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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a first amendment to the existing grant agreement between the City of Long Beach and the State Water Resources Control Board to provide beach water quality monitoring, to extend the term of the agreement from July 1, 2012 through September 30, 2014, and to add $84,264 for a total grant amount of $148,028. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On April 16, 2013, the City Council authorized a grant agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board to accept grant funding in the amount of $63,764 to administer the Health Department's Beach Water Quality Monitoring and Public Notification program for the period of July 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. The State has subsequently amended this agreement to provide an additional $84,264 in funding, and has extended the term through September 30, 2014. The amended amount of this agreement now totals $148,028.
The grant funds are to support the current beach water quality testing program, including reimbursement for testing conducted through September 30, 2014, and support continued public notification activities, such as posting weekly recreational water quality sampling results on the Health Department's website and posting warning signs at beaches when bacterial levels exceed State standards. The State mandates that all coastal health jurisdictions conduct weekly bacterial testing of waters adjacent to public beaches, which have more than 50,000 visitors annually and are near storm drains that flow in the summer.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Linda Vu on March 27, 2014 and by Budget Management Officer Victoria Bell on March 28, 2014.
FISCAL IMPACT
The total amount of the amended agreement is $148,028 for the period of July 1,2012 through September 30, 2014. Sufficient appropriation is budgeted in the Health Fund (SR 130), in the Department of Health and Human Services (HE). No cash match or in-kind service mandate is required, and there is ...
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