So, I'm going to um call this board of health meeting to order. It's April 30th. It's 5:00 p.m. and go around and do some introductions. I am Caroline Canella. I am the health director. Uh we have a new member tonight, Deborah
Milbower. Do you want to introduce yourself, Deborah? >> Yes. Hi everyone. I'm Deborah Milbour. >> Hi. Welcome to the board. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate it. >> And Laura Richards. Hi Laura Richards. >> Mary Stenson.
>> Hi Mary Stenson. Welcome. Carolyn Hull. Hi everyone >> and Jean Peterson, our clerk. Y okie do. So welcome everyone.
Um we'll move on to um citizen speak number two. I see that there is uh Linda Hudson in on the screen. Linda Linda would you like to speak at citizen speak? >> Thank you so much Caroline for
acknowledging me. No, no. I'm just here to u observe the um the the the the meeting tonight. But thank you for uh acknowledging me. I appreciate it. >> That's great. Okie do. >> Welcome, Linda. Okay. Uh anyone else for
Citizen Speak? >> Seeing no one else, um we'll move on to number three. Uh reorganization of the board of health. Um, so we take the time to reorganize for a chair, secretary, and member at
this time. So I believe it is my turn to be chair this year and I think so then it's Mary's to be secretary and Deborah, you would be member. Um, so I move to appoint
Laura Richards as chair, Mary Stenson as secretary, and Deborah as member of board of health. >> I'll second that. >> All in favor? I >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, number four is the annual town
meeting warrant article 41, discussion and potential vote. So this article 41 is um for the town to vote to transfer or the board of health to transfer a parcel shown on the town of Milton
assessor's map as map one block 38D lot 9 from the board of health for the board of health purposes to the select board for general municipal purposes and also to the select board for the purposes of leasing portions of such property and or
structures thereon for the installation of privately own solar photo voltic generation in our storage facilities and further to authorize the select board to lease by contract. You can go through the whole thing, but um this came to my attention um town
administrator Nick Milano um had sent us some information about this a couple months ago and I asked him for more information and sent it to the board. I'm going to bring up the um let me bring up the map so you can see it.
So this is the map and this is 30 acres that um they want the um board of health to transfer to uh the select board and um
that's what they're going to be voting on um article 41. hoping board that you can make a decision tonight um whether you approve this, whether you like to send it back or get more information and um decide tonight so we can just let them know ahead of the town meeting or
when it when that's happening. >> When is town meeting? >> When is town meeting? >> Town meeting is starting on uh Wednesday, May 6th. >> Okay.
C Caroline, I was re kind of reading reading this and rereading it and >> I would recommend sending it back for more study because there are so many factors to consider. Um, and I think to
make an informed decision, we need some more information. I mean, I would anyway to vote on it because some of it is vague like how many panels um what are the spec specifics of it for
in reference to the article and I think it needs to be sent back for for just more study and to get a proposal of um what what things are going to look like kind of more specifics about what
it's about. I mean it is a large piece of land and um along with structural stuff um you know what what's the yield? What will the what are we looking at more specifically than just this ask?
>> Thanks Mary. >> I >> I just have a question. So, is the entire lot nine currently under our control or is it just the the red
square? So, that's a really good question and I don't know the answer to that. So, I suspect that because underneath granite before granite links it was the dump there. it was probably under the control of the board of health and that's why
when town council looked into this >> um that's what they're basing their ask on >> but in this article it looks like they're only asking about the control of this 30 acres in the red but you're right I don't know if it's still all
under our control >> because it was the dump but now it's great at length so >> I don't know >> well I don't yeah I don't know we Will we have to vote before town meeting if we like if we don't do it tonight? Do
we have to uh meet next week or >> so? Let's see. Town meeting is this 6th which would be next Wednesday. >> I mean we could meet again on like trying to think. I'm going to post it
on Monday or Tuesday to to talk about it further if you want more clarification around it. Or you could decide tonight that you don't have enough information in the warrant to make a decision and have them send it back. >> Yeah.
>> For more for more study. >> Deborah, do you have any thoughts on this or >> um Yeah, thank you. Um uh my thinking is that if we're going to vote on this at town meeting that we
should probably vote tonight or meet again before um town meeting. I to me it's pretty straightforward in terms of it. It's not really question of the solar panels. It's a question of ownership of the land or or stewardship.
Um it I if I had more time, it just came to my attention today. Um but I am curious. It doesn't affect our vote because I do think we should vote in favor to give it back to the select board um for solar panels and the faster we do solar panels the better in terms
of not waiting for another town meeting in case we miss this one. My question which would not hold up the vote is a separate one which is around what were the environmental health issues when it was a dump and have those been resolved
and are there measurable impacts and what were the what was the impact on the land prior to the animal shelter being built? That's all about curiosity and and wondering if there is a long-term environmental um health impact from the
uh from the dump itself, which is obviously um old news. So, that's just something I would like to look more into myself on the side, but I don't want to I don't think it should hold up the um the vote tonight, which I support to
send uh to vote in favor of of sorry to vote in favor of um giving it back to the select board in terms of stewardship. >> Uh I'm I'm kind of in favor of it, too. Um,
just in light of the fact that I never knew we had any control over that area. Um, so I've never done anything with it before. >> What do you think, Mary? >> Well, I think we need to find out some
more information to make a to make a clear decision. There's too many questions that we need a little few answered before we give a decision. Is this something we could um
get the information and just call you all separate call you separately with our um thoughts? >> Yeah. So what you could do is you could if you have questions I can bring them to the town administrator Nick Milano
>> and he can answer your questions and then separately you can say to me >> um that yes um that you do agree with it and um transfer it or you can say no let's um send it back for study. So if you're not getting the the questions
answered or um you can you can say either way and I can do that separately. I can reach out to all of you. So, I encourage you if you do have questions regarding the 30 acres to um you can send them to me and then I can send them to Nick
>> and um then I can reach out to you again and and see it. It's difficult because well, we'll have to get kind of get a consensus. Um that's what they're trying to do before the meeting, >> right? >> Um >> but we could have the consensus before just without having to meet again. You
could >> Why don't we do that? Just um so Mary's concerns are addressed and we can still vote, you know, and then it's still possible that it could be voted on at
town meeting. Is that okay with everyone? >> Yeah. >> Um I I say it again. I don't I don't think I understand. Say it again. Oh, well um we could we can't talk amongst
ourselves through an email. It all has to be done through Caroline um because that would constitute a meeting. And so Carol, we could all contact um we would give our questions to Caroline about that we might have on
this issue and then she will speak with Nick and then give of you the responses and then we can all separately tell her whether we want to vote whether we want it to be a go or not.
>> Does it have to be a formal vote? Isn't this a land transfer of stewardship? I don't I don't know the exact uh the exact wording. Does it does it have to be a vote? >> I'm not sure.
>> I'm not sure it has to be a vote. >> This says transfer um article 41. So I guess at town meeting we're voting to transfer the parcel shown on the town of Milton assessor's map.
>> So town meeting members usually it's like a recommendation. They'll say like what's the recommendation of the board of health and it could be like um yes they recommend it or no they recommend it or they're not going they want it to be sent back.
>> So our recommendation doesn't have to be a vote is what you're saying. >> I don't think it does but I don't know that. I'd have to ask Nick. So the question is does it does a recommendation have to be a vote? What about if we vote to get our questions answered?
Um, if they're answered to our satisfaction, then it's a yes or something like that. Would that be possible? >> I have a question. >> What What specific questions are we are
we looking for specifically? like what would change the recommendation? What information are we looking for? >> What were your questions, Mary? >> Excuse me. There's like this this stuff with like um just the the biodiversity and the
ecosystems and their intention for use and how much needs to be used and just the numbers behind um just how much you know how much of the the panels are effective to give um you know proper
energy to the um the the pound. um just about the like runoff, the water runoff and the storm water stuff and the heat island effect and there's there's just a bunch of things that I would like
answered in a knowing kind of way before I say yes or no. So, I just write them up and I can document I can write the questions up for Nick. And >> uh >> it's a recommendation. So, it's just
something can't say yes or no to it if I don't have more information. >> Right. Well, I move to provided our an our answer our questions are answered.
um to our satisfaction that we allow or recommend I don't know I don't know how to phrase it. Um I recommend we go forward with this as long as our questions are
answered satisfactorily. That way we can just respond to you, Caroline, and and then we'll have voted on it. >> Yep. >> Does anyone second this? >> Okay, I'll second that.
>> All in favor? I >> anyone mean I >> so I would recommend that we um vote now but I'm okay with waiting if we don't need a vote and it's just you're saying um
>> well we're voting yeah we're voting >> we're voting that as long that we'll recommend it as long as the questions are answered >> okay >> to our satisfaction all right sounds Great.
>> Okay. Did you all say I and >> Yes. >> Okay. >> As long as answer. >> Okay. All right. If you can get me the questions tomorrow or Monday at the latest. >> Sure.
>> Um just so I can get the information to Nick, that'd be great. Monday at the latest and um I'll have him answer the questions and so we'll get more of um an idea. >> Great. Thanks. >> All right. Great. >> Thank you, Caroline. Um can I ask a
question? How would one go about getting the environmental impact information about the dump? Like where is that housed? Is was is that captured anywhere? >> I have no idea. We just found out about this that we
even have control over this parcel. So, we did not ever know it. So, it just came up. They must town council must have found out, you know, that we um we have this land and um it's under the jurisdiction of the board of health and we did not know it. So,
that's how it came up. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. All right. So, we'll get some more information if you can send my the questions and I'll bring them up with Nick and and um you know, if everyone has it answered satisfactoryy, then we'll say that we do recommend it. And
if not, then we can send it back for more study if we're not satisfied with the answers. Does that sound good? >> Yes, >> sounds good. >> Okay, perfect. All right, great. We'll move along to number five. reappointment of the health department staff and
regional staff as agents of the board of health. Uh and I can read the staff uh if you vote yes to do this. So we do this every year. We just um say all the staff members and you vote to reappoint them as agents of the board of health. This
is our staff um health director, public health nurse Caroline Canella, assistant health director Carolyn Hoe, senior clerk Jean Peterson, public health nurse Susan Porier, community health social worker Ian Gman, Mass and Motion Coordinator Lisa Courtney, Drug-Free
Community Project Coordinators Anya Amadi and Berlin Awatch, and Nor County Regional Epidemiologist Sarah Lavari. Um would you vote to appoint reappoint all of those staff to um be agents of the
board? >> I vote yes. >> Um I vote yes. But can I say something about it first? >> Sure. >> I just want to lift up all these folks from all my work I've done over the years with
all these folks. Uh the health department, Caroline, you and the entire health department works really, really hard and you all do an enormous amount of work and I'm hoping that um I can help play a role in getting you all more
resources. You you all do amazing work and it's my honor to to reappoint you all as my first task on the board. >> That's great. Thank you. All right. So, um, roll call.
>> Laura Richards. I >> I >> Deborah Milower. I >> Okay, perfect. Thank you so much. Okie dos. Um, number six is the future meeting date. If you want to look at
your calendars, May 1st pretty much we usually meet on uh Mondays, Monday evenings. Um, the 25th is Memorial Day 18th. >> The 18th. Um, do you want to put it out
to June? June 1st. May 1st is tomorrow. >> What do you think the agenda will be looking like? Is there anything coming up that you think will need to be voted on? Do we have any um septics, Carolyn, coming up? >> No, not that I know of. I I have a perk
test coming up on Harlland's tree next week, but I don't know what the results of that is yet. >> Is anybody else asking to come on? Um what about that microblader? Does she have her work in her paperwork in yet? >> Not all of her paperwork.
>> Okay. Well, we could June 1st is fine with me. >> It's okay with me. >> Good. >> June 1st. Okay. >> All right. >> Let's plan it for June 1st. Uh, you want to keep it 7 o'clock on
Zoom? >> Sure. Sure. Sure. June 1st, 700 p.m. Zoom. Okie do. Um, I just included just in your paperwork any other updates. It's
not on the agenda, but um, there's just a couple things coming up in the month, the Arcan food drive on May 16th, our prevention play on the 20th, June 2nd, our QPR training, and June 4th a documentary. So, those are all coming
up. I didn't put them on the agenda, but it's just as a reminder um for you, Deborah, too. We have a couple >> What was the prevention thing? >> Uh the prevention play at the Council on Aging. >> Oh, >> yeah. It's going to be called Second
Act. So, that's coming up, too. We're going to start advertising for all this stuff, but just to keep you in the loop. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Um Okay. All right. Would everyone like to adjourn? 523.
>> Yes. >> Right. Want to roll call it. >> Laura Richards. Yes. >> Deborah Milbower. Yes. >> Mary Stenson. Yes. >> Oh, sorry. Mary Stenson. Yes.
>> Okay. Perfect. >> All right. Well, we're all set. Have a good night, everybody. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you very much.