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182 <br /> <br />PURPOSE OF REQUEST: <br />Middle and Eastside School/Park Sites. <br /> <br /> Present Approved <br />Account No. Budqet <br />00198110 9842-0069 0.00 <br />School/Park Improvements <br />00161710-6901 9,375,161.25 <br /> Fund Balance Appropriated <br /> <br />Joint Partnership Proposal of Improvements to Concord <br /> <br />44,250.00 <br /> <br /> Revised <br /> Budget <br />44,250.00 <br /> <br />44,250.00 9,419,413.25 <br /> <br />Cabarrus Health Alliance - Adoption of Resolution Supporting a Joint Health <br />Planning Initiativa between Cabarrus County and Rowan County <br /> <br /> Dr. William F. Pilkington, Health Director Of the Cabarrus Health <br />Alliance, briefly reviewed the joint effort by the counties of Cabarrus and <br />Rowan to obtain Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant funding to implement a <br />new health care delivery system for the uninsured or indigent residents of <br />the two counties. <br /> <br /> Commissioner Carpenter made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Privette <br />to adopt the following Health Planning Resolution and to authorize the <br />Chairman to sign the Resolution on behalf of Cabarrus County. Commissioner <br />Casper amended the motion to include the designation of Commissioner <br />Carpenter as the Board's representative for the health planning initiative. <br />The amendment was accepted and the motion was unanimously approved. The <br />Resolution as adopted by the Board was as follows: <br /> <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 1999-09 <br /> <br />NORTB CAROLINA <br />CAJ~ARRUS COUNTY <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the number of Americans without health insurance has grown <br />from 31 million to 41 million during the last ten years; and <br /> WHEREAS, more than one million North Carolinians are uninsured~ and <br /> WHEREAS, more than 40,000 residents of Cabarrus and Rowan Counties are <br />uninsured; and <br /> WHEREAS, eight out of 10 of the uninsured are full-time workers or <br />their dependents; and <br /> WHEREAS, one in five uninsured children has no regular source of care <br />and is 30 percent more likely to fall behind on well-child care; and <br /> WHEREAS, uninsured adults are four times more likely to say they have <br />not received medical care they believe to be necessary; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has established a new <br />$16.8 million initiative called "communities in Charge", which is designed to <br />help communities like Cabarrus and Rowan Counties rethink how we organize and <br />finance our local care delivery to our uninsured, low income families; and <br /> WHEREAS, there is a strong desire within Cabarrus and Rowan Counties to <br />find a common solution to the common problem that many of our residents <br />share; and <br /> WHEREAS, the solution to planning and implementing a new delivery <br />system for the uninsured requires close cooperation within and between the <br />two counties; <br /> BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus <br />County that the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners supports the joint <br />planning initiative that is being developed in the grant application to the <br />Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. <br /> A/qD, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Cabarrus County Board of <br />Commissioners will designate a commissioner to participate in this joint, two <br />county health planning initiative. <br /> This the 19~h day Of April, 1999. <br /> <br />ATTEST: <br />/s/ Frankie F. BQnd$ <br />Frankie F. Bonds, Clerk to the Board <br /> <br />CABI~RRUS COUNTY, NORTH C/~ROLINA <br />By: /s/ Jeffrey L. Barnhar~ <br /> Jeffrey L. Barnhart, Chairman <br /> Board of County Commissioners <br /> <br />ADDe&I by Mr. Gaillard A. Mervin. Jr.. of the Den~al of th~ Pr~liminary Bla~ <br />fgr ~h~ Pgrtgr~ Landinq Subdivision. Phases V and VI <br /> <br /> Mr. Jonathan Marshall, Planning Services Director, reported the <br />Planning and Zoning Commission had voted on March 18, 1999 to den~ the <br /> <br /> <br />