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The meeting convened at 2:00
PM. Present were Members Nancy A. Sacco and
Richard H. Seder, Public Health Nurse Leslie
Chamberlin, Sanitary Inspector Dennis Costello
and Administrative Assistant Barbara M. Luther.
The minutes of the January
16, 2008 were approved with some clarifications
and/or corrections coming all the way from South
Africa, where our Chairman is working. Dr. Seder
advised that he thought there was a slight discrepancy
in the Avian Flu mortality rates mentioned in
the minutes, but he will research this further.
He has read that as many as 60% of those who
contract Avian Flu may die. However, the crossover
from bird to human is not expected to occur.
He also advised that the current flu vaccine
is being tested to prepare for expected mutations.
Vouchers totaling $44.62
were approved for payment from the Board of
Health Budget and signed by Mrs. Sacco. Mrs.
Sacco also signed a Betterment Loan voucher
in the amount of $15, 929, the final disbursement
for the septic loan at 3 Pleasant St.
Members were briefed on the agenda
and any scheduled appointments.
Members were told that no petitions or appointments
were scheduled for this meeting. However, they
were advised that there was to be an Advisory
Committee meeting some time in February. It
was suggested that maybe a representative or
two from the Board ought to attend the meeting.
Both Mrs. Sacco and Dr. Seder will attend the
Advisory Committee Budget Hearing, and would
like Mrs. Luther to attend with them, because
she has worked with Mr. Pisinski as he prepared
the budget.
Dr. Richard Seder asked to have placed into
the minutes the fact that the board members
had all agreed to meet the Board of Selectmen’s
Budget cut by cutting hours from Dennis M. Costello,
the contracted sanitary inspector, who began
working for the Board in July 2007.
Mrs. Luther told the board members that she
had attended the Department Head meeting in
Mr. Pisinski’s absence and had learned
that the Trammel Crowe Project has been withdrawn.
REPORT ON CORE DIRECTIVES
Tobacco Control – There
was no activity regarding Tobacco Control since
the last meeting.
Emergency Preparedness
* Additional staff registered for HHAN
(Health & Homeland Alert Network)
Mrs. Chamberlin explained the HHAN. It is a
network by which towns are notified or can notify
other towns of potential Public Health Issues
ranging from mild to extreme. Over the past
year Archana Joshi has been sending notices
to town as a means of testing the system and
how towns respond. This has not worked as well
as hoped. Because of this, Ms. Joshi recently
assisted Mrs. Chamberlin in adjusting her profile
so that only severe and extreme HHAN warnings
are sent to her cell phone. She also suggested
that Mrs. Luther also be placed on the network.
Her profile has mild and medium alerts going
to her computer, with severe and/or extreme
alerts going to the Board of Health Office Phone.
To help in the response time, Mrs. Sacco and
Dr. Seder advised that they will become part
of the HHAN and will contact Ms. Joshi at 781-828-1310
* Discussion: Chairman Fazen’s
suggestion on training and involving the Fire
Department in HHAN (Archana Joshi has
offered to help set up training in a memo that
went to several Reg. 4A Towns) Mrs. Chamberlin
explained that the Fired Department uses the
HHAN network independently. The Board of Health
will receive HHAN notifications according to
their selected profiles. The training Ms. Joshi
offered is much like the help she gave Mrs.
Chamberlin in setting up a profile on the network.
The profile allows one to decide where they
want specific types of alerts to be sent.
* Report from Public Health Nurse Leslie
Chamberlin - Mrs. Chamberlin advised
the members that the Southborough Board of Health’s
Emergency Preparedness Plan is nearing completion,
and discs will soon be available. She began
working with Byran Eustis Murphy in July and
Southborough has met the “deliverables”
for this year. This makes us eligible for grant
money again this year. The next step in “deliverables”
is to summarize the plan and to write a long
term (5 year) Emergency Preparedness Plan. The
Plan will always be in flux because much of
the information is gathering telephone numbers
and editing the information as personnel change.
Mrs. Chamberlin reported that she had inspected
the Tanning Salon, Bella Sun, and had
been given a copy of a communication from the
manufacturer of the tanning beds regarding the
UV meter. It must be held about 6 inches away
from the lamps about 3 minutes into any session
to achieve an accurate reading. Placing the
UV meeting next to the unit during the session
will not provide an accurate reading. Mrs. Chamberlin
felt that this would be an invasion of privacy
to the tanning customer, as most of them as
scantily dressed or not dressed at all when
the are tanning. A copy of the communication
will be placed with these minutes.
* Mrs. Sacco and Dr. Seder will be
attending the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health’s Regionalization Project Program
to better understand where the state is looking
to regionalize. The two board members also attended
the Planning and Public Health Seminar in January.
Wellness/Obesity/ Working with other
Departments
* Nancy Sacco joining with Rec. & Planning
Dept. re: Walk to School Day.
Mrs. Sacco reported that she met with Town Planner
Vera Kolias and with Recreation Director Doreen
Ferguson regarding the “International
Walk to School Day”. The idea is to get
the kids moving, and the program points out
how many calories are burned when kids walk.
Of course the police department will have to
be involved also for safety with traffic, but
in areas that don’t have sidewalks kids
will all meet at a safe location and volunteers
will assist with the walk to school. It was
noted that in kids 6 to 11 years of age there
has been an increase from 4% to 16% of kids
that are overweight. In 1969 42% of the kids
walked to school but now less than 16% of school
children walk to school. Southborough will do
the walk in May. Dr. Seder agreed that walking
to school is a good idea, and said that he would
like to have the Board of Health make the suggestion
to the schools to encourage walking to school,
but so many roads have no sidewalks and that
can be too dangerous. He suggested that busses
and parent drop the kids off at the entrance
to the school, where they can safely walk the
rest of the way to school on the sidewalk. Prompted
by the discussion on overweight children, Dr.
Seder asked if the schools have taken soda machines
out of there facilities. Mrs. Sacco said that
the elementary schools have eliminated them,
but the middle schools still have the machines.
* Beginning discussion on ‘Healthy
Community Pamphlet” and what should be
included
It was suggested that much of the information
gathered for the Emergency Preparedness Plan
will be useful for the Healthy Community Brochure
that the Board of Health wants to develop.
NOTIFICATION OF ACTIONS BETWEEN MEETINGS
Licenses
Wade Paul E. The Tattoo Gallery Body Art Est.
Renewal
Thorburn June Sweets by June Food Res. Kitchen
New
Demers Dennis J. Demers Construction, Inc. Installer
Renewal
Cutler Josehph Cutler Construction Installer
Renewal
Irvine Joseph, Sr. J C Parmenter, Inc. Hauler
Renewal
Irvine Joseph, Jr. J C Parmenter, Inc. Installer
Renewal
Whitehouse Richard Able Septic Service Hauler
Renewal
Maffei Anthony Maffei Excavating & Septic
LLC Installer Renewal
O'Connell John Wind River Environmental Hauler
Renewal
Abato Stacey J. Raggs Septic Service Inc. dba
E. A. Comeau Septic Hauler Renewal
Regan John John Regan Enterprises, Inc. Hauler
Renewal
Lynde Gary H. Lakeside Sewerage Service, Inc.
Hauler Renewal
Rodenhiser William Rodenhiser Excavating Hauler
Renewal
McGuirk George the CHASE/harris Corp. Hauler
Renewal
McGuirk George the CHASE/harris Corp. Installer
Renewal
Casaceli Richard Casaceli Trucking, Inc. Hauler
Renewal
Devoto W.Westey SanMass Inc. dba Sani-Kan Hauler
Renewal
Septic
Permit Number St Name Applicant Name # Bdrms/GPD
Explanation Design Engineer Permit Issued
9801049 28 Newton St. Newton St. LLC Syst. B
3863 New BRUCE SALUK & ASSOCIATES 1/29/2008
2008002 9 Red Gate Rd. Prabhat & NeenaSehgal
5 Revision & Component Repair Burke Engineering
Services
BUDGET –
Members were given copies of the Budget through
mid February. It appears that the budget in
sufficiently on track to last through the remainder
of the fiscal year.
Advisory Committee Budget Hearing – BOH
originally scheduled for Feb. 18, but asked
to change due to the holiday. Mrs. Sacco and
Dr. Seder will attend the Advisory Committee
meeting. Mrs. Luther will notify them of the
new date and will also attend the meeting at
their request.
Membership in NALBOH –
Mr. Pisinski had asked that the membership offer
from NALBOH be placed on the agenda to see if
the members would like to join the organization.
Dr. Seder suggested that the discussion be table
until the next meeting when the full compliment
of members attend the meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
MRC – Course Scene Safety with Blood Borne
Pathogens – Date for this class
is confirmed as April 16, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM.
Liisa Jackson confirmed that she will be doing
CORI checks
Report from Sanitary Inspector Dennis
Costello
Mr. Costello advised the members that he has
developed a packet of information that will
be given to Residential Kitchen Licensees with
their Food License. It helps them to better
understand the precautions that they should
take when preparing food for sale.
Mr. Costello also reported to the members that
he met with the design engineer for Fay School
regarding the Waste Water Treatment Plant that
they are proposing to D.E.P. regarding that
fact that the treated effluent will be used
for flushing toilets. There was some discussion
regarding concerns of treated effluent mistakenly
being consumed. Mr. Costello assured the members
that the plumbing is well labeled and the water
colored so that such a mistake would not occur.
Mr. Costello also met with a representative
for Walgreens as they are expecting to begin
construction shortly.
He also met with Shawn Murphy of New England
Center for Children regarding the pool capacity.
Mr. Murphy was hoping to have a license for
200 bathers at a time in the pool, but Mr. Costello
convinced him that a maximum of 74 was the best.
The next meeting will be held on March 19,
2008 at 2PM.
The meeting adjourned at 3:50 PM
Respectfully submitted by: Barbara M. Luther,
Administrative Assistant to the Board of Health
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