Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution amends the Public Health Madison and Dane County 2022 Operating Budget and increases staff to expand Sexual and Reproductive Health Services. Seven full-time positions will be created to support this expansion including a Public Health Supervisor, a Nurse Practitioner, three Public Health Nurses, a Public Health Aide, and a Clerk. The cost of these positions in 2022 is $129,133. Supplies necessary to expand the clinic have been identified as $101,700. The expansion will be initially funded in 2022 by Dane County at a total of $230,833.
The annual costs of this expansion are approximately $1.1 million and beginning in 2023, will be shared by the City of Madison and Dane County according to equalized value as defined within the Public Health Intragovernmental Agreement.
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Amending the 2022 Operating Budget to Increase Staff for Public Health Madison and Dane County to Expand Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
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WHEREAS, Public Health Madison & Dane County (Public Health) believes that access to a full range of equitable and evidence based reproductive health care is necessary for healthy and thriving people who may become pregnant, children, families, and communities; and
WHEREAS, Reproductive Justice, as defined by SisterSong, is “the right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainability communities”; and
WHEREAS, the recent change in federal law has far-reaching impacts for City of Madison and Dane County residents, the services provided to them and limits the pursuit of reproductive justice; and
WHEREAS, Public Health currently provides a wide range of services to City of Madison and Dane County residents, including sexual and reproductive health care, maternal and child health care, and all options counseling services which interface with people who are pregnant or may become pregnant in the future; and
WHEREAS, Public Heal...
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