Memorandum
Date: February 6, 2024
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Kim Tangermann, Deputy Director Public Health
Subject: 9:45 A.M. - Public Hearing - Review and Consideration of Ordinance Amending Article XXVII of Chapter 2 of the Lake County Code to Address Membership of County of Lake Health Services in the Existing Partnership Health Plan of California Commission
Executive Summary: On November 28, 2023, a presentation by Partnership Health Plan Regional Director Lynn Scuri included highlights of the Partnership Health Plan expansion and a request to amend ordinance to reflect a change in their membership by-laws.
The amendment(s) include the following changes in bolded italics:
“Sec. 2-195. Membership of Commission.
Commission representation shall be based on the number of Medi-Cal beneficiaries enrolled in the HealthPlan in that county as follows: one commissioner per zero to forty-five thousand beneficiaries; two commissioners per forty-five thousand and one to sixty thousand beneficiaries; three commissioners per more than sixty thousand and one beneficiaries.
“Sec. 2-196. Term of Office
The initial term and all terms thereafter for the Commissioners shall be for four-year periods. Nothing herein shall prohibit a person from serving more than one term. Each Commission member shall remain in office at the conclusion of that member’s term until a successor member has been selected and installed into office. An office shall become vacant if a board member discontinues to function in the area from which appointed, or fails to attend three meetings in a row of the Commission.”
Section 4:
This ordinance shall take effect on the ______ day of ________, 2024, and before the expiration of fifteen days after its passage it shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Lake.
The foregoing ordinance was introduced before the Board of Supervisors on the _____ day of _____________, 2024 and passed by the following vote on the ____ day of ________________, 2024.
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Recommended Action: (a) Waive the reading of the ordinance and read in title only, and (b) Move to advance the ordinance on the agenda for consideration of passage.