Resolutions	Recent Developments
#A05-16, Local Public Health Funding alPHa petitions the federal and provincial governments to ensure that municipalities have additional means of revenue generation to ensure the availability of resources adequate to meet local public health needs	Fall 2006 AMO, the City of Toronto and the Ontario Government have entered into discussions under the Provincial-Municipal Fiscal and Service Delivery Review, to include the financing and funding relationship, as well as service delivery and service governance. Report and recommendations are due in the Spring of 2008. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_28110_1.html February 15, 2006 Letter sent to provincial and federal finance ministers introducing this resolution. Please click here to read.
#A02-2, Adequate Funding for Public Health Programs and Services Resolution to ensure that all boards of health receive adequate municipal and provincial funding  to comply with the Mandatory Health Programs and Services Guidelines; and further urge the Province to recognize and affirm that unwillingness to adequately fund public health results in further erosion of essential programs and services, which will adversely affect Ontarians’ health	October 2006 alPHa has compiled feedback from the survey described below and shared the results with members. On October 31st, a letter was sent to Minister Smitherman on the impact of the provincial cap, focused on the inability of many health units to proceed with previously approved program expansions. Please click here to read the letter.  June 8, 2006 alPHa has sent a letter to the CMOH and all MPPs describing the expected impacts of the announced 5% cap on growth of public health funding at the provincial level. Includes the results of a survey of all health units, to which 33 of 36 responded. Please click here to read. January, 2006 alPHa has created and implemented a communication plan designed to inform ministers and critics of the funding pressures faced by health units in 2006. June 2005 alPHa surveyed health departments on their 2005 budget process to deterimine the level of support that had been achieved for alPHa's position that the absolute municipal contribution to health unit funding should not be reduced as the provincial portion rises to 55%  May 28, 2004 Province announced it will increase its share of public health funding from 50% to 75% by 2007 to strengthen public health programs and services. The government also announced that it would be investing $273 million in public health in 2004/05, growing to $469 million by 2007/08. Click here to read the press release. March 22, 2004 alPHa releases its Position Paper,  Creating a Sustainable Public Health System in Ontario, January 26, 2004 Minister of Health and Long-Term Care announced plans to put unprecedented resources into the province's public health system. View the report in the Globe and Mail. February 17, 2003 alPHa wrote letter to thank Health Minister Tony Clement for supporting public health strongly in the dispute over budget increases between the board of health of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit and the area's mayors.  Clement firmly told the mayors that municipalities must comply with their obligated duties in the HPPA to provide/pay for public health programs. December 11, 2002 alPHa received a letter from Geoff Kettel, Public Health Branch (written on behalf of Minister Tony Clement) indicating the province cost-shares public health funding with municipalities "subject to the availability of financial resources" and has increased mandatory program funding by 17% over the last 2 years (Safe Water and West Nile virus).  The letter also outlines the Ministry's new 100% funded programs (e.g. FOCUS, Asthma Strategy, Universal Influenza Immunization). November 4, 2002 Received a letter from Premier Ernie Eves indicating he received the information. November 1, 2002 alPHa wrote a position statement on adequate provincial funding for public health programs and services, and posted it on its web site. Click here to read.