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Health-Healthy Carolinians <br />position for three years. <br />The Health Education Project Manager position, start-up and operating costs will be 100 <br />percent grant funded. i1NC Hospitals already has submitted a grant to the Duke Endowment <br />for the support of this position including operating costs and start-up. This particular grant <br />will fund this position for two years and after that time period other grants will be available. <br />Start-up costs cover one computer, a printer, office furnishings, supplies, communications, <br />and travel. <br />Relation to Board Goal(s): <br />The Board of Commissioners has discussed the Healthy Carolinians Initiative and will decide <br />in May whether it will or will not go forward as a Board adopted goal. <br />Manager's Recommendation: <br />The Manager is recommending that one half of the cost (.5 FTE) of the Health Cazolinians <br />Coordinator be County funded and the remainder of the two positions' cost (1.5 FTE) be <br />funded by outside sources. <br />County support for these two positions in the form of general fund support for 50 percent of <br />one position is viewed as "seed" money for the Healthy Cazolinians Initiative. With this <br />start-up money and the outside resources, it is expected that the initiative will be able to show <br />what can be done with dedicated full-time staff. The partners in this effort have shown their <br />willingness to support the cost of this initiative through one-time funding of special events <br />and projects and, for the coming year, with alonger-term commitment to staff and <br />programming <br />Depending on the outcomes and goals, it is anticipated that the County will be asked to <br />support the cost of at least one full-time position at the end of the first yeaz and perhaps the <br />cost of a second position by the end of year three. <br />19 <br />I:\peg99\follup\hcrep.doc <br />May 4, 1999 <br />