Respond to The outcomes I would recommend considering would be the total number of public health services offered, quality and successful outcomes of programs, the funding available for public health, the number of personnel/staff to run a county department, public health needs addressed by department, the cost to tax-payers or county citizens. 2: If you were to design a decision analysis to help Arapaho County evaluate this decision, what are the major areas of uncertainty that you would want to consider as "chance nodes" in the analysis, and why? Will we have the capacity to provide our own public health services as an independent department? Will we be able to better prioritize and implement our ideas and programs as an independent county agency? Are there other benefits to independently managing the county's public health? Are there any significant resources or services that will be lost by separating from Tri-County Health? 3: If you were to design a decision analysis to help Arapaho County evaluate this decision, what "time horizon" would you recommend using for evaluating this decision? According to this article, upon the decision they gave a year until the change occurred. But it's not clear how long they deliberated