DEPARTMENT: Center City Development & Operations
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Jacks
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 3
SUBJECT:
Lease Amendment to Lease with State of Texas for use of buildings located at Texas Center for Infectious Diseases for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes the execution of a lease amendment with the State of Texas related to the 1,224 square foot expansion of an existing occupancy for the City operated Tuberculosis Clinic at Building 528 on the State owned Texas Center for Infectious Diseases Campus by the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) for an increased cost of $62.39 per month initially, and increasing to $76.85 per month in the final year of the remaining 14 year term.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Since 1997, through the Metro Health Tuberculosis Control (TB) Program, the City has provided clinical and health prevention services to the community. In April 2014, the City relocated these programs into a leased facility at 2303 SE Military Drive, in Building 528, on the campus of the Texas Center for Infectious Diseases which was subsequently expanded to a total of 7,489 square feet with Council approval pursuant to Ordinance 2014-12-11-1017.
The TB Program, funded primarily through grants from the Texas Department of State Health Services, provides clinical facilities for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB, and has an active therapy staff that delivers daily doses of prescribed TB medications to patients along with staff that manage and monitor TB occurrences throughout the City with the aim of identifying and avoiding a public health emergency before it occurs.
The State of Texas has agreed to provide 1,224 additional square feet in Building 520 for a total of 8,713 square feet in support of the TB Program at a cost equal to the expense incurred by the State to operate the buildings including janitorial services, utility use, and maintenance and repair of ...
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