Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R380 - Administration
Rule R380-50 - Local Health Department Funding Allocation Formula
Section R380-50-3 - Allocation Procedures
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) The amount of funds the department allocates to the local health departments shall be determined by the Governance Committee as described in Section 26B-1-207.
(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, 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 as follows:
(4) 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. 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.
(5) The Governance Committee may include future funds in the funding formula in cases where the total program funding exceeds $500,000.