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Board of Health Meeting
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7:00PM '13 APR 310:3201
Town Hall, Room A
Present: Joanne Hughes, Chairman; Lemuel Skidmore, MS MPH, Vice Chairman; Keith Johnson; Mary
Chaffee, PhD, RN; Annie Sherwood, RN; Nancy Ellis Ice, MPH, CHO, RS; Health Director and Tammi Mason,
Senior Department Assistant.
*Topics the Chairman could not reasonably anticipate:
Peter Johnson, Conservation Trust and Chris Miller, Natural Resource Director came before the Board
seeking their support for developing"Brewster Road Park 8s Trails", which essentially would be a dog park in
the Town. The land is currently undeveloped and is under the control of the Brewster Conservation
Commission. Chris Miller told the Board that site development would include removing trees, taking down
brush (his office would probably be doing that), leveling an area for parking lot and putting fences up. He did
state that this project would not need Town Meeting approval or any money from the Town. Since this parcel
of land is under the control of the Conservation Commission, it would only need their approval for the project.
He is seeking the Board of Health's support for this project.
This will go on the April 2, 2013 BOH meeting agenda and the Board will discuss it then. The Board will
email any questions they have to NI, who will forward them to Chris Miller.
1. Discuss current I/A Monitoring Regulation
The Board agreed to keep this regulation as it is written currently.
2. Discuss proposed Local Regulation to supplement Title 5 State Environmental Code
NI told the Board that she would like to hold off on discussing this regulation because of the proposed
variance regulation that the County is working on. She would also like to see how the other towns feel about
this issue. The Board agreed to hold off for another month.
3. Discuss Percolation Rate Regulation
The Board agreed to keep this regulation as it is written currently.
4. Discuss Portable Toilet Regulation
NI told the Board that the Building Inspector believed that he should not be enforcing this since it is the
Board of Health's regulation. That part was taken out. The Board also changed the wording to say "pumped
at least weekly".
5. Discuss Refuse and Transfer Station Regulation
The Board asked that NI get input from the DPW, and the Recycling Committee (with regards to PAYT). This
would also need Selectmen approval. MC will bring this up with the Recycling Committee at their next
meeting in 3 weeks. It was suggested by a board member to look at Sudbury's regulations. The Board would
like to see this finalized by the end of the summer.
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6. Nominate Inspector of Animals
Motion: LS-nominate Lynda Brogden Burns and Sherrie McCullough as Animal Inspectors. KJ
seconded. 5 yes.
7. Discuss Smoking in Workplaces Regulation
JH stated that she had been approached by someone asking about enforcement and noticed that the section
in the regulation was not worded properly. NI stated that she did ask Bob Colette from the Cape Cod Regional
Tobacccl Control Program about it and was waiting to hear back from him. She will let the Board know what
he says,
8. Minutes from 2/19/13 meeting
There were a few minor changes made.
Motion: LS-approve minutes as corrected. KJ seconded. 5 yes.
9. Minutes from 3/5/13 meeting
There were a few minor changes made.
Motion: LS-approve minutes as corrected. KJ seconded. 4 yes, MC abstained.
10. Discuss meeting dates for April & May
The Board agreed to meet on April 2nd and 23rd and to have only 1 meeting in May on May 14th.
Chairman signed bills to be paid.
Informational items were noted.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00PM
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