001call the Board of Health meeting to order for August 15th um the first thing on the agenda is citizen participation do I have anybody for citizen participation all right uh Steve looks like Steve Mitchell hold on just unmuting so thank you uh I just I've got a couple things uh on the on my list number one the first thing is you know I I would say maybe six years ago uh the select board got engaged with she attempted to control the donation bins that that populates I think all communities uh in in Metro West and uh what I'm observing is a lot of use of the donation bins as dump zones rather than as truly donation bins now I understand that the Building Commissioner is really responsible for that if you read the bylaw that's
002is his responsibility but I think there's a health related component here uh you know one of the problems is We Can't Ban donation bids but you know we need to uh I I think we need to do a better job as a community to manage these things now one of the components is that the landowner or the business owner accepts a donation bit he allows a donation bin to be put on his on his property which is fine but I think that comes with some responsibility for kind of maintaining the health and safety of that those uh those situations so I just wanted to bring that to your attention I don't know if this is a uh you know maybe there's some coordination between the health department and the Building Commissioner and working to resolve
003some of these situations but you know I think we you're probably all aware or have witnessed these these situations where people just really just leave piles of stuff next to these bins and uh so I just wanted to bring that to your attention you know it's probably not the most critical important thing in the world at this point but uh I think there is an element of of Public Health involved here so that's number one um but Raj maybe you could check with the building inspector and see if that's something we can coordinate between him and us I know and you know and I've seen this all around uh I'll have a conversation with him and look into what we can do about it you know so definitely yeah good I I appreciate that and
004then the second thing on my list is is and I know that Jay is going to do a recap of the medical clinic from this past weekend uh I'm not going to stay on the meeting but I just want to acknowledge all of the work that that members of the health department contributed to that medical clinic and the success of it and I'm going to leave it to Jay to describe it I think we all came away feeling it was a success and uh you know something that we were really uh I think pleased to be part of but I really need to acknowledge Jay because he really I mean for like a year and a half this guy just worked endlessly on this project and I don't think it would have come anywhere near
005its level of success without his commitment and his leadership and uh so I just want to acknowledge that and it's not to diminish you know any all the other folks that that worked on this uh in our local community group I mean you know Raj and Laura uh Kristen French I mean we had a ton of Ashland people that were involved with this but you know I just need to uh I just need to really acknowledge Jay and his his efforts and works so that's my tune tonight thank you Steve yeah great thank you thank you Steve all the food was really really good yes it was well the food was good well I hope so we spent enough money on food it was worth it thanks Steve good all right I'm gonna leave you
006to your business have a good night we'll talk to you soon yeah thank you take care bye-bye thank you um do I have anybody else for public comment uh okay Mark go ahead thank you good evening Mark Sony 409 Hawthorne Road National Maps um I have a couple of questions can this town set up a um uh all tell y health Clinic to uh get percentages of Ages of people male snails females young old can something like that be a percentage to be um work on through the health department that's one question Mark you're asking how many males and how many females in town I'm looking for it and I'm looking for the answer on how to get that answer in like in a in a town graph form of percentage of how well this
007town is healthy like the way you we use we did have the hot Ashland thing that went on years ago yeah Mark I don't think there's any kind of data like that you know a lot of that's you know people keep their health stuff private okay so that's this one and um the other one is um is there any way of having Health Grants to help out the town with a comprehensive plan to get this to help businesses Health doctors and specialists in this town can there be any way again a grants for this um I well I do know Raj and Laura are always looking for different grant opportunities you know and some of them are very specific but I know uh Raj and Laura if they ever see anything that would meet the
008town's needs they do apply for them and Mr Bowman I can add we we have grants but they're very specific like right now we have a nursing Grant from the Metro West uh Foundation you know that's just for nursing Clinic you know uh then with the shared services we we have three four grants but they are very specific uh to topics you know that we we can address but like yes we we can look into if something fits there you know but um currently we we have good amount of grants that at the health department that that are specific you know to to the topics that that we got the grants for because because I'm looking around on the computer to uh Grant uh Grant things to um state and federal government so what they
009didn't what they give out and how it can help economically health-wise of the towns cities if they can co-assist with Grant payments that people can get them and then fund for opportunities that the town can work on and work with the comprehensive plan to get a growing expanded Town other than what is what it is right now that's it thanks Mark thank you so the next thing on the agenda is the reorganization of the board um so I guess I will start off if do I have a motion for anybody for chair of the um Board of Health going all chime in at once anybody want anybody want to do it no we have to know I wanted to nominate somebody go ahead um I'd like to nominate um and Thurman as the chair for
010the Board of Health right when the other nominations okay anybody want to second that well wait do you want to do it Ed do you have enough time to do it yeah yeah I mean I I can usually make most of the meetings yeah I mean if I know Barbara made a motion and I obviously respect that if you feel like there's too much time I certainly don't mind you know doing it if you I'm just saying it you have a lot more crap on your plate that I have stuff on my plate but I was able to do it so I'm just saying if you have too much stuff and you would prefer not to as long as the other board members are okay with it I would be happy to take that off
011your plate if you would prefer to do it I do not want to rob you of that opportunity I'm just I'm just offering I don't want to I don't I'm not trying to upend Barbara's you know but I know how busy you are and I didn't want you to be a good guy and do it and you're spread yourself thin anyway so I'm just offering and that's also with the um approval of the rest of the board too because I've done it for two years in a row and it would have to be a unanimous vote anyway you know unlike if somebody had a runoff that could be a three to two I would have to be unanimous yeah um yeah unless anybody else and I just know how busy you are that's it um
012first one I didn't even think to nominate you because I thought maybe you had a lot on your plates too but no I and I yeah yeah I know it Ed does more stuff and more towns and I could even yeah no and I I no and I respect it's great I would you know anybody could do this you know if they won but um he's a good guy and Ron if you want it you've been the chair and I would not mind being the vice chair and then between the two of us you know I I mean I'm happy with that I don't you know except Raj how do we deal with with Barbara's you know nomination if nobody seconded it to how do we do it I wanna I wanna do it legally
013I'm happy to do it well like I said yes emotion I'm sorry Laura what'd you say she can revise her motion yeah resend it okay okay revise it yeah all right so I can revise my motion to nominate one yes um well one so it would be one in ten right I'm sorry I think you'll just say Ron first and then we'll do the vice chair thanks so all right I would like to nominate wrong um to be the chairman for the Board of Health second I'm gonna second Barbara's um nomination of Ron of the chair any discussion on that all in favor Dave and are you guys okay with that I don't want to do it absolutely are you okay okay I am Ron I I if if you are I know that you
014step down because you were very busy um at the same time I know Ed is you I yeah personally would worry about taking that since I am in between jobs and I cannot no I I completely yeah no I'm okay if I could if I could swing it you know last year I could do it again and I'd feel better about helping that out to be honest with you he did a ton of work on this you did you know a ton of work on it as well but at least it's a little something I can do so okay all right appreciate that I just wanted to make sure you guys were okay with it yeah and so and I think we are unanimous everyone yeah all right so now I need a nomination for
015vice chair foreign [Laughter] I'll second that any discussion all in favor all right it's unanimous um and then Laura just sweet do we still have the secretary seat or a clerk yeah no clerk okay uh so do I have a nomination for the clerk of the um actually of the um we need a well sorry a motion for the clerk of the Board of Health and I would like to nominate um David I'm happy to accept the nomination um I guess I uh it would help at some point maybe now um just if uh someone could uh to know exactly what it does yeah so exactly so I think I have an idea but so David you have to spend 47 hours a week sitting with Laura going through dogs that's what I was afraid
016of it means basically in this particular case that if I'm not there and Ed knots that Ed's not there which would be exceedingly slim chances that if there were a quorum between the three of you Barbara J and you that you would lead the meeting that's basically what this means yep who is the clip right now in my time as the clerk way back when I did have to transcribe one meeting that Laura was not saying for yeah I still don't like her because of that because she does a way better job no it's a very difficult and I remember she does an amazing job with you know getting things right and making them succinct that's not easy so yeah but she's she almost never misses one sorry Bob right I thought burned the debt
017was well I I'm certainly happy to accept the role and and I'd already kind of resolved to take uh um better notes um during the meetings anyway so yeah I guess this will force me to to keep that practice up all in favor I'll second that if you're ready okay all right all right all right Barbara you got the year off next next year um um Ryan do you want to take over from here or you want me to just keep going for now okay I think he froze up okay stand hang on okay all right um I think um I think Jay you're up with the um the report from the uh the event you're on mute sorry so first I I just want to thank the folks here for participating um and and
018the people that were there uh over the weekend and Barbara was there in triage on Sunday Ron was there on both days in medical um and and Ed was there you know throughout both in the clinic as well as over at the vaccine clinic and I I think Ed you said that you walked seven and a half miles on one of the days or something like that so there was a lot of walking so I know that there's going to be lots of time for thanking people I think I kind of consider what we're in now phase two which is finding follow-up care for the peop for many of the the patients that we treated at the clinic um 90 odd patients which is quite a bit um and I'll get into that but anyway
019um I think it went really well I don't want to take up the the you know the significant portion of this meeting with with the clinic because the fact is we still have at least three meetings three deep briefing or post-processing meetings to um happen um and I'll keep you know the the board informed of all those but what I did was I put together some stats that I pulled out from uh the ram numbers and I gave them to Laura she shared them of all of you um and I kind of broke this up into um service War but I I'm just gonna pull out I think some of the most important stuff so it seems like we treated about um 300 or 301 um that number seems to be debated patients in the
020clinic many of those got more than one service so maybe they got dental and medical or vision and medical um and I broke down the numbers um per service um below the totals um also impressive were the number of volunteers that we had we had on Friday for setup day 41 volunteers that does include the people that came in from Ram which are a combination of paid employees as well as the volunteers that work with ram and travel to multiple clinics but we had 151 volunteers on Saturday that's you know Ram the 30 folks from Ram um you know plus 120 volunteers from the area and folks flying in from other places and of course this includes the professionals the optometrists dentists um and the medical staff the doctors and uh and nurses and such
021um on August 13th Sunday there were 112 volunteers that registered I've got some service values in there so RAM does monetize all of the services per CPT code Medicare standards they also monetize the volunteer value or the you know the so-called Manpower or ours our value of of the effort so that's all in there as well I've broken these numbers down into an average per patient so for example the average Dental patient had a value of 425 dollars for medical is 236 per patient for vision 261 and these include the exams any surgical procedures Laboratories and things like that um for the vision um service we treated 157 patients and we um produce 140 pairs of glasses now some of those and I did have the numbers but I didn't include them here and I
022can't remember some of those glasses will be made on site at Ram headquarters and then mailed to to patients but the majority of these things were made at keep Tech in the vision lab and uh provided to patients right there on site so they walked out with them for the dental service we had 77 patients over the course of the two days and I didn't mention that um Saturday was 6 a.m to about 5 00 p.m um that was uh the duration of the clinic and then on Sunday it was 6 a.m until about I would say 1 or 2 p.m and that's kind of typical it's sort of a half day on Sunday usually so 77 Dental patients um with and I've listed the different procedures that they received here um and then for
023Med the medical service I think this was probably the most surprising to everybody we we service 201 patients we were just to put it in perspective we we I think we're expecting maybe fifty five zero patients so this is four times the number that we had expected we could handle that volume because we had so many medical professionals and again I think Ron for being there on both both days he had a few very interesting cases um that that he can talk about the other thing um that I should mention that is significant and not reflected here is that we um let me get back onto Zoom so I can see everybody we reached our capacity very early on both days so our Dental capacity on um was it Saturday I believe was 60 patients
0246-0 so just as an example um when I left on Friday night at 11 30 there were already a few people in the parking lot when I got back there at four there were 20 cars at 4 30 when I came out with coffee into the parking lot there were 30 cars and from there it just sort of exploded exponentially with cars in the parking lot by 7 30 we had already registered the full 60 patients 7 30 in the morning of course they weren't in the building they were registered and waiting outside to come in and those patients weren't fully processed until about five o'clock in the afternoon when we when we finally shut down um so that was impressive for vision I think on Saturday we hit uh the capacity about 10 30
025or 11 um in the morning and for medical it might have been by noon or something like that so this just gives you an idea of what the need is out there and also the promotion effort that went into this and how effective it was and I um you know really want to give a shout out to Ed Hart for for really putting a just a huge amount of effort into this um he went everywhere to tell people about this clinic and he was worried that people weren't going to show up which is kind of funny um they showed up they showed up both on foot in cars dropped off by Uber um that it was it was you know at one point in the parking lot I I was asking for more help because
026it was just sort of just um you know I won't say difficult to manage because we had an excellent crew in the parking lot but but there was it was more than I had expected were you going to say something wrong or somebody no that I heard something Jay I'm sorry I I do have to jump off in a couple minutes but I just want to also thank everybody everybody we all just worked so great as a team um and but what's what's really what really got me most of the weekend was that we have such a need in our community that is so unmet um you know we could do this every day and I I still think we would um you know find problem areas um and then the the other thing that
027we identified to Jay I just want to remind you that we probably have to work on even as a Health Board is the ability in Massachusetts is the only state we found out at this Clinic where students are not allowed to work even though their instructors are there but they can do it at their school which we could have seen so many more people if the students were allowed to practice yeah you're you're right at and that was one of the disappointing things about our Clinic We There was such a need in the parking lot uh we had to turn a lot of people away so um and those were difficult conversations to have even more difficult because you needed a translator involved um you know most of the folks that came to see us
028did not speak English and um so that was that was really difficult you know Ram there wasn't really much they could do about that with the number of providers we had was kind of what what we had to deal with um but you're right we had a dentist on site from tophs and um you know that was one of the things he talked to us about he's been to a lot of these everywhere in the United States overseas um and you know he said that this is a real issue in Massachusetts you know you have some of these laws that are sort of these Legacy laws that prevent um you know restrictions on reciprocity from out of state providers as well as even in-state you know students and trainees do it certain doing certain procedures
029and that also goes for Optometry as well so um yeah your point as well taken Ed um we can talk more about that off offline I suppose but um I know you have to go you know I don't if anybody has any questions for me again I will update folks as we go through the debriefing process where we're going to get information from Ram about what what they think went right and and what we could improve on and we will provide them with feedback as well and then now the next stage really is finding um follow-up care for the folks that we've got uh what is that why are we doing that because many of these patients have I think some serious conditions that we identified fortunately in the clinic um and most of them
030do not have primary care so um the the effort now is in getting them signed up for health insurance and or providing them with um referral sources that will sliding scale um for medical dental Vision um you know so I and Ron is going to play a big role in that I really do appreciate it Ron and actually a couple emails encrypted um with some records and stuff like that we can talk more about that but um let's go on vacation and enjoy yourself I'll take care of that okay thanks all right yeah um and Raj I did I didn't I recognize you Raj was the the entire time as well and running back and forth to the vaccine clinics thank you very much my beauty sir thank you you know I appreciate it yeah
031thank you yeah yeah that you you said Jay anybody with anybody all said okay yeah uh you know I'm just gonna Echo um uh you know Steve Mitchell sediments you you know I already told you all fair but you did an awesome job that that should really be recognized you know you were the impetus to get everything going you recruited a lot of help but I agree with what he said if you did if you aren't running it that you know you really made the whole thing come together there's got to be somebody at the top leading everything and you know that was you from start to end so you know you help you helped a lot of people and um you know we all helped you help a lot of people which was nice
032but you know you started the whole thing and it was a really great event I I made some friends that I think I'll have you know for a long time so uh it was it was it was great to see all those people out there and people working together to help people that you know needs need bad care so thank you yeah you're welcome hey Raj just to follow up on that I don't know if it's in your report do you have any numbers on the the vaccine part of the clinic that you know that you did and Ashland did for everybody I guess then yes the number was 35 from both the days you know uh okay I guess that's what we got you know uh but it's still a lot of it given
033the complexity of administering childhood vaccines you know uh for me that's still a big number you know so to accommodate that that many kids or vaccines you know so uh but that was the number I got uh correct Dr James 35 right that that's correct and when I went over there um I finally got over there on Sunday there were a number of Haitian um families over there that apparently just arrived in Framingham um and they had organized rides for them to get them um those kids vaccinated so that was you know the timing was very good on that visit and I did speak to Framingham Health director quite a bit um just about you know uh the need now in the area and stuff like that no I he he really seems like a
034nice guy um and good to talk to what was his name again Raj are you talking about the Framingham director yeah I have his card and we're gonna get in touch Mr Murphy you know William Murphy William Murphy right okay yeah he he did come to Framingham maybe like four five months back you know he was the director in Sudbury great guy you know but only thing I want to add you know like you know I mean we've been working on the wax Clinic you know childhood vaccine clinic from a year and a half I mean you guys have seen the need first handed here you know so the vaccine clinic you know the the need is even more higher than what we have seen in this Clinic you know so that was one reason
035we have put a lot of resources you know or time to get this Clinic going you know and the good news is that Framingham is also trying to restart their Clinic you know that they've been doing for ages you know uh but uh just some hurdles you know uh but they should be starting their Clinic soon um there was that was close last year you know because their Public Health retired so but it's coming back together again and hopefully will be able to take out this load you know that we have in in the community regarding the vaccines yeah how many folks they signed up for health insurance over there at the learning Arena so so just for those that don't know um in the same area of the luring Arena they running the the
036vaccine clinic um brace and Latino health insurance program were were also over there signing people up for health insurance for for Mass Health as well as providing information and sign up for snap and other services any numbers on that I didn't get any so no I I didn't either so you know so but but we'll look into that and probably the next meeting will update the board you know I I will I will be in contact with them to get those numbers yeah okay thank you and yeah and Raj just um do we have enough resources to help cover Framingham you know with their kids getting back to school with vaccines you know they were good to us for a long time so were you able to cover them this year with that absolutely doctor
037on we've been doing that you know the last numbers we had uh like maybe from two three months you know we have actually we have administered over 100 vaccines you know to to Framingham kids you know I mean we cannot really we cannot there is cannot do what Framingham did it for us for all these years given the resources we have but we're just trying to do whatever a little bit we can on our end to to help Framingham you know and still I mean now also we're happy to take any Framingham kits you know actively but you know we have limited resources you know but we are trying to expand our Clinic also but I'm just glad like we are able to do our bit you know just yeah well that that's really nice
038to you know help those families and those kids out to be able to get them in the school you know to be vaccinated be able to do that so that's great good work thank you okay all right all right Raj uh item six your uh your agenda yes so uh first thing I just want to update you on the chestnut Place Apartments I know the the management was in front of the board last uh last meeting a couple of good things you know sanitary situation at the dumpster have tremendously increased uh they've been sending me pictures every week you know so I'm happy with that uh so that they have they have made a lot of improvement there uh about the whole housing cases the the one we had a bad bad housing at the
03913 joint Drive Number Four The the occupants have moved out since you know and I got a confirmation from from the management and they'll be doing the work on the unit now you know I still kind of struggling with the unit you know where the rose problem was you know what I got from management uh this was like a couple of days back that they still have issues getting access and all the pets you know in in the unit you know so we still have to work on that situation that have not kind of resolved uh but maybe next week or something I'm gonna go out and do another re-inspection and see where the situation is uh but uh it's like both sided you know they they have some uh issues getting access to the
040unit you know and all that stuff so uh that is still pending you know and I guess uh it came in the meeting uh and I guess one of the management guys was in the office couple of weeks back and we uh and then they're working on the pool application that we talked about that we didn't had for the season you know they they have do have a semi-public pool on the property and this year we didn't get the application so I I updated the board last time uh about the second item you know the part-time Partners we we have extended an offer and uh gave Poland or you know she have accepted our offer shows she'll be joining uh the department on the 21st as our second part-time public health nurse so Kate blender
041have a lot of good credentials you know she is going to be working as a school health nurse uh with the District of Dover and Sherburn so uh she's gonna be available to us uh every day after three o'clock and so at least Wednesday she'll be doing the cleaning uh with us every every week so that's on the public health nurse with with our tobacco control program the Framingham have hired a new Tobacco Control manager his name is Mr parivolal and uh he's settling down I'm meeting him with him tomorrow at 10 am and then I'll bring him in front of the board maybe next meeting or something for him to be you know on on like that he can be agent two or board you know as a tobacco control manager so he he
042joined like maybe last week or something two weeks back and we're meeting tomorrow uh just just to go over our Tobacco Control both the beaches uh at the Hopkinton Park in Opera and Main beaches and uh Ashland Beach is posted right now you know so no swimming or recreational activities in the water might be getting results tomorrow you know of the samples that was taken Friday and I'll update the board if there are any changes and similarly the washu compond is also posted right now for algal bloom you know so most of our recreational water is posted as of now uh Central mosquito control program still spraying you know if any of the residents need any spraying for the mosquitoes uh and given the rain we do have 40 uh water samples that are positive
043for West Nile Virus in the state so far fortunately no human or animal cases of both Triple E or west nile so far in the season and I hopefully it stays the same you know that nobody gets that but uh the numbers are that right now like we don't have any cases of either West Nile or Triple E right now how does that work that's amazing with how wet it's been that is correct you know but uh given given the water samples positive we might see something but hopefully not you know but okay for for right now it looks great thank you yeah we we did had another uh resident call for abandoned pool at on Cedar Street uh did the inspection we have issued an order you know to correct who is in touch
044with the owner of the property uh to get that mitigated we did get that spread and the pool treated through the center of mosquito control program so that was done and just waiting for the compliance from the property owner to to cover the pool you know and cut the vegetation on the property uh last item the whole street landfill we we're looking for the contract we did had few proposals now you know that we are reviewing and hopefully will extend that contract soon to somebody you know to to do the monitoring at Hall Street landfill there are a couple of um vendors that that we have provided to us with the codes you know and we're gonna look into that and get going and I'm open for any questions for the board now if people
045does the mass the Central Mass mosquito control project is that something where they just go in and spray or you have to request them the idiot this may just bring the do it beginning of the season but now yeah if you have to do it you you can request it you know you can do a question through our web pages or straight on the central mosquito control program like I did that for the Cedar Street property right we had an okay from the property owner that they can do it and then we requested that and they did it they came out and do it okay so any any you know citizen of Ashland can make that request online or get a hold of you if they'd like to have that done to their property that
046is correction yes okay all right great and how long does that run through like I guess Middle School September end of September until the first Frost yeah I mean the mosquitoes disappeared after the second hard Frost I can check exactly like when they stopped spraying but uh I guess it takes too hard for us you know okay I guess under 32 degrees you know to for the mosquitoes to disappear or you know completely die but that I can check you know like when when is the last paying so I'll I'll shoot you any oh no yeah I'm sure by the time it gets that cold it's probably not much of an issue but you know I you know at least you know for the rest of the you know the summer you know beginning of
047September it's nice to know that people can call them and if they're having an issue right yeah thank you thank you sir yeah okay anybody else Barbara Dave Ross do you um can you remind me I know we've had problems with I can't remember if it was if it was Triple E or um uh um a couple years yeah okay yeah yeah at what point at what point in the season if that's going to be a problem have we seen it become a problem is it is it by this time of the year that is correct so so uh yeah with with the Positive samples right so how it works is initially the program right they do uh or this is throughout Massachusetts right they they have areas where they go sample water right like
048and that's what I was mentioning that there are 40 positive samples so far uh in in the state of Massachusetts right and given given those uh positive samples we know the West Nile Virus is still is out there you know uh that there definitely can be activity given the season is still on right uh so that's how they predict and what they want to do you know to mitigate the situation you know so given given lot of rains this time uh I'm glad you know we have not seen anything but like it's still early you know I saw I will uh encourage the residents to take all caution you know like you know wearing long sleeves you know apply repellents and all that and you know be not out you know but during during the
049evening hours or late evening hours right and if you have any standing water you know just just dump it you know that's one of the major causes you know of mosquito growth you know because the mosquito grow only in standing water no no running water you know like I mean they won't be able to grow in a flowing water you know so if if you have that on your property you definitely want to get rid of it because both of these vices right the West Nile you know and Triple E they are they're very bad you know like I have seen myself I've seen a resident in Watertown when I was there you know who got West Nile Virus you know and it was bad given you know the neurological effects it will have you
050know so I met that Resident you know I was out for inspection and he was not able to walk you know so it was bad bad you know so we definitely wanted all caution given Hall given the severity of the disease you know so absolutely but yes it's still early you know uh to say and hopefully we don't have anything you know yep and the um so the I assume that the the closure is due to the the bacterial levels that probably also has to do with the rain um probably washing pollutants into the water or that is correct you know so yeah I mean multiple causes you know one of the major causes is the fluctuation in temperature that causes the bacterias to grow you know uh that if if it is flux shooting
051a lot for for both of the uh our beaches you know the I guess it's like 70 000 cells you know that's that's the minimum you know that the max they can have you know the numbers were still over that 70 000 Mark that we had in our portion and they I guess do two samples in a week you know uh and we need to have two negative samples to open the back for recreational purposes you know yep yeah I just didn't know if it was worth trying to educate the community on the um you know the the importance of like picking up after your dog if you're walking them at the State Park as I know many people do and and how that can you know affect the water when there's so much runoff
052from rain and so forth 100 so you know those are the causes you know that we have like you know we use our fertilizers you know uh you know sanity situations you know yes that that causes this bacterias to grow in yep okay thanks thank you all right thanks Dave all right all right Raj I'm giving you two weeks off okay all right okay I'm I feel I'm still a little jet lagged you know right but like yeah I wish I I was able to do it more clean time to the clinic but you know I yeah I don't know how you could devote any more time to it than than everybody else was there so yeah thank you so all right um all right we'll move along to the consent agenda anybody want to
053make a motion to pass that as is yeah and I will yeah okay yeah well just no just for me since I wasn't if this if these when this says approved border Health draft meeting minutes um the only thing it doesn't say is for which meeting if it's for last meeting Laura then I'm just gonna recuse myself just because I wasn't an active member but you know sorry about that yeah is it for the last um it was the one with the joint meeting with the select board I think it was two meetings ago okay yeah so yeah so I I can't vote on that right the three of you kind of the three of you can approve it for sure you were there this is uh July 12th this was so you were there
054yeah I wasn't technically oh right that's right I wasn't technically sworn in yet right even though yeah so so I was there but yeah but the four yeah so the three of you can approve that that'll be a good vote okay so I'll make them the motion anybody want to make yeah I'll do it uh make the motion to it okay to pass the consent agenda as is okay great anybody second that yeah I'll see okay great Barbara seconds any discussions or comments no okay all in favor oh I can't vote it's free we can vote okay terrific all right that passes three nothing all right um I don't know if anybody has anything you know that they'd like to discuss I guess the next few meetings in September the 5th and the 19th so
055we can get back into our regular thing and Raj are we still and and Lara as far as you know are we still gonna go remote are we going in person what are we doing that's that's the votes call so you know whatever the code is comfortable you know we'll we'll go accordingly okay one thing I want to mention sorry yeah no go uh I'm sorry just for the discussion you know we might have a septic uh variance situation I'm currently reviewing the plans you know this is on stubest Lane uh that I was looking at the plans even today you know there's some revisions we need uh for for the engineered to do once we have that back you know uh I will I will I'll be in touch with the board you know
056if if in case we need to do that before September 5th you know but okay yeah that's it all right so even if three of us can get together to do that that's fine as well right yes sir but um yes thank you yeah okay all right we'll make it work if you need us thank you yeah and I'll I'll just say you know if if we are thinking about whether it's going to be in person or by Zoom um I would not object to being in person um you know and and I think that's probably easy for me to say I mean Ron you are working you're at your office and no I mean I I can always I can always make it I just always stay here and do stuff anyway so that
057yeah whichever way everybody wants to go I'm happy to do it this way I can be in person if people would like to be there um you know so either well so we'll wait and we'll you know we'll talk to Ed about her rather have a full board so everybody can you know get their opinion in and see which way like to go and make everybody comfortable I'm okay either way as well okay all right all right as always anybody want to make the most important um you know uh call of the night I can see I would like to make a motion um to attend this meeting at 6 52. okay that's great thank you any seconds all right we got two seconds that's great I think that works all in favor aye yeah
058Mark thanks for coming as usual everybody enjoy the rest of the summer and uh yeah we'll be back at it on September 5th Barbara um uh Laura thank you rather uh as well as all the members and uh you know Jay again and and uh Raj you're great to work with Laura I'm in for another year okay thank you thank you thank you everybody good night hi everyone take care good night thanks foreign