Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager, or Designee, to Apply for Funding from the Fiscal Year 2025 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Purchase of a Heavy Technical Rescue Apparatus and Accept Funding if Awarded
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Safe and Secure Community
(6.3: Continually increase operational efficiency in public safety departments.)
Operational Excellence
(2.1: Balance available resources to accommodate the growth and maintenance needs of the city.)
MEETING DATE: June 16, 2026
DEPARTMENT: Fire
CONTACT: Paul Dow, Fire Chief
Jim Floyd, Assistant Fire Chief
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Approval of Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
• The McKinney Fire Department is seeking approval to apply for grant funding from the FY25 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program to purchase a heavy technical rescue (HTR) apparatus for the McKinney Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team. An HTR apparatus is a specialized vehicle that carries advanced tools and equipment for use in nonstandard firefighting response situations, or technical rescues, such as search and rescue, structural collapse, confined spaces, rope rescues, and swift water operations.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• The AFG grant program is a highly competitive grant program that in FY2025 is allocating approximately $291,600,000 in federal funding to equip and train emergency personnel with no more than 25% to be awarded for emergency vehicle acquisition.
• The McKinney Fire Department currently transports its technical rescue equipment in a 20-year-old repurposed pumper truck that lacks sufficient capacity for all its technical rescue equipment.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY:
• Requesting $1,200,000 in grant funds.
• A 10% match is required by the grant, if awarded. However, a match of 25%, or $400,000, is recommended to help improve the application’s competitiveness for a total grant budget of $1,600,000.
BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
• N/A