Blunt Announces $8 Million
for Regional Homeland Security Committee
JEFFERSON CITY, September 21, 2006-Gov. Matt Blunt announced
the nine Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committees will split
$8,084,000 earmarked for regionalization from Missouri’s FY06
Homeland Security Grant Funds. The nine regions mirror the Missouri
State Highway Patrol regions.
“Our goal is to greatly enhance the collective
preparedness of this state ensuring federal funds are directed to
areas most at risk while creating solutions that are innovative and
regionally driven,” Blunt said. “Preparedness is a shared
responsibility.”
Blunt’s Homeland Security Advisory Council chose
four core areas for committee leaders to target funds in order to
better address regional concerns. The core areas include, agriculture,
interoperability, mass care and citizen protection and volunteer and
donations management.
Each region received funds based on a formula, which
considered the following: Number of Counties in each region, Population
totals per the 2000 Census, and the Number of Critical Infrastructure
and Key Resources identified by the State in each region.
· Region A: $671,653
· Region B: $959,771
· Region C: $616,274
· Region D: $1,696,274
· Region E: $1,040,357
· Region F: $1,198,425
· Region G: $430,544
· Region H: $892,767
· Region I: $577,933
Missouri has two Urban Area Security Initiative (USAI)
cities - St. Louis and Kansas City - which receive separate Homeland
Security grants and are not included in the regional Committees. The
Kansas City USAI is composed of the Missouri counties of Jackson,
Clay, Cass, Platte and Ray and three Kansas counties. The St. Louis
City USAI is composed of the Missouri counties of St. Louis, St. Charles,
Franklin and Jefferson, and the three Illinois counties.
Each Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committee
is made up of leaders from 13 core disciplines, which are tasked with
the responsibility of appropriating the funds to best serve their
respective region. Designated Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs)
will take care of administrative and planning functions for the committee.
Those RPCs include Pioneer Trails, Mark Twain Regional Council of
Governments, Boonslick, Southeast Missouri Regional Planning &
Economic Development Commission, Mid-Mo, SCOCOG, MO-Kan, and Meramec.
For more information about Missouri’s Regionalization
of Homeland Security Funds, please refer to http://sema.dps.mo.gov/regionalization/index.htm.