Fiscal Note
This is a standing contract for use with quarantine and isolation. If the department is not able to secure funding from other sources or the operating budget is not able to absorb these costs, the department will use its emergency fund to cover these costs. No additional appropriation is required.
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Authorization for Public Health-Madison and Dane County to enter into a purchase of services agreement for security services with JBM Patrol and Protection Corporation
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Preamble: Public Health-Madison and Dane County is responsible for monitoring and preventing the spread of communicable disease in Dane County. Quarantine and isolation are methods to control the spread of communicable disease.The health department is authorized and required by state law to hire personnel as needed to guard quarantine locations in order to enforce restrictions on communicable disease, by Wis. Stat. sec. 252.06.
PHMDC seeks to have in place a contract to hire security personnel to monitor quarantine locations, if that should become necessary. All security personnel will be briefed by Public Health staff before providing services under this agreement. Security personnel will be instructed to call non-emergency dispatch for law enforcement assistance and not to have any physical contact with a quarantined individual.
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WHEREAS Public Health is responsible for monitoring and preventing the spread of communicable disease and there may be occasions when the department will need to monitor a person in quarantine, and
WHEREAS Public Health desires to contract for security services as that is a cost effective means to monitor quarantine, and
WHEREAS, JBM Patrol and Protection Corporation (JBM) has provided satisfactory services to both the City of Madison and Dane County and has agreed to provide the quarantine monitoring services that may be necessary for PHMDC, meeting all of the concerns and requirements of the health department and applicable state law;...
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