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Health and Human Services Agency recommending the Board approve the extension of the California Department of Public Health funding period for funding awarded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Enhancing Detection Expansion Program through July 31, 2024.
FUNDING: 100% Federal Coronavirus Relief Funding.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
On March 16, 2021 (File ID: 21-0366) the County of El Dorado Board of Supervisors approved the Chief Administrative Office (CAO) and HHSA spending plan for the funding provided by the CDC, awarded by CDPH through the ELC Enhancing Detection program spending plan. As part of the CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act supplements, El Dorado County received an allocation award of $6,503,584 from the ELC Enhancing Detection Program.
ELC allocation awards are intended to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to emerging infections by supporting testing, case investigation and contact tracing, surveillance, containment, and mitigation efforts. ELC funding affords jurisdictions the flexibility to enhance and maintain levels of public health specific personnel, equipment, systems, and activities as needed, which can:
1) support workforce, epidemiology, use by employers, elementary and secondary schools, childcare facilities, institutions of higher education, or long-term care facilities;
2) scale up or enhance testing by public health departments, academic, commercial, and hospital laboratories, and, community-based testing sites, mobile testing units, health care facilities, and;
3) scale up or enhance case investigation and contact tracing, surveillance, containment, and mitigation (including interstate compacts or other mutual aid agreements for such purposes).
Based upon allowable use categories for ELC funding, coupled with current and future needs for personnel, equipment, systems, and activities that will ensure that the...
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