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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 5, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. g- q SUBJECT: _ Classification Plan Amendment -Public Health Education Supervisor DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Class Specification Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director, extension 2552 Rosemary Summers, Health Director, extension 2412 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968,501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336 227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider amending the Orange County Classification and Pay Plan to change the class title and salary grade of the existing Public Health Education Supervisor class at Salary Grade 70 to Public Health Education Director at Salary Grade 72. Salary Grade 72 has a hiring range of $38,262 - $46,505. BACKGROUND: Currently, the Public Heath Education Supervisor position is vacant. Since the duties and responsibilities have changed over the past months, the Health Director requested that Personnel conduct a classification and pay study of the position to take account of the new duties and responsibilities. In the past, the Public~Health Education Supervisor was organizationally located in the Personal Health Division reporting to the Personal Health Division Director, with supervisory responsibility for one Public Health Educator that provided direct services to patients in clinics, schools and the community. Now, the Public Health Education Supervisor reports to the Health Director and is responsible for all health promotion and health education services which includes the Healthy Carolinians initiative, syphilis elimination project, wellness program, nutrition counseling and services, and direct public health education services to patients in the clinics, schools and the community. The Public Health Education Supervisor also now has supervisory responsibility for six positions: four Public Health Educators, one Public Health Nurse and one Nutritionist.