Apr 14, 2020 · Origin

Council approves $617,620 DSHS contract for the COVID-19 public health response

The City Council approves an interlocal cooperation contract with the Texas Department of State Health Services for the City's COVID-19 response, funded under the CDC's Public Health Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement. The agenda listed $304,813; City Manager Jared Miller told the council the amount had increased to $617,620. The Director of Public Health said the funds would offset costs such as the ASL interpreter and testing supplies. The motion passed 5:0.^[1]^[2]

Casie Stoughton Jared Miller Ginger Nelson Elaine Hays Freda Powell Eddy Sauer Howard Smith

What the sources say

✓ Verified
The April 14, 2020 agenda listed a $304,813 DSHS award for the City's COVID-19 response under the CDC Public Health Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement (funding opportunity CDC-RFA-TP18-1802), with activities allowable from January 20, 2020. At the meeting the City Manager said the amount had increased to $617,620, and the council approved the contract at $617,620 by a 5:0 vote (Mayor Nelson and Councilmembers Hays, Powell, Sauer and Smith). ^[1]^[2]
Approved
$617,620
Agenda amount
$304,813
✓ Verified
Director of Public Health; City Manager: The minutes record the Director of Public Health saying the funds would be used to offset costs such as the ASL interpreter, testing supplies and other COVID-19 related items, and the City Manager saying the monies have limitations on how they can be spent. The packet memo lists surveillance, laboratory testing and reporting, and a community intervention implementation plan as grant activities. ^[2]^[1]
✓ Verified
The City's fiscal 2020 single audit lists $617,620 spent under ALN 93.354, "COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Response", tested as a major program with no findings. ^[3]
Expended fy2020
$617,620

Sources

1.Amarillo City Council regular meeting agenda and packet, April 14, 2020 — City of Amarillo, Apr 14, 2020 · retrieved Oct 14, 2026primarySubject-authoredDate is the meeting date. Item 3D and its transmittal memo state: "DSHS grant award to the City of Amarillo in the amount of $304,813.00" for "support of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) response in alignment with the Public Health Crisis Response Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." The attached contract (No. HHS000770900001) cites funding opportunity CDC-RFA-TP18-1802. Packet text is a scanned layer; figures quoted are legible.
2.Amarillo City Council Regular Meeting Minutes, 2020-04-14 — City of Amarillo, Apr 14, 2020 · retrieved Oct 14, 2026primarySubject-authoredScanned minutes read with OCR. States: "Mr. Miller stated the amount has increased to $617,620.00" and "Motion was made that this item be approved by Councilmember Powell in the amount of $617,620.00 and seconded by Councilmember Smith"; "the motion carried by a 5:0 vote of the Council."
3.Single audit summary, City of Amarillo, fiscal year ended September 30, 2020 (report 2020-09-CENSUS-0000172814) — Federal Audit Clearinghouse (GSA), Mar 10, 2021 · retrieved Oct 14, 2026primaryIndependentFAC acceptance date March 10, 2021. Program amounts and finding counts read from the FAC summary workbook for this report ID (app.fac.gov/dissemination/summary-report/xlsx/2020-09-CENSUS-0000172814).