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Recognize and Appropriate Additional Funds from ARB for Children’s Health Study

SYNOPSIS: 

On April 21, 2000, the Board recognized $90,334 from the ARB to provide air monitoring support for the ARB’s Children’s Health Study (CHS). Since then, the ARB has revised its funding level for an additional amount of $219,960. These additional funds are to cover two temporary air monitoring technicians dedicated to the CHS through the termination date of the contract, December 31, 2001. This action is to recognize the additional $219,960 from ARB, and appropriate these funds to the FY 1999-00 Budget.

COMMITTEE: 

Administrative, May 12, 2000, Recommended for Approval

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1. Authorize the Executive Officer to amend the existing interagency agreement with the ARB through December 31, 2001, and increase the funding by $219,960, which in addition to the amount recognized on April 21, 2000, results in a total amount of $810,294.
   
   
2. Recognize revenue of $219,960 from the ARB to support the operation of seven monitoring stations established or upgraded for the Children’s Health Study and appropriate these funds to the Monitoring & Analysis FY 1999-00 Budget.

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Executive Officer

Background

The ARB-sponsored 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.

At the April 21, 2000 meeting, the Board recognized $90,334 from the ARB to continue the program through the end of 2001. That funding included primarily the funds for repair and maintenance of the needed monitoring equipment. At that time, ARB had agreed to provide their own staff technicians for daily servicing and equipment checks. Since then, ARB has agreed to provide additional funding to AQMD for two temporary air monitoring technicians, instead of ARB staff. This approach is consistent with the process followed since the inception of the contract.

Proposal

Recognize and appropriate $219,960 from the ARB, for continued operation of monitoring sites for the CHS, to Monitoring & Analysis FY 1999-00 Budget, Temporary Agency Services (67460).

Resource Impacts

The CHS is fully funded by ARB. Since these funds are to include costs through December 31, 2001, staff will request the Board at the beginning of the FY 2000-01 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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