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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: William Walker, M.D. , Health Services Director
By: Ginger Marieiro, , Contracts Administrator
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DATE: September 12, 1996
Approve Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29-203-6 t the0UPAte
SUBJECT: Department of Health Services for the Women, Infants and Children
Supplemental Food Program (WIC)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I . RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his
designee (Wendel Brunner, M.D. ) , to execute on behalf of the
County, Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29-203-62 (State #95-
22872-,1) with the State Department of Health Services, effective
April 1, 1996, for the Supplemental Food Program for Women,
Infants and Children (WIC) .
II . FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This amendment formally encumbers $67, 966 in State funding
(Federal funds) for the WIC Program, for a new total of
$1, 731, 795, for the 1995-96 Federal Fiscal Year. No County funds
are required.
III . REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
The WIC Program is a nutrition education, counseling, and food
supplement program for low-income, pregnant, postpartum and
breast-feeding women, infants and children at nutritional risk,
and is mandated under the Community Health Services Division of
the State Department of Health Services .
The State has notified the Department of a supplementary award of
$67, 966 to support a revised caseload of 16, 550 (or 1, 150
additional) clients . Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29=203-62
formally encumbers the additional monies and allows minor
revisions to line items in the budget .
Three certified and sealed copies of the Board Order should be
returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit for submission to the
State Department of Health Services .
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON SEP 24 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6711) (� 24 M
cc: Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED SEP
State Dept of Health Services Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
M382/7-83
BY DEPUTY