Fiscal Note
This resolution authorizes the reallocation of existing staff resources into a management team. This reorganization will not result in a net increase in the number of authorized full-time equivalent employees. No additional appropriation is necessary.
Title
Endorsing the City of Madison and County of Dane Joint Public Health Management Team.
Body
WHEREAS, in March of 2005, the City of Madison and the County of Dane entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) to merge the Madison Department of Public Health and the Dane County Division of Health (public health agencies), pursuant to sec. 251.02(1m), Wis. Stats; and
WHEREAS, the IGA provides for (a) the merger of the two boards of health into a single Board of Health for Madison and Dane County (BOHMDC), (b) the hiring of a single Director, and (c) the establishment of a structure to move toward full merger of the existing public health agencies into a joint City-County health department to be known as the Madison and Dane County Health Department (MDCHD), to be accomplished by December 31, 2007; and,
WHEREAS, the IGA provides, in sec. IV.B.3.a., that the Director "shall have direct responsibility for the transition to and operation of the MDCHD"; and,
WHEREAS, Dr. Thomas Schlenker was recently hired as the Director charged with the above responsibility and, as one of the first steps toward accomplishing the required merger of the existing public health agencies, Dr. Schlenker will be assigning six (6) current employees to a management team, drawing the members of this management team from the existing pool of City and County public health agency employees; and
WHEREAS, four (4) of these employees, all of whom currently have supervisory responsibilities within their respective public health agencies, will be responsible for managing distinct public health programs, and will be required, therefore, to supervise the staff who are currently, or in the future will be, assigned to each s...
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