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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. A--b- ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 18, 1997 SUBJECT: Temporary Project Coordinator - Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No BUDGET AMENDMENT: X Yes No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR' S OFFICE X2411 1 . Letter from the Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force. TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 2 . Memorandum to John Link - Chapel Hill - 968-4501 proposal for a temporary project Mebane - 227-2031 coordinator for the Healthy Durham - 688-7331 Carolinians Task Force. 3. An abstract from the Orange County Community Health Assessment, September 1996. PURPOSE: To approve a half-time temporary project coordinator in the Health Department to serve the Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force through June 30, 1997. The main outcome of the coordinator' s work will be to assist the task force to select priority issues from the list in the attached letter and prepare a health improvement plan based on the results of the task force meetings. BACKGROUND: At previous meetings, the Board of County Commissioners has appointed the Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force and approved of a plan for the Health Department to participate in jointly funding a contract with the School of Public Health and UNC Hospitals to conduct the Community Health Assessment. A summary of the report, which was completed in September of 1997, is attached. The Task Force has met on several occasions and prioritized the list in the attached letter from the Chair, Moses Carey. The results of the community assessment an prioritization process will be presented at a work session of the Board of Commissioners on March 13, 1997. The assessment phase of the Task Force' s work has been concluded. The next step is for the Task Force to establish a Health Improvement Plan to address the problems identified.