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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, contract renewals or extensions, with the County of Los Angeles, for a contract term effective June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, with an option to extend the contract for four additional one-year terms through June 30, 2022;
Accept funding in the amount of $898,411, to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development, for the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Department of Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $91,531, offset by reimbursement funding. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since 2002, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the County of Los Angeles funding for bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development to provide for response to a bioterrorist threat or other public health emergency in the City of Long Beach (City). In previous years, the City has also received supplemental funding to prepare for, and respond to, H1N1 and Ebola virus disease. The additional allotment of $898,411 for Fiscal Year 2017-18 will be used to build on these efforts, strengthening the City’s capacity under the core Public Health Preparedness Capabilities established by the CDC, including community preparedness, emergency operations coordination, emergency public information and warning, information sharing, mass care, medical countermeasure dispensing, medical material management and distribution, non-pharmaceutical interventions, public health laboratory testing, public health surveillance and epidemiological investigation, responder health and safety, and volunteer management.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Linda T. Vu and by Revenue Management Officer Geraldine Alejo on August 28, 2017.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action is requested on September 12, 2017, to continu...
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