(1) The amount
of funds to be allocated between the department and local health departments
shall be determined by the Governance Committee as described in Section
26-1-4(3).
(2) By a three-fourths vote of its members,
the Utah Association of Local Health Officers may, in cooperation with and
subject to the approval of the Department of Health, allocate a portion of the
funds as necessary to support public health programs within every participating
local health department and are available to all eligible residents of the
state. The Department finds that population is not the sole relevant factor in
determining need.
(3) The
Department adopts the following formula pursuant to Section
26A-1-116
for reallocating to local health departments any increases or decreases in
funds.
(a) Minimum share. Thirty-two percent
of the funds is divided into equal shares for each participating local health
department.
(b) Population Factor:
Fifty percent of the funds are divided among the local health departments based
on the percentage of the total state population living within the geographical
boundaries of the local health department according to the most current
estimate from the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. At a minimum this
factor will be evaluated after the official Census of the Population is
released and four years after the official census is released.
(c) Multi-county Factor: Eighteen percent of
the funds are divided among multi-county health departments as follows:
(i) the multi-county factor is made up of two
equal parts:
(aa) Number of counties: half of
the multi-county dollar amount, divided by the total number of counties that
make up all the multi-county health departments. The number is multiplied by
the number of counties in each multi-county health department.
(bb) Population: each multi-county health
department's population (based upon population figures provided by the
Governor's Office of Management and Budget), divided by the total population of
all the counties that make up all the multicounty health departments. The
number (percent) is multiplied by half of the multi-county dollar amount.
(d) The
department may, after consulting with the Governance Committee, alter the
formula to address documented need established by valid and accepted data in
one or more local health department jurisdictions.
(i) At no time can a local health department
receive more than ten times the per capita amount calculated under this formula
than any other local health department.
(e) The Governance Committee may include
future funds in the funding formula in cases where the total program funding
exceeds $500,000.
Amended by
Utah
State Bulletin Number 2018-15, effective
7/3/2018
