All right. Um, good evening everyone. Um, today is March 19th, 2026. Um, this is a meeting of the East Long Meadow Board of Health. Um, so I'm going to call this meeting to order and the board of health is recording. Is anyone else
recording? Okay. Um, with that done through, um, we are holding this meeting tonight, um, via Zoom webinar pursuant to, um, a number of executive orders issued by, uh, former Governor Charlie Baker and
current Governor Mora Healey, um, suspending certain provisions of the mass open meeting law. So with that, um, first item on our agenda tonight is that we need to approve the minutes of the February 25th, 2026 meeting. Um, ladies,
did you have a chance to look through those? >> Yep. Uh, are they anybody want to make a motion here? Are they okay as written? >> Sure. Motion to approve as written. We just want to point out that we um the ones that were sent to you um we had to change the date on the second line for
the minutes just to reflect that it's the January 15th meeting that we approved last time. That's all. >> Oh, gotcha. So then I motion to approve asended by uh the East Long Meadow Department of Health. >> All right. U Katie, can you just rephrase that? You're doing the February meeting.
>> Yes. I motion to approve the February meeting minutes with the addendum of the changing of the date as Tammy mentioned >> and I will second that. Um and roll call vote Christine Johnston I. Dr. Katie Jobins >> I.
>> Rebecca Torscha >> I. >> All right. Um so that has passed and then we move on to the March 2nd 2026 hearing. Um how are those minutes as written? They looked fine when I read them. I didn't see anything.
>> Okay. Um, and quick question. Um, Tammy, should Rebecca abstain from that? Was she Was that the one she was not at? >> Um, Robert Turtles does not um require someone who is not in attendance to abstain um if they just approve of the
way the minutes are as read. Um, but you can always choose to. Yeah, >> I was just making sure that for clerical purposes. Um, so I can make a motion to approve the um minutes from the March 2nd, 2026 hearing as written. Um, do I have a second?
>> Thank you. Um, and roll call vote. Christine Johnston, I uh Dr. Katie Jins, >> hi. >> Rebecca Torsa, >> I. >> Right. So, both of those have passed. Excellent. Um, next item on our agenda is public comment. Um, if anyone is here
for public comment, if you could please raise your hand at this time. >> No, there's no one for public comment. >> Okay. Um, with that being said, we will move forward into the business at hand. Um the first um item on our agenda is
um a discussion regarding the corrective actions at 41 Pleasant Street, East Long Meadow um in response to the December 19th, 2025 housing inspection. Um is Angeline Noel here? And Angeline, if you
are here and would like to join us um at this point to chat, yes, raising your hand. Um so Renee, could you let Miss Noel in um to speak? Sorry, I did not mean to do that. >> All right, are we all set, Renee?
>> Um, I believe Sorry, give me one second. I hit the wrong button. That's my fault. I'm sorry, Angeline. Give me one second. Okay, now we're good. All right, Angeline, thank you for joining us again
tonight. Um, I know you have submitted a number of items to Tammy as part of the health department. Um, so Tammy, could you just give us a quick update and then Angeline, we'll invite you to speak if you have anything else to add.
>> So, let's see. Today, I um received uh a couple confirmations from Miss Noel. Um the beam in the basement is secured. Um and there is a new lock on the door. Um um the porch is completely repaired. Um
that the attic ceiling uh was finished today. I think actually this I have an extra email that where it was finished and there were some pictures. Um and then it was cleaned up uh yes. Okay. Oh, and the mouse droppings were remediated. Um there was a tree that fell on the
property on Monday night. Um but it was completely cleaned up by yesterday. Um, the window work is going to be done in April when it's a bit warmer. Um, let's see. I know I have another >> I think No, I think that is all that I
received today. Um, >> yes, that's everything. Thank you, Angela. >> Small desk, lots of papers. >> Yeah. Well, you know, some of the really important things were done, such as the
porch floor. That was a big job. And the um attic ceiling, all the plaster repair. It wasn't just that one area that I had repaired. I had the entire ceiling repaired anywhere that it needed
to be. and the beam in the basement. Um, yeah. Um, so and then >> what are we're waiting on the window. That's
>> Yeah, there's there's a window that needs to be uh it says uh not weather tight and um there's a door on the sec a bedroom door that has a crack in it on
the second floor and um the bathroom window has a crack in the side molding of the plastic and then Connecticut dry basement which started um you know with a new window
and uh they closed up the old bulkhead and so they once again weather permitting. So now that the weather's changed for the better they can continue uh their work on the foundation
and the uh bulkhead. Um, earlier this week, the building inspector forwarded me some uh pictures from the occupant about uh water seeping in the basement. Well, the thing is, >> yeah, Monday night we had that crazy
rain >> and um you know, we've had >> So, um when my son actually I called HD HD Air is they service us like I have a
contract with them for 24-hour response. and my son met the HD air guy over in the basement and and the uh sump pump was unplugged. So they plugged it in and as soon as they plugged it in, it started soaking up the water. You have
to I mean it's a basement that requires a sump pump. So there was nothing wrong with the sump pump and uh so o with all the rain it is you know a basement that tends to get wet but the sump pump does
its job and as the Connecticut uh dry basement continues to kind of do what they need to do then um then it'll continue you know we're that's what we're trying to do is to you know keep it as dry as we possibly here.
>> Does the water come up on the side near the sump pump or does it come up on in other areas? >> Honestly, you know, the house is 130 years old. The the foundation is a stone foundation with a dirt floor. It's an
old house. So, um I am not entirely sure. That's why we hired Connecticut dry basements to take care of, you know, whatever needs to be done to try to keep it as dry as we possibly can. But with that said, you know, in this sort of
especially like with the storm on Monday and all the ice melt, that really warm weather, um people who have issues with their basement, that's when you're going to have those issues. But like I said, the
sump pump was unplugged. So HD Air didn't even charge me for that visit because it was like the guy was like, you know, I have no reason to be here, so he just left. Okay, thank you for that. That's what I have on my list here to
cover, >> right? Um, and so we're looking at the window repair, um, the finishing of any of the work from the dry basement folk. Anything else? What else is on there,
Tammy? Oh, you know, how about the, um, Alex wrote baseboard, but she I know she meant to say the radiator cover in the uh, kitchen pantry. Was that one? >> Yeah. Yeah, that that needs I think we just have to replace the entire it's a
baseboard um heat and the and I haven't seen it. I don't have a picture or anything, but I think the cover is missing. So, I'm just going to get a new cover for that. >> Okay. >> But it doesn't affect the heat itself. I
mean, it still heats. It's just like a safety issue to have those in houses. Yeah. >> Yeah. Oh, and the other thing that's been done is uh it was added to the list, you know, recently. I just got the notice like a week ago that we needed to put in a new lock set for the door and
that was done as well. >> Okay, let's see. So, the um this next uh the following Friday is the end of this 30-day period. So, Angeline, you don't anticipate th that work being done obviously before
next Friday. >> Yeah, because the dry basement, I mean, we're talking about the bulkheads. They had to wait until the snow went away in order to like finish up because they're doing concrete work outside. So to do finish the bulkhead and the window and
then actual window repair inside of the apartment or window replacement, you know, April it'll it should be, you know, okay to pull windows out and switch them out if we need to.
I just did a little calc that would be a an additional 30-day would expire on April 27th, which would give you the month of April to hopefully get most of that that window work completed and um those other items.
>> Yeah. >> Um uh Rebecca Katie, do you have any additional questions for Miss Noel? I don't. Okay. Tammy, anything else from you? >> No, just um Angeline, if you could uh
set up a time so that we can um do an actual inspection, I can visualize all the corrections, that would be fantastic. >> Absolutely. Now, do you go alone or how does that work? You're going to go with me? >> It's just me.
>> Oh, okay. Well, um I don't know how it was set up in the past because I was never part of that. Um but I can um Yeah, absolutely. I'd actually like to go and see some of
this, you know, work that's been done as well, but I don't have to go with you. >> I mean, >> okay. is the um so far the things are out are either in the basement or the porch is that um accessible to um
>> Oh yeah, like the porch you can just you know walk up and see that it's and I you can see in the pictures the the new wood on the porch the uh pictures of the attic you can see all the new plaster work that was done. You know I tried to send pictures to kind of show every item
that's been corrected. the new lock set, the beam in the basement, all that. But if But if you'd like to come take a look at it, absolutely. >> Okay, I'm good.
>> Okay. Um well, Angeline, thank you very much. um and appreciate all the the work that you've been doing on this. Is there anything else um that you need to share with us at this point? >> Thank you. Um no. Um just to, you know,
reiterate that I'm happy to be doing it because it's just improvements to the house and uh things that did need to be done in the past. And um yeah, I'm happy to be doing it. It's coming along
smoothly and um yeah, so that's good. >> All right, thank you very much. Um Renee, we're going to have you move Miss Noel back um off. Thank you. And so, um, I can make a motion at this point, um, to grant Miss
Angeline Noel, um, owner of 41 Pleasant Street, East Long Meadow, um, a 30-day extension um, to, uh, provide corrective actions um, in response to the December 19th, 2025
housing inspection, which would expire on April 27th, 2026. Okay. Do we have a second? >> A second. >> All right. Um and we'll do a roll call vote. Christine Johnston, I Dr. Katie Jins, >> I. >> Rebecca Torcha,
>> hi. >> All right. Um so, Miss Noel, um we will Tammy or please be in touch with Tammy um in April so that she can get out and do an inspection. Um and thank you for the the work that you've been doing.
Um, all right. Next item on our agenda is a discussion regarding the corrective actions um at 36 Frasier Drive, East Long Meadow, in response to the January 12th, 2026 um housing inspection. Um, Mr. Alex Sarah, if you are here and
would like to join us, um, you are welcome to do so. I think Rene's popped you in. If you have anything that you'd like to share with us at this point, >> um, can you guys hear me? We can. Thank you. >> Um just just that um the information
that I sent you regarding the insurance adjuster that had gone out to the house um just I'm just still waiting on the report from um the adjuster um which was submitted to his upper management. It has not been um submitted to me yet. Um
he's just waiting approval. Um, as far as uh our probate court um hearings, last Friday on the 13th, I believe we had court uh with court tomorrow. Um, still waiting on a
judgment from the justice uh regarding a nesting agreement to gain access to the residents um to correct the actions for the board of health or the violations that are um noted. and um I just do not
have access to the house um or stay away from the house for um you know fear of false accusations um going forward. So um I've remained a distance away from the house. Uh, so I will keep
you updated as um the court updates um and keep you guys in the loop, but as of right now, I do not have access to the residence. >> Thank you very much for keeping us updated. Um, and
based on my calculation, um, your current timeline expires April 3rd, which would then extend to May 3rd, um, if we did an additional 30 days. Um, understanding that you currently don't have access to the property. Um,
Tammy, anything else on your end? >> Um, no, just all that I shared with you. Same that he had uh just uh reiterated. >> All right. Um well, thank you for staying in touch with Tammy and keeping us updated. Um just like Miss Noel did.
Um obviously, uh making sure that we're just keeping uh the flow of information going is very helpful. Um so at this point, I would also make a motion um to grant uh Mr. Alex Sarah, property owner at 36 Frasier Drive, East Long Meadow.
Um an additional 30-day extension um in response to the January 12th, 2026 housing inspection for corrective action. >> I second. >> Right. Um so we'll do a roll call vote. Christine Johnston, I Dr. Katie Jobins,
>> I. >> And Rebecca Torsa, >> I. >> All right. U Mr. Sarah, thank you so much for joining us and please just keep us updated um through Tammy um about if and when you are able to get into the property and provide those actions. So,
thank you for joining us tonight. Um all right, with that, Tammy, we will turn it over to you for um additional health department updates. >> Well, I uh kept it really thin because I wasn't sure how much time we'd have today. Um there is a lot of stuff going
on. It's a very busy time of year uh just with us kind of preparing for the spring season. Um I think some of the things that are like to highlight our let's see May 1st we will be having our Earth fair with May 2nd uh to follow um
would be their Earth cleanup. Uh, all the information on signing up and starting teams and how to get bags and everything like that will be is up on our website and our Facebook page. And I think with the um we'll be sending uh forms to some of the schools for the
kids to do the logo contest again, which is great. We've also been doing a push to send um more information out to businesses about uh uh trash disposal and recycling.
Let's see. Um trying to just kind of keep up with the permitting and licensing for this time of year. And uh I think that's kind of it for updates. Obviously,
I don't have a health inspector update other than she's her family's very happy at home. Um, let's see. Uh, I didn't put on the agenda because I didn't think we'd have enough time. Um,
but one of the this would be I'm going to go with this is other business. Um, business that has not been discussed yet. Um some time ago we were informed
that the name to at which um the Deer Park recycling facility was using um within the application process um to us and D and on all the forms was actually incorrect.
um that they were they wrote it was Deer they wrote Deer Park Recycling LLC but it's not an LLC and they had asked that the be corrected and um
I've talked to Jess Jesse or uh Jesse Elder Timmy about it uh and he had come up with a couple ideas for how to look at that information and um and I've shared it with Christine, but we have to
I think at at a meeting actually kind of look at the options for it. Um because depending on whether or not we really want to open up a can of worms uh and h open up hearings is just kind of I think uh what is probably the main
reason for some of the decision-m but uh I will share some of more of that information and then at our next meeting we can plan on uh discussing it further and if we need Jesse to help us but they're
on their end doing all their legal stuff. So, um we're kind of not needed for that process. But anyway, I just wanted to bring that up um at this meeting and then not so for next week and plan on um
discussing uh the board's take on this uh the request to correct the terminology. Um and I don't have anything else that's really that exciting.
other than us trying to do our best with um short staff right now and uh one another one of our staff just announced that she's uh going to retire so that'll be something interesting. Um, also
things are rolling. Actually, things are, see, this is what happens with me. I say I have nothing to talk about and then I start bringing things up. Things are rolling with the shared service arrangement. Um, we have a lot of our paperwork in. We're just kind of waiting
on We have our letters of commitment. Um, we're just waiting on our end. We're um approving an intermissional agreement. And once we've approved it and the board has approved it and Christine has signed it, um then it moves on to the other communities. But in the meantime, we actually are allowed
to start doing work um uh towards our public health goals and because we have received the first half of this year's funds. Um so we'll probably start working on what it looks like as a
governing body for us. um and whether or not you guys want to participate in the governing body aspect of it or not. Um and we're also probably will look at um how to start off with coordination. Would it be hiring a shared service coordinator or maybe getting a
contractor to do some strategic planning and coordination um since there's really not a lot of time left in the rest of the year to um to spend down that those funds. Um, so that's kind of exciting and it's I really wish the IMAS were in place so
that we could really um feel I guess like it's um totally official even though it is official. I feel like when I see those documents I will really feel like it is. Um and like I'm actually meeting with some of them tomorrow for totally other
purposes of training um because I still have to do housing training just like everybody else. We're doing housing training in Westfield. Um, so it's really exciting. If um, if you guys have like bucket list ideas for East Long
Meadow, let me know. We can start putting some things on strategic plans that we really couldn't do before because we didn't have either the funds or the staff for it. So, AEDs everywhere. >> Katie's got AEDs everywhere
>> at all the sport fields. that would be a great thing. A lot of the towns are doing this and so if there's again it's a health department thing that we could do. Um thinking about like public health because that's what saves lives like when a bystander grandparent someone
unfortunately has an event and they're not most of our sporting fields are not attached to schools. No. >> So I think that would be something that would be great. I do think it's something >> what right >> or if they are at schools the school is
closed right on a Saturday or you know >> well I I do think that it's would be easy to have the funds to do that um getting the buy in and getting people to um uh I guess put together the type of
program they need is is the work that would probably have to get done. Tell me what needs to happen. >> I'm very I have the woo. I will convince people it's important. I'll make a presentation with sparkles. No. >> Oh, you Yeah, you definitely don't have
to >> don't have to get me convinced. >> Well, and I think the other thing too would be like the stop the bleed. Those two, the stop the bleed and the AEDs I think would be really great. um and just really they're effective
from a population health and a preventative health perspective. So I'm happy to help with that in any way. >> Yeah, those are those are things where buying the buying the products which normally are the hurdle is the easiest part in this sort of thing. getting the
buy in from uh like uh clubs and from like park and wreck board and everybody else. That's >> I'm very persuasive. >> We need a champion. >> I'll wear a crown. No, I'm kidding.
>> She will be full dressed as Jon of Varc with a long sword. And >> I'm kidding. >> I have a nice white coat I can wear. Yeah, but like even like yesterday I was on like there's a monthly until we have a shared service coordinator I have to attend the shared service coordinator
meetings and yesterday was all about maternal uh child health and they had some towns like Framingham and their shared service the arrangement around Framingham um they have things like um events that are about maternal child
health but then they are they surround or surround they surround an event like um they call it a community baby shower. So there might be like supplies and things like that, but then there's actual like health information and
everything like that that I just thought some of them were kind of interesting what they're doing in other places that we'll be able to do well as long as the shared service arrangement group itself agrees on it as a whole because it's something that we have to be able to
share and duplicate within the four communities. which is why we have to have a governance body of course. Um but yeah, when you think of things when you're keeping in your mind, you know, we we're not just blood
pressure checks and flu clinics and hot dog cart inspections. We can probably get a lot more. That's not just what we are, but sometimes it feels like that's what people think we are. Um,
we're also animal control and trash and everything else under the sun it seems like. >> And if you >> I was going to say if you go to any of those meetings and can give us some ideas, right, of like what other communities have done, maybe they are or
not like things that we would duplicate, but like good ideas come from other good ideas. >> Oh, absolutely. like um the I believe they're called the Miltown. So, Ledlo Palmer and then um I wear in Brimfield maybe. Um they're celebrating
that was I think it was like sleep awareness week with having these little sleep awareness um educational um items and like get giving out these free free sleep bags which I thought was really neat that they did. And I I'm always
though a big proponent of being able to get out more information on um arbo virus related diseases. So hopefully I can get the other uh three communities on board with that because I don't think that with the way our climate is
changing the problems will go away. Especially with so much snow this winter, we're going to see we're going to see a lot of mosquitoes and ticks and lots of other things. Did you I just heard about this like uh moth that's
come to town come to Massachusetts that's on the Cape that they're worried is going to leave the cape. That's a moth that's not the um >> not the one I sent you a picture of >> otter lantern fly. No, like yet another thing. And then the idea of things like
the lone star tick moving out and off the islands like no please let's just let's just stay with mosquitoes. Let's just stay with uh you know our the things we already know.
Although I mean technically things like the spotter lantern flight right now really aren't they're not um a concern on the public health level. they're more of a concern um agriculturally speaking, but I think
because we always get wrapped in with um arbo virus surveillance, we sort of get those questions and everything like that. But I would say that if you get a letter um from the USDA or MASD
asking if they could um put a a trap up in your yard, I would take up people up on the offer because it's sort of our first line of defense for something like the spotted lantern fly. Um and reporting it on the um Mdar's website, I think also helps. I know last year I
think we talked about that, Katie. Um let's see. See, I say, "Oh, there's nothing nothing important going on, but there's there's always stuff." Um, let's see what else.
I anticipated that we didn't we weren't going to have a lot of time. um after our last uh the last time with theratom uh public comments and I um in in regards to that I'm still kind of um researching and gathering
information onratom uh gathering information on the other synthetic um cannabonoids andratom products. I was able to last um week Massachusetts health office association did a onehour no mass environmental
health association in conjunction with the Massachusetts board uh uh health boards um did a cratom presentation um which was really helpful and a lot of towns talked about their um their regulations and how the thought process that they
did and putting in a um putting in it and like the pitfalls and some of the problems. Um, one of the things that they did was some of the people did were um they were utilizing some tobacco regulations for fines and things like that. And
those because they are um state related and we emulate them really can't be mimicked in that sort of fashion. We really have to um we really have to treat them a little bit differently than tobacco. Um and
Yeah, a lot of new businesses in town. Um, a lot of people opening, a lot of plan review. Um, I believe a Mediterranean uh bowl place just opened up on Maple by Dunkin Donuts. Um there's a lot of uh talk about different
buildings kind of industrial area um going up and uh and then of course we're you know awaiting being able to actually get inside of the high school and take a look. They all know that I'm always
available with a hard hat and some boots for pre pre pre inspections and walkthroughs because that's the thing that excites me, which I think that we're going to they're going to be able to be the kitchen staff is going to be
able to be there um probably I think early August to be able to start training on some of the um uh on some of the new equipment they have there. And then I don't think I think the pool might is looking more
towards September. Um, so that'll be exciting, too. I love a new pool opening. Those are kind of fun, especially when they're all up to code. Um, and
yeah, that's that's my list. I did not write it. I I was so busy with all these other things that I did not write it down. That was just from memory today. >> That was great. A lot going on. Yeah, >> it's busy.
>> How we looking the phones? There's always something that somebody wants. The snow has melted. People notice their neighbors yards just and call us. Katie, what are you seeing in the
hospital? Anything interesting? >> Still like some weird lingering just, you know, seasonal viral illnesses, but really actually we've kind of decreased the number which is good. Um but you know a mix of the common cold like
regular corona virus or human metanumo which everyone was excited about last year but a little smattering of RSV and a little smattering of the flu and COVID 19 but things have been knock on wood good
which makes me happy. Keep washing your hands, drinking your milk or whatever it is that keeps you happy. All right. Uh Katie, Rebecca, any additional business uh to bring up tonight. Okay. Um
looks like we need to meet by April 27th, if I'm doing my math correctly. Um based on the different before his April vacation. >> Does the 16th of April that that's how
many weeks away? One, two, three. >> Yeah, I can do the 16th. >> Give me one sec. I'm not signed into the right calendar. >> It works for me. >> Okay. And we'll just double check. This is usually the day that's not taken by anybody on a Thursday,
>> right? Thursday. >> Double check with LCAT just to make sure. And then we'll send out the invites. >> All right. Uh yeah, works for me, too. Sorry for the delay there.
>> Okay. >> Same time, >> six o'clock. Mhm. >> Tammy, I can send an email tomorrow from the office if you want. >> Thank you. >> Great. Do we need to motion to adjourn?
>> We most certainly do. >> All right. I motion for us to close this March meeting of the board of health. >> I second that. >> All right. And uh Christine Johnston, I Dr. Katie Jins, >> I. >> Rebecca Torscha, >> I.
>> All right. Uh meeting is now closed. Thank you everyone. Have a good night. >> Thank you in spring. Bye bye.