R380-50-3. Allocation Procedures

  (1) The amount of funds to be allocated between the department and local health departments shall be determined by the Governance Committee as described in Section 26-1-4(3).

  (2) By a three-fourths vote of its members, the Utah Association of Local Health Officers may, in cooperation with and subject to the approval of the Department of Health, allocate a portion of the funds as necessary to support public health programs within every participating local health department and are available to all eligible residents of the state. The Department finds that population is not the sole relevant factor in determining need.

  (3) The Department adopts the following formula pursuant to Section 26A-1-116 for reallocating to local health departments any increases or decreases in funds.

  (a) Minimum share. Thirty-two percent of the funds is divided into equal shares for each participating local health department.

  (b) Population Factor: Fifty percent of the funds are divided among the local health departments based on the percentage of the total state population living within the geographical boundaries of the local health department according to the most current estimate from the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. At a minimum this factor will be evaluated after the official Census of the Population is released and four years after the official census is released.

  (c) Multi-county Factor: Eighteen percent of the funds are divided among multi-county health departments as follows:

  (i) the multi-county factor is made up of two equal parts:

  (aa) Number of counties: half of the multi-county dollar amount, divided by the total number of counties that make up all the multi-county health departments. The number is multiplied by the number of counties in each multi-county health department.

  (bb) Population: each multi-county health department's population (based upon population figures provided by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget), divided by the total population of all the counties that make up all the multicounty health departments. The number (percent) is multiplied by half of the multi-county dollar amount.

  (d) The department may, after consulting with the Governance Committee, alter the formula to address documented need established by valid and accepted data in one or more local health department jurisdictions.

  (i) At no time can a local health department receive more than ten times the per capita amount calculated under this formula than any other local health department.

  (e) The Governance Committee may include future funds in the funding formula in cases where the total program funding exceeds $500,000.