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appointments. The Environmental Health Division would like to add an additional Environmental Health Specialist (EHS) to dedicate 100% to Onsite Water Protection Services (OSWP) inspections. Currently an OSWP EHS has been reassigned to work 50% of her time in the Food and Lodging Inspections (FLI) program to inspect an additional 110 locations on the UNC campus as newly required by a NCDHHS plus many new restaurants, food trucks, and new food offerings at UNC Athletic events. This has meant other existing OSWP EHS have taken on additional inspections and lengthened inspection wait times. The new EHS would allow all inspections (OSWP and FLI) to be conducted within acceptable wait times and improve client satisfaction. Finally, the department requests to convert a time limited Reentry Case Manager position to a permanent position. This position was originally grant funded in a partnership with UNC in the Formerly Incarcerated Transitions (FIT) program, which ended this fiscal year. We have seen many benefits to the residents of Orange County through this program and have reallocated County General Funds to support keeping the position on a permanent basis. State Funding The NC Department of Health and Human Services has provided us with the FY 20-21 Consolidated Agreement Addenda. We received increases in the Family Planning and Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) programs totaling $30,521. That increase was offset by an anticipated decrease of $20,000 in the CLAS program (funding not available in FY 20-21), in the Refugee Health program (related to the decrease in Refugees coming to Orange County for resettlement), and the Healthy Communities program, which was an anticipated decrease from a one-time funding increase we received last fiscal year. Fee Changes The FY 20-21 requested budget includes fee changes and additions for the Personal Health and Environmental Health divisions. Staff recommends multiple fee changes for Personal Health, mainly to add fees for maternal health ultrasounds and adjust vaccine fees to reflect purchase costs and Environmental Health, in the OSWP and FLI programs. 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 $11,074,200 for FY 2020-2021 as presented and forward to the County Manager and Board of County Commissioners for action.