NHCGov: BREAKING: Commissioners to reconsider Health Department's funding request

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For Immediate Release:                              Contact: Charles Smith
Community Relations Coordinator
New Hanover County
(910) 798-7446 Office


03/14/2012 04:50 PM EDT

(New Hanover County) - In an email, just received by the Manager's Office, Chairman Ted Davis, Jr. has instructed County Manager Bruce Shell to place the Health Department's funding request on the agenda for their April 2 meeting.

Original email provided below:

After very serious consideration and conferring with my fellow County Commissioners, I am instructing County Manager Bruce Shell to put the Health Department's request to spend $8,899.00 in State funding for IUD purchases on the regular Agenda for the April 2, 2012 County Commissioner meeting which will begin at 6:00p.m.

The Health Department will be expected to give a thorough presentation and provide all of the pertinent information for the Board to consider this proposal, as well as any alternative method of spending these funds for family planning.

There will be a public comment period that will allow comments on behalf of proponents and opponents with a maximum of 15 minutes for each side, regardless of how many speakers may actually talk for either side.

This procedure will allow each Commissioner to receive adequate information from the Health Department; hear comments from the public; ask questions; discuss among themselves; and make their respective decision after considering all of this input.

Ted Davis, Jr.
Chairman
New Hanover County Board of Commissioners

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Media Contact:

Charles Smith
Community Relations Coordinator
(910) 798-7446​