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» [clears throat]

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» You got 5 minutes.

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Really really appreciates you this year.
I think you do a wonderful job.

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Yeah,
it's nice to see her feel a little

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better for you.

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She has so much anxiety when their
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now

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Yeah, maybe okay.

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4 and 1/2 and 3 years
>> I know, but there's

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I I didn't think they were specially
Yeah, oh yeah.

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» They're fun.
Yesterday was Winston was 3, so we had a

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party at
Carly's and

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» So, remember one Guinness pizza
We went one time and our oldest was

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maybe
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» I wouldn't do the front row unless
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» And she said, "Yeah." And I said, "Well,
that's what friends were you were

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little."
>> It was SARS in West Nile virus.

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» And we were like, "Okay, you're not
eating. We're going to go sit in the

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car."
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» And we were in this bathroom and
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» I know I know.
>> They're not as good.

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» No, they're not. I'm still saying
they're not.

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» I walked a couple times.
>> Yeah.

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» Yeah.
>> Yeah. How's it going?

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» It's well.
>> How about you?

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» Yeah, it was SARS that went around the
company and stuff.

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That's pretty good.
>> They never really know.

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» Yeah, but we were playing SARS and
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» Well, the way we were doing it was
that's why you didn't

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» Yeah, and then a lot of times it's like
they're sick all the time with their

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cancer and stuff.
Yeah, but it's my chance.

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» Yeah.
>> Was that uh

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» I went to college.
>> So, when you're going in

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» She's had all her treatments.
>> You know, we're just waiting to go see

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her.
>> Well, it goes through her whole system.

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» She's turned best down and

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» Hi Tyler.
>> Hi Ian.

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» You can't walk in energy like that.
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» It's carefully and well I was really
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» But I guess that's how they
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» Yeah, there's
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dogs. That's interesting that
someone is assuming

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» Yeah, he's talking to me.
>> So, Heather had a biopsy and he said

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Every time they did a biopsy
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» I thought it was under that. I thought
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» The other one did.
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day. They
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And then her lung mass and stuff.
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» Yeah, we're Yeah, I I have
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» Three.
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» And it's always
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» I didn't watch my rabbit.
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» Really?
>> One make out five to twenty.

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» Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
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» The other one is just like that.
>> Yeah, they were always hot.

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» They just kept on going.
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» What if
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» I actually
>> I got to get caffeine.

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» I drink coffee.
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» Yeah, you can be our best
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» We both thought that
>> She just kept cuz there's no place

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» never
>> I brought her some daisies.

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» No.
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» I brought her
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» Oh.
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» She said that stuff.
>> Nothing more than that.

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» Okay.
>> You can see them or something.

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» We were done through the whole ordeal.
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» That's about
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» Good.
>> Very good.

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» So,
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where they live, so you know, whatever.
We have we have no influence, so we're

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» How are you?
>> Good. How are you doing?

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» I'm good.

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» We're closed.

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Let's call the meeting to order.

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Is everybody ready to announce
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» Sure.
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» No, you can start.
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» Start with you.
>> Uh Dr. Amy Slaughter.

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» Grace Slaughter.
>> Bob Sassaman.

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» Mike Mayhew order.
>> Russell William.

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» Carrie Crofford.
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First thing is the approval of the
minutes. If everybody's had a chance to

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look at that.

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» I move we approve the minutes.
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» Is there any discussion? Anybody have
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» I had a couple things, but I gave them
to Laura. Just Just type them up.

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» Okay.
Yeah, there is one of those.

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Uh okay. Everybody in favor of the
minutes being passed, say I.

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» I.
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» Nay.
>> Minutes are passed.

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Uh
any old business at all? There's nothing

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on here.
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quick. Um

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the um

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health funds uh for Indiana health
funding uh we're going to have some

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carryover in this year's budget for
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So, even though we're getting the
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plus for health first and we're giving
that to partners, we're going to try to

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carry over some money in that fund and
do more with that. Up to five partners

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now uh confirmed for health first
funding with the carryover and the one

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money we're getting in January.
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when the uh you'll hear in January's
meeting if the council approves it, then

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I'll be able to give you a a better
layout of who's getting what for the

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year. You know, we have two school
systems that applied. We have the

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clinic, we have Hope Center, and we have
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I can't remember the other one, but yes.
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We're doing our best to get um
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uh all their needs and wishes as best as
we can. So, I'll bring I'll be more uh

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forthcoming when that gets
detailed. But, we're trying to use as

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much as we can of that fund to continue.
Other than that, that should be the

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biggest old business.
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» I have a question.
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» Um oftentimes with government funding,
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And so, that is that's obviously then
not the case with this fund?

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» No, so uh
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assessor's office and some other couple
few things in the county are specially

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we're not through the county general. We
have our own tax levy. So, if you look

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at a of pie, there's certain slices. We
get a slice every year no matter what

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cuz of state code.
And so we get a small percentage. Now,

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the council can change that percentage
every year, but we get a small

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percentage, and that stays in our levy
no matter what. They can't take it back

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out.
So, whatever they give to us, it stays

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there, and if we don't use it, it stays
there for the next year. So, I don't

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even have to go back and ask for
what's the word where we keep it from

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one year to the next. It just goes back
in the fund.

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» Yeah.
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reappropriate the budget for a different
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we would forward to the state. And then
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there.
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» Is there any new business anybody has?

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» Well, just I'll use do it now instead of
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editorial in
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a health official, and he teaches, and
it's just interesting

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uh summarizing the the general view of
the United States on the health

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departments and overall health. Um
along with that, which it's just

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interesting contrary,
we really have to be proud of our staff

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here in our county. They do an
exceptional job with limited resources

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just like Scott was discussing this
balancing act with the budget, but they

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all do a great job. They're very devoted
and dedicated. And uh we're fortunate to

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have them all.

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The unsung heroes of our county.
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» Well, then let's go to the reports, Dr.
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» I have lots of reports, but again, just
kind of going along with that theme,

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Scott has spent a lot of time trying to
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from these different departments
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the funds in you know what I mean
in different directions and set up

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budgets for for those different
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We in particular
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the administration for the free clinic.
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they have been funded um
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at or to treat um early prenatal visits.
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that being said, they've had very few
prenatal visits. I can probably count

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them on one hand the number that they
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and report that back to us. Um so we try
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figure out with them how to use that
funding and moving forward, how much

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funding to give them again. Um it's been
I don't want to call it a nightmare, but

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kind of a nightmare for for Scott
and everybody here to try and

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direct those funds and and then prove to
the state that we're getting outcomes.

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We've We've now they now are wanting to
see the outcomes of

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the funding that's been handed out.
Um so that takes a lot of time to

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for them to report the numbers back to
us and then for Scott to pass them on to

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the state. So the
original uh terminology that the state

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gave us was that this is just money, no
strings attached.

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as as we've seen there's a lot of
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it's taken a lot of time and um
at least several of the partners have

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not actually spent that money on what
it's been funded for. So that's as the

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reason you have extra money carried over
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new year on that.
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otherwise, you know,
everybody you can see in their reports

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as well have been pretty busy and

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» What are they looking for in terms of
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um
data points that that they look at um

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for each
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out they've they've wanted
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like again with the with the free clinic
um it was it was directed towards

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prenatal care.
So, they wanted them to record the exact

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number of of patients
ladies that they've seen uh for prenatal

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care.
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And probably the majority of the county
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exists. Um, so in order to
document um that they've used this money

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for the the fine reason
I'm very difficult. The Boone Center um

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funding we gave them quite a few dollars
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uh designed to look at smoking
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Well, all of a sudden
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that went away.
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give us money back because it had to
stop right at that point

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uh and they hadn't seen very many
people. They'd only gotten what one

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quarter's worth of
two quarters' worth of the funding

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anyway, so they actually gave
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and and now um all those numbers they
changed the terminology so that they

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want to look at outcomes. So,
we're looking at numbers Um

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and all those get reported to the state.
State's got a whole bunch of

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I don't want to say young college kids,
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they've got a lot of young kids straight
out of college that are looking at all

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this data and recording it and then we
have to try to figure out at what point

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does that data mean something.
Does that Does that answer your

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question? I don't know. There's There
are a lot of

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We can We can come up with lists for
these things if you want to see them,

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but
very complicated.

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» Sounds like a moving target.
>> It is.

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Absolutely.
Um and but the bottom line is if they

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can't record
numbers of you know those data points

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for each amount of funding, then it's
difficult to justify them getting more

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money for this next year.
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Okay.
Thanks.

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» Any other questions?

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Thank you, Dr. Burken.
Didn't you just have a work anniversary,

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Scott?
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coming up uh
this next week, I will be here uh 29

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years. So.
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» Impressive.
>> [laughter]

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» Yeah, 29 years on next uh the 29th. So.
>> Congratulations.

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» Thanks.
>> Heather.

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» So, 11 is my normal duties.
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so, the main thing this quarter is that
all of our captains rising.

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Pretty much
uh not over five. That's the higher

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range when Scott has to go to the home
and do an assessment.

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Um they're between 3.5 and 4.9.
So, um

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trying to get those parents back into
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a recheck
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to see have they been back?
Is the lead level back down?

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I think I have probably 20 20-some
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the 4.5.
>> And there's one more number so we get

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them from the finger sticks samples.
Um which are notoriously

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higher. Um so if we get a venous sample
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» My grandson had a little bit higher like
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» I don't
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» [clears throat]
>> leave them a message, they don't call

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back.

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So it's it's a struggle trying to get
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come back in.
>> Is somebody suing for a dog bite for

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$90?
>> They are.

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» Somebody suing somebody? Was there a bad
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» I I would say honestly it was an average
injury compared to all my other bites.

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I've had worse.
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I believe
the individual

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thought that this dog
I only have one other documented case

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from this dog that they have been told
that the dog has bit somebody three

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other times, three other people.
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I
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» It's kind of outrageous,

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» Any other questions for her?
>> Do you have any thoughts about why the

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lead levels are higher now?
>> No, um honestly

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when the state raised the value
I feel that's why we're getting all of

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these lower. I mean they're they're very
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» Sure.
>> Usually they're just right over

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3.5.
And the the value used to be five, so we

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wouldn't have all of these.
>> I think it's probably something that

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» Well, you speak but five years ago state
mandated that any kid child on Medicaid

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had to be tested by age two. So, that
jumped us up and then they changed the

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level from five down to 3.5 and that
jumped us up again.

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So, it's not like
all of a sudden they're getting they

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have consistently been poisoned over the
years. We're just now identifying

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» like sampling bias.
>> Yeah, exactly.

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» Yep.
>> Makes more sense.

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» Anything else?
So, it's similar to yours though. I

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think we [clears throat] had discussed
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some of this lead the source of lead was
from toys from China and some of these

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cribs that were painted. So, that was
kind of interesting.

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» I'm still concerned about the toys from
China.

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» I wonder if we were ever checked when we
were kids. We had lead-based paint

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everywhere.

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» Anything else?
Thank you, Heather.

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Uh Tracy?
>> The only thing that I need to add to my

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report is Dollar Tree, Dollar General,
and Dunkin' Donuts all got remodeled.

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and then other than that, I've just been

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busy with the year end renewals.

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» Any
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Thank you.
And we'll go to April.

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» I don't remember my report. I will be
going out to do another screening at um

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Blue River here in town. Um
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that was arranged by their
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activity kind of person
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the
lady who was in charge of

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getting the housing filled and stuff
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she was not happy.
So, she called and asked us if we could

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come back out because when she takes
care of it, there's a list and she'll go

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around and knock on doors and say, "Hey,
they're here."

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So, we are going to go back out,
redo that clinic.

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I am going to do a flu clinic at
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next week. They called and asked if we
would come back and do just flu, so

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we're going to do that.

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Other than that,
um this week and next week I am taking a

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peer
certified peer recovery coaching course.

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So, that's maybe something that we'll be
able to offer here in the county and I

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want to work with the J-CAP program and
work release

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on that.
Just helping Darcy with

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uh
CPR,

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car seat
safety stuff. We've got a couple of

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events coming up.

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» It look like you've been busy.
>> Any questions for

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Thank you.
Then on to Scott.

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» Um it was really busy until it rained. I
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You know, it's been extremely dry, so
it's great for septic system

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installation, so I was busy every day
with that. That's slowed down a little

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bit since then.
I had a couple coroner interactions for

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homes.
Uh it's slowed down slightly for them,

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but it's still
a big issue of um

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men, single men dying in homes,
especially over the age of 65. So,

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that's something that we're looking at,
trying to address with the uh

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the senior center about maybe doing
something like a morning coffee

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uh for gentlemen that are widowed and uh
could come in and

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be around other people, maybe get a
better meal, things like that. That's

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what we're finding issues there. So,
um just the normal things uh that end of

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the year is a lot because of the health
first funding. Uh there's many things we

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have to go in online and complete uh
budgets to finish, uh paperwork to sign

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off on. So, we're trying to
do that when they open up the portal for

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me to go in take a look. So, there's a
lot involved in that.

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Like Dr. Burke was saying, there's now
14 key performance outcomes uh that they

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want us to track. And that's why we
choose the certain partners that we

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choose because they take care of certain
things that we can trace back to those

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outcomes. And so, that's why we choose
them because they're doing clinical work

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that we don't do so that we can follow
that throughout the county. And so,

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that's the partners that we try to
choose to do some of those things.

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And um then we have three specific key
performance outcomes that we've been

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assigned to Whitley County, which would
be uh maternal child care, um

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opioid and mental health issues, and um
chronic disease, which we focus on

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diabetes at that point. So, there are
certain

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um
like

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how many cases of diabetes, you know, or
can we be referred to programs? You

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know, how many mothers and child things
like that that we're trying to they sign

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specifically. And if you go to our
website, uh you can see on the health

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plan there what uh it is for this year,
then it'll change for 2026.

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Uh as they refine those numbers, we look
at different things, they take different

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data points,
and go from there. Um a lot of data's

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not available locally, so they have to
use CDC or state data.

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Sometimes that's 3 4 years off. And so,
sometimes you don't get a lot

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right down good data with that.
Um and then every quarter or half a

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year, depending on what partner we're
using, uh they have to report their

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numbers to us. So, we give them money to
use for their project, but then they got

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to give us numbers back. How many people
they see, what are they spending their

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money on, things like that. So, all
that's sent back to me and I put stick

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it in the computer and then I'll spin it
back out to the state when they want it.

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So, I think a lot of why we're doing a
lot of this, why Health First Indiana's

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here,
uh you know, Indiana's reported as being

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the 45th worst state when it comes to
health.

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And I think most of it's a numbers game.
The state didn't really get a lot of

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good feedback on really what's going on
for health in with in Indiana.

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And so, this is an attempt to get
real-time numbers, see how we really

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that bad or we just have a bad reporting
system. You can only be gauged on what

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level you're at depending on what the
information is. So, I think it's a

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better
choice, you know, going county by

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county, trying to get better data so
that we can actually see where Indiana

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is truly health-wise. So, I think
uh end of this year will be 2 full years

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of it. They'll have to report to the
state and so, hopefully or to the

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legislator and the governor. So,
hopefully

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we'll see a better increase in where
Indiana ranks health-wise.

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Uh last thing, uh next Thursday, if you
didn't get the invite, uh 30th,

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upstairs, we're having the state come
in. Unfortunately, Dr. Weaver can't

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attend. Uh the governor
took her away, but the deputy

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commissioner, Pam Patonus, who's been
with the state for 35 years, will be

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here in her place. But they're still
going to come in. We'll have everybody

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that's been invited. So, if you can make
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on the 30th, we'll be upstairs.

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» Any questions for Scott?

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Thank you very much
and then we're going to Danielle.

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» I had a busy quarter.
So, it was full of breastfeeding week in

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August. So,
the first Friday of the downtown.

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hospital on nutrition.

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And then, my food to table class started
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Um I also have a class at the library.
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the hospital.
Um Darcy and I started with Laura Tucker

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at Baby Started the Circle
to close part of the group support group

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twice a month and it's been
fabulous.

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We definitely needed
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it's just
really fun.

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and that's most, I guess, of what I've

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done. We have also
>> [snorts]

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» started going around to the providers in
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We visited Dr. Sadler. So,
um we're going to get through all of

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them, hopefully,
through November, I

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» Any questions?
>> Thank you.

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And then, Darcy.
>> So, I need to clarify. Jacob doesn't

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help me with CPR and car seats. I help
April with CPR and car seats. I just got

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to
make that clear.

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Um
So,

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for the next few weeks, I'm really going
to focus on grant writing just so we

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have, hopefully, funds available for
programming and just because

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everything's so limited. Um
when Danielle and I go out, we're

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visiting all the providers with a
resource guide that we put together. I

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hope it's beneficial.
>> It's amazing.

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» Yeah. Um
so,

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we just found that there were so many
things available to people in the

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Whatcom County, but we didn't They don't
know about them. So, it's a a notebook

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with
There's probably 25 resources in it that

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And most of it is free to
individuals in the county. So, we still

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have two more weeks of visits to get in,
but every provider and Dr. Lee, if you

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would like one,
I have an extra up in the office for

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you.
>> I know.

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» I have it scheduled to come visit you.
Or we haven't.

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As far as the prenatal visits are
concerned,

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I don't [clears throat] know if I shared
this with you that last time, but we I

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have a bachelor's
in nursing and public health student

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with me. And she is working on it. How
do we get the word out to let women know

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here are some resources available?
Um

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and so she has been going around to the
retailers that sell pregnancy tests and

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asking them if we can either hang a
flyer or wrap the pregnancy test with

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information because they have been
finding women are coming in and they're

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5-6 months along and they have had no
prenatal care. And that puts women at

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higher risk of a poor outcome. So, um
she is working on that and a lot of the

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retailers have been agreeable. Dollar
General said yes, the IGA and Sherbusco

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said yes.
Um I was at a Kroger this week, they

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were very supportive. So,
um she's working on that.

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Um the American Heart Association, our
um service member we had Ashley. We were

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We're approved, right Scott, to bring
somebody back full time for another

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year. So, that was up in the air. It's
it's going to look a little bit

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different, but there's still lots of
work to do there. I don't know if I put

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this on my report, we launched
NeighborLink. Um and that Sonya Rubrake

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um that works with April kind of took
that on, but that's a program. So, if a

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older adult needs their light bulbs
changed or they need a ramp, um

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there's volunteers that will do those
services for free. So, we're going to um

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hopefully get some individuals that will
utilize those

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And then we wrap up the Women's Wellness
next week and I did start teaching at

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JCAP this week, um which is a great
program. Statistically, individuals that

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go through JCAP have a 37% chance of not
re-offending. And so I've just been

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working with them on
um this week we did um

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you know, when you're when you leave the
jail, what your health care will look

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like. And um
interestingly, none of them had a

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provider before they were um
incarcerated. So, that was one thing I

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really encouraged them, find a health
care provider when you leave. So, you

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have that safety net.
And then as far as the resource guides,

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everybody gets credit for that because
the entire department helps put that

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together. So,
I appreciate that.

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Any questions? I just keep
finding new things to do.

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» [laughter]

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» Looks pretty busy, so.
Um thank you and then we're down to

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Laura.
>> Um my report pretty much speaks for

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itself. We have had two home births uh
this week. I did get a phone call from a

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father who delivered on 30. So, we're
trying to figure out how that birth will

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be recorded. I think it's going to have
to be recorded as a home birth

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unintended. Um however, he did tell me
he had a midwife. The midwife was the

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one who sent him on to Fort Wayne
after 3 hours of labor. So, I did send

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him back to the midwife. I talked to
Allen County and they said send him back

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to the midwife to see if she'll
start the process because most of the

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questions that need to be answered in
the form are from the provider. Um and

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then she would just file it as a
um home birth unintended with the

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address that he provides. He would be
the sort of the um attending.

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If she won't do that, then he's to come
back to me and get the packet and we'll

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do that through the health department. I
was fearing that we would start to have

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births on 30 because
they're going to Fort Wayne, they're not

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going to Kosciusko. Um deaths have
remained high. Um if you could keep the

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staff at Smith's in in your prayers,
they are overwhelmed. They're not

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getting a break. They're just doing one
funeral right after another. They've

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worked, I think,
>> 17 days.

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» 17 days without break.
Um so, they are overwhelmed. Um I'm

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seeing that we have an increase in
prostate cancer

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um in our deaths. And then we did have
two suicides and three car crash

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victims. We just had a car crash victim
yesterday though. It's not in the

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statistics. It'll be in next my next
report, so.

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» Any questions for Laura?

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» Thank you.
I think everybody does a great job. It

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looks like there's a lot going on, so.
Anything else to come before the board

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with anybody?

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Well, is there a motion to adjourn now?
>> So moved.

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» A second?
>> Second.

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» Okay.
Uh

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then all in favor say aye.
>> Aye.

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» Opposed, nay.
Motion carried.

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» I