TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 35376, including changes to the grant award amount, with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to continue to receive and expend grant funding to provide nutrition, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention activities through the Healthy Active Long Beach (CalFresh Healthy Living) Program, to increase the contract amount by $859,392, for a revised total contract amount not to exceed $3,437,568, and to extend the term to September 30, 2023, with the option to extend the agreement for an additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to amend Contract No. 35376 with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for the continuation of the Healthy Active Long Beach (CalFresh Healthy Living) Program.
On August 13, 2019, the City Council approved a contract with CDPH to provide nutrition, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention activities through the CalFresh Healthy Living Program. The Health and Human Services Department (Health Department) uses this funding to provide education, community outreach, and policy systems and environmental change strategies focusing on health promotion and community change to help Long Beach residents establish healthy eating habits and a physically active lifestyle for the prevention of diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Activities funded by this grant include free nutrition education classes, community and school gardens, safe routes to school initiatives, and a healthy market partnership program. The funding continues to expand and sustain the efforts of the Healthy Active Long Beach Program, which was first implemented on October 1, 2003.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Taylor M. Anderson on September 16, 2022 and by Budget Analysis Officer Greg Sorensen on Septembe...
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