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1 <br /> ORD-2022-025 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 18, 2022 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-b <br /> SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2022-23 Budget Amendment #2 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Finance and Administrative Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Attachment 1. Year-to-Date Budget Kirk Vaughn, (919) 245-2153 <br /> Summary Gary Donaldson, (919) 245-2453 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve budget, grant, and capital project ordinance amendments for Fiscal Year <br /> 2022-23. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Health Department <br /> 1. The Health Department has received additional funding for the following items: <br /> • Communicable Disease Pandemic Recovery — The Health Department has <br /> received an additional $215,667 to expand communicable disease surveillance, <br /> detection, control, and prevention activities to address the COVID-19 public health <br /> emergency and other communicable disease challenges impacted by the COVID- <br /> 19 public health emergency. Funds will be used for non-permanent salaries, training <br /> for staff, community support and education, operating expenses, data infrastructure <br /> projects, and infection control equipment. <br /> • Reopening Schools Health Liaison — The Health Department has received <br /> $115,000 in funding from a federal pass through grant from the Centers for Disease <br /> Control and Prevention to hire Public Health School Health Liaisons in support of <br /> safe, in-person instruction in kindergarten through grade 12 schools. Funding will <br /> be used for staff time for the coordination of COVID-19 screening, testing, and <br /> vaccine administration and other mitigation efforts in the school systems. <br /> • American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) COVID-19 School Health Team Workforce <br /> — The Health Department has received $164,360 in funding from a federal pass <br /> through grant to support school-based health program workforce development. <br /> Funding can be used to supplement salaries, to improve retention, recruiting, <br /> creating, and hiring of new student-serving positions to fill gaps in the school-based <br /> health team, and/or contracting for the positions to fill gaps in the team to provide <br /> other school health program activities. Funding will also cover staff cost for <br /> management of the partnership, management of the funding, and state reporting. <br /> • COVID-19 Vaccination Program — The Health Department has received $33,279 <br /> in additional federal pass-through funding to support the Covid-19 pandemic <br />