HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-01-23 12-057 ORDERCOUNCIL ACTION
Item No. 12 057
Date: January 23, 2012
Item/Subject: Order, Authorizing the City Manager to Accept $5,280.00 from Partnership for a Healthy
Northern Penobscot for Colorectal Cancer Screening, Prevention, and Awareness
Responsible Department: Health & Community Services
Commentary: This Order will authorize the City Manager to accept a grant in the amount of $5,280 from
the Penquis Region Healthy Maine Partnership to continue to provide the colorectal cancer prevention
awareness program in the Health and Community Services Department. The goal of this program is to
increase the number of adults, aged 50 and older, receiving colonoscopies or sigmoidoscopies, to 80% by
2015.
Manager's Comments:
Associated Information: Order
Budget Approval:
Legal Approval:
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Assigned to Councilor — Blanchette
CITY OF BANGOR
12 057
Janaury 23, 2012
(TITLE.) Order, Authorizing the City Manager to Accept $5,280.00 from Partnership for
a Healthy Northern Penobscot for Colorectal Cancer Screening, Prevention, and
Awareness
By the City Council of the City of Bangor.
ORDERED, THAT the City Manager is hereby authoized to accept $5,280.00 from
Partnership from Healthy Northern Penobscot for Colorectal Cancer Screening,
Prevention, and Awareness; and
AND, BE IT FURTHER ORERED, THAT this funding will continue the colorectal
cancer prevention awareness work began in 2008 to increase to 80% the proportion of
adults aged 50 and older who have ever received a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy by
2015.
IN' CITY COUNCIL
Janaury 23, 2012
Passed
INTERIM CITY CLERK
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NORTHERN PENOBSCOT FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING
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