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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS �" D" Contra
FROM: William Walker, M.D.,Health Services Director
By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator __ Costa
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DATE: February 1, 207 _ County
SUBJECT: Approval of Standard Agreement#28-700-4 with the California Department of Health Services
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND JUSTIFICATION
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 #28-700-4 with the California Department of Health Services in
the amount of $2,169,093 for Public Health Emergency Preparedness Comprehensive Program, for the
period from August 31, 2006 through August 31, 2007. The County is agreeing to indemnify the State for
claims arising with respect to intellectual property, which result directly or indirectly from this agreement.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Standard Agreement will result in $2,169,093 of funding for the Public Health Emergency
Preparedness Comprehensive Program. No County funds are required.
BACKGROUND/REASON S FOR RECOMMENDATION (S):
This Agreement will provide funding for multiple Public Health Emergency Preparedness activities including,
but not limited to, the Centers for Disease Control (CD) preparedness activities, the Cities Readiness Initiative
(CRI) activities, Pandemic Influenza preparedness and Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA)
hospital preparedness activities. The goals of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Comprehensive
Program include, but are not limited to, increasing the use and development of interventions know to prevent
human illness from chemical, biological, radiological agents, and naturally occurring health threats; decreasing
the time needed to classify health events as terrorism or naturally occurring in partnership with other agencies;
improving the timeliness and accuracy of information obtained from routing surveillance and, where
applicable, from analysis of non-traditional sources of health data, regarding threats to the public's health;
decreasing the time needed to provide countermeasures and health guidance to those affected by threats to the
public's health; and decreasing the time needed to implement recommendations from after-action reports
following treats to the public's health.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
✓RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR ( ECOMM NDATION OF BOARD COMMIM E
APPROVE OTHER
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ACTION OF BOARD N�/3)loco APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVIS RSI HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
AYES: NOES:, OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ABSENT: ABSTAIN:
Contact Person: Wendel Brunner M.D. 313-6712 ATTESTED
' ( ) JOHN CULLEN, CLE OF THE430ARD OF
CC: Health Services Department (Contracts)1 SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
State Dept. of Health Services
BY DEPUTY
Board Order
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#28-700-4 ,
Approval of Standard Agreement #28-700-4 will provide funding for the Public Health Emergency
Preparedness Comprehensive Program,through August 31, 2007.
Three sealed/certified copies of this Board Order should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit for
submission to the State.