I have a very short attention span. So, here we are. We are recording. This is the meeting of May 7th. My god, how did we get there? May 7th, 2025. We have a quorum
of three including me. And I am I am Katherine Hilton. I am not board of health. and Arlene Reed and Garrett Simson. And the the business items we have on the agenda are first the minutes from the
last meeting which I have sent to you. Are there any additions or subtractions or changes that anyone wishes to make? No. Hearing none, I will consider the
minutes accepted. Yep. Move to approve. Um the the other thing Okay. We received two applications for disposal works construction permits. Only one of them has been reviewed and that is the one
on Weatherwood. at 67 Weatherwood January. The agenda says January Hills Road, right? You're right. Thank you. And it's number 67.
Yeah. Weird how I remember the number, not the name. Um, uh, Claudia has reviewed that and found it acceptable. There was some question about whether it had the right the right capacity that clients were expecting, but in the end,
yes, it's a four bedroomedroom fourbedroom system, a a repair. And with your agreement, I will go ahead and issue the permit for that. I'll move to approve.
Checked. Okay. All in favor? I am. I am Garrett. Yes. Okay. All right. I will issue that. The reason the other one hasn't been approved is that we only got one copy of plan and it came to me. So I told Claudia to ask the designer um
lawyer um to send it to her and he hasn't hasn't done it. So they're just going to have to wait. The other one is for 54 Baker Road and that's a serious community property. Also a repair There are a couple of repairs, small
repairs coming our way um as a result of uh two um title five inspections um where they need minor, you know,
single single component replacements to pass. And the way we're doing that now is they go ahead and they make the the adjustments, the improvements, and then after the fact they apply for the permit
and so on. Just more it's just more efficient that way. So that is what we are doing. Um, are there things that you have to tell either of you? Not from me.
So, uh, didn't say anything about what just went just happened this afternoon or Yeah. So, um, Mohawk Area Public Health Coalition, the full coalition met, uh, before this meeting, uh, to go
over what would be the coalition's submission to DPH for the next budget period uh, for the public health emergency preparedness funding. So, DPH defines the priority areas uh, for all of the coalitions. Um, so there's three
priority areas. The coalition has to do a discussion based exercise, conduct two trainings, and do some risk communication work. Um, and so the meeting tonight was just to try to bring focus to what that's going to look like
uh within the coalition and and how we're going to go about organizing it. Um, and that has to be submitted to DPH by Friday. and that assumes continued
funding. Um, but evidently federal partners at the uh preparedness summit, the national preparedness summit were were saying that um that the FEP
funding is good at least through the end of the year. And then uh they were pressed a little bit on that and what they ultimately said was the end of the federal fiscal year which is the end of
September. So the end of the grant period is the end of June. So the next budget period starts July 1. So the coalition's work is according to the federal staff who were at this
conference is funded at least through the end of September which isn't very reassuring because one of the main deliverables is that um DPH is asking the coalitions to uh do a you know fairly
extensive exercise before the end of October. Um, so all of the planning leading up to that would likely occur um, you know, heading to the end of September. So you're going to do all of this work and then, uh, maybe not have
any further funding. So um, so who knows what's going to happen and we will see. Okay. Right. That was very nicely handled that meeting. You did a great job. Oh, thank you. Thanks.
explaining everything and breaking it down into categories. I'm sorry. Can Can you repeat that? I'm was saying that that Garrett did a great job running that meeting. Okay. When Garrett speaks, I have to turn the volume down. And then when you speak, I have to turn
it back up. So, sorry. We're keeping We're keeping you busy. Yeah. Keeping paying attention. I'll go back into the settings after this and see if I can find out what All right.
Um, yeah, I didn't uh Garrett, I just wanted to kind of come to that meeting and just kind of hear what was going on. Um, it was it's pretty daunting, I have to say. Better you than me. Oh, that
speaking of that, um we are meant to be um uh polling our members who have any kind of appointed position, for example, um the
appointment of apparently Norine to the the um emergency management team. Is that is that right? Is she our main person and you're the alternate or how does that work?
I I guess so. I can't remember. I I feel like from discussion that she was sort of wanting to pull back from that and so uh but she she has gone a couple of times. Um you know so right now the way
it is so I'm I'm MAF representative. I've been going to um the emergency preparedness team and then I'm back up to Norine for Valley Health.
Okay. Um could you send me that in writing? Yeah. Um the the new uh administrative assistant for the for the town um sent out a message saying that
we should look at the the um appointed officials list, but the appointed officials list is out of date. Doesn't seem to be for some of these things, unless somebody dropped the ball. A lot of these things ended last
year. So, I'm not exactly sure what the situation is. So, um well, we'll get it figured out. We'll get it figured out um at some point. Not tonight, but at some point I feel like we need
to think about the future of the board of health because four of us are not young by any measure and um we aren't going to
be doing this forever and we kind of need to I think that we need to plan that to a certain extent. We have always um tried to recruit useful new
members. Um and there are people in town who have a public health background. But that's not all we need. You know, um a lot of it is the wells and septic systems thing. And um people
with like a masters in public health are not necessarily interested in that. And I'm not would be. So if you can kind of be thinking about that um as you as you meet people and think about people um
because we at some you know obviously inevitably we are going to need to hand over the reigns. Um next year I think it's
Garrett and Norine who have to run. Um, and I hope we they don't have to run. You mean their terms are Yeah. Right. are expiring, right? What I meant was to stay on the board of health, they would have to run
next year. I see. Okay. Um, Garrett, I hope we can count on you to do that, but I know that your circumstances are a little bit iffy um in your in your professional work about Nor. I'm not so sure. I would
not be surprised if Norin chose not to continue after after the next year. She seems to be losing interest and losing focus on this and then the following year it will
be you, Arlene and Whim. And so you need to be doing some thinking also. Um it's It's not likely that I'll run again three years from now in 28, but it's who knows, right? I mean, we
twisted Bill's arm and got him to run one last time when he didn't want to really. So, it could happen. But, um, I'm trying to I'm trying to get things into a sort of handoff ready condition
so that somebody can somebody can take over. Um, and possibly possibly we need to think about easing into that transition over the next three years. But so, you know, just be just be
thinking about things and we can talk about it at a at a later date maybe with the whole group. We'll do. I think I think that's all I got.
I have no updates or anything to provide. So Okay, I move to adjourn. Wow, a new record. Well, that was fast. I'll second. Okay,
all in favor? Arlene, yes. Garrett, yes. Yes. Well, thank you guys. All right. See you soon. Okay. Good night. See you. Byebye.