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Rutherford County health staff seek OK to refill WIC role; committee forwards $488,500 ELC grant to budget review
Summary
At the Jan. 28 Health and Education Committee meeting, county health staff asked commissioners to recommend changing a vacant registered-dietitian position to a nutrition educator for WIC and presented an Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant of $488,500; commissioners voted unanimously to forward both items to the next steps.
Rutherford County health officials told the county Health and Education Committee on Jan. 28 that they want to fill a vacant WIC nutrition role at a lower job classification and that the department has a new $488,500 grant contract to spend on lab and facility upgrades.
John Blair, assistant public health county director for the Rutherford County Health Department, told commissioners the department wants permission to recruit a nutrition educator to fill a vacancy previously funded as a registered dietitian position. Blair said the change is part of the state pass-through contract and is intended to increase the pool of eligible applicants for the WIC program. “The nutrition educator can do almost the exact…
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