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Authorizing the City Manager to submit a grant application to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the estimated amount of $315,000.00, with no match for the City of Laredo Health Department, Inclusive Health Initiative, for the term period from February 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025, with up to two, one-year renewals through January 31, 2027, for a total grant award of up to $945,000.00, and further authorizing the City Manager to execute all documents resulting from the award of this grant.
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BACKGROUND
City of Laredo Health Department wishes to apply for the funding opportunity by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to be considered for funding through the Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health grant program.
Through this award, Laredo Health Department will be able to provide emerging cultural, scientific, technological, environmental, economic, and health-related trends, and support cutting-edge ideas in the fields of health and health care that have the potential to help and/or hinder our progress toward advancing health equity. The City of Laredo Health Department does this with the explicit goal of understanding and influencing the trajectory of these trends, by accelerating positive outcomes and averting or mitigating negative consequences.
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STAFF RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that Council approves the Resolution.
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