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Health Director’s Report January 2019 • Victoria Hudson has been appointed to the Environmental Health Director position as of January 5, 2019. Victoria served as the Interim Director for the last six months. Under her leadership, the Division has taken great strides to enhance service delivery and customer service. She truly embodies the innovative spirit that makes Orange County unique. While serving as the Interim Director, Victoria also maintained the Food & Lodging Section assuring 100% compliance with Inspections, and implementing a new Front of the House Food Safety Training. • Rebecca and I attended the Annual Budget Kickoff Workshop on 1-11-18. The process will mirror last year’s process; key budget request guidelines include: o No New General Fund Positions without 100% offsetting revenues or reallocation of existing funds o Any request not legally mandated must be supported with new revenue or reallocation of existing funds o Minimal Recurring Capital – Request Replacement items only • The Land Management Central Permitting Software (LMCPS) project is going well. Staff has been in training with the vendor and their peers. Plan remains for a Go Live date of February 13, 2018. • The Campus & Community Coalition (CCC) Town Hall meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday, January 30th has been rescheduled. The Executive Committee would like to host a series of informational sessions throughout the Community prior to holding the Town Hall Meeting. The new date will be announced soon. • The NC Waiver 1115 was approved in October 2018. It is effective for a 5 Year Demonstration Period. The waiver allows for the implementation of an evidence-based intervention that addresses non-medical factors (social determinants of health) that drive health outcomes and costs. The State will implement the waiver via the NC Healthy Opportunities Pilot, potential roll out is scheduled for early 2020. Through the pilots, entities called Lead Pilot Entities (should be community-based organizations and social services agencies that cover at least 2 contiguous counties and serve a mix of urban and rural communities) would connect Medicaid eligible beneficiaries to locally based services to address needs related to housing instability, transportation insecurity, food insecurity, interpersonal violence, and toxic stress. The LPEs will contract with the local human services organizations to provide these specific services. Technical assistance, education, and capacity building funding will be provided to LPEs and human services organizations as needed. • I agreed to serves as Co-Chair of the Education and Awards Committee for the Health Directors Association. Major task for this committee is the planning of the Annual Health Directors Awards Luncheon held each January and the Annual New Health Directors Orientation held in the spring. • I have completed half of the Municipal and County Administration Course at School of Government. We are on track for an April graduation date, barring any more schedule conflicts due to inclement weather.