DEPARTMENT: Public Health
FILE TYPE: Consent Information
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Authorization To Execute Joint Powers Agreement With Intermediate School District 917 For Smoke-Free Mentoring Cohort
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of joint powers agreement (JPA) with Intermediate School District (ISD) 917 for Smoke-Free Mentoring Cohort.
SUMMARY
Pursuant to Minn. Stat. ? 375A.04, the Dakota County Board of Commissioners is, and performs the duties and exercises the powers of, a community health board under Minn. Stat. ch. 145A, and is required to govern and administer those functions as fully as other Dakota County functions, including the responsibility to prevent disease and to promote and protect the public health of Dakota County residents.
Dakota County Public Health (Public Health) has over a decade of working with local school districts in Dakota County through the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP). SHIP supports community-driven solutions to expand opportunities for active living, healthy eating, commercial tobacco-free living, and preventing chronic disease. One effective strategy supported by SHIP is collaborating with school districts to develop smoke-free peer mentoring programs. Public Health contracts with the Minnesota Tobacco Free Alliance (TFA) to oversee these peer-mentoring cohorts, train youth in vaping prevention best practices as part of school engagement tactics, and work on school policies that positively impact student health. TFA supports youth in being empowered to take ownership in preventing vaping among their peers and practice leadership skills in the community.
Under Minn. Stat. ?471.59, subd.1, two or more governmental units may enter into an agreement to cooperatively exercise any power common to the contracting Parties, and one of the participating governmental units may exercise one of its powers on behalf of the other governmental units. Therefore, staff is reques...
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