DEPARTMENT: Health
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Dr. Thomas L. Schlenker
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Texas Department of State Health Services HIV Prevention Grant
SUMMARY:
This ordinance ratifies the submission of a grant application to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Division of Prevention and Preparedness HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch (DSHS) by the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) and authorizes the acceptance of grant funds upon award in an amount not to exceed $333,333.33 for participation in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Prevention Program for a period beginning September 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016. Metro Health's participation in the HIV Prevention Program serves a legitimate public purpose in that this funding will promote public health through activities that support individual, group and community level HIV prevention interventions to persons at greatest risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV. This action also ratifies a proposed program budget, incidental expenditures for grant program participants, and a personnel complement of four grant funded positions as reflected in Attachment I.
Furthermore, this ordinance authorizes the Director of Metro Health to initiate, negotiate, and execute any and all necessary documents and a grant contract to effectuate the application and acceptance of the referenced grant, and to execute contract amendments pertaining to this contract, to include: a) carry-over funds, when ascertained and approved by the funding agency through a revised notice of award; b) line item budget revisions authorized by the funding agency; c) modifications to the performance measures authorized by the funding agency and listed in the contract so long as the terms of the amendment stay within the general parameters of the intent of the grant; d) no cost extensions; e) amendments which will provide supplemental grant funds to the grant by the fu...
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