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Receive and accept the first annual financial report from the Director of Health regarding the funds received by the Health Department from the Childhood Lead litigation settlement and accepted by action of the Board of Supervisors on December 13, 2011.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Receive and accept the first annual financial report from the Director of Health regarding the funds received by the Health Department from the Childhood Lead litigation settlement and accepted by action of the Board of Supervisors on December 13, 2011.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On December 13, 2011, the Board accepted, on behalf of the Health Department, a settlement in the amount of $273,305.12 as its share of the Millennium Holdings Childhood Lead Exposure litigation. (Attachment 1) The Board authorized the Auditor-Controller to establish a deferred revenue liability account, 2832-Deferred Revenue-Health, for the lead settlement funds. At that time, the Board also directed the Director of Health to submit an annual financial report to the Board that includes an explanation of supplies, services or equipment that may have been purchased with these funds, and the relationship those expenses had to the costs of lead-based paint litigation, lead testing, lead abatement and/or public education about lead poisoning.
One-third of the settlement funds, $91,101.71, was entered into a Children's Medical Services Lead Paint Litigation Sub-Balance Sheet Account. Two-thirds of the settlement funds, $182,203.41, were entered into an Environmental Health Lead Paint Litigation Sub-Balance Sheet Account. The Environmental Health Bureau agreed to assume the responsibility for reimbursement to County Counsel for past and anticipated future litigation costs, thereby simplifying cost accounting within the Health Department while balancing the resources benefit for both the Public Health-Children's Medical Services and the Environmental Health ...
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