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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
40 Costa
DATE: May 7, 1985 County
SUBJECT: Legislation: SB 111 (Carpenter)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for SB 111 by Senator Carpenter
which would expand the dental disease prevention program and
appropriate funds to local agencies to support the expanded
program.
BACKGROUND-
Existing law authorizes dental disease prevention programs for
Children in school. These provisions are scheduled to be
repealed December 31, 1986. SB 111 would revise the existing
law to make the program available to children from pre-school
through the eighth grade rather than from kindergarten through
the sixth grade; would make the program available to
individuals with exceptional needs, and. would extend the
program indefinitely. SB 111 would also appropriate $5. 5
million for the dental disease prevention program.
SB 111 expands on the dental disease prevention program which
has functioned in Contra Costa County for the past eight years.
Currently, this County' s program serves 23 ,000 children. The
County is reimbursed at a rate of $4. 50 per child for the
school-based preventive dental program. SB 111, in addition to
increasing the number of children eligible for the program,
would increase the reimbursement from $4. 50 to $6. 00 per child.
No local match is required for this program.
It, therefore, appears appropriate for the Board to support SB
111 as is recommended by the Health Services Director.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
L RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON a-y , 1985 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
_X_ UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISOON THE DATE SHOWN.
County Administrator S.
CC: Health Services Director ATTESTED ;�f7z,:4 Z!!4
Senator Paul Carpenter ' PHIL BATCHKOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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