PDAC: Submission #222 | Dayton Development Coalition

Submission information

Project Details

1. To which Review Panel are you submitting your project? Transportation & Government Services

2. Project title Ohio Task Force One (OH-TF1) Warehouse

3. Short description Ohio Task Force One is an urban search and rescue task force (TF) that deploys to high end disasters such as the May 2019 Montgomery County Tornado. The TF has been located in Kettering Business park since 2005, but is required to vacate their current warehouse. Funding will be used to make required improvements to Emery Building at the Dayton Airport so the TF can move their HQ and warehouse staff to a new location.

Organization Details

4. Organization making the request Miami Valley Fire EMS Alliance dba Ohio Task Force One

5-8. Address 444 West Third Street, Suite 20-231
Dayton, Ohio. 45402

9. County Montgomery

10. Recipient organization Same

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16. Organization type Government

Organization Contact Details

17. Name Evan W. Schumann

18. Title Program Manager

19. Organization Ohio Task Force One

20. Telephone cell 937-608-7379

21. Email eschumann@ohtf1.com

22-25. Address 220 South Edwin C. Moses Blvd. (Building 20 Sinclair Community College)
Dayton, Ohio. 45402

26. County Montgomery

27. Additional contacts Jeffrey Payne, OH-TF1 Sponsoring Agency Chief

cell = 937-478-3557

email = jpayne@ohtf1.com

Location Details

28. City Vandalia

29. County Montgomery

30. Congressional district Ohio 10th

Financial Details

31. Funding request 200000

32. Total Cost 700000

33. Other sources of funds Building owners = $200,000

Tenant = $300,000

34. How the funds will be used Construction or Capital

35. Do you have matching funds raised or committed? If yes, explain in question #36. If no, skip to question #37. Yes

36. If yes, please provide additional information. (Or, budget document can be uploaded, see question 37) Project is the modification of existing interior and exterior building footprint. THERE WILL BE NO NEW BUILDING FOOTPRINT.

More than 50% of the project costs will be building owner and tenant provided. See split in Question 33 above.

37. Budget No

38. By what date will you be ready to spend the funds Within the next 6-12 months

39. Programs/grants for which this project would qualify State of Ohio Operating Budget. State of Ohio Capital Budget. Homeland security funds. Other???

Community Details

40. Community Need The need for this project to OH-TF1 is immense. Our current warehouse lease has been terminated by the City of Kettering effective 31 Dec '19. We have sufficient funds to make only minor modifications to the Emery building at the airport, just enough to get the cache and fleet under a roof by the termination date with Kettering. Our desire is to make sufficient improvements to use the facility to combine the Task Force's Admin Office (Building 20 SCC) and current Warehouse (Kettering Business Park) into one fixed location for the TF. Without this warehouse (or at least a warehouse), the task force will become unable to maintain deployability standards and go into a stand down status until a new location to house the Task Force can be procured. Ohio Task Force One is the preeminent Search and Rescue Team in Ohio and will be unable to meet deployability requirements (such as the May 2019 Montgomery County Tornado) without a warehouse to house the team.

41. Previous Funding: Has the requesting organization received Congressionally earmarked funding in the past? If so, please provide a brief project description, year funded, amount, and Congressional sponsor. Success will be measured when the Task Force is fully functional in the Emery Building. Functional is defined as the Task Force can meet deployment requirements of putting 80-personnel, 17 vehicles, and 50-tons of rescue cache wheels rolling in 4-hrs. from time on activation orders. Functional is also defined as the Task Force's paid staff of 20-personnel have appropriate office facilities to operate from, the 230 team members of the Task Force have sufficient training facilities to maintain operational standards, and the Task Force can meet all security requirements to house controlled medical caches, Ohio and federal communication caches, and team member personnel files and medical records.

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43. Existing jobs retained? 11-25

44. Sustained permanent jobs? 101-250

45. Please explain how you determined the job creation listed in questions 42-44. Q 43) The Task Force currently has 4 full time and 17 part-time paid staff. Failure to find a new location to house the Task Force in the Dayton Region would result in its probably relocation to Columbus or Cincinnati (both have been discussed as options).

Q 44) The membership of TF is 230 personnel. These personnel are mostly public sector first responders from Ohio based fire and EMS departments. When activated by Ohio or FEMA, these personnel are paid portal-to-portal (time of activation until released); typically for 10 to 16 days. The resulting pay checks (and associated taxes) are substantial. Should affordable or functional warehouses in Columbus or Cincinnati be unable to be found, FEMA could terminate OH-TF1 as part of the federal System (primary source of operating funding) and replace it with another state's team. The resulting loss of taxable salaries would be approx. $1.5M in a given year. Additionally, the $1.2M in direct federal support to the TF would also be lost.

46. Using your best guess, of the jobs created over the next 10 years, what will the average salary be? $50,000-$75,000

47. Is your project a workforce development program? Yes

48. If yes, does your program center on one of the ten JobsOhio targeted industries? No

49. Counties in which jobs will be created Montgomery

Additional Details

50. Letters of endorsement, supporting materials, additional information. You can submit ONE PDF file that does not exceed 10 pages.

PDAC Request OH-TF1 Warehouse.pdf (554.43 KB)

51. Is there opposition to the project? No

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54. Email of person filling out this form. This is where notification will be sent that the form was received. eschumann@ohtf1.com

55. Do you want your project to be considered as a Community Project in the fiscal year 2025 –2026 State Capital Budget Bill? {Empty}

56. If your project type is on the list of ineligible projects (see above), please offer an explanation why your project could be eligible. If your project is not on the list, answer the question by stating that your project is not on the list of ineligible projects. {Empty}

57. Has your organization received state capital budget funding in the past? If so, provide a brief project description, year funded, and amount. {Empty}

58. Does your project have a connection with, or provide some benefit to, a state agency that has bonding authority? Please check all that apply from the following list: {Empty}

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