response and recovery operations, the office works to ensure personnel staffing needs are met, while working to make sure the logistical needs and facility operations are managed. On a daily basis the office ensures the physical operation of the Cal OES headquarters in Mather, California runs smoothly. The Office of Administrative Services is responsible for providing administrative, financial, human resources, facility operations management, labor relations, and business services to the agency. The office is divided into three areas: The Fiscal Services Division has program responsibility over the Accounting Branch, Accounts Receivable and Debt Collection Branch, and Budget and Fiscal Analysis Branch. This division has all fiscal responsibilities within the agency. The division builds the Governor's Budget, processes payments for all local assistance and state operations, builds and manages program budget allotments, directly assists programs with fiscal information related to expenditures and projections. The Human Resources Branch (HR) is divided into three sections: Personnel Office, Labor Relations Office, and Recruitment and Selection Services (RSS). Responsibilities include labor relations, classification and pay, payroll and benefits, workers' compensation, reasonable accommodations, recruitment, and examinations. The Office of Grants Management (OGM) is divided into two branches which are responsible for monitoring emergency management, homeland security, and law enforcement and victim services grants to ensure grant expenditures fully comply with applicable regulations and requirements. The Procurement and Logistical Services Branch consists of the Procurement and Property Control Section and the Business Services Section. Preparedness and Training The division's Preparedness Branch is responsible for working with state agencies and local governments on emergency planning efforts. The division is leading a new administration effort to reinvigorate the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and its Maintenance System. The Maintenance System consists of an advisory board (state and local officials representing the policy and executive levels of government), a technical group (from federal, state, and local agencies, tribal governments, private sector, and volunteer and non-governmental organizations), specialist committees (Technical Group members), and the Mutual Aid Regional Advisory Committees (MARACs) (six committees consisting of primarily local government and regional state agencies). The Hazard Mitigation Branch is responsible for reviewing applications for the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program and local hazard mitigation plans. The Branch is also responsible for the State Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. On October 8, 2007, FEMA approved the California's State Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. This approval continues the State's eligibility for FEMA disaster recovery and