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2 <br /> The Health Director has identified $5, 000 from the Kellogg Mini-Grant <br /> that could be used for this purpose. Since the Board of Commissioners <br /> has adopted the Healthy Carolinians Task Force as a goal, the Board of <br /> Health at its meeting of August 24, 1995, agreed to request that the <br /> Board of Commissioners match this amount with an additional $5, 000 <br /> dollars. <br /> An outcome of the project would include a community health assessment <br /> that would result from broad community participation as well as thorough <br /> scientific and epidemiological methods. An additional outcome would be <br /> the establishment of a community wide partnership for health that would <br /> improve health conditions in Orange County. The Healthy Carolinians is <br /> not simply as assessment process, it also results in action plans to <br /> remedy the conditions identified in the assessment. <br /> THE PLAN 1) for the Health Department to participate in funding a <br /> contract with the UNC School of Public Health; <br /> 2) to authorize the development of a contract between the <br /> Health Department and the School of Public Health for <br /> a part-time project coordinator; <br /> 3) to allocate $5, 000 dollars from the Kellogg funded, <br /> Community Based Public Health Initiative; and <br /> 4) to allocate $5, 000 dollars from the Commissioners <br /> Contingency Fund. <br /> RECObMNDATION(S) As the Board decides. <br />