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Votes at a glance: Orange County Health & Mental Health Committee, March 19, 2025
Summary
A summary of motions the Health and Mental Health Committee voted on March 19, 2025, including position creation and grant appropriations approved by voice vote.
This ‘votes at a glance’ roundup lists formal committee actions recorded during the March 19 Health and Mental Health Committee meeting. Where the transcript recorded only a voice vote, roll-call tallies and named voter records were not provided; the committee reported ‘‘motion carries’’ or ‘‘aye’’ on the record in each case below.
- Create autopsy assistant — approved. Legislative request number 59: create one autopsy assistant (CSEA Grade 11, Step 2 salary cited in packet). Committee recorded ‘‘all in favor’’ and ‘‘motion carries’’; no roll-call tally in transcript.
- Create rental-registry positions — approved. Legislative request number 57: create one data program coordinator (Grade 15), one senior public-health sanitarian (Grade 15) and two public-health technicians (Grade 11). Committee added language that positions be abolished upon grant termination.
- Accept LEHI rental-registry grant funds — approved. Legislative request number 64: accept and appropriate second-year funds for the LEHI rental registry program from NYS Department of Health for 04/01/2025–03/31/2026 in the amount of $728,600.
- Accept Healthy Neighbors grant funds — approved. Legislative request number 61: supplemental appropriation for FY2025 Healthy Neighbors grant from NYS Department of Health in the amount of $275,000 to provide preventive environmental health services focused on childhood lead prevention, asthma, indoor air and fire prevention in target communities.
- Accept ATUPA funds (adolescent tobacco use prevention) — approved. Legislative request number 63: appropriate second-year funds for the adolescent tobacco use prevention act grant in the amount of $116,050.
- Accept Immunization Action Program funds — approved. Legislative request number 62: accept and appropriate year-three funds for the Immunization Action Program (amount cited in packet: $202,263).
- Supplemental appropriation for a small OMH-funded program rollover — approved. Legislative request number 60: roll unspent 2024 funds into the Department of Mental Health 2025 budget to continue specified home-modification services (amount cited in packet: $13,271.22).
How to read this list: All items above were moved and seconded as recorded in the meeting; voice votes were used in committee and the transcript records ‘‘aye’’ and ‘‘motion carries’’ language for each approved item. The transcript did not include roll-call vote counts for these items; committees that require roll-call may record tallies in the formal minutes.
Ending: Committee business continued after these approvals with department updates and presentations on Valley View campus planning and other topics.
