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Authorizing the Emergency Management Department to pay for the actual costs of expenses which include registration/tuition, travel, per diem and lodging for Seth Ozer (non-city employee) to attend the 2019 National Homeland Security Conference from June 16 to June 21, 2019 in Phoenix, AZ.
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WHEREAS, the Emergency Management Department is seeking authority to pay for actual costs of expenses which include registration/tuition, travel, per diem and lodging for Seth Ozer (non-city employee) to attend the 2019 National Homeland Security Conference from June 16 to June 21, 2019; and
WHEREAS, Seth Ozer is the Facilities Director & Safety Officer for the St. Paul Jewish Community Center (JCC), and this National Homeland Security Conference will assist Seth Ozer and the JCC in effective execution of awarded Not for Profit Security Grant (NPSG) funding, enhancing overall safety and security to the JCC and the City of St. Paul; and
WHEREAS, the public purpose of the 2019 National Homeland Security Conference is that it is the annual meeting of local Homeland Security and emergency management professionals from the Nation’s largest metropolitan areas and it focuses on all emergency response disciplines at all levels of government; and
WHEREAS, the total expenditures for the 2019 National Homeland Security Conference registrations/tuitions, travel, per diem, and lodging will not exceed the amount budgeted for these expenditures per the 2018 UASI grant awarded to the City of Saint Paul for the grant period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019; and
WHEREAS, the per diem reimbursement will not exceed the Runzheimer scale for such expense; and
BE IT ORDERED, that the proper city official(s) are hereby ordered to pay for the above mentioned expenses (registration/tuition, travel, per diem and lodging) not to exceed $2,500.00 for Seth Ozer (non-city employee).
A copy of said order is to be kept on file and on record in the Office of Financial Services.
Funding source: 2018 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Grant.