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Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with The Regents of the University of California, a California Constitutional corporation, on behalf of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Health Policy (UCLA) to fund a LB Recovery Act program, in a total amount not to exceed $40,000, through May 31, 2023, consistent with City Council approval of the LB Recovery Act. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Long Beach Recovery Act
On March 16, 2021, the City Council adopted the LB Recovery Act, becoming one of the first major cities to approve COVID-19 recovery programs made possible through the Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and other federal and State funding sources. Additional funding and program detail adjustments to the LB Recovery Act were made as part of the Adopted Fiscal Year 2022 (FY 22) Budget and periodic adjustments have been brought to the City Council as needed. The Citywide LB Recovery implementation team (Staff) has continued to develop over 84 programs with collective impact and equity in mind focused on the three main funding categories: Healthy and Safe Community, Economic Recovery, and Securing Our City’s Future. City staff has communicated updates to the LB Recovery Act programs through reports to the City Council and in Biannual Reports posted on the LB Recovery Act website at www.longbeach.gov/recovery. As part of the LB Recovery Act, under the Healthy and Safe Community category, approximately $2.78 million has been allocated for the Early Childhood Education (ECE), Childcare, and Literacy Development Program to address financial hardship that has been created by COVID-19.
LB Recovery Act Program Contracts
The following programs require City Council to adopt a Resolution and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with selected vendors to continue implem...
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