Galion Board of Health Meeting

See attached Health Commissioner Report.

See attached Environmental Health Team Report.

See attached Nursing Team Report.

See attached Sexual Health and Wellness Clinic Report.

See attached Outreach Report.

Contracts that were entered into by the Health Commissioner:

Reminder to BOH members that two (2) hours of continuing education are required to be completed each calendar year, per ORC 3701.342.
Verification sheets (attached), and copies of certificates (if applicable) need to be submitted to Health Commissioner.  There is an applicable training on Sunshine Laws (very good for new members) available virtually at the following link: 
https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Legal/Sunshine-Laws/Sunshine-Law-Training
Kent State College of Public Health has created additional learning modules to assist local boards of health meet their two-hour annual continuing education requirements. Access all of the learning modules here: https://www.kent.edu/publichealth/local-boards-health-continuing-education-lectures

Jason, Andy, and our PHAB accreditation specialist Sara continued working together and successfully submitted the remaining requirements for our accreditation documentation. It took longer than expected to submit the documentation because there was a glitch for a few weeks on the accreditation website, which prevented us from submitting the required documentation by our planned deadline. Once it was resolved, they said that our new deadline was June 15th. Overall, we are very pleased with all the progress that was made on this major project. The group which will review our accreditation paperwork will reconvene in August, and we should know during that month if we will officially become an accredited health department. We are fully confident that we will be accredited and are in a good position.

We have been in talks with Galion City Schools to have the school nurse contract again for the upcoming school year. Unlike in previous years, this time we would have two RNs, and they would be full-time and have benefits. From the feedback we have received, there is surprise about the cost of our health insurance in particular, so they are seeing if they can get a better price elsewhere for school nurses.

On May 16th, Jason received an email from his professional organization, the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners (AOHC), about contacting our respective State Senators about a certain issue. In summary, a certain amendment was removed from a budget bill which would have provided additional funding for local health departments. We were asked to request for our State Senators to add it back into the budget before it was voted on. Please see attachment for the AOHC email for more information.

On 6/7, we were pleased to learn that all health departments that applied for the Workforce Development 2023 grant (WF23) will be given that funding. This will provide $360,000 that we can use through 11/30/2027. We can spend that at the pace we choose. If we spend that money evenly for four years, that amounts to $90,000 per year. The previous Workforce Development 2022 grant provided $180,000 for the year. Although it is half the amount that it was before (per year), we are glad to have continued funding for the next few years from this source.

Motion to approve the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan. Since the previous meeting, the Goals, Objectives, and Strategies on the final two pages have been updated.
 
Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Flick_____ Matney_____Moran_____ Yocum_____ 
Passed          Failed

Motion to approve the hiring of Leanna Perdue as Business Services Officer/ Vital Statistics Registrar, effective 6/26/2023, as per attachment.

Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Flick_____ Matney_____Moran_____ Yocum_____    
Passed          Failed

Motion to approve the adoption of a new sick leave policy to allow for eligible employees to transfer their sick leave to others, as outlined below:

1.  Sick Leave Donation

Any employee with a balance of at least two hundred forty (240) hours of sick leave may donate up to 160 hours of sick leave annually, in eight (8) hour increments, to any employee that works for the Galion City Health Department or the City of Galion who has exhausted his or her own sick leave bank due to serious illness or injury of the employee or a member of the employee’s immediate family as defined in Section A (4) of this policy.  The sick leave donated will not be assigned any monetary value and once donated will not be returned to the donor employee.  Donation of leave under this section shall not count as sick leave utilized by the donor employee for purposes of any sick leave bonus for which the employee is otherwise eligible.

Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Flick_____ Matney_____Moran_____ Yocum_____    
Passed          Failed