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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary agreements with the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health in the amount of $784,000 to provide Community Prevention and Wellness Services under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), to administer and execute all necessary documents to accept and expend all grant funds in connection herewith, and to take all other actions necessary to implement the use of such funds;
Execute subcontracts in the amount of $40,000 and subsequent amendments with the listed subcontract agencies to address smoking cessation needs and to build on existing smoke-free policies in the City of Long Beach; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HE) by $712,000 and in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Department of Public Works (PW) by $72,000 for the period of March 19, 2010 to March 18, 2012. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On November 17, 2009, the City Council adopted a Resolution in support of, and authorizing an application with Los Angeles County to apply to the Federal Health and Human Services Department for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) Community Prevention and Wellness funding to provide community prevention and wellness services. The funds were designated for communities to develop projects aimed to reduce tobacco use, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and reduce the obesity epidemic through interventions involving policy, systems, and environmental change.
In December 2009, the City of Long Beach, through the Departments of Health and Human Services and Public Works, submitted a joint application with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health for the Community Prevention and Wellness funding. On March 19, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $32 million to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health for a two-year period; $1...
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