LONG BEACH - The City Council's mixed bag of issues Tuesday includes authorizing a hefty contract for HIV/AIDS health services, designating a home as a historic landmark and approving funding for a bluff-erosion problem.
At the regular 5 p.m. meeting, the council will be asked to authorize the city manager to enter into contracts with the state Department of Health Services for nearly $5.6 million in funding for clinical preventive HIV/AIDS health services.
The contracted health services - for a period of three years - will include HIV counseling and testing, education and outreach.
The HIV education and prevention program aims to reduce transmission of the disease, to change attitudes about risk behaviors, to promote risk-reduction skills, and to change people's sanctioning of unsafe sexual and drug-abuse behaviors, according to the staff report.
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