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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />March 23, 2011 <br />Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Lisa Smith March 23, 2011 <br /> <br />The youths that Pam works with would also like to see parks added to the list of public smoking <br />bans. <br /> <br />IV. Public Comment for Items NOT on Printed Agenda none <br /> <br />V. Action Items (Consent) <br /> <br />A. Minutes approval of February 23, 2011 meeting <br /> <br />The Board is required to review and approve minutes of all meetings of the Board of Health. <br />These minutes were for the regularly scheduled meeting held on February 23, 2011. <br /> <br />B. Accept Additional Funds <br /> <br />1) Family Planning Bonus Funds: Federal Title X Family Planning funds are available again for <br />local health departments for the FY 10-11. A base appropriation of $1,450 is awarded to each <br />county, and those counties that have shown an increase in the number of unduplicated patients <br />in their caseload will receive a prorated share of the total $393,148 of Title X Bonus Funds. <br /> <br />Orange County Health Department has been notified that our allocation of the Family Planning <br />Bonus funds this year is $5,071. These funds are to be spent on contraceptives such as IUDs, <br />nuva rings and birth control pills. These funds must be spent by May 31, 2011. <br /> <br />2) A local family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harris, wish to donate $2,000 for educational items related <br />to meningitis and the importance of meningococcal vaccination. The department will use these <br />funds for educational materials and incentives to distribute to local high school students during <br />the month of April. The family had previously donated funds for meningococcal vaccinations in <br />memory of their daughter, Jessica, who was a student at Tulane University and who died of <br />meningitis. <br /> <br />Motion to approve the consent items was made by Steve Yuhasz, seconded by Chris <br />Harlan, and carried without dissent. <br /> <br />A. 2011-2012 Budget Alternatives <br /> <br />The current situation at the legislature regarding the NC budget has made it difficult to prepare <br />an accurate budget reported Dr. Summers. In addition, we recently received the details <br />regarding county funding for the pregnancy care home (replaces the maternal care coordination <br />program) and the care coordination for children (replaces the child service coordination <br />program). We have prepared two alternate scenarios for the budget for 2011-2012. The majority <br />of changes will occur in the personal health budget, although there will be changes in the health <br />promotion and education budget as well. <br /> <br />The attached spreadsheet is color coded. The salmon color column is the current year’s budget. <br />The green column is the budget request approved by the Board in February. The blue column is <br />labeled Alternate #1 and includes only the change in funding for the pregnancy care home and <br />the care coordination for children. These changes are definite. The goldenrod column Alternate <br />#2 includes all changes in Alternate #1 plus is a “worst case” scenario of budget cuts. <br /> <br />Should some of these cuts not come to pass, then staff would need to recalculate how and <br />where to adjust.