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Deschutes County Board of Commissioners
1300 NW Wall St., Suite 200, Bend, OR 97701-1960
(541) 388-6570 - Fax (541) 385-3202 - www.deschutes.orp
AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of April 26, 2010, 10:00 AM
Please see directions for completing this document on the next page.
DATE: April 21, 2010
FROM: Tom Anderson, Director Community Development (CDD)
385-1704
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
Consideration of Approval and Signature of a Proclamation, declaring April 26, 2010 as "National
Sanitarian/Environmental Health Specialist Day."
PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DATE? No.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
This action coincides with Governor Ted Kulongowski's proclamation that April 26, 2010 be set aside
by local governments to honor and recognize their Sanitarians/Environmental Health Specialists.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval and signature of Proclamation.
ATTENDANCE: Tom Anderson, Director. Depending upon work schedules, several
Sanitarians hope to be in attendance.
DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS:
One original for recording purposes and one original returned to: Kathleen at CDD to pick up, x 3193.
Deschutes County
PROCLAMATION
National Sanitarian/Environmental Health Specialist Day
Whereas: The Deschutes County Environmental Health Division's Mission
Statement is to provide and promote protection of public health
and the environment through education, consultation, and
regulation; and
Whereas: The citizens of the State of Oregon face potential health hazards
every minute of every day of their lives that may result in
deleterious effects to their health and/or their environment; and
Whereas: Environmental health hazards are a great threat to the health and
happiness of those persons who may be inmunocoprorised, the
aged, and the young as well as to those who are healthy; and
Whereas: Sanitarians/Environmental Health Specialists strive towards
meeting preventive health goals for the public's health; specifically,
to reduce or eliminate environmental health risk factors that cause
human suffering, disease or injuries through consultation, education
inspections, investigations and enforcement in the areas of food
safety, public facilities, drinking water supply, sewage disposal,
pest control, solid waste, air quality, toxics, bioterrorism, disaster
response and communicable disease; and
Whereas: Deschutes County's Environmental Health Division's staff of eight
Registered Environmental Health Specialists strive each and every
day to insure that the citizens of Deschutes County enjoy good
health. Their objective is always to educate their customers on
positive environmental health practices so that compliance is
perceived as a benefit rather than simply rules to be followed; and
Whereas: Governor Ted R. Kulongoski has proclaimed April 26, 2010 as
National Sanitarian/Environmental Health Specialist Day and
encourages all Oregonians to join in this observance.
Now,
Therefore We, the Board of Commissioners of Deschutes County, hereby
proclaim April 26, 2010 to be National Sanitarian/Environmental
Health Specialist Day and encourage all citizens to join in this
observance.
Dated this of , 2010 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
ATTEST:
DENNIS R. LUKE, CHAIR
ALAN UNGER, VICE CHAIR
Recording Secretary TAMMY BANEY, COMMISSIONER