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12/10/201819-037
12/10/2018
19-037
Health & Community Services
Resolve
N/A
Title, Resolve
Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $60,000 from the Maine Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control, Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund for a Two Year Period
Beginning January 2019.
This order authorizes the City Manager to accept and appropriate a two-year grant in the amount of $60,000 from
the Maine DHHS to advance meaningful progress toward reducing the burden of childhood lead poisoning in
Bangor. This grant will support community-based activities that enable parents and property owners to identify
and address lead hazards and risks before children are poisoned. Specifically the grant will focus on: 1) owners of
rental units built before 1950 in Bangor; and 2) households with expectant parents and parents with children
under six (6) years old who live in rental units or owner-occupied homes built before 1950. Bangor is one of five
high risk areas in Maine which also includes the municipalities of: Augusta, Biddeford, Lewiston/Auburn, and
Portland.
Revenue from the Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund is obtained from a twenty-five cent ($0.25) per gallon fee
imposed on manufacturers or wholesalers of paint sold in Maine. The LPPF is administered by the DHHS
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Unit.
DHHS has been providing contracts to Bangor to conduct lead poisoning education and outreach activities since
2009. Over that time period, DHHS has documented declines in the percentage of children under age six (6) who
have been newly identified with lead poisoning in all high risk areas for the years 2010 - 2014 as compared with
2003 - 2007, the five-year time period prior to the initiation of lead poisoning prevention activities.
This is the second term (period or two years) in a five-year grant with a renewal for a subsequent two-year term
possible based on performance.
Government Operations Committee
12/03/2018
Recommend for passage
50
First Reading
12/10/201819-037
CITY OF BANGOR RESOLVE
12/10/2018
19-037
Weston
Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $60,000 from the Maine Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control, Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund for a Two Year Period
Beginning January 2019.
Be it Resolved by the City Council of the City of Bangor that, the City Manager is authorized to accept and
appropriate $60,000 a two-year Lead Poisoning Prevention grant from the Maine Department of Health and
Human Services.
IN CITY COUNCIL
DECEMBER 10, 2018
CR 19-037
FIRST READING
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CITY CLERK
IN CITY COUNCIL
DECEMBER 26, 2018
CR 19-037
MOTION MADE AND SECONDED FOR PASSAGE
PASSED
CITY CLERK