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Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Committee

RHSCC Logo The Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Committee (RHSCC) provides leadership to the region’s efforts to enhance capabilities to prevent, protect, respond to and recover from a broad range of threats and hazards to include terrorism; by strengthening relationships between jurisdictions and across disciplines; outlining protocols for regional action; maximizing the sharing and coordination of resources; and enhancing the capabilities of first responders/receivers through equipment, training and exercise investments; and improving surveillance, early detection and mitigation of hazards and threats.

The committee strives to maximize public and private resources to enhance the capabilities of local agencies to protect the citizens of the greater Kansas City area.

The RHSCC oversees regional emergency preparedness/ homeland security grants including but not limited to:

Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)
Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
Cities Readiness Initiative for Kansas counties (CRI)
Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC)

The group als works in close cooperation with the area maritime security committee that oversees the port grant.

The RHSCC operates as a policy committee of the MARC board of directors and serves as the Urban Area Working Group for the UASI grant program. These elected and appointed leaders from the designated eight counties in the UASI region oversees the financial and programmatic aspects of the grants.

This structure provides strong board leadership with its working subcommittees and long standing committees charged with helping direct work to accomplish specific strategy plan goals, and to ensure that other homeland security grant opportunities are known and leveraged, and that deliverables not specifically outlined in the strategy plan are met.

Meeting information:

The full RHSCC meets every other month. On alternating months the co-chairs of the RHSCC subcommittees meet to coordinate their activities. Meeting agendas and summaries>