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CONSIDERATION OF GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $327,877 TO THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (KHDE) FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH INCIDENT PLANNING RESPONSE PROGRAM IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Presented by: Claudia Blackburn, Health Department Director.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept the grant award and establishment of budget authority as provided in the Financial Considerations section of this Request; implement the Staffing Table changes identified in the Personnel Considerations section of this Request; and authorize the Chair to sign the grant agreement.
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Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: The Health Department has received Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) funding from KDHE for the last ten years. In previous years, funding has been used to develop, implement and test comprehensive emergency response plans, primarily focused on bio-terrorism. This program has been the primary means for the PHIPR program to create response plans and to utilize those plans when the Health Department responds as they did for the Greensburg tornado, Barton Solvents chemical explosion and most recently the H1N1 response.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: August 10, 2011
Grant period ends: August 9, 2012
Source of funding
Grant: $327,877.00
Required Match: $0.00
Required Cash Match: $0.00
Required In-Kind Match: $0.00
Other funding: $0.00
TOTAL SOURCES: $327,877.00
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $327,877.00
Personnel: $249,226.00
Contractual services: $ 66,532.00
Operational supplies: $ 12,119.00
Equipment: $0.00
Indirect administrative costs:$0.00
Capital projects cost: $0.00
TOTAL USES $ $327,877.00
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: Yes; the new grant of $327,877 will be set up under fund center
#8069-274 (Bioterrorism).
Personnel considerations: None at this time.
Analysis:
The Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant provided by the KDHE in the amount of $327,877 will have a performance period from August 10, 2011 through August 9, 2012. This grant will provide funding to pay for staffing and operational costs to continue the development, refinement and exercising of public health emergency preparedness plans for Sedgwick County. Continually increasing emphasis in the future will be placed on regionalization of plans, exercises and utilization of the incident command system.
The priorities for this program year are as follows:
1. refining community-based surveillance systems to increase real-time situation awareness of emerging disease outbreaks and
2. volunteer recruitment and management.
Expected measurable outcomes:
1. Successful creation and implementation of plans to address CDC Capability #8 Medical Countermeasure Dispensing, #9 Medical Material Management and Distribution and #13 Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigations.
2. Over the grant period complete 100% of all work plan tasks.
Alternatives:
To not accept this funding which would limit Sedgwick County Health Departments ability to prepare and thus respond to public health disasters.
Policy considerations:
Legal considerations: The specific tasks to be performed are outlined in the attached Work Plan. This contract with KDHE includes the standard State of Kansas Contractual Provisions Attachment, Form DA-146a. Approval is by simple majority vote.