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13 <br /> What are your Board/Commission's most important accomplishments? <br /> ➢ COVID Response: OCHD continues to engage community partners in <br /> addressing Access to Care, Health Behaviors, and Health Equity. <br /> o Facilitated the Health Equity Commission (HEC)— a collaborative of <br /> Human Service County Departments and Partners across the County that <br /> worked to ensure all communities had access to testing, vaccination and <br /> treatment. <br /> o Maintained the State's highest vaccination rate and currently the State's <br /> highest vaccination rate for the COVID bivalent booster. <br /> ➢ September 2022 - Board of Health Amended the Orange County <br /> Groundwater Protection Rules. The Orange County Board of Health adopted <br /> local Rules in 1980 for the protection of the groundwater and the Orange County <br /> community that drinks groundwater. Changes to Session Law effective October <br /> 1, 2022 prompted the need to amend local rules with regard to the following <br /> areas: <br /> 1. GROUTING: Recent changes to the legislation governing the <br /> construction of water wells in North Carolina require a revision to local <br /> grouting policy. <br /> 2. MONITORING WELLS: NCDEQ has statutory and regulatory authority <br /> to assess and to remediate groundwater contamination, including <br /> exercising professional judgement to instruct responsible parties where <br /> monitoring wells should be placed on affected properties. Sometimes, <br /> these Rules have come into conflict with Orange County's setback <br /> requirements. NCDEQ's authority for groundwater assessment and <br /> remediation requirements comes from 15 NCAC 2L .0404, .0405, .0406, <br /> and .0407 which otherwise meet the requirements of 15 NCAC 2C .0108 <br /> (the State's construction Rules). The local Rules will reflect their authority <br /> but remain as local standards of construction. <br /> • Family Success Alliance (FSA) & the Gateway Collaborative- In January <br /> 2022, the Orange County Health Department (FSA), Orange County DSS, the <br /> Department of Housing, Human Rights and Relations, the Hillsborough Police <br /> Department and Orange County schools formed a collaborative to discuss and <br /> address issues experienced by residents of the Gateway Village Community. <br /> This is a privately owned HUD property. A majority of the residents of the <br /> Gateway Village Community are African-American single mothers. The <br /> community has a history of various issues to include poor living conditions, <br /> domestic disputes and violence, substance and alcohol use/abuse, recurrent <br /> Child Protective Service involvement, underemployment and barriers to <br /> accessing resources to include literacy and transportation concerns. Historically, <br /> the residents of the community have often demonstrated a lack of trust for county <br /> government programs and law enforcement. Of equal concern to the <br /> collaborative was the property owner's failure to address structural and <br /> environmental issues of the apartments. <br />