Board to review emergency and communicable-disease plans via shared files; communicable-disease plan flagged for major revision

Public Health Director Ruby Taylor told the board she will provide a flash drive with the emergency transport plan and other response plans at the next meeting and will include a checklist for state-required elements.

Taylor said the emergency transport plan likely needs only minor edits, but the county's communicable-disease plan is lengthy (described in the meeting as about 60 pages) and appears out of date. She recommended breaking that plan into sections, assigning sections to board members for review, and using a shared folder or Microsoft Teams so edits can be made collaboratively rather than expecting members to read the entire document at once.

Board members discussed the state checklist that will be used to verify elements required for a state-level plan; Taylor said she will supply the checklist and the flash drives ahead of the next meeting. Members also discussed signatures and the process for eventual formal adoption of substantive policy changes once edits are completed and reviewed.