ENACTED 06/09/1998

WHEREAS, the State of Tennessee, Department of Military, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, has awarded Grant No. Z-98-086853-00 in an amount not to exceed Fifty Five Thousand dollars ($55,000) to the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting through the office of emergency management, for the provision of pass through funding to subsidize emergency management; and

WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that this grant be accepted.

SECTION 1. That the grant by and between State of Tennessee, Department of Military, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency to the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting through the office of emergency management, for the provision of pass through funding to subsidize emergency management, in an amount not to exceed Fifty Five Thousand dollars ($55,000), a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, is hereby approved, and the Metropolitan County Mayor is authorized to execute the same.

SECTION 2. That the sum of Fifty five Thousand Dollars ($55,000) be provided from the emergency management operating budget for the purpose of providing the Metropolitan Government’s matching share for the program.

SECTION 3. That any amendments to this grant shall be approved by resolution of the Metropolitan Council receiving twenty-one affirmative votes.

SECTION 4. That this Ordinance shall take effect from and after its final passage, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

Sponsored By: Eileen Beehan