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San Bruno City Council Meeting February 10, 2015
10c. Pipeline Safety Advocacy Initiatives Technical Assistance Grant
A
Item
10c
adopt
a
resolution
authorizing
acceptance
of
a
technical
assistance
grant
from
the
federal
pipeline
and
hazardous
materials.
Safety
Administration
or
pipeline
safety
advocacy
initiatives
in
the
amount
of
fifty
thousand
dollars
and
authorizing
the
city
manager
to
execute
a
contract
with
the
pipeline
safety
coalition
in
the
amount
of
$25,000
for
grant
administration.
B
Thank
You
mr.
mayor
members
of
the
council,
I
just
completed
a
lengthy
presentation
about
numbers
of
initiatives
that
the
city
has
individually
undertaken
as
part
of
its
response
and
actions
directed
at
recovery
in
the
wake
of
the
2010
explosion
and
fire
in
our
community.
The
subject
matter
before
you
tonight,
a
technical
assistance
grant
from
fins
of
the
federal
pipeline
and
hazardous
materials.
B
Safety
Administration
is
another
initiative
that
was
actually
begun
by
after
outreach
from
Mayor
Ed
Pawlowski
of
Allentown
Pennsylvania
shortly
after
a
similarly
devastating
gas
pipeline
explosion
occurred
in
that
town,
coincidentally,
exactly
four
years
ago
today
on
February
10
2011,
just
six
months
after
the
explosion.
Here
mere
Pawlowski
proposed
to
marry
Wayne
the
idea
of
establishment
of
a
bicoastal
mirrors
organization
to
advocate,
educate
and
to
otherwise
facilitate
legislative
and
other
reform
necessary
to
bring
about
a
safer
gas
utility
system,
particularly
in
populated
communities.
B
B
Working
with
the
pipeline
safety
coalition,
this
city
and
the
city
of
allentown
individually
filed
grant
applications
for
the
2015
grant
year,
and
each
of
us
were
awarded
a
grant
by
city
policy.
The
any
grant
are
required
to
be
accepted
formally
by
the
city
council
and
and
acknowledged
in
order
for
any
grant
funds
to
to
be
paid
out.
B
The
grant
awarded
to
the
city
is
in
the
maximum
amount
through
the
finsih
program
of
fifty
thousand
dollars,
and
it
generally
covers
a
work
program
that
is
focused
around
some
of
the
issues
that
were
identified
as
being
relevant
to
our
causal
factors
of
the
explosion.
Here
in
2010,
the
grant
provides
for
contract
with
the
pipeline
safety
coalition.
To
actually
do
the
staff
work
to
coordinate
with
experts
in
the
development
of
white
papers
and
best
practice.
B
Recommendations
on
the
topics
that
the
grant
identifies
and
is
intended
to
the
grant
is
intended
to
provide
a
self-sufficient
self-supporting
program
and
operations
so
that
the
the
grant
funded
activities
do
not
expect
and
should
not
impact
the
regular
city,
work
program
or
city
resources
other
than
those
that
are
provided
directly
through
the
grant.
I
did
take
an
opportunity
to
look
at
the
film's
of
website
and
I
would
encourage
interesting
members
of
the
council
to
do
that
as
well.
B
C
B
The
25,000
is
essentially
the
legwork
staff
work
to
support
the
development
of
the
white
papers
and
the
technical
evaluation
that
the
grant
funded
program
envisions.
So
under
the
so.
In
order
to
avoid
impacting
the
city's
staff
work
program,
the
contract
would
provide
for
staff
services
to
be
provided
by
the
grassroots,
not-for-profit
pipeline
safety
coalition.
That
is
has
connections
and
is,
is
is
operating
themselves
within
this
environment
to
to
produce
the
work
program.
That
has
that
the
outline
that
that
the
grant
funds
are
intended.
It.
C
I
also,
if
I
could
mr.
mayor
I
just
went
on
to
the
mayor's
Council
on
pipeline
safety.
I
think
it's
great
to
I
mean
it's
it's
effective
because
it
shows
three
fairly
current
within
the
last
five
years,
san
bruno
being
the
first
one
major
catastrophes
on
pipelines-
and
this
is
I-
think
what
I've
mentioned.
B
That's
happened
with
a
little
bit
too
much
frequency
since,
since
the
explosion
here
in
San
Bruno,
but
also
to
engage
labor
interested
citizens
and
industry
representatives
as
well,
for
sort
of
a
multi-faceted
membership
led
by
elected
mayors,
whose
interests
of
representing
citizens
in
real
communities
where
these
things
have
actually
happened
to
to
put
together
a
work
program.
So
it's
a
little
bit
different
than
some
of
the
other
grassroots
organizations
that
have
organized
around
advocates
landowners
whose
property
is
being
taken
by
big
oil
companies
who
are
bringing
you
know
big
pipelines
through
their
their
rural
areas.
D
Chair
yeah
I
think
I
was
a
little
confused
too
trying
to
get
through
the
there's
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
acronyms
in
here,
and
it
looks
like
there's
a
lot
of
things
going
on.
So
basically,
fins
up
puts
up
a
grant.
The
city
of
San
Bruno
applied
for
the
grant,
we're
going
to
take
that
grant
and
give
a
portion
of
that
to
the
pipeline
safety
coalition
to
do
work
on
behalf
of
the
mayor's
Council
on
pipeline
safety
that
that.
D
B
I
would
only
point
out
that
the
mayor's
Council
is
really
not
yet
even
really
a
organized
organization,
so
it
doesn't
really
have
the
ability
to
do
it
itself
unless
Jim
and
I
and
Ed
Pawlowski
were
to
actually
do
the
work
and
we're
we're
at
capacity
on
work.
So
so
so
this
is
really
an
opportunity
to
put
this
initiative
forward.
Get
this
organization
on
his
feet,
produce
some
tangible
work
product
and
begin
to
develop,
possibly
a
more
stable
funding
source.
Certainly,
these
tag
grants
are
likely
to
be
available.
B
D
B
So
the
so
the
grant
work
program,
as
I
said,
calls
for
the
development
of
best
practice
white
papers.
It
also
includes
the
budget.
The
50
thousand
dollars
was
allocated
in
the
grant
proposal
for
there's
some
travel
involved
for
for
Jim
to
meet
with,
with
Ed
and
other
mayor's
to
to
further
the
interests
of
the
of
the
mayor's
Council.
There's
I
believe
some
intent
to
use
some
of
the
funds
for
expert
consulting
assistance
to
develop
the
best
practice
recommendations.
So
there's
the
the
fifty
thousand
dollars
is
spoken
for
to
deliver
the
work
program.