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M stressed that he has indicated to Dr. Berman that if, at any time, it looks as if there will be a difficulty with this, we need to sit down and discuss that well in advance. We are on schedule with our project and, therefore, the plan he and the Budget Officer have worked out with Dr. Berman is consistent with our funding and budget. Administrator Chandler continued that he has had discussions with Dr. Berman about their overall funding situation; how it affects their basic operation and how it relates to the $490,000 per year that we budget for the Health Department. There are any number of reasons for the shortfalls and the discussion he has had with Dr. Berman indicates that there has not been a significant impact on our basic services with the Prenatal and Primary Care programs. He believed there were some problems in terms of their inability to fill some positions because of the State -mandated freeze. It seems there was some misinformation with regard to the three positions related to the restaurant portion. One of those is going to the State and we will be picking up those inspections but the other two positions had the majority of their time allocated to other ongoing inspections the Health Department is liable and accountable for and that was not a part of it. The Administrator assured the Board that he and Director Baird have been watching the dollars and cents very carefully as related to our project and, then, the spinoff as relates to the ongoing operations of the Health Department and how that relates to the dollars we have allocated. Commissioner Scurlock stated that his concern is three -fold: (1) that we are spending 3/4 million on a new facility and have a commitment of about half a million from them to help with equipment; (2) that this gets intertwined because we are not the controller, we have a partnership without direct administrative responsibility; and (3) that our local programs that we are providing to the tune of $490,000 -odd do not get cut because the State has a shortfall and also because of a $600,000 buffoon mistake. Administrator Chandler agreed that if we were providing 100% the logical question would be: what right does the State have to come in here and tell us we can't fund those positions. But we are not funding those programs 100%; a good chunk comes from the State. Commissioner Bird understood Commissioner Scurlock's concern but noted that the subject before us today is to approve the furniture list for this new building. Possibly this is or is not all directly related but that is the item on the agenda and that is what we should focus on. 41 '' 12 1991 �,��-