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services to the community <br />• Analysis of situation and making decisions on the dental clinic <br />• Reduction in the teen smoking rate <br />• H 1 N 1 response <br />• Even with severe budget cuts, developed a budget around saving core <br />services even if they have to be delivered in a different way; increasing <br />capacity for dental care and efficiencies <br />List of Specific Tasks, Events, or Functions Performed or Sponsored <br />Annually. <br />Healthy Carolinians Annual Meeting <br />Review of Child Fatality Prevention Task Force Report and Recommendations <br />Review and amendment as needed of Orange County Groundwater Protection <br />Rules <br />Review and amendment as needed of Orange County Wastewater Rules <br />Review of State of County Health Report annually <br />Review and approve new programs for health department <br />Review and approve budget request for department to forward to county <br />Review and approve fee schedule and any fee changes and forward to county <br />Review department strategic plan annually <br />Review customer service survey data and associated improvement activities for <br />department <br />Review and forward for county approval additional funding received by <br />department <br />Reviews all grant applications for the department <br />Review annual activity report for the department <br />Reviews public health emergency operation plans <br />Reviews quarterly and annual fiscal report for department <br />Reviews annual communicable disease report for the county <br />Reviews Board of Health Policy Manual annually and amends as needed <br />Six Board education sessions on topics of relevance to public health <br />Describe this board /commission's activities /accomplishments in carrying <br />out BOCC goal(s) /priorities, if applicable. <br />The current BOCC goal on preserving safety net functions is the goal most <br />closely aligned to the Health Department's functions. <br />The Health Department has successfully re- engineered the delivery of some <br />services in order to maintain mandated services and to attempt to serve <br />increased demand for clinical services despite budget cuts for the past two years. <br />Consolidation of dental services in Hillsborough is a direct reflection of attempting <br />to preserve services for a vulnerable population in an efficient service delivery <br />