Dallas County Health Department

Response Plan for Disasters, Public Health Emergencies, and Pandemics

Local Public Health Emergency Plan
7 - Basic Plan
VI - Administration and Logistics

A.    Whenever possible, procurement of necessary resources will be accomplished using normal, day-to-day channels.  In the event of a local public health emergency, in which such constraints might result in the loss of life and property, normal requisition procedures can be circumvented if the LPHA is organized under local government.  The DCHD Board of Trustees must approve expenditures.  An emergency Board meeting may be called by the Chairman for such emergency expenditures as requested by the Administrator.  All resulting motions and expenditures shall become a permanent part of the Board of Trustee meeting minutes.  

B.  Accurate records of all actions taken in a local public health emergency shall be maintained for the purposes of reimbursement, training, exercising and settling litigation issues.   

C.  Disaster assistance from the state or federal government will be utilized in   accordance with their provisions and statues.  Requests for federal assistance will be coordinated through the local emergency management agency.   

D.  Discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, physical impairment or economic status will not be allowed in the execution of local public health functions.