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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra
FROM: William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
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By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator .,_ _�. � .� Costa
DATE: February 11,2008 r;�_ ;= County
SUBJECT: Approve Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29-203-85 with the California Department of
Public Health
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee (Wendel Brunner, M.D.), to execute on
behalf of the County, Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29-203-85 (State #025-45752, A-1) with the
California Department of Public Health, effective October 1, 2007, to increase the total payment limit by
$428,000 from $8,640,000 to a new total payment limit of$9,068,000, for continuation of the Supplemental
Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), with no change in the original term of October 1,
2005 through September 30, 2008.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This amendment will increase funding by $428,000, for a new total of$9,068,000, for the Women, Infants
and Children Supplemental Food Program (WIC) through September 30, 2008. No County Funds required.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
For over eighteen years the County has participated in the WIC Program with the State. This is a mandated
program under the Community Health Services Division of the State Department of Health Services. WIC is a
nutrition education, counseling and food supplement program for low-income, pregnant, postpartum and
breast-feeding women, infants and children at nutritional risk. This program serves approximately 16,675
clients. On December 20, 2005, the Board of Supervisors approved Standard Agreement#29-203-84 with the
State Department of I Iealth Services, for the Supplemental Food Program, for the period from October 1, 2005
through September 30, 2008.
Approval of Standard Agreement (Amendment) #29-203-85 will provide funding for continuous nutrition
assessment and education, community referrals, and food checks to 18,375 clients per month.
Four certified and sealed copies of this Board Order should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
COMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
,-,-APPROVE THER
SIGNATURE (S):
ACTION OF BOARD 0 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
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, CLERK HE B ARD OF
CC: Health Services Department (Contracts)
SUP VISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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