To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Administration
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Allocation of One (1) Full-Time Equivalent Departmental Information Systems Analyst Position
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Allocate of one (1) full-time equivalent Departmental Information Systems Analyst position (salary range 422, class 0762) in budget unit 400 effective upon the beginning of the pay period immediately following approval.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Public Health Fund (1175)
DISCUSSION:
The Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory ("HCPHL") has been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic since the first case was reported in February 2020. During that time, HCPHL's utilization of technological devices, systems, software, online applications and networks has significantly grown in direct correlation to increasing testing, whole genome sequencing, data reporting and other activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Nov. 3, 2020, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors ("Board") authorized several grant funded positions and a supplemental budget, which included Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Enhancing Detection ("ELCED") funding that was allocated to the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services - Public Health ("DHHS - Public Health) by the California Department of Public Health ("CDPH") as part of the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act. ELC Enhancing Detection funding supports a number of activities crucial to COVID-19 response, including, without limitation, a significant increase of testing capacity from twenty-five (25) samples per day to nearly three hundred (300) samples per day, software upgrades to electronically accept and send testing information and the cost of laboratory testing supplies and support staff needed to manage the increased volume of work. ELCED funding also supported the development of the North Coast Regional Testing Partne...
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