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Commissioner Gordon said that it is great that the Manager is mentioning this in the job description, but to be clearer with the wording and Donna Coffey said that she will fix this. Category 2— Change in Funding Status: Additional General Fund Support Requested (No Change in FTE): Laura Blackmon said that the Health Department has a Senior Public Health Educator, which is the Volunteer Coordinator that coordinates the Medical Reserve Corps and the Community Emergency Response Team programs. The federal grant ended on September 30, 2006 and last year the Board decided to fund it for another year. Last year there were some EMS grant funds and National Association of City and County Health Officials funds. This year, the County support would have to increase. Commissioner Foushee said that it is more beneficial to the Board if it is clear that the County will be funding this position in full, if moving forward. Laura Blackmon said that she is expecting some offsetting revenue (EMS Services grant of$10,000), but all of the other grants that used to support this are gone. Commissioner Carey said that the Board made this same observation last year when this was discussed. Commissioner Gordon said that there really should be an FTE change because the County will be providing this service now, and the county is still taking on full funding. Laura Blackmon said that the second position is the Housing/Community Development Director position, Tara Fikes' position, and this position was initially funded with Housing funds, however, there is a requirement that the percentage of tasks performed by that position coordinate with the amount of funding that comes from Housing funds. Over the years, there has been a change in the way this position has been functioning. The staff is looking to fund more of this position from the General Fund since Tara Fikes spends most of her time on duties related to the County's involvement in affordable housing programs. The proposal is for this program to be funded 70% from the General Fund and 30% from grant funding. Tara Fikes said that the administrative fees that can be earned under the Section 8 program have remained stagnant for about five or six years. Chair Jacobs asked, if there is a Democratic President with a Democratic Congress that is more sympathetic to public housing, if it would be easier to reconfigure this position back to support Section 8 or other public housing efforts. Laura Blackmon said that the duties and the programs under the Housing Department have expanded, so even if more funds were available, she is not sure that the County could use Section 8 funding to support a position that is more dedicated to other duties. Commissioner Carey asked Tara Fikes if there are other positions in her department supported by cost-sharing with the Federal Government and Tara Fikes said all but two. Commissioner Foushee asked if there was a way to draw more funding since some of these duties are now delegated to other staff. Tara Fikes said that the County is drawing down the maximum administrative funds that it could from the Housing funds. Category 3—Additional General Fund Support and Increase in FTE: Laura Blackmon said that these positions have been working at a partial rate and now she wants to increase them to full-time (FTE-full time employee). The Health position is not moving to a full 40 hours, but the other two are. Commissioner Carey suggested increasing the Dental Hygienist position to full-time and decrease the waiting time. Health Director Rosemary Summers said that the employee now in this position only wants to work at 32 hours. She said that this is an incremental change. The other limitation to decreasing waiting time is the facility capacity. Chair Jacobs said that it might be useful to have an additional category of positions that are partially or fully generating revenue that offsets the cost of the position, because when the