Fiscal Note
Expenditures and revenues will have no fiscal impact on the Public Health Adopted 2007 Operating Budget. There is no anticipated impact on cost controls or the tax levy.
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Resources for TB Isolation and Treatment Support.
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WHEREAS local public health departments are largely responsible for assuring that people with TB complete treatment and there are occasions when working with clients with active TB when temporary housing and support are needed to assure successful treatment, thereby protecting the health of the public, and
WHEREAS Catherine M. Corscot died on May 17, 1952 and pursuant to her will a trust was created for the lifetime benefit of Ruby Corscot and Alice Bagg, provided that the residue be turned over to the City of Madison to be used for the care and maintenance of the East Washington Avenue Hospital, which was established for the treatment of contagious disease and maintained by the City of Madison;
WHEREAS the East Washington Avenue Hospital was closed on December 31, 1953 and the last lifetime beneficiary died in 1996, in 1997 the County Court for Dane County ordered that the Catherine Corscot Trust shall be used for the purpose of aiding in the prevention of contagious disease, and the medical care for citizens of Madison suffering from, or threatened by, contagious disease, with the requirement that these funds not be used to be used to replace or supplant funding for programs currently funded through the Public Health operating budget, and
Whereas, the Corscot trust is presently administered by US Bank on behalf of the City; and
WHEREAS, in the past the Madison Department of Health has been able to draw funds from the trust for contagious disease programs but there currently is no program or mechanism available to disburse these funds for the purposes of combating contagious disease and nothing in place to address the use of the funds by the joint city-county health department; and
WHEREAS, Public H...
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