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Resolution <br />RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF PLACING ALL PROGRAMS TRADITIONALLY IN THE <br />DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNDER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE <br />DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND E[UMAN SERVICES <br />WHEREAS, Delivery of Environmental Health services to the Citizens of North Carolina is <br />carried out at the county level by local health department employees; and <br />WHEREAS, Delivery of Environmental Health services at the local level is funded by local <br />dollars (97% local and 3% state); and <br />WHEREAS, Environmental Health services at the local level include on-site wastewater (i.e. <br />septic systems) food, lodging and institutional sanitation (restaurants, nursing homes, food borne <br />disease investigation) child care sanitation, child lead program, swimming pools, rabies control, <br />safe drinking water; and <br />WHEREAS, Having two different proposed State environmental health authorities for local <br />health departments is inefficient and will cause regulatory confusion for the public and severely <br />impact centralized training, authorization, regulatory direction and uniformity; and <br />WHEREAS, the NC Association of County Commissioners, the NC Association of Local Health <br />Directors, the Association of North Carolina Boards of Health, the NC Environmental Health <br />Supervisors Association, and the NC Public Health Association have endorsed the position to <br />keep environmental health programs together under the State Health Director. <br />THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br />strongly supports the need to ensure all aspects of environmental health be under the <br />organizational structure of the Department of Health and Human Services in order to continue to <br />provide the most effective regulatory program for the citizens of North Carolina for the <br />protection of the public health and preservation of the environment. <br />Cam. ~ <br />Alice M. Gordon, Chair <br />Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br />~~ /6 /x'99 <br />Date <br />L:~Petsy\Boce4ese6299 <br />