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• Philadelphia, PA: Assisted the City in securing $3.1 million in FY 2012 grant funding to partially fund the salary and benefits of 25 police officers over a three-year period. • San Antonio, TX: Secured $10.3 million in FY 2009 COPS funding to hire 50 additional officers for their Problem Oriented Policing (POP) Project. • Sarasota County, FL: Secured $1.9 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010 to build a new Emergency Operations Center including emergency technology and communications infrastructure to be used within the new EOC. U.S. Department of Commerce Holland & Knight has a long track record of assisting local governments interface with the diverse array of federal government agencies that reside at the U.S. Department of Commerce, including the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). With regard to EDA, Holland & Knight assists local governments in developing compelling projects to approach the Administration's grant programs, which include core programs like the Public Works and Economic Facilities Grant Program, as well as new programs like the Strong Cities, Strong Communities and Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. Holland & Knight has also worked with a number of local governments and local government consortiums to interact with NTIA in developing interoperable public safety communications networks, and is closely following all action with FirstNet, which was established in February of this year to build, deploy, and operate a national interoperable communications network for first responders, in consultation with federal, state, tribal and local public safety entities, and other key stakeholders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Our team knows the Affordable Care Act and the course it sets for reform. In studying the new law, and the recent Supreme Court ruling, we have paid close attention to its provisions that seek to build the health care workforce, strengthen public health and prevention efforts and expand primary care outreach. The Affordable Care Act created a new Prevention and Public Health Trust Fund under the jurisdiction of HHS. It appropriated $7 billion to the fund for FY 2010 through FY 2015 and $2 billion per year for subsequent fiscal years. The act authorized activities where trust fund monies may be used to include programs for diabetes prevention; training of nurse practitioners, community health workers, nurse education; and nursing retention programs as well as more advanced education programs. There is an obvious connection between the City's growing health care needs and the aims of the trust fund monies. We would work with you to identify the program areas where trust fund monies could be directed and to cultivate working relationships with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services Department (HHS), and other decision makers at HHS and on Capitol Hill in advance of next fiscal year's allocations. Other recent health funding and legislative successes include: • Obtaining a $499,999 grant for the Cobb County, Ga., Board of Health to develop a county- wide plan to improve its environmental and policy-based prevention efforts aimed at Holland & Knight Confidential Presentation for the City of Santa Ana 1 15 25C-28