I received 3 messages re: public health funding by the provincial government...

Two said that the provos would be paying 50% of municipal costs.  However, the
latest message said:


"Currently the provincial government pays an amount to support public health
programming. Initially, last march it appeared they were going to pay 50% of
the cost but since then they have backed off and said they will be
contributing to public health. There was some confusion about what the
budgets of health units/public health departments were and some had changed
during the time the municipalities were responsible for 100% of programs.
In terms of the PHREDs, though there are others who could answer this more
accurately, they have been given a budget until march of this year 2000 and
they have some tasks to complete for this money. Again I am not totally
clear on all their responsibilities and different PHRED's may have different
roles but they are to be involved in the establishment of benchmarking, the
Health Status report (which you spoke so well on in the Toronto Star a week
or so ago)."

Is there anybody in the provincial government on this list-serve who can clarify
this?

dennis


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