HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1990 (11) RESOLUTION URGING WISCONSIN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION TO SUPPORT
EQUITABLE COST SHARING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AIDS FUNDING.
Resolution # 1I ( U)
INTENT:
To urge Wisconsin Counties Association (WCA) to support a
program of equitable cost sharing by the governing body of the
State of Wisconsin with the Counties of Wisconsin for mandated
Public Health programs in the form of an annual appropriation to
the Counties to be called Public Health Aids.
WHEREAS the prevention of illness and disability from illness,
referred to as Public Health programs, are essential to human
productivity and the reduction of the cost of health care, and
WHEREAS chapter 141.05 of Wisconsin Statutes provides that those
counties who employ public health nurses must conduct a
generalized public health nursing program (this may include
maternal and child health, adult health, adolescent health,
communicable disease prevention, enviornmental health and health
education), and
WHEREAS chapter 143 of Wisconsin Statutes mandates that the
county health officer and the county are legally responsible to
promptly take all measures necessary to prevent, suppress, and
control communicable disease (which includes safe water, safe
food, safe air and vector control), and
WHEREAS chapter 141.10 (4) of Wisconsin Statutes provides that
no person receiving home nursing care from a county health
committee, commission or board of health shall be denied
necessary services because of inability to pay (leaving
responsibility for those for whom there is no reimbursement
possible by third party payer or self to the county tax dollars),
and
WHEREAS the portion of the burden of the cost of direct
provision of public health programs, exclusive of fees collected
and federal grant sharing for targeted projects, in 1988 cost
more than an average of $5.52 per capita to the counties of
Wisconsin (based on the WiCoPHA survey of 53 counties, not all
including total fixed costs), and
WHEREAS this method of funding the cost of mandated public
health programs places the preponderance of the financial load on
the counties of Wisconsin and thus on the property tax payer, and
WHEREAS during 1988, the states of Minnesota, Michigan,
Illinois, and Iowa believed Public Health programs were
significantly important to contribute an average of $4.40 per
capita to their local governmental public health agencies, and
THEREFORE be it resolved that St. Croix County petitions
Wisconsin Counties Association to actively support a provision in
the State budget starting in 1991 and continuing annually
thereafter of equitable cost sharing by the State to the Counties
to be called Public Health Aids funding, and to be allocated in
annually increasing amounts until full funding of mandates is
attained, and the funding to be allocated annually to those
County Departments administering the Public Health Programs named
previously.
AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be
sent to: Members of the Wisconsin Counties Association Board
(WCA), Mark Rogacki (WCA Executive Director), Marsha Trask (WCA
Legislative Lobbyist), a = •- - • iseensln, Governor
Thompson, Pat Goodrich, (Administrator DHSS), George MacKenzie
(Administrator DOH), Judy Robson (State Representative and Chair
of Special Select Committee on Public Health), State Senator
William Berndt and Assembly Representatives Harvey Stower, Alvin
Baldus and Sheila Harsdorf.
Dated this . / p p day of j,1711„ , 1990.
HUMAN SERVICES BOARD
( AFFIRMATIVE
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Thomas O'Connell, Chairman •aren Bailey
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Patrick D. Becker Thomas H 4 ns
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