001and um I'd like to call to order the Border Health meeting for July 18th um this is being um by Zoom uh the first thing on the agenda is um citizen participation do I have anybody um I yeah do I have anybody that's interested in citizen participation but Bajaj you want to go first go ahead Mark go ahead Mark okay um thank you good evening Dr Sony to the Board of Health I have one question I want and I want all the board members to answer if they can or should they should answer I asked a couple boys all right what's the goal of the Board of Health or the town to look for in this group Mark I I didn't understand your question what's the goal what is this board supposed to be seeing
002from this group and what's the positive goals coming out of it I mean I'll start off I mean you know we're a pretty active board um especially under raja's guidance as our health director um you know where we have vaccine clinics we you know Raj is going to talk tonight about some other issues in town we have food inspections um um sewer and septic inspections that Raj does um quite a bit uh we talked um Rogers is also going to be talking tonight about mosquito spraying I mean it's pretty anything public health related um falls under the boardy and Raj and Raj I don't want to add anything there yeah that's that's the best thing that's the boilerplate eight issues things each member who gets them gets to the board they should have that they
003should have their own goals and why they are there and they should be able to speak out to the public the show to hear what their goals are as a member not just the issues of town but as themselves what they got put forth yeah I can take a crack at that Mark too so so personally I want to help the town um and given my background I thought that that would I would be uh probably a a better fit with the Board of Health than any other board and that is to to uh enforce the rules and rules and regulations related to um Human Health and Wellness um in the town as uh as Ed just mentioned and those were what I want to hear from other members yeah um I can um Mark
004I can also add um I'll Mira what um Ed and Jay said but also um just making sure that we're protecting you know the Public Public Health um like I said too like I'm Uno would like to see more done in the community which we are trying to do working with the community not you know like Disease Control and just promoting sanitary living conditions throughout or anybody else yeah can I can I add uh something to that so anyway um I'm Balaji I think I write to us uh uh from the citizen point of view but I'm also voluntary for the health board so what I want to add is like the Health Board concept is like you know health issues or like continuously evolving issue it is not something that like you know the
005standard policy that works forever so the board actually functions uh as a kind of a bridge between a continuously evolving policy as well as like uh you know trying to provide a very good a safe environment and sanitary conditions to the car Community there so that is the point of view like you know from the go uh the goal as you ask like the goal is like trying to bridge the evolving policies that is happening throughout the world are provided by the government and everything as well as at the same time the town may also come up with their own issues as well so it is kind of like trying to balance uh from both angle and provide a safe place this is the ultimate goal of the um the ultimate goal is uh something
006like that yeah Ron gave either one of you two um for myself I'll say that uh with my background in science as a uh as a chemist and experience in a couple of Industries um I figured that I was in a good position to help the town navigate some of the issues around chemical exposures in the environment specifically things like nianza and pfas so um that was one of the reasons the main reason that I volunteered Ron welcome back the original question mark I wasn't here what's your goal what's the goal for you as a member of the of the for the health at the town where we can see from you yeah just just to help the town out you know I wasn't supposed to be on the board this year but uh there
007was uh you know there were some extenuating circumstances and I told the board I wouldn't leave him hanging if they so I could help so that's all I've ever wanted to do I've lived here for you know a long time since 1996. and uh you know to me the goal was really for us to have Raj direct us to what needs to be taken care of and then help him achieve his goals because he runs the day-to-day operations and knows the laws and knows how to enforce those laws so I've learned you know a ton from him in the last couple of years as as well as Laura because she's right under him and you know that's really the best way to do it so Raj is up to date on everything health related in
008the town he does an unbelievable job so if he says we need to address something he brings it to our attention it doesn't matter what it is it doesn't matter whether it's bacteria in you know in Ashland State Park or a hoarding case or you know anything else that's not going our way and then it's our job to to help him achieve his goal because that's what he does for work so I almost think it's a little bit backwards that you have people that are a little uneducated in the laws and then how they're specifically enforced which is what he knows so that's why I personally lead on Raj when I was chair I would make sure I asked him hey Roger you good with this exception or you know are they doing things the
009right way and he would you know he'd say yeah or no and mostly it was yes so I take my cues from him and I think that's what we all do thank you okay um Ed if you want you want to bring up your side of things well I mean you know one of the things I think which is really important which I've already done you know first of all you as you know I worked for the town for eight years um but I I love being on the Forefront of being able to react to what's happening in our community so we'll use covet as an example right I mean covet hit and you know the town manager no knows I'm a nurse and knows I can get things done and you know we we
010created the first covid like office in all of Metro West and we were the first town to be doing testing for our employees to make sure we could keep employees working um we were the first ones to get going with vaccines and joining I'm a collaborative you know things like that is why it's so important and into the town hall it members themselves brush it Laura you've got anything with simple goals and how things are going um Mr the Sony I can go whole day you know uh with public health from A to Z you know we'll have from every letter of the of the of the alphabet we there is something we do in public health you know so it's vast vast anything related to to the health of of the citizens of of
011Ashland that we're trying to address here you know so it goes a long list you know that we we are involved with everything that that Citizen's health is related to you know you're one of the hardest working ones there well thank you for that um I've been here almost nine years now and it's always different there's always something that I haven't encountered before and I really enjoy working with the public and it's it can be very rewarding and um it's very interesting and I'm enjoying working with Raj and the rest of the board so thanks for the question though and people who know me see me are calm into the town hall visit whatever again this is what I've been hoping to get for answers from other boards I asked the um the sustainability committee
012meeting the people of the same thing they gave you some answers and now this boys gave me great resulted answers or what the public should hear so thank you and that's all thank you Mark um so the next thing on the agenda everybody is the reorganization of the board I'd like to do a vote to table that to our next meeting um Ron um has not been able to get over to the town clerk's office yet to get sworn in and I think it's really important to not reorganize the board until we have uh um all the members at the meeting um yeah sorry um before you get into that I think that Balaji had a citizen participation participation question I mean it's not something like important or something I don't know if there's a
013time to ask I just wanted to know if there is a place website um like what are the things like like a completely covered under uh the Health Board like because I saw that the agenda there are multiple things coming out but I'm just trying to get a picture like how big is the umbrella for the Health Board and what are the activities that we covered well it's nothing important you couldn't tell me later on so nothing really Mr Balaji I'll brief you you know maybe tomorrow we can have a conversation you know yeah sure on the website we also have all of our regulations are posted on the website so that's always a good place to start all right uh anybody else before I will keep going all right um so can I get
014a motion to table um the reorg of the board yeah I'll make a motion to the table the reorganization of the Board of Health I will second it all in favor all right hi that's the next meeting um so the next thing on the agenda everybody is the housing cases uh Chestnut Place Apartments um dolbin management company um I'm gonna have Raj um give a quick update and I believe there are people there other people here from uh Dolby management yeah we got Nick Schmaltz Regional property manager and Mark Hughes the maintenance supervisor great okay uh Raj do you want to do a summary of this so we can move on with this uh yes Mr chair you know and we have a tenant uh Mr Rich you know who's from uh 14 join Drive
015number six you know so Mr chair you know what's what's been happening you know we have uh two Active cases you know at least two Active cases that one started March 30th 201 Drive Number Four and then one started in May 16th you know uh 14 joined up number six you know so my concerns was I was getting very little communication from from the management and I'm especially concerned with 14 join Drive number six uh when we got a call on this unit this was May 15 and the occupant mentioned that there is a severe roach activity and inspection was done same day uh we did find a Road and uh roach activity in the unit you know especially in the kitchen area uh in order to crack letter was sent next day since then
016you know I was in the unit yesterday I still have activity you know the problem is there is a immunocompromised child that lives on the property you know and it's been conveyed to the management uh I was out on June 21st to do an inspection and I've asked the manager her name is PJ to submit documents related to what was done and whatnot and I have not heard since from her you know I did another re-inspection uh last week you know uh that that was on the on the on the June 21st you know that we had activity I had inspection yesterday just to make sure I still find activity so this is almost we are talking three months you know and the the the documents are living with roach activity and when I went
017yesterday the ceiling has fallen there was an active leak in the kitchen you know that the management was addressing it but that's a separate issue but I'm very concerned with the activity you know there there's another person who reached out to us from the same building Unit Seven about the rose activity and when I was in the office in June 21st you know I happened to see one of the pest control report uh to my understanding multiple units in that building have activity to my to right now I want to ask the management of what they know how much units are out of their 206 units are infested or have activity and what they are doing about it you know and then my second question is on the dumpster you know this been going on
018for over two years this dumpster is very poorly managed you know and with my expertise and information you know this this roach activity is probably because of unsanitary conditions at the dumpster area that they didn't bother to address at all from past two years that I'm with the town and if if they want to start and I I'll come to the other issues you know that I have at the unit at the buildings okay so um so Jay do you have a question before I did I do um so I'm just looking at some notes Here Roger sit on the on June 21st um you requested the a report that the treatment had been done and I think you just said that you didn't get a report but you also um said that you asked
019for or it was suggested that the pest control company would give you a call did you not get a call no sir no communication either from the pest control or it was mentioned to me by the manager PJ that the pest control company will be in touch you know but no response from either management or or the pest control company past that you know yeah okay thanks you know and I I want to just ask a couple of questions too because I think it'll be easier for Nico um that can correct Nico is that no it's actually Nick but Nick okay um because I figured that way you can kind of address everything so from the letters that Raj sent you um it also looks like there's a problem in building 13. um so it
020looks like Building 13 and 14 are issues um not only um infestation but um smoke detectors other things that were addressed in the report um when I spoke with Raj when we were building this agenda um you know just so you know I mean one of I think the biggest concerns for us as a board and the town is the lack of communication back from the management company on what they're doing um and that's what's caused you to have to be at this meeting tonight because there listen two-way communication right is is going to solve have a lot of our issues but there's no communication back to Raj so the frustration level is kind of building because he's getting calls from the residents and you know what can he say I'm sending them letters I'm
021you know there's just he has nothing to go back with the residents with okay so and if we start with the communication um uh Raj going forward I'm happy for you to copy me on anything that you send to this property so that I can make sure that it's being communicating back to you um I was unaware that you know if PJ hadn't gotten back to you I was unaware of that or if you'd asked for the test company to get back with you um I was gonna wear that too so I can make sure that those things happen um I did talk to PJ before this call she has a special needs child so could not be on this call but um uh but certainly we could arrange some other uh time that probably
022she could be available but um she mentioned that the pest company would be happy to get on an on a call like this or a meeting and discuss what they're doing for this property there's definitely um you know we took over this property a year and a half almost two years ago so um you know there's been a a pest problem and so we're doing our best to try to to deal with it we did recently actually two times over the course of our term here we've um uh treated the whole property we did it once um you remember when that was we did it we did it in 22 the beginning of the year we just did it two other times we just did it twice double treatment basically and then we're seeing some
023positive results from that for sure um but it does take time um if if I were to address um the dumpsters a constant issue here uh just with um uh what residents will throw in there versus and and on top of that what we're getting a lot of illegal dumping um so we have we have companies come here every week to remove you know whether it's a mattress or a couch or that type of thing our guys are at that dumpster every morning trying to clean it up uh based on what they find there um and so it's a constant issue one of the things we're going to do is is um get a camera up there so we can try to you know catch who's ever doing this stuff and and either hold residents
024responsible or if it's outside sources hold them responsible and try to try to um uh diminish how much of this is is going on but we will continue to um try to stay on top of the cleanliness of it I will say Russia some of the pictures that you sent uh of the dumpsters themselves are those because the doors were open on the dumpsters is that was that part of that that is correct you know so that don't need to be closed all the time you know because that that's how we control rodents or anything going into the dumpster but I mean to my experience with dolphin and if you're seeing your guys go there every morning I have never seen those doors closed you know they're always wide open you know and that's one
025of the reason that we are here for there's so much infestation earlier with the mice and now with the roaches it's just the unsanitary conditions you know well can I say something on that and add you you've been a police officer in this town for what eight ten years okay we've had an issue with this long ago and anytime that we've had an issue we've taken care of it we've cleaned it up and we've done what we need to when back when Chrisley one of the managers was here I had asked you if you could help us out with other residents from the surrounding neighborhoods and towns if we get information on that to you to send a letter to these people to tell them to stop illegally dumping and I I get told yes
026police officers up here at night doing details we've done you know other than the cameras and we're trying to look into that now sure how how often um how often is your Waste Management Company picking up is it every week once a week huh every week no is it just once a week once a week yes is there a way maybe for the time being we could you could potentially up that to twice a week maybe that just might help um the amount of weight that we are disposing here in trash is 25 tons a month and that's not including the um the both area and we have people constantly coming up here dumping furniture and you know there's only so much that we can do right now we're filming it all though no yeah
027so it's not it's not overflowing so it's not really it okay yeah um so you know just so you know I'm no longer with the Ashland Police Department I'm with another department now um but I would I I'm gonna highly recommend um if um you could reach out to the new Chief Kara Rossi um and see if um she's willing she could put an email out to the department for them to actually do some extra patrols and work with them to potentially charge people with the illegal dumping but when I brought that up in in different cases here I get told that this was private property that it's a subtle matter between the property and whoever's doing it and you know this is what I'm getting I've been here for eight years and I've done
028I've dealt with quite a bit here with the trash I've gone over there on Monday mornings one of those five feet high all the way to the where the recycle one is I'm gonna look up what I'll do um um Nick is I'll I'll get your email from Raj um I'm gonna go through the law and I'll I'll highlight how where you guys can use some of Mass General law to help you out a little bit okay that'd be great I just want to comment on this uh Mr Mark's comment you know if you have it if you if you're okay with it uh right now you know we I'm not talking about illegal dumping I'm just talking about unsanitary conditions at the dumpsters they are basically two very different things and the management need
029to take responsibility to address that you know illegal dumping is one side uncleanness is very different thing so when I went there and Mr Mark was present on June 21st then I had a meeting with PJ I saw what a stagnant you know in in staff behind the dumpster there's stuff under the dumpster dumpster doors are open you know and when I went this Friday past Friday the conditions were same at that time I copied Mr Nick thinking copying higher management will help but nothing I went there yesterday at 3 P.M same conditions these are my concerns you know the dumpster in in staff from two months we are right in middle of mosquito Seasons they can be West Nile cases here Triple E I'm very concerned you know and they need to take responsibility
030not coming up with excuses you know to address that you know so I'm very strongly hire a company to come out you have to let me speak you know I you cannot just you you'll get your time to speak let me speak you know because this this is not today's issue this is the citation that I should I issued yesterday was the fourth or fifth citation I have given to the company you know and this will be going for two years and today they took all the time to send me emails about all other you know properties in Ashland you have to you have to solve your own problems you know you you should not be sending me pictures that hey this is happening at Ashland Commons I just got emails from the management from
031all other properties in in Ashland that this is happening at the sixth another place is two it might be but you have to solve your own problems I am not looking for what happening at other places you have a very severe approach issues in your units you know you should not be sending me proper property pictures from other properties in town that hey are you are you trying to compete with them on on unsanitary conditions appointed seeing those emails can I respond to them happening at other places in the town as well yeah can I respond to that though because because my staff has felt for a while that they're being targeted by you and that you have certain some sort of sort of a vendetta or some that they're being attacked by you and
032so I wanted to look at well what are other properties in Ashland look like and that's why we went and took those pictures and that matters to us because if they're doing exactly the same thing I want to make sure that they're being held responsible as well that's that's the point they are you know there's you can ask for me you know you can submit a public record request of where the cases are your your property have the maximum cases I have right now right but my point is don't look for excuses I'm not looking for that I am just looking that you provide sanitary conditions for the residents because okay I'm getting maximum calls from your units you know that that's that's all I'm trying to say here you know but did you ask
033so you also see the pictures we sent after cleaning up today so there's a lot of poison ivy around that place so we had to schedule it we scheduled hey I knew we were having this meeting obviously I want it cleaned up by then and we did clean it up by then I want you can recognize at least that we did did that right yesterday at 3 P.M there was nothing done you know yeah I just sent you I sent you pictures at the same time tonight showing the current conditions off that floor sorry I said you could probably eat off the floor right now not that it should have to be that clean but I mean great you know hopefully you keep it like that and bring bring this under control my my second
034question to you is you know now the kid who's immunocompromised do we deserve to be in a unit with roach infestation for three months do you have any answer for that no I do when we put out notices for Pest Control to go in and we tell residents they cannot be in the unit for three hours it's how is it our responsibility to make this kid leave when it's sick that should be up to his father or himself or someone to take him out of the apartment for three hours in the apartment that you're talking about there is a lot of animals exotic animals fish tanks and the roaches are attracted to moisture there's tanks in that apartment almost in on every wall and we do swear we spray it and we do tell them
035and we even move the the pest control um they for him on a we went from a Monday to a Friday for him so we're accommodating everything that he needs and why there is still activity there after three months you know that that's my question you know I saw activity there yesterday yeah part of the problem is that he's not preparing for these treatments okay this cabinets are empty but he's got all that moisture in there with all those pets and like um I I've been told that when they spray it's going to get worse before it gets better and it is I've lived here too I have the same problem and it does get worse before it gets better we are doing what we say we're gonna do and you know I mean we're
036spending thousands of dollars here to try to take this under control so how many units out of 206 units are infested by now you know can you give me a number or that the public need to know as well I cannot give you that number you want to know why because people do not call us and say they have a problem it said earlier that building 13 has issues a lot of those people do not let us know that they have an issue with with bugs and and you know just well as I do they travel on we had an issue with 13 number four there was you know really bad moisture in there all the time and the roaches go for that they liked the dampness they're going to live in that so as
037soon as we do know an issue we always go and treat treat that apartment and we've done like we said we've done a couple of uh property-wide treatments lately again spend fifteen thousand dollars uh property wide doing two different treatments to try to solve the issue so we're definitely working on it there's no doubt about that um and any time anybody calls us about it we try to uh help them well we put them on the list we and I and I I guess I would say what I said before I'm happy to bring the pest control company on a call like this or to meet with you specifically if that would help um I'm happy to I'm happy to facilitate that but sir I just want to know how many treatments are done for
038this particular unit where we are talking about 14 join Drive number six because I got two of the treatments in May I have nothing else after that so was there anything done uh after the May 2 treatments yeah okay well we just did two two treatments we did um there were three weeks apart on every unit in the on this property and um I mean I can tell you the date the last time it was six you can certainly put that together for you yeah we can get that together I wish that that was the case but after I'm June meeting on the 21st I have no communication from PJ that was told me that she'll be sending it you know but I have nothing so and I have asked her like you know if
039you have problems getting in accessing the unit that need to be communicated to us but I have none from from you guys you know till I that it came on the board matters so um and can you can you brief me what's going on with the 13 joint Drive Number Four that started on May 30th you know I have no information on that unit as well yeah all right on that unit you know just as I do it was all mold am I right please tell me what's the status of the unit you know this is four months you know we're talking about in that unit you know it was all mold in there right so we had to wait till the resident get out we cannot go in there I'm not going to risk
040my guys going in there and getting lung infections from the mold that was in there but are you totally okay with that Resident being living in that unit I mean you are not okay with your guys getting lung infection going into the unit to do treatment but you're totally okay for a occupant living there for four months after we are cited yeah you're totally okay with that sir no they but I I also want to understand when you go into when you go and meet with these residents you do understand that there's two sides to every story and there's responsibility on our side and the responsibility on their side do you understand that sometimes it's their fault just as much as it's our fault no they were cited as well sir and my question was
041Mr Mark's point that if you are so worried about going into a unit to do a treatment are you guys okay with somebody living there for four months and not do no nothing you know that's my question can you please answer that we did offer them another apartment we did offer to put them in a hotel they did not want to go because of where they work and we called you to let you know that there was an issue in that we called you to let you know that what the situation was and we try to get them out but we couldn't do it until recently until Monday I think was their last day yesterday it was their last day here and you know we we've tried to get them out I'm not going to
042risk myself or any of the guys that work for me to go in that apartment with the conditions that should have been dealt with when it was first looked at when we first looked at that place nobody what kind of expertise are we talking about that sir like that you you felt that it need to be condemned like what kind of expertise you're talking that that made you felt that it need to be condemned you know I'm not a health inspector but but I've been in the business for 35 years I mean if you think that this need to be condemned that doesn't work that way you know it it comes you know and I know your your team was not happy me condemning the unit I I'm a public officer it takes a lot
043of responsibility to condemn the unit I just don't go in and condemn a unit that dude that's not how it works you know so I'm gonna chime in here because we can be back and forth all night long right let's um Nick let's come up with a plan um right now let's come up with a plan um and how the communication is going to be um do you already have some ideas of what we're gonna do just and then we can come up yeah so what I would say the first thing I mentioned earlier I'm happy to Rasheed I'm happy to meet with you specifically at the property and we can talk about these things um but cop please copy me like you did last week on anything you're sending to this property I want
044to be obviously I want to be aware of it um I'll talk to PJ if PJ hasn't been communicating with you I'll let her know that she obviously has to if there's something you need she is to provide it to you um uh and then we'll go from there I'm not I'm not sure what else to add to that but um we'll definitely step up the communication Nick can we can we get a guarantee a minimum of two emails a week for now two Raj um Tuesdays and Thursdays on updates for now I can do that yep I mean what I guess specifically what you wanted I mean I think it's true I think even just you know an email you know three o'clock on you know Tuesday hey just so you know we have
045no changes since last week um this is our plan for next week whatever you know just so that we know that there's that that it's being addressed and someone's looking at it sure I'm okay with that and Mr chair you know I have one more point last point I want to close this conversation for this season we have no swimming pool from from the apartments you know and I have communicated to to the management uh there was issues with the pool last year they was trying to correct it but I have communicated that that we needed the application to keep the permit alive right and end of the season the permit is gonna lapse now if the permit lapse is going to be a fresh pool treated as new pool and it might not comply
046with the current requirements with the pool code so I just want to let you know Mr Nick we have not received any application for the pool for the Sami public pool we have on the property for this year you know and I just wanna so that you know that if if no application the permit is gonna lapse okay that means next year when I treat it as a brand new pool okay the um we talked to our pool company today and they were asking us about reimbursing them uh 640 for the pool permit so they are under the impression that they submitted that so we're trying to get from them a receipt of some kind if that's the case if they did that um uh I didn't realize if we weren't going to open the
047pool I didn't realize we still needed to apply for the permit um basically what happened is the pool needs as you said significant repairs um we got a contract signed for that and uh when the pool company went to the town for a permit um I don't know I'm not sure if you were involved in this or not but uh uh they were told that they need a stamped engineering plan for those for that work to get done so now we've been uh searching for that has taken us this long to find someone that we did get a proposal last week which we're going to sign that contract to get that stamped engineering plan uh and then once that is once that we have that plan the pool company will then go back to the
048town again uh to um get a permit for the work that needs to get done which most likely we've been done in September after the pool season's over um thank you you know but yes I was involved with the process and the Building Commissioner also you know uh okay in in that process but I just wanted to bring it your attention though I mean look to me the communication is not coming to you so I just wanted to make sure that you're aware right I mean we don't want no surprises next year that this this being not handled you know I just want to be making sure that you know that hey we we need the application you know and we will make sure I will check with uh Laura also tomorrow this was my
049understanding so far that we have nothing from that and will communicate with you with you thank you okay that'd be great so I I am Nick before you go I just want to open this up if any other board members have any questions or concerns they want you to know about anybody else wanna Ron you're muted Ron okay hi I'm I'm sorry hey Nick just a a quick comment um is there any communication as far as the residents are concerned that if you see pests this is a community-wide problem it's not an individual problem just because you don't you know if you if you see some insects in your place to really report it because that's going to be benefit everybody are there signs posted anywhere or is there any way to communicate with the
050residents that live there um you know that these things can be serious and you know you see a couple of bugs or you know one Mouse it means there's probably a billion more and it's not just your issue right yeah we do communicate with the residents however I will make sure that uh you know that we continue to do that and try to get them to report that that is a problem that we run into a lot at this particular this property where um residents aren't telling us right away when there's a problem and I don't mean all of them I mean some are very vocal obviously but then others um you know don't choose to live with it whatever and that sort of obviously makes the problem much worse yeah of course yeah it
051does there are times when it's a language barrier as well but uh you know we try to work our way through that yeah if and I could follow up on that too I it sounds like maybe communication about the dumpster and waste disposal and how that impacts the property and the sanitary uh both in and outside of the building um I it sounds like that that at least you should be communicating about that and also the importance of um letting you know if they see somebody from outside the facility that's that's dumping the trash um on your property and um it it if that's a problem it sounds to me like maybe you uh the camera the camera idea that you mentioned before is is certainly one way to address it as well as you
052know making sure that your own residents are following the policies that you uh that you set for the property and trash disposal as well as monitoring uh anybody from outside the property who is is misusing it right that makes sense and I think also uh we could probably use a little bit more signage on the dumpster that again is trying to get people to close the doors afterwards we will have our staff um you know check on that periodically throughout the day to make sure that that uh the doors are getting shut um but we can yeah absolutely the residents to do that as well yep yep um and I I you had mentioned it briefly before I think maybe for the time being it sounds like maybe a picture of the dumpster sent to
053Raj might be a good idea to just make sure if your management people know that that's part of the process for now then they might be a little bit extra diligent about uh keeping an eye on it absolutely um and then Nico I just have one more thing too um you know I would ask if you could personally reach out to the family um with the child that's immunocompromised um to see what else you could do to assist them in this matter sure I've actually met with uh with Richard Lynch one other occasion uh we went to his unit but I can certainly do that again okay and then I myself I myself went in and took care of any issues that he had um maintenance supervisor I went in there took care of everything
054that he needed done right but again you know this is communication that never got back to the Board of Health yeah yeah okay anybody else all right so I think we have a tentative plan everyone in agreement rise you're good with the current plans yes sir thank you great thank you thank you thank you tonight thank you appreciate it okay all right um everyone um next thing on the gender um that we're not doing it we're not doing board member committee assignments right now so uh Jay you're up next for remote Area Medical Update or thanks Ed so um the funding I'll start there is going well I think I read the minutes and it looked like uh last time we met we're about three thousand dollars short but um we're pretty much there we're
055only short about 200 so I think it's safe to say that we've got all of our funding um the number of volunteers especially General volunteers not not the professional staff is increasing and so I think that we're in pretty good shape we can still use more people um but but for right now what are we three and a half weeks out or so I I think that we're doing quite well Ram fails that we're doing very well too t-shirts um are going to be ordered pretty soon and Ed Hart has taken care of that they will have um the typical Ram logo on the front and then all of the corporate sponsors on the back they look they look pretty good um and Ed's done a great job he is also handling the advertising on
056the buses from mwrta and that I think began um yesterday and will run until August 12th so um that's going to be very good advertising for us to patients primarily Framingham State is all set with their accommodations for the ram staff and in fact we got um some Linens donated from the Metro West Medical Center which is a huge help because I'm not to get into the whole story but uh the ram staff will be living in dorms and so we needed to provide them with Linens um and so the medical center kindly donated uh Linens for that so that's good news just heard that today um in terms of follow-up care for the clinic we do have the Latino health insurance program that is handling the Lion's Share of that but the MetroWest free
057medical clinic said that they may may be able to help us out we're going to meet with them on Friday and see if they can do that um and Ed I don't know if you are I think that you were copied on that Zoom link um for follow-up but if not we'll I can talk to you about it later um we have two more meetings official meetings with ram before the clinic and um so I think we're in good shape Raj you said you're taking care of the food permits with um the Framingham Board of Health let me know if you need anything from me to to any info or whatever same with Steve Mitchell because as you know he's handling all the all the food service and um that's really it for the clinic
058and of course we have the vaccine clinic going on simultaneously and that if you've got anything to add maybe you don't um for that uh you know feel free but that's all I've got no no just um for the vaccine clinic everyone um I've reached out to the superintendent and nurse leaders of Premium Public Schools Ashland um Milford and Marlborough and we're encouraging them to get their staff to volunteer especially with interpreters um again anyone that's watching our meeting tonight if you're willing to volunteer for either the vaccine clinic or the ram Clinic we need licensed and unlicensed people and you can just go to remote area Medical's website to sign up to volunteer um okay thanks Ed and for you know regarding interpreters I'm just looking at the uh the numbers right now so
059we're doing pretty well for the clinic for interpreters so for example Saturday we've got seven um and let me just do a quick look sorry uh okay give me one second so and then interpreters for Sunday we've got six so if it turns out that we don't need that many ad I suppose we could ask some people to go over to the vaccine clinic um I think you're going to need more yeah I do too yeah but you know we've also got that you know uh the milagros's system that I think could be helpful too so I don't know we um I did ask for 15 that's kind of what we were shooting for for each day I just want to add on you know from the state we do have a language line you
060know that we can do phone interpretation in case of any need I I have one setup in my phone like I can learn that you know but I I will chat with them also that like of how many phones can be used you know sometimes in in our clinics when we don't have interpreter right in person uh we we use that and it's very effective you know it's almost like having a in-person interpreter you know so works very well so I will check with the state like you know how many lines can we use at one time or if there is any limit but uh that's a free service to to the town from from the state you know oh that would be great yeah and I'm sorry I do remember you you mentioning that
061so yeah if there was a way to allow another phone to access that I and I don't know whose it would be um probably wouldn't be mine because I I don't think I'll be able to uh run around doing that kind of but somebody's um on the medical side that would be we can do it from any cell phone you know but uh I I guess probably from our office we might have one or two cell phones for you you know just just to use you know oh okay you know so yeah and okay I'm gonna be personally there and third cell phone can be my personal cell phone you know so that we can use but that's just an idea that we we have resources like that you know that we can use uh
062for for help okay and and can you just remind me to the plan for the food permanently that's not going to take that long right no so I I did reach out to Mr Steve you know yesterday I I'll try calling him again tomorrow but they'll be taken care I did had a communication with the Framingham Health Department regarding that right uh early on but it should not be a problem you know that I I will 100 handle that that part of it okay great great and let me know if you know for paying for it and all that I uh if they invoice us I'll I'll get a chance Absolutely I'll ask for you know waiver on that you know fee but uh we will see you know I will ask them given it's
063a community event you know it's it's Framingham health department will be involved themselves given their part of the matter with share Services you know so we'll I'll ask them but I mean that's the season rest with Framingham but we'll we'll try you know if we don't have to pay for the for the permit just given it's it's a Framingham is involved with that this tool okay yeah that makes sense thanks okay all set Ed you're married so the next thing on the agenda um is the health director's report Raj thank you Mr Bowman so first on the childhood vaccine clinic uh we've been doing a little slow like a lot of kids are traveling you know uh schools are off uh but we should be picking up maybe you know end of July you know
064kind of August another good news on the vaccine clinic right Framingham is about to start restart their Clinic back you know they have things in place uh we're hopefully looking maybe in a week or so or they'll be able to start the clinic you know the plan to start it for two days in a week you know that that will definitely assist us as well as the Metro West area you know for getting some Loadout you know uh about the part-time public health nurse we have few candidates you know uh we should be starting the interview process uh I did talk to one of the candidates she had some questions upfront but if any board member want to be on you know of one of the interviews please let me know and Mr Berman if
065you have time given your expertise in in nursing or Barbara if if you have time you know so let me know and we'll plan or schedule it accordingly and other board members too I just asked because both of them have nursing credentials you know nursing side expertise uh both Hopkins and upper and Main Beach are unposted now uh that's good news you know given whether it was posted for almost a week you know but they are on posted now that means the residents or anybody can go swim and do any three traditional activities they need to do at the beaches couple of restaurant updates uh Madras Market on Pond Street we had couple of uh not okay inspections at the restaurant but that been sorted out now uh that they they are cleared they have
066passed the inspection last uh last week uh another thing at Mill Pond you know we have some issues again some activity infestation at the at the Mill Pond and we are working with the management I just wanted to bring this to the board's attention if any further things at the at the Mill Pond I I will keep the boat posted I know you know some of you might be aware there were some issues a few years back at the location so I just want to bring it back to board that we have we have some challenges there but nothing major but I'll bring it to board if needed housing case at 137 Pond Street uh we at the Town level we are in touch with the Aegis office uh regarding the situation there uh from
067last month there is no communication or any updates from from the occupants I guess uh the AGS office will be visiting town uh on August 9th you know to give us a presentation of of the current situation and how they can assist with us assist us with this case you know so I'll be updating the board after the meeting uh the mosquito control program they they have one more schedule spring on July 24th of this month if any residents want to have their launch paid property sprayed they can reach out to the central mosquito control program to do that with the arbor virus uh given given how we have the rainy season they're definitely concerns right we might might see some Triple E West Nile Virus activity hopefully not but given how rainy it is
068how bad it is you know we already at the state level we have two positive water samples so far for West Nile you know that that's a routine thing you know they do sample border from different locations at different points two samples are positive so far I guess one one was in City Town of Brookline and one was in Worcester area that that is unposted now uh it's open for recreational activities last thing was the how Street landfill we we have actually sent out uh requests for vendors you know to come service our hostage landfill uh and we have not gotten any responses yet uh I did speak with I did try calling Mr Jesse who who was the contact for the envato track company that we had from past few years who was monitoring
069you know and evaluating our landfill we have not heard from anybody yet you know maybe I if in another week I don't hear I'm gonna request dep that you know they give us some more time you know for for the for the report for this quarter uh but we are working on it you know so I'm a little concerned that you know nobody have reached out any company have not reached out or you know responded back to our request for for the Hall Street landfill and I'm open for adding questions now please I've got one for you Raj so just going back to the posting of the beaches um so I last Wednesday and I forget what that date was I went to Whitehall to kayak I was ex and this is the boat landing
070on 135. is that one of the um areas for posting it said Whitehall in the in the list but I want to make sure it's the right one because I didn't see any posting and I I thought that I would have expected that was that out of town sir which town was it that was hot guys that's Hopkinton it should be posted you know so but though this this is with the request uh Department it's not with us right but the state but with whatever times I have visited you know if the property was posted they will post it you know right where the entrance is usually they put like no swimming signs and all that I mean it just took contact with water kind of situation right like the Boating and all that happens
071still but it's just if you are trying to swim or you know have any what I mean that that was restricted you know yeah and so I I again I don't know what the date was last Wednesday but I think before that I saw that Whitehall I was expecting to see a post and it wasn't I know it's not us that's posting but just for what it's worth right that that's under us right so anytime any thing happens there we post it I mean we last time a couple of time uh Becca our conservation isn't helped like because she also looks into this matters right I mean we do that at Washington but the BTS are understood you know but I'll keep an eye you know and have communicate with them like you know yeah
072uh that hey this was the case okay thanks absolutely hey um Raj so um so what is it uh I'm sorry I don't have the history to understand what the uh the the uh outside uh third-party contractors for for 102 house Street are what it is that we're looking for uh could you go into that just a little bit briefly sure David uh uh the state DMP you know this this is way before I guess long time back you know they have asked us given you know concentrations of methanes and other gases you know that they they want us to monitor you know measure all that you know and provide them reports it's a mandatory requirement from dep that we have at the Town level you know so last time last year we have a
073company called Enviro track you know that that was doing this for us right but what has happened in in June end of June when we have not heard or you know we communicated with them they said they won't be able to continue with the town uh given uh the the person in charge have left you know there is a specific requirement that you need to have somebody with credentials LSP that need to be doing this right and with that company there was nobody else you know so we have gone out I guess uh five vendors you know to asking for bids you know for a three-year contract to to do that work for us you know uh so so far we have not heard anybody I can provide you more details about what it pertains
074to you know like uh what are we look uh from from dep uh but uh that's all we we are currently in the gentleman Mr Jesse again I mentioned you know he went to a different company and I today also I made a phone call to him and left a voicemail that he is can continue the work with for the town from that company will appreciate it you know so uh right now with earlier and right now we have to submit a report every three months like a quarterly report given concentration of the gases and all that stuff right uh this was I guess last year it was monthly even given the levels was low we requested dep to to make it quarterly and they accepted it given it's a good amount of cost to
075the town you know uh I guess the current uh contract stands at 16 000 a year it was almost the double before that you know so that many uh the town spent just to monitor you know the the landfill so besides I mean there are other repairs and all that that that's there you know more on that you know given given the details of of what what the EP asked for so thanks at what point are we would we be in violation uh how how long do we have to find a contractor uh so quarterly report means like you know we have to provide a report within uh you know July August September till end of September but uh given you know like no response I'll still reach out to you know the our our
076officer at dep just just updating him you know or asking resources right if they know anybody from the surrounding towns or you know they they might be working with a lot of folks you know uh on this that if they they can put it put us in touch with somebody that who can do this for us you know they do need some expertise work you know the like I mentioned it's something called LSP you know that that they need to write reports and monitor it and I'll I'll find out more you know but we do do have time but given you know it's it's a process you know if we have to bring a vendor on it takes a little bit of time at the Town level also to process you know getting all their
077information Insurance liability and stuffing right right yeah makes sense thank you um and and regards in regards to the mosquito concerns particularly with the weather being what it's been and you know a couple of Triple E cases in the state um as you mentioned is uh does the town have a strategy or a plan for like for communicating to the public the need to you know eliminate sources of standing water and uh those sorts of communicating those sorts of uh measures that could could help um I mean I know it's it's probably a pretty it's all mountain to climb in that regard but um but I haven't seen anything in the past so I I thought I'd ask yes sir so just just want to correct you know one thing that the case is for
078the water samples was West Nile actually you know not not Triple E just just you know yes we do send out stuff in our uh in our social media I guess there was a post last month that we sent out about mosquito control uh occasionally the Articles goes in a local newspaper and all that right we do have information on our website uh and yes again you know outrage we do it you know to to the extent possible yes we that we we have a post you know last last month or so you know around around the time when this started if that answers your question you know it does yes yeah yeah I guess maybe um I was thinking if if uh they could include something in the town manager's newsletter too that might
079be a good idea given again the really wet season and wonderful no we we're gonna do that you know uh and the other thing is why we proactively take you know like uh calls you know from Resident concerned about uh uh you know like uh some standing pools and all that you know that not taken care you know abandoned pools you know over past uh two years like we have dressed maybe three four of those schools that you know that was like abandoned you know we do have one case currently that we we are working on you know to get that pool filled and all that so like uh again coming back to Chestnut Hill Place you know that they had some standing water in the back of their dumpster that I was concerned you
080know so we try to address like you know only thing is I wanna add right like no these mosquitoes grow only in stagnant standing water you know if the water is Flowing then they cannot complete their life cycle you know but the standing water definitely concerns us you know containers you know tires and all that right no absolutely awesome great thanks all right so the next thing is the consent agenda um please do a vote on that and unless anybody has any questions so do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented yes um I make a motion to approve the consent agenda thanks Barbara any discussion on the consent agenda okay all in favor aye great all right okay let's go through um so the next thing is uh discuss future
081agenda items uh looks like our next date Raj are we gonna need an August first date or can we push it out to August 15th yep you're muted Rush Mr Burman up to the board you know usually they do one meeting you know but we can uh aim for August 15 and I can let both know if there is need you know in between but uh up to you to decide I guess what I learned that sure so we'll plan a December um an August 15th meeting um and if anything comes up that needs we need a meeting we'll schedule one for August 1st and I know last thing is coming I wanna thank Dr Rohan you know to spare time again you know just I just want to say thank you sir you know
082I didn't do anything but thank you I'm sorry I didn't uh I didn't realize I had to do that again but that makes sense so sorry to the board this morning tomorrow night and uh next meeting thank you and I I want to thank Mr Balaji also to be present I as as we discussed on that day right I I send the meeting invitation to both Mr Balaji and Mr morais you know and we'll keep continuing with I mean I I thank you for for your support with with our work too you know so sure it's my pleasure it's my pleasure [Music] um so I guess I will do the most I will make a motion to adjourn oh Jay just seconded it um all in favor all right all right great thank you everybody
083um thank you for attending okay thank you for your support I appreciate it thank you okay have a good night