Final Minutes of January 26, 2022

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MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH January 26, 2022 D. Outside Agency Review Process La Toya Strange, Administrative Support I, summarized the Outside Agency Review process and what is required of Board of Health members for evaluating applications. The Health Department will receive applications to review. Board members are to review the applications assigned to them, record scores on the appropriate scoring cards, and send the completed scoring cards back to Ms. Strange by Tuesday, March 1It VI. Action Items (Non-Consent) A. Updated BOH Policy Manual The Board was presented with the updated BOH policy manual. The Board members are to update their binders with the updated BOH policy. They were reminded to sign the Signature Page for Receipt of Board of Health Policy and Procedure Manual that was previously emailed to them. VII. Reports and Discussion with Possible Action A. Health Director Report Ms. Stewart began by introducing Alvina Long, Public Health Nursing Director, as this is her first Board of Health meeting since being hired. She also gave Kudos to Bruce Baldwin for his actions regarding alerting Victoria Hudson upon seeing water spurt from the parking lot near the shelter at the Farmer's Market. Some of the items Ms. Stewart briefly highlighted are below. • The Preventing Underage & High-Risk Drinking Town Hall was held on December 8m Local data was shared. Vice-Chair, Keith Bagby, also attended. Ashley Rawlinson facilitated the event as well as completed a lot of the background work. • Some of the members from the multi-agency Partner Information Sharing Group have temporarily reconvened to meet monthly on the 1It Tuesday for the next few months to discuss needs identified to the COVID response. Those members include representation from UNC, UNC Hospitals, law enforcement and public health. • The Budget Kickoff with county finance was held on January 13tn and 14tn • Last Thursday, we had our 1st Opioid Task Force meeting since the pandemic. Vice- Chair, Keith Bagby, also attended the meeting. The Task Force is working to identify what priorities and strategies they'll address in OC and how best to disperse the Opioid Settlement funding that will be received in the upcoming months. They will also be working closely with the BOCC once funds are received to ensure compliance with how the funds are spent and with reporting requirements. • Governor Cooper extended Executive Order 245 through April 5m • Ms. Stewart and her assistant, Ms. Strange, have been discussing schedule changes. Ms. Stewart will have some time blocked on her schedule to be more responsive to non- COVID related tasks and to get back to some of the pre-COVID public health duties. As Ms. Stewart will continue to handle COVID tasks, she's hoping this new schedule will also ensure she's able to be more responsive and engaged with the Board as well as provide more administrative time. • Accreditation — OCHD staff will be presenting on Accreditation. Documentation is due this fall. The Site Visit will occur in spring 2023. S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda &Abstracts\2022 Agenda &Abstracts/ January Page 4