so this is a board of health meeting um april 3rd in the van newsroom and it's about uh seven minutes after seven and present at the meeting is subrasa terry terry putnham and samantha our our
secretary um minutes did you get to see the minutes terry i did and i have no i have no uh corrections okay so i move that we accept them as written okay and i second that all in favor i terry putnham yes
saska so that's all set there okay we have no public comment minutes are done nursery report is attached for january uh we don't have the february one too do we no march oh yeah i forgot i should attach we need
february and march so the nursery reports attached and we don't have trisha's not on with us no she didn't make it tonight so um so yeah i can we have any um i can skip ahead the only thing that we really need to vote on
tonight is um we have had a few requests for perk tests uh to use expired perks um to fenton drive u their system is in failure it is in their backyard it was a
mounded system there was uh i believe there was high groundwater and um and that's the one they're going to remove it yep there was an intermittent stream so their plan is to just uh rip
out the system that's there and put a design a new system and put it in the exact same place so they really can't do a perk test because exactly it's the septic system they're pulling out yeah um and then i'll go over all three of them and maybe we can just vote on them as a package okay so this one what's the
ground i mean everything's how it was designed before was above the groundwater yeah they met they had the groundwater separation it was done three feet because it was it a um variance yeah i repair variance or whatever yeah i think it was three feet okay i didn't
copy all the pages but um but i'll review the new plan and make sure that's all good all right um so that's two fenton two fenton um and that was 2010 so the code hasn't majorly changed since then the other one is to gable view um
similar situation um mounted system backyard they have a well um it was kind of on a slope anyway so there's not a lot of good space to work with on the property so um once again it make it was
infiltrate i think both were infiltrators um so and are they going to put an infiltrator back or they going to i think in both cases i think they'll probably do pipe and stone is there high high groundwater there too so it be a pump yep i think both are and that perk
was that perk was this one was in 2005 and what was it uh where did he write the perk right on here this one was 26 minutes an inch what was benton i think did i not copy that page oh no it
should be up it might be here i just got to look for it okay can you hear that okay terry yes i can hear that fine thank you okay and the other one is um the other one is um 15 silverg grass i didn't even copy anything for that one because it's a um
it's an open lot it's an open lot and nothing's changed and the perk was done in 2018 when that that first batch when they did all of them and that's sandy there yep okay y so i make a motion um do you have any questions terry or
anything you want to discuss no no i my and my my comment would be that if you and tom are comfortable with that i i i am certainly okay so i make a motion that we accept the perks the previous perks for two fenton drive two gable
view and 15 silverg grass and fenton drive and gable view are repairs where they're going to put the system in the exact same exact spot after they remove it and silver grass is a new lot
i second that okay all in favor terry putnham subroski yes okay so that's the only thing we need to vote on i think so okay all right so why don't okay we'll go i won't feel so bad if i have to drop off so yeah all right so um we haven't
done anything with the well rags or the fog rags yep um nursery report we talked about uh what's the fundamental public health services review and general updates that's all part of the what the that is through the um for the grant
that's something that dph required um there was two sections uh complicated yeah kaen did um did the bulk of the work for it for all six towns um and helped everybody out and made sure they got everything done it was all submitted
and they wanted u terry where they wanted like um data yep yep so it was a it was a ma a massive spreadsheet that we had to fill out um the first section was they called it the cost tool and it was based off of our fy24 budget and it
was all the money we brought in from fees um all the money that we spent um what we spent it on any grant money um that sort of thing um and we had all the records for that so it wasn't wasn't too
bad um and then general updates the there was also a section of like who does what services um in each town um i that was like the delivery tool i think they called that
um so the foundational public health services is kind of like a new um model for how we do local public health um and the state is other states have adopted it we massachusetts has not
adopted it so um they're trying to determine like if if the dph was to move this whole state to that model what uh where the deficiencies are and where where we need to allocate resources so that's
kind of the whole idea behind it but the important thing is we did our survey and we turned everything in and uh we'll now we're just waiting to see what the state comes up with next you know what go back to um terry did you do your conflict of
interest training i'm not sure i have was that something that that samantha sent out i that no and i will get that done this week when i get home okay and then we had to amend um tom's contract
because penman county health coalition is no longer paying for his phone because they aren't getting the funds so we the town now has to pay for his phone which is another what 600 a month
50 50 a month 600 for the year 600 for the year so when we went to the budget he hearing uh beginning of march we did bring that up to them so tom did that add that in our proposed budget
um okay and it is what it is yeah so on on that i was i was had talked to um naen and i i didn't get her to officially review the proposed contract so we can save that for next month but um i was
also i hate having the two phones um so i was thinking about going rather than getting us having the town pay for my work phone just doing a stipend and using my personal phone for everything but um i'm kind of on the fence because with
open um freedom of information act and my personal phone for business use i so i'm doing a little research on that so i'll um settle that up over the next month and we can vote on it in in may
and if it's like ours uh uh tom i had to sign that it was okay for my business to clear my phone oh wow it was so so i would really check into that if i were you yeah yeah it's it's tempting to have one
phone and not have to monitor both of them but um it's probably worth it to to not and and i have those on my phone and there's a nice firewall kind of between the two but that is something that you
take if i didn't already back all my photos and stuff up to to the the cloud right i would have i would have hesitated um doing that okay thank you um then the master plan did you get to
number the the master plan that we were supposed to send in i thought we did that i thought we did that together oh yeah i think yeah i think i have everyone's um i haven't gone through i've just got to tally them all up to
give it to jess and je i i was nervous of what to schedule because the governor didn't sign that bill until the end of last week so i i didn't want to invite jessica before we knew if we were meeting or not so um so i i put her on
the agenda and i emailed her tuesday and she had a conflict tonight anyway so we'll have her back in may okay so that takes care of the top part um the general updates for the we don't um yeah nothing major we have a meeting
next week okay so your report um i just a little update on the i've done haven't done a ton of work on the wells um i have tried to find out other towns if anyone has adopted the model rags um and i haven't found anyone that's
adopted them yet there are a few towns that require the big changes are um it's very clear what parameters need to be tested for which is a good change um the other change that i think is a
good change is it requires a well permit for all types of wells not just drinking wells um i think that i i think of maybe a different fee for like a monitoring well than a private well but um it is good to know anytime someone is is
drilling because it could be potentially contaminating the groundwater if they're not doing it properly so u that's i think is good the other change that makes me nervous is it requires uh landlords or anyone with rented or
leased property to test on an annual basis um and submit it to the board of health and also similar to a title 5 inspection they have to test their water anytime the property sells um i think that's a great idea
however i think that would be a significant increase of clerical workload um in the office so um and you don't want to make any risks right can't enforce right we don't want to pass that and then
not be able to hold people to it so um so i've tried to find out if any towns have adopted parts of and kind of cut that section out i i mean we definitely could do that um but
um i'll keep doing a little research and see if i can get some uh guidance from anyone at the state on that but um that practically speaking i there's a lot of good changes but i i think that although it's a good idea it we just don't have
the capacity to to do it so in addition to being very ownorous for for um land owners right right yes yes so um yeah it would definitely be an increased i mean it's an in it's an
expense they should be doing anyway to keep themselves or their tenants uh safe and healthy but um but you know it's one thing if if they're doing the tests and they get it and throw it in a file somewhere but to have to send it to us and do all that is
is an extra hassle so um so that's where that's at i i'll keep you know talking to the state or whoever i can to come see what we want to do and um there's no there's no rush on it um so and i haven't done anything on the on the fog
so okay perk test perk tests um 393 college highway um they did that's technically a repair um and i think there was a problem with where the original perk was so they're actually i
just was talking to them today they're going to be doing another perk there um but they're actually knocking that house down and they're building a new house but it's the same number of bedrooms so as far as title five is concerned it's a repair because there's no increase in
flow even though it's going to be a brand new house in a different spot on the lot but um okay so so they're but they're going to have to do another perk there um 10 tall
pines and 10 silver grass um we're um two lots over on the tannery side of uh the old south country club um every every time i go out there and do another
perk i think this must be the last lot um but they i think i think we're we're pretty close to the end there might be one or two more um and 45 fernwood was a repair um repair perk that was last week i
think um housing 21 north longard that's the guy in the the trailer with the temporary housing permit i had sent him in february a certified letter just kind of
putting everything on the table of this is what you need to do um you know we can we he didn't provide all the information we needed in his um in his permit application that he filled out um and al we would anything we do would be
conditioned on that he has the proper plumbing and um electrical permits i think we had talked about that at our february meeting um by our by the time of when we would have had our march meeting i had gotten the certified card back undelivered um i did send it
certified at first class so i send it to chumsburg yeah so i i would assume he got it oh here's trish hey trish oh there it is hi hi thank you for joining us tom is um talking about
housing okay agenda um um terry's on speaker phone she has to leave anytime now okay all right um so um i was just talking about that 21 north longard road the um the one
where the property owner wants to use the the rv for temporary housing for um he he leases out the the house on that lot um but it's a large piece of land that he maintains the land and farms i
don't know if he farms it or what he exactly what he does but um his intent is to use it intermittently throughout the you know spring summer and fall uh weekend here or there so what are you going to have to do wait to wait till you see some activity there yeah so so i
sent so i said sent him the certified letter in late february um telling him we were going to discuss it at our march meeting um and i don't he never got a certified letter probably didn't pick it up right um so and then i didn't want to
resend it because with the governor i was like who knows if we're meeting in april um so i i would hate to send him the letter and then cancel the meeting um so i will resend the letter now perry while you're
still here are you good for are you both good for may 1 uh i'm actually i'm actually talking on my phone hold you hold on a second i'll check my calendar um so that'll be my plan is i'll i'll resend it i am i am as long as we can do
zoom because i am traveling okay yep zoom zoom is good the governor signed the bill so we're okay great all right good it's good to keep zoom in for another two years i think yay um of what you're saying i wonder you know i know he didn't pick up the certified letter
at his home should we plan to deliver something to him if we see any activity um i could and he's i wouldn't say he's unreachable um because he has called the building department about the like electrical work he needs to do um i have
his cell phone number so i'll i'll send it certified but i'll i'll also make sure to call him too um just so he knows um because we unless he gives us the information we're not going to vote to
grant or not grant the um the permit cuz we just have to make sure he has all the facilities and everything that he needs um so that one's kind of in a holding pattern um 59 college highway i did an
inspection there in february um tenant had complained um some leak or some sort of moisture issues um as far as i can tell the um the landlord was able to go in and fix
everything and we've just been playing phone tag trying to schedule the reinspection um 80 bungalow street um i've been going to have to follow up with them but um i know they a lot of the inside work was done um still some
work with the moisture problem in the basement and then the outside um so hopefully it starts to actually feel like spring soon and they can they can get going there 256 college highway um that was the
old court case you and kyle that kyle and i went to i mean you had to have our town attorney represent yeah yeah um so they we had to give him a plan
can you hear us terry yes okay um he had to give us a plan um by mid fe i don't remember the exact date um which he did we had the follow-up hearing and um we mediated with the plan plan for what to
clean up yeah what like how he was going to get rid of all the cars was the first step um so now he has we met with the mediator and discussed a whole timeline of when he's going to do the cars um and
take care of the buildings and um do environmental testing on the properties um the the vehicles all have to be removed by may 26th um and there'll be a housing court hearing
in in between do you need to log off uh no i'm still here but i'm getting ready to thank you okay okay i don't like having short here are you hearing my interference yeah
yeah okay all right thank you thanks for everything guys okay safe travels safe travel okay okay um now i can think 143 north lake avenue
143 north lake avenue so that was um if you're not familiar the um town passed the short-term rental bylaw um which is primarily enforced by the building department but it requires
a inspection from building health and fire um so we went there the place looked really great uh there was a couple minor issues um i had made the mistake of i didn't look at the septic plan
beforehand um they had a they had a hot tub which i was like "oo that that is a little concerning." um because we the board of health licenses any public or semi-public pool so like a
hotel pool or a pool in an apartment complex is uh would be considered semi-public and an airbnb is kind of like a hotel but not um so i was like i i had previously when they were writing this bylaw i reached out to the state
and never got an answer um but i went after the inspection i went online and um the state had published guidance so for the time being the
uh at short-term rentals um pools or hot tubs they do not meet the exemption of a uh like a private residence so if you know someone in their own home the regulations do not apply um but it also
doesn't meet the definition of semi-public so that's helpful for the time being it's completely unregulated um but they did have a like a guidance document of best practices and when they update the code it's most likely that they're going to put something in so um
so i sent that over to the the property owner just to let them know like hey in a year or two you might have some some hoops to jump through if you want to keep this hot tub or keep using it as a short-term rental so right now we're not right no jurisdiction over no
jurisdiction over it for the time being why would you need jurisdiction over that something like that yeah so the um why oh why um so for like semi-public pools they have to test um the someone at the apartment complex or hotel has to
be a certified pool operator um so they have to know how to do the testing all the chemicals um we have to make sure they have like an emergency landline phone um don't they have to have a special drain or something yeah they have the drain and the make they have to test the do the poolside test of with of
the water four times a day um which definitely wouldn't be feasible for a short-term rental to be there four times a day so um so they would have to they'll have to make some accommodations in the code to because it's just wouldn't be realistic i don't know what
they'll do but um but yeah that's kind of the big thing is make sure the the water treatment is is correct the chlorine's at the right level so you don't give anyone rashes or if the chlorine's too low then you're going to be getting all sorts of
bacteria or parasites so um so so yeah so that was that and then um i had at well i hadn't looked up the septic like i mentioned and uh but i
said "oh you guys just bought a house a couple years ago so i'm sure it um passed title five." and they were like "yep it's all good." um and they then i got back to the office and it was a two twobedroom design and it was a they were
renting it as a threebedroom so um so i had to send them i sent i didn't do a title five violation notice i just did it as a system as it's designed did they oversize it by any chance to take care of a three-bedroom no no they and they the pre this p the people they bought it
from um never filed the deed restriction so um so i told him i was like "they should have done it i don't know if it's worth going back to your lawyer or your realtor." um they bought it as a three-bedroom i don't know what they bought it as i don't know if i i don't know if they knew or not that it was
only a two-bedroom um but they were really good about it they uh the owner's out of state um he has a family member that lives um in town and kind of manages manages it dayto day um but he he came
the owner came down over last weekend um fixed the two minor things for building and fire um and they removed the bed from that room and turned it into an office so um and updated the airbnb listing to be only a
two-bedroom so um he he got right on it so we'll we'll be issuing that so lake doesn't have the sewers going through there huh nope no at least not that section um so so i felt i felt bad for them and
i i didn't i'm not going to hold them to it but i did um i gave them a copy of the deed restriction and i said it you know it kind of stinks but you should file this it's only going to protect you if you ever go to sell the house and then whoever you sell the house to can't
say that they didn't know it was only two bedrooms um so okay so that's uh 14 depot um someone in the housing authority there uh complained about their water being too hot um no other issues in the in the
apartment and it was in fact uh too hot so that's across the street yeah so i um it was too hot huh yeah was uh in the kitchen it was over 130
and what should it be it should be 130 is the max and it was like 134 i think um and then in the in the shower the max is 120 and it was like 129 130 in the shower so um it's my kind of shower
yeah something so um so and they had the tenant had complained to them and they put a um like a temperature an extra temperature regulation thing on the um on the bathroom sink um but they didn't do
anything with the other the other two sinks so i'm um i haven't followed up there that was just last week i think um so but the housing authority is always good when once they get a violation um so i'll follow up there and do the reinspection but i'm pretty confident
that got taken care of um 35 miller road um i got a complaint about trash and um just junk in the in the driveway and outside the house and uh i drove by it's
definitely bad um so i'll i haven't had a chance to go back with my ipad and do the do the inspection and um the letter but that is on my docket for tomorrow um this on mobile units
pretty much wow pretty much yeah um so these are with the exception of sweet treats by bella which is a um residential kitchen just doing baked goods um the rest are all are all food trucks [Music]
um and some since we didn't meet i'm like struggling to remember them all because some of them we did since we didn't meet in march some of these are from like february um but so are these all going to be at the brewery for the most part i think um mostly the food
trucks either go to like the concerts and events at the brewery um sometimes at the bar shop or the brass rail they have food trucks there um and then lasibaritas uh they're the one that they park on
bonnie view right next to the subway there um but they they said they were have been getting into doing more events um but i think they they still said they wanted to use that location sometimes but um and they have to get permission from the police if they're going to park
on the yep yep um so but yeah no um no issues with with any of them really um a couple every there was a couple of
the signs that they they need to have a sign that says their most recent inspection is um available upon request there's an allergen poster that they're supposed to have like in the kitchen or in the in the food truck um so like i don't remember which ones but there was like four or five of them that were
missing the same the same two or three things um and i don't know if it was just beginning of the season they hadn't you know set everything up or or whatever but um but i'll try to get back to them when they're in town um because it's not the
most not the best way to do an inspection when they we have them come here and they're not actually cooking um so you're more just looking make sure they have all the right equipment but um if i can if i can catch them in town i i'll try to do another inspection but um
they're mobile so it's not always easy to catch them where they are um body art uh pine and spur tattoo um she opened in february um that is in
the salon the salon i can't salon sage i think yeah so they they sue if you recall she had asked about coming there like a over a year ago um and the room she was going
to use didn't have plumbing that's right so um we had asked i there had been a um a similar situation when i was in westfield and the person used like a um
portable type hand sync and i don't know if maybe they didn't go to the building department or uh or maybe they did and they were okay with it but the building inspector here was like "no you can't absolutely can't do that." so um there was another room in the salon that
already had plumbing that they they moved to and u made that work so um she had she had plenty of experience um and had all the training all all that so it seemed like a good um a good little
little place and and also it's just her and it's just one one room they don't have to worry about the stalls and the spacing and all that so um so that was that was good um as far as meetings and trainings i
attached my um nicole does a uh department head um meeting once a month um and we all write up a little report of um what you doing of what we've been doing um so i just
sent those over to you um nothing nothing too crazy the um if anyone's available on uh just to come and check it out the nurses are doing a health fair uh here in southwick on may
16th in the auditorium from one of the times i fly yeah it's it's i don't remember off top of my head but during the day um i think it's a friday
[Music] um else uh lapc this is the local emergency planning committee um we had a meeting what's la what's lapc um local emergency planning committee okay um so it's um
russ anderson and uh from from he's sema now um and the fire chief and police and um there's other people there too i don't remember what i don't even remember what we
talked about because i think that was back in february um we had a safety committee meeting back in february um so we are working on um you remember that yes we are working
on updating all of the uh sds sheets so i met i met with uh i met with dan and hillary um from facilities and went through the stuff they had some of the sds sheets were from like the 80s no
i thought you 50s the most recent ones were from like 2012 so um so there was a little lapse there um but we're um hillary's been looking a bunch of them up so i think we're going to be in pretty good shape with that and then
next i have to go over to dpw because they have uh they have a lot of different type of stuff there um and then the other the other off the fire police i don't think they'll have anything maybe fire no schools no schools yeah they're their
own um but um i think for the most part they'll have kind of the same stuff that um facilities has but um i don't know if i'm like the ambulances if i would have anything else that we need to worry about but
um we'll we'll work keep working on that bit by bit now do you have to have like at the hospital mean we have sds's for white out for dry erase markers probably for
everything probably so and people can't bring in their own hand lotion and stuff it has to be lotion that hospitals really i don't know if we would go i don't know if for osha we have to go that extreme that might be more of a hospital thing
but um yeah because you don't like if someone has an allergy if there's scents or anything in interesting um and beginning of march i did a um a
workshop that hchc hosted um at the same time as we have to do those uh that big survey for the for the grant for the state the state is also making changes to all the public health emergency preparedness so there was another huge
survey that we had to do um but luckily hchc did a workshop and they had a consultant there and we were able to get it all done um then and there so that was that was good um but definitely identified some
um some issues with our plan um like our ed emergency dispensing site plan um so tammy had modified that i don't know if it got ever got adopted officially uh in 2020 um but
then and then during covid we no none of the towns did barely did any emergency dispensing because the state did all the state uh vaccination clinics anyway so um but but that definitely needs to be updated and some of the other stuff
needs to be updated so um but i think i think that's going to be a continued thing with support from hchc that they'll kind of coach us through it and um and do all that
um the i went to a training um in end of february um for d so it was all on um septic systems and asbestous and i think that was pretty much all they talked about
that is the um accessory dwelling unit oh um so that just in february 1st that was in a housing bill that the governor signed um so it
allows anyone um to add a accessory dwelling unit by right um which southwick had i think they had banned them you couldn't have an accessory dwelling unit so um i know planning is working on
updating the the bylaw to mesh with that a little better um but they so it allows anyone to have it but they still need to meet all of the building setbacks they still need to meet title five um and all the all they
need to meet all the codes so um they gave they verbally gave us some guidance and promised us that a a document would be coming in the in the next week or so at the time we we it's been a month and we haven't received the
document yet but um so the size lot doesn't matter as long as the setbacks are acceptable yeah and the septic yes so and the the a couple good things that i i learned um is
i i kind of thought d was going to have a negative opinion if someone was to say "well i have a four bedroomedroom house but we want to take a wall out and make the house three bedrooms and add a one-bedroom adu."
i kind for some reason i thought the state was going to be like no that's it's a fourbedroom house and you're adding one it has to be five but they were actually good they were good with that and they were kind of like well it's up to the board of health how you want to if you want to make them file a deed
restriction to say it's only four um or how you're going to make them prove that they're removing a bedroom in the house um they were they were surprisingly flexible on that um the other thing uh so that's good for i i think for people that want to do adus it
it will create more opportunities that if someone wants to add an adu that they could um potentially just connect and keep using the existing system rather than having to replace it um so these do they
talk anything about um if you put an accessory dwelling can it be a rental does it have to be that i don't know i'm not sure i think statewide it can but southwood might
restrict i don't know if they can i'm not i'd have to look into that um because you could put one on your property and then use it as a rental right yeah [Music] um and the other thing with septic is
they they said uh the minimum design is three three bedrooms um so 330 gallons per day per day for a system um but that is based on the whole facility or more
we would say the whole property but in the code they call it the facility um so if the if the main house is three bedrooms and they're adding one bedroom and if say they were going to be far apart and you wouldn't want to connect
and have one system you could have which you would never see otherwise but you could have 110 gallon per day system for the adu but i thought you just said that the minimum is it's the minimum per facility not per system
so overall you have a 330 and a 110 and that's okay because in total 110 not connected though say if it's not connected just that just that adu is going to the 110 system so they're two
entirely separate systems okay but i thought you just said you have to have at least three 330 but they they clarified that and that that the 330 is per facility not per system so you'd have a 330 system and a 110
system yep and that would be that would be legal could you have one system for 440 you could do that too um but i i was i was worried they were going to say the minimum for a system is 330 and then you'd have to have a 330 system for
three bedrooms and then another 330 system for one bedroom so um so it it i i anticipate there will be some situations where you know everything else the stars align and other than septic system it's going to
be feasible for someone to do an adu and then they're going to get to the septic system and we'll have to be the bad guy and say sorry but um so i was pretty pleased i think those the clarifications i think it it creates a few more [Music]
um situations where it might be a little bit more practical for someone to to do that um so so that was good and but we're still awaiting the written guidance um and uh western mass public health
association um we don't trying to think if we not doing any major trainings or anything um we had our last meeting was here in southwick um we used to always meet at pisanos but now we do zoom meetings and
we go around to the the four counties so we had the first one here um and as the i'm the president of the association um so i was appointed to the special commission on local and regional
health um so that was is that good or bad i think good i don't think it will be too they i'm told it's only like quarterly meetings um but we'll see um but
they there was a bill that passed i think in like 2017 or 18 that created the first special commission on local and regional health and um what came out of that was the i think they called it
the blueprint for local and regional health um and that was what led to the all these shared services grants okay um so this is the earlier this year um the governor signed
or maybe it was end of last year um the the safe 2.0 bill uh i don't remember what safe stands for uh something public it's ph um something public health excellence i don't remember what the sa
are um so that will just kind of be advising on kind of the next steps for how the how the state's going to move forward i imagine it will tie in with the that foundational public health services thing so
um so i'll do my best to try and advise them uh realistically and and not get any crazy requirements for us uh without at least without being getting funding for it so that that was a good thing they added all the stuff with the phd grants but the the funding we get is
pretty good so um i'm pretty grateful we have the kaen and the nurses i think they do a great job for the town so and all for all six of the towns um so so that i haven't got any details on that i don't know when it starts but
um other than that i was appointed so and then i mentioned the hazcom thing already so um you have any questions trish or comments or anything nope how about you samantha
nope you're all set um okay so so trish samantha's leaving us her last day is this coming wednesday okay but she's going to do the minutes and she'll send a word document so that we can edit them if we need to
um samantha will take care of the february minutes and file them and where everything and hard copy yeah for town yeah we have a binder in the office okay
um our next meeting is may which first may 1st um 6 pm i don't know if you'll be able to make it trish or not um terry will be on zoom yeah as long as it it all depends like today i got out a little earlier so i'll join as soon as i can that was good that
that worked out well um do we have anything else um i just want it going moving ahead um eight hours i mean oh uh i don't think so
oh okay that's crazy all right um but for the when we would normally have our june meeting i will be out of town um so by that point you have to talk to um yeah sue will be sue will be uh happily
retired from the board of health yeah michael and i might be on michael the well maybe if you're up for it i'll just go to the meetings for now they have they do a lot of work oh yeah the members um and then so erica as far as i
know you're running unopposed currently so uh most likely you will be uh you will be here so we'll have to we'll have to um come up with another date for that that june meeting so wow that's only two
months away i know it's scary so um so but other than that you do it another you're going to be gone for the week or yeah just the week just move to the next week yeah so i'll email i'll email everybody nothing's going on well
erica wants to go to a meeting though yeah and it's the end of the fiscal year so it's usually usually good to meet in june just to cover any anything important but um and we'll need to talk i just thought of
this now um sue has been our primary representative for the uh advisory board for the shared service um for the six towns so we have um we
meet generally quarterly i think we say by monthly but we usually end up having to cancel one or two um but we have the six towns that we get the grant for which pays for the nurses and caen um and there's a primary representative and
a backup representative from each town so i think currently sue is the primary and terry is the backup um so we'll have to i'll put i'll explain all this in an email to each of you three individually
and then so you'll know what it entails and we can talk about it in either in may or in june um instead of putting anyone on the spot um does the meeting april are we meeting every two months april
and i think april and june all right so yeah so that's and you usually meet the second tuesday right yeah the second tuesday those um you'll have to figure out something next next month um ka kaen i think has sent
out a poll a couple of the members like we we always struggle with attendance at those meetings um other than southwick and blandford none of the towns have a dedicated board of health um so by the
state law by default their select board is the board of health um and they're all small towns so they're like volunteers and they do everything for the town and uh some of them have full-time jobs so um we're kind of up
against that and uh it's hard to find times that everyone can be there um with that group so um so kaen is trying to pull everyone to see if uh there's we meet tuesdays at 2:30 um which obviously
doesn't doesn't work for the two people that that work some people are able to call from work it's it's complicated we're trying to find a better time but haven't had any luck so um so we'll see about that but i'll try and or maybe i'll have kaen um send
something to the the board members and our um most likely future board member um and that way you guys just are aware of of what what that all is um but other
than that i've got do you have erica's email i think so i don't know i want to give it to time i mean you get sworn in after the town meeting at the town meeting at the end they'll swear they'll swear people in the end of
the town meeting perfect so so yeah so we'll figure that out at our next meeting or our or our june meeting but and when will you send the email about the details on that um i'll try to do
that probably next week okay um and if i if i ask kaen to do it it'll definitely get done if i say i'm going to do it if i might say next week and it'll happen in three weeks um but uh
i'm going to put a note for that too okay i got a note um the other five towns do they have phones do they have phones through the coalition um i don't know
can the um grant pay for that we could find we could discuss it at our at our meeting i think we meet tuesday so we'd have to call and see if it's part of the list yeah i think we paid with the grant
we paid for phones for haleen and the nurses so i think that would be an allow allowable expense if the advisory board voted to to pay for it and because we
have a money that a lot of money we're returning right right although we are we're spending it down pretty good i don't know i don't know if we'll spend it all down but we'll try all right because this is something else on right yeah okay so so do you want to make a
motion trish to uh adjourn sure let's make a motion to adjurnn at um 7 o'clock yeah right on i second that all in favor suba yes trish yes oh sorry yes trish liviac
yes all right okay thank you all right thank you hope to see you next month take care thank you okay have a good night bye samantha you too bye