To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Public Health
Agenda Section: Consent
Vote Requirement: 4/5th
SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 Public Health Supplemental Budget in Public Health Tobacco Education Program Budget Unit (1175412) in the Amount of $41,608 (4/5 Vote Required)
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve the attached supplemental budget for Public Health Tobacco Education Program budget unit (1175412) in the amount of $41,608 for FY 2025-26. (4/5 Vote Required)
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STRATEGIC PLAN:
This action supports the following areas of your Board’s Strategic Plan.
Area of Focus: Safe & Healthy Communities
Strategic Plan Category: 1001 -Support and sustain partnerships between public safety and partner agencies to enhance public safety in our communities
DISCUSSION:
Using tobacco products has a substantial negative impact on health. In Humboldt County, tobacco smoking causes or contributes to 34% of all deaths. Since 1989, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Tobacco Prevention Program (CTPP), formerly known as the California Tobacco Control Program, has served the people of California with a comprehensive tobacco control program.
CTPP is committed to reducing tobacco disparities among populations disproportionately impacted by tobacco industry predation. In November 1988, California voters approved the California Tobacco Health Protection Act of 1988, also known as Prop 99. This initiative increased the state cigarette tax by 25 cents per pack and added an equivalent amount of tax on other tobacco products. California voters created a strong mandate for CTPP to reduce tobacco-related disparities when they overwhelmingly approved the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 (“Proposition 56”). Proposition 56 added a $2.00 tax per cigarette pack and a proportional increase to other tobacco products beginning in April 2017. Proposition 56 additionally requires that at least 15 percent of these tax funds appropriated to be designated for accelerating and monitoring declines in tobacco-related disparities.
Today, funding is used to maintain the Tobacco Education Program through the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Public Health, Healthy Communities and the Woman, Infant and Children (WIC) Division. The TFH program plays a leading role in creating smoke-free environments throughout the county by coordinating and supporting policy and system-level changes to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke and to build support for a lifestyle free from nicotine addiction. By engaging citizens, community leaders, and policymakers to build community norms that improve health outcomes, the program creates smoke-free cities, smoke-free multi-unit housing, and improved access to health products in retail environments throughout Humboldt. TFH also increases the availability and awareness of tobacco cessation resources through direct service and technical assistance to service providers, supporting healthy lifestyle choices for individuals who choose to improve their health by going smoke-free.
The supplemental budget before your Board today will increase the appropriations for the FY 2025-26 budget in Tobacco Education (1175412) by the rollover funding amount from the FY 2024-25 funding allocations.
SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Public Health Fund (1175) Tobacco Education Program Budget Unit (412)
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
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Expenditures (1175-412) |
FY25-26 |
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Budgeted Expenses |
$41,608 |
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Total Expenditures |
$41,608 |
*Projected amounts are estimates and are subject to change.
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Funding Sources (1175-412) |
FY25-26 |
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State/Federal Funds |
$41,608 |
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Total Funding Sources |
$41,608 |
*Projected amounts are estimates and are subject to change.
Narrative Explanation of Financial Impact:
Approval of the attached supplemental budget for Public Health Tobacco Education budget unit (1175412), will allow DHHS - Public Health to increase budgeted appropriations for rollover from the FY 2024-25 CTPP funding allocations in the amount of $41,608 for FY 2025-26.
STAFFING IMPACT:
There are no staffing impacts associated with this supplemental budget.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
None
ALTERNATIVES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Your Board my choose not to approve this supplemental budget request; however, this is not recommended since it is necessary for to increase appropriations to cover program expenditures through FY end.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. 1175-412 FY25-26 Supplemental Budget
PREVIOUS ACTION/REFERRAL:
Meeting of: 11/7/2023
File No.: 23-1429