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recording in progress. >> There we go. Okay. I call to order the June 15, 2026 meeting of the Yarmouth Board of Health. Now, let's see if we have a quorum. Mary

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>> I'm Hillary. Okay. Scott >> present. >> Present. That's pretty good. Okay, we can move forward. All right. Public comment. That's number three on your agenda. Anyone here or listening in like to make a comment, speak? Sure. There's a gentleman right here. Won't you come

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to the mic, introduce yourself, and just keep keep in mind um this is not the time where you can expect response from the board. Um but certainly he can pick up any issue you like. >> Correct. >> Harris Ktos appearing before you again

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with regard to the issue of noise pollution. Um I had provided a transcript of what I'm going to speak about. Uh so you can follow along as I'm speaking. Um it just make things a little bit easier.

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>> Okay. Sure. Just keep in mind that we haven't seen this before. >> Oh right. I gather I gathers but Okay. So, all right. Uh, good evening. I I trust you've had occasion to read the transcript of remarks I made before the county commissioners when they met here

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on May 27th and I presented the issue of noise pollution to them at that time. Now, um the my summation of that is that um what I had to say is they are pretty much a refined version of what I had presented to you before.

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In summation, a bonafide public health problem has been recognized in noise pollution for nearly 60 years now. The problem has only gotten worse over that time due to lack of funding for research development of effective policies and

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enforcement. More recent research has refined understanding of the science of noise and its impact on human health and quality of life. The public health model for addressing noise, particularly how it is perceived

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by the legal community, has yet to be fully developed, though public and private initiatives are contributing to that model. I was gratified to find that my comments before the commissioners were well enough received that I was asked by Jay

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Gardner of the county health and environment department to meet with him to discuss the matter of noise pollution at greater length. This we did last Tuesday spending what I think was a very productive hour in the first of what I

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imagine will be several more to come. I think a fair summary of that meeting is this. The nature of the public health dimension of noise pollution needs to be understood, disseminated, and acted upon. This can best be achieved only

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through action at the county level. Policymakers need to be thoroughly grounded in the science of noise pollution and its impact on human health and well-being. In particular, understanding the following. the American Public Health

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Association's problem statement on noise as a public health hazard, its relationship to existing APA policy statements on similar conditions, and the rationale likening noise pollution to secondhand smoke. You will recall

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that indeed there has been a tbacco control program at the county level for some years now. Um, education and enforcement are key elements in addressing the matter, meaning in part that old bylaws will need to be revised and new ones adopted

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by each community. Boards of health and boards of selectmen, each of whom has broad authority in this area, will need to coordinate their efforts. The tobacco control program can serve as a template for an organizational,

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educational, and enforcement model. Conceivably, an office of noise pollution control would need to be created at the county level. A regional countywide initiative would serve as a resource and knowledge base

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for all of the CAPE as well as an indication to potential funders at the state, federal, and NGO levels that the Cape takes noise pollution seriously. Promotion of the Cape as a region taking

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noise pollution seriously would dovetail with the Cape's image and necessity of being attuned to the environment and would enhance its attractiveness to tourists. A slogan could be come visit Cape Cod where you can still hear the

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birds sing in the ocean lap against the shore or however they want to market it. Okay. How would I assess where things stand now? I think we're more than at the blind leading the blind stage

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uh or groping in the dark, but still a clear path has through the jungle has yet to be hacked through. I'll be discussing this with Mr. Gardner uh in the future uh as a lot of work remains to be done. And that's it. Thank you.

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>> Thanks for coming in and your comments. >> Anyone else here? Anyone zoomed in? Called in. Anyone hands up there? >> I don't see any hands, Mr. Chair. >> Well, that means we're up to number four

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already. Moving along. Massachusetts Coastal Railroad yearly operational plan for vegetation control. How's that? That's pretty good. >> That's a good one. >> Okay. >> Um, so unfortunately, Carl, >> have a hand. >> Oh, do we? >> Oh, great.

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>> I don't see a hand up now. You have public comment. Are they muted or don't know? >> She's got her hand up. Yes, >> I don't see a hand up anywhere. >> What's that beside her name? >> A microphone. Anya, Mrs. Freedom, you there?

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>> Oh, I don't have a I don't have a comment. Is my hand up? >> Oh, no. >> In the picture it is, >> maybe. All right. Well, thank you. >> All right. So, back to the railroad. Um, Carl is an be here tonight. I did review it with him. Uh, pretty much

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straightforward from what it was before. Carl says it falls within all of his regulations. The proposal has been approved by, uh, Mass Department of Agricultural Resources. Um, one of the things that was changed this year is the timing of applications

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and treatments. Um, the vegetation rightaway applications will be July 10th to August 11th. And the brush applications will be August 21st to the 30th. Um, in your packet, Carl did include last year's comment letter to the

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railroad, which was very detailed. Um, and that's a Carl said he's good with it. So, any >> I I wish Eric were here so he could talk about the timing of the applications. >> Y >> because I don't remember what he said

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about them. >> Yeah. Yeah. He said the timing was >> wrong sense of when the application would take place and they responded um and disagreed with Eric. That's what happened. >> But now the change does that make it

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different? It's still off from what Eric uh proposed from what I >> summer would not be the time according to Eric >> but the fall September to August to September. >> Yeah. >> For the brush.

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>> I don't think so. He had it later in the fall. >> Get some input from Eric. And >> yeah, I didn't hear from >> I move we send a letter back. um and say that um >> um the letter is in here or the response

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I think is in the packet. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Last year's letter. >> Um we can take a moment and try to find that and see what the response was. >> You mean last year? Well, he said they only responded to two things. He said we

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expressed interest in >> I believe wasn't there the letter in here somewhere about disagreeing with what the board of health >> yes >> stating um specific about the time of year Yeah, it's in the very back.

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>> The letter is >> find the paragraph maybe. >> It's in the emails. The emails start from the back. >> No, no, this is uh June 3rd, 2025 to Mr. Lewis. It's a it's a copy of a letter and it basically says that we object to

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the use of herbicides and would like to see vegetation control methods that do not involve them um because of environmental and health concerns in general um

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and it says thank you for pointing out the issues associated with applying herbicides in late fall or winter which would allow vegetation growth within the track and road bed during the spring and salter and summer resulting in safety issues. I also note you indicate late

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fall or winter application of post-emergent herbicides would be ineffective on dormant vegetation. As mentioned in the BO comment letter dated June 20th, 2024, another board of health member who is a horicultural teacher at a regional technical high

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school, in addition to being a Massachusetts certified horiculturist and Massachusetts licensed pesticide applicator, stated the application of some herbicides will be more effective in late fall because of plant nutrient transllocation. In consideration of both the board of

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health member request request and your explanation, can the application herbicides that are not postemergent products be moved later in the fall. So, does that include the bush ones that they're talking about? They later

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>> that I don't know. So >> you pass it on to Carl. Then u one of the thoughts I had was during the summer if you have rentes there um homes

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that use wellwater u they're not going to know anything about this and how will they be notified they're coming in for a week it happens to match when they're spraying. They said they put um >> the doors, but yeah, I don't know if you're as a renty has any meaning at

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all. U so something to think about. I'm going to ask Carl about is anything else. Um I I know when they put things on doorork knobs dealing with use of water, it really wasn't very successful here in town either. So um and people come with

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pets, you know, it's not just the homeowner. So, ask him about it. And you can also ask Carl, I know the letter, um, one of the letters was talking about laser and electric currents, something that's being looked

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at. Let's see if over the past year any progress has been made on using those. >> Okay, I will get on that. >> I'm sure we get turned down for goats as as we have in the past to clear the brush. Anything else,

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>> Barry? Anything on that? Nothing at all. Okay, >> it's time for human services grant applications. Uh, I may note the list has gotten a lot longer than it had been over the years. Um, extensively longer.

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uh the number of organizations applying for the grants and just ask that we're going to limit the amount of time for each person. What was decided? How much >> under five minutes? >> Okay. >> We we requested so

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>> yeah um so that doesn't mean you need to speak very quickly like that. You don't have to. It's really it's to answer questions if the board has any if the the applications are great. people were really went out of their way of documenting the information. So, I'm not sure any of us will have questions on

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any of them. We'll find that out. But take advantage of the five minutes if you don't have uh questions to answer. Uh people on the board know what you do now because of the applications. They're really very well done. So Barry, you want to take this over and

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>> Yeah. So we'll start. >> We do have a like you mentioned, we do have a a great outreach of this. Um we're very happy to see everybody here. Uh the most democratic way we decided to do it was just alphabetically. So um first up is the aid support group of

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Cape Cod. The amount they requesting is 7,500. Last year they were given $3,250. Please just introduce yourselves and >> Hello. >> They should be. >> Hi.

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My name is Morgan Clark. I am the brand new CEO of >> the light turns green. >> Is it correct? >> Hello. >> So make believe that no one heard that. Okay. So say it again.

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>> Hold on. We could >> we could pass back. >> Okay. Is this working? >> Okay. [laughter] Sorry. I used to staff a board of health, but we had wired mics. Um, okay. So, my name is Morgan Clark. I'm

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the brand new CEO. This is my third week at the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod. I'm happy to answer or try to answer any questions, but luckily I have Eliza. Um, >> oh my goodness, I'm the director of harm reduction services at the AIDS Support

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Group. I've been with our organization for about nine years and thank you for having us back and considering our application. Did you have any questions or would you like to hear a little bit about >> I do um your statistics showed that almost all of them went down some of

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them half >> Yeah. >> last year to this current past year. >> Yeah. So some of these numbers um we really actually like to see some of these numbers go down. Um we are a public health organization. We've been

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um you know doing our best in the community to um reduce harms that are associated with substance use for the past 43 years. Um and so when we see decreases in some of these numbers, it means that what we're doing in the community is effective. Um as you'll see

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in fiscal year um 25, we had um really high numbers of Narcan and um drug checking strip distribution. Um and what happened during that time period is we were responding to a um sort of uh large

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pivotal change in the substance supply here on Cape Cod. Um that was the first year really that we started seeing a very contaminated stimulant supply. So people who um prior to that time maybe had not been at risk for overdose um needing to access harm reduction

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supplies and Narcan um things like that. So that's why those numbers are high in that time period and lower um in you know the time period that we're looking at now. This also is like the fiscal year to date at this point. So we're missing about four months of of data

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from when we applied. Um so then most of these numbers actually by now are quite comparable. Um so they're very they're very similar. Um but yeah, a lot of these are numbers that we like to see go down. Um what we also know is that the

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way people use substances in order to reduce harm um changes depending on the substances that they're using. So at this time um in our the first year that we reported on um we were seeing a lot of injection substance use and now we're

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seeing people using drugs in other ways um in response to the dangers of injecting the substances that are in the supply now. So >> I have one other question. Um the number showed the van was in Yarmouth 27 times. You said almost monthly. >> Yes.

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>> Um but it didn't say how well it was being used. >> Yeah. So we partner weekly with the um Yarmouth uh comprehensive treatment center. So um we're there every Friday. Um and we see people for harm reduction

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services and testing on the van at that time. Um, and then we also have one day a week that we devote to outreach services in the town of Yarmouth, whether it means making deliveries of harm reduction supplies or doing education or picking up um syringes or

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um you know what meeting folks needs in the community on our mobile unit. >> So, are you seeing the van utilized? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yep. For sure. and and people from other than Yarmouth can come and use it at that >> certainly. So we see a lot of folks

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Yeah, exactly. So we see a lot of folks from a lot of different towns. Likewise, um you know, people we know that people who use drugs may travel to other towns to use drugs or access our services. So some of the a majority of the people

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that we see in Hyannis identify that they are um you know from Yarmouth, although we don't necessarily see them in Yarmouth. They are Yarmouth residents. Thank you. Yeah. >> Yeah. I just want to ask about the pre-exposure prophylaxis. I just see

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that residents were zero for Yarmouth and it's at 170 agencywide. So maybe explain that. >> Sure. So, um, pre-exposure prophylaxis is a, um, medication that people who could potentially be at risk for, um,

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contracting HIV can take on a daily basis to, you know, largely reduce their risk of contracting HIV. Um, and so we don't currently have anybody who identified that they were a Yarmouth resident that last year accessed PREP

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um, through our organization, but um, like I said, they could have um, you know, that doesn't necessarily mean that they weren't a Yarmouth resident. It just means maybe that they didn't access that service on the van, but potentially in Hyannis or potentially in Felmouth or

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potentially in Province Town. >> Preventive measures are great. and what you do. Okay. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Sure. >> Great question. >> Take care. >> And if anybody hasn't signed in on their way out, just go ahead and sign it so we

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get your name. And uh the next one is the behavioral health innovators. They're asking for $3,000. Last year they got 2,200 granted to them. They might be online. Behavioral Health Innovators. Stephanie

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Gilren, please. You're up. You're mute. There you go. Can you hear us, Stephanie? Oh, we see you. We see you trying. Don't hear you yet. She should be able to talk.

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>> Stephanie, can you hear us? Can you? I don't know. Are you on mute? >> You want to try to go to the next one and come back to her? >> Yeah. >> Sorry about that, Stephanie. We'll uh go to the next one and come back to you on the next one. All right, the next one is

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B Free Wellness. Um they're asking for $10,000 and this is their first time applying with us. So Bree Wellness, somebody on there be free. Is it Ayanna Freedom?

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Ayanna, are you there? >> Yeah, I'm here. And now, now I'm here. >> Okay. Hi. >> Nice to meet everybody. My name is Ayanna. Um, and I'm the founder of Be Free Wellness. Um, and we've been uh in

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sort of operations for about five years. Um, this is our first time applying. So, I'm going to tell you a little bit about us. Um, and then feel free to ask questions. Uh we are a be free is a nonprofit organization that is located

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in Dennis. Our mission is to heal personal and community trauma through empowering integration of mental health, physical wellness and holistic services. We provide free and lowcost traumainformed culturally responsive programs that

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increase access to care for residents facing barriers to income, transportation, isolation, addiction, and systematic inequalities. I think for all of you, uh, two things I want to share. [snorts] Um, for

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Yarmouth, um, approximately 11.6, 6. You guys probably already know this. Um, of Yarmmouth and South Yarmouth, specifically residents live live below the poverty line. Um, and you also have one of the highest percentages of residents um, identifying as people of

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color. Um, and as far as the Barnesville County Human Services Health Needs Assessment, um, identified in 2026 that many of Barnesville County is facing barriers to mental health wellness, um, particularly Yarmouth. Um,

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what the these funds are going to help um is for the launch of our behavioral health program. And so we do community services all across the Cape. Um but bas basically midcape I'd say. Um so Dennis

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Yarmouth Hyannis um and we service and do yoga classes. We collaborate with the Brazilian resource center who's also here. um immigrant programming, incarcerated youth, families, um anyone

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facing addiction or mental health services um or mental health needs that um are having difficulty accessing that. Um, we really try to make everything accessible down to our programming to our physical programming to our um

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ability to really service people in a way that is culturally responsible and sensitive. Um, so our hope for this funding is to really impact um and expand our services that we already have

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going um but also to help with our launch of our behavioral health program um which is in the works already starting this summer. We have two clinicians that will be starting in the fall um hopefully one that is a person of color, the other hopefully also a

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person of color but multilingual. um and that will service and help um obviously all across the Cape Cod, but we are partnering with WAN in Hyannas to have an office in Hyannis. Um they're going to allow us to use it for free so

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we can service more residents in Dennis through Hyannis. Um and our goal really is to >> Excuse me. Just to be just to be fair to the other organizations, we're limiting this to five minutes. >> Okay, go ahead. You can stop. That's the

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reason why you're being interrupted. All right, >> that's okay. I talk a lot, so you always have to stop me. I get really excited. >> No, you're very clear. It's helpful. Board members, any questions? >> How do you advertise your services? >> Oh, that's great. Um, well, we do a lot

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of collaboration. I'm an LICSSW, so I am a therapist in the community. I know lots of folks who um obviously through social media through um a lot of meetings and communication um really word of mouth has been the most powerful for us. So really just connecting with

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communities. >> Thank you. >> Uh just curious. Um so my my background is in in long-term care. Um and I know in that setting behavioral health is is very challenging. Um you know roughly what would you say the breakdown is of

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of kind of just the age groups that you you provide support to? >> Yeah. So, our main population, I'd say, is um between like 40 to 70. Um, and but that's aside from our two programs. One that we serve

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youth um at the toy library and the other would be the incarcerated youth, the teens. So, those are our two specifics that fall in that younger category. >> Anything else? Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. We're gonna go

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back to behavioral health innovations. Uh Stephanie Gilin, >> can you can you hear me now? >> Yes, we can. >> Hey. Okay, good. [laughter] Sorry about that. Thank you for your patience. Um so Stephanie Gilra, the

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executive director with Behavioral Health Innovators, and we call that BHI for short because it can be a mouthful. Um but what we are doing over at BHI is we are providing a continuum of care for

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cape teens and young adults specifically that are facing mental health and substance use challenges and we've been around for 10 years but over the past four or so years we've really seen a skyrocket um in the number of participants particularly in one of our

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um flagship programs known as PASS PASS it stands for positive alternatives for student support and on our continuum imum of care pass falls in the prevention and intervention models we

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where we partner with schools Capewide. We have 17 sending schools and they shift away from a punitive discipline um and we implement a model of support for these kiddos. So, PASS can be used as an alternative to suspension, but it

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also can be used as a referral program for students who are already identified as struggling with either mental health and substance use. Oftentime they they do go together. Um, kids stay for around 5 days, give or take a few. Um, as we

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look into the future, part of funding will be for expanding the PASS program to meet the needs of the kids. Some kids are um you know starting to just settle in on day four or five and are saying that they could benefit from staying up to 10. So that's kind of you know where we're going with the past program and

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expansion. Um part of the program is Hey Bob, welcome. I'm in a meeting. Oh, sorry. My kiddo was on school break. She's on summer break. I'm done in like five minutes. Yes. Apologies. Um, part

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of PASS is to continue to provide these cares, these services for the teens and the young adults. And one of the referrals might go to our second flagship program which is called Cape Teens Rising. It's formerly known as the APG, the alternative peer group. However, um, over the course of the

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years and just meeting the needs of the families and the kids here on the Cape, we're really not a traditional APG program. Um it's a six-monthlong recovery on the continuum of care recovery and treatment where we provide wraparound services to not just the participant but to their family as well.

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Um so what we're looking at is services of course statewide but in numbers in Yarmouth. Um with both of our programs it's the participant and an adult. Um, so for the application that we sent in

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for the past program, um, this past school year, the 25 26 school year, we've had 21 Yarmouth students come to program. And then you factor in at least one parent or guardian, totaling 42 um, Yarmouth residents that were served

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through that program through BHI at PASS. And then overall since we launched the PASS program in 2022, we've had 59 Yarmmouth residents um plus one parent or guardian totaling around 118 Yarmouth

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residents um served overall. So again, we we really are taking the the participants at a younger age where habits are starting to get ingrained, questions are being had. It's a very interesting complex climate that they're

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growing up in and we're really providing healthier skills, tools, um identifying strengths, helping with identity, um really to help navigate their way through their middle school, high school years, and then create a path of well-being for their futures in young

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adulthood. So, open to any questions. >> I have a question. um your your um grant request mentioned vaping once in terms of a survey that had been done and I don't think that vaping um itself has

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been considered a substance use disorder but do you address vaping at all in your programs? >> Yeah, so absolutely that's actually a really um [snorts] high reason for referrals from our schools. both middle school and high school kids um are

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vaping in the school setting and some schools have detectors in their bathrooms and um they have different protocols depending on what school district you're with um but we are seeing very high number of kids using vape and whether it's THC or nicotine um

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we go over during the course of their time at PASS there's certainly substance use education particularly around the development of a teenage brain and the grooves that you're creating when you're taking a substance and you know repeating that over and over if that is

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their coping skill. We introduce other healthier skills that can be used in in that place. Um in addition to the brain science of using different substances um we go even a little bit deeper, right? It's um why are why are students

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reaching for that? Um the the idea of of PAS is really to find the root of the behavior um and address that in ter and try to understand what's happening because of that. We have a clinician on board. We partner with outer cape health

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services and so every student that comes through the pass program is given clinical assessments and um they discuss the reasoning why the student thinks they're there, why the school sent them. again, all in an attempt to um uproot and kind of unearth the the the root of

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the behavior. And that that's where like kids are starting to see like, oh, you know, it's because I have crippling anxiety and I don't like to present in front of the class. That's why I'm hiding in the bathroom and and using the vape because that is their unhealthy coping skill. And we just talk about that. We unravel it for them in a way

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that's digestible. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Are you tracking high school graduation rates? >> So, we're looking at um increasing our data to cover that. So, we have we're

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just about to complete our fourth year um of the PASS program and kids can come in at any point in their schooling career from grades 5 through 12. And so now that we're getting some time under our belt, we do follow up with them 30

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days and three months, but graduation is certainly a metric that we're looking to capture for the next fiscal year. >> Do you have any idea what the cost per participant is in your program? The at the moment the cost per participant I believe is around $6,000

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for their time that is spent at pass and that covers their transportation that covers the clinical setting that covers the psychoed group the academic tutoring that is happening. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. And I will also mention

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this is really important the um programs that we offer at BHI are free to the participants and their families. Um that said, schools do buy in. It's a very manageable amount for the service that

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they're being given to their students and their families, but schools do pay um a stipen to send their kids into the pass program. >> Okay. Thank you again. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Stephanie. It was a pleasure. >> Thanks, Gary.

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>> Right. Uh next up, we have uh Big Brothers Big Sisters of Capeen Islands. are asking for $5,250. Last year they got 750. Someone from Big Brothers Big Sisters on Big Brothers Big Sisters.

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All right, the next one is the Brazilian Resource Center. Um they're asking for $3,000. They This is their first time applying. Hello everyone. Hello everyone. My name is Michael

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Msinas. I am the uh founder and CEO of the Brazilian Resource Center. Uh we are located right here down the road 769 room 28 uh right next to the Moose Lodge. Uh we provide service for lowincome and immigrants on the Capen Island. We have a ton of programs and I

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would like to um introduce to you the community connection program which is a program that provides uh substance use prevention, a mental health wellness and also one-on-one counseling and support

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for bilingual um uh community members. Uh this program right now has been um supported by the town of Barnstable and I would like to ask the town of Yammer to support this program because our intention is to expand the program and

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allow the community from Yarmouth also to uh take advantage of the program. Um, we provide multilingual educational resources and we have a uh qualified um licensed uh therapist that does

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one-on-one counseling. Uh, one of the things I would like to emphasize, the program is not uh directly for the Brazilian population on the Cape. This is a community connection program open to anyone that needs to access those

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services. We do provide monthly workshops. Obviously, we provide that in Spanish and Portuguese and English as well. Um, most recent, I just got a call from the VNA nurse saying that they had a patient that was um that was having a

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um postpartum depression, but she was also had a history of uh drug addiction. And they heard about this program and she had no coverage. And she asked if we could include that person in the program. and I say absolutely. So, we

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were able to provide her a Zoom link and she was able to continue with the therapist uh 101 um counseling. Again, we are bas I'm basically here just asking the town of Yarmouth to uh support us and and our um hope is to

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expand this program uh to allow more people to take advantage of it. >> Okay, it was clear. Thank you. um board, they did give you extra stuff that wasn't provided in your packet. So, if you want to read that in your re in your

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studies, that's also there. >> Well, if if you don't mind, one thing that I also would like to add is that we have a uh program and I gave you the brochures uh that talks about a free medical care program uh composed with

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100% volunteer. I have 16 physicians on board and 21 RNs. uh and medical interpreters and Portuguese, Spanish and Haitian Creole dedicated to uh provide free medical care for the community that do not have any access to or primary

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care doctor or either have any coverage uh in terms of insurance purpose. >> I have a question about the pantry service. >> Yes. >> Um you know I don't like to see duplication of services. So is this something that's

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important in terms of the culturally um acceptable foods that you are providing or is it something that could be people could be obtained at the other pantries in the community? >> Culturally sensitive food I would say. Uh so which differentiates from other

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food pantries and the fact that we are open all the way until 7:00 at night. It gives the ability for those folks that are working during the day and don't have any way of accessing the food pantry on a normal hours. >> Thank you. >> Yes.

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>> All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Board. Next up is capabilities. They're asking for $5,500. Last year they were granted $3,50. Capabilities. Uh, Leanne Morrow capabilities.

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I think you're muted. Unmuted. >> Uh, can you hear me now? >> Yes, we can. >> Wonderful. Hello everyone. Um, thanks for giving me a few minutes to speak. I know capabilities is a fairly long time um applicant and recipient of human um

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services grants from the town of Yarmouth. I'll just start by asking if anybody has any specific questions. I'm happy to give a quick overview of our services also if that would be helpful. >> I don't >> I don't >> Okay, you've got four minutes.

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>> All right. Thank you. Um I'll just try to address some of the things that are more specific to the town of Yarmouth. Um which is um we we support many individuals who live uh in Yarmouth. It's one of the towns that um many of

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the people we support come from. Almost 20% I believe if I have the num the most current numbers um correct. And um we support individuals with a wide variety of diagnosis um various disabilities and

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our goal is really to keep them um independent and active in their communities. Uh we do this with a variety of different programs including um group homes. We have several in the town of Yarmouth, vocational programs

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including our social enterprises. Many of you have probably visited Capabilities Farm or Capabilities Thrift Store. Um and we also have our day programs. um and just a a wide variety of resources for people with disabilities

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all across the Cape and in this town um to connect with. Uh we also partner with many local businesses um to offer uh job training and job experience and um many other partnerships across the

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organization. Um and we are just looking for support for the 63 individuals in the town of Yarmouth um to continue accessing the programs. Uh many of the individuals that we support access more than one program at any given time. So

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um it is um just a wonderful resource to have on the cape. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate that. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Up next, we have Kate Bright Lights asking for $7,500.

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Last year, they were awarded 3,500. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much for having us back here again. My name is Jill Albreight. I serve as treasurer of Cape Cod Bright Lights. With me is Robie White House, who is one of our directors. But I also

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want to point out the two young people are starting on our board July 1st. They're sophomores currently in high school and they have joined us. It's something Bright Lights has been doing for the last several years, having high school students on our board to give

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them the experience of volunteering and seeing what service can do. Cape Cod Bright Lights is requesting again money. Again, we are totally a volunteer operation. We have no paid staff. Um the need is growing. We

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started off three years five six years ago, excuse me, with serving only 30 students with a weekend bag of nutrition. That's up to close to 80 now. However, we're also seeing the need grow for hygiene materials.

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um simple things like Kleenex, sanitary uh wipes, sanity wipes for the school teachers to wipe down surfaces, things like that that aren't covered in school budgets. So, Bright Lights is able to provide

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a quick means of getting some of those services to the children and to the um adults. People can walk into the Chamber of Commerce or into uh the police department and they might just need that

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little bit that will help them over over the edge just to get them started and they can get a gift card from them. Um the director of the Chamber of Commerce has has related to me the story of people who yes, they might be employed

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on Cape Cod. However, we all know what the cost of living on Cape Cod is. So, they're still living in their car. We can provide them with the hygiene materials that they can at least wash themselves and maybe shave

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and then go and get their jobs. So, I'll be glad to answer any questions you have for us. We sincerely appreciate uh you giving us this time. >> So, specifically for Yarmouth residents in Yarmouth what

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you do >> at this point we are trying to expand but again being an all volunteer staff we're limited on where we can deliver the things I'm meeting um Wednesday with

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the social worker at Ezer Baker to see if if there's something we can do to help the students there as well >> as well as where else >> Yarmouth right >> right right now >> yes We're growing. >> Unfortunately, the need is growing.

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>> Um, we were very fortunate. Stop and Shop was one of our sponsors and for three years now, they've given us fresh fruit every week. Recently, they have had to pull back on that. So, we are

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struggling with it. Um, they do give us fruit. A lot of it is I don't want to say seconds, but you can buy it off that cheaper rack if you happen to go into stop and shop. So, we have to supplement it with purchase

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fruit, but the kids do get two pieces of fruit. To your point, I also wanted to reference that at the beginning of this organization's startup, there was a student from Cape Cod Tech who was on the board. Um, and he asked if it would

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be possible to have some hygiene products at Cape Cod Tech if they were needed. And he went to the nurse and found out that yes, they would be needed. And he formed that initiative. And this was after we heard that this would be a benefit at the Dennis

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Yarmouth Regional School District. and uh he initiated it and he coordinated it. Um it's it's been great having the students on the board because they see a need that maybe we wouldn't see. >> Thank you.

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>> Is there any other questions we can answer? >> I don't either. >> I thank you very much for your concern. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks for coming in. >> Next up, Ruby. Next up, we have Cape Wellness Collaborative

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looking for $4,125 and this is their first time this year. They do have a hand up and if you've already presented, you're not forced to stay here and you're more than welcome to stay here with us. >> Yeah, go please. >> Look at the exams.

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>> Thanks for coming. >> Hello, Cape Wellness. Thank you. >> Hi. Hi. My name is Carol Bosco Bowman. I'm the CEO of Cape Wellness Collaborative. Thank you for your time and consideration. Um I'll just just give a quick recap of what we do for those who are who are

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watching online or who are not familiar with us. Cape Wellness Collaborative um serves the Cape and the Islands and our mission is to provide integrative therapies, nourishing meals and emotional support services to folks who are facing cancer. So what we do is we

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give $750 to each cancer patient and $200 to their caregiver and they go and spend that in the community with any of our 80 plus affiliated practitioners. Along with that, we have the Wellness Eats program which provides medically tailored meals. Um that would be six

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meals uh pardon me, six weeks of meals. Um so that's designed to help the family get through um perhaps the treatment time which is really tough. Um, and we also, um, have our emotional support groups. Um, so we have a men's support

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group, breast cancer support group, a caregiver group, and we're working on a women's group. Um, a couple of important points I'd like to share. Uh, we have served more than 19,000 servings through our Wellness Eats program. Uh, since the

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founding of the organization in 2014, we've served more than 3,100 people on the Cape Islands. And right here in Yarmouth, we are presently serving 86 people, 67 clients or cancer patients and 19 caregivers. So that's an

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investment that our that our organization is putting into the community of $54,000. Um, and I mentioned that because what I love, one of the things I love about our program is that we pay our practitioners, massage therapists,

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acupuncturists, raiki practitioners, etc. their full rate. So last year we put $225,000 back into the hands of small business people um on the Cape Islands. So um let's see. As far as this application

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goes, our the demand for our services has gone up 26%. Food costs have risen considerably. Um and so we've come to the town asking for support um to help offset some of the costs for delivery of the program. Um,

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so I'll stop there and see if you have any questions. Thank you. >> What happens with long-term cancer patients? I mean, they certainly can be in treatment for years and years. >> That's a great that's a great question and that's something that we're looking

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at. Our organization was founded with a mandate to help folks who are in that initial discovery phase of shock. Um I understand that question and the need for long-term care. Um a person in my

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family has non-hodkkins lymphoma and that is indeed a very long journey. So we as an organization are going to be looking at that as we go through the strategic planning process over the next year. Thank you. Good question.

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>> Eric Scott. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Next on our list is Champ Holmes asking for $10,000. This is their first time applying. Welcome.

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>> Good evening and thank you for having us tonight. My name is Adam Bernett. I'm the executive director of Champ Homes. I've been there for about nine years now and we provide transitional housing to folks on Cape Cod who are struggling with homelessness or housing instability. Our campus is located right

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over the border in Hyannas and we've been serving um folks from the entire Cape for about 35 years now. Um who comes to Champ Homes? Folks that are in recovery, folks that have mental illness, um folks escaping domestic

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violence, veterans looking to reaclimate to um civilian lifestyle, and youth and young adults, and folks that are just down on their luck. Um, regardless of the circumstances that led folks to experience homelessness, we're there to support them in a family-like atmosphere,

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um, get them, you know, housing is a huge social determinant of health. And as soon as, uh, folks arrive at Champ Homes, we immediately give them, um, fresh linens, all the hygiene products that they're going to need to stabilize and, um, take care of themselves. And then they work with our set of care

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coordinators to establish goals and then develop a roadmap on how to achieve their goals. Um and uh over the past several years we've had about 85% success rate with uh with our champs uh moving back into independent housing uh

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once they finished Champ Homes. So um it's hard to define how many people come from Yarmouth or have affiliation with Yarmouth because they don't necessarily have a a residence at the time that

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we're engaging with them. Um however when we go back and we use the last um the last known address is what we use as our barometer uh about 10% of our overall population comes from Yarmmouth and that's between five and 10 people on

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any given year. It's estimated that we've helped about 3,000 people since uh we opened our doors in 1991. So I'm happy to take any questions and uh thank you again for your time and consideration. >> Thank you. What kind of supervision is there,

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especially overnight at some of these homes? >> So, um, we actually are only staffed Monday through Friday, uh, 8 to say 5 or so. Um, so our Champs are on their own nights and weekends and they do remarkably well. So there is no

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oversight, none needed. >> Okay. >> Everybody that comes to Champ Homes uh, commits to a sober lifestyle. Um, we also vet folks as they're coming in, uh, to make sure that there's no, uh, lengthy criminal history, things that are problematic in a congregate setting,

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arson, violent criminal behavior, trafficking, things of that of that nature. >> Anything specific about meals? Yes, we um so we provide meals Monday through Friday to all of our champs and then we have a pantry and a full kitchen um very

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well stocked and we get donations from Whole Foods, Chick-fil-A, and a number of other sources. Uh we also collaborate with another a number of other nonprofits to help us prepare dinners for our folks. So, nobody goes without when they come to Champ Homes. There's plenty of food for everybody. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Uh, where do you see that you get the most? Whether it's a referral platform, like where do you see you get the most folks? How do they how do they find out about you? How do they make their way? >> We do a really good job with outreach to all of our referral partners. Make sure that they understand um who we serve and

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how we serve them so they can find the right um uh referral. Uh so we just constantly stay in communication with a wide variety of referral sources. Everyone from GZnol to Duffy to Outer Cape Health Services to the hospital. um

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and everything in between. >> Yeah, really. >> Um any connection to like nursing homes, local nursing homes? >> We do as kind of a last step. You know, obviously most of the folks that we're uh working with, we're trying to get back into independent housing um and uh

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a self- sustaining model for themselves. Uh but there does come a time and it happens more more often than recently as the population continues to age where their next step is assisted living, nursing home, long-term care, something like that if if um their needs uh go

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well beyond what our capacity is at that point. >> And then as far as the opposite end, um so I I run nursing homes. Um I ran a facility in uh South Am prior. We had a a relatively young population. um some folks in their 40s, 50s who were experiencing homelessness. So um you

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know just an avenue um as well. >> Yes. So um unfortunately folks need a place to go and um you know sometimes they end up in in situations and in places that aren't ideal and not necessarily efficient and effective. Um

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so but I'd argue that we are >> Yeah, it's great. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next, we have Duffy Health Center asking for $10,000. Last year, they got 4,100.

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Hi, thank you so much for having me. My name is Melissa Payne. I'm the associate director of outreach programs for Duffy Health Center. Um, we've been receiving funding from the town of Yarmas since I think 2017. Um, so any questions you guys have, I

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can also take some time, but I I too am a rambler, so I'll let you ask questions first because >> Mary, >> um, you get refer uh, you had 136 referrals from the Yarmouth Police Department

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>> and of those 136, 75 accepted services of some >> sort. Um, where else do you get referrals from? >> That's a great question. So, we have a very strong partnership with the Armouth Police Department. Um, we work with Annie Katalano. So, we I meet with her

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weekly um and receive a large amount of the referrals that we document for this grant from Annie and the Armouth Police Department. Um, we also receive referrals from Cape Cod Hospital, um, from other health centers, from

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Gausnald, um, pretty much the gambit. We also have our reach mobile unit that goes throughout the county um and especially serves the town of Yarmouth. So um we receive referrals, self-referrals from meeting people where they're at um but also um police, fire,

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the hospital all over. >> How have you been affected by federal funding? >> That's a wonderful question. Um we have actually are really proud of how we've pivoted. um some of our larger human

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services or specifically substance use disorder related grants um are ending due to shifts in federal funding in September. Um, so we've really relied very heavily on these town partnerships and especially Yarmouth is I would say Yarmouth and Barnstable are our

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strongest PD partnerships and town partnerships. Um, just because our brick and mortar is Henyannis. Um, and we've had such such strong buyin from those towns and partnerships. Um, we have shifted, um, our new CEO, Stephanie Roen, has

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done an amazing job with con contingency planning for loss of federal funding. So, we've shifted, um, to some extensive more billable revenue, so we can really still um, serve our population. Um, our

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federal designation is the homeless population. So 75% of our patient population needs to fit that um uh either unhoused or housing instability. So we've really sort of held on to that and that seems very strong. Um so yes,

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we've been affected. Um, one of the biggest cons contingency plans and safety nets have been these grant funds with the towns of Yarmouth, Barnesville, Falmouth, Mashby really supporting especially the Reach mobile unit and especially um our recovery

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support and outreach services. That was a long-winded answer to that. >> I'm glad that you're >> that we feel really good about how we've pivoted. >> Medicaid's going to be an issue, too. Yep. And um we have pivoted in that

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sense too with some of our staffing in terms of um bringing on insurance um specialists to really work with folks um and worked a lot with our acco and C3 and Mass Health to um create plans to keep people insured, to serve people

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even if they lose their insurance um and really to continue to serve the community as best as possible. um um and find ways to continue to fund what we're doing. So, I think we've stayed true to our um mission and the needs of Cape Cod

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while also pivoting where we needed to um in certain ways. >> Thank you. >> I don't need it. Thank you. >> Thank you so so much. >> Great job. Thank you very much. Next up, we have Family Table Collaborative asking for $5,088.

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Last year, they received 2,700. Hi. >> Hello. >> Good evening. Thank you for having me. We also have I'm Jenny Wheeler, the executive director and co-founder of the Family Table Collaborative. Uh we are, as you know, located in Yarmouth down the street from us at the former

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Riverway Lobster House. Um we have received funds to you for several years. So, I'm not going to go through kind of what we do, but I am going to give you some stats. Um since some of the questions, we have worked with six of the agencies you've already heard from today. We are incredibly collaborative in nature. Um,

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and that's very important to us. Uh, more than 15 nonprofits are served uh by what we do every single week. Um, but to date we have we're just tipping 300,000 meals into the community, nutritious meals. We focus on increasing

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nutritional security as a major distinction between food security and um we've also rescued and put back into the community um just tipping 200,000 pounds of fresh produce and u many of the organizations you've heard from already

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and others um are recipients of some of that uh produce. And then we also have prevented more than half a million pounds of surplus from becoming waste in the last four years since our partnership with Whole Foods Market. Um

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many people found out about us for the first time with the blizzard. Um we became a resource for the entire county. Um but we uh just to give you an idea, we provided 40,000 give or take meals into the community last year. In the

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week of the blizzard, we serviced all 15 warming centers and shelters except DY hospital. I mean, the DY High School, the one that I could throw a rock at. Um, they brought in their kitchen team. But in that one week, we put 15,000 meals out the door of our kitchen. So,

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we not only do what we do every day, week, and month of the year, but we also become an emergency resource in times of great need. Can you get some fresh fruit to brighten up? >> I just talked to Roie about it. I pulled her aside. I was like, "Why don't you call me and ask me about some fresh

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fruit?" [laughter] And Michaelels in my Brazilian resource gets stuff from us multiple times a week and we send food to Champ homes all the time. And I've worked with CWC and Duffy where contracted with for many things. So yes, [laughter]

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we we like to collaborate. Do you have a stop-in program? Like people can they stop in and get stuff or >> No. Um so our meals go out through community um our community partners which are councils on aging, senior centers, veterans housing, low-income

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housing, and the shelter system. And then we also have public distributions. Um and then we work with um because of of some of the cuts to federal funding, we've taken on um quite a few congregate meals for senior centers and councils on

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aging. We also launched a soup program for places to be that have commercial kitchens that can actually like heat and serve a meal to a very, you know, tight neighborhood or group. um because what we're seeing is cuts to a lot of

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programs and we've never received federal funding. So that is good. But we also from the get-go because my co-founder Harry and I both have business backgrounds. Um for us it was very important to create um kind of

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strategic planning with regard to earned income in addition to what we do to help us like I I like to say help us get to yes for the community. So, we created a nonprofit catering events arm almost four years ago that last year made up 56% of my cash operating budget. So, we

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do an awful lot to help ourselves and the community. >> Thanks. >> Um, you didn't list what kind of funding you might get from other towns in your proposal. >> Okay. So we actually have very similar to what Duffy was saying, we have

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started over the last two years in particular building stronger town funding partnerships. A lot of those funds go towards um dedicated our community refrigerators, our nourish hubs are a very significant growing um

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value proposition for most towns. It's about kind of getting that hyper local sustainable sustained response. So, putting nutritious food where people can access it. Um, so we get funds from six of the other towns so far that I know

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of, though Harry is working with almost every town. We are the only food agency on Cape Cod in all 15 towns. We are the only food agency on Cape Cod that addresses all food sensitivities and allergens. And we are the only food agency on Cape Cod that addresses the full cycle of food. And what I mean by

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that is we rescue food. We determine what we can use in the meals we're going to make that week. We determine what we can rescue that we can that we're not going to use that we turn around and put right back out through agencies that interface directly with families and those most at risk. Michaelels is a big one for us. And then whatever they whatever we can't rescue goes to feed

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local farm animals and whatever they don't eat goes back in the ground as compost. So we also focus on reducing waste and increasing sustainability. And the reason that's important is the United States makes up approximately 5% of the world's population. We create over 25% of the world's food waste and

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food waste is the third highest contributor to greenhouse gases. >> Um, sorry, just gone. [laughter] >> I understand. I have like short-term memory loss walking across my comm kitchen. [laughter] Why did I come over here?

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>> Was it food related? Maybe I haven't had dinner. [laughter] >> I should have brought snacks. clears everyone's heads. >> Oh, um, adults, all of these food programs, we've been talking about adults. Where do toddlers, infants, babies fit into

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this whole food picture on the Cape? >> So, um, we we impact I would say about half of our numbers are seniors that, you know, we we service and the other half are families. So we go like through

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kids and you know really more through the families. There are programs dedicated specifically to like backpack programs and stuff like that for the weekends. Most of them outside of some level of fresh fruit are all shelf

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stable processed foods unfortunately. Um we have not found outside of the community fridges. That's an area we are particularly putting them in libraries, community centers, stuff like that. To target, we are contracted with the new

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Boys and Girls Club that they're building in MASHP. That teen center will have one of our fridges in it. So, we're really focused. Uh we have five community fridges right now where we have six more that the county acquired that are going in that we're contracted to fill and I just got a grant from the

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United Way to put four more in. Um I also just wrote another grant for 20 more across Cape Cod. So the community fridges are a way to target very hyper localized specific groups. Um but that's that's the way we have gone about it.

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>> So with whom would you work to supply those community fridges to be sure you are meeting the needs of that specific >> so we believe heavily in listening beforehand. So, even the community fridges that exist right now, um, Hyannis's uh, public library was the

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first one, and that is very different than some of them because they intersect with the homeless the most because they're off of the green. So, all of the food, 100% of what goes in there is not our traditional prepared meals that are designed to be like a home-cooked meal that you reheat. It's all fresh, like,

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you know, fresh sandwiches, hearty salads, homemade dressings, fresh fruit. We make our own granola and then we either do a regular yogurt or a vegan yogurt and you know fresh fruit in it. Um whether it's actually just fresh fruit on the side. But all of those

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things are what go in there. Um the uh Haritch one is half and half. It's half graband go and half like designed to be homecooked heated. And then Eastam is 100% just meals. So our objective is always to listen to what actually the

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community needs, not have us tell them, but them tell us what they need and then we figure out solutions to get to Yes. And >> how many paid staff do you have? >> We have six paid staff, which is very exciting for us. Um, we have six now and

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we have over 670 active volunteers. >> We are the fastest growing volunteer organization on Cape Cod. We are averaging picking up one a day. We have added 176 since January 1st.

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>> Your um your refrigerators, are they manned? Are they how are they are they freestanding? >> They're freestanding glass front and what happens is we always again we build partnerships. So, whatever organization

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we're partnering with, we have a couple of their people get um food handler serve safe food handler certified and the fridge always has to be someplace where like somebody can kind of keep eyes on it just so it you know can't be emptied out. It's rare but like you know

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we want to be responsible. Um we get a lot of questions on what happens if there's food left. That almost never happens. We usually have lines waiting for us to fill the fridge but um but we always work in partnership. So, um, like

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I said, the six that are coming in actually are being purchased by the county and then we're filling them, but we work with every board of health and we work with each agency to create a solution that fits for them. >> Excellent. Thank you.

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>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Excellent. >> All right. Next up, we have Hands of Hope Food Pantry and Outreach Center that are asking for $6,000. Last year they got $5,700. Um, hands of hope. Anybody online? Hands

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of hope. All right, we'll put a star next to that one. Uh, Housing Assistance Corporation. Um, $5,000. Last year they got 3,250. Housing Assistance Corporation right there. Oh, almost had one. There we go.

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Patty, I think you're on mute, Patty. There you go. >> Hi. Good evening, everybody. How are you tonight? >> Good. >> Good. Thank you for the opportunity and for your support of our programs. Um, housing assistance. Um, many of you know, I should ask first, do you have

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any questions? >> I do not apparently. No. Oh, Barry, you have >> I do not. No. >> Okay. >> Okay. I'll just give you a little quick I I really will be quick. Most of you know us as the uh largest regional housing resource center on Cape Cod. Last year we had 9,000 households served

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through our doors. Uh many of those about 4500 of those folks receive actual financial support through our energy programs, our rental assistance programs, and our emergency homeless prevention funds.

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uh the town and through the town of Yarmouth, there were 387 people who received um funds through those services, including those three categories totaling over $1.2 million.

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So, we ask for support from towns as a way to um invest in our services. Yarmouth is the third largest um population that we serve across Cape Cod. to speak to something that um somebody

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mentioned earlier about older older Cape Cotterers. When I started at housing assistance four years ago, we had 500 we had 220 people on our homeless case load. That number now stands at 550, more than

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double in four years. And 60% of those homeless folks are over the age of 60. So, we're seeing, you know, more vulnerable, more at risk, um, high need, and and frankly, um, more wraparound and

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support services needed. So, again, we serve all the way the whole gamut from the homeless, the most vulnerable, all the way to helping um, low and moderate income families realize their dreams of becoming homeowners. So, your support

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um, supports housing assistance. These dollars go directly back to services for Yarmouth residents and not into administrative or any other costs. So they go directly to services that will help those Yarmouth residents.

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I'm happy to answer any questions or tell you a little more about our program. >> Anybody? No, I think we're good. >> Thank you very much. Great. >> Thank you very much for having us. Appreciate it. Thank you. Next on our list is Independent House asking for $10,000. Last year they got

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3,125. Anybody from Independence House online? Independence House. All right, we'll move on to the next one. Laam Centers. Um, they're asking $5,000. This is their

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first year doing it. Um, Alyssa Anton, I'm gonna Sorry if I got your name wrong. Alyssa. >> Hi. >> Hello. >> Name is Alyssa Antinovich and I'm the new director of advancement at Laam Centers. Can everyone hear me? >> Yes. >> Yep.

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>> Okay, great. Um, so I'll um speak a little about who we are and how we are connected to Yarmouth and how we plan to use the funding. So, we are a specialized nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and adults with complex special needs. And

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we are uh our mission is to create opportunities for independence, self-worth and happiness for both children and adults facing unique challenges including those with prder willy syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. Oftentimes we have a lot of comorbidities.

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Uh we are also the only facility in the US that provides comprehensive residential care for both children and adults uh with Potter Willy syndrome. We serve ages eight to now 71. And um as you may know, our main

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administrative offices and also our adult service services are on 259 Willow Street. And about 40% of the adults in our program live in Yarmouth in either uh shared community homes or in shared

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living. and many of our employees uh at Laam are also Yarmouth residents. Uh the reason we're asking for funding is because we are primarily funded from local school

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districts across the country, DDS uh for adults, but it covers only the school or workday. It it doesn't it covers a cost of living and education. It doesn't cover extracurricular activities, vocational advancements, uh so social events, uh such as we recently had a

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school prom. We hold after school activities such as drawing, a scenotherapy, which is therapy with donkeys. Um and basically it doesn't cover anything outside of the workday uh or the school day. So along with that um we also because of the extensive size of

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our facilities have a bunch of capital projects that are always ongoing. And any questions? >> I know. >> Okay, >> we're good. Thank you very much. Good presentation. >> Next up is Neutri Neutrine Foster

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Families, Inc. DBA Cape Cod Foster Closet, asking for $3,000. Last year got 25,500. Welcome. >> Hi, I'm Ally Gochi. Um, I'm the new executive director at Cape Cod Foster Closet. We did receive funding from you

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all last year. Um, and the town of Yarmouth just did a clothing drive for us in May for um, foster parents month. So, thank you to those of you who participated and helped support our annual um, celebrate summer giveaway. Um, I'm similar to other people. Happy

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to share more about what we do. If you'd like to hear an update on what we've been up to for the last year or um if anyone has any questions, please let me know. >> This is good for you. Go ahead. You have a few minutes. What's new with the organization? >> Yeah, so we're this is our fifth year. We're still a small growing

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organization. Um we expanded our space um to cover we've always covered the whole Cape, but our original location was in Orleans. We now have a space in East Falmouth, so we're kind of covering either end. And then our volunteers um

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also staff a closet inside the department of children and families office in Hyannis um to ensure that their closet is clean, tidy, and ready for the social workers when they need to shop for children um as well. So that's a you know major partnership for us. Um

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we supported 380 kids um last year as an organization um and around 25ish. It is really challenging for us to count where um to sort of determine who is a resident of what town on Cape because

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these are often kids who are being removed from their homes which might be in one town and get placed in a home in another town um and also may be moving throughout the year. So we estimate we have around you know 20 to 50 kids that could be considered um Yarmouth

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residents at some point in time throughout the year. Um and our you know our bread and butter is providing um clothing and basic necessities um to children when they enter foster care and on an ongoing basis as well as supporting children who are living um in a kinship family. So grandparents

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raising grandchildren, aunts, uncles, school teachers, um sports coaches um who are stepping up to take care take care of kids um in while their parents aren't able to. >> Nice. What happens to the kids no more? kids

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after age 18, you know. >> Yeah. So, there are a lot of kids that end up, they say, aging out of foster care. So, they have not found their forever home when they turn 18, which can be really challenging. Um, the Department of Children and Families does have uh a way to interact with those

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children um with those adults, I should say. But those adults need to sign themselves in. If they do that, they're eligible for ongoing um support from a social worker as well as free college. um and some additional supports. We our organization will support kids who have

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aged out. So we'll support up to age 24. Um unfortunately I think it can be really challenging for those young adults to find their way in the world. Um especially if they don't have the support of adults. I I do know of several um you know young adults locally who have great relationships with their

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foster parents. They just didn't move to adopting and and those people are you know um supporting them in navigating becoming an adult in the world. But certainly that is a a vulnerable population. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for coming in.

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>> Great job. Thank you. Uh next up is Yes. Just print so we can read it. Thank you. Uh Site Law Services, Inc. asking for $3,500. Last year we gave them $2,200. I do see a hand up. Rhonda. >> Hi. Can you hear me?

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>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Hello. Uh, so I'm Rhonda Garin. I am the executive director of site loss services. Uh, we have a very long-standing relationship with the town of Yarmouth. Um, we'd like to thank you for your past support. Um, as you know,

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uh, we, um, serve folks who are low vision as well as legally blind. If you're not legally blind, then you cannot avail yourselves of the services of the state of Massachusetts. So, that's where we come in. Um, our slogan is because no one should go through

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vision loss alone, sight loss services here to help. And we really, really take that to heart. Um, Yarmouth continues to be our largest service area, although MASHP is starting to catch up a little bit. Um but uh Yarmouth is still our largest service area and um we just

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recently had a request to start another support group in Yarmouth. So we will be doing that in July. Um it will be on the assisted living side at Thurwood Place rather than on the independent living side. Um so that's sort of an update of

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what we have going on and um I'd be happy to answer any questions if you had any. What do you consider a unit of service? I saw that in your application. >> So, anytime somebody calls the office for a referral, anytime anyone attends a

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support group meeting, anytime anyone comes into the office for a visit, anytime I go out to do a home visit, anytime I go out to do a health fair, I keep track of the number of people I speak to. Um, anytime I give out any

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sort of adaptive aids, I keep track of how many I give out. Um, anytime we we contact each one of our clients every single month. So, every time we make one of those phone calls, that's also considered a unit of service.

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>> Could you give some examples of adaptive aids? So, anybody who comes into our office or has a home visit with me receives um at least one small light, a pair of tinted

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glasses in a shade that's appropriate for their eye condition, and then a handheld LED magnifier in the strength that's appropriate for them. And then um they may receive bump dots, they may receive talking clocks, they may receive

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liquid level indicators, just sort of depending on where they're at and what they might need and what I have available in the office. Um those are the sorts of adaptive aids. And then we have a recycling program for the more expensive pieces of equipment where um

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the desktop magnifiers um they're about three or $4,000. Uh sometimes if a loved one passes away or somebody's vision gets to the point where it's no longer useful, their family will donate that to us and then we'll donate that back out. And then we

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recently purchased four pairs of the new Meta um AI glasses. Um so we have um Meg from the mobile Mac Doctor. She has one of our pairs and she's been using it out in the world and she is now going to be

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offering training to folks who would like to use them. And then the other pairs are available for folks to try them out before they invest in a pair of them. Um they are um they are incredible and I'm sorry that I am not there in person tonight because I would have

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brought a pair with me for you to all try. So I will bring those for you next time. Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We do have another hand up. I know it was from previous uh Letta.

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>> Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me? >> Yes, ma'am. Who you with? >> Okay. Yes, I'm I'm I've been here. I just wasn't unmuted when you called on me. [laughter] So, I'm ready to present if you're ready for me. >> Yes, ma'am. Who are you with again? >> Oh, I'm with Independence House. >> Okay. Yes, ma'am.

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>> Yes. Good. Good evening. Um, I am Lara Hurich Patnham. I'm the executive director of Independence House and I've been here for a long time, over 26 years. And as many people have said, um, Independence House uh has been receiving

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um support and funding from the town of Yarmmouth from for uh many years. And our work um is about serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence um through a variety of programs um and our

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programs really are designed to address the needs of domestic and sexual violence survivors. So it's not one thing, it's many things. So, it includes community based programming, um emergency shelter, 247 hotline, court

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advocacy, supportive counseling support groups. Um our clients range from, you know, um five years old up to whatever age, so we'd say 80 years old. So, we

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serve um folks across the lifespan. and um much of our services are designed to address the crisis of domestic violence and that's where our different programs come in. We also have a food pantry on site. We've had that for um as long as

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I've been here and the reason why we provide a variety of services is because victims of domestic and sexual violence um need different things. Not everyone needs the same things. In the town of Yarmouth, we serve about um 8,400

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clients last year at Independence House across our programs. And for the uh town of Yarmath, we serve 289 unduplicated clients and 328 duplicated.

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Um I know I have five minutes and I have presented here before, so I will pause and answer questions obviously. Scott, anything? Because we we know it well, the organization. Anything? >> Okay.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for hearing me. I appreciate it. Yeah. Byebye. >> All right. Next up is one of our bigger ones. Uh the VNA of Cape Cod asking for $20,000. Last year they got 5,000. >> I have a question about that. Does that

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include the contract? >> No. >> No. >> No. This is just >> this is separate. >> Okay. >> Meg, are you on there? >> I see your names up there. >> Meg. Hello, Meg. >> It says she's using an older version of

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Zoom. So, she has to accept my invite for panelist to talk. >> Meg, do you have to accept his invite as a panelist to talk? It says you're using older version of Zoom. We can

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while Meg and Liam try to work that out. We can always go to the next one. The uh Yarmouth Food Pantry DBA Cape Cod Community Pantry asking for $19,000. Last year they were awarded 8 thou $18,675. Come on up and Meg. We'll get back to

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you right after this one. Good evening. >> We so appreciate the support that this board has shown us. But I update you on a couple of things. you know from our past visits that we

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supply a meal a month program. We continue to do that. We're still giving out our children's snack bags to all the children from ages 3 to 11 to encourage them to choose something healthy to eat rather than junk food if you want to

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call it that. Um one of the challenges we've found this year is that the cost of protein has gone up quite substantially. So, because of your help with our program, we've been able to keep up with some of those things. I

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also want to report some happy news. Um, we have always encouraged our clients to eat healthy and they've gotten the memo. So, we have started to team up with um Capabilities Farm to buy a substantial

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amount of produce for them every Thursday evening because our biggest food distributions are Tuesday and Thursday nights. We usually serve between 60 and 70 families. So I get enough from the Greater Boston Food Bank to serve Tuesday night because our deliveries on Monday, but Thursday

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night, our produce was scanned. So luckily, Capabilities has taken us on as a client. And we're finding that our clients want to eat healthier. And that's good news to us because we've been focused on trying to help them with

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a dietitionian and some in our meal of the month program to choose healthier foods. So, um I don't have to bring in as many canned goods as we used to, which is great. I have trouble now getting rid of soup because we've taught

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them to make a lentil stew and use some of our um dried beans protein. So that I think that's really great news for an organization to give it a bra. The other thing I wanted to tell you which is even

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happier was this last fall when food stamps was threatened. It was humbling to be a volunteer at our pantry. This community stepped up and offered so much support. They were not going to let

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their friends and neighbors go hungry. So that was a moment for me after 15 years of working there. That was huge to watch people back their cars up, call us, try to write checks, and want to

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help their neighbors. So I think Yas would be very proud of that effort when that happened. Can I answer any questions? Oh, this is Kathy McCullen, our secretary. [laughter] >> I get to see all the donations that come

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in, both monetary as well as food. In 2010, we Susan was the original founder with a few other people in organizing the Yarmouth food pantry. Six families. our numbers have increased substantially

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and uh we still remain an all volunteer organization. It's it's unbelievable. Susan's our executive director for in September 16 years and I think that's incredible.

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Someone asked Mother Teresa once uh what they could do to help her because she does so much in Kolkata and she said to to the person go find your own Kolkata.

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Susan found hers 16 years. So I'd like to take this opportunity to recognize her contribution to this organization. She She rules with a with a firm hand, but she's got a wonderful heart. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. It's pretty good review. >> Um, your proposal didn't have any separate sheets. It said see sheet, but in our packets, we didn't get them. I didn't get them anyway in my pack or rather online

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>> narrative that I >> It might have been in the email that we sent out. We >> I got them from the email. >> Okay. I yeah I got them from the email. So I don't know um I know that you've changed your name because you're you really serve a broader area than just

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Yarmouth. So what kind of support do you get from other communities and how do you work with the other food pantries that already are on the Cape? We have um support. I think I wrote in there that the Dennis Fire Department does a big fundraiser for us annually

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for their homeless for the holidays and collect cash and um probably about 6,000 items of food that they donate in early um December. Yarmouth does the same thing with their fire department. >> And then um we have the youth group in

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Boston has started doing two food drives for us every year. three or four grocery stores would we have somewhat of a challenge or we did in the [clears throat] past because of our name because we would go and try to fundra

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let's say Whole Foods we would stand there and try to get donations and they people would walk right by and say we want to give to Barnesville families and but but you know so our name change helped address a lot of that and we do

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ser anyone that comes in that's hungry. We just never found that we could ever turn away somebody because they don't live within geographical lines. So, um we're very proud of that. To turn away a mother with three kids because they live

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in Sandwich would have been a heartbreak for us. So, that's how we have met, you know, just agreed to serve anyone that comes in. And 30% of our clients are children and in April, we serve 16 over

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1,600 people. >> Um, I thought that a while ago you were going to be changing your location some years ago and that didn't happen. >> Well, weren't you going to move to some different spot? >> I would like to. I don't have room for

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one more refrigerator. >> But, um, we're always on the hunt for a better location. We'd love to find a that had a loading dock because we bring in 5,000 pounds of food every week and we put a um a conveyor belt up on our

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truck and slide the boxes in on a roller system. It would be nice to just move a whole pallet of food into the pantry with a loading truck. It's a wish list. >> Okay, we're good. Thank you for coming in. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. I think Meg is able to get in now. If Liam, you want to let her in? I think Meg. >> Hi. Can you hear me? >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you for being patient with us. >> Awesome. No, thank you for being patient. Um, so my name is Meg Payne.

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I'm the director of public health for the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod. We're contracted um we're the contracted public health entity for 21 towns across the Cape and the islands. We provide an array of clinical and

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nonclinical services. Some of our clinical services that we offer include maternal child health, prenatal and postpartum home visits. We offer vaccines. We do exercise programs, educational programs,

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um etc. um our programs and the needs that we're seeing continue to grow. Um I think that is kind of the theme across all of these asks tonight and like such a great array of organizations. It's really really

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impressive. Um so this fiscal year we served over so far over 850 Yarmouth residents. The majority of the residents that um were connected with was through our maternal child health

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program. Um we also have a large vaccine program. We do a vaccine for children VFC program um that we work with the state on and our site is in Dennis. Um Yarmouth

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residents are welcome to attend. Um, we also offer homebound vaccines and we did quite a few skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities in the town of Yarmouth this past fall.

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Um, in addition, [clears throat] we also provide nursing and physical therapy home visits for residents who don't qualify for traditional home care. Um, and as I mentioned before, we do exercise and educational programs. We also do the communicable disease

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surveillance and follow up with the state. We work closely with the health department on that. Um we are considered a safety net service and focus on those um folks who would otherwise fall between the cracks. Um and the premise of everything that we

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do is education and connection. Um I know Michael Msinas from the Brazilian Resource Center is there. he mentioned um a mutual client that we were able to support together. Um we also just recently provided a um child birth

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education class all in Portuguese um at the Brazilian resource center just because we identified that as such a big need um in the town. Um, currently the only child birth education class being offered um on the

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Cape is at Cape Cod Hospital and it's in English and there's a fee associated with it. Um, so we were able to offer that at the Brazilian Resource Center which we were really really excited about. Um, I know I've presented in the past and we've received money um from

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this grant for many years and we're very grateful. Um, I think again I think the needs are growing and funding is tightening from the top. So, um, you know, we're all we're all trying to meet the needs the best that we can

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and we're just grateful that you can hear us out and, um, happy to answer any questions that you have. >> I'm good. No, we're set. Thank you. >> Thank you, Megan. >> Thanks. That wraps up our uh our list for this year. So, the goes back into

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the hands of the chair. We might have I see one other name up there, Rhonda Garin. I don't know. >> That might have just been left up there. So, thank you everybody. >> Thank you for those who stayed to hear

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about other organizations. I hope it helps you some with >> people that need it. Great. >> Thank you so much. Take care. >> Okay. Take care. >> Okay. Uh >> yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot of need.

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>> You know, it was it was um depression. Depressing and heartening. Depressing to see the the extent of the need in the community and heartening to see the organizations that are trying to address it. I like that there's already they

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collaborate with each other already. >> Absolutely. >> They're not trying to fight it independently. There's a lot of working together. >> A lot more of that now. >> That was nice to hear. >> Yep. >> Okay. What I'm going to ask the board members and all five of us is this week

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to make some decisions about indivi which organizations would you like you personally to uh give some money to and how much? Uh there's $60,000

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is going to be difficult. Uh you said the requests went over 120,000 or something like that. >> Yes. Over. way over. >> Yeah. >> 142,463. >> No, it doesn't mean each organization

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will get something. Um I the only thing I do ask of everyone and we can make that the three of us make decision is to put uh what kind of ceiling or maximum should there be. There was one year

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where uh an individual on the board uh gave a very high amount towards one organization and it could really skew things when I was trying to create some algorithm which I'll do that again

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um it got skewed. So I'm trying to avoid that. So three of us if you can just decide on what should be how do you want to go about a max for an organization >> you as an individual when you're sending it to me which I'll ask you to do this week. >> Okay.

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>> So yeah be because they're all different and they're all they all have different numbers that they serve and different things >> right I mean the individual gave an amount that was more than what they asked for. So it it's >> so you just want to know for that if we

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want to fund that organization what would be the maximum amount that we would want to give to them >> right which could be more than what they're asking for I mean potentially >> so >> okay >> how do you want to go about that then I can do some work when the numbers start coming in >> okay can do that

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>> so what what should the maximum how do you want to go about that the ceiling that any there'll be a max amount that you can put down on your spreadsheet to give to one organization. Yes. >> But I'm saying >> what they asked for is what I would say

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would be the maximum. >> Oh yeah. Yes. Can't give more than what they asked for. >> So as far as just the dollar amount. So if the top was 20,000, we would say that you know no more than 20 >> would be given >> to anybody. >> You decided someone that asked for five

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and you said I think they should get all >> 20 but nothing above that essentially. Okay. So the max this year would be 20 to any one organization. Is that what [clears throat] we should do? Okay. >> Y. >> Thank you. >> Okay, I think we're done with that. Um,

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announcements would be number seven here. And no, six. Looks like we have minutes right in there. Okay, so we need to approve the minutes or not approve them. So, does anyone have any edits to the minutes from that's the June 1st,

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2026 meeting? >> I don't either. So, >> motion to approve. >> Second. >> Yeah, >> June 1st. >> We're all there. Okay, that's fine. Um, okay. Announcements. >> Um, >> anybody have any announcements they'd

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like to make? One of them big things is uh a big support in our office is has moved is moving on. Sarah um took a job with the county so she'll be greatly missed. Um her knowledge and expertise

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and everything she does is is wonderful. Um Mary's going to be all right though. We're going to help her as long as we can and I'm not going to let her get overwhelmed or anything like that. So, she's a we we're we're gonna get her some great help. Also, um next month is

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the tick awareness. Um we got that. There's a flyer in there that's coming out. Um and then I will put together probably the next three months. If you have any suggestions, feel free to email me what you would like our uh our goals to be or one of

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our themes for the month would would be. So I I can come up with it, but I'd be more than happy to take some suggestions from you from the board also. So um that's about what I have right now. So, >> so on on the grants with that

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information at the next meeting, we can review whatever I come up with and we can talk about what you know >> you want to vote on next meeting or do you just want to review? >> It's not it's not up to me. This board has to make a decision and we can't do that without having a meeting. So, it'd

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have to be at the next meeting. Um, >> okay. >> Would come in knowing what the numbers added up to and we could talk about it of how the final decision. >> Okay. So, so, um, are you going to contact the members that aren't here this evening? >> And

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>> I I I have already, um, >> so they know what to expect that they need to except they don't know the $20,000 max. >> The only thing they know otherwise I I believe I sent out an email so they they should know. >> They'll fill in the sheet just like we're doing. Okay. >> Yeah.

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>> And I will let them know the decision on the max for that. >> Okay. >> So, we'll vote at the next meeting on that. Um I have what else? Any update on plastic reduction and waivers?

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>> Uh so they're coming in. We did get I took the intern out with me. Um, and we spent a day and I started in Route 6A right by Dennis and worked my way down 6A, came up 28, got to about

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Captain Parker, just talked to people. Um, reminded them. Um, eight, nine waivers came in. Uh, Mark and I reviewed those, put those in. Um, they were very nice. All pretty much consistent with what we've been asking

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before. Um, so that was good. So I've been very busy. So I'm going to do from Parker's on probably I'm going to try to get to them this week just the the establishments. I just go in just talk to him, see what they got, see how

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they're coming along and everything. So >> and Shaws, >> uh, I talked to him and he said he was getting back to corporate. He said he thought corporate did it. Um I haven't heard back from them which really kind of Yeah.

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>> Yeah. >> So it's the mama and pops that are able to get it and the manager of Shaw is unfortunately he's he's a he's tied from his corporate hand. So I I'm not trying to offend him

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at all but it's I'm like come on let's just get it. One of the, oddly enough, one of the I think we talked about last time, um, one of the hardest things people are trying to find are the ice cream parlors, the long red straws.

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There's not a demand for those. So, um, that's the the ice cream parlors are are trying to look for for a for a replacement for those, but I'm finding there's pretty much replacements for everything I've found so far, except for

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those long red plastic straws. Not not straws, the spoons. The spoons. >> Oh, the spoon. >> Spoons for like the blizzards and stuff. Um, >> and you can't really suck a blizzard through a straw without sucking your face off. Um, and so you

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won't get to Peterson's until you finish up 6A. >> So I got to Peterson's already. They did send a waiver in, but wasn't complete. Um, they didn't put what kind of plastics. So we're we're being very thorough about >> making sure their Petersons and um one

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roast beef they didn't fill out their their waiver properly, so I returned it back to them today. So um they are going to know to get it back. So they they were they once I talked to them they had it in that afternoon. So >> good. >> Yep.

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>> Um so you were going to um get in touch with someone from Shaw's corporate. >> I So I went and talked to that next day I went and talked to the the head manager the general manager and he thought he that they had already been in been in touch with us. I said you filled

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out the waiver said it was denied but you guys need to come in front of the board to ask for a variance. So, they did fill out a waiver form, >> I think. So, I'd have to look into it, but it was one of the original ones that were denied if it was.

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>> That's one of the ones I'd like to see. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Because that is the most complicated, the most >> It's very like what Stop Shop had. Yeah. >> Um Peterson's was along the same lines, but not as extensive, right? there's just they had the the deli bags and a

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lot of they have a little grab and go hot food and stuff like that. So, >> are there other business who haven't shown up yet and contacted you? I mean, are there still >> There's probably a couple out there that haven't. Um, that's why I'm doing the

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the face to face. I mean, Phil is in his full swing right now. He's full-blown and doesn't have time to do this right now. So, I I don't mind. It gets me out there to puts my face >> the roads and they when the boss comes in they kind of they listen. So,

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>> Right. >> And did you I didn't get any acknowledgement of the email that I sent asking for that um Mass Department of Public Health alert on heat to be posted on our website. >> We are going to we we'll get that on

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there. So yeah, it's coming up. So >> we've already had some very hot days and they're only going to increase. So >> in terms of patient or community education, >> yep, I can get that on there. I'll brief forward that to our social

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media team. >> When I was in my last job before retirement um in Virginia Beach, we had some very, very hot days. And so I was asked to speak to a television channel reporter and we're standing out in the

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middle of this plaza in the bright sun and he said, "Can you give some recommendations to people?" I said, "One, do not stand outside like we're doing now." Laughed. But um yeah, there's people um I'm I'm afraid people

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aren't um fully prepared for what we're going to be experiencing in terms of heat this summer. And I hope we have some resources to help them deal with it in terms of cooling centers and all. >> I know the high schools, the cooling center, there's some other ones. I'll

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get a list of them. Okay. >> I I'll ask the county. >> Good. And you could put that with that. just say and and let them know when they would be open, you know, what would trigger it and how they'd find out if they were open or not.

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>> Yeah, certainly list the signs of just being too too hot. >> Yeah. >> It's affecting the functions, >> right? >> And this alert was pretty good about getting all that information.

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Um I attended the June 10th meeting of Weissac. One thing it was interesting uh gentleman came and he talked about uh the Michael English house. started and I wasn't aware of it. And

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their mission is to help individuals uh who have been recently incarcerated and those individuals who are in recovery to try to help them move on in life in a healthy positive

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way. And their whole approach they think it's all about getting a job, helping with unemployment. So they have a 12-week program trying to provide skills for these people to have jobs. They get them the

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right clothes, the tool belt, everything so they can walk in that day and start with a job and uh and really help them find the job. So having skills and a job is their, you know, philosophy and that's what's going to help people.

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>> What was the name of the >> So it's the Michael English House. >> Where is it? You know, I don't know um the actual location. It's not It could be an office. It really It's not a house that people going to or staying in. >> Oh, it's not.

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>> It's what they're providing as far as I know. Um it's providing what I said essentially. Uh it's the gentleman who started it uh was very open. uh his brother I believe had died drugrelated

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causes and he himself um started to use a lot of drugs and was going downhill and uh he turned it all around and started an organization to help people like himself and try to prevent what happened to his brother. >> You let him know about our grant for

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next year. >> I did mention it. Yes. Yeah. I said it would be for 2028, but to contact the, you know, the health department here. >> Yeah, it was quite impressive.

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Anything else announcement wise? >> I didn't tell meeting tonight. >> Well, we'd like to congratulate you on on that free hour you got. Yes. >> Um, but we are looking forward to um a site visit to the um treatment plant. I

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hope I can attend that. I couldn't make the last visit when there wasn't a whole lot to see, but I think there's much more to see now. So, um, and I did drive down 28 the other day. Um, and certainly it's looking a whole lot more reasonable

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in terms of people being able to travel and find things and not not detour. Um, so I hope that that will, you know, last pretty much now for the rest of the summer and will help um some of the businesses that really have been

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affected by it. Um, >> are they saying they're still on track for the phases or >> um Yes. Although what has happened is the the whole issue

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about the excess um effluent to the Bayberry Hills golf course. That has taken a lot of time and also has cost some additional money but they did finally get approval to do that but it is going to require additional

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piping. Um so that has um you know that that has change that timeline somewhat. Um, and I I do want to get together with you and talk about uh Spiro's conversation that we had about health

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department information getting out. Um, you know, they're talking about 2028, but you know, thinking about it myself, if I were a homeowner that was looking to have to hook up, I'd probably wanting to know more about it now because

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>> plan ahead. It's going to be pretty expensive for people and so if there's anything we can do to make sure they have a heads up and you know some resources even though that that all has been

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discussed before you know it's it's getting to be more imminent now. So, and I know that um and I was looking for it and I couldn't find it earlier on when we were first um writing our letter of support for the waste management

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treatment pro uh plan. Um we had excuse me I think a document from Orleans that was FAQs and so I'm thinking if we could if you can find that I'll look again too. Probably then was a couple of years ago

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anyway. Um, there might be some helpful information that they gave out that that we could include on whatever we come up with, too. >> Okay. >> Okay. Um,

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let me ask you questions. Okay. What would you like to do now? >> I would motion to adjourn today's meeting. >> There'll be no further discussion. Can we all vote? And it's yes.