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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a revised Letter of Support (Attachment A) expressing the Board’s support of HHSA’s Behavioral Health Division’s application for the County Medical Services Program Healthcare Infrastructure Development (HID) matching grant (HID matching grant), that is required as part of the HID matching grant’s application process, which reduces the amount of grant matching funds from $1 million to $500,000, and will supersede the Chair’s prior signed Letter of Support dated November 18, 2024.
FUNDING: The HID matching grant will provide up to $500,000 in funding to aid the County in meeting the local financial match requirements of the Bond Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program Round 1 grant.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
On December 3, 2024, the Board authorized HHSA to apply to the BHCIP Round 1 grant and approved the Chair to sign a Letter of Support for submission to the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Governing Board, expressing the Board’s support of HHSA’s HID Matching Grant application in the amount of $1,000,000, to be used as matching funds for HHSA's BCHIP Grant, Round 1 application, if awarded (Legistar file 24-1987).
The HID matching grant provides funding that aids counties and their contracted partners in meeting local financial match requirements of healthcare infrastructure funding opportunities provided by state, federal or other programs. Facilities that serve multiple counties are eligible for an award of the lesser of $1 million or 5% of total project costs to be used towards the matching requirements of the primary healthcare infrastructure grant throughout the duration of the program. Facilities that serve a single county are eligible for an award of the lesser of $500,000 or 5% match of the total project. HHSA initially intended to apply with a partnering county so was eligible for $1 million HID matching funds. HHS...
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