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182 PURPOSE OF REQUEST: Joint Partnership Proposal of Improvements to Concord Middle and Eastside School/Park Sites. Present Approved Account No. Budqet 00198110-9842-0069 0.00 School/Park Improvements 00161710-6901 9,375,163.25 Fund Balance Appropriated Increase Decrease 44,250.00 44,250.00 Revised Budqet 44,250.00 9,419,413.25 Cabarrus Health Alliance - Adoption of Resolution Supportinq a Joint Health Planninq Initiative between Cabarrus County and Rowan County Dr. William F. Pilkington, Health Director of the Cabarrus Health Alliance, briefly reviewed the joint effort by the counties of Cabarrus and Rowan to obtain Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant funding to implement a new health care delivery system for the uninsured or indigent residents of the two counties. Commissioner Carpenter made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Privette to adopt the following Health Planning Resolution and to authorize the Chairman to sign the Resolution on behalf of Cabarrus County. Commissioner Casper amended the motion to include the designation of Commissioner Carpenter as the Board's representative for the health planning initiative. The amendment was accepted and the motion was unanimously approved. The Resolution as adopted by the Board was as follows: RESOLUTION NO. 1999-09 NORTH CAROLINA CD~BARRUS COUNTY WHEREAS, the nuraber of Americans without health insurance has grown from 31 million to 41 million during the last ten years; and WHEREAS, more than one million North Carolinians are uninsured; and WHEREAS, more than 40,000 residents of Cabarrus and Rowan Counties are uninsured; and WHEREAS, eight out of 10 of the uninsured are full-time workers or their dependents; and WHEREAS, one in five uninsured children has no regular source of care and is 30 percent more likely to fall behind on well-child care; and WHEREAS, uninsured adults are four times more likely to say they have not received medical care they believe to be necessary; and WHEREAS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has established a new $16.8 million initiative called ~Communities in Charge", which is designed to help communities like Cabarrus and Rowan Counties rethink how we organize and finance our local care delivery to our uninsured, low-income families; and WHEREAS, there is a strong desire within Cabarrus and Rowan Counties to find a common solution to the common problem that many of our residents share; and WHEREAS, the solution to planning and implementing a new delivery system for the uninsured requires close cooperation within and between the two counties; BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County that the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners supports the joint planning initiative that is being developed in the grant application to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. D/qD, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners will designate a commissioner to participate in this joint, two county health planning initiative. This the 19tn day of April, 1999. ATTEST: /s/ Frankie F. Bonds Frankie F. Bonds, Clerk to the Board CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA By: /s/ Jeffrey L. Barnhart Jeffrey L. Barnhart, Chairman Board of County Commissioners Appeal by Mr. Gaillard A. Mervin, Jr., of the Denial of the Prellminary Plat for the Porters Landinq Subdivision, Phases V and VI Mr. Jonathan Marshall, Planning Services Director, reported the Planning and Zoning Commission had voted on March 18, 1999 to deny the