001Thank you, Bill. So, we will start with I call the meeting to order at 6:34. And we can say the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance >> allegiance >> to the flag >> of the United States >> of America >> and to the >> republic >> for which it stands >> one nation >> under God >> indivisible >> with liberty and justice and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. Public comments. Joan, um or Taylor, have there been any public comments we need to consider or reflect upon? >> It's been quiet. >> Well, that's a good thing. >> And there there's no nothing traumatic's been going on. Um we're Yeah, we're good. >> [clears throat] >> Terrific. Uh review of the minutes from May 6th. If um they were sent out, if I'll give
002you a chance to kind of look at them one more time. And when you're finished, I will entertain a motion to accept them unless there's some changes. Any thoughts or corrections? All righty, I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes as written. >> They look good. I'll make a motion to accept them. >> I was been and a second. Karen, I'm going to count on you cuz we can't see Deb. All right, and all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. Um a review of the May Health Department Activity Report. >> Sure. Um and Nancy, I'm going to leave one item for old business cuz I think it'll be more fun to cover that item there. >> Okay. >> Um so the May was May was a pretty busy month. Um we
003I actually I just sent sent myself the wrong month to >> [laughter] >> refer to. And I'm I'm on my home computer. I'm going to I'm just going to do this off the top of my head. So rather than looking at my notes. Um we continue with doing a lot of our preparations for emergency preparedness events um with Sue particularly coordinating with the rest of region one. Tomorrow we have a um family assistance center tabletop exercise. And um Taylor will have all this summarized in your minutes for you. Um I accidentally sent myself the May one instead of June. >> Would you like me to send the Well, May is what we are doing. >> No, but but but this I I have it labeled >> Oh, well. >> activities for May, but the but
004the May board report. So you don't want to get March and April all over again. That'd be wild. >> Right, right. Okay. >> need to do that. >> forwarded to your work email the thing that >> what I sent you was May. Was the wrong one. Yeah. Um so first of all, you you all got the email that Sam was award was honored with the president's award at the Connecticut Public Health Nurses Association annual >> fantastic. What an honor. >> Yeah, we're very proud of her for that. >> And well deserved. >> Well deserved. Yeah, and and she also finished a couple of other certifications cuz she's along with Taylor, she's our perpetual student, you know. So that's that's who our Sam is. We love it. Um the Let me see. The TAG group has
005been helping the counseling center adolescent group called Slam with some of their events. So, they helped at the ice cream social. >> Yep. >> Um they painted some river rocks with kindness messages, you know, like be kind and like you are enough and those kinds of messages with and they painted rocks. And Jen Keegan has organized with the library that this month they will be creating a kindness garden. I believe that's next week that that's happening. >> is that going to be? >> Um there's a little nook outside in the outside the library. I'm not sure exactly where on the grounds it is. Um she said the library has been extremely collaborative and eager to coordinate and do things together. And so, we'll probably rely on the library even a little bit more cuz it's
006a great way to reach the kids. It's easier than going through school structures. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. So, so that's really nice. Next month we will unveil the new TAG logo for you. They worked together to and and I I think Jen prompted them a little bit. And they've created a new logo for themselves. And the um the the more structural space, our electronic health record got the agreement got signed. We had our 2 and 1/2 hour onboarding meeting with the company is called it's called Patagor- Patagonia Health. >> Yeah. >> And Dr. Dan, it's actually geared toward um public health agencies and behavioral health organizations. And so they they know how to help us um track our stock of vaccines when we're when we're identifying in a patient's record that we administered a certain
007vaccine with a certain lot number, it'll automatically draw down from our stock list and >> Wow. >> And it automatically will upload Taylor, tell me when I'm wrong. This automatically going to upload into the billing module which includes a clearinghouse to get the request for payments out to the insurance companies. And so this is going to be And Jenna Taylor are so excited. Um >> Yeah. >> So this is big. Um In in our notes that we'll send you later is the schedule of when all of our next meetings are. We already met to create a calendar. So on on um our training days will be for 3 days in July. And then August 11th, the our project manager will come on site and go live with us. And that's we're going to try to
008schedule um vaccinations. So Dr. Dan, if you guys want to turf any of your vaccines over to >> [laughter] >> I'm not sure if BHJ does want to do that, but um Anyway, we're we're going to try to schedule some vaccinations for that day so we can go through the routine um in real time while she's there with us. >> Now, do you have to take old records and enter that information into this system? >> So it goes into a um the names have already names and dates of birth have already been sent over to them for them to use while they're building the system for us. And then um we'll need to do a final data migration to get as much of their records to be complete as possible. Um, it may be that
009we'll keep their names in there and then just one more time we'll be able to scan both the parents adults and parents IDs and scan their um, insurance cards and it the scanning will auto populate the database. >> So, we don't When I'm sorry, I'm interrupting you with a question. When the Yale health system went live with Epic >> Yeah. >> I've forgotten what we called it, but for months beforehand we took and we had to have um, information of immunizations and different things put into the new system. A lot of it was archived, but so that there would be basic like say with prenatal patients, the the anything that would had happened in that pregnancy for an example or um, with a pediatric patient any immunizations they had had prior and there was a
010special screen that they could use to enter this information. Um, is any of that going on or I you're just kind of which is fine too, scanning the old things, you can pull it up if you need it, but everything starts here and moving forward. >> I can't remember Taylor, do you remember whether their vaccination records are getting transferred over or we're just going to reenter them one more time while whenever they come again? >> So, since it's compatible with CT Wiz, it should communicate both ways. >> to It's going to pull from CT Wiz. >> That's why it's such a help with Sam because that we put in that information will log it in CT Wiz for her. >> And we think it's perfect. We're pretty sure it's actually going to download from CT
011was as well as uploading. >> Perfect. >> really really helpful. And Nancy, don't forget we only have about 900 to 1,000 patients. In our database. Where where's Yale you know, had probably 100,000. >> Yeah, >> [laughter] >> but I but I just that was the the analogy I had. But all right. >> No, but our scale is so much more modest that we'll we'll be able to manage. >> Okay, perfect. Well, this sounds like it's going to be ideal. >> We're really excited. And it'll be far more secure for our patients. >> Terrific. >> Yeah, we're excited about that. >> some hints from the report that you sent us. >> I've got I've got the raw reports. Uh >> Okay. >> So the the big um the big stuff going on with with the um
012infectious diseases right now or or or that the health area is ticks. >> Yeah, we saw >> Yeah, you see we've got you know, good eight it just as of May, not even June, we have I believe eight cases of Lyme. No babesiosis or anything else interesting. Um but the ticks are coming in several a day. So um it's great the people are willing to bring them in. >> Yeah. >> It's got to >> anything in particular doctor maybe with the weather or just people are getting outside? >> People are getting outside. People are getting outside and the weather because if the weather's nice, people are getting outside. >> Yeah, okay. There you go. >> Yeah, they it's kind of been said like across the entire state that it's a worse season than usual. Um
013the we got all the pools licensed and did a lot of septic work in um in April. And now May was a little bit quiet and it's picking up again in June. So, they're doing a lot more soil testing and getting the septic work underway. The temporary licenses are have become quite active, the seasonals here now, and it'll be busy. You'll see this the data for June um next next time we I I'll probably send you a report while you're on vacation so you can just see what the numbers are looking like. We've got all the Trumbull Day and the BMX championships and all these special activities happening, so um there a lot of seasonal licenses happening. We did have one um hoarding {slash} squalor case that was referred to us, but then we didn't
014we actually didn't have to act on it. It was um a person living in a private home and the fire marshal's office worked with the family to move it into another mechanism for them to for the family of the person to deal with things. So, we didn't have to, but it was still kind of heartbreaking to see someone um struggling the way she was. >> Mhm. >> That's pretty much the environmental health piece. Um the Sue and Sam did do a mental health first aid course for some MPH students at uh Sacred Heart, which was great. And um that was in May. I'm trying not to give you too much June stuff off my [laughter] head. >> Hello, hello. >> You know, yeah, let me look >> Yeah, let me look more at um Sam's.
015The um Oh, the other thing we've been tracking uh Sam and I is we were tracking hantavirus and that fizzled out beautifully. I believe everyone has been released from the Nebraska center or about to be. Um so that was great. And then we're tracking Ebola. >> Yeah, I saw that. >> have some travelers who are being monitored in in health districts. We do not have anyone who has returned from either DRC or Uganda or South Sudan. Um but none of the travelers coming back to Connecticut are high risk. They're they've been in the countries and therefore they're not under quarantine. They're free to move about. If they go out of state, they inform their health district just to let DPH know so they can let the other state know that if somebody gets sick that
016this, you know, person was being monitored and is being cooperative. So it's been kind of like heightened awareness but not a panic at all. So that's gone quite well. Um and then we did have I made a note that we did have do have a measles case in an adult in Hartford. >> Oh. >> In the Hartford health district. And that person did not go out and about. They weren't moving around a lot um when they came home and then got sick and went straight to their providers. So they're not too worried about there being a lot of chaos in terms of um exposure from a million different entities. So that's really >> this someone who would have had the disease so they didn't get vaccinated? They were of that age or they didn't they
017were an adult who didn't get vaccinated or >> vaccinated. I mean, an adult is over 18, right? I mean, it could be >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just >> Yeah. It's probably not your age or my >> not my that they had it when they were little, but my boys who are, you know, 38 and 45, they were vaccinated and they're adults. So, okay, so this was a person over 18 who wasn't vaccinated. >> Yeah, and Sue and Taylor also freshened up our webpage. So, on the town website >> Mhm. >> So, go in and wander around a little bit. It it's a it's a Taylor, I'm talking about you. That you [laughter] and Sue I'm so sorry. Vinnie's over here opening up drawers, so >> He's the 2-year-old? >> Yeah. Um [clears throat] that
018you and you and Sue worked on freshening up our website. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yeah, so it's a bit it's more descriptive and yeah, more fresh, right? >> like a page for everything, so this way there's not um like one just fees forms page with everything jumbled on there. It's like you know where to go for each section in which you would need something for. And I tried to clean it up cuz there were things from like 2021 still on there, like some things that we don't even have anymore. So, we we worked with Bill and we cleaned it all up. >> Well, thank you. >> And now we figured out it's not rocket science and we can keep tweaking it as we need to go. So, >> Great. >> you can always feel free
019to annoy Bill, right, Bill? >> [laughter] >> Um and Sue and Sam also went to a training I'm just realizing from my notes here on a training on how to design and conduct the tabletop exercises, conducting risk risk assessments, etc. for whenever we have an emergency um planning that's needed. And so, it's good or there some of the resources in the region are kind of retiring and moving on, so it's good to keep developing more resources in the region that can do that. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah, re- really helpful. Um And I'm going to move into what's coming up cuz there's a lot coming up. Um I mentioned the kindness garden that's happening in June. Um And then Oh, hey Lucian. Oh, look at the little sweetie. She doesn't come to the office anymore.
020>> his children. >> Yeah, she's she is beautiful. Uh the team will be involved in Trouble Days as I mentioned and the BMX Nationals for all the food vendors. The um there's a triathlon happening and this was in last month's um update, too. There's a triathlon happening. I think it's July 11th for little kids and so we'll be there with our table and supporting them. Um Well, in June cuz we had a heads-up for June. On June 17th, Wednesday, June 17th, Sam is doing >> Yeah, because we're in May. I'm giving you the May report. >> Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. >> [laughter] >> So, uh Sam did a training. This is the annual training for the tribal health department staff and um went over uh like biological exposures and um for airborne and blood and
021um how to don and doff um PPE. Um I need to get fit tested next week with her. She taught us about um we went over Narcan and hands hands-free CPR, stop the bleed. So, we learned how to manage our tourniquets and we each received a tourniquet to keep in our vehicles. Um, and several of us took boxes of Narcan. I'll give you that update right now, too. Um, [snorts] to have available. And the QPR, the question, persuade, refer, we went over that. So, we we got a nice up Oh, and using the AED, did I mention that? >> AED, mhm. >> And using the AED. So, we got a really nice sort of emergency light light touch emergency intervention overview. Um, it's good for all of us to have it, even though we're not
022EMTs, but just as being citizens out there, we've got these skills. Oh, and um, injecting EpiPens. Or or um, I forgot the name of the other one. Doc, you might remember. Auvi-Q. >> Oh, Auvi-Q. >> Auvi-Q, Auvi-Q. The Auvi-Q. Now, that one's little. That looks nicer for a lady's purse, I got to say. >> talks to you, too. My kids >> Yes, and talks to you. >> Yeah, my kids both need to carry it and they love the Auvi-Q because of the size. >> I might encourage my daughter to move over to Auvi-Q. [clears throat] >> college the college kids love it. >> Mhm. >> They do? Yeah. >> Well, small enough to put in their pocket and they can go to a party or whatever. >> Yeah. Yeah, they can put it in their
023back jean pocket. >> Yeah. >> Basically. Yeah. Yeah, so it was a great day. And don't tell anybody, but we also went out to lunch. >> Good for you. >> Yeah. It was great. >> All of Tremble now knows. >> Yeah, I know. That's okay. We don't mind. >> Yeah. >> But the team the team deserves it. I think that's all the big stuff. Try to think of what else big is coming up. >> What I love to hear is all the ways that you're out in the community and being visible in addition to all the good things that you're doing within the four walls. You're you're out there and people know that that there's a health department and I think that's marvelous. >> Nancy, there's um the one other thing um Sue's collaborating with
024the Yukon Agriculture Extension program for a healthy eating um session for the seniors at the senior center in July. >> Wonderful. >> We haven't done one of those in a while. >> Priscilla Place. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's the only one we got so far. >> Yeah, yeah. That's again, you're out in the community and that's terrific. >> We're working on it. >> Yeah, wonderful. Um anything else you want to add or are there any questions about the May activity that anybody has for Joan? >> No. >> So we have old business. I think you have an item. Does it Is it a bench? >> It would be a bench. >> Oh, okay. >> So we finally figured out just took one email to start the ball rolling. You know, live and learn. Um we So
025the first selectman's office suggested we approach Parks and Rec because they have an actual program of um donated benches and trees. So and there's a donation form, so we got that completed. It's $2,000 for the bench and we approached the um the education department the the school system, and both um Lynn Steinbarger and Marty Semel were just over the moon to support. So, they're paying for half of it. >> That's [clears throat] really nice. >> And we'll we wrote we wrote a dedication for Parks and Rec for them to put on um you're just thanking him for his many years of service. And I'm trying not to make it sound like in memoriam, but really honoring him. >> Correct. >> And yeah, so we're not I need to get in touch with them again now.
026Um I think with Trombly Day coming up it might be hard to get Demetri's attention >> [snorts] >> until maybe early July to get his attention about where it will go. It'll be in Twin Brooks, but identifying the actual site. The um the person on his team I was communicating with said that she I think her name's Gretchen. Um she thinks there might be a couple of empty slabs cement slabs that can take benches, but she's not sure. If they need to if they need to pour a new slab somewhere, then it it's a little bit more of uh of a delay because it just takes more time and a little bit more manpower to make that happen. If um if it's a matter of just ordering the bench and installing a bench, it'll be
027a lot easier. So, we'll we'll figure that out, but the bench is coming, people, and it's been ordered. >> That's good news. >> Yeah. >> It It would be wonderful if I I mean, I would certainly be there if and we could get Dr. Dan and Vicki there and you know, whoever of us is able to be there. Um >> And she might be able to do a proclamation for him. She loves Dr. Andrew. Remember Leslie when she did one for you guys? She loves doing a proclamation. >> I don't, but now I feel important. Okay, thank you. But I I do think that, you know, if has anyone been able to be in touch? I have sent a couple of texts and haven't got a response. Now, Karen and Allison, you work in the
028same building as his daughter, right? Um without um breaching any confidentiality that she might not want to breach, maybe we could um you could talk to her and find out um how he's doing and just tell him that we're sending our love and that we have a special occasion coming up for him or something. >> So, I actually just saw her on Monday when I was coming into work. >> Oh. >> reached out to her. Um Joan had wanted to find out how many years of service he had given to the community. So, I had already contacted her about that. Joan said we were allowed to let her know kind of what the plan was. >> Yeah. >> So, she was already aware of that. So, when I did see her in person, she did
029say that she shared with her family kind of what was happening. They were very grateful for for honoring Dr. Kunkle, and I told her we'll keep her obviously posted if there's a day where the bench is formally dedicated or something like that. But I did tell her to say that we're all thinking of him, we keep him in our thoughts, and she was appreciative of that. >> Terrific. Did she say how many years of service? >> Um she said it was close to like 30. >> [laughter] >> Um >> Yeah, but but Allison, I I did the math on those years though cuz she said it was when Ray when Ray was first elected. Yeah, so then I I looked those dates up and it's it's more like 23. >> 23? >> Oh, is it?
030I'm surprised it's only 23, truthfully. Okay. >> I know. I think it's >> a long time. >> It's a very long time. >> Yeah. >> Um but I thought there maybe there was some interims or something. So, it was when Ray Baldwin Okay. >> Well, that's what she said. So. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Well, I think um Joe, he was when he would say how many years, I think he might have been including when it was Monroe and Trumbull. >> Yes. >> Oh, good point. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> That's right. >> Very He was very proud of the fact how long he has served, but I believe he might be you know, counting the Monroe when it was Monroe-Trumbull. >> Well, Monroe-Trumbull would That would have been under Ray, right? Ray was before
031Herbst. >> It It end It ended and we became separate when um The one who was >> before Ray? Who was the um >> Became separate The young man he went to school with my friend. Yeah. That's It was under him that we separated. >> But who was before Ray Baldwin as may- as selectman? >> Um a woman whose name I'm blanking on. Isn't that She volunteers in your department in your in Smilow. I saw her. Yeah. >> No way. >> And I saw her and I said, "Oh, hey, I voted for you." She goes, "Oh, you were the one." She had a good sense of humor. Um Oh, isn't that awful? I can see her face. Yeah. But she She's a volunteer in Smilow. >> I would double check those dates because like I
032said, he was always very proud of how long he served. Um But I don't know. Do you want >> Before Ray, it was Kenneth Hallaby. >> Yeah. That's right. I remember him. >> I just googled >> Kenneth Hallaby, David Wilson, >> Yeah. >> Marcia Gann Santos, right. Paul L. Timpanelli. >> Yeah. >> Joan's got the same sight that I've got. >> Yeah. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Good old Google. >> he was the town clerk when I moved to Trumbull and he I registered to vote with Paul Timpanelli. >> Oh, that's funny. >> I'm really old, right? Okay. >> Oh my gosh. >> Joan, do you think that we should include the Monroe-Trumbull time or just the >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I I think we're I think what we thought might be easiest
033is to not put an actual number of years unless he can tell us how many years it was. >> Right. >> Okay, that's that's fair. >> And and just, you know, for his many years or we might have even said more than 20 or something like that. But before they finalize the bench, the Parks and Rec will come back to us to like triple-check what we want the the words to be, so we can take a little time. >> you know, honoring his many years of service to the town of Trumbull, you know, I mean >> Yeah, it's also a little bit simpler, too. >> Yeah. And so Nancy, I think I'll I think maybe I'll push on Demetri just a little bit just so that nothing untoward happens to Doc B in the interim,
034you know. >> Yeah. >> Um I mean, if someone's moving toward the more fragile side, you just don't know how precipitous things could end up. So. >> Yeah. Good good point. >> Yeah. >> Good point. >> Yeah. So I >> Well, I appreciate all the work that this has taken, Joan, and I appreciate Allison and Karen and you [laughter] catching up on on information for us, but um I think this is a wonderful thing to do. It's the right thing, and um he deserves a bench. You know, we talked about what should we do, a tree, a flower, and the bench I think is a great idea cuz it should stay there for a very long time. So, I think that's great. >> And it's a place he can go, you know. >> Yeah. Sure.
035>> Yeah. Terrific. Anything else, then, on the old business of the bench? I think we've covered it. Is there any other old business? Deb, you usually have a question for old business. Anything that you want to ask? >> No, that would have been it. >> That would have been it. Okay. >> would have been it. >> That would have been it. Is there any new business that anyone would like to bring forward or has um anything? No. All righty. Well, if there is no uh more information related to uh the activity report or old or new business, I will entertain a motion for adjournment. >> Um before we do that, though, we're we're not meeting again now till September, correct? >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Correct. >> to be sure. >> And Taylor, that one's
036in person. >> Yes. I believe so. I checked today. >> See each other in person. See you in September. Okay, so we will >> And I might send you just a couple little quick updates in July and August just so you don't forget that we exist and you know >> Yeah. That that would be good. >> Yeah, I appreciate and you know I'm getting all of your updates. They're very helpful. They're very good. >> appropriate. Yeah. >> I agree. I appreciate that. And if you ever do need us to meet or you need a phone call or you need anything, you know we're here and um happy to help in any way we can. >> Thank you. >> So. >> Yeah. Yeah, if something big happens >> Doc is right down the street, right here.
037>> Right. Very easy. >> Easy easy. Easy easy. >> Dr. Diane, did you get your swag? >> I did. >> You did? >> Even Joan was like like not this Joan, the John in your office was like >> office it all looks nice. >> Yeah, it's nice. >> [laughter] >> I actually you know what as a matter of fact hold on a second. I have it right here. >> Ah. >> There you go. >> Very good. >> There you go. Right. >> I do. >> Sometime when you're when you're driving into your office just go down one extra exit and and just swing by us for right off the highway. >> So my my coming into the office I I start my patients at 8:00 so I don't think you want me there that early.
038>> Okay. >> So maybe maybe swinging around on the way home might be a little better. >> On the way home. Right, right. Do you live close? Does this make your commute closer >> No, you know yeah Rich is there at 8:00. That's true. >> Yeah, okay. But your commute is about the same. >> Uh your commute is about the same. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah, it's about the same. Yeah, instead of instead of making a a right onto 111 I'm making a left. That's all. >> Okay. There you go. There you go. All right. So is there any other business anything else we need to talk about? All right. I will entertain a motion for adjournment. Alison shaking her head and Karen is going to second and all those in favor say I. >>
039I. >> And Bill thank you. Our meeting is over. You can stop recording and I hope your children have a wonderful summer and with the baseball and the camp and swimming and all the fun things. So and you too Taylor. You're just going to keep your head above water. >> [laughter] >> You know what is it >> It's Taylor's birthday tomorrow. >> Oh. >> Happy birthday. >> Thank you. >> Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Happy birthday to you Taylor. Happy birthday to you. >> Thank you. >> All righty. Everyone have a wonderful summer as always. >> Thank you. >> Enjoy your summer, guys. >> And Joel, and the team, you guys are the best. >> Thank you, guys. >> You're absolutely stellar. I'm always in awe of all you get done. >> They're
040awesome. >> now. >> Okay, bye.