AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR DESIGNEE, TO EXECUTE A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT (MOA) WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN BROWARD COUNTY (DOH-BROWARD) DELINEATING THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF DOH-BROWARD AND COCONUT CREEK FIRE RESCUE (CCFR) FOR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE MASS PROPHYLAXIS OF TARGETED DISPENSING POPULATIONS UNDER THE CITIES READINESS INITIATIVE (CRI) IN THE EVENT OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
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BACKGROUND:
The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) program was established to assist the nation's largest cities and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the event of a public health emergency within the U.S., or its territories, involving bioterrorism or a natural pandemic. Federal authorities will provide the Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) with resources from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to be distributed through Regional Distribution Sites (RDS) during a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out. Medicine and medical supplies from RDS locations will be distributed to local sites known as Points of Dispensing (PODs). The goal is to supply essential medical material to states and communities during an emergency rapidly following the federal decision to deploy.
DISCUSSION:
Coconut Creek Fire Rescue (CCFR) intends to enter into an agreement with DOH-Broward to request and receive medications and medical supplies based on its calculated targeted dispensing population and to identify certain PODs for storing and dispensing medicines and/or medical supplies. City sites/facilities would be used during an emergency declaration to activate the SNS and to use said sites for the distribution of federal, state, or local medical countermeasures to affected populations.
This agreement would terminate on December 31, 2029, unless earlier terminated or extended and provides for the automatic extension of three (3) consecutive one (1) year periods.
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