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Agmt A2311910 with Hennepin County, State of Minnesota (DHS), Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Ramsey County, and City of Minneapolis to replace the 2016 Intergovernmental Agreement executed in 2016
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BE IT RESOLVED, that Ryan White Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement A2311910 with Hennepin County, State of Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Ramsey County, and the City of Minneapolis replace the previous Ryan White Intergovernmental Agreement executed in 2016; and that the Chair of the Board be authorized to sign the agreement on behalf of the county.
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Background:
This new agreement assures continued integration of HIV prevention and care community planning and coordination of public fund administration statewide. The agreement updates the framework established in 2016 for intergovernmental coordination of a strong public health approach to HIV prevention and care in Minnesota to comply with changes in federal guidelines for integrated HIV prevention and care planning in Minnesota.
Hennepin County is the recipient of federal Ryan White Part A funding to provide services to low income people living with HIV in the 13-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan grant area. The federal Ryan White legislation requires the Chief Elected Official of the Part A grant area, the Chair of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, to enter into intergovernmental agreements with jurisdictions that have 10% or more of the prevalent cases in the grant area to create a cooperative administrative mechanism to allocate funds and services for people living with HIV.
From 1995 to 2015, Hennepin County worked cooperatively with the State of Minnesota, the Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and Ramsey County to convene the Minnesota HIV Services Planning Council, a community planning body, required by the Ryan White legislation, that would prioritize HIV services and alloc...
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