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<br />REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM <br /> <br />Agenda Date Requested: 06-12-06 <br />Requested By: D.~ Q~ <br /> <br />Bud2et <br /> <br />Source of Funds: NI A <br /> <br />Department: <br /> <br />Planning Department <br /> <br />Account Number: <br /> <br />Report: <br /> <br />Resolution: <br /> <br />Ordinance: <br /> <br />x <br /> <br />Amount Budgeted: <br /> <br />Exhibits: <br /> <br />Ordinance <br /> <br />Amount Requested: <br /> <br />Exhibits: <br /> <br />Inter-local Aereement <br /> <br />Budgeted Item: YES NO <br /> <br />Exhibits <br /> <br />SUMMARY & RECOMMENDATION <br /> <br />The City does not have a health department with registered sanitarians who perform food-establishment inspections. <br />Rather than hire certified staff to perform these duties, in 19% City Council chose to enter an inter-local agreement <br />with Harris County and allow their Environmental Health Specialists to perform health inspections within the city. <br />The agreement identifies that the County will provide a food establishment surveillance program, issue health <br />permits, notify the city of health ordinance violations, provide written semi-annual reports to the city and approve <br />training and certification of restaurant managers where required by ordinance. The County receives the fees <br />associated with those services and there is no cost to the City. <br /> <br />The past two ordinances each provided a five-year period beginning with Ordinance #96-l743-B and the current <br />inter-local agreement approved with the passage of Ordinance #2001-2496 is scheduled to expire May 31, 2006. <br /> <br />Staff has been in contact with Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services personnel and they are <br />interested in continuing the agreement with our city. There is a proposed language change to the inter-local <br />agreement that eliminates the five-year term and establishes a one-year term, renewal automatically. The agreement <br />still provides the city or county to opt out with a minimum 30-day written notice prior to any upcoming renewal <br />date. That language has been reviewed by our legal department and they have no objection to the change. <br /> <br />Action Required bv Council: <br /> <br />Consider approval of the Ordinance and Harris County Inter-local Agreement <br /> <br />Aooroved for City Council A2enda <br /> <br /> <br />L-/ <br /> <br />(jJ -& -Q 0 <br /> <br />Date <br />