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Public Health Department recommending Budget Transfer 27179 increasing estimated Revenue and Appropriations by $265,315 and authorize the Public Health Director to sign the County Allocation Certification Statement for funding from the California Department of Health Services for Children's Outreach, Enrollment, Retention, and Utilization (OERU) activities. (4/5 vote required)
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve.
FUNDING: State OERU funding.
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BUDGET SUMMARY: |
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Total Estimated Cost |
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$265,315 |
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Funding |
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Budgeted |
$ |
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New Funding |
$265,315 |
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Savings |
$ |
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Other |
$ |
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Total Funding Available |
$265,315 |
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Change To Net County Cost |
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$0 |
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: $265,315 has been awarded to the County to conduct children's outreach, enrollment, retention, and utilization activities in FY 06/07. The funding allocation may be used for personnel salaries and benefits, operating expenses such as rent, equipment, travel, outreach materials, and indirect costs. Similar amounts will be awarded to the County in FY's 07/08 and 08/09. There is no net County cost.
Background: The Public Health Department is the County agency, appointed by the Board of Supervisors, which has taken the lead on behalf of the Safety Net Provider Network for current children's health coverage activities. Accordingly, Public Health is the agency required to submit the County's OERU plan and budget and to provide the fiscal and administrative oversight and accountability of that plan and budget. Counties must use the allocation funding to enhance, not supplant, currently established funding sources for children's health coverage activities. The funding cannot be used for health insurance premiums.
Reason for Recommendation: The purpose of this CDHS OERU funding is to provide for targeted activities that will build on local efforts to enroll eligible but uninsured children in the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families program.
El Dorado County meets the eligibility criteria for funding because the County can demonstrate an established infrastructure for children's outreach and enrollment and document a well established safety net provider coalition.
Public Health anticipates proposing to use the allocation to fund extra-help four enrollment assistors, a 0.7 FTE Health Education Coordinator, and a 0.25 Supervising Health Education Coordinator plus all operational and indirect costs associated with the OERU plan. Existing staff will be used to fill the 0.95 FTE.
Action to be taken following Board approval: Director to sign three (3) copies of the attached OERU County Allocation Certification Statement; Department to distribute Statement to CDHS; Board Clerk's Office to forward signed Budget Transfer Request to Auditor/Controller's Office for posting.
Contact: Dan Buffalo
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