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WHEREAS, the Indian River County Board of County <br />Commissioners supports the concept of government closer <br />to the people and opposes such a transfer as these programs <br />are vital to the protection and safety of the health and <br />citizens of Indian River County; and <br />WHEREAS, all 67 counties in the state have available <br />trained environmental health staff located in an accessible <br />county public health unit, and no other state agency that <br />would be considered in the transfer of environmental health <br />functions is known to have a local office or local presence <br />in each county; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1991, the Legislature revised Chapter 381, <br />Florida Statutes, to state that the HRS -County Public Health <br />Unit's environmental health programs are a major part of <br />fulfilling the states public health mission and define the <br />environmental health programs to include, but not to be <br />limited to, the following: <br />1. a food protection function, <br />2. a drinking water function, <br />3. a surveillance of indoor air quality function, <br />4, a toxicology and hazard assessment function, <br />5. a sanitary nuisance function, <br />6. a migrant labor function, <br />7. a public facilities function, <br />8. an onsite sewage disposal function, <br />9. a bio -hazardous waste control function, <br />10. a function to control disease transmitted from <br />animals to humans, <br />11. an environmental epidemiology function, <br />12. a mosquito and pest control function, <br />13. a radiation control function, <br />14. a public swimming pool and bathing place function, <br />and <br />15. a mobile home and recreational vehicle park function; <br />and <br />