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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHEALTH03112010 MINUTES BOARD OF HEALTH MARCH 11,2010 PRESENT: Ray Martin, Chairman, Nancy Wall, Clerk, and Catherine Memory. ALSO PRESENT: Scott Leite, Health Agent I. Call to Order @ 7:06 pm - 2"d Floor Meeting Room 2. Consent Agenda a. Approval of Minutes of Februmy 4, 2010 b. Approval ofa Disposal Works Installer's Permit A.T.W., Inc. Down to Earth Construction Co., Inc. Joro Trust c. Approval of a Permit to Operate a Tattoo/Body Piercing Establishment Art and Soul Tattoo, LLC d. Approval of a Permit to Operate a Food Service Establishment East Meets West Catering - LL Bean function LPM Holding Co., Inc. Covidien St. Mary's School Subway - pending final inspection e. Approval of License to Sell Milk & Cream LPM Holding Co., Inc. Covidien St. Mary's Catholic School Subway - pending final inspection MOTION: To approve the Consent Agenda WalllMartin Passed 2-0 Catherine Memory abstained. 3. Communications Community VNA Public Health Nursing reports for August, September, October, November and Dccember 2009 Nancy read the letter sent to tobacco retailers, thanking them for their continued commitment to preventing illegal sales of tobacco products to minors. Compliance checks were conducted by the Massachusetts Health Officers Association (MOHA). 4. Health Agent's Report a. 263 Otis Street: Propeliy has multiply plumbing and electrical safety violations. The landlord did not appear for her show cause hearing in March and is now in default. She will be arraigned on March 30, 20 I O. Scott told the board a plumbing inspection application has been applied for but he is still waiting for the electrical permits to be taken out. Scott told the board a lot of the minor violations have been corrected. b. NEFF A 20 I 0: The New England Folk Festival will be held April 23-25 at the Mansfield High School and Middle School. Scott will be on vacation during the time of the festival. c. Household Hazardous Waste Article: An article has been submitted for Town Meeting for funds to conduct a Household Hazardous Waste Collection day for 20 II. April 10, 2010, a collection day will be held at the Comcast Centerfrom 8 am - ] pm (closing earlier iffunds depleted). The contract has been awarded to PSC Environmental Services, LLC. PSC has been the contractor in previous years; Scott said they were chosen because they also will accept materials from Mansfield residents at their facility in Rhode ]sland through-out the year for a small fee. Information as to what materials will be accepted at the HHW Collection day is on the Town of Mansfield's web site and the cable channel. There is also information on the disposal of mercury, presslll'e-treated lumber and fluorescent light bulbs. d. PHER Funds: There is approximately $6,500 left in the PHER], II & 111 accounts with another $]5,000 available to the town. Scott probably will not apply for the additional money; he has spoken to Maureen Cardarelli, the Public Health Nurse - she does not expect any big outbreaks in the spring. If additional money is needed, Scott will then apply. e. DEP Well Project: DEP staff will be in the Health Department on March 24, 2010 as part of a training program on how to document well data. DEP will be taking over private well responsibilities from the Department of Conservation Resources. For participating in the training, the town will get a GIS layer, showing the location of permitted wells in the town. The wells in Mansfield are primarily used for irrigation. Scott told the board there are 5 well in town used for drinking purposes. f. Workshop - Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER): The workshop will be postponed until all board members are present. g. Scott will be attending a training seminar on hoarding, sponsored by the Massachusetts Housing Association. 5. Old Business Ray Martin asked about the hazardous soil from Hatheway Patterson being trucked out of Foxboro via County Street. Scott said they have not started transporting the soils yet - no permit has been issued from the Vermont landfill for the disposal of the contaminated soils. Ray Martin wants the transportation of the soils to be monitored carefully. Scott said the transpOltation route has been planned by DEP and not locally. 6. New Business Nancy Wall reminded everyone that the Great Mansfield Clean-up will be held May], 2010. She said volunteers are needed. She suggested anyone interested should go to keepmansfieldbeautiful.coll1 for information. Ray Matiin will not be able to attend the May 61h meeting; the meeting will be moved to May 131h. 7. Adjournment MOTION: to adjourn at 7:24 pm. Wall/Martin Passed 3-0. Respectfully submitted, Jane Doucette, Recording Secretary NEXT MEETING APRIL 1, 2010 - MEETING ROOM 2 AIB AT 7:00 PM 7~(/}1 C'1 uJcd/ CLERK 1/1t1 DATE All matters listed under Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the Board of Health and will be enacted by one motion. There will not be separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed pom the Consent Agenda and will be considered separately.