DEPARTMENT: Health
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Authorizing the acceptance of supplemental funds from the Texas Department of State Health Services for the Title V Dental grant and authorizing an agreement with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry.
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing the acceptance of additional funds from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) through an amendment to the Title V-Dental grant approved by City Council through Ordinance No. 2018-02-15-0106, passed and approved on February 15, 2018 for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District's (Metro Health) Oral Health Program. These funds will be in addition to the current award beginning September 1, 2018 and ending August 31, 2019. The supplemental funding is comprised of $60,000.00 from CFDA number 93.994.
This ordinance further authorizes an agreement with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry for an amount up to $216,852.00 to provide dental treatment services to pediatric dental patients referred by Metro Health to the UTHSCSA School of Dentistry for a term beginning September 1, 2018 and ending August 31, 2019.
The above referenced request for funding included a contact sheet submitted on June 18, 2018.
Furthermore this ordinance authorizes the Director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) to initiate, negotiate, and execute any and all necessary documents to effectuate the acceptance of the referenced grant funds, to include executing an amendment pertaining to this grant contract, and the execution of additional contract amendments providing supplemental funds to the grant by the funding agency in an amount up to 20% of the total amount awarded to the grant to include the funds awarded under this ordinance.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
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