To: Martin L. Cousineau, Finance Committee Chairperson
From: Michelle Estell, RS, MSA, Health Officer
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RE: Approval of an agreement between Genesee County and FetchEH, in an amount not to exceed $31,500.00, to provide for the purchase of environmental health software; the cost of this agreement will be paid from account 2210-602.07-801.000
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BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval to combine all Environmental Health programs under FetchEH, on-line software company.
BACKGROUND:
Environmental Health is involved in monitoring the water supply, sewage disposal, air, soil and water pollution surveillance, sanitation of sanitary landfills, garbage, rubbish, and other nuisance problems. Also included is rodent and insect control, food sanitation and safety, communicable disease (epidemiology), swimming pools and bathing beach sanitation and recreation areas, day care centers and nursery schools. The program plans for area needs and communicates findings to Administration along with compiling and interpreting statistics on environmental health needs of the community. Combining all EH programs under one software will provide for faster, accessible data.
DISCUSSION:
Fetch Environmental Health (FetchEH) is location aware, data driven, environmental health software. Supporting environmental health workflows for onsite wastewater system, well permitting, food facilities, pools, campgrounds, and body art programs. FetchEH empowers Health Departments to use that data and location to work better, improve access to information, gain new insights and improve public health outcomes. EH currently pays $4,000 a year for FetchEH (on-site, water, well programs); $7,000 a year for HealthSpace (food, body art programs) Combining EH programs to FetchEH and eliminating HealthSpace, will cost $7,500 a year total; compared to $11,000 a year currently. Singing with FetchEH for three years will save $10,500. There will be a one-time $9,000 fee for migrating data from Hea...
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