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FROM: William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director f Costa
By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator ,
DATE: May 30, 2007 County
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SUBJECT: Approval of Grant Award Agreement#28-769 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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, Grant Award Agreement #28-769 from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), to pay the County an amount not to exceed $15,000, for the Bay Point Latino
Environmental Action Project, for the period from February 15, 2007 through January 31, 2008.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Award will result in $15,000 of Federal funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for the Bay Point Latino Environmental Action Project. No County funds required.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
The Public Health Outreach, Education & Collaborations (PHOEC) Unit, along with the Health
Neighborhoods Project, will implement the Bay Point Latino Environmental Action Project plan to
develop the capacity of youth, in the Bay Point community, to understand the basic elements of
environmental justice and begin to identify strategies to reduce toxic exposures in the community.
The goal of the Bay Point Latino Environmental Action Project is to reduce toxic exposures in the
community and expand the Bay Point Neighborhood Action Team to include Gateway High School
youth and educate them on toxic risks and solutions, develop skills for conducting, analyzing and
presenting findings from the community perception survey, and conduct training to youth and other
members of the team.
Three certified and sealed copies of the Board Order should be returned to the Contracts and Grants
Unit.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE HER
SIGNATURES :
ACTION OF BOARD U kk '�w '/ APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVI ORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A.TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON TIlHE__--DATE SHOWN.
Contact Person: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6712) ATTESTEDJOHN CULLEN, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
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