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The Bay Area Urban Area
Security Initiative (UASI) Program
The Bay Area UASI was created in January of 2006, when the
federal government consolidated the urban areas of San
Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, along with 10 counties. The Bay
Area UASI also includes representatives from the Governor. Over
the past two years the Bay Area UASI has evolved from managing
just one UASI grant to managing several grants totaling more
than $153 M.
The Bay Area UASI is widely viewed as having an important,
groundbreaking regional approach that is recognized and may be
replicated throughout the state and across the country.
The Bay Area UASI targets funding to build core capabilities to
prevent, respond, and recover from disaster. Directs funding to
projects and work products that have regional impact as well as
wide application among individual Bay Area communities.
Responsibly leverages and manages grant funds to achieve the
optimal result with the dollars available. Researches, learns
from, and shares what works well and what does not to inform
program/product development. Through strategic, well thought
through, multi-year program plans, builds on work that started
with the Regional Emergency Coordination Plan; continues this
year with program assessments, plans, toolkits, guidebooks and
training; and will advance in 2008 and beyond to bring about
greater implementation and training. Bay Area UASI program goals
are: To improve the capacity to prevent, protect against,
respond to, and recover from terrorist incidents or related
catastrophic events by providing planning, training, equipment
and exercises to the UASI region. To achieve the National
Preparedness Goals through 12 major initiatives. To enhance
existing regional programs including: the Regional Emergency
Coordination Plan project, the Cities Readiness Initiative,
Metropolitan Medical Response Systems, the Regional Maritime
Security Working Group, the Regional Transit Security Working
Group, the Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center, and the
various Citizen Corps projects. The Bay Area Urban Area Security
Initiative program is comprised of three major cities (Oakland,
San Francisco, and San Jose) and ten counties (Alameda, Contra
Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa
Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma), more than 100 incorporated cities,
and a number of special districts, transportation agencies, and
several airports. The program is managed through a three-tiered
governance structure.
The top tier is the seven-member Approval Authority that
includes representation from each of the three core cities of
Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose and each of the counties in
which they are located (Alameda, San Francisco, and Santa
Clara). The California OES, Coastal Region Administrator is also
a member. The Approval Authority provides policy direction to
the program and is responsible for final decisions.
The 14 member Approval Authority works collaboratively with the
Advisory Group. Its membership includes one representative each
from the 10 Bay Area county operational areas, the three core
cities, and Coastal OES. The Advisory Group makes policy and
programmatic recommendations to the Approval Authority and
ensures that there is broad representation for regional input
into the planning process.
Bay Area UASI Management
Team
Managing the work of the Bay Area UASI is a Management Team
comprised of a general manager, several project managers and a
finance manager.
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Workgroups
The Bay Area UASI engages a variety of stakeholders throughout
the region to move these initiatives forward and to provide
essential input for the policy and decision makers of the Bay
Area UASI Program. Workgroup members represent diverse interests
and areas of expertise at the local, regional and state level.
Each work group meets on a monthly basis to address identified
projects and goals. Many of the work groups are developing
five-year strategic plans, as well as identifying and
implementing more immediate projects.
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