Fiscal Note
Revenues and expenditures of $33,301 will be added to the 2006 Public Health Operating Budget. There is no impact on cost controls or the tax levy.
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Authorizing the Madison Department of Public Health to accept supplemental funding of $33,301 for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program for the period June 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006; amending the 2006 Operating Budget for the City of Madison Department of Public Health to add the revenue and expenditures; and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a purchase of services agreement for a contract nutritionist.
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Preamble:
The City and County WIC programs will be merged by December 2006, with the staffs of both programs housed at Harambee. The IGA for the Public Health unification process required that there be a single WIC Director by the end of 2006. When the City WIC Director, Janet Daniel, retired this Spring, the County WIC Director assumed leadership for both City and County WIC Programs. One of the City WIC nutritionists has temporarily taken on some administrative responsibilities of the City WIC Program two days a week. Staff assignments have been adjusted, but with the resignations of three public health nurses, each of whom had some WIC related responsibilities, there is an in an inadequate number of qualified staff available to serve as WIC Program certifiers.
The contracted WIC caseload requires the maintenance of adequate qualified staffing and clinics five days per week. When possible, City and County WIC staff are staffing each other's clinics. The public health nurse positions will be filled, but this will take two or three months. These new employees will need to meet specific educational requirements or must satisfactorily complete training before they can be assigned to work at WIC clinics.
There is a short-term need for additional public health nutritionist services up to two days per week until the end of the year. Due to the increasing caseload, the City of Madison WIC program received $33,301 in WIC supplemental funding. About $10,600 of these funds will be used to hire a contract nutritionist two days a week starting September 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.
Some of the funds in the WIC supplement will be used to remodel the WIC office at Harambee to accommodate the larger staff-delivering and installing cubicles and electrical components. The lowest estimate for the remodeling was $17,125, but the staff has found some areas of savings and expects that this can be completed for $16,200.
In late August there will be a planning retreat for the staffs of both WIC programs that will be facilitated by the State WIC Director. It is expected that the retreat will cost $1,500, including a lunch for staff. There is also $3,400 allocated for the purchase of two laptops.
WHEREAS, the City of Madison Department of Public Health has conducted a supplemental nutrition program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) since 1981, and
WHEREAS, the WIC Program is highly effective in improving the health and nutritional status of women (pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum), infants, and children who are eligible for the program based on income and health risk factors,
WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Division of Public Health has authorized supplemental funding of $33,301 to the City of Madison Department of Public Health because of the increases in the Department's caseload,
WHEREAS, the Department has contracted with Nutrition and Health Associates in the past and would like to use their services on a short-term basis to meet the WIC program's staffing needs,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized by Common Council to sign an agreement accepting $33,301 in WIC supplemental funding from the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Division of Public Health for the period of June 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to sign an agreement with Nutrition and Health Associates to provide a contract nutritionist for two days per week for the period of September 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006,
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the 2006 Operating Budget for the City of Madison Department of Health be amended by the following amounts:
GN01-73214-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 State/ Health/Social Service Grant Revenues $33,301
GN01-54920-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 Community Agency Contracts $10,602
GN01-55510-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 General Work Supplies $1,420
GN01-54630-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 Conference / Meetings $1,675
GN01-55155-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 Computer / Hardware $3,400
GN01-58520-445500-00-4440000-00000000-44551061 Furniture and Fixtures $16,204
Net Levy Impact $0.00