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- Eliminate community outreach education and reduce technical support, training, and service to community ($2,520) - Eliminate elements in the Quality Assurance-Program Improvement program in Environmental Health Services ($1,300) - Eliminate response to community concerns about environmental issues, environmental complaints with no formal program mandate, and radon testing services for water and air ($5,750) - Eliminate mailing of permits, educational material, forms, and information ($2,300) - Reduce professional development for Environmental health services staff ($1,000) - Reduced permitting activity due to economic downturn and reduced building and development activity ($177,001 revenue reduction; $22,150 operating expense reduction) - Suspend hiring for the Office Assistant position for the 09-10 year ($37,723) - Suspend hiring for one EH Specialist position for the 09-10 year ($52,624) - Suspend hiring for the EH Program Specialist position in Food and Lodging program for latter half of 09-10 ($36,483) - Discontinue Chronic Disease Care Coordination program ($5,010) - Discontinue Refugee Health Assessment program ($11,000) - Discontinue HIV Community Testing Program ($5,652) - Suspend hiring of Medical Office Assistant for 09-10 fiscal year ($37,704) and switch funding sources for Family Nurse Practitioner training ($1,230) - Discontinue operating costs associated with Public Health Nurse II in preparedness ($2,110) Rosemary Summers said that the Board of Health reviewed the draft budget submission last week and asked her to highlight those cuts that would be difficult for the community. The first one was eliminating access to dental clinical services at Carr Mill Mall. This would be a hardship to this part of the County. Another one was eliminate response to community concerns about environmental issues, etc. This includes the phone calls that come into the department when citizens do not know who else to call. Staff fields about 2,500 calls a year. The Board of Health also wanted to highlight suspending hiring for the EH Program Specialist position in Food and Lodging program. The Board of Health was concerned that this is one of the primary responses for food borne outbreaks. The other two items that concerned the Board of Health were discontinuing the Refugee Health Assessment Program and suspending hiring the Medical Office Assistant.