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<br />Charles C. Phillips <br />April 8, 2009 <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br />H. Jay White Sr., Chairman <br /> <br />Grace M. Mynatt ' <br />Robert W. Carruth <br />Elizabeth Poole <br />Privette <br />C <br />Co <br />' <br />. <br />y <br />Greeting: <br />My fellow Cabarrus Health Alliance Board members have agreed that I should request , <br />your consideration for approving me to serve another term on the Cabarrus Health <br />Alliance Board of Commissioners. I believe there are substantive reasons that this would , <br />be a wise decision in spite of the term limitations that you normally apply to service on <br />appointive boards. <br />The Cabarrus Health Alliance is in the process of preparing to acquire a new building. , <br />We have been engaged in the information gathering and preparation stages of this process <br />for over a year. The training I received in facility planning during my graduate program ' <br />at North Carolina State University has been valuable in identifying ways to keep the <br />project within budget. I believe that I am in a unique position to save the citizens of our <br />county millions of dollars on this project. I would like to continue to provide ' <br />knowledgeable oversight to our Health Director's leadership in this endeavor. I can only <br />perform this function as a member of the Health Alliance Board. <br />I believe that we are also very close to embarking on a search for a new Health Director. <br />Dr. Pilkington was eligible for retirement under the North Carolina Employee's <br />Retirement System about a year ago. The Board was able to prevail on him to delay his <br />retirement so that we could proceed with our plans for the new building in an orderly <br />fashion. While he has been gracious enough to do that for almost one year already and <br />has expressed no immediate plans for retirement, we need to anticipate that he will be <br />retiring in the foreseeable future. ' <br />I have been ~ manager in a similar sized organization where I was responsible for hiring <br />professional staff. I believe that my experience would be an invaluable asset for the , <br />Board in our coming search for a new Health Director. I am also very familiar with our <br />strategic plan to become the Model Public Health Agency of the Twenty-First Century. <br />The new Health Director will need to be as capable and visionary a leader as Dr. <br />Pilkington. My active participation in the development of the Model Public Health <br />Agency concept positions me to evaluate candidates in this vital aspect of their future <br />service to Cabarrus County. , <br />One aspect of the Model Public Health Agency concept is implementing research to <br />inform better public health practices. The Health Alliance has just formed a Public ' <br />Health Research Institute for just this purpose. As Chairman of the Health Alliance <br />84 LeCline Circle Concord, North Carolina 28025 ' <br />cphillipsC~vnet.net <br />Attachment number 3 <br />H-2 Page 393 of 433 ' <br />