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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBOH minutes 072502MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH July 25, 2002 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by V. Anne Miles 1 July 25, 2002 ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance the quality of life, promote the health, and preserve the environment for all people in the Orange County community. THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MET ON July 25, 2002 at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS PRESENT: Jonathan Klein, Chair; Mel Hurston, Vice Chair; Alan Rimer; Martha Stucker; Lee Werley; Kate Wilder; Alice White BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS ABSENT: Sharon Van Horn, Barry Adler, Moses Carey, Jr. STAFF PRESENT: Rosemary Summers, Health Director; Letitia Burns, Central Administrative Services Division Director; Wayne Sherman, Personal Health Services Division Director; Donna King, Health Promotion and Education Services Division Director; Angela Cooke, Dental Health Services Division Director; Ron Holdway, Environmental Health Services Division Director; John Sauls, Animal Control Services Division Director; Anne Miles, Administrative Assistant GUESTS PRESENT: Vince Gaver, UNC School of Pharmacy; Yiomaia Nelo, UNC School of Social Work; Katie Cooper, UNC School of Social Work I. Welcome and Introductions Jonathan Klein called the meeting to order at 7:15 P.M. Rosemary Summers introduced Gwen Harvey, the new Assistant County Manager, to the Board. II. Approval of July 25, 2002 Agenda An addition was made to the Agenda under Item V.C.3, Healthy Carolinians State of Health Fall Forum and two additions for discussion to Board Comments Item VI.A. Volunteer Efforts and Item VI.B. APS Veterinarian. The motion to approve the Agenda as amended of July 25, 2002 was made by Alan Rimer, seconded by Kate Wilder, and carried without dissent. III. Public Comment for Items NOT on Printed Agenda None IV. Action Items on CONSENT Agenda A. Minutes approval of May 23, 2002 and June 27, 2002 meetings. Motion to approve the minutes of May 23, 2002 and June 27, 2002 was made by Martha Stucker, seconded by Lee Werley, and carried without dissent. V. Reports and Discussion with Possible Action A. ACEH Committee 1. No Fault Well Repair Fund Staff met with residents from the quarry area on June 3rd to discuss changes to the draft of the No Fault Well Repair Fund (NFWRF) Policy as it was on the MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH July 25, 2002 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by V. Anne Miles 2 July 25, 2002 agenda for the Board of Commissioners on June 4, 2002. Those residents made additional requests regarding the policy and other issues involving the quarry operation. The Board of Commissioners approved the No Fault Well Repair Fund Policy as it was presented at its meeting on June 4th. They did not take action on the additional policy change requests by the quarry area residents, but instead referred the matter back to the Board of Health for review. Staff prepared a memo to the BOCC detailing the requests for the June 4th meeting. Since that time, Empowerment Project, Inc., who is coordinating the community efforts, withdrew the request to change the effective date and keep it as it was approved in the policy. (This Empowerment is not to be confused with the Empowerment, Inc. that works with housing.) Empower ment also made a request to the Health Director regarding the $15,000 per year OWASA fund that is separate and apart from the NFWRF monies. They asked that the money be used to fund a community organizer and also that the fund be administered by the Healt h Department. Motion was made to authorize staff to work with the quarry community in further considering how to present their needs to OWASA and the Board of Commissioners by Mel Hurston, seconded by Kate Wilder, and carried without dissent. Motion was made to monitor area wells as would be done in other parts of the county, support the citizens’ pursuit of other options and remedies, and support the development of expanded studies outside the 3,000 ft. zone that would evaluate quarry operations affecting wells contingent on funding by Alan Rimer, seconded by Alice White, and carried without dissent. B. PHEADS Committee 1. Medical Director Contract Expansion and Renewal with UNC OCHD has had a contract with UNC Family Practice for Medical Director services for a number of years. Dr. Neva Bartholomew served as Medical Director until March 2002 at which point Dr. Mike Fisher assumed interim duties. The new contract is with UNC Family Practice specifies Dr. Mike Fisher as Medical Director, with Dr. Valerie King service as his back up. The Medical Director will continue to work in clinics 20 hours per week with 8 hours of dedicated administrative time. The contract is expanded this year to include medical supervision of a Head Start nurse Practitioner with Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools. The School system will be fiscally responsible for the additional expense. The cost to OCHD for Medical Director services remains the same as last year. Motion to approve the expanded contract with UNC Family Practice for Medical Director services and forward it to the Board of Commissioners for approval was made by Mel Hurston, seconded by Lee Werley, and carried without dissent. 2. Healthy Carolinians Micro-grant Awards The Department of Health and Human Services made available micro-grants to MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH July 25, 2002 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by V. Anne Miles 3 July 25, 2002 various community agencies in North Carolina; the North Carolina Healthy Carolinians Office applied for a large grant to facilitate this process in this state. A team of 8 reviewers, 6 from the Healthy Carolinians Committees and 2 independent considered eight project proposals. The Council received enough funds for six projects to be funded. The following community agencies will receive $2010 each to conduct their project. The Arc of Orange, El Centro Latino, Teens Climb High, Horizons, Head Start, and OC Rape Crisis Services. The funding period is from July 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. 3. Agreement with UNC Hospitals for Healthy Carolinians Coordinator The Board of Commissioners authorized the creation of the Healthy Carolinians Coordinator position and supports the position and expenses at a 50% level. This authorization was contingent upon the availability of the Health Department to secure funds for the remaining 50% of the cost of the position. The position has been funded with contributions from UNC and from time- limited funds provided by the state. This year, the funds from the state may not be available. UNC Hospitals has agreed to provide $5,000 in support of the position for this year. The remaining funds will be drawn from the project’s account balance for this year. The draft agreement specifies the requirements for the use of these funds and the Board should approve the receipt of the funds from this source. Motion to accept the funds from the UNC Hospitals for the purpose of supporting the Healthy Carolinians Coordinator’s salary was made by Mel Hurston, seconded by Kate Wilder, and carried without dissent. C. Other Items 1. Summer Meeting Schedule During the past three years the Board has chosen not to meet in July. This item was considered at the Board meeting in June, however failure to produce a quorum resulted in being unable to act on this item and the July meeting was necessary for Board action on several issues. The Board decided to leave the August meeting as scheduled with the understanding that it would be cancelled if pending budget items and contracts did not materialize as scheduled. If the August meeting is cancelled, the September meeting will be rescheduled to earlier in the month to enable the Board to act on items that will need to be sent to the Commissioners. 2. Employee Recognition by Board of Health The Board has sponsored an Employee Recognition Breakfast for the past two years for health department employees selected by their peers for recognition. Eight employees were honored at a breakfast attended by awardees, division directors, and board members in September 2001. The Board decided to continue this process and will schedule a date in October for either a breakfast or luncheon. MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH July 25, 2002 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by V. Anne Miles 4 July 25, 2002 3. Board Member for Healthy Carolinians State of Health Fall Forum The Healthy Carolinians group must put together a published State of the County Report as required by the state. Healthy Carolinians need to hold a forum on their work plan because their work plan are the priority areas that were chosen for the State of the County Report. They are in the process of organizing a small group to work on pulling together this report and planning a Fall Forum for presenting that report. The Fall Forum will be held November 14, 2002, 7:30 am – 9:00 am. Jonathan Klein and Alice White volunteered to serve in planning for the report and forum. VI. Board Comments/Announcements A. Volunteer Efforts - Martha Stucker Two orientations have been held for volunteers so far. Sandy Garrett is the liaison and organizer for volunteer orientations. So far, six volunteer nurses have been trained to help with screenings and immunizations in the community. The possibility of available grant money to fund volunteer training is also being explored. B. APS Veterinarian – Rosemary Summers The veterinarian for the APS shelter and wildlife rehabilitation has not renewed his contract for this year. The wildlife rehabilitation center is not subject to the contract provisions with the county as no county funds are allocated to the wildlife sanctuary. APS does have a veterinarian on staff that will meet the needs of the Orange County Animal Shelter’s program as contracted by the Board of Health. VII. Adjournment Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Alan Rimer, seconded by Lee Werley, and carried without dissent. The next Board of Health meeting will be held on August 22, 2002 at the Government Services Center in Hillsborough, North Carolina at 7:00 PM, if the state budget is passed prior to that date. Respectfully submitted, Rosemary L. Summers, MPH, DrPH Health Director Secretary to the Board