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Health Services Department recommending the Board authorize the Chairman to sign funding Agreement 888-PHD0909 with California Department of Public Health for the following Public Health Preparedness programs and approve budget transfer modifying the Department's Fiscal Year 2009-10 budget for same.
1) CDC Base Allocation in the amount of $224,062 for a term through August 9, 2010;
2) Cities Readiness Initiative Funds in the amount of $100,000 for a term through August 9, 2010;
3) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) in the amount of $193,415 for a term through June 30, 2010;
4) State GF Pandemic Flu in the amount of $66,117 for a term through June 30, 2010;
5) CDC PHER H1N1 Phase 1 (Focus Area 1) in the amount of $123,151 for a term through July 30, 2010;
6) CDC PHER H1N1 Phase 1 (Focus Area 2) in the amount of $41,266 for a term through July 30, 2010;
7) CDC PHER H1N1 Phase 11 in the amount of 133,990 for a term through July 30, 2010; and
8) HPP H1N1 in the amount of $$53,876 for a term through July 30, 2010. (4/5 vote required)
FUNDING: Federal and State Public Health Preparedness Funding.
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BUDGET SUMMARY:
Total Estimated Cost $935,877
Funding
Budgeted $583,594
New Funds $352,283
Savings $
Other $
Total Funding Available $935,877
Change To Net County Cost $0
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: No impact to Net County Cost. Department submitted budget at Addenda based on available information. Since that time, the Department has received updated funding information and now presents to the Board with a budget transfer request in the amount of $352,283.
Background: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides states with funding via cooperative agreements to upgrade state and local Public Health jurisdictions' preparedness for, and response to, bioterrorism, other outbreaks of infectious disease, and other public health threats and emergenci...
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