Requested Agenda Date:
8/6/2024
Requested Agenda Title:
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Budget Adjustment: Health Departments Requests 1.0 Time-Limited FTE for a Health Educator Position. This Position Will Be Funded with a Newly Awarded Grant of $108,819 from Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) to Continually Fund the Parents as Teachers Program (PAT). This Request Also Includes Drawing Down $117,600 in the Existing Public Health Infrastructure Grant (INFRA) to Upgrade Computers and Small Equipment in the Health Department And Shifting $25,000 from Personnel to Operations to Replace Computers in the Women Infants Children’s (WIC) Peer Counseling Program
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Requested Agenda Item Description: Salt Lake County Health Department (HLT) has been awarded a competitive grant Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) to continually fund the Parents as Teachers program (PAT). The newly awarded grant includes the additional funds to support a new Time Limited Health Educator position. This request is to appropriate the spending for 5 months in 2024 from 8/1/2024 through 12/31/2024 and continually in 2025.
This request includes drawing down the funds from the existing grant Public Health Infrastructure Grant (INFRA) by $117K to upgrade the computers/small equipment that are beyond the rotation schedule and out of the warranty protection. It is a one-time request.
Lastly, this request is to shift the federal funding $25K for the Women Infants Children’s (WIC) Peer Counseling Program from the personnel appropriation to the operations appropriation to accommodate the needs of replacing the computes that are due for a replacement based on the rotation schedule. Such change is allowed by the grantor and a one-time change. If not spent, the funds will relapse to the federal agency.
Requested Action: Discussion - Vote Needed
Presenter(s) (with titles): Hoa Nguyen, Council Budget and Policy Analyst
Time Needed: Less than 5 MINS
Is this Item Time-Sensitive and/or Requesting a Time-Certain? No
Requesting Staff Member: Dorothy Adams, Health Department Director
Are Supporting Documents Needed for this Agenda Item Request? Yes