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Commissioner Price - To Accept and Appropriate Additional Smart Start Funds Received from the Partnership for Children of Lincoln and Gaston Counties for the Public Health Childcare Health Consultant Program and to Approve the Addition of a Health Education Coordinator Position (100% State Grant Funds - $27,557)
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STAFF CONTACT
Abigail Newton - Special Projects Manager - DHHS - Public Health Division - 704-853-5103
BUDGET IMPACT
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Appropriate 100% State Grant Revenue.
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BUDGET ORDINANCE IMPACT
Increase State Grant Revenue by $27,557 and appropriate $27,557 into salary and benefit accounts.
BACKGROUND
The Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services received additional funds from the Partnership for Children of Lincoln and Gaston Counties for the Public Health Childcare Health Consultant Program. The funds are provided through the Smart Start State Grant. The Childcare Health Consultant Program promotes healthy and safe environments for children in child care settings through consultation, training, and technical assistance services. These funds will be used to hire an additional Health Education Coordinator to work with the childcare centers and expand the work of the current Childcare Health Consultant. Gaston County has over 100 daycares that require support in the areas of staff education, nutrition, sanitation, communicable disease outbreaks, immunization requirements and support when undergoing licensing processes. The salary and benefit amounts are prorated for Fiscal Year 2017. This position is dependent upon continuation of the grant funds and will cease if the grant funds are no longer available. These are Non-County funds.
POLICY IMPACT
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ATTACHMENTS
Budget Change Request