Community members and public health officials in Ottawa County, Michigan, pleaded with the board of commissioners to reconsider. They defunded the Health Department anyway.
ZoomCommunity members wearing t-shirts reading “Public Health Saves Lives” packed an administrative building in Ottawa County, Michigan, Tuesday night to support the county’s embattled Health Department.Inside, the county’s board of commissioners, dominated by a group of ultra conservatives, voted to cut the department’s budget by $2.1 million—against pleas from public health officials and community members.Adeline Hambley, Health Officer at the county’s Department of Public Health, said last we