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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH January 26, 2011 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Lisa Smith January 26, 2011 3 The document provides basic health and demographic data as well as highlights active health initiatives within our community. Orange County’s 2010 SOTCH is posted to our department’s website and circulated widely among Healthy Carolinians of Orange County Partners. Board members also received the SOTCH in December via email. Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented for items A. B. and C. was made by Steve Yuhasz, seconded by Anissa Vines, and carried without dissent. VI. Reports and Discussion with Possible Action A. 1st & 2nd Quarterly Financial Reports The Quarterly Reports for the July 1- December 31, 2010 were attached to the agenda. The reports showed the revenues and expenditures for each division. The reports also included additional money received that has been added to the budget since July 1, 2010 from both the 1st & 2nd Quarters. The additional monies received were from grants, unspent Federal H1N1 funds, supplemental immunization funds, TANF, LARC, and environmental health quality improvement project. The Board received the report with no action required. B. BOH Education Plan for 2011 Each year the Board of Health considers various educational topics that it would like to receive more information about to do the work of the Board more effectively. At the beginning of each year, topics that were previously unable to be addressed are considered along with new topics the Board may want to focus on. The Board policy manual states that each Board member will participate in at least three educational sessions each year. There was a discussion on having staff do a presentation regarding banning smoking in public parks and to be able to better enforce the current and new smoking laws. It was agreed this discussion would be on the agenda for March and Enforcement should be added to the topic Using Data for Policy Development. By consensus, the Board agreed that the planned topics would be sufficient for the year and could be added to or changed at a later time. C. Review of Process for Strategic Plan Development The Health Department’s previous strategic plan was adopted in the fall of 2005 and covered the fiscal year periods of 2006- 2011. In essence, the current plan “expires” June 30, 2011. The Board has reviewed the plan each year and has advised staff on adjusting some aspects of the plan. When the previous plan was adopted, it was “out of cycle” with the Community Health Assessment (CHA). The CHA should have a significant relationship to the work of the health department. Since the community health assessment is being developed this year, there is an opportunity to better coordinate the two efforts. Accreditation requires the department to have an active plan in place so there is a need for an interim extension of the current strategic plan for one fiscal year that guides the work of the department until the new plan can be put into place beginning July 1, 2012. The the extension of the current strategic plan will be for the period July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 and will focus specifically on the areas contained in the first attachment. This will enable the development of longer term strategic plan during this fiscal year that will be able to be considered during the budget process for fiscal year 2012-13.