REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
September 11, 2014
FROM: JENNIFER K. CLARK, AICP, Director
Development and Resource Management Department
BY: JOHN ROBERTSON, Interim Manager
Housing and Community Development Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve a State of California Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Agreement in the amount of $436,470 with the County of Fresno, for three years, for lead hazard assistance and outreach
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council approve a State of California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) Agreement in the amount of $436,470 with the County of Fresno for three years, for lead hazard assistance and outreach.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Housing and Community Development Division is currently administering the City's Office of Healthy Homes Lead Hazard Control Grant Program (OHHLHC) funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a complement to those efforts, the Division administered the previous CLPPP grant from 2011-2014 approved by Council on September 15, 2011. The CLPPP grant is funded through the County of Fresno's Department of Public Health. If approved as recommended funds will be used by the City, as they were in the previous CLPPP grant, to increase awareness regarding hazards of lead exposure, reducing lead exposure through housing rehabilitation and code enforcement, and increase the number of children assessed appropriately, blood tested for lead poisoning and treated in collaboration with the County. CLPPP funds are also needed as match requirements for the OHHLHC Grant.
BACKGROUND
For the 2014-2017 program years, the State has provided the County of Fresno with the new round of funding, who in turn grants some of that funding to the City to continue the partnership and services established with the previous CLPPP Grants.
The CLPPP grant's purpose is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by identifying and caring for lea...
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