County of Monterey - File #: A 19-144

• File #: A 19-144
• Name: NEHA Ageement
• Type: BoS Agreement
• Status: Passed - Health Department
• File created: 5/10/2019
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 6/11/2019
• Final action: 6/11/2019
• Title: a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to accept a grant from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) in conjunction with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the amount of one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,900) for food safety programs for staff to train on the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS); and b. Approve and retroactively authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to sign a non-standard agreement with mutual indemnification provisions with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to fulfill the grant and program objectives.

Date	Action By	Action	Result
6/11/2019	Board of Supervisors	approved - health department	Pass

Title
a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to accept a grant from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) in conjunction with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the amount of one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,900) for food safety programs for staff to train on the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS); and
b. Approve and retroactively authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to sign a non-standard agreement with mutual indemnification provisions with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to fulfill the grant and program objectives.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to accept a grant from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) in conjunction with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the amount of one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,900) for food safety programs for staff to train on the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS); and
b. Approve and retroactively authorize the Director of the Health Department or Assistant Director of the Health Department, on behalf of Monterey County, to sign a non-standard agreement with mutual indemnification provisions with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to fulfill the grant and program objectives.

SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Environmental Health Bureau's Consumer Health Protection Services (CHPS) is responsible for retail food protection and cottage food operations regulation, substandard rental housing inspections, recreational and beach water quality monitoring, public swimming pools and spas inspection, vector control, agricul...