1. Public Health Laboratory Services In Accordance with Priority #6 – Environmental Health Improvements –Public Health Laboratory Services supports the Local Health Department by providing analysis of surface waters and generating defensible data that is used in seeking compliance with local, state and federal environmental and public health laws that reduce the effects of pollution on the waters of Galveston County. In addition, laboratory analyzes drinking water samples to ensure the water supply is free of bacteriological contamination.

2. Public Health Laboratory Services Staffing – 1 Lab Director (State Funded) – 3 Lab Technicians (1 State Funded, 2 County Funded) – 1 Grant Position (Texas General Land Office Beach Watch program)

3. Public Health Laboratory Services Funding SourcesAmounts Potable Drinking Water Program$57,636.00 Texas General Land Office - Beach Watch $33,408.00 Water Pollution Contract (County)$27,200.00 State Salary and Benefits$72,000.00 Other Contracts$2,625.00 Additional County Revenue$6,091.00 TOTAL$198,960.00

4. Public Health Laboratory Services Expenses ProjectedAmounts Salaries and Benefits$133,410 Operating Supplies$47,912.00 Operational Costs$17,638.00 TOTAL$198,960.00

5. Public Health Laboratory Services Tests –Drinking Waters (Performed for General Public and customers with Health District accounts) Potables (6400 tests per year) - Certified by the State of Texas (Bi-annual Audit) to perform microbiological analyses of drinking waters –Surface Waters (Performed for GCHD Water Pollution Services) Ammonia (750 tests per year)

6. Public Health Laboratory Services Tests, Con’t. Chemical Oxygen Demand (8 tests per year) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (890 tests per year) Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand (175 tests per year) Total Suspended Solids (908 tests per year) Volatile Suspended Solids (22 tests per year) Fecal Coliform (250 tests per year) Enterococci (3750 tests per year) E. Coli (670 tests per year) Metals (82 tests per year)

7. Public Health Laboratory Services Future Issues –State funding of salary and benefits for two (2) lab positions will end on August 31, 2004. Only salary dollars will transition to the Health District. –Health District is studying the current testing services that are provided by the Public Health Laboratory and aligning those functions to funding sources.