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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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 day...
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