Hi Garrett. Hi Kathy. Hey there. Hi Garrett. Hi Kathy. Um I don't know if Norin is going to turn up. Sometimes she's a little late. Anybody heard from her? I have not.
Oh, speak of the devil. And here she is. Whoops. Why does that always happen? Hi Norin. Hello. How are you Arlene? Good. Hi Cat. Hi Norin. Okay, this is it because Whim isn't joining us. So for the sake of the recording, this is the
board of health meeting of July 2nd, 2025. Four of us are here. Myself, Katherine Hilton, Arlene Reed, Garrett Simonson, and Moren Peas, and we have a guest, Kathy Timson. Um, let's start out
uh with the minutes from last time, whenever that is. Um, I had sent out a draft of them and I had left something out and no or Arlene mentioned it. Let's put
that off. I'm not positive I actually wrote that into the minutes. So, I'll get it into the minutes and I'll send it back out to you and we'll we'll approve them next time. Okay. But I I think you did. I think you sent out I just read before I logged in to this meeting. I
read updated minutes that you sent email. Oh, okay. Can we Can we go ahead and approve those and get them off our updated version? Yes. I I move we approve the updated version. Second. Okay. Any discussion?
Okay. Norin, yes. Garrett, yes. Arlene, yes. Cat, yes. So, there's the minutes. Um, before we get into our updates, let's find out what's up with the Timsons. Hi Kathy, what did you come to
just yours? You're muted, Kathy. Yes, I'm unmuted now. I just was scrolling around. Noticed you had a meeting tonight. I have no idea if there's any reason for me to be here, but I just said, "Oh, let me see if this works."
And it worked. So, hi. Hi. Maybe maybe I don't need to be here right now, but sometimes it doesn't work, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, it's a good it's a good thing. I spend a little bit of time on Zoom. But anyway, I just
uh was like, "Oh, does this work? And can anybody get in?" And I can. So, anyway, I I don't You're welcome to hang around and and listen to the meeting or log out, whatever you feel like. Okay. I mean, is there anything I need to
I don't think so. I think we I don't think we're ready yet. So, okay. I I saw um a building permit application for a shed for you guys, but it looked like it was withdrawn, and that isn't really
anything that I would have to worry about. Yeah. I mean Tim, you know, we we did the application online and uh went through the whole thing which was a little laborious and um it came back with asking some questions and Tim
finally called the building inspector and he said uh you don't need a a a permit for that shed. So I guess he withdrew it. We didn't withdraw it even even on a I thought it said it was going to be on a concrete pad. You don't need a permit for that. It's not going to be
on a concrete pad. It's going to be on a packed earth stone pad. Oh, okay. And so that's pro because ordinarily we have done shed permits before, but in mostly in terms of setback from wells and septic systems, if I'm not mistaken,
Kat, it's been a while. Yeah, we're fine with that. We know where it is and we know where our setback is, right? Okay. So, I mean, we have it marked off. So, um and the the pad will be prepared. We
don't have a date for that yet, but um you know, I'm I'm we've read all the setbacks and everything and we're good. Okay. All right. We'll take your word for it. Okay. Since nobody's asking our opinion, often we get we get requests to
these and usually the board of health signs off on building permit applications if they might be near the well or the septic system, but if uh if they don't want our signature, then you can do whatever you want. Okay. Yeah. I mean, when Tim called and talked to the
building inspector, he said, "Oh, no, you don't need a permit for that." So, okay. Yeah, because you're not I guess you because you're not digging into the earth particularly. Okay. No, we're not digging into the earth. Yeah. Okay. We'll talk more. Okay. Another time.
Thanks so much. Right. Good night, everybody. Good night. Good night. So, what I have to tell you is um one, the district is finally going to meet tomorrow. Um, we've been trying and
failing to get a meeting together and we're going to be talking about that. I talked with Megan Tudrin a day or two ago and I asked her about this thing that Norin and I were talking about and
that is that we can access services from the collaborative as long as we are actually buying services on our own. I asked Megan about what that meant and she believes and
she's going to double check this. She believes that it means that if we have committed funds for public health, they could just as easily go to the collaborative as to the as to the
district. And I think that it would probably be a good thing if down the line, and by down the line I mean about a year from now, um we Shootsberry could withdraw from the district and throw our
lot in with the collaborative. I I think that's a good idea. Are we confident the collaborative will continue longer than We're thinking that it's going to continue. Um the the the mayor
apparently the mayor of Greenfield apparently reached out to Megan and asked if they wanted it to continue and pretty much pledged some support from Greenfield. Plus the money for this, the state money for this comes as a result of this safe
2.0. which is a law and being a law. They have to fund it. I don't know if they'll fund it as generously as they're funding it now, but if it morphs into something where the individual towns can contribute, we
have a pretty substantial budget for the district. we can put that in to the collaborative. It would require some changing of the general format and the way that the the collaborative works, but um but we could
do it. It would it would have to be a new arm of the collaborative, I believe. Uhhuh. Those funds would have to be separate. Okay. Um, also it's the collaborative had a difficult time recruiting, but they've
been able to recruit um, health inspectors. So, um, I think that's part of the thought and um, it can pro I I forget. I'm just going to throw this out. cat, you can correct me, but maybe our money would fund 25 or 30% of a
position. Whereas, if we combine our monies with say Sunderland and Deerfield, then um the collaborative could potentially hire a full-time person who would cover all of those towns. Right. Right. I'm I'm sure that it would
be I mean if if the other towns do have budgets for this um if we could if they could all be deflected into the the collaborative I think it would be it would be great and we'd get the we'd get the most bang for our buck and um I
think it would I think it would help the you know the personnel problem. There just aren't enough inspectors and whatnot to go around. Mike Thorough is doing our our title five stuff right now through the collaborative
and I just hope that there isn't some other thing that he that we need him for for a while. Okay. So, um, speaking of that, there was this email that both Kat and I, this person who lives on Farah Road
sent an email to me at my board of health address um, speaking about an urgent need for a um, septic repair review or she was trying to submit a permit and uh,
application and she was very confused. And I would imagine why our our website still says send it to Claudia Sarti. So we need to get that changed. Good point. I'll take care of that tonight or tomorrow. Yeah. Um and I need
to make it clear not only to the public, but I mean her engineer is Tom Loyer and he doesn't seem to always get the memo. Um it's the it's the engineer who submits
the application the application and submits it. All he gets from the homeowner is basically their signature and we get this right. Yeah. That usually comes direct from them to us. So, I've I've told her these things and
I've asked her to confirm that Tom is their engineer. And when she does, then I'll reach out directly to Tom and I'll I'll copies we want and where we want them to go. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. But yeah, thanks for thanks for fielding
that. I wonder how she how she happened to pick you. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, and we're I think we should wait to um act on that until our next meeting because
um they are direct abutterss of mine and um even though I hardly know them um we do have a property line in common so I wouldn't want to be um signing off on that in between. Sure.
Although she sp as you saw in that for everyone else in that in the most recent email she said oh could you please consider this to be urgent because the lender the there's a sale pending um and did you see that cat I did see that
maybe what we could do is have an extra meeting a very quick extra meeting to vote on that so that I don't have to be possibly having a conflict of interest. Sure, I'd be able to attend an extra meeting, I'm sure. Right. But yeah, I
guess they've got a buyer and the bank is just waiting on this uh permit being signed in order to uh do the closing. So, they just need the permit. They don't need the installation. Don't uh don't take my
word for it. I would have to go back to her email. Yeah. Well, she might not even And she was I don't think her email was particularly clear about that. No. No. Okay. I'll I'll follow up and then if we can schedule a little extra meeting
after after we receive the application then I'll K I will forward to you the email in which she said, "Oh, could you please make this urgent?" I think I got that. Okay. If you didn't, let me know and I will Yeah. Yeah. I got that. and she
mentioned the buyer and bank. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, is there more stuff to talk about? Garrett, I understand there's a MAF meeting next week. Is that something that some of us should plan to attend or
just you or what do you think? Uh, you're you're always welcome to attend. Um, but I'll I I'll cover for us. Um, it's not going to be anything earthshattering. Okay. Kind of this the beginning of uh
the budget period. Uh you know, basically CDC has said to the states um we're going to give you 75% of the funding um until the end of
September. And then after that you know assuming everything is uh going to advance the way they think it's going to advance the remaining 25% will come. So we we'll see
what happens. Yeah it's uh lots of anxiety there. Yeah. Okay. Kad, I had a follow-up question to um the article that you wrote on uh water testing for Lake Wyola that was in
response to um some queries that were going on on Next Door. Haven't seen that posted. I'm assuming you did or you're too. What's the status of that? and what's the status of I think I suggested maybe we should post that also on our
website and possibly notify Lake Wyola Association so they're clear as well. Um yeah, that's probably that's possibly a good idea. I'm not sure if there's a good space on it for the website, but I'll uh I'll try to do that. Um
meanwhile, the discussion seems to have petered out. There hasn't been any posting for all day and I'm hoping I had I had seen anything for several days but that doesn't always look at it. Yeah, it's I've seen it posted. Yeah. Yeah, I
put it up yesterday and got a response or two. Okay. And I um will just provide an update on the Morris Hill um situation where there were two documents that had not been
available at the time of their inspection. and they are now on file and a rather than Kat and I agreed that um if I just got a photograph from them of
it being posted in a conspicuous place which was part of the fire inspection report. So anyway, I got photographs and forwarded them along to the board. So those are on file. Have we written them an actual permit? Do you
know? I don't remember if I did. I didn't know there was such a thing. I Yeah. Okay. I thought it was just a matter of all these other people. Yeah. They get a license to operate from us. I'll I'll check I'll check the permit file and if I haven't done that, I'll do
it just to not know that. Okay. Right. All right. Is there anything else that we should think about? Um, just one other question. I think I missed the um I did miss the mosquito presentation.
Um, how how was that? Wasn't there a special meeting on the mosquito district? There was. There was. And it was seems like it was so long ago I can barely remember it. It's okay. It seems to me that it was good. Um, oh,
and Sarah, I because I was having problems with the um with the Zoom at the time because there was something wrong with this computer and I I gotten it fixed. Um, but I turned the host of
it over to Sarah and she sent me uh uh some kind of a um a te, you know, a file contain supposedly containing the video, but I'm
not positive that that that was the right thing. So, I'll follow up on that and see if I can get it so that it can be disseminated to anybody who's interested in it. That's good. Or it might be a source of an article again for us or you know just
letting people know it's available something of that sort cats because I think any any exposure we can give to people about what we're doing with the mosquito district is is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. And uh it wasn't terribly well attended. I think
there were only like two or three people there um that weren't us. And uh so I can if I once I get my hands on the video and I've kind of forgotten about it um I will I'll send out a town announce saying
I bet you missed this unless you're you know AB or C. Um but you can access it. Okay. I think that'd be great. Yeah. Okay. The only other thing I would add I'm sorry. I was just going to say then we
can add it to things that we've done this year when we have to our report. Right. Right. If I can just keep it in my mind long enough, which is getting to be kind of problematic. I ran into someone recently who is on
the staff at the elementary school who said, "Oh, by the way, next fall we are going to need a new substitute school nurse." Um, and she wondered whether or not I was interested in that. And I told
her that I had let my nursing license lapse last expired. So, I was not able. Um, but I said that I would pass the word along and I have uh conveyed this to Sarah and I'm going to get Sarah
talking directly with them. Will spread the word to her colleagues. But if anyone else and it it's the sort of thing where someone might it might be spur of the moment you know very short notice that right so it's a kind of a weird
ask but anyway um just so people know there is uh a need for a substitute school nurse at the elementary school in the fall. Okay. Might be good for them to have a couple of substitutes because
you can't always right get one, you know. Okay. Anything else that should uh come before us? Well, let's then declare the meeting over and ask Norine how Carol is doing.
Oh. Um, well, she had her cast off on Monday. We went back down to Stamford and she was relieved for about two hours. It felt great and then the doctor warned her and it happened. She got slammed with pain. I guess because it's
out of that confined breast space and uh so she's been slammed with some pain for that. So anyway, she's she's feeling better. She's a little more mobile. Uh but she's still going to be nonweightbearing for at least another
month, maybe a little longer. We'll know at our next visit, which is the end of the month. So, thank you for asking. I'm sure she'd welcome any phone calls or uh Yeah. Oh yeah, a good point. She must be bored. Yeah. Well, no, she says she's not, but
I know she welcomes, you know, talking to folks and even emailing, whatever is easiest, if you think of it. Okay. Anybody? What about Whim? He was still suffering the last time we spoke.
I don't know. He's uh he just had a social engagement tonight. He didn't stay away because he's in pain. So, well, that's good news. I know. Haven't heard. I mean, he might be in pain, but that's not why he's not here. Okay. Anything else anybody wants to
throw in there? No. Okay. Well, then I can't believe it's July. Yeah. Yeah. that that just that seems to have surprised everybody. I don't I don't Yeah,
for sure. So, let's plan to have our regular meeting in two weeks and possibly a quick um uh focused meeting for uh for the bearer road. Yeah. If we if that Anybody have the date of what that would be? Just Well, the next
meeting would be the 16th. So, that would be the 9th. Okay. July 16th. Okay. Right. And possibly possibly an extra meeting on the 9th or if the Wednesday doesn't work, we can we can uh find a time that works. We'll only be
meeting for a few minutes. It won't uh Okay. It shouldn't be too hard. Okay. Sounds good. All right. Well, if we're all done, we can I'll let you go back to your lives. Okay. Yep. Everyone have a
nice holiday. Happy. Yeah. Happy holidays to you all. Okay. Take care. Same. Okay. Bye. Bye.