Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, contract renewals or extensions, with the County of Los Angeles, for a contract term effective June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, with an option to extend the contract for four additional one-year terms through June 30, 2022; Accept funding in the amount of $898,411, to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development, for the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Department of Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $91,531, offset by reimbursement funding. (Citywide)
Thank you. We will move politely and delightfully on to item number 19. Item 19 is a report from Health and Human Services, a recommendation to execute an agreement with the County of Los Angeles for a contract term effective June 1st, 2017 to June 30th, 2018, and accept funding in the amount of 898,000 to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development citywide. Thank you. And this is a great item. Councilman Austin, would you like to speak to it? No, but I'd like to get a staff report. All right, let's have a staff report. Mr. West. So Mayor council members, this is a county grant that we getting to help us with funding in the amount of $890,000 to provide bioterrorism preparedness and public health infrastructure development. The additional allotments for fiscal year 1718 will be used to build on these efforts, strengthening the city's capacity under the core public health preparedness capabilities established by the CDC, including community preparedness, emergency operations coordination, emergency public information and warning, emergency information sharing and mass care, medical countermeasures, dispensing medical material, management and distribution. And we recommend approval. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for reading that back. Mr. City Manager. But a fantastic staff report. This is for the public benefit to get the past staff report we all have in front of us. And I think it's a great item and I encourage us to support it as well. Thank you. Tells me Ranga, as a former employee with the Department of Health and Human Services, I'm very proud of the services that they provide and the grant that they go after to make sure that we have that we are prepared if in the event of any major catastrophe. Thank you. I think probably comment on this item. Very good. The way that the phrase it captured my attention was bioterrorism. On hearing that and my sense is what we should do is take the U.S. flag, turn it upside down and fly it. This city can't even deal with normal day to day crime, let alone bio terrorism. That came that was self-evident a few weeks ago. And the good Councilwoman Pryce had the city staff present their views relative to budgets in policing and so forth, and it was clearly evident to any reason to mind. That the our police department now. It's a classic case of denial of the first order. It's not that they don't know. They don't know. They don't know. They cannot even control simple crime in this city. They cannot clueless as to the problems with the MTA. Period. How in God's name are they going to deal with bioterrorism? This turns to the argument into the case. For asking for before it's forced upon you, a federal master to oversee the city's, oversee the city and the police department until such time as it gets itself squared away. Period. We're a sitting target. For any of biotech, for anybody interested in that type of product, all they have to do is look at this functionality. Other police department. And too often too many members of this council. Period. I'm very serious on this. Step up to the plate. Request a federal master to guide you through and to show you the things that you don't know. You don't know. Thank you. Thank you. I see one additional person in line. Two additional people in line. Speaker's list is closed. I can't let that go. Thank you. My name is Karen Whiteside and I'm a resident of the First District. And as someone who has gone through the training and gone to training sessions at the Emergency Preparedness Center, I can totally say that the previous speaker does not know what he's talking about. This city is incredibly prepared. And one of the reasons that the building I live in, a 200 unit, senior building, low income, and one of the reasons that we were able to survive without serious injury or discomfort was because seven of our members had gone through the training right before the power outage. We were able to respond and take care of all the needs of the tenants in our building. And that's just one small example of the services that the city provides. Jay Kaplan, who coordinates for the fire department, and David Ashman, the staff. Reggie Harrison, they all do an amazing job to help our community be prepared. And there's a safety fair that they put together the last couple of years that's incredibly valuable in terms of connecting with resources. So I think our city is actually more prepared. And actually I went through training in the city of L.A. at one point in time, too, and the training that Long Beach offers is better than L.A.. So I feel. Comfortable. Thank you for your time. All right. So, Members, please cast your vote. Motion carries.