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Board of Health Meeting
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 7:00PM
Town Hall, Room A
Present: Joanne Hughes, Chairman, Lem Skidmore, Vice Chairman, Mary Chaffee, Jose Fernandez and Nancy Ellis Ice,
Health Director.
1. Stephanie Kelly-The Samaritans on Cape Cod &the Islands-discussion on preventing suicide in the elderly
Ms. Kelly was not able to attend. NI will see if she can come to the July meeting.
2. Discuss and possibly vote on the Regulation Restricting the Sale and Use of Tobacco Products&Nicotine Delivery
Products
There was discussion on this issue and a few minor changes made. NI will ask the Town Administrator if this needs to be
reviewed by Town Counsel since it was drafted by the staff attorney at MAHB.
3. Discuss Regulation Prohibiting Smoking in Workplaces and Public Places
There was discussion on this issue and a few minor changes made. A public hearing in July will be held.
4. Discuss letter from Deborah Blackman Jacobs re: smoking on beaches
Ms. Blackman Jacobs read her statement to the Board with regards to banning smoking on beaches. There was
discussion on how there is not a lot of evidence to support this change. The Board chose not to act on this at this time.
5. Discuss and possibly vote on the Private Hauler Recycling Regulation
There was discussion on the proposed regulation. Shawn Delude, Nauset Disposal and Bill Sullivan both spoke about how
the Town is trying to mandate the costs that they charge their customers and the fact that the Town does not allow the
private trash haulers to dispose of anything at the Brewster Transfer Station. The Board talked about that fact and
agreed to take"All refuse haulers and/or persons collecting trash in the Town of Brewster providing subscription service
to households or businesses located or based in Brewster must provide trash and recycling services in a single bundled
price"out of the regulation.
Motion: Adopt the regulation with the deletion of the"singles bundled price"sentence. JF seconded. 4 yes.
6. Discuss changes to Refuse and Transfer Station Regulation
There was discussion on changes that needed to be made to this regulation. Bob Bersin, DPW Superintendent was
present to help with any questions. He asked the Board when they wanted to start enforcing this regulation. He was told
that this is a regulation that already exists and should have been being enforced all along.
This will be brought up again at another meeting.
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7. Discuss web site information
MC spoke about changes that she would like to see made. Comments were made by the Board with regards to what is
going on to the website.
The Board thought it would be a good idea to go through all the regulations to see if any changes need to be made
before they are put on the website. They will go through 3 or 4 of them at each work meeting.
8. Health Director's objectives update/review
JH asked NI to write down the steps she has taken to meet her goals and to update with new objectives.
9. Discuss Planning Board application for Lot 7 Independence Way
Noted.
Informational items were noted.
JH spoke about the email from Dan Rabold with regards to Dog Parks. MC spoke about what she thought was needed for
a dog park. JH asked MC if she would be willing to write a memo with her ideas and send it to her and with the
consensus of the Board, give it to the Board of Selectmen.
Meeting adjourned at 9:40PM
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