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FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE - Costa
DATE: JANUARY 8, 2002 County
SUBJECT: STATUS OF IMPLEMENTING MULTI-LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES OF THE
COMMUNITY ALERT NETWORK
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ACCENT report on the status on the implementation of the multi-language capabilities of the
Community Alert Network, and REFER to the 2002 Internal Operations Committee continued
monitoring of this project:
BACKGROUND:
The Internal Operations Committee was asked by the Board to receive updates from, and provide
additional direction to, the Health Services'Department, Hazardous Materials Division (HazMat)
on the implementation of the multi-language capabilities of the Community Alert Network.
The Committee received status reports in March, May, August and December, and has worked
with HazMat and the Laotion Organizing Project (LOP) in defining the scope and securing;funds''
for the project. Funding commitments have been received in the amounts of $100, 00 from the
California Air Resources Board and $40,000 from the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board.
Acquisition of this funding will enable the Department to proceed with the first phase of the multi-
language messaging project, entitled "The Implementation of the Laotion Language Pilot of the
Emergency Telephone Ring Down System"'. The project consists of the following components:,
aminstration, hiring, training, workplan development,'publicity, database development, test,
updating/maintenance, and evaluation.
HazMat, in conjunction with the LOP recruited widely for a project coordinator, interviewed
seven applicants and selected Haeng Tooaly, Of the Laotion community to lead the project. It is
anticipated that it will take one to two months to recruit and'select'outreach staff for the project,
three to four months to collect the necessary data., and one to two months to test the data.
Therefore, it is recommended that this item'be kept on referral for ongoing monitoring by the
Internal Operations Committee.
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATORRECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE � -
APPROVE �HER
SIGNATURE(s):
T JOHN GIQIA,CHAIR MARK DeSAUL.NIER
ACTION OF BOARD ON January 8, i602 ~APPROVE ASRECOMMENDED XX OTHER
VOTE
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS ATRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
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CONTACT: JULIE ENEA(925)S',5-1477 JOHN SWEI=T ,CLERK OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS'AND
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
CC INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEESTAFF
HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT
LAOTION ORGANIZING PROJECT
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