NCPHD Approves Budget With Layoffs And Clinic Cutback

The North Central Public Health District board approved a budget Tuesday that moves ahead with laying off two staff members in the wake of not receiving the full amount of funding it requested from Wasco County.  District Director Teri Thalofer said the two individuals received layoff notices and their last day of work will be July 7.  In addition, the district will cut back its walk-in clinic hours from five days a week to one.  Thalofer says that will happen sometime after July 1.  Wasco County Commissioners approved in their 2015-16 budget an allocation of $314,000 to the district, under the $396,000 the district said it needs to maintain current services.  County Commission Chair Scott Hege told district officials last week that panel could consider increasing their contribution once a study of district operations requested by the County is finished later this year.  

Adblock Detected

We have detected that you are using an adblock in your browser’s plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website.

Your Experience is very important to us, and your Ad Blocker enabled will cause our site not to perform as expected.  Turn off the Ad Blocker or add our site to your exceptions.  After you turn off or add exception please refresh the site or click ok.

Please note: Clicking OK below will NOT disable your ad blocker. You will need to make that change within the ad blocker's settings.