Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, between the City of Long Beach and the State of California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, in the amount of $3,808,592 for the provision of HIV/AIDS health care services for the period of April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2019; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $560,622. (Citywide)
Thank you. Is there any member of the public that wish to address the Council on 20 item 22? See None. Members, cast your vote. Motion carries. Item 23 Report from Health and Human Services Recommendation to execute an agreement with the State of California. Department of Public Health Office of AIDS in the amount of 3.8 million for the provision of HIV AIDS health care services citywide. Councilman Gonzalez. Be great to get some stuff if we can. But otherwise, I just wanted to congratulate our team for for this item. Mr. Modica. I thank you. Kelly Clapper, director of Health and Human Services, will get the staff report. Good evening. Approximately 4250 people residing within the city of Long Beach are living with HIV. We have about 100 new cases each year and we have contract with the state of California for 28 years to provide care within the city of Long Beach. Our services include HIV, medical care, linkage and adherence to care and medications, health and risk reduction, education and health care navigation. We find that African-Americans and Latinos continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV in our community. So this grant includes special allocation to support outreach services for HIV positive individuals of color and is geared toward engagement and retention in HIV, medical care and other support services. In addition, we received about 560,000 more dollars this round than we did in previous years. And for this is to increase staff, our staff capacity around early intervention services. They're really geared toward linking new positives with HIV, medical care, referral to the services they need. Health, education and literacy training to enable clients to navigate the HIV system of care. I'm open to any questions, and with that I conclude my report. Thank you. Councilman Austin? Yes. I want to thank you. Thank you. And congratulations to the health department. This this department is largely funded through through grants. Grants like this one that will go a long way to to helping many of our residents in the 4200 over 4200 residents living with HIV. It's pretty, pretty significant to go a long way to help them think. Thank you, Councilmember Urunga. Thank you, Mayor. As many of you know, I used to work for the health department. I was the administrative officer there, and I saw many of the programs that they would offer. And it was a big hit that the department took a few years ago when the the vehicle license fee went away that be used to fund a lot of these kinds of programs. And I'm very happy to see that the health department has not backed off from its mission to provide services. And that's what makes this health department great. And that's what makes this the city of Long Beach great and having its own health department to be able to respond to these types of services that are much needed in the community. And I and kudos to to the Director Collopy and to her staff for continuing to look for grants that provide a very much needed service to our communities in Long Beach. Councilman Andrews. Yes. Also, I'd like to give kudos to Kelly for this, because the fact that the need is there and you guys went out and did a job and able to continue to, you know, congratulate you on such a fine, fine job. Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item 23? CNN members cast your vote. Councilman Austin. Motion carries. Item 24 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine recommendation to execute a one year agreement with the County of Los Angeles for reimbursement of expenditures in an amount not to exceed $500,000