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PROPOSAL:

Recognize and Appropriate Funds from ARB for Fourth Year Operation of Monitoring Sites for Children’s Health Study in South Coast Air Basin

SYNOPSIS:

In FY 1995-96, AQMD assumed operation of four ARB monitoring sites and enhanced four existing sites as part of the Children’s Health Study. Each successive year, ARB has provided $150,000 to fund the operation. For FY 1998-99 and the conclusion of the study, ARB amended the agreement to provide $200,000 and extend operation of the seven remaining monitoring sites through November, 1999. This action is to recognize the $200,000 from ARB and appropriate these funds to the FY 1998-99 Budget.

COMMITTEE:

Administrative, June 19, 1998, Recommended for Approval

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1. Authorize the Acting Executive Officer to amend the existing interagency agreement with the ARB through November 14, 1999, and increase the funding by $200,000 for a total amount of $500,000.

2. Recognize revenue of $200,000 from the ARB to support the operation of 7 monitoring stations established or upgraded for the CHS and appropriate these funds to the Applied Science and Technology (AST) FY 1998-99 Budget.

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Acting Executive Officer

Background

The ARB-sponsored Children Health Study (CHS), one of the most comprehensive long-term pollutant health effects studies ever conducted, includes specialized air monitoring at selected sites throughout Southern California. In 1995, the ARB requested that the AQMD assume the operational responsibility for those designated sites within the AQMD’s jurisdiction, and accordingly, ARB provided funding for that effort. Currently, the existing agreement covers the following monitoring stations: Mira Loma, Lake Arrowhead, UC Riverside, Glendora, Lake Elsinore, Long Beach, and Upland. ARB has provided $150,000 to the AQMD each year for this program.

The ARB has requested the AQMD to continue operation of the CHS sites through November 14, 1999. ARB and AQMD staff will continue to review monitoring needs for the study annually.

Proposal

Recognize and appropriate $200,000 from the ARB for continued operation of monitoring sites for the CHS to AST’s Services and Supplies Major Object, FY 1998-99 Budget, as follows:

$   8,000 - Laboratory Supplies (805 Account)

$ 16,000 - Maintenance of Equipment (760 Account)

$   5,333 - Building Maintenance (765 Account)

$170,667 - Temporary Services (746 Account)

Resource Impacts

The CHS program is fully funded by ARB. Since these funds are to include costs through the first 4½ months of FY 1999-2000, staff will request the Board at the beginning of the FY 1999-2000 Budget year to reappropriate the unused portion of these funds.

Since the receipt of these funds by the AQMD constitutes a budget supplement within the meaning of Health and Safety Code 40720(j), notice of this proposed supplement was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Bernardino Sun, Riverside Press Enterprise, Orange County Register, and the Inland Valley Bulletin.

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