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MINUTES - Draft <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />October 23, 2019 <br />S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ October Page 5 <br />FSA has drawn $200k of the multi-year Kenan grant. Expenditures are tracking as <br />anticipated and will continue to increase as we fill the vacant Navigator position in <br />November. This position was dependent upon additional United Way funds in order to <br />hire at the full time equivalent level, which were approved by the BOCC in September. <br /> <br />The BOH members had questions that were addressed by Ms. Crawford. <br /> <br />D. Advisory Board Update <br /> <br />Beverly Scurry, Board of Health Strategic Plan Manager, gave a brief summary of the Orange <br />County advisory boards’ activities as they pertained to the BOH’s strategic plan priorities. <br />Below is a summary of the updates presented. <br /> <br />• Orange County Schools Board of Education is still committed to racial equity. A juvenile <br />court/school liaison MOU was approved. The liaison will partner with Chatham County <br />and Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools to provide counseling services to assist students <br />involved in the juvenile court system and those who may be at risk. <br />• The Alderman approved participants on the Orange County Climate Change Committee. <br />• Healthy Carolinians of Orange County has completed its Community Health Assessment <br />surveying and will move on to engaging focus groups and listening sessions. The <br />Suicide Prevention Walk held on September 20th in Carrboro was a success. <br />• FSA plans to have a navigator focus on family connections which will work with families <br />who are not eligible for the navigator program. <br />• Orange County is participating in a pilot study called Medication Assisted Treatment or <br />MAT program. It is a collaborative effort between Jail, FIT, Southern Health Partners, <br />Piedmont Health, Criminal Justice Resource Department (CJRD) working with Dr. Evan <br />Ashkin of UNC. The Health Department supplies pregnancy tests for this program as <br />well as Naloxone kits. <br />• Criminal Justice Resource Center recently hired a new position of Legal Restoration <br />Counsel whose primary work will be expanding the Driver’s License Restoration <br />Program and filing expungement motions and certificates of relief on behalf of eligible <br />justice-involved residents in Orange County. <br />• Various boards passed resolutions in response to denouncing the Ku Klux Klan <br />demonstration. <br /> <br /> <br />VI. Action Items (Non-Consent) <br /> <br />A. Debt Set Off and Debt Write Off <br /> <br />Rebecca Crawford, Financial and Administrative Services Director, began by thanking the <br />Board for their patience as the delay in receiving this report was due to working with the new <br />EMR system. Ms. Crawford provided a 5 year historical review of bad debt write-off trends and <br />the number of uncollectable accounts displayed by division. <br /> <br />Per the department’s Delinquent and Uncollectable Accounts policy (15.0), uncollectible <br />accounts must be administratively written off of the general ledger. The purpose of this <br />accounting function is to precisely account for funds, which are truly unrecoverable. The last <br />administrative write-offs were performed by the Board of Health in August 2018 (Personal <br />Health, Dental Health, and Environmental Health) for FY 2017-2018.