Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget and Appropriate 2017 Port Security Grant Funding Awarded by the United States Department of Homeland Security for Use by the City of Hampton Police Division
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded the City of Hampton Police Division grant funding for 2017 in the amount of $283,050.00 in federal funds in support of a Maritime Domain Awareness Project (MDA Project). That grant will cover 75% of the MDA Project's total cost of $377,400.00. The grant award requires the City to fund the remaining balance of $94,350.00 The grant funds will be used to procure a full scale coastal monitoring system which will include radar, a FLIR long-range camera for monitoring of the channel into the port, auxiliary pan-tilt-zoom surveillance cameras, and dedicated equipment to outfit a maritime command center.
Discussion:
The Port of Virginia receives extensive intermodal shipping container traffic each year, with heavy emphasis coming from China and other points in Asia bound for the United States seeking to take advantage of the vast network of transfer facilities available at the Port of Virginia. As such, this region plays a major role in serving commerce and trade for the entire nation, binding the commercial relationship between the United States and other countries around the world. Complementing the accessible transfer facilities in the Hampton Roads region is a vast network of transportation infrastructure acting as major arteries for destinations across the country. This includes major bridges and tunnels such as the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel (Interstate 664), the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (Route 13) connecting Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, and the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (Interstate 64) which alone transports nearly three million vehicles each month and more than 100,000 vehicles per day during tourist season. These charac...
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