The Cayuga County Legislature’s Health & Human Services committee voted on Dec. 3 to approve a series of resolutions covering public-health vendor contracts, an intermunicipal tuberculosis services agreement, staffing actions and youth-program adjustments.

Key actions approved by voice vote included:
- HH1: Amendment to Resolution 34925 to correct an hourly rate and add capture/trapping fees for rabies specimen preparation and euthanasia (approved).
- HH2: Annual contracts with East Hill Family Medical Services and Finger Lakes Community Health to provide mandated STD services; county pays amounts not covered by insurance at Medicaid rates (approved).
- HH3: Authorization to fill one budgeted sanitarian/senior sanitarian position at the public health office following a resignation (approved).
- HH4: Contract with Finger Lakes Wildlife for wildlife specimen preparation (approved).
- HH5: Annual renewal of Board of Health hearing officers at updated rates, with state aid reimbursement (approved).
- HH6: Intermunicipal agreement with Onondaga County Health Department for tuberculosis control and medical oversight (approved); transcript-listed rates: $220 initial, $130 follow-up, telehealth noted as $1.30 in the record (see clarifying note).
- HH7: Multi-year service arrangement with the county IT department to better capture state reimbursement for IT/security costs (approved).
- HH8: Subcontract with SPCA of Central New York to provide at least three vaccination clinics yearly for domestic animals (approved).
- HH9: Acceptance of state funding for shelter arrears/eviction prevention and authorization to sign related contracts (approved).
- HH10: Amendment moving supervision of an ARPA-funded Growing Hope demonstration project from Southern Cayuga FFA to Growing Hope Cayuga, with the same scope and spending deadline (approved).
- HH11: Authorization for the director to accept state aid and execute contracts with human-service agencies serving individuals with disabilities (approved).
- HH12: Creation of one full-time health home care manager position at the mental-health center (approved).

Several items were presented with brief discussion but most were routine renewals or staffing authorizations that passed by voice vote. Committee members praised staff efforts on vendor sourcing and program delivery. Public-health staff also discussed small grants and program updates during the meeting.

Clarifying note: the transcript lists telehealth for the Onondaga TB agreement at "$1.30" per consultation; that figure is included in this report as stated in the meeting record but may be a transcription anomaly and is flagged for verification with county contract documents.

The committee concluded departmental updates and closed the session after the mental-health and youth-program reports.