Abby Baker, director of Grand County Public Health, told the Board of County Commissioners that the department is seeking to contract with Dr. Eliza Byers to provide administrative and operational support for the county's reproductive health program. "It would be a contract between Grand County Public Health and doctor Eliza Byers, to provide administrative operations and support, for the development and refinement of, the processes related to our reproductive health program," Baker said.
Baker said funding for the consulting contract would come from a $30,000 Caring for Colorado grant and $62,821 from the county's CDC infrastructure grant. She also asked the board to consider a waiver of the county's standard insurance requirement, reducing the required limit from $1,200,000 to $1,000,000 for the consultant contract.
The request was discussed during the meeting; a commissioner asked procedural questions about how the motions would be handled. The board indicated they could approve the services contract and waive the higher insurance limit as part of the same approval process.
No detailed motion text or roll-call vote for final approval of the contract and waiver appears in the transcript excerpts provided. The transcript shows the department presented the contract, the funding sources, and the requested insurance-waiver; subsequent discussion moved on to other agenda items.