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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF PROCLAIMING RESOLUTION NO, 2000/401
October 22-28, 2000 as Lead Poisoning
Prevention Week in Contra Costa County
WHEREAS, the California Department of Health Services (DHS) estimates that nearly 6,000
children in Contra Costa County have unsafe levels of lead in their blood; and
WHEREAS, despite very limited screening, the County has identified over 600 lead-poisoned
children, the majority from low-income communities; and
WHEREAS, Contra Costa County's Lead Poisoning Prevention Project has been working since
1993 to identify lead-poisoned children and to provide follow-up and preventive services; and
WHEREAS, the major premise behind Contra Costa County's Lead Poisoning Prevention
Project is to recognize that lead poisoning is preventable, and that the strategies required to
make an impact on public health begin with collaboration of many segments of the
community; and
WHEREAS, partners of the Contra Costa County Lead Poisoning Prevention Project include,
but are not limited to, Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond,
Contra Costa Childcare Council, Greater Richmond Interfaith Program, Lao Family Community
Development, Neighborhood Environmental, Neighborhood House of North Richmond,
Pittsburg Healthy Cities Program, Pittsburg Preschool Coordinating Council, Promocion
Latina, Richmond Toxic Coalition, Santa Fe Neighborhood Council, United Laotian Community
Development and the West County Toxics Coalition; and
WHEREAS, the Contra Costa County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is working with
Project REAL (Richmond Effort to Abate Lead), a program of the City of Richmond
Redevelopment Agency funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to
make 120 houses and apartments in West Contra Costa County lead safe for low-income
children and families; and
WHEREAS, despite efforts at education and prevention, residents in Contra Costa County
continue to be poisoned by lead from deteriorated lead-based paint, other sources in the
home, workplace exposure and historic environmental contamination.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors does declare October 22-
28, 2000 as Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in Contra Costa County.
PASSED by unanimous vote of the Contra Costa County Board members present on this
1 ; ay of Octo er, 2000.
Donna Gev6ei,District III
hn M. Gioia,District I Mark Saulnier,District IV
GO
le B. Uilk a,District II Jo anciamilla,District V
/WitnessSS
my hand and the Seal of the Board of
Supervisors affixed this 17`n day of October,2000.
Phil Batchelor,Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
and County Administrator
by' . M at4 Deputy Clerk
Introduced by. Wendel Brunner, M.D. P ealth Director
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