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Consider recommendations regarding a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Grant from the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction (No. CE1HS46915), as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Public Health Department (PHD) Director to accept a grant award for the County’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) through the HRSA Grant Award No. CE1HS46915 from the Community Project Funding / Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction Program for the period of August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 in the amount of $900,000.00;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Notice of Federal Interest (NFI), which will meet grant requirements and inform all persons or entities who have or may seek to obtain an interest of any kind in the Property, the Federal interest in the property, or any improvements thereto;
c) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0008593 in the amount of $900,000.00 from the Federal Government for HRSA supplemental funding to support health care renovation projects at the Lompoc Health Care Center; and
d) Determine that the recommended actions are not a “Project” with the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and are exempt per CEQA Guideline section 15378(b)(5), since the recommended actions are organizational or administrative activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.