Hello. >> Hey, Carrie. >> Hi, Carrie. >> Hi. >> A little bit there. We've got half smiles and we've got half sort of like I got to rename myself here. Just got to
take off that hat and just put on my regular hat there. Is everybody healthy? I >> think so. Yeah. >> Good. >> Looking forward to the spring. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I know.
>> This agenda is like a spring break. It's It's >> This is like fun time, you know? >> Short and sweet. Hopefully. >> There you go. Everybody has earned that. It's good to have a >> Yeah. uh straightforward
when we can. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I think we're all here. >> So, hey, you can >> after seeing the agenda, you're like, well, you're up to me.
>> I'm still here. >> You're here. >> All right. So, I'm going to call the meeting to order and um as usual, we'll do roll call uh alphabetically. Um Addie, Eddie, are you there?
You're on mute. I'm thinking he's there. Okay, we'll come back. Uh S >> here. >> Carrie, >> yes, here. Sophie >> here. >> Kevin
>> here. >> Joan >> here. >> And Rick and Addie. >> I'm I'm here. My apologies. I I had a meltdown with my three-year-old Adi Bengali present.
>> Great. Um so we have a a pretty short agenda. There haven't been any um major issues that we're going to need to address. Um we'll review the minutes from our last meeting. We'll do public comment if there is any um and some
updates from a day and live and um and we'll wrap it up unless there's anything else. So in terms of the um the minutes from February 12th, uh were there any suggestions, edits,
comments? >> No, >> I didn't see anything. Okay. I had um two minor things. Um >> Colin would be proud. >> Um so in terms of u the second paragraph
where it says I reviewed the agenda and so forth and we were going to do an administrative hearing on on West Street. Uh my English teacher would say West Street should be capitalized. The W. >> Okay. Um,
>> is that picky or what? Um, and then only other >> but still accurate. >> Accurate. >> Yes. And it is capitalized throughout the rest of the minutes. >> Yeah. the the other thing and then maybe Kevin you can speak to this because I I don't
remember precisely but um on the second page under the um let's see >> it's actually at the end of the West Street mobile >> discussion there's a separate paragraph that says uh member Kevin Son
acknowledges that the First Baptist Church has rescended their request for an outdoor refrigerator that is why the board is not discussing it. Kevin, did you raise that? I I don't know whether you did a day did I thought I did, but I
do remember to I'm not sure why how you would know is >> No, I I know exactly how I would know because I didn't do it. >> Um, so I I so AI is great. >> Yeah. >> But I don't think it's obviously not
perfect. And so when we use AI to do our minutes, this is why it's a good, you know, it's it's a good idea to to review our minutes to to see what it was that was said because that was definitely not brought up by me. I think it was assigned to me but it should have really
been assigned to the board and like you said I I think I think more appropriately assigned to a day >> um as they have withdrawn their >> their their application for whatever it is. Yeah, >> I think now that you say this I remember
this a day said and blah blah blah. Sorry to cut you off a day. Yeah, >> that's a good pickup. I didn't I missed that one. Thank you. Yeah, same. >> So, I believe um Kevin raised at that point. >> You think Kevin raised it? >> Yes, absolutely.
>> How would he know? >> I don't know. >> When I do the minutes, I don't use AI. I actually watch back the entire meeting. So, if that was a mistake on my part, I can go back there and watch it. But typically, I watch back the whole meeting when I do the >> and and when I do the reviews as well,
um I watch the minutes um the video as well. So, I believe Kevin made that point because we were going to skip it. >> We were not going to say anything about it. And then, >> okay, >> Kevin was like, you know, >> um, we should have had an agenda item, but we took it out.
>> I remember him saying that. >> Okay. So, so Haley, maybe you could just review it. >> If it was Kevin, leave it in there. If it was anyone else, go update that. So, >> Haley, I'm sorry. If that was if that was my bad, you know, no worries about
it. >> Um I know I raised it originally. >> Yeah. >> I don't you know because it was two meetings ago that it came up first, >> right? >> I don't recall raising it as um maybe other than just mentioning it.
>> Yeah. >> Um that it happened. >> Does anybody else recall like >> we're all Haley? If you review it in my in my mo said it then then write it down. >> Well, if you want I can kind of reward it maybe.
>> No, no. Whatever I said just please please word it the way it was was said by me. If if I said it I just didn't recall it that way. That's all. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And it's a little odd. It's kind of tucked in there after the tobacco violation and before the report. But
>> yeah, I didn't exactly I didn't exactly know where to put it because it wasn't under like a specific agenda item. Right. >> I mean, we had closed out the administrative hearing and it was before the >> Oh, I see. Okay. >> the before the reports. >> So, I I do remember raising it to the
point where I thought it was on the agenda, >> but I don't you know, I I don't recall saying anything past that point. So, but again, like this is why video is great. >> Whatever I said, whatever I said was said and put it down as me if that's
what I said. >> Yeah. So, we'll leave that up to Haley to take a look and edit that. And uh with those couple edits, um can can I have a motion to >> So, let's So, we should probably um we
should probably approve that next month if that's the case then. >> Yeah. >> Because we don't we don't know exactly what >> Okay. >> What was said? >> We're not directing the amendment, right? Yeah. We're >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, >> we should approve it next month. Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> All right. Good. Um, not seeing anybody from the public. Um, we can go directly to um updates a day. >> All right. I'm going to make this quick.
This is supposed to be like a 15 minute meeting. >> We can we can we can drag it out, you know. No, I love these meetings. These are good meetings. >> Rick Rick already took all our time up. the whole 15 minutes.
>> Who Who knew? Who knew me blowing up the meeting on minutes would be the majority of it. Anyway, >> all right. So, we uh finally caught up with all the food inspections. Um so, we're now on track um thanks to Zer
Hunt, our new health inspector. Um in the month of February, we were able to conduct 26 food inspections. um two food reinspections, three food establishment complaint inspections.
Um there were three establishments that changed our ownership. We also issued seven temporary food um permits. We uh conducted eight housing inspections
and four trash inspections. I will now hand it over to leave. Hello everyone. Good evening. I will be as short as possible. All right. So for the month of March,
this is our February um epi update. We had 20 cases of COVID and 66 cases of the flu, which is the exact number of cases we had in January as well. So, I thought that was interesting.
>> Um, in March, I have three blood pressure screenings coming up. Um, one has passed already at the Pleasant Street Senior Center. I'm at the library on the 16th and 22 Frank Tanner Drive on the 19th. This month, I wanted to highlight
autoimmune disease awareness month. Um, some of our most common diseases are rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, lupus, and Hashimoto's. So just bringing awareness to the folks that suffer from autoimmune as well as um National Developmental
Disability Awareness Month. Inclusion, accessibility, and respect help create environments where everyone can learn, work, and thrive. It's also National Brain Injury Awareness Month. There are physical, cognitive, and emotional um issues that happen with brain injuries. So, always
be aware of all three of those when um dealing with someone who may have had a brain injury. It's also Women's National History Month. This post went on the Reading um website or the Reading Facebook page and
got a lot of attention, so I was excited about it. Um, and I wanted to highlight Matianda Johnson who helped make the discovery um, for the cure for scarlet fever um, for the drug that would become Terrammy but was never credited with that.
>> As well as highlighting my uh, medical and diabetic supplies takeback programs. Those go to um, different places all over um, the greater Boston area and the Northshore. So, if you know of anybody that needs to donate stuff, send them my
way. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Any um any questions for a day of live or any other comments or
>> No questions. I just wanted to also say happy social work month and particularly to my fellow social worker Carrie. >> Thank you. Sophie, happy to as well. >> Yep. >> Thanks. >> That's good. >> Thank >> Is that really it? Are we done?
>> Looks like it. >> I think we should hang out for a little while. >> Come on, Carrie. Yeah, there you go. Now we're talking. Since Since it's only 13 minutes, can I ask for a can I ask for about um and I guess related maybe
related to shared services sort of any anything new happening with shared services and um a day did you receive a performance standards survey request and are you already working on tackling that for >> yes >> us and and and that would probably be a great thing for folks to know about
because it's now required by law for the health department to complete. Yes, we received it on Monday. I'm working on it right now. I was at the Q&A session today. >> Oh, good. >> Um hopefully, you know, I should be able to have it done by next week.
>> Yep. It's I've been told to plan for between two to four hours to complete it. >> Correct. >> Um yeah, >> it it is lengthy. Um yeah, >> and it's it's documenting everybody. It's documenting each department's um
capacity and whether they act whether they um meet all of the regulatory and statutory requirements of public health and it's reported to the legislature. It's required of every health department
as part of safe 2.0 you know, um which is a um funded line item in the governor's budget and um it's an important important piece of of of the work of advancing public health, right? That
>> line item um will will be the source of funding for shared services arrangements and training and other public health things in the future. um after after as of July 1, that will be July, sorry, July 1, 2027. Um that line item will be
where funds that support that important work come from. So this is the beginning of documenting what the correct work is and what the need is. >> Yes. >> Sorry for the speech. >> That's okay.
>> No, no. Actually, now I'm curious. this I I would I would classify this as falling under our um our department update. Um certainly so we can we can discuss it. Um however, should we put
this on an agenda item for the future to discuss it further because I have a billion questions and I don't want to push that kind of >> compliance law that that we have. So maybe something for the next agenda um to to bring up
>> just a survey. It's just a survey. I don't believe it should be going on the agenda. >> The safe 2.0 compliance. I'm I'm going to push back respectfully a day and say that I think that the safe 2.0 compliance and the fact that the that this is part of um goes along with
funding for local public health. I think is an important thing for board members to be aware of um because it is going to require um advocacy that that that the funding is subject to appropriation. Um and that means making sure that
legislators are aware of what um what the work is and what the value is to us. So it's not happening now. It's happening in in you know as of July 1st 2027 but it is a um I think that aspect of it I you know yeah completing the the
>> I mean it is something to discuss but in terms of completing this survey I don't >> that's not what to >> All right. So, so can I can I get a better understanding of this then? Um, it it's it's a survey that will what are they trying to lead the survey into?
Because surveys lead into action. >> So, >> so the survey is required by the legislation safe 2.0. I forget. I don't have it written down with me, but math general. I think it's um chapter 11127 B3
D subB sub3. Um which is what um >> I'm sorry I'm not laughing. It's just it's just you know what I'm laughing at, Carrie. >> I know. I know. I know. >> It's amazing. Um um and and what that says is that um
there need there needs to be funding to support public health work subject to appropriation. And it also says every health department will complete a
um survey issued by the department of public health that is documenting of whe of status on meeting all of the statutory and regulatory requirements. So it what it will do is it will provide data of how well are all the communities
doing meeting those statutory and regulatory requirements and um tie in with um >> um tie tie in with because part of the way the survey is framed is it's um are you not meeting it because you need
additional funds? Are you not meeting it because you um need additional staff? are you um meeting it using using another resource. Um so then it will also document need um >> sure
>> so >> yeah so that make it would make sense then that that we should I mean not be involved obviously a day is going to do the same >> not in the survey >> but we we'd want to see where there are gaps where where a day sees there are gaps or we haven't achieved certain
things you know and and we would want to kind of know that. I would agree. >> So my my my layman's brain here is do you need money or not? Is that safe to say? >> That's what the the survey is all about. Um should we keep funding these um
shared services collaborating? >> Can can we get more state funds or do you not need state funds? That's what I hear. >> That's pretty much it. So um I'll take care of the survey. >> Um it doesn't need to come to the board. um if you want to discuss you know the program >> that's fine but there's no need for the
survey to >> no the the survey doesn't need to come to the board but a day if we can if we can maximize funds that we get um from the state that definitely should come before us and let's try to maximize what we can get for funds and what we can do
I will also caveat that on on a live recording with saying if it hurts us let's not talk about it there I said it Yeah. >> So that's all that's all I I just I I I I know I hear what everyone's saying. All I hear is funds.
>> Are funds available to you? Readily available to you. Can we give you more? Can we give you less? >> I don't like that part of it. I like the more part, not the less. So, >> right. >> A day. I don't know if if if um if it's come up already, but you know, if the
shared whomever the shared services coordinator could be invited to come and talk about the advocacy opportunities and about the specific line item and what are the components of the the um
>> the components of the law. >> Yes, we did that. I said the same thing we did last year when uh Annette was here and she came and talked about it. um that seems more appropriate you know for the board but in terms of yeah >> perfect >> that's what we're saying and it's and I
think that there is an important ask for awareness and advocacy this year >> um so and it's it related to the survey but not the survey you should do the >> the survey survey is on you and and and it's liability so you fill that out
exactly how you need to >> you know what I mean if there are parts that we can work on as as a board to help out, you know. Um I think it's just important just to >> we're having a 13minute discussion tonight about a board of health meeting.
Like this would have been a great night to have that on the agenda. I'm just saying, you know, like just simple things. >> Yeah, that's that's a good point. I try to do that, but um at at this moment um we we are having a little bit of an internal uh issue with the shared
services collaborative and um >> enough said. Okay. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So, um, we would like to figure that out and, you know, take care of something. >> Yep. >> Sounds good. >> Absolutely.
>> Okay. Um, anything else before we wrap up? Does anybody know if this is a wreck? >> Uh, it's close. You know, >> it's got to be close. Yeah, >> I know of one other instance. This got to be close. >> Yeah, this is this is pretty pretty
good. >> All right, >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second, Kevin. Roll call. S. >> Yes. >> Carrie, >> yes. >> Kevin, >> yes. >> Joan, >> yes.
>> And Rick, yes. All right, we will see you next month. >> Next month. Absolutely. springtime and >> yeah, happy St. Patrick's Day next week. >> Yeah, >> there you go.
>> Good night, everyone. >> Bye. >> Bye. >> Bye. >> Bye. >> Bye.