sorry calling the April 14th meeting of the Air Border Health to order it's 5:33 I guess call it um who wants to read can I I guess we have to read oh the top whose turn is it
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9787728220 extension 145 prior to the meeting thank you very much is still exactly the wording that we have to say like why do they have us say at the meeting contact somebody prior to the meeting because you post
it's posted oh right it's for the posted version for the posted version okay got it that makes perfect sense sort of as a notice this was hybrid meetings or virtual meetings were said to expire on the 31st of March they've been extended
till 2027 i saw that yeah yeah which is probably a good thing for upping participation okay um first thing right after call to order I just want to say that we are not going to do the executive session that is posted on the
agenda we we didn't really need one because there is no existing litigation strategy to discuss but uh I will mention that the board of health did receive a summary judgement in its favor
in um the litigation regarding uh Mimi's place versus board of health all right so no need for executive session we're across Meadow anyone for public input it looks like our physical audience is
quite small as usual so I'll take that as I know ah old business hung reduction update as we all know Trish's is port health representative to this um group that's
kind of working on a regional thing so would you like to update us Miss P i am just going to give you the updates from um the meeting the the quick notes that we got once a month right yeah once a month so
you met kind of the end of uh the Yeah the end of March okay okay um and I did a little digging this afternoon and um at this point we are we are responsible for the
meetings and what we talk about and everything and some of the towns have included their select boards okay ours we have not as of yet but that is up and coming as I'll tell you about in here um
it's air has been working on well our our survey is up and coming um and we uh Sam did a great job we took um examples from the other towns she streamlined it it's really good that was a great job
uh so we're going to focus on spending priorities for the opioid abatement funds um we're not going to solicit for input on pooling funds because we all agreed that was the best option because it was so lopsided
uh Grten's committee had some reservations but we they would be 100% on board if the position described in hiring a person um to oversee as a substance use specialist
um and there's so many different um types of people that could be hired for this so that's something that they're they're looking at uh like I said Graten had some reservations but they'd be 100% on board if the position described as balanced more with
treatment and recovery as opposed to leaning heavily toward prevention because their survey in Grten came back more for treatment and recovery as opposed and that's where the results of our survey should guide us and Harvard uh has concerns that the duties of the
job are a little too much for one person but they're planning to have um Olivia Duour who spoke at one of the last meetings to come and talk to the committee um and as hearing from her did alleviate his individual concerns related to the
workload so there's like I said there's different ways of doing this yeah yeah um Harvard's still leaning towards putting 50% of their funds towards a position because Harvard has the most uh Littleton will run a finalized position
description by their HR department for approval before they can move forward with hiring francis Dagel who is the um health agent in Littleton says he'd like to see someone who offers more direct intervention in terms of assessing needs
guiding folks to resources and acting as a treatment advocate the group ID is a social work background might be really helpful so connections to care is important facet to include in the physician description for both Harvard and Groten so everybody has a little
different spin on what they're looking for in this person but um so to note between April's meeting which is next week and May's meeting we're going to be ironing out the financials and approaching decision-making bodies in towns with the
position description as drafted and templated and make a recommendation in writing to select boards so that's coming up may's meeting is going to be an informal solid commitment from each town and initiate the MOU
process okay um we have anou drafted from U MAHB which towns may end up wanting to run it by their legal but maybe not and we can always ask Rich Mucci who has represented
um has written theseUS up for other towns so we have we have plenty of people to um refer back to so So that's where we are so I'm thinking I may we'll we'll have a bigger meeting um and
include at least a anyways include our select board and and um if we get feedback by then which we should we'll be able to have even more people that that will have input so that's
Yeah I would think that theou has to be signed to like after they sign theou have they been talking about like is there a name for this regional thing or coalition or pool fund yeah yeah the the well it's the opioid abatement uh board
or fund yeah the money um yeah i just didn't know if it had like a snappy shorthand name or something you know your debatement funds pooling monthly meeting that's what we're calling it right now okay because that's exactly what we had to do yeah
because I would think that they've got to have that MO you sign before they can like start hiring people and doing something yeah but we want to be able to present that uh you know the des the job description what we're looking for and things like that so that when they do
theou they'll have an idea of what they're looking at for okay job description so that's coming up in May all right because I wonder I'm not really sure like I see occasionally a selectman's agenda but Angelie you might have some good input
here is like what's the right time to approach selectman to tell them that this thing is coming you know it's it's ultimately them that has to sign on for it and I think that it probably would not be the most effective thing to like
wait until so the first word they hear of it is when somebody comes to do a presentation what's the like right way to Well I guess number one do you want to have them come to our meeting or would we go to a selectman's meeting no that's an interesting point yeah you
know a member of the board could attend the selectman's meeting you keep it on the agenda um to present where we are in this process you know okay yeah that's true or they could send someone to our
meeting too so but do we have to um do we have to wait to do that the only reason I'm asking this is because all the other towns have uh done their survey like I said I'm late to the Yeah and it was um Sam had
it all ready to go yeah do what could we get permission to do the um the QR code from the selectman's office and then get on their um agenda because it's going to take a couple of weeks to get the feedback and Yeah right
right to compile all this stuff yeah so I mean I I I feel like if we go to a meeting it's going to be like well so I know answers for you because it's not back yet yeah and this is more of a heads up hey there is this movement of foot to pull funds and an MOA and I
guess my thought is I would do this more immediately and then update them but I don't think you want to wait till the process is 90% complete this is what we've done i don't either and I don't know what they already know we have no idea but why not just get on the agenda
to say the you know as the board of health this is where we are with the opioid abatement program who's say the same thing currently I don't know I think Copeland Copeland okay because I could just send an email to for starters
saying hey they're just you know heads up that this is a foot do you have an information source for this stuff would you like us to present something to you know we don't know a whole lot of the
stuff but I also need to um get back in touch with Kylie because the arrangement there for that was yeah we'll we'll give you our survey but you know and if you want to make changes or you know if you have input gap but this is just it's strictly
a board health thing it's not a you know it doesn't need a lot so I'm pretty disappointed that we haven't gotten a a response from them yet so I'm gonna check on that but we need the queue we need permission to to go ahead with it even if we don't get on the agenda right
away yeah We well we need because I think we need I don't know who's is it approval to actually get that survey we could put up flyers right now but I think to get it on the town web website I don't know who approves that or Yeah
so Max is the one who puts everything up on the website and he knows about it i've given him all the stuff but he needs the okay from right okay so all right so let me pick up with that one and just say "Hey we're
at a point we need to do this we need to provide input we need time to compile the information." And as part of that same discussion I can just let her know that I'm going to contact Selectmen to just kind of let them know what's I I would still get on the agenda though to make it at their meeting so that they're
all hearing the same thing at the same time yeah my question would be to have more do you want to send somebody one of our meetings should you know want us to come to yours at the at the end of the day they have to sign off on the funds so why would we just go to their meeting
i mean I I don't think that it's a us versus them this should No no no i don't see no i think going forward after we um get on and we talk about the um survey and we get that floated there's going to
be more meetings that we're going to have to attend now that it's it's going to go legal stuff so it's going to be more than one Yeah meeting yeah this is true to oversee funding like that go there as soon as you can to update them and then move forward i Okay the other thing is I
think there's going to be a lot of questions about hiring someone who the person's going to work for and how does that whole thing you know because they're not an employee of are they employee of all the towns in the pool no that's actually what I meant when I said once we do thisou is like
this thing gonna be an organization is is g is it like right and I need to I need more uh clarification on that um and I will call like how do they manage and who's the person report to you know
right as far as having little volunteer to be the host town which I guess means that they give the person an office or benefits something like that liability Yeah I don't think it has that because I think this person is working for the
it's Yeah it says Littleton will need to run the finalized position description by their HR department for approval before they can move forward with hiring we're still in the phase of okay here's a couple of job descriptions let's look at them and see which one is a better
fit yeah yeah if I was on the board of selecting I'd want to know about that now rather than after the towns have talked about what they want to do you know I think that's a big deal you know because you said some of the towns have already involved selectmen maybe not i
know that um Harvard I I didn't hear from I know that Harvard he said that they were they were going to involve their um select board at a an upcoming meeting
but that was okay the meeting before last I think but I can clarify tomorrow with Jenna the question about who is like it says Francis Dagel and Littleton
is going to you knowify their HR department but if it's going to be a pulled effort right it would seem for that organization but they did have they they had the I could not get these earlier um
and it was the substance abuse specialist pooling and then it has like an example of what a salary would be and and what the input would be from each town okay administration fees all this other stuff so that's something that has
to be looked at a little closer so they might be just looking for like authorization to spend that chunk of money yeah um Harvard had said that they were prepared
to spend 50 uh 50% of their uh Harvard is still leaning towards putting 50% of their funds towards a position and then the rest of the funding would
be whatever shows back up in the pool surveys okay and ours hasn't been done yet yeah and that's where the selectman have the choice for like each town's a lotment okay i'll get in touch with them and just kind of let them know that
we're getting to a point where there some between normal things to be done next week's meeting in May we're going to iron out the stuff for the select board so okay but in the meantime like Steve said I'd like to get the QR
code get get going on that yeah I know i know we we really do need to get that and it's just not that big of a deal it seems to me it's it's a board of health survey all right I will follow up on that maybe it's not
as big a deal as we think it is so check and I'm sure that they all have access to this stuff it's on the the state website yeah that's true too but honestly I look at the selectman's agenda sometimes and
I go "These people are like responsible for nuclear disarmament and world peace." It's like I I kind of like don't want to bother them with this oh he's got $6,000 that Well that's how I felt
they they they kind of made it originally the the way things were coming across the desk was okay we're the ones that have putting the input together and when when I come to a decision we can go to our select boards with theou but we're not there yet yeah
that's kind of how I was viewing it up to now too but it's probably sounds like it's about time to give a heads up if they're getting Yeah like language and stuff like that together okay i will make contact with selectman and I'll volunteer you
i'll get a hold of Jenna so I'll know exactly what to say so I won't be tripping over my tongue you won't trip over she may also go with you i would love that elements meeting yeah and that would probably be really helpful because she could fill in the gaps of like the stuff that she know so sharp yeah yeah
okay all right i could actually ask Jenna first and you know let her know that we're gonna try to get on that um or do you need to talk to her in the next couple of days i'm going to be going Well we're meeting next week yeah I was kind of hoping tomorrow i can call
her in the morning i tried calling her right after this afternoon i mean if you have other stuff to talk to her about then Yeah well no I want to clarify two of these big questions right here yeah okay then ask her if she would would be willing to come and I'll get in touch
with selectman and say that we you know we would have a board representative and we're working on um someone from the that's also involved yep i'd love to have Okay her Yeah that would be a good team because I wouldn't want to do it alone either i'd feel like there's information that I don't necessarily I
know yeah yeah thanks okay I'll let you know on that hopefully Sam I'm going to have some good news on Okay let's get the survey on the road all right um what do we have from
Nashoba anything like we got inspection reports or anything uh not much i saw they're doing the rabies rabies clinic did send me two inspection reports this morning one was for the ravioli
oh yeah right right are they opening now or have they open they have they have a soft opening and they'll open there's a couple days okay all right um but Bridget wise they're fine and then we did receive another one there is a farm stand
opening on Sandy Pond Road oh yeah you mentioned that last meeting is it going to be kind of like a permanent farm stand or a popup um so it's in this woman's yard um huh so um but she had to get a like a license like a food license
for Yeah yeah is it she just selling like fruit and vegetables or is she selling anything baked or she's selling pie okay yeah then that definitely falls under Bridget i don't know if you're just selling fruit and vegetable if you need the only like new ones everyone
else has just been Okay yeah you know the usuals of What's the ravioli place that what are they selling called Italian food or No it's not Italian food what's ravioli that's what I No it he has the concept behind why he called it
that um called ravioli theory theory theory theory this is what the menu is on online so Oh it is now okay I'll check it out is it like a fusion kind of thing kind of okay kind of it looks interesting he's very psyched can't go
wrong with a ravioli that's my theory so all right so nothing urgent nothing last time I talked to Bridget I did ask her about um if we're gonna because she and Julie and I were going to get an inspection together on Union Street for
the marauding chickens but she said that we don't have anything yet that works for us and I think the guy works evenings or something so it's like kind of hard to schedule things but she did say too that there like haven't been
ongoing complaints we're aware of from there so I don't know maybe things did get better um I spoke to Julie like within the last couple of weeks and she said that it like looked like there was work being done there so yeah maybe hopefully that'll get better
too all right all right um regulations review so on the trash hauler did you send me Sam i didn't send them to you i did get them okay i thought I forwarded them and then I looked today and I realized I hadn't so
okay all right um I'll check that i'll send them it was like a It was from Irene right irene Congden sarah Verer she's the recycle mass she works oh that's right yeah okay all right so I know that last time you guys had talked
about how the their draft regulations were sort of the intent was a little different um she did call as like a followup and I sort of told her I was like there was some you know um reluctance to change all
that because of that she goes actually there's just three sections that they if we want the extra points in the Yeah those are the key to the point so and the three she did send them to me she highlighted them for me just forward it to me and we'll put it on the agenda
for the next meeting but I was just going to take a look at those three and see all right if we're not looking at the whole regulation we're just looking at these three points well points i guess you could use that to get the points these three points in the regulation to get the points but the
grant so the it would if we do it all three it would be two points for air which would result in [Music] $600 times 2 so that'd be 1,200 I think what does that go to does that come into
the general fund or does it go to something i think it might go to DPW i'm not sure okay all right i'll take a look at what her three are and then let's put it on again for next agenda and I can just give you a you know yeah it's worth
doing these couple of things or whatever or Okay that sounds great and I'll talk to Bridget too about what those changes are and how that would affect us the thing that we were really leerary about if you remember was um the thing about dumpsters in apartment buildings and
recycling and yeah that's that's like controlling something other than what we Yeah wanted this was um I look at that pretty quiet anybody have
anything to say about the call so yeah nothing exciting going on okay that's um minutes March 17th you didn't put on
the agenda the February 10th i realized that after can we vote on those then or I think minutes are met i don't think there's any the chair decides to vote on it you're fine all right the chair so decrees and
and I made the edit so I read the minutes and I had recused myself for the hearing and it wasn't part of the minutes and I asked Oh okay got it yeah yeah yeah if you're interested I added one sentence
okay that's the version you want me to sign or Okay i just wanted to be clear that I offered and the legacy did not ask i have page one if you want okay that's a good point here Pam please page one that goes with it but other than that I move on says presented all right
all in favor i these are the minutes of February 10th yes february 10th for clarification february 10th all in favor i We are all right
next we have last week's meeting which was pretty simple because it was a pretty simple meeting um there was nothing in this that looked I didn't see I didn't see that one i
have March March 17th look look at that it's really Oh I said I didn't see anything oh you didn't i thought you said I have March 17th and February 10th yeah yeah yeah okay so we just February 10th yeah that's it okay you want to make the motion for March or you want me
to uh um I make a motion that we accept the me the minutes of March 17 2025 all in favor second yeah I know i'm kind of rushing it come on come on come on second the motion all in favor
i just once I'd like to finish before six o'clock that That's a goal got 10 seconds yeah I know there's that one okay excellent and we also did what
february all right all right any animal and fowl permits yes awesome i got a the first round I guess great i did send out uh emails to everyone and then mailed the
few that need mail i will probably send out a second notice in a week or so okay but as it is we have 13 Malbury Circle who has 10 chickens are these all uh repeats or is
any All but one is a repeat okay um so I'll hold that one to the end uh 32 Calvin has 25 chickens nine victor has 18 chickens and ducks oh my gosh 80 Central has 25 chickens
wow 30 Grten Harvard has 10 chickens 186 Littleton Road has two goats oh gosh oh my gosh and then this is a new one um at 13 Rosewood julie has been out okay um he is all
good he's fine he did everything you're supposed to they're happy and healthy they're happy and healthy okay okay is Were there goats there before yes remember i thought I thought there
weren't but that's okay all right so this is just a this is a renewal for for his Yeah okay oh yeah i see he just Yeah he wrote on here saved okay you guys want to take a look at I'm I'm good i'm good you good okay well somebody's got
to move so actually let me take How do we do it as a Can we do it as a group or as an individual accept the permits as presented hang on let me take a quick look at this um so she has been there right she Julie has been there
do they need any paper andrew was asking Stop in yeah that's my poster now do they need any certificate paperwork andrew was asking I wonder if he's asking for like does he get any
Yeah he was asking if he needed the license i'm Oh okay that's what he's gonna That's my postit no all right i got it i got it okay and he gave us all this good stuff all
right a butter's lip there's a real one it was He just emailed it to me okay all right got it black Street Rose okay then this is the only new one all right so what do you guys have to say all right i
make a motion to ex I make a motion to um grant permits to for the uh keeping of animal and fowl as presented to the board second all in
favor i I All right I'm signing them i'm just amazed there's so many i know where I I don't see them no I hear the ones in my neighborhood i Yeah your h your house you can hear Yeah cuz I've got a couple of them like around me and
sometimes they're in my yard but I have no objection to that cuz I know they're eating grubs and ticks and stuff there's one up by Nisha Park he's a rooster that's every time I'm up there he's crawling away yeah I guess when you
bite the chicks it sometimes they make a mistake and you get a rooster sometimes Yeah yeah I know well what are you gonna do if I got my chicks and one was a rooster I probably
wouldn't be able to give it away either i think there's a rooster rescue in Lake Vber cuz I know a few people have been told like you have to get rid of your rooster and that's where Julie sends them yeah i think if it's making a public nuisance yeah i know someone had
three at one point and it was a bit of a problem yeah yeah they probably get each other going yeah yeah you know they're as the sun comes up and they're territorial so so they'll fight over Yeah that's what I mean if
you You're probably better to just have one i love the little chicken noises that my neighboring chickens make especially when they're those happy little contented chicken sounds the girls oh my god they're still coming
we have seven came in last year we had 25 permits total i'm getting eggs from my daughter's chickens they're the eggs are smaller but the yolks are like really deep deep
like that can does that vary according to what you feed them or if it's feed or if they're different kind huh well with the prices of eggs it's it's no wonder
all right bill's mail i have a bill it is a bills to pay the barn inspector your wages for FY25 of course so uh in the amount of $2,75 okay I don't think we have to do we
really vote on this oh come on the air bore of health that was me i'm sorry we are boring the book no it's like bore like the the big wild pig it's like the air you know
whatever bull or steer of hell do you mind if I put a D there go ahead it means it was like that last year too i just probably I probably just didn't notice it last year for the record I am not a boore fair enough
and do we have to vote on this do you guys want to vote on it i don't think we need I mean we appoint someone and the positions in the budget so we pay them and then we pay them i just need a signature so all right okay there we go
i got a whole bunch of mail i don't know if you're what you're interested in got a smattering from National Grid they're going to do their yearly [Music] um environmental monitoring around their
stuff board of Health gets notified okay uh is that like is it mostly vegetation yeah it's mostly vegetation so I got that um I've got a letter from D about FBS tire
recycling on Willow Road and the mitigation that's ongoing with that those will go on for a while i got another one can I see that you're more welcome to see that one we just get CCD on it um who owns that
now has that changed i don't know from the original i don't know this is like another version of the exact same thing still has Oh okay um we got
uh something from D about the landfill it's sort of their Oh is that the like periodic monitoring or something can I take a look at that then this is the Yeah this is like the standard
thing that they do and this is the herbicide um application program around the railways we got a letter about that um and from mosquito control commencement of laral mosquito control
in your community oh yeah that did go on the landfill monitoring sure i think it's one a once a year thing they go out there's wells in the woods down behind the old so yeah wouldn't be surprised i
got a whole host of mail there you go okay um no i don't that that doesn't sound like sort of a general okay you guys got mail that's that's the answer we got mail items for upcoming meeting so for sure I would say let's do
trash haul again let's do high reduction again um and then let's kind of see what comes in between now and then do either of you have anything else that you think we should have for next meeting
no those were the two the only Yeah those seem like the Yeah the things I will have more chickens yeah there will definitely be more of those okay steve have anything you want on for for next week no okay then our
date for the next one is like the It will be May 12th may 12th may 12th okay all right and there's nothing else on that day right i think the election is the next day town
election yes but that affects the planning so we're not interfering with anything okay next [Music] meeting 12
okay nothing else to talk about no it is 6 12 anyone have a motion to adjourn i'll let you keep reading if you want no I can keep reading i'm so make motion i'll make uh I make a motion to adjurnn
second okay 612 we are adjourned oh I meant All in favor i I'm rushing it tonight all in favor i Okay we