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FROM: William Walker, M.D.,Health Services Director
By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator _ Costa
DATE: March 18, 2008
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SUBJECT: Approval of Agreement#28-700-5 with the California Department of Public Health
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, Agreement #28-700-5 with the California Department of Public Health, to pay the
County an amount not to exceed $1,683,182 for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Comprehensive
Program, for the period from August 31, 2007 through August 31, 2008. 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 Agreement will result in $1,683,182 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
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION-OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON TH1E_,,D,A,TE SHOWN.
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Contact Person: Wendel Brunner, M.D. (313-6712) ATTESTED Li �
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public's health; and decreasing the time needed to implement recommendations from after-action reports
following threats to the public's health.
Approval of Agreement #28-700-5 will provide funding for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Comprehensive Program, through August 31, 2008.
Three sealed/certified copies of this Board Order should be returned to the Contracts and Grants Unit for
submission to the State.