MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU)
Between the City of Nashua, New Hampshire, the City of Manchester, New Hampshire
the Manchester/Boston Regional Airport
PARTIES. The parties to this agreement are the City of Nashua, New Hampshire, the City of
Manchester, New Hampshire and the Manchester/Boston Regional Airport
AUTHORITY. This Agreement is authorized under the provisions of the Department of Homeland
Security, Office of Grants and Training:
OVERVIEW. The FFY 2016/2017 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Priorities support the
National Preparedness System (NPS) in order to achieve the national preparedness goal. HSGP allowable
costs support efforts to build and sustain core capabilities across the Prevention, Protection, Mitigation,
Response, and Recovery mission areas.
PURPOSE. The purpose of this Agreement is to identify the affiliation between City of Nashua, New
Hampshire, the City of Manchester, New Hampshire and the Manchester/Boston Regional Airport with
relation to building and maintaining a remote dispatch center to be used by these entities should a major
catastrophic failure occur in any of the radio communications dispatch centers. The funding will also
provide the necessary software licensing that will allow mutual aid entities from around the state to have
radio communications access to the radio systems in the City of Nashua and Manchester, should the need
arise .
SCOPE. This agreement is applicable for the period of funding by the FFY 2016/2017 New Hampshire
State Homeland Security Grant and for the useful life of the equipment, materials or plan. Either party
may cancel this affiliation at any time with thirty (30) days written notice.
AGREEMENT, the City of Nashua, New Hampshire, the City of Manchester, New Hampshire and the
Manchester/Boston Regional Airport agrees to the following:
A. The goal and intent of this grant is to prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism by
ensuring interoperability and redundancy between key stakeholders in Nashua, Manchester and
Manchester Boston Regional Airport emergency radio communications. Each stakeholder will be
provided with the ability to communicate with each other’s community during a major radio
communications failure or during a mutual aid incident. It will also provide the capability to have
interoperability with the Manchester Boston Regional Airport and other mutual aid responders
B. The cost of the purchase, programming and installation of equipment will be funded 100%
through this grant. $300,000 has been awarded to the City of Manchester and $300,000 has been
awarded to the City of Nashua. These funds will be utilized to fulfill all of the stipulations within
the grant application.
C. The City of Manchester and the City of Nashua, as recipients of FFY 2016/2017 Homeland
Security Grant Program funds, will jointly manage the procurement of services and equipment,
provide Point of Contacts to the Department of Safety-Grants Management Unit, and provide all
grant audit and reporting as required by the Department of Safety-Grants Management Unit.
D. The City of Manchester and the City of Nashua, as recipients of FY 2016/2017 Homeland
Security Grant Program funds, shall jointly own and maintain the equipment purchased.
