Did you miss this week’s Board Health meeting? Watch a recording here.
This weeks topics include:
Presentations:
- Recommendation from BoH on staffing request and budget to be presented to BoCC
- New positions: Epidemiology Program Administrator, Health Promotion and Education Coordinator, Mental Health Data Analyst, EH Specialist (Air Quality) – all to start in July 2023, and budget
- Comments/discussion
- BoCC will scrutinize each request with potential recession and other budget limitations
- Dr. Levin commented that she supports the proposed budget
- Motion: Move recommended staffing and budget recommendation as presented by staff to BoCC
- 1st: Bill
- 2nd: Linda
- Vote: Unanimously approved
- Comments/discussion
- New positions: Epidemiology Program Administrator, Health Promotion and Education Coordinator, Mental Health Data Analyst, EH Specialist (Air Quality) – all to start in July 2023, and budget
- CHAPS Presentation – Ariel
- No questions or concerns
- COVID & MPX – Carly Senst
- Comparison with other counties – Jordana Sabella
- If people have any questions or requests for changes, please email Greg or Jordana
- Round Robin
- Detection of disease has been through wastewater surveillance
- Will become a more useful tool for monitoring community disease burden as we see increases of home tests that aren’t being reported to local public health – especially helpful for when we see influxes of people with local events (e.g., Jazz Aspen) and with winter ski visitors
- Vax bus: September 20-22 (downtown Aspen, Snowmass Village, and Old Snowmass Market)
- Available in Glenwood and Carbondale the week before
- Info available on our website and flu vaccines will become available soon as well
- Detection of disease has been through wastewater surveillance
Next meeting date: December 8, 2022
