Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Las Vegas gets $570,000 Homeland Security grant

Funds to begin project to build joint public safety center

Thanks to a half-million-dollar federal Homeland Security grant, Las Vegas will get a new emergency operations center that will benefit the region.

The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday accepted a $570,000 grant award, which will be used to help construct the center in the northwest part of the city. The project is now in the design stage.

The Las Vegas Emergency Operations Center, will serve Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Mesquite and Boulder City, as well as the Clark County School District, local private sector utilities and businesses that comprise the community's critical infrastructure.

The center will be staffed jointly by the governmental entities and will work with public safety programs, including 911 communications dispatch and training facilities.

Funding for the center will come from the Emergency Operations Center Grant Program, a congressionally directed funding source that originates from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The center will be part of a larger project, the Southern Nevada Regional Public Safety Complex. It is seen as an essential way to coordinate and continue government operations in major disasters or emergencies.

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