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Jones County health officials renew request for restored funding as staff warn of service delays
Summary
Jones County Health Department and North Central Health District officials asked commissioners to restore prior county contributions, citing rising operating costs, reduced reserves and public-health services at risk without added funds.
Jones County health department officials and district staff asked the Board of Commissioners on Feb. 4 to restore previous county funding levels, saying reduced contributions and rising costs threaten staffing and routine public-health services.
The request came during the meeting’s new-business segment when a health department staff member described the department’s role in overdose prevention, outbreak response and routine services and Sylvia Woodford, district financial administrator for the North Central Health District, asked the board to restore roughly $89,000 in annual support that had been requested last year but denied.
Woodford said the department’s "average monthly cost to operate the Jones County Health Department is roughly, a little…
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