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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and all necessary documents and any subsequent amendments including amending the terms, increasing grant amounts, and executing any subsequent subcontracts or Memorandums of Understanding, with the California Department of Public Health, to provide nutrition, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention activities through the Healthy Active Long Beach (CalFresh Healthy Living) Program, to receive and expend grant funding in an amount not to exceed $2,578,176, for the period of October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2022. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into an agreement with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to accept and expend grant funding of up to $2,578,176, for the continuation of the Healthy Active Long Beach Program, for the period of October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2022.
The Health and Human Services Department (Health Department) will use this funding to continue providing 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 to be 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 will continue 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 July 25, 2019 and by Revenue Management Officer Geraldine Alejo on July 26, 2019.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action is requested on August 13, 2019, to accept funding and ensure the agreement is executed expeditiously.
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