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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01051988 - IO.3 3 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Cwtr January 4, 1988 C )sta DATE . Disposition of All Items on Referral to the vO^ SUBJECT: 1987 Internal Operations Committee SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: Dispose of all items on' referral to the 1987 Internal Operations Committee as noted below. BACKGROUND: There are currently 18 items on referral to the 1987 Internal Operations Committee. We recommend that each item be disposed of as is noted for the reasons indicated: 1 . , Prospective Cancer Study - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee for continuing oversight. Attached is a memo from Dr. Wendel Brunner dated December 21 ( see Attachment A) providing a status report on the study. We .believe the 1988 Internal operations Committee should continue to provide oversight to the development of this study, 2. Mandatory Arbitration of Claims - Refer - to 1988. Internal Operations Committee. The County' s Risk Manager plans to make a presentation to the Internal Operations Committee in about May 1988 on the progress which has been made on this subject. 3 . Child Care 'Issues .- Withdraw this item as a referral to our ' . Committee. This item was reported to the Board on June 16 ; 1987 and was . acted on at that time. No further action appears indicated pending responses from the Director of Personnel and County Administrator (see Attachment B) . 4. Prevention Programs - Withdraw this item as a referral to our Committee. This item has been adequately addressed as a part of the Challenge Grant Program which the Human Services Advisory Commission ' is presently managing. No further action by the Board is necessary at this time. 5. County Responsibilities for SB 14 - Withdraw this item as a referral to our Committee. This item has been addressed through a variety of recommendations which have been made by our Committee over the ,past few months. We do not believe that further action by the Board is required at this time. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: .._ YES SIGNATURE: _ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR _X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE X APPROVE OTHER - SIGNATURES klakson blanc C. Fanden Tom _ ACTION OF BOARD'Oij Jan uary b, 1986 k.PPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY� OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: County Administrator ATTESTEDS�_._/*-00 Health Services Director Risk Manaaer PHIL BATCHEL CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Personnel Director Social Services Director County Counsel BY ,DEPUTY M382/7-83 Public hlorks Director — . George Johnson, Staff, HSAC Page 2 6 . Subsidies from Foreign Governments Resulting in Loss of Jobs - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee. While our Committee has dealt with several elements of this problem, the specific issue of subsidies has not been addressed directly, and we believe ' the 1988 Internal Operations Committee may want to take a closer look at this aspect of the problem. 7. Appointments to Hospital Advisory Boards - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee pending a report from the Mental Health Director on this issue. 8. Prevailing Wage Ordinance - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee. Our Committee held one hearing on this issue which clearly requires further discussion. 9. USS-POSCO Asbestos Testing - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee. Our Committee received one report on this issue, but has asked the Health Services Director to provide us with a more detailed report which is not yet ready for our consideration. 10 . B.E.&K. Employee Drug Testing - A separate report will be made on this referral at the January 12 Board meeting. 11. CHP Report on Various Issues Related to Strike' Activities at the USS-POSCO Steel Mill - Remove as a referral to our Committee. The California Highway Patrol has responded to this referral in a letter dated September 1 . We do not believe any further action by the Board is required at this time. 12 . Buy-American Policy - A separate report on this subject is being made to the Board by our Committee this date on this referral. 13 . Policy on Award of Contracts for Temporary Personnel Services - A separate report on this subject will be made to . the Board on January 12 . 14. Central Sanitary District Request for Membership on the Hazardous Materials Commission Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee pending a recommendation from the Hazardous Materials Commission. 15 . Illegal Dumping Issues including Ordinance Amendment to Increase Penalties - Refer to 1988 Internal Operations Committee pending report from the Hazardous Materials Commission. 16. Human Relations Commission Appointments - A separate report on this subject will be made to the Board on January 12. 17 . Land Use Controls in the Vicinity of an Airport - A separate report on this subject will be made to the Board on January 12 . 18 . County Election Campaign Ordinance Amendment - A separate report on this subject will be made to the Board on January 12. Adoption of these recommendations will eliminate all pending referrals to our Committee. ATTACHMENT A CONTRA COSTA COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT t To: Date: Claude Van Marter December 21, 1987 Assistant County Administrator From: Subject: Wendel Brunner, M.Dfie �,��'" Progress on Prospective Director of Public Health Occupational Cancer Proposal I am writing at your request to update you on progress toward implementing the prospective occupational cancer study. The plan for developing the prospective occupational cancer study is outlined in an extensive report of December 18, 1986 to the Internal Operations Committee. That proposal identifies three pilot projects and a planning process to imple- ment the prospective cancer study and forms the basis for the last year's acti- vities. In addition to the prospective cancer plan, priority has been given in some areas to developing the Bay Area Cancer Prevention Summit initiative. The first pilot project outlined in the prospective occupational cancer study proposal involves utilization of the AB2185 county database to identify suitable cohorts exposed to occupational carcinogens to be followed in the study. Over the past year progress has been made in developing the database with 1,000 busi- nesses filing business plans with the Health Services Department under AB2185. A letter of intent describing the database pilot program based on the detailed information presented in our 1986 report and the specific progress in establishing the AB2185 database has been developed and sent initially to the Kellogg Foundation for consideration. We will follow up on that contact and pursue other possible foundation sources for funding. The second pilot program involves incorporating work history into the current tumor registry database in the Bay Area, particularly Contra Costa County. That project has been now been funded by the National Institute for Occupational Science and Health and is presently being implemented in Contra Costa County. The Health Services Department has assisted Dr. Glazer, the principal investiga- tor, in obtaining cooperation from major hospitals in Contra Costa to par- ticipate in this pilot. We have also assisted the principal investigator in obtaining support for the program from the various local and state investiga- tional review committees which oversee studies involving human subjects. Finally, the first data for this program is being collected at Merrithew Memorial Hospital , developing the procedures and testing the questionnaires which will be used in the other hospitals in Contra Costa. With the implemen- tation of this program occupational history data will be obtained for cancer patients in Contra Costa and included in the tumor registry database. That occupational history in the database will allow the investigation of occupa- tional causes of cancer using the Bay Area tumor registry. A-41 3/81 Claude Van Marter -2- December 21, 1987 The third pilot program involves the linkage of occupational records including exposure data maintained by industry with the database of the Bay .Area tumor registry. Such a linkage would allow both the historical prospective and prospective following of chemical industrial cohorts for occupational cancer effects. Industry has a number of concerns about how data which they miaht pro- vide would be used; the Health Services Department also insists that data pro- vided by industry be subject to credible evaluation by non-industry experts. Considerable proqress has been made over the last ,year toward incorporatinq the information available to the major petrochemical industry in Contra Costa into a general evaluation of occupational cancer. The Health Services Department met with the senior state or national medical epidemiologists representing Chevron, Shell , Dow, Dupont, and UNOCAL to discuss the occupational cancer information available from those companies and fair and credible ways that information could be utilized to evaluate occupational cancer risk. Industry is understandably concerned that their data be given a public hearing in a manner which would reassure the community of the low risk of occupational cancer within their establishments. The Health Services Department wishes to ensure that industry data receive a thorough evaluation by independent experts. We are continuing planning with William Bailey, Senior Epidemiologist for Chevron Corporation, for a public presentation of industry occupational cancer data and ways to make that database available to the prospective cancer study. In the meantime some of that industrial data is already being used to evaluate occupational cancer. Don Austin from the tumor reqistry has worked with Dow Chemical to link industry records to the population based tumor reqistry. The results of that pilot proqram will be published shortly and serve as a model for further cooperative efforts on a larger scale with the other petrochemical industries in Contra Costa. While the prospective cancer study can aive us an indication of the occupational and environmental contributions to cancer, the more immediate concern is to develop effective strategies for the prevention of cancer from all causes. To that end we are involving Will Bailey, representing the group of senior petrochemical industry epidemiologists, in the planning process for the Bay Area Cancer Prevention Summit initiative. Participation in this Summit initiative will provide the opportunity for industry to participate in the general preven- tion of cancer in the community as well as to further develop the joint eva- luation of industrial occupational cancer data. WB:rm cc: Mark Finucane Health Services Director II ATTACH'ITNT B TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Contra June 8, 1987 Costa DATE; County, Coun Dependent Care Assistance Plan � � �/ SUBJECT: and Sick Child Care Program SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) a BACKGROUND APD JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: 1 . Request the Director of Personnel to prepare a detailed dependent care program based on the status report presented to our Committee on June 8, 1987 . Meet and Confer as necessary with employee organizations on the proposed program and return the completed outline of the program to our Committee for review. 2 . Endorse in concept the need for a sick child care program for County employees and refer the program outline to the Budget Committee to consider in conjunction with the 1987-88 County Budget. BACKGROUND: On April 28, 1987 , the Board authorized the Director of Personnel to develop a dependent care assistance program under which County employees can reduce their gross taxable income by the amount of their child care expenses. The Director of Personnel was also authorized to develop a sick child care program and was asked to forward both reports to our Committee for review. We received the attached status report on these two programs on June 8, 1987 . It is clear that the dependent care asssistance program, as outlined, has substantial financial advantages for employees with little or no cost to the County other than some as yet unidentified administrative costs for reprogramming the personnel and payroll systems. We believe the Personnel Department should work out a detailed program and discuss it with employee organizations before returning it to our Committee for further consideration. The sick child care program is a somewhat different problem. While our Committee agrees wholeheartedly with the need to provide child care for the children of County employees when the child is mildly ill, there may be a substantial cost to such a program. We believe such a program is both needed and valuable. However, such a program must be balanced against all of the CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: ^ YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE _ X APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE s : Nanc anden Tom Torlakson ACTION OF BOARD ON _ June 16, 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER X REQUESTED Director of Personnel to prepare a detailed dependent care program; ENDORSED the concept of a sick child care program for County employees; and REFERRED the matter to the County Administrator to report to the Budget Committee on Meet and Confer aspects of the proposed program. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: County Administrator ATTESTED Af . /9dr 7 Personnel Director PH BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382/7-83 BY ,DEPUTY Page 2 other competing priorities for funding during the upcoming fiscal year and we, therefore, believe the Budget Committee should review this matter before further action is taken by the Personnel Department to develop a program.