TOWN STAFF REPORT RECCOMENDATIONS
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Consider approving Resolution 23-63 authorizing an interlocal agreement with Tarrant County for a Public Health Program; and take appropriate action (Wade Carroll, Town Manager)
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STAFF: Wade Carroll, Town Manager
BACKGROUND:
The Town of Westlake has had an agreement with the Tarrant County Health Department for health inspections for restaurants within the Town of Westlake. The costs of the required inspections are paid for by the restaurant ownership. The Town is notified if a restaurant does not pass inspection or is closed for any reason by the Tarrant County Health Department. The Attached ILA is the Town’s acknowledgment of program permit fee increases. The last Tarrant County Public Health Environmental Health (TCPH EH) program permit fee increase occurred in 2011. In 2019, the permit fee cap for counties per the Texas Health & Safety Code 437 was removed. Since 2019, TCPH EH has been evaluating and identifying new permit fee price points necessary to accommodate for increasing personnel and supply costs. These fees help cover the costs of administrating the food establishment permitting program and the inspections that are associated. The fees associated with these services have always been and will remain cost free to the Town. The Tarrant County Health Department also updated and adopted new food/pool codes under TAC Chapter 228 and Chapter 265 that are referenced in the attached MOU.
DISCUSSION:
If the ILA is not signed with the Tarrant County Health Department for restaurant permitting and health inspections is not signed, an agreement with another vendor for those services is required.
FISCAL IMPACT:
All fees associated with restaurant permitting and inspections are charged to the restaurant ownership.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the approval of the ILA with Tarrant County for restaurant permitting and health inspections.
ATTACHMENT(S):
1. ILA with Tarrant County
2. Resolution 23-63
TOWN COUNCIL ACTION/OPTIONS:
1) Motion to approve
2) Motion to amend with the following stipulations (please state stipulations in motion)
3) Motion to table
4) Motion to deny