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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an amendment, and all subsequent amendments, to Agreement No. 33739 between the City of Long Beach and the County of Los Angeles to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development, and to accept additional funding of $913,191 for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, for a total grant contract amount of $3,902,296. (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 Long Beach. On August 14, 2012, the City Council authorized a grant agreement with the County in the amount of $927,437 to further develop our public health preparedness and response for bioterrorism capabilities for the period of July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. The County subsequently amended this agreement to provide an additional $970,719 for the period of July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, $919,328 for the period of July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, provided an augmentation of the grant in the amount of $21,263 in January 2015 for public health emergency operations equipment and laboratory information management, and an additional $150,358 on June 9, 2015 to prepare for and respond to Ebola Virus Disease, for a revised total grant amount of $2,989,105.
This additional allotment of $913,191 for Fiscal Year 2015-16 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 healt...
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