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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />March 24, 2005 <br />Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 2 March 24, 2005 <br />A. Comprehensive Land Use Plan Comments <br /> <br />The Planning Department has requested feedback and input from all county advisory boards <br />from their recent presentations of the comprehensive land use plan development process. Any <br />board can provide more detailed responses up until the first public hearing on the matter, which <br />Planning thinks will not occur before mid-May. <br /> <br />At the Board meeting in January, questions that the Board asked included impacts on <br />development of affordable housing and how the plan would link outlying notes to existing <br />services. At the February meeting, the Board agreed to develop specific recommendations in <br />each of the two committees (PHEADS and ACEHS) in March and send those comments in for <br />compilation prior to the Board meeting. Board members discussed that compilation and agreed <br />to send comments to Alan Rimer by the following week via email to draft the final version for <br />submission to planning. <br /> <br />B. 2005-06 Budget Presentation <br /> <br />Rosemary Summers gave a PowerPoint presentation of the 05-06 FY budget request to the <br />Board. The budget request represents a 6.18% increase from FY 04-05. Much of the increase is <br />due to increasing supply and equipment costs and a few increases in personnel allocations and <br />in primary care. <br /> <br />Motion to forward the budget request for FY 05-06 to the Board of County Commissioners for <br />approval was made by Kate Wilder, seconded by Chris Harlan, and carried without dissent. <br /> <br />The 05-06 Budget reflected several fee changes in dental care services: <br /> <br />Procedure Current Fee Medicaid Rate Proposed Fee <br />Comprehensive oral Exam 40.00 45.00 45.00 <br />Perio Scale Root Plane 1-3 teeth/quad. New 39.06 90.00 <br /> <br />Motion to adopt the amended dental fee schedule set forth in the 05-06 FY Budget was made by <br />Tim Carey, seconded by Alice White, and carried without dissent. <br /> <br />C. Board Vacancies <br /> <br />This item deferred to the April meeting. <br /> <br />D. Board Committee Structure Revisited <br /> <br />In February the Board discussed and chose an alternative task force structure for Board <br />operation with an expanded Executive Committee and agreed to try this new structure for the <br />remainder of this calendar year beginning with the April meetings. Several Board members <br />expressed concern about this approach not lending itself to more in-depth discussions with <br />staff. Senior staff has subsequently expressed similar concern.