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Board of Health for Madison and Dane County Resolution #2022-33 Authorization to Create Grant Funded Limited Term Employee Positions to Support the COVID-19 Response
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Public Health-Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) continues to be on the front lines of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, this effort has required creating additional staff capacity via Limited Term Employee (LTE) roles to support functions across the response, including testing, contract tracing, and vaccination efforts.
In 2020, the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County approved the creation of 57 grant-funded LTE positions supported by COVID Relief funds received by Dane County, specifically 17 LTE Disease Intervention Specialists, 20 LTE COVID-19 Response Specialists, 20 LTE COVID-19 Response Specialists - Bilingual. Since that time, the strategy for the COVID response has evolved to include the need for LTE Vaccine Response Specialist positions, as well as LTE COVID-19 Response Specialist II and LTE Vaccine Response Specialist II positions to serve in leadership roles within the response. The current LTE staffing need for the response is as follows, though the needs may change based on the evolving nature of the response:
• 27 LTE COVID-19 Response Specialists
• 3 LTE COVID-19 Response Specialists - Bilingual
• 4 LTE COVID-19 Response Specialist IIs
• 13 LTE Vaccine Response Specialists
• 4 LTE Vaccine Response Specialist IIs
The LTE staff above are supported by a mix of grant funding and fund balance. Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County may authorize PHMDC to recruit and hire LTE positions utilizing grant funds (IGA, VI, B, 4, c).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County, on behalf of Public Health Madison and Dane County, authorizes the recruitment, hire, and utilization of grant-funded LTE positions to support COVID-19 Response and Recovery efforts.