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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH June 24, 2009 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 7 June 24, 2009 vacant positions or those becoming vacant during the year will be frozen for the remaining year unless they are granted a waiver as a critical position. The employee provisions include voluntary retirement incentive for those that quality, voluntary reductions in hours for one year; loss of county contribution to 401k; no cost of living or merit increases; increased benefits cost sharing to be determined In the fall. There are major threats on the State side of the budget. Some programs have partial restoration of proposed cuts but not at prior levels. Accreditation was partially restored. Oral Health was restored at the state level. Consolidation of case management services, diverting the majority to the Community Care Networks across the state will have serious consequences for Child Service Coordination. Maternal Care Coordination Programs and Maternal Outreach Program. Board members were asked to be aware of the conference committee work and be prepared to respond appropriately. F. Request for Joint BOCC/BOH Work Session The Board of Health usually requests an annual joint meeting with the Board of Commissioners to enable the exchange of dialogue on various topics of interest to both parties. The Chair of the Commissioners approves the request and the Clerk places the meeting in any available agenda slot. Rosemary Summers explained that joint meetings last approximately one hour, occurring prior to an already scheduled work session. The best results have been achieved by limiting the number of topics to three. Potential topics for discussion considered were: • UNC Health Care/Health Department Concept Paper (to be developed) • Dental Health Facility Planning at SHSC • Expansion of Dental Health Clinics to Full-time • Health Status of Orange County Residents • Biosolids/Pharmaceutical Disposal/Water Protection The Board discussed whether a fall or spring request would be preferable. Steve Yuhasz recommended an early spring meeting because the County currently has an interim manager and the new county manager should be hired by early next year. By consensus the Board decided a spring meeting would be the better option because by spring the new County Manager will have been hired and the department would be in the midst of budget planning. Discussion of topics was deferred. G. Informational Items a. H1N1: As of the Board meeting the latest case count for Orange County was 14. The Board was provided with a June 16 report to the Commissioners on the H1N1 response by the department since the beginning of the outbreak. Staff members have spent a total of 332.5 hours in April and 569.75 hours in May for this response. Operational costs were also estimated for a total staff and operational cost of $54,543 for April and May. Many staff worked very long hours and into the weekends to continue to do what was required. Volunteers from the Orange County Reserve Corps assisted in distributing community education