CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mecklenburg County commissioners are creating a new committee to explore new potential options for governing and managing the health department. This comes after the department failed to notify 185 women about abnormal pap smear results last year.

Currently, County Manager Dena Diorio oversees the department and has the authority to hire the health director. Commissioner Jim Puckett, who pushed for committee, believes they need advice from medical professionals.

“We may come back and find out we're doing it the best we can, and it’s a tweak here, and tweak there but the public is due the opportunity for us to say we’ve asked all our employees at health dept to regroup,” said Puckett.

Members of the NAACP want the county to form an independent board of health.

“What we will happen is we'll get down to the cusp of the problems and we'll have someone to have solutions to fix the problems. We're talking about a two year problem that we know of that, probability its been going on much longer,” said Corine Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP

However, Commissioner Dumont Clarke believes that would hurt the county manager's and the new health director's abilities to reform the department.

“We need to give them the opportunity to make the changes they need to make... without introducing the uncertainty of changing the model of governing,” said Clarke.