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make a temporary 0.5 FTE Communications Specialist permanent (as recommended by HR), and to make a time limited 1.0 FTE Property Development Tech permanent. The Health Department will fund all of these new positions with non-County funds except for the Property Development Tech. State Funding The state has provided us with the FY 17-18 Consolidated Agreement Addenda. Even though we will no longer receive funding for Ebola or Prescription Drug Prevention as we did in FY 16- 17, we will receive additional funding for Family Planning and Speech and Hearing. Changes in funding for all other, ongoing Health Department programs equals out to the prior fiscal year. Fee Changes The FY 2016-2017 requested budget includes fee changes for the Personal Health, Dental Health, and Environmental Health divisions. Staff recommends multiple fee changes for Personal Health to add three new fees for Child Health as required by DHHS and Medicaid, and adjust the fees for 340B drugs according to changes in the state and federal policies around 340B drugs. In addition, Medicaid has recently added a new Dental fee to their allowable fee schedule for scaling, which staff would like added to the Dental Health fee schedule. Also, during the FY 15-16 budget cycle, the Board of Health voted to enact Phase I of a three year phased Environmental Health fee increase in order to reach full cost recovery for Environmental Health. Staff recommends enacting Phase III of the three year fee increase by raising fees an additional 11% over last year’s increases. All proposed fee increases are described in more detail in a separate Fee Change abstract. Recommended Motion: To approve the total budget requested in the amount of $10,101,460 for 2017-2018 as presented which includes $32,168 in grant funding for the Susan G. Komen project, and forward to the County Manager or Board of County Commissioners for action.