RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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ADOPT A RESOLUTION: A) ACCEPTING GRANTS FROM SEQUOIA HEALTHCARE DISTRICT: (1) ONE IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,000,000 FOR FY 2010-11 TO SUPPORT SAN MATEO MEDICAL CENTER’S INDIGENT AND UNINSURED RESIDENTS OF SEQUOIA HEALTHCARE DISTRICT AND RATIFYING ACCEPTANCE OF SIMILAR GRANTS OF $1,600,000 IN FY 2008-09 AND $2,000,000 IN FY 2009-10, AND (2) ONE IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,300,000 FOR A NEW SOUTH COUNTY CLINIC; AND B) AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS AND AGREEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FUNDING FOR THE SOUTH COUNTY CLINIC.

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

 

WHEREAS, the County of San Mateo’s San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC) has a mission to provide medical services to the uninsured throughout its system of care; and

 

WHEREAS, SMMC’s Fair Oaks Clinic and Fair Oaks Children’s Clinic serve a patient population that resides primarily within the geographic boundaries of the Sequoia Healthcare District (SHD); and

 

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of SHD agreed that SHD should provide grant funding to support the work of SMMC in providing healthcare to the indigent and uninsured patients of its Fair Oaks Clinics for which the SMMC is otherwise not reimbursed; and

 
 
 

WHEREAS, SMMC has received grants from SHD in FY 2008-09 in the amount of $1,600,000, and in FY 2009-10 in the amount of $2,000,000, said grants having been included in the approved budgets for those years; and

 

WHEREAS, SMMC recently received from SHD a grant for FY 2010-11 in the amount of $2,000,000; and

 

WHEREAS, the SHD’s governing board has approved a grant to the County in the amount of up to $4,300,000 to be used for the building of a consolidated medical clinic in the North Fair Oaks area of the County; and

 

WHEREAS, this Board has examined and approved the FY 2010-11 grant award as to both form and content and desires to accept it and also wishes to ratify the acceptance of past grants from SHD in the amount of $1,600,000 for FY 2008-09 and $2,000,000 for FY 2009-10; and

 

WHEREAS, this Board has considered the matter of the $4,300,000 grant from SHD for the purpose of building a consolidated medical clinic in the North Fair Oaks area of the County and wishes to accept it and to authorize the Chief of the County Health System to prepare and execute any agreement and related documents necessary to receive the grant funds on behalf of the County.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED that this Board of Supervisors hereby accepts the $2,000,000 grant award from Sequoia Healthcare District on behalf of the County of San Mateo in the amount of $2,000,000 for FY 2010-11 and ratifies acceptance of grants already received from Sequoia Healthcare District in the amount of $1,600,000 for FY 2008-09 and $2,000,000 for FY 2009-10.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Board of Supervisors hereby accepts the $4,300,000 grant award from the Sequoia Healthcare District on behalf of the County of San Mateo, said grant funds to be used for the purpose of building a consolidated medical clinic in the North Fair Oaks area of the County and the Chief of the County Health System is hereby authorized to prepare and execute any agreement and related documents necessary to receive the grant funds on behalf of the County.

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