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Board of Health for Madison and Dane County Resolution #2021 - 13 Authorization to Accept Continued Grant Funds from WI Department of Health Services for Department and COVID-19 Response Efforts
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Public Health-Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) proposes accepting continued grant funding from the WI Department of Health Services (WI DHS) to support the ongoing implementation of COVID-19 response activities as well as essential PHMDC programming. Specifically, PHMDC proposes accepting the following continued grant funding:
• $62,174 via DPH Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) COVID19 Grant under CARS profile 155801
o Funding is intended to support activities in the following areas: Incident Management for Early Crisis Response, Jurisdictional Recovery, Information Management, Countermeasures and Mitigation, Surge Management, and Biosurveillance
o The funding period is 4/1/2021- 3/31/2022
• $28,283 via WIC Peer Counseling Grant under CARS profile 154760
o Funding provides peer counselor training and hiring to help support breastfeeding parents and their children
o The funding period is 1/1/2021 - 12/31/2021
• $10,159 via WIC Farmer’s Market Grant under CARS profile 154720
o Funding supports programming that provides fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs to WIC participants and seeks to expand the awareness, use of, and sales at farmers' markets
o The funding period is 1/1/2021 -12/31/2021
• $695, 500 via Immunization and Vaccines for Children: Vaccination Supplement #4
o support logistics, staffing, communications, outreach, site-specific needs and supplies
o The funding period is 7/1/2020 -6/30/2024
• $561,200 via Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response -Public Health Workforce
o Funding is intended to conduct activities necessary to expand, train, and sustain a response-ready public health workforce at state, tribal, local and territorial (STLT) levels and develop solutions that allow for a more sustained workforce
o The funding period is 7/1/2021 -6/30/2023
Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County may authorize PHMDC to accept and spend grant funds (IGA, VII, F, 1-3).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Health for Madison Dane County, on behalf of Public Health-Madison and Dane County, authorizes the Director of Public Health to sign updated grant agreements and accept an estimated $1,357,316 of continued grant funding from WI Department of Health Services to support ongoing Department and COVID-19 response efforts.
Drafted by: Devyn AJ Brown and Kate Austin Stanford
Introduced: 9/1/2021
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