ORDER-2017-155 : Reauthorization of Health Department Revolving Fund #2659 for FY18

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▶ 47:44 Peter D. Mortimer: Alderman Forbes has made a motion to move the bottom line on the library, duly seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis. If there's no further discussion, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. This budget will be recommended to the full board. Thank you very much for your presentation and your responses to the questions. Have a wonderful evening. Thank you. Thank you. The next budget we have before us is budget 511, it is the health department. Is there any appeal to joining this order with the commensurate health department revolving account number 2659? Mm-hm. Alderman Lemmerman has made to join the two orders, the health department budget and the health department revolving account. Said motion was duly seconded by Alderman Forbes. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the health department revolving account budget will be joined with the health department main budget. I didn't want to step away from the mic while I was talking, I would have jumped up.

▶ 48:55 Peter D. Mortimer: this budget is in the amount of 881 thousand 206 dollars and 51 cents miss

▶ 49:04 Speaker 1: clay please proceed good evening everybody I just passed out the annual spreadsheet that alderman con requests that lists all of our positions and where they're funded or how they're funded so we have 19 positions and they're funded from eight different sources the our budget here the Wakefield budget federal grants state grants and the school department budget so there's

▶ 49:44 Speaker 1: a lot of sources there a hundred thousand of our total budget is actually paid back through the town of Wakefield so and then the rest is you know all different stuff so the budget is is pretty much the same as last year with a couple of exceptions we have continued we have the new interface line item which is paying for the interface program we only put half the amount in for next year because this year we put the whole twelve thousand five hundred which will pay for the first half of next year so we only put the other half and and then in FY 19 we'll go back to the full 12,500 so that's their new line item for animal shelter because the donation fund that we had has been used up and that pays for when we pick up strays or this year we've had a number of animals turned into us by residents who could no longer care for their pets it's really sad but then we we pay to house them for a brief amount of time until we can rehome them and I think those are the only yeah those are the only differences from the past Thank You miss clay are there any alderman

▶ 51:05 Peter D. Mortimer: wishing to have questions comments or motions please alderman MacMaster my goal

▶ 51:13 Speaker 1: is I know we did a little promotional show on MMTV for the interface program Can you give us a little update on that? How's this going? The interface program is going well. We are getting a number of referrals. And the conversations I've had with people who have given us feedback about their experiences when they've called the interface program have been extremely positive, very, very positive. I haven't had any negative feedback. As far as the number of people who have been calling, we're pretty much on par with what we would expect at this time and we continue to do outreach in a lot of different ways including the MMTV we had a half-hour show occasionally we have it on Facebook we've been talking to local merchants the school department of course is an active user so we're trying to get the word out to everybody I think it's a fabulous program it was so interesting right after we we did that there was a big article in the Globe about trying to get mental health care particularly for adolescents and how they people were getting like names for you know providers that were deceased in fact or not providing or not taking their insurance so I think it's a great resource for the community and I hope that they'll continue to take advantage of it yeah I can't get any referral like do you link have you linked up with the hospital at all on it we have we've talked to the hospital about it they have their own similar service that they have a person in the ER to help people navigate but that person isn't there 24 7 and we're trying to do it you know together with it we've also been doing outreach to the Hallmark Health doctors so that they have that information and that resource in their and their office it's really I can't even begin to say what a fantastic resource it is for for everybody and I really think it addresses the first barrier which is access and where do you even begin to start looking to find a resource and in

▶ 53:27 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: terms of your funding sources for your salaries do you anticipate that any of those will be changing within the next year the only grant that well the mass

▶ 53:39 Speaker 1: in motion grant and ends the end of this June but has already been reauthorized for three more years the tobacco grant is done at the end of next fiscal year and the RFR will be coming out which of course will reapply for the regional substance abuse grant we're only in year two of seven so the only one that you know is on the horizon is tobacco and they are acts the state health department is really kind of shifting their focus to communities with high smoking rates and but we try to remind them that you know it's smoking the The vaping issue, especially with the youth, is huge, and there's need in all the communities. Thank you, thank you very much.

▶ 54:33 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you, Alderman McAteer-Margolis. President Kahn, followed by Alderman Forbes, please.

▶ 54:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, and thank you for preparing this document for us this year, Ms. Clay, I appreciate it. So four of the people who are working in your department are fully funded by grant funds at this time. the regional substance abuse person the regional tobacco person a very part-time youth coordinator in the very part-time massive motion okay and everyone else is funded either through Melrose budget or a blend of Melrose and Wakefield budget or the school budget one of the school budget pays for the school nurse at the EEC and the public health nurse position gets a component of funding from a revolving funds to make up the money that we make from the flu clinics which of course has been decreasing every year and I would say in within five years they'll there'll be no money from flu clinics so the full workforce would include all the people listed in our budget and then four other grant funded positions that you've just described for us right but in my position though I also responsible for two other positions within the Wakefield Health Department that are fully funded in the Wakefield yeah I'm just trying to focus in on our operation over here okay that's all I do Thank You president Codd Alderman Forbes

▶ 56:04 Scott M. Forbes: please Thank You mr. chairman this budget represents a 2.1% increase over last year it's about $20,000 half of that is your salaries and the other half to split up between contractual and supplies and materials, which you explained to us. So I don't really foresee any issues with the budget. The one question I would have would be the revolving account. Is it the same parameters as last year? Yes. We have a $60,000 maximum from years ago when flu clinics, you know, we did thousands of people in flu clinics.

▶ 56:37 Speaker 1: We purchased a lot of vaccine. I mean, a lot of money came in, we don't need 60,000, but it's there in case we ever needed it for something else. And we're always looking for new opportunities. Mm-hm, okay, so I have, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

▶ 56:56 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you, Alderman Forbes. Is there a motion, please, on the conjoined orders?

▶ 57:00 Scott M. Forbes: So moved, motion moved, bottom line.

▶ 57:03 Peter D. Mortimer: Alderman Forbes has made a motion to recommend the budget for the health department and the authorization of the health department revolving account 2659 for fiscal year 218. It was duly seconded by Alderman Makatia Margolis. Seeing no further discussion, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, hearing none, thank you for your presentation. This budget will be recommended to the full board for passage.