF’s suggested Standard Operating Guidelines (SOG) for the CFF’s SAVE program.

Committee

City Council/Public Finance and Economic Development Authority/Parking Authority

Requested by

Fire Department

Introduced

June 25, 2019

On agenda

August 19, 2019

Passed

August 19, 2019