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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, extending the grant period, or increasing grant amounts, with the County of Los Angeles, to receive and expend grant funding up to $123,019 annually for Ambulatory Outpatient Medical (AOM) services to persons living with HIV, for the period of
March 1, 2019 through February 28, 2022, with the option to extend the agreement for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since 1998, the County of Los Angeles has contracted with the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) to provide Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) clinical services. Ambulatory Outpatient Medical (AOM) services provide evidence-based preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic HIV medical services through outpatient medical visits by licensed health care professionals to eligible Ryan White Program (RWP) HIV-positive clients. AOM services are expected to interrupt or delay the progression of HIV disease; prevent and treat opportunistic infections; promote optimal health and quality of life; and, reduce further HIV transmission by providing clients the education and support for appropriate risk reduction strategies. The program serves approximately 330 individuals with HIV/AIDS infection, who are medically indigent and would have no other means of accessing care.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Taylor M. Anderson on August 22, 2019 and by Revenue Management Officer Geraldine Alejo on August 29, 2019.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action is requested on September 17, 2019, to continue the program without interruption. The Health Department has been providing services as prescribed in the agreement since March 1, 2019, and will be able to recover costs once the contract is approved.
FISCAL IMPACT
The City will receive grant funding up to $123,019 annually for the period of March 1, 2019 through February 28, 2022, with no match or in-kind service mandate required. Sufficient appropriation for the first year of the agreement, offset by grant revenue, is available in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department. Subsequent years appropriation will be requested during the annual budget process. This recommendation has no staffing impact beyond normal budgeted scope of duties and is consistent with existing City Council priorities. There is no local job impact associated with this recommendation.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
KELLY COLOPY
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
APPROVED:
PATRICK H. WEST
CITY MANAGER