Speaker 1: A report from Health and Human Services. Recommendation to execute an amendment to agreement with the County of Los Angeles. To provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development. And to accept additional funding of 913,913 $191 citywide.
Speaker 0: I need a emotion in a second place. Okay. I'm also. Councilman Pryce, I think, had a question.
Speaker 5: I was wondering if I could get a little bit more information on this item. It seems that the the. The ability to utilize these funds is kind of broad. And I was wondering if we have any more information on how the funds are going to be used.
Speaker 6: Certainly our director, Kelly Colby and bureau manager Cheryl Barrett can answer any questions.
Speaker 5: Is it possible to just to get an overview of our plans.
Speaker 0: Once we get a little bit of a staff report on this place?
Speaker 6: It's helpful when we have a staff report from Cheryl Barrett. So I thank you for the opportunity to expand on this a little bit more. We've been getting this as an opportunity to look at all of our public health capabilities around emergency preparedness management. So that includes emergency coordination, activating our D.O.C. and also looking at our surveillance methodologies and capacities around communicable diseases and emerging threats to our community. Another part of the CDC recommended capabilities that we use this these funds for include our responder health and safety, looking at trainings across the broad categories of bioterrorism and public health emergency threats as well. And also looking at, for instance, the response that we were able to effectuate nationally and locally around Ebola. Those are examples of emerging diseases where we are constantly testing our capability and also looking for opportunities to engage with local hospitals as far as preparedness. We're going to look at a special focus on our shelter management based on the lessons learned from the power outage and also looking at key areas of staff and cross-training opportunities for public health, along with a registered environmental health specialist and also our partners across the region, particularly with our state partners around surveillance.
Speaker 5: Great. I know we often have agenda items that come to us that summarize grant awards and that we have pursued and received. And I don't I know I personally don't do enough to thank you and your departments and your teams for pursuing and utilizing to the fullest extent possible grant opportunities. So thank you for that. And this is obviously something that we would we would have a difficult time funding through our general fund. So thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 0: Thank you. There's been a motion and a second there. Any public comment? Okay. Please cast your vote.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Next item, please.
Speaker 1: Report from police recommendation to execute a new agreement between the Long Beach Police Department and the Long Beach Unified School District to staff school resource officers for an amount not to exceed $920,799.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an amendment, and all subsequent amendments, to Agreement No. 33739 between the City of Long Beach and the County of Los Angeles to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development, and to accept additional funding of $913,191 for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, for a total grant contract amount of $3,902,296.  (Citywide)