MS. REINSTEIN of REVERE, Mr. Toomey of Cambridge, Mr. Donelan of Orange, Mr. Sullivan of Fall River, Ms. Khan of Newton, Leary of Worchester, Mr. Kulik of Worthington, Mr. Linsky of Natick, Mr. Turner of Dennis, Mr. Smola of Palmer, Mr. Pignatelli of Lenox, Mr. Kane of Holyoke, Mr. Keenan of Salem, Ms. Teahan of Whitman, Mr. O’Brien of Kingston, Mr. Festa of Melrose, Mr. Guyer of Dalton, Ms. Gary of Dracut, Mr. Petersen of Marblehead, Mr. Connolly of Everett, Ms. Gomes of Harwich, Mr. Hill of Ipswich, Mr. Murphy of Burlington, Mr. Kafka of Sharon, Mr. Kennedy of Brockton, Ms. Provost of Somerville, Mr. Hall of Hall of Westford, Ms. Callahan of Sutton, Mr. Verga of Gloucester, Ms. Creedon of Brockton, Ms. Spiliotis of Peabody, Mr. Ross of Wrentham, Ms. Gifford of Wareham, Ms. Gobi of Spencer, L’Italien of Andover, Mr. Eldridge of Acton, Mr. Loscocco of Holliston and Mr. Green of Billerica moves that the bill be amended in section 2 by inserting after item 8000-0040 the following item:

8000-0050       For the firefighting equipment grant program for fire departments of every city, town, fire district and authority of the commonwealth to be administered by the executive office of public safety, provided that grants shall be distributed to municipalities according to a formula giving equal weight to each municipalities population; provided further that a municipality shall not receive less than $15,000; provided further, that eligible fire safety equipment under this program shall include, but is not limited to, turnout gear, hand-held power lights, communication devices, telephones, personal alert safety systems, so-called, air packs, tanks, compressors, thermal imaging devices and computerized personnel accountability systems, but shall exclude firefighter apparatus and vehicles; provided further that grants awarded by said executive office to a municipality under said program shall not be utilized for the purpose of personnel costs unless such costs constitute 50 percent or less of the total grant award; provided further that no grant shall be awarded to the department of fire services; provided further that not later than February 1, 2007, the executive office of public safety shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means and to the secretary for administration and finance detailing the amount of grants awarded to said grant recipients and descriptions of said grants and each municipality will provide the executive office of public safety with a comprehensive list of the best-practices that have been instituted as a result of these grants ……………………... …..           $10,000,000