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APPROVED 6/19/2012 ' <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> JOINT MEETING WITH BOARD OF HEALTH <br /> April 19, 2012 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a joint meeting with the Board of <br /> Health on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in <br /> Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Bernadette Pelissier and Commissioners Barry <br /> Jacobs, Earl McKee, and Steve Yuhasz <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Valerie Foushee, Alice Gordon and Pam Hemminger <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton, Assistant County Managers <br /> Gwen Harvey and Michael Talbert, and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff <br /> members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> BOARD OF HEALTH: Tony Whitaker, Carol Haggerty, Anissa Vines, Liska Lackey, <br /> Susan Elmore, Paul Chelminski, Michael Wood, and Corey Davis <br /> BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS NOT PRESENT: Matt Kelm and Mike Carstens, Michael <br /> Wood <br /> HEALTH DEPARTMENT STAFF PRESENT: Health Director Colleen Bridger, Pam McCall, <br /> Donna King, and Carla Julian <br /> Welcome/Introductions— Board of Commissioners Chair Bernadette Pelissier <br /> Remarks from Tonv Whitaker, Oranqe Countv Board of Health Chair <br /> Introductions were made. <br /> Board of Health Chair Tony Whitaker thanked the Board of County Commissioners for <br /> this opportunity to meet and to get their input. <br /> �date on Dental Consolidation — Colleen Bridper, Oranqe Countv Health Director <br /> Update on the Dental Clinic Consolidation <br /> Colleen Bridger, MPH, PhD <br /> Orange County Health Director <br /> Reasons for Consolidation <br /> - �Decrease Operating Expenses <br /> o From FY 09-10 to FY 12-13 <br /> ■ Reduced rent by $ 62,000 <br /> ■ Reduced supplies by $10,000 <br /> - Increase Operating Efficiencies <br /> o Streamlined check-in/check-out process <br /> o Clinic management process (ordering supplies, repairs, equipment, supervising <br /> staffl simplified <br /> - Improve Dental Experience for Patients (and staff) <br />