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Agenda Item Number: ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: February 27, 2019 Agenda Item Subject: FY 2019-20 Budget Request Attachment(s): Budget Request & Summary Staff/Board Member Reporting: Quintana Stewart, Health Director Purpose/Recommended Action: ___ Action/Approve _X_ Action/Approve & forward to Board of Commissioners ___ Information with possible action ___ Accept as information ___ Revise & schedule for future action Summary Information: The proposed FY 2019-2020 budget for the Health Department presents an increase in expenditures of $20,519 from the FY 18-19 Base Budget; $17,919 of which are related to an increase in staffing (.5 FTE contract Dental Van Driver, supported by re-allocated county general funds and fees for service) and an increase in the Environmental Health temporary staffing ($2,600). Staff projects a $53,094 increase in revenues for FY 19-20, which will fully offset the expenditure increase. The Health Department will request level county funding for FY 19-20. The proposed total budget is $10,575,428. New Staff Requests The Health Department requests to convert nine (8.75 FTEs) contract Family Success Alliance Navigators to permanent employees in order to ensure consistent training, supervision, and benefits across all Navigators. This conversion will be fully funded with existing contract services dollars within the FSA budget that were used to pay partner agencies to employee the Navigators, $34,043 in eligible Medicaid Cost Settlement funds, and $28,272 in Kenan grant funds. The department also requests to increase the ongoing line item for Environmental Health Specialist temporary employees. The EHS temps are used to help with an increased number of WTMP inspections and have also helped decrease overall wait times for well and septic inspections while contributing additional revenue to the department.