Health and Human Services
I’d like to say that I’m not happy that you passed Public Health’s resolution to abolish 19 positions this morning in Human Resources Committee, and I’m especially concerned because you seemed to give yourselves the latitude to vote in favor of the resolution, despite your reservations about it, after a discussion of how you would evaluate the success of the Director’s restructure plans by having anonymous surveys of the staff and meetings with the county manager and his deputy, where staff would be encouraged to express their concerns. The truth is that the Public Health rank and file staff have no reason to trust the manager, the deputy, or the commissioner of HR. They made numerous complaints about the management of public health last year and not only were all their complaints unfounded, but the same practices continued by the management with complainants targeted and subjected to vindictive reprisals and bullying. The staff at Public Health have no one who they can really trust, including, now, the members of this committee. I hope you’ll reconsider passing this next week. If you don’t like the whole resolution and feel you only want to pass a part of it, ask for it to be amended or rewritten.
Since I was cut off in the last committee, I’d like to get my entire comment on the record now for the Legislator from District 7 concerning his rant last week, when he accused me and other members of the public of causing the closing of the ACC. First, I’m proud to say that I went down to the city for that meeting in November 2023, and after hearing testimony about the deteriorating conditions at the ACC since Infinite Care had been illegally managing the facility for the preceding 2 years, the DOH voted not to recommend that Infinitecare get their CON. Then, for the next three years, the Legislator from District 7 stuck his head in the sand and pretended that the CON was still viable and that Infinitecare was doing a great job, the onl...
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