GRIC Grant Application

City of Chandler — Regular Meeting (2021-09-23)

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Gila River Indian Community Grant Application 
Grant Cycle 2021 
 
For Office Use Only: 
Data Entry 
Receipt 
Evaluation 
Review     Approval - Amount $                                                                                   Denial 
 
Cover Sheet 
Municipality Information 
1. Date of Application: 3/18/2021          (NOTE: Click field or use up/down arrow keys to move among fields) 
2. Name of City, Town or County: City of Chandler 
3. Mayor (City or Town) or Board of Supervisor’s Chairman (County): Mayor Kevin Hartke 
4. Mailing Address: Mail Stop 303M,  PO Box 4008 
5. City: Chandler 
State: Arizona 
Zip Code: 85244-4008 
6. Acknowledgement of Submission by Authorized Municipality Representative: 
     Typed Name/Title: Matt Burdick, Communications and Public Affairs Director 
     Email Address: matt.burdick@chandleraz.gov 
Signature: 
Applicant Information 
7. Department/Organization Name: City of Chandler Police Department 
8. Select Organization Type: Municipality 
      If Non-profit please attach IRS Determination Letter 
9. Application Contact Person: Jason Barnes/Judy Mandt Title: Sergeant/Analyst 
10. Phone Number: 480-782-4557/480-782-4085 
11. Mailing Address: Mail Stop 303M,  PO Box 4008 
12. City: Chandler  
State: Arizona  
Zip Code: 85244-4008 
13. Email Address: jason.barnes@chandleraz.gov/judy.mandt@chandleraz.gov Website Address: 
www.chandlerpd.com 
Project Information 
14. Project Name: Stop The Bleed/Active Shooter Response Kit (ARK) 
15. Purpose of Grant: The purpose of this grant application is to provide life-saving Stop The Bleed/Active Shooter 
Response Kits (ARKs) for all Chandler Police Department (CPD) patrol vehicles, as well as all schools staffed by CPD 
School Resource Officers. The Department is requesting funds to purchase 146 ARKs. These kits are designed to be 
quickly distributed by Police first responders during mass casualty incidents to mitigate the effects of severe injuries 
sustained during active shooter incidents. ARKs provide the supplies necessary to stop extreme blood loss and 
hemorrhaging, allowing victims to survive long enough for medical assistance to arrive. 
16. Priority Funding Area 
Public Safety 
17. Annual amount requested 
$108,840 
18. Number of years that funding is requested 
1 Year – One Time Funding Grant Cycle 2021 
19. Total amount requested (annual amount x 
number of years) 
$108,840 
20. Has your organization received past funding 
from GRIC? If yes, list each year and amount 
The Chandler Police Department received $194,260 in 2019 and 
$116,400 in 2006.

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21. Geographic area served 
City of Chandler (primary), surrounding East Valley cities/areas, and 
any other location where CPD might respond.

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Narrative 
Please structure your proposal to provide the following information in the order indicated.  Provide the narrative in 
paragraph form in the text field provided.  Please be thorough but strive for brevity. 
1. Briefly describe your organization’s history, mission and goals. 
The City of Chandler was founded in 1912 as an agricultural town. Since that time, the City has evolved into a 
high-tech industrial hub with a diverse population of over 267,000 residents. The City boundary spans an 
incorporated area of approximately 64.9 square miles.  As of March 2021, there are 109,801 housing units 
within the city limits.  There are 880 total miles of roadway within the City of Chandler, consisting of 860 
miles of local roads and 20 miles of highway.  The City is bordered by the Gila River Indian Community to the 
south, the City of Phoenix to the west, the Cities of Tempe and Mesa to the north, and the Town of Gilbert to 
the east.  The City of Chandler serves as a vital part of the Phoenix metropolitan area, linked together by 
Interstate 10/17, State Route 202, State Route 101, and State Route 87. 
     
The Chandler Police Department, also established in 1912, is a highly successful, community service-oriented,  
proactive agency, represented by 505 dedicated sworn and civilian staff.  The mission of the organization is 
to provide a safe community where people can live, work, and thrive.  We are committed to being a leader in 
law enforcement and will pursue and engage the best trained, equipped, and committed professionals who 
demonstrate the highest performance standards and best policing practices in partnership with the 
community. 
2. To determine eligibility for this grant, if the applying organization is non-municipal or a non-profit 501c, please 
describe your relationship with Arizona municipalities including past and present support, whether through 
partnerships, collaborations, in-kind contributions, grants, tax-based funding or other.  Describe the supporting 
municipality’s role in this project.  If the applying organization is a municipality or a municipal sub-division please 
enter the text “Not applicable” and go to item 3. 
Not applicable 
3. Describe the proposed project and your plan to implement. 
The Chandler Police Department is requesting funding for approximately 146 Stop the Bleed/Active Shooter 
Response Kits (ARKs).  This backpack-style kit can be easily worn by Police Officers and contains lifesaving

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supplies when responding to a mass shooter event.  Each kit provides supplies for at least seven patients.  
The kit contains multiple tourniquets, chest seals, blast bandages and pressure dressings for bleeding control, 
individual ‘stop-the-bleed’ throw kits, which are sealed and contain a tourniquet and multiple modular 
bandages for hemorrhage control, and simple bilingual instructions. 
 
Police Officers are the first responders on scene that enter the location of an active shooter event. Police 
Officers must act quickly and decisively to save lives.  Victims on the scene may have received critical life-
threatening injuries that require an immediate medical response for survival.  Currently, treatment for these 
victims is delayed until medical response personnel can arrive on the scene.  In many cases, police officers 
must secure the scene to ensure safety prior to allowing other first responders, such as Fire Department and 
medical personnel, to enter the scene and attend to victims.  This can take a while and is usually chaotic.  
During this time, the injured are left on scene without medical care and may pass away from blood loss.  This 
can be a significant time period from when the patient is injured, when police make contact, and when first 
medical attention occurs.  Sadly there are many examples, such as the Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Columbine 
school shootings, as well as the Gilroy Garlic Festival and Las Vegas Harvest Music Festival.  Although 
Chandler hasn’t experienced an incident similar to the scale of these, the frequency of incidents, large and 
small, necessitates being prepared.  Chandler hosts many large events, such as the Ostrich Festival, Cajun 
Fest, multiple 5K/10K race events, Jazz Festival, and Parade of Lights/Tree Lighting Event, that attract tens of 
thousands of participants or more from various communities, that could be targeted. 
 
The Chandler Police Department is requesting funding of the ARK backpack kit so every patrol vehicle is 
equipped with one.  Additionally, every School Resource Officer (SRO) assigned to a school within Chandler 
will be provided an ARK that can be kept onsite at the school.  CPD currently has 10 SROs assigned to every 
high school and middle school within Chandler city limits that fall under the Chandler Unified School District, 
Kyrene School District, and Mesa Public Schools.  The kits are designed to be heat resistant and not 
disintegrate when exposed to heat by being kept in patrol vehicles.  They have been successfully used by US 
Customs and Border Patrol, Clark County Fire Department (in response to the Las Vegas Harvest Music 
Festival shooting), New York Police Department, and other departments around the country. 
 
Infusing the ARK into each patrol vehicle provides an additional tool to save lives without changing the 
primary mission of the officer.  Instead, the officers are delivery agents – as officers advance through the 
scene, they can either throw the entire kit or a smaller ‘stop-the-bleed’ kit to an able bodied victim so victims

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can use the kit to help themselves and/or other injured victims.  It can take a while to secure a scene.  This is 
valuable time where the injured typically do not receive medical care.  Reducing the time from the original 
incident to hemorrhage control is a must to save lives after a mass casualty incident or active shooter 
scenario.  The throw kits have an exponential impact and are designed to decrease the time it takes to render 
hemorrhage control to patients, thus increasing survivability chances. These kits are a way to infuse life-
saving equipment at first contact with the injured instead of waiting for the fire department to respond. It’s 
also important to note that the number of victims may outnumber emergency personnel, so these kits could 
still be used by non-first responders after medical is on scene, similar to what happened in Las Vegas.  Having 
an ARK in every CPD patrol vehicle and all schools that have a CPD School Resource Officer, will undoubtedly 
save lives in the City of Chandler and surrounding communities should an active shooter incident occur. 
4. Describe how the proposed project satisfies one or more of the priority funding areas identified by the Gila River 
Indian Community. 
The project supports the Public Safety priority by providing funding for Stop the Bleed/Active Shooter 
Response Kits for the Chandler Police Department, which would be used during active shooter/mass casualty 
events for Chandler and other communities where Chandler would respond. Having these kits on all CPD 
vehicles and at schools with CPD resource officers will ensure that Chandler officers have the equipment that 
they need to act effectively and save lives during these incidents. 
5. Identify the needs/problems to be addressed, target population and number of people to be served by the 
project. 
The problem being addressed is the need to drastically reduce the response time for hemorrhage control of 
victims during an active shooter/mass casualty incident.  In these situations, every second counts, and having 
the kits available on scene for CPD officers will allow them to quickly render tourniquets and other forms of 
life-saving aid without having to wait for medical response personnel to arrive. The project will primarily 
provide services for the citizens living and working within the City of Chandler, which has a current 
population of more than 267,000 people.  In addition, these kits can be used in the surrounding communities 
wherever CPD responds to an active shooter/mass casualty event. 
6. Define the project as a new or continuing program.  Has GRIC previously funded this project?

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The funding of the ARK is a new program to the Chandler Police Department and CPD does not currently have 
any ARKs.  GRIC has not previously funded this project.  
7. Provide a brief timeline including start and finish dates.  Indicate if the timeline is flexible. 
The timeline to start the project is flexible.  The desire is to purchase ARKs as soon as funds are available so 
they can be put in to service immediately.  It is anticipated the process would take three to five months to 
complete the purchase, receive the ARKs, and place the ARKs in to service.  
8. Identify other organizations, partners or funders participating in the project and their roles. 
This is a Chandler Police Department project.  No additional funding sources are indentified for this project. 
9. Would you be able to implement the proposed plan if your organization received partial funding for this project? 
Yes, partial funding would allow the Chandler Police Department to fund a portion of the ARKs requested.  
Full project funding is preferred; however, CPD would gratefully accept any level of funding for this project.  
10. Describe your plan for project financial sustainability beyond the grant period.  If this is a program/project 
previously funded by the Gila River Indian Community describe efforts made towards the previously described 
sustainability plan. 
There is no on going costs for the kit. There is no expiration on the equipment in the kits, and the bandages 
and tourniquets will not degrade in the heat. If part or an entire ARK are used, CPD would fund the 
replacement costs of the supplies. 
11. Describe your plan to document progress and results. 
During the grant period, progress and/or annual reports addressing the implementation status will be 
provided as required by the Gila River Indian Community. 
 
The progress documentation would consist of tracking the procurement process and the distribution to all 
patrol vehicles and CPD School Resource Officers.  All purchases made with grant funding will be tracked 
separately in the City of Chandler accounting system to ensure an accurate and complete recording of

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expenditures. Upon receipt of funding, CPD will purchase all active shooter response kits. Distribution would 
then occur to all patrol vehicles and CPD School Resource Officers.  It is the hope of the Department that 
these kits will never have to be used.  However, in case of a mass casualty incident, the number of lives saved 
would be documented based on the throw kit distribution. 
 
12. Indicate any application to and/or awards made by a tribe other than the Gila River Indian Community for state 
shared revenues for this and any other project for the past five (5) years.  If this information is included in a 
separate attachment, please indicate that here. 
The Chandler Police Department has not applied to or received any awards from any other tribe.

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Project Budget 
Budget Period: Grant Cycle 2021 
For each budget item listed here please provide a narrative description on the following Project Budget Detail page. 
  
Proposed Budget Expense 
(list each budget item) 
Amount 
requested from 
GRIC 
Amount 
requested or 
secured from 
other sources 
In Kind 
contributions 
Total Budget 
1. Stop the Bleed/Active Shooter 
Response Kits (ARK) – 146 kits. 
$99,915 
$0 
$0 
$99,915 
2. Estimated tax for 146 ARKs. 
$7,795 
$0 
$0 
$7,795 
3. Estimated shipping for 146 ARKs 
$1,130 
$0 
$0 
$1,130 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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$0 
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Total Budget 
$108,840 
$0 
$0 
$108,840

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 Project Budget Detail 
Please provide a narrative description for each of the project budget items listed on the previous page.  Include the 
dollar figure and how it was derived. 
1. CPD is requesting funding for approximately 146 Stop the Bleed/Active Shooter Response Kits.  Based off a recent 
quote, each kit costs is approximately $685 and costs were rounded.  The City’s procurement process would be followed 
so the actual cost may vary slightly.  
2. Estimated taxes for 146 ARKs.  Estimated using 7.8% City Tax and costs were rounded.  Tax will depend on the location 
of the successful vendor during the procurement process. 
3. Estimated shipping costs for 146 ARKs. 
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To ensure a complete application and proper submission please refer to the Grant Application Instructions.

Tactical Medical Solutions, LLC
1250 Harris Bridge Road
Anderson, SC 29621
864-224-0081
www.tacmedsolutions.com
Tax ID # 20-4468032
Estimate
Acct. No.
11796
Date
3/9/2021
Estimate #
EST87803
Bill To
Aaron Wilson
CHANDLER FIRE DEPARTMENT
151 E BOSTON ST ATTN WARREN BAHLE
CHANDLER AZ 85225
United States
Ship To
Aaron Wilson
CHANDLER FIRE DEPARTMENT
151 E BOSTON ST ATTN WARREN BAHLE
CHANDLER AZ 85225
United States
Expires
5/1/2021
User
Kristie Herron
GSA #
GSA #: GS07F0163Y
GSA #: GS07F0163Y
RFQ #
Comments
Lead time is 4-8 weeks.
Item
ARK-CUST
Shipping
Quantity
146
1
Units
Ea
Description
ARK KIT- CUSTOM PACK
ARK-BO-BLK
OALFP-4 X2
SOFTT-W X4
HALO-VENT X4
BLAST X2
OAL-6 X2
TS5  x2
ARK-CTK-CUST X7
OALFP-4
SOFTT-W
HALO-VENT
BIC
$1,130 per Greg.
Rate
684.33
0.00
Amount
99,912.18
0.00
Subtotal
Shipping Cost (FedEx Ground®)
Total
99,912.18
1,130.00
$101,042.18
Additional shipping charges may apply if the order is placed. Estimates are valid for 60 days
Sales Tax not included - Estimated tax is $7,795.00