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575 Commissioner Carpenter, serving in the capacity as Chair of the Cabarrus County Board of Health, and Mr. Charles Phillips, Chairman of the Cabarrus County Public Health Authority Board, presented the proposal to consolidate all public health activities under one board. Members of the two boards voted on March 10, 1998 to recommend the immediate consolidation of the two boards under a Public Health Authority as specified in SB 636 and for the existing Public Health Authority Board to act as the local board of health. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Barnhart, seconded by Commissioner Niblock with Commissioners Barnhart, Niblock and Carpenter and Chairman Casper voting for, the Board adopted the following Resolution. Resolution No. 1998-19 NORTH CAROLINA CABARRUS COUNTY RESOLUTION ASSIGNING ADDITIONAL POWERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY OF CABARRUS COUNTY, MODIFYING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD OF THE AUTHORITY AND DISSOLVING THE CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH WHEREAS, by resolution dated the 6th day of May, 1997 (the ~Authorizing Resolution'), the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners: (a) established a hospital authority (the 'Authority') under the provisions of N.C.G. 131E-15; (b) vested in the Authority certain powers, duties and responsibilities formerly held by the Cabarrus County Health Department; and (c) named the Authority the Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County; and WHEREAS, subsequent to the adoption of the Authorizing Resolution, Cabarrus County continued to operate a public health department governed by the Cabarrus County Board of Health, the only powers, duties and responsibilities of which were those statutory powers, duties and responsibilities specifically required to be exercised by a local Board of Health; and WHEREAS, as authorized by the 1997 Session of the General Assembly, effective January 1, 1998, subject to the approval of the State Health Director, Cabarrus County may, by resolution, assign to the Authority those powers, duties and responsibilities to provide public health services previously retained by the Board of Health; and WHEREAS, Cabarrus County now desires to transfer the powers, duties and responsibilities previously retained by the Board of Health to the Authority and to dissolve the Board of Health. BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County that, upon approval of the State Health Director: 1. Those statutory powers, duties and responsibilities previously retained by the Cabarrus County Board of Health regarding the administration of public health in Cabarrus County shall be and the same are hereby assigned to the Authority which shall henceforth exercise all powers, duties and responsibilities to provide public health services identified in N.C.G.S. 130A-l.1, or otherwise. 2. Henceforth, the Authority shall act as the local board of health for Cabarrus County. 3. The Cabarrus County Board of Health shall be and the same is hereby dissolved. 4. The Board of Directors of the Authority shall be reconstituted as follows: (a) One (1) member or designee, nominated by the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners; (b) One (1) member, nominated by the Cabarrus County Medical Society; (c) One (1) member, nominated by the Cabarrus Physicians Organization; (d) One (1) member or designee, nominated by the NorthEast Medical Center Board of Trustees; and (e) Three (3) public members, not affiliated with the foregoing, but recommended by the nominees set forth above. 5. The names, addresses and current telephone numbers of the Commissioners of the Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County as so reconstituted, and their terms of office shall be as follows: MEMBER OR DESIGNEE, CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS [ Name IAddress and Ph°ne # ITerm Ending I