Board of Health: March 9, 2021

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0:00 Let’s call the meeting to order. Welcome everyone. First item on our agenda, we have four minutes to take care of. Andrea was very busy. Were there any changes to any of them? In the first one, I have one that I didn’t see a change, but I didn’t hear it. Did you ever send out the change out, Andrea? No, I did all the changes that were assigned to me, but I did not resend them. But I did change everything that I was told to change. Well, could we go over those? Because one I see here that I gave it wasn’t changed. So I think that one was important. Are we going on the earliest minutes first? January 26th. Okay, let’s go. So were there any changes to those minutes? I mean, it would be nice if I knew what they were or we all knew. I just have one word that was changed. Established to disgust. And I took out that there was a sentence that, Helene, that you said that… Oh, was that the one that I took out the whole sentence? Correct. Yes. Okay. Well, that was the sentence from the… No, it wasn’t in this one, because it was the sentence from a reopening committee meeting, wasn’t it? No. It was about the budget.

1:38 Okay. Well, I believe you. Let’s make a motion to accept those minutes as corrected. Well, wait, but how come you accept it if we don’t know what the changes are? So you’re going to have to read it to us. Okay. I was trying to make it easier for her, but can we… I know, but I mean, trying to be on the up and up here. Let’s see. Wait a minute. Why don’t we, Andrea, will you just send everything out again? We can just vote on them at the next meeting. So I have all the corrected ones all done. So I can resend them and you can just all… Let’s just do that so we can move on. All right. Okay. Sorry. The two of us are making it a little more difficult. But yeah, but I… Well, you know, we’re… Especially when we did them several weeks ago. So we’ll do those at the next meeting. They’ll be our first agenda item. Let’s go to Andrew’s code report, please. Sounds good. So as of March 5th, when the COVID case report came out on Friday, we had a total of 1,172 total cases. That was up just three cases from the week before of 1169. However, since the report came out, we’ve had 12 new cases since Friday. So yes, we are trending well, but we need to continue to stay vigilant, follow all the mandates, wear your mask where you’re supposed to, and still remember that the virus is still in the community.

3:14 The average daily for the last 14 days is 19.1%. So that’s the average daily incident rate per 100,000 people. And this is lower also. So we’re also trending well with that. The percent positive for the last 14 days was 1.38% lower. Now we are discussing with the state how the state is putting out the report as we are using that information and providing that to the community as well. So the average daily incident rate for the last 14 days, that’s a little delayed from their actual case count. So we’re trying to speak, have a conversation with them why the information that they’re pulling is slightly delayed from their case count that they put out that comes out Thursday evening. So we’ll continue the discussion as that goes on. But this is the information that we relay that’s provided by the state. The travel order has new guidelines. So we have lower risk states currently. So Hawaii, Missouri, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and Washington are now considered lower risk states. This list will change on a weekly basis at least. However, now that we have people that are vaccinated, they have some slightly, they have changed their travel order. And when you fill out the travel form, there are some adjustments. So persons that meet one of the commissioners designated exceptions are outlined below. Persons who tested positive within 90 days of arrival to Massachusetts and successfully completed isolation, individuals who are COVID-19 recovered, meaning individuals who tested positive more than 10 days, but are less than 90 days ago, and who do not have symptoms, do not need to obtain a negative PCR test prior to traveling to Massachusetts.

5:11 Prior to traveling to or quarantine upon arrival to Massachusetts. COVID-19 recovery individuals arriving in Massachusetts must have documentation of the positive PCR test results, including the date it was taken available if asked. This exception does not include COVID-19 recovered individuals who have symptoms of COVID-19, who must follow all testing and quarantine guidelines outlined in the travel rules. Persons who have been completely vaccinated for COVID-19, individuals who have received two doses of either Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, or have received a single dose of the Janssen vaccine more than 14 days ago, and who do not have symptoms, do not need to obtain a negative test prior to traveling to or quarantine upon arrival to Massachusetts. COVID-19 vaccination individuals arriving in Massachusetts must have documentation of their vaccinations, including the dates of administration available if asked. This exception does not include vaccinated individuals who have symptoms of COVID-19, who must follow all testing and quarantine guidelines outlined in the travel rules. So that’s a change. Vaccinations. It’s really, you know, we’re talking more and more about vaccinations and less and less about case counts and procedures with that.

6:43 So as of March 7, 2,429,720 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have shipped to Massachusetts, and 2,117,862 doses have been administered. So 87.2% of those doses that have arrived have been administered. Effective March 11, 2021, K through 12 educators, K through 12 school staff, and childcare workers are eligible to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments through the state system. Obviously, you can schedule vaccine for that group through CVS who are following the federal guidelines. So slightly different, but if you’re trying to get a dose from the state, you have to follow the state guidelines who are eligible March 11. New authorization of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was granted an emergency use authorization by the FDA for administration on a single dose scheduled to people 18 years and older. In Massachusetts, there was a very limited initial allocation of this vaccine from the federal government that was allocated to a select group of providers. It is not likely that additional doses will be available until later in March. Once doses become more widely available, information on which sites will have access to the Johnson vaccine will be shared.

8:22 So obviously, this is, you know, again, this is rapidly evolving situation. And we will continue to talk about vaccinations. Second doses for individuals who have received their first dose. Department of Public Health is committed to ensuring that remaining sites receive the necessary quantity of second doses to serve your patients to whom you have already provided vaccine. If you currently have vaccine on hand, please use those doses as second doses and only request additional doses for the balance of your need. So, again, once you receive the first dose, there’s a timeline for you to get a second dose. And we are making the state is making all necessary, you know, adoptions to get you your second dose. Vaccinations for in-home or homebound individuals. We are working with the state to identify these individuals, and we are working with the state to get them vaccinated. We have agreed that the state will come out and vaccinate this special population. Over the next couple of weeks, I have already submitted the survey to the state to begin this process to receive vaccine for these individuals. But we will be working on making sure that we have the exact numbers of individuals that need to be vaccinated. Now, there is a very specific definition of who is an in-home, homebound individual. So, the definition is individuals who are not able to leave their home to get a vaccine site without significant assistance.

10:01 These individuals either require an ambulance or two-person assist to leave the home and not able to leave the home for medical appointments under normal circumstances. A considerable difficulty or require significant support to leave the home for medical appointments.

10:25 The other group that we are currently working to get vaccinated is we are working with the state for vaccine distribution in public and private low-income and affordable senior housing. All residents and staff of public and private low-income and affordable senior housing are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. So, again, we are working with Marblehead Housing Association and Marblehead Senior Center to identify any of these individuals. We have a list of all those individuals, and we have submitted the survey to the state to receive vaccine for them. We will be holding a clinic for that group only. The clinic will be by appointment only. So, this will occur on March 23rd as long as we receive vaccine next week from the state. But again, this is by appointment only. So, yes, we will continue to try to vaccinate as many people as possible. The vaccination count for Marblehead residents, Marblehead residents that have received two doses so are fully vaccinated, is 2,872 individuals. Marblehead residents that have received one dose is 2,614. We’re seeing about 100 individuals receive a dose almost every day.

11:56 So, pretty good. Obviously, we’d like that to increase, but we are able to pull reports from the MIIS system to see these numbers. We’ve had a lot of information coming down from the CDC. So, we just received the interim public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people. Now, it’s important that people understand that the state of Massachusetts also has adopted this. We had a meeting with the state this afternoon. We have regular meetings with them on Tuesdays and Fridays. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health generally is in line with these guidelines. But interim public health recommendation for fully vaccinated people, fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing, refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic. And please remember that asymptomatic part. So, you’re showing no symptoms. For now, fully vaccinated people should continue to take precautions in public like wearing a well-fitting mask and physical distancing, wear masks, practice physical distancing and adhere to other prevention matters when visiting with unvaccinated people who are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease,

13:32 or have an unvaccinated household member who is at increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease. Wear masks, maintain physical distance and practice other preventive measures when visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households. Avoid medium and large sized in-person gatherings, get tested if experienced COVID-19 symptoms, and follow guidance issued by individual employers. Follow CDC and health department travel requirements and recommendations. And that’s really it. Those are the big pieces for where we are at COVID at this point. Questions, comments? I have some questions. First one is the 18 years and older, I thought it was only if they had some kind of an issue that they can’t just get it. If they’re healthy, is that correct? So that is the for the Jensen, what Jensen was approved for. So that’s the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. That’s what they’re approved for was 18 and over. 18 and over is whether they have any kind of history. So when the vaccine is sent to the FDA, when they give their authorizations, they’re giving it for 18 and over. Pfizer is 16 and over. Moderna is 18 and over.

15:03 So they’re slightly different ages depending on the vaccine that’s that was receiving the authorization. So that’s the authorization. But that is the authorization. That is not where we are today in Massachusetts. OK, did I hear today, though, that 18 and older could get it if they have a mobility? Yes, if you have two comorbidities, you are on the list. Two comorbidities. Two comorbidities. Yeah. So the way it was before. Yeah. The other question, could you repeat what you said about you said the fully vaccinated with may meet with other fully vaccinated indoors without masks, then the fully vaccinated. What’s the rest of that second part? So fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. Visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk for severe covid-19 disease indoors that wearing masks or physical distancing. And then they can also refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic. So vaccinated fully vaccinated person may meet with an unvaccinated person in the home. Is that what you said? Yep. That one one group at a time. Yeah, one group at a time. Single household. OK, there was an NBC News headline yesterday, maybe the day before, basically saying grandparents who were vaccinated now can finally hug their grandchildren again, which. So that’s what this is talking about.

16:34 Yeah. Yeah. And other things. OK. Oh, now, also, this is for, you know, for people that are interested in this. You said you can make an appointment to the low income and affordable senior housing. The clinic is open from March 23rd. But you have to make an appointment. How do you make the appointment? So once we have the vaccine in hand, we will be working with Marblehead Housing Authority and Marblehead Counseling Senior Center to put those people get them appointments. So we will open PrepMod, but we’ll be really going through Marblehead Housing. We’ll have a computer set up with them so they can sign individuals on. So there’ll be people working to get these people. Yes, there will be people working to get these people appointments. OK. Yeah, I was going to ask another question about that. Do you need any volunteers to help with that clinic? Because I know people have been offering to help volunteer and they’ve been signing up with Medical Reserve Corps, etc. Do you need any assistance with that? No. So we have a Medical Reserve Corps liaison that we go through, Michelle, to get volunteers. OK. So if people do want to volunteer, that’s how they should go to the Medical Reserve Corps? That’s correct. MassResponse.com. People had asked me if they do sign up for the Medical Reserve Corps because they’re Marblehead residents and they want to be able to help out.

18:09 Is there a way for them to indicate, you know, I’m here in Marblehead, I want to be helpful in Marblehead, I’m Marblehead, I’m a resident here, and I’d like to help out in clinics in town. Is there a way for them to indicate that? Yeah. So when you meet with the Medical Reserve Corps and you meet with the person that dispatches you, you can say, I only want to be dispatched to Marblehead or I will be dispatched to other communities. So is that all your questions, comments, Michelle? Andrea, your hands up. Todd, Helene, Michelle, and Andrew, I just kind of perused my minutes. And actually, I do have all the corrections. I don’t know if you want to just hold it till the next meeting, but I do have all the corrections and I’m happy to read it. I was kind of looking at them. If you have them all, we should just load on them. Yeah, that’s fine. Okay. So. January 26th? January 26th, the only correction that was on January 26th, Todd, was the board has all the information available as it was discussed. One correction, that was it. Several years ago, sorry. That’s the sentence. So I’d like to make a motion on the minutes of January 26th with the single correction that was just read to us.

19:46 I’ll second that. I’m going to say is lit. In favor. The scot-lib. In favor. Dr. Belfinger. In favor. February 2nd. Okay, February 2nd. Let me see. We have. Andrew told the board of on January 29th, there were 100 new cases of COVID-19 and the paragraph that has Todd’s name, Todd opened instead of did open. That was. And Todd had questioned the number, but we were all set for the number. Remember Todd. I couldn’t believe how high it was. I couldn’t remember that. Sorry, but yes. I was there with it. Okay. I move that we accept the minutes of February 2nd with the two corrections. I’ll second that. Miss easily. In favor. The Scotland in favor. Dr. Belfinger. In favor. February 9. No, no corrections as all accepted. I’ll make a motion to accept the minutes as they stand. There’s a second. Oh, you want to see. Second. Yeah. Okay. I’m a Scotley in favor. The sales. In favor. Dr. Belfinger in favor. And then finally to 23.

21:20 Okay, so it was the Ben day paragraph that I had some corrections. Colleen, if you remember, I had written two therapists have been hired. And I had only originally put it with a third, but it was actually an additional three. Yeah, that was looking right. So that was added to that sentence. And also. Let’s see here. The second to last sentence in that paragraph. The center also the center raised. In insurance and in fundraising. Yes. Yes. Yes. And insurance and fundraising wasn’t all correct. Right. They should have had the fundraising because of the pandemic. They were going to. They were going to have 100. I mean, not 100 a 50th anniversary. And they could not have the 50th anniversary. So I move with those minutes. Be accepted as directed. I’ll second that. I’ll second that. In favor. Scottly. In favor. Dr. Belfe Becker. So one last thing you next time. Thank you. Board of health. Just wanted to get that over with. Thank you. Thanks, Andrea. Thank you, Todd. It worked. Michelle. Thank you. So the final item on our agenda is. So Todd, you did have a question from Sarah Fox regarding COVID.

22:50 Yeah. I was, I was just getting into that. So I’d say the final item is the task force. But before that, I wanted to recognize Sarah because there’s a COVID related question. Thank you, Todd. My question is for Andrew. If. Like regarding the fully vaccinated individuals. As you said, it pertained to people living in the home that are high risk. I missed what you said was the guidance on that, that they still should proceed as they had been prior to vaccination. Yes. So yeah, for now, fully vaccinated people should continue to wear masks, practice social distancing, and they had other preventive measures when visiting with unvaccinated people who are at risk. Increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease. Who have an unvaccinated household member who has increased risk for severe COVID-19 disease. So even if you, so if you’re visiting your friend and your friend has a high risk individual at home, you should continue to wear the mask. And if I’m the individual with the high risk individuals, then I obviously should not be changed, like changing anything new just because I’m vaccinated. Correct. That’s correct. Thank you very much. It seems like a no brainer, but I just wear the guidance seems to keep changing. I wanted to confirm. Thank you. Yep. Thanks. And then also before we move on, so you had said, as of now in town,

24:23 there’s about 2,800 people who have had two doses and there’s about 2,600 people who have had one dose. So which means by two weeks to now, more than a quarter of Marblehead residents will be vaccinated fully. Yeah. So we have about 13% that have been fully vaccinated. So yeah. And, you know, depending on what they, what they had, Moderna or Pfizer. So Moderna is 28 days Pfizer is 21 days after that. Yes. You would have a pretty large percentage of vaccinated. Fully vaccinated. Yeah. That’s, that’s, that’s the start. Obviously we understand the frustration that’s going on right now. Massachusetts is, has an extreme limitation of vaccine available to the public. You know, we wish, wish that wasn’t the case. We do believe that once April comes, that there will be a much greater supply of vaccine. But we do understand the frustrations at this point. And we’re trying to get people as much assistance with that as possible. But it’s the vaccine is truly extremely limited at this time. Elizabeth, you have your hand raised. Is this related to the COVID report? Yeah. Thank you so much. I just have two pretty quick. You need to state your name and your address. No one else has done that, but I’m Elizabeth Eisner at Dean road and marble head. Thank you. Yep. So I just have two quick questions.

25:53 The first is. You had seated a couple of weeks ago that it was, the state was not allowing you to like pull a subgroup. Out of the overall grouping for the vaccination. The discussion was specifically around teachers. And I’m just curious as to whether. Like folks are continuing to ask that question of the state, whether, you know, there can be specific. There will be able to be specific clinics for teachers or grocery workers or whatever it is. And I’m just curious as to whether. It’s not a specific clinic. It’s not a specific clinic. It’s not a specific clinic. It’s not a specific clinic. So I’m just curious as to whether teachers or grocery workers or whatever it is. That’s my first question. And then just the second question, and I think you kind of Andrew answered this Andrew, but. I’m just wondering. Like, when do you see the next phase? Starting. Do you have any idea of that? So I think right now. I can’t remember when like two. I’m just curious about the first phase. And then you. Things will start opening up for additional frontline workers. First restore and all that. Thank you. So. So when the federal government changed and. The federal government essentially started created the program with CVS and pharmacies.

27:24 To allow teachers to now receive vaccine. So he allowed for the pullout of the teachers to get vaccinated. They were part of another subset of frontline workers, if you want to call them that. He pulled those people out and said, these people can now get vaccinated. Now, unfortunately, because we are so constrained with vaccine currently. The state of Massachusetts did not receive an increase in amount of doses and could not provide additional doses to teacher. The state of Massachusetts is working on. The state of Massachusetts is working on. On a special days through the mass vaccination sites for teachers. More information will be available about this tomorrow is my understanding. That’s what we were told today. So there should be special days at these mass vaccination sites. Dedicated for teachers. But I don’t have the rest of the information. I’m sure you’re going to see that everywhere. But that is the information that we received today. As far as moving through the, you know, Phase two. Unfortunately, because we are such limited vaccine, I think they’re slowing the phases down. The state said today with the number of people vaccinated just to get the teachers vaccinated with today’s number of vaccine, it’s going to take a month to get the 400,000 teachers vaccinated in the state of Massachusetts for first dose.

28:59 So that’s kind of where we are. Oh, wow. So and and 65 plus is still like pretty early. Yeah. So 65 plus, you know, the numbers are still pretty low for 65 plus individuals. If I’m the state of mass. So I’m not that gov. They give a weekly covid vaccination report. And it really breaks down all the different groups. So currently by age, distribution of doses administered by age group fully vaccinated. The highest group currently is 30 to 49 at twenty nine point eight percent. The sixty five to seventy four is nine point six percent. Seventy five plus is twenty one point five percent. Fifty to sixty four is twenty five point six percent. And the twenty two twenty nine year olds is twelve point seven percent. Most likely when we, you know, we’re discussing this a little bit today. What you know, why are these numbers the way they are? Most likely there’s a huge number of first responders, you know, nurses, doctors that fall within that 30 to 49 year old age group group. So but that’s kind of where the numbers are at this point. Got it. Thank you so much. Yep. Thanks. OK. In case anybody heard screaming on my end,

30:32 there was a spider that fell on my kids. So just just across the door. All right. So thanks for your report, Andrew. Let’s move on to our discussion of a mental health task force. So, Michelle, do you want to take the lead? Sure. So, Andrew and co board members stop me with questions or comments and we can figure out process here. So I am going to read something that I drafted and then we can kind of figure out the process here. But the purpose of this discussion is to formalize the establishment of a Marblehead covid mental health task force. I did read something, Helene, that you just sent regarding, which I hadn’t seen, that you had just forwarded regarding. And I knew that there had been something set up through the schools that had been mentioned through the reopening committee. So anything that already is established in the schools, this task force will absolutely connect with and take full advantage of. Obviously, we want to do nothing about recreating the wheel. But in my communication with Dr. Bucky,

32:03 he certainly didn’t indicate that creating this task force would be duplicative. I do think that we’ve certainly heard from citizens that there’s a need for us to address kind of cross town needs and not just within the schools. So, I’ll kind of understand that was student initiated. Oh, wow. Well, yes. They put together. That’s from what I understand. Great is that we’ll want to take advantage of. So I’m just going to kind of read to you just a couple of paragraphs around background kind of mission and proposed makeup of this task force. And then we can talk about how we’re going to vote on it and proceed with some of the membership pieces that are still pending. Marvel had COVID mental health task force as the COVID-19 pandemic approaches the year marks. So does the associated anxiety we are experiencing as a community, particularly around loneliness and isolation. For the general public, the mental health effects of COVID-19 are essential to address the physical health effects. For the one in five who already have mental health conditions or the one in two who are at risk of developing them. We need to take personal, professional and policy measures now to address them with the shutdown of schools moves to virtual learning and disruption in activities and socialize children and adolescents are at especially high risk for emotional, attentional or behavioral difficulties.

33:36 Young people are experiencing thoughts of suicide or self harm at alarmingly high rate. On the other end of the age spectrum, physical distancing is taking a heavy toll on the mental health of our senior population, living alone and being more digitally isolated are risk factors as our fears of reentering the community as things open up. The events of 2020 and 2021 have had profoundly different mental health impacts on racial and ethnic groups and we cannot ignore racial differences when discussing the mental health impact of the pandemic and need to develop supports for communities of color. In light of this crisis and because we know that history has shown that the mental health impact of disasters, outlast the physical impact. The Marplehead COVID mental health task force will convene as a cross sector group of community leaders to ensure that we are addressing and providing the appropriate intervention strategies to guide our citizens and particularly the most vulnerable toward improved mental health. The potential focus and activities of the task force to be developed as the group is convened, but include identified mental health day needs in light of the COVID pandemic, identify gaps and ensure access to mental health care across the community, identify, develop and determine mechanisms for sharing resources across the community and offer community wide speakers forums and webinars. The proposed task force membership representative from the Board of Health. We’ve discussed that I would play that role. Representative from the Board of Selectmen, I’ve talked to Jason Silva and after we convene this tonight, he will let us know who that representative will be.

35:14 Representative from school administration. I’ve spoken with Dr. Bucky and he and I’ll read through this and then I’ll follow up. Representative from school administration, representatives from school guidance department, director of the Marplehead Counseling Center, representative from the Council of Aging, medical professional, either a nurse physician or one of both, two Marplehead citizens, and potentially one more additional school representative. So the membership wouldn’t exceed at this number, it would be 10 people. If we had two health professionals, then it would be possibly 11, but no more than that. And I’ve talked to Dr. Bucky about the school participation and he and I had suggested both Dan Bauer, high school principal, and Jeffrey Newsom, who’s the guidance counselor at the Village School. And he thought those were both good choices and I’ve reached out to both of them and both of them have agreed and are interested in participating. I thought lower school representation in terms of guidance was a really good choice because we wanted to represent somebody in the lower grades and he represents the kind of guidance department.

36:50 Dan Bauer representing the older grades and very much in touch with students and a long time advocate around student wellness and mental well being. Ben Day, as you know from our last meeting, has already committed to joining us as have one of the two women who are here from the Council on Aging. And we have a selection who will represent, we have Board of Health. I have my proposal and I’ve written a draft letter that I’ve shared with the Board and I can read it out loud as well. My proposal is regarding the two citizens is that I believe that we should have an open process truncated short. We want to get this going. I think it should be a week long open solicitation process where we, and I talked to Jason about this, he said that we just need to announce when we’re opening this and when we’re closing it. So I propose only a week where we invite emails and I’ve written this up, I can read it to you. Invite emails from interested parties and we review them and vote on it at our next meeting to sit on this task force representing the community. And I do think that it should be an open inclusive process rather than us.

38:29 You know, because these other folks represent certain positions of leadership within the community. But with regard to the citizen representation, I feel like it should, you know, I don’t feel it’s right for me to just kind of go and like pick my best friend to be in this, you know, role. I think we should have a more formal process where folks write into us and we review it and then choose those individuals. First of all, thank you for drafting this. This has been clearly a lot of work on your part, Michelle. Elaine, what are your thoughts? I think it is a lot of work. I’ve got one. It’s a tremendous amount of work because everything reads very nicely, except I have one question on the body of the of your statement. I’d like to know where you got the for the one in five who already have mental health conditions or the one and two who are at risk. Is that is that a factual statement and where did you get it? Yes, I can tell you where I got it from. It is from, hold on, I have to pull it up. Sorry, it might take me a second. It might take me a second before I pull it up. I’m sorry, I should have had it from. It is from the from Mental Health America resource.

40:10 I can pull it from the exact citation from. So why don’t you get that to the three of us because I just I don’t want to be hanging on words that we don’t agree that it’s from an appropriate place or I can I can share the citation with you. I mean, if we’re not really sure about it or we don’t really want to go out and we can just I mean, it’s all very good without it. You delete it, but it’s I think it reads very nicely without it. But if you have these, I have to say, OK, if you have you want to read it now, we want to send it to us. I guess we have to we have to approve this probably. Yeah, it’s from the Mental Health America. I mean, I can I think it’s probably I can pull it. I mean, I have the web page it’s from, but I it’s going to take me a second to like pull the exact page on here that it’s from. How do you do that? And we can you do that. And I just have another statement I’d like to make. I feel immediately when we were talking with Ben and all and the idea of having a task force, a townwide task force really resonated with me. And I think that it’s very important. And saying that, I would like to see this be formed as quickly as possible.

41:41 So whether we have to meet next week to appoint the committee, the full committee, or whether in that way we will if we decide to have applications. We’ve chosen everybody else with with good thought. I’m not too sure whether we need to go through an application process for citizens. You also mentioned last time that you wanted a parent on here because we had some parents. The parents could be citizens. But it doesn’t mean that they necessarily will be. We could have, you know, 10 applicants there and none of them are parents. I mean, so I don’t know whether we need to say likely that that somebody would be a parent. One citizen at large and one parent, maybe we could maybe change that. We get. Let’s just see who we get. I don’t think we should. I mean, it’s likely that we’re going to get parents. It’s like really we will. I mean, I think we should just see who comes to us. I just think it needs to be inclusive. I don’t think I don’t think we need to be so I don’t think, you know, I prefer us to be open minded about that. And I think it behooves us to wait one week to see who comes to us rather than choosing. You know, that doesn’t that doesn’t sit well with me. So so I I feel that we need to say that the parent what if we got 10 citizens that were all more highly qualified than the parents.

43:17 I think that’s what I’d like to recommend. One of them to be a parent and one be a citizen at large. And even the citizen at large could be another parent. But but two citizens don’t necessarily have to be parents. That’s what my thought was. And I’m not too sure. I mean, now that it’s come out into the public, my thought was that I didn’t think that we needed applications. None of the other areas needed application. We you through the superintendent, along with the guidance of the superintendent, picked the school administrator. The school guidance department person. And I think and Ben Day offered his services. He is the director. So those those were done quickly. Jason’s going to give his recommendation and we’re not asking for applications from the three board of select the three members of the board. So I just felt that to be fair, that we could make recommendations ourselves. So maybe that’s my thought. It’s very different to me to have people who represent specific positions in town, you know, where is their job and they are, you know, you know, Jason Silva is designating somebody, you know.

44:48 But he’s making selection and we’re not, you know, we’re not choosing. This one is the only one we’re picking. It’s much more. It’s a very different thing because if it’s a, you know, I don’t know, Dan Bauer isn’t my friend, isn’t my neighbor or my pal, right? Like it’s a different. Whereas when it’s a citizen in town, then it’s a different process. I feel like we need to have a little bit more of a, you know, kind of a democratic process rather than it just having the appearance of us hand selecting somebody. Well, I don’t think there’ll be any patronizing. I think that none of us work that way. But in any event, if we do go to just for application, I’d like it to be at a pace that we could have this appointed by next week. And I agree. That’s what I proposed. So does that mean we’re meeting next Tuesday? I would propose that. We can discuss that. I would say that I don’t feel the need, Helene, to add parent as one of the specifications for a citizen application. I think that it’s pretty likely a parent will apply or more than one, but I think that it’s why narrow it down even more.

46:20 The other thing I have about this list is, as stands, there’s 10 people on it. I think that’s a very large task force. I don’t really see anybody to cut except for the one that says possible additional school rep. I don’t think that we need to have that person. I think that maybe nine is a large group, but I think that the possible final 10th option can be deleted in my opinion. Well, she said 10 or 11. Where does the 11 come in? I’m looking at the list. There’s 10 people, including the possible additional school rep. Yeah, I don’t know where I got the 11. That’s one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We want this to be streamlined as possible. And I like an uneven number. Most committees do have uneven numbers. So unless you want to have an alternate in case somebody drops out. I think if somebody drops out, we can deal with it. Yeah, I don’t think you can. Okay, I mean, I was just making a suggestion. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So only one medical professional. Oh, that was where I said maybe we want to. A physician. Yeah, that’s… We can see who applies also. I mean, it can be all lumped together. Okay, so what do we think about the statement about the for the one in five?

47:55 The name of the group? Is that a known group? It’s Mental Health America. But I have it bookmarked, but it’s not… I’m going to have to go back. If you want to just take it out, that’s fine with me because I would rather have the time to go back and find which page I have it on. And somehow I lost my bookmark. So it’s fine. So read it without it for us. Yeah, I’ll read it without it. It’s fine. I mean, this is really just a… it’s just a summary for us. So for the general public, the mental health effects of COVID-19 are essential to address the physical health effects. And we can just say, you know, we need to take personal, professional and policy measures now to address them with the shutdown of schools. And then I go on to talk about students, aging, the particular vulnerabilities of racial differences. And then this is the key paragraph about the in the light, this is the mission’s part in the light of this crisis. And because we know that history has shown that the mental health impacts of disasters, outlasts, the physical impacts, the Marblehead COVID Mental Health Task Force will convene as a cross sector group of community leaders to ensure that we are addressing and providing the appropriate intervention strategies to guide our citizens and particularly the most vulnerable towards improved mental health. And, you know, Todd, I know you had talked about concerns regarding the kind of scope and scale of this task force.

49:28 And I agree that we want to be really strategic about how we spend the time. Everybody who would be participating on this task force has a full time job, has volunteer opportunities, has families, aging parents. I mean, everybody is busy. So I think what we would do is determine, you know, how often this group would meet. We’ll be very strategic about what it is that we spend our time doing. But I don’t want to get too prescriptive more than that statement about what this group will do, because that’s the point of bringing together a bunch of very, you know, smart, experienced leaders is to have them think about what the scale and scope of this group would be. So that would be the very first piece of work that this group will do is to scale down what the mission is, figure out what is the best use of time of this group and how often we would meet. So the group will determine all of that. Do you consider this a short term or a long term committee? That’s the other thing. I mean, I talked to Jason about that and I said, do we need to do we need to put bounds on this and figure out exactly when we’re going to when, you know, we know we’ll have a start date. Do we need an end date? And he said, no, I mean, I don’t think we, you know, let’s let’s start and see. I don’t it’s it isn’t like building a transfer station. I think we don’t really know exactly what the parameters are going to be.

51:07 So certainly we would all we would all love it if we if the need for this group were to were to go away. Right. Wouldn’t that be a nice goal? But we heard Ben Day talk about someone came into his office being disturbed about the challenger recently. So I think that we know let’s you know, let’s be realistic about coming up with some concrete goals. I think that’s you know, we don’t want it to be this huge amorphous big hairy beast that we can’t tackle. But but let’s you know, let’s let the group convene and see what we can come up with. One of the suggestion. You’re going to write your own goals, but maybe we the marble head COVID mental health task force could be could that be the statement and then I’d where you said that in the light of this crisis, could we call that the mission and we could then say therefore in the light of this crisis and just have it formatted like that. Sure. So, yeah, so that that that so it’s like the problem statement. And then therefore, it would with the word mission above separating where in light of this crisis, we would say mission with the underlying and then therefore in the light of this crisis. Yeah, I’ll make that change. And do you want me to read you. Do you want me to read out loud the proposed letter that well I guess first we need to do we need to go on the task force and then do you want me to also read the proposed letter for participation of the citizens and then we also need to decide on participation of a health professional

52:59 and do we want to appoint that person or do we want that to also be a process of solicitation to the community. Before you take any votes I just need to go through a couple more things because I totally hear what you’re saying about you know gathering a great group of people together and then kind of focusing it in but I’m still concerned about starting out with more broader concerns. In my experience, that’s a recipe for kind of spinning your wheels and not getting as much accomplished. So I wonder if still there’s a way to for us to figure out a more specific very specific goal. The other thing is that there’s you know before we voted this into existence I think we would need to really say this will meet the third Wednesday of every month or whatever we say I think I think we need to have those parameters set because we don’t want to we want to be as specific as we possibly can. And finally, as far as the fourth potential focus and activity, the community wide speakers forums and webinars anything that there this will not be a funded task force so anything that would need like somebody getting an rarium or siphoned or fee we don’t we don’t have any money to put into this so we have to be careful about you know promising that we’ll have lectures when we can’t afford to pay for a lecture.

54:33 And if we can find somebody pro bono wonderful but but I think those are a couple concerns I have is just being more specific and also specifically saying when we want this to meet I think we need to have that established before we create this task force. The win I’m not sure about because I think that’s up to the committee. Yeah, I well, I, yeah, I mean I spoke with Jeffrey Newsom the guidance counselor today, and you know, I, I want to be. I really want to be respectful of this group and have a have a good conversation with this task force and see, rather than saying the third Wednesday while we’re sitting here I want to sit down and talk to those folks and say, what works for this group like do you like to meet mornings do you like to meet evenings like some of the people work in schools like do you think, you know, like everybody might say, we feel super strongly about meeting twice a month like we’re we’re raring to go let’s do it other people might say, I, you know, we think this is a monthly monthly you know this is something we can do monthly and I have absolutely no problem with having a robust and good conversation with that group. In terms of coming up with a more specific, you know, bullet points. If you have something specific that that you want to throw out there that’s more.

56:10 That’s more definitive, then, then, then go ahead but like you keep saying like, it’s going to be a recipe for disaster I’ve, you know, I facilitate many, many meetings and many things in my professional life and I feel like I feel pretty comfortable being able to handle a handle the keeping bounds on this like I I think a recipe for disaster is if you just sit back and let things go, and don’t and don’t keep the bounds on it, I don’t see how it can be a recipe for disaster. If, if you have smart facilitation and your strategic about how you bring people together and come up with a set of goals collectively and agree upon them. So all I’m saying is that we don’t have the right people sitting here to come up with those goals. I think I 100% agree that we need to come up with more defined goals. I just think I want to do that with the right people in the room. And I’d like to respond to, you know, the speakers and the webinars. I think that there are people in the community that might want to be considered for that. I also think if the town thinks that this is important enough, I would hope that our town fathers would be able to find some money for a speaker or a program.

57:50 Just like our president’s finding money for these people that are having difficulties right now. If we need help, we should be able to receive it. And I guess if we can’t receive any funds, then we do what we can with volunteers and free programs. And, you know, my guess is that in terms of where we are in this country around mental health crises in a pandemic that there are a lot of really good free resources out there. So while we work with the community, we need to be able to get the best of the best of the best. And I think that we might not get a lot of, you know, free speakers coming, you know, in person. I bet there’s a lot of things we’ll be able to access. So this is on our television. It will be on our local program. And I hope that maybe there are people in the community, the banks, the realtors. I mean, I think that these people want this community to be healthy. Yeah. Good plug there, Helene. Good plug. Always raising money. Always raising money. So one last thing, Todd, do you mind? Go for it. I know that suicide is on our mind.

59:21 I’m wondering if we want to put it in this statement. It’s just kind of a scary thing. Because I’ve certainly been frightening me. Yeah. A lot of communities have experienced it. So do we want to be real or do we want these young people to be reading the statement in the paper? So that’s just what’s worrying me. If self-harm is maybe just enough. I put it, it’s in there. It says… Is the word self-harm just enough is what I’m saying. Oh, you’re saying I think… I mean, I’m just maybe I’m being too protective and I think… I think suicide is an important thing to not leave out because that’s one of the things we want to front and try to help. All right. Well, then you’ve helped me with it because it’s certainly… I mean, from my first meeting, I’ve asked Andrew almost every week about food insecurity and about mental health. And it certainly has been on my mind, but I just don’t want to… I don’t want to even finish the sentence. Yeah, it’s a tough one, but I think it’s okay for us to state it out loud.

1:00:54 Because I expect to see this in the paper, I mean, so I just… that’s all. Okay. So, all right. So Todd, where are we with your concerns? Is there anything specific with regard to goals or whatever that you want to add that would make you more comfortable? Because I don’t have anything specifically. I don’t either. I just… that’s part of my concern is that I just… we can see where it goes. I just can’t picture exactly how this is going to work yet. But I do think we need some wording if this is going to be the charter, just saying this is a task force founded by or of the Board of Health, and we’ll need to report to the Board of Health because we want to make sure this is under our umbrella. Would you want to state when you want them to report after 60 days or something like that? Yeah, would we want to do that or do we want to do updates every couple weeks, you know, after every time they have a meeting? How do you think that should be? How much should we be hearing about this after every time? Well, a lot of things might be confidential. So I’m not sure that… like if they had a recorder? Well, it would be open meeting law, so there’s nothing confidential.

1:02:24 Oh, the whole thing would be open meeting law, okay. Maybe we’ll have to run the same way we do. No email deliberation. It’s all the same rules. Well, it’s difficult to run a mental health program and not have any part of it, unless you have a subcommittee. Subsub. Yeah, unless that… I don’t think… I don’t think a task force or subcommittee has the ability to do executive session either. Is that correct, Andrew? I’d have to check with the town council on that. I think… I’d like to recommend that because I think that this is such a serious topic that then people may be opening up about things that they wouldn’t open up if… I would go into executive session for a certain reason, so you couldn’t be going through executive session every time for an unknown reason. So it does fall under the public meeting law umbrella. There’s no special coverage. If they’re talking about personnel or whatever other areas that go into executive session. Correct. But you have to state that before you go into executive session on your agenda and all that stuff. Well, that’s up to the task force to decide. No, that’s up to the state of Massachusetts to decide. No, but if they need to go into executive session… Correct. Andrew, just another point of order. You are going to need to go through the finance office to figure out like a landing, like, web page…

1:04:10 I don’t think we’d be setting up a web page. Or like, just a place where we post minutes or something. That’s what I was told, that you need to check with the finance office. Sure. I don’t know. That’s what I was told. You need to check with the finance office and that we may need to send information to the clerk for posting. Yeah, you always have to post it with the town clerk. Okay. Those are the two little things. So the chair would be responsible for the posting with the town clerk and setting the agenda. Okay, so that’s what I would do that, but the finance office piece, I don’t know about it. You have to do that. I mean, you can easily contact the finance office, but we can decide where we want the meeting minutes posted. Okay. And as chair, Michelle could bring them to the committee as… Yes, you will be. You’ll have to, you know, in your meetings, you’ll have to also establish a secretary who’s going to take your meeting minutes. We don’t have the Andrea. No. It would have to be a committee member. Yeah, when we did the Solid Waste Facility Committee, it was always a committee member. Okay. All right. So I think that with all that, I’d like to recommend a meeting next week. So then we would need to, today’s Tuesday, we would need to, I mean, this is tight for applications.

1:05:44 You want to give yourself two weeks. Really? If we, I have a proposed letter that it’s really simple and all we would need to do is post it on Facebook and on our webpage. And then, what, like, why can’t we just be really quick about it and just have it closed next Monday and then… You can. You’re going to really limit the number of people that are going to do that. Good. We asked Chris Stevens if it could get in this week’s paper. This week’s paper already went to bed, so it can’t make it. It won’t make it in this week’s paper. Okay, well, then that’s an issue. Yeah. I mean, I can get it up online for you. I can do that tonight or as soon as Michelle sends me the verbiage, I can post it online. And I’m happy to put it on our Facebook page as well. But, yeah, I couldn’t get it into print this week. It’s already, that paper sailed. That would be great, Chris. As soon as we know what we decide, we’ll definitely ask you to do that. Sure. Yep. No problem. So we think that it’s too… So in other words, so I mean, in other words, we’re saying we should wait, not meet next week and close out. Like, so say we post it like as soon as we can ASAP if we approve the wording tonight.

1:07:18 And if we keep it open until, let’s say, a week from, you know, like, we keep it open until, say, like, the 17th or something or the 18th, then that gives us, you know, time to review it before the 23rd. Our next meeting would be the 23rd. So, obviously, you can’t review it individually, but not as a group, right? We can’t discuss it until our next meeting, but we would have to personally, but that we need time to, like, personally review everything. Well, you’d have to have the deadline on the 19th, because if the next paper comes out on the 18th, you can’t have the deadline on the 18th, if you’re working with the paper. This week’s paper is on the 11th, so, yeah. That means the only… But I bet you will get a lot of people to see it online as well, so that’s right away. You will. Well, if people read the paper on the 18th and really, really want to be part of it, and telling them that the deadline is the next day, I think that’s unfair. So, if we…and I’m the one that wants to do it rapidly, that’s why I’m not interested in application. But it seems like that’s the way it’s going to go. Well, Todd, you didn’t weigh in on the application piece, did you?

1:08:50 No, I think two weeks would be better than one. No, I mean application in general. Close to appointment. Oh, no, I think that we’re all going to agree that, you know, we can have the medical professional and the town citizens apply, and then we can select those. I think I’m okay with that. So, you need to say that the deadline’s the 22nd. Okay, but that starts one day. But I’m actually going to bring this up later, but I’m not free on the 23rd. I’ve had a commitment since we were meeting the second Tuesday of every month. So, we can do Monday, we can do Wednesday that week is what works for you guys. I could do Monday. Well, if you have the deadline that day, you might want to do Wednesday. Can you do Wednesday? Yeah. So, we plan for the 24th. Is that work for you, Andrea? Yep. Okay. We know where he is until 6.30. So… And maybe what you would like to do, Michelle, that maybe you would like to set your first meeting for Tuesday the 30th, whether it be morning or afternoon, at least people have in mind that when we appoint them on the 24th, that they’re good.

1:10:24 So, I think that’s a good meeting that’s already been determined. I have a strong hunch I’m not going to feel so good that day, but other than that, it would be great. Well, you pick it, but I mean, I think that people may… Yeah, we should have a start date for sure. The first meeting should be on… I agree. It just happened that day might not be good for me. What? So, you want to say that the first meeting would be on the 31st if we appoint people on the 24th? Yeah. Or maybe, actually, maybe the 30th will be fine and the 31st will be bad. So, do we say the 29th? You’re the chair of it. I’m going to say the 29th. Okay. So, we have to… Helene, I think we have to, once we form the task force, we have to appoint you as chair, correct, Michelle? I think that’s how it works. We can do that next week, though. I mean, next time. Well, we… I think we should say… I want to form… Oh, you need to form it tonight because that’s what triggers Jason being able to appoint the board of selectmen and whatever. We have to form it tonight. So, why don’t we first approve the body of the document? Can we do that? And then appoint the chairperson and then go through… And then determine that the proposed task force membership is without the additional school work. Can we do it in those three steps?

1:11:59 Do we need to do all those steps to develop the task force? I think we should absolutely have who should be on it, who the chair is, and what the wording of the mission is. I think that… I think those three things are important to do tonight. Okay. I do think, like I said, that we should put in some wording that this is a task force of the board of health. And we’ll be reporting to the board of health. I think that’s important to say. I don’t know if we say that at the beginning, the end. What do you think? I’m going to write some proposed changes here. I think right in the bold, the Marblehead COVID Mental Health Task Force 8. I think we have the problem up front. Then where we write… And then after we say where the events of 2021, blah, blah, blah, different mental health impacts, then we write mission. And then we say, you know, in light of this crisis and because we know blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and because we know that history has shown that the mental health and we talk about convening of the task force.

1:13:33 And then we add a sentence that say, this task force will be convened by the Marblehead… Created. Created. Is it created or convened by the… We’re not convening it. Will be hosted. I don’t know. What’s the right word? It will be a task force of the board of health. And we’ll need to report to the board of health. And we’ll report to the board of health. The task force membership will include… The proposed task force membership. And the proposed task force membership. You just say task force membership. It’s not proposed anymore. Okay. And the task force membership… Is created and will operate under the auspices of the Marblehead Board of Health. Perfect. Say that again. Is created and will work under the auspices of the Marblehead Board of Health. Created and will operate under…

1:15:07 Wish my parents were here would think that they didn’t waste their money. Okay. So we need a motion, I would say from Helene to… I guess it doesn’t matter, but we need a motion to create this task force with the mission that has been written. I just got a message that somebody looked up that it is one in five. One of somebody that’s sitting at our meeting. Did anybody else receive that? No. I think we’re okay without the… I mean, it’s a reputable source. I just can’t multitask enough to find it right now. Who in the meeting wrote to you? Just continue on. You can add it back in later on when you’re form your task force. We can make an addendum next time, too. Yeah. I think if the person wanted to be known, they would raise their hand. Okay. But it said to me… Do we have a motion? Yes. Someone to accept the statement for the Model Hint COVID Mental Health Task Force with the corrections that we’ve talked about today,

1:16:37 mainly the statement that we removed at this time, and then talking about separating, making the mission statement with a therefore, and then we will remove the proposed task force membership and working under the auspices the way I stated it before. Andrea, do you want to read that to us, please? I think that we can make that even more concise motion just to… Because the document’s been a working document. At the beginning, it wasn’t a final draft submitted. Okay. So I think we just say approve the… Would you call it a mission or a statement? Yeah. Retaining to the Model Hint COVID Mental Health Task Force. And create the task force. Creating a task force, yeah. And then is there a second? And I second that? Oh, one other thing. You removed the possible additional school rep. Correct. Okay. Okay. So you seconded it, Michelle? I second it. All right. Ms. Hayslitt. In favor. Ms. Gottlieb. In favor. Dr. Belfbecker. In favor. Now we need a motion to name Michelle Gottlieb the chair of the newly formed task force. I name Michelle Gottlieb the chair of the newly formed

1:18:10 Model Hint COVID Mental Health Task Force. And I will second that. Ms. Hayslitt. In favor. Ms. Gottlieb. In favor. Dr. Belfbecker. In favor. And then I think you should have a first meeting date set as well. Yeah, you’re good. Yeah. I mean, Can I pull my members of the task force and set the meeting? I would hate to have a first meeting that none of them can attend. What if you say it on a before the 31st of March? Yes. Honor before the 31st of March. Perfect. And that doesn’t need a vote. Yeah. Okay. Wait, can we, and we, we still have more. Okay. That part is done, but I want to read to you the letter to invite citizens and medical professional participation. Okay. Okay. And some of it will sound familiar. Cause I pulled from this other piece already. Hold on one second. Okay. So. So I use the introductory paragraph. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I use the introductory paragraph. Of the problem statement, because we’re going to want to frame this for the community as well.

1:19:43 So as the COVID-19 pandemic approaches the year marks, so does the associated anxiety that same intro paragraph. I’ll take out the data points. And keep it general. And then the same mission statement in light of this crisis. And then moving into this, the marble head board of health seeks two citizen volunteers. And then I’ll also put in the part and a medical professional. To sit on the marble head COVID mental health task force, the board of health will be reviewing letters of interest. I actually think we should have two letters. One, this, let me just read you the citizen volunteer one. The marble head board of health seeks two citizen volunteers to sit on the marble head COVID mental health task force. The board of health will be reviewing letters of interest for these seats until blank date. We’ll put our closing date in their email to the board of health volunteers should demonstrate experience with mental health issues and a commitment to town engagement. The task force will meet in open public meeting on a schedule to be determined by the, to be determined by the task force members upon convening of the first meeting. And then the task force membership will include, and then I list the, who the membership is. And then, um, what else do we need to include there? I, I sent it to you, but I left it open cause I just didn’t know what else we needed to include. I think we just need to make it clear where the letters will go to, which is the, you know, the board of health on this. Yeah. Letters can be submitted to the board of health office by such and such

1:21:15 date and time. Okay. Um, and so we address, you know, seven winter road, Mary alley building. All right. But we want it to be so they can send it to a, um, an actual address. So they can send it to the snail mail if they want. Seven Richard road. Um, which email address should they use? Yours you’re the chair. Um, yeah, but I would prefer if it went to, rather than my personal email, can it go to, um, A town email and you guys forward it to me. So just so everybody’s aware that just because emails go to your private email, it does not make that private. All emails are open to foil requests. Right. I, all right. That’s fine then. I, I have no problem with that. I just thought it might be more official or something because it’s not, I just thought it would be better because it’s going to go since all of us are going to review these. I just was somehow thinking it’d be better if it goes to Andrea and then she forwarded it to all of us. That way it’s like more efficient. Like if I’m in a meeting at work and she, you know, I don’t know, it just felt more efficient. If it went to one central health department address versus me, I’m happy for it to go to me. But once you get to the point where you’re like, I’m happy for it to go to me, but once you form the committee, all the correspondence will be going back and forth between you and your

1:22:48 committee members. Right. I’m just thinking for the citizen applications, it felt like it should go to the department. I don’t know. Yeah. We can give you a generic, I think it’s health too, or I will give you the generic health email address that goes to all the health employees. I don’t know. What do you guys think? I don’t think that you should be using a personal email. I think that you would want that open in the community. I mean, people can find it, but it, and your email has your, your business on it. It’s really, I think your business may be having a problem. I think what Andrew’s saying is a good idea or going to Andrea and she can just forward it to, we get the stuff from Andrea all the time. She asks us to sign papers and we do it within the day. All right. So just tell me what email to use, like whether it’s health two or whatever. And you would, would you mind, Andrea, would you mind filling that and forwarding everything as it came in or, or you want to use help to or something? Give us a thumbs up or thumbs down because we can’t hear you. I guess I don’t mind forwarding it to you. That’s not a problem. Andrew, is that okay with you, Andrew? And then what do you want? And that would just, that would just include the applications. And then, yeah, for all correspondence, just for these applications. And I mean, I would hope no one asks me anything, but they have to speak with you. You would just forward it on. That’s not a big deal.

1:24:19 We would be able to handle any of that. Yeah. I think anyone that is applying for a job usually applies to the administrative assistant. Yeah. Okay. So where would the, what would the, what would the website be? Okay. What else is it going to ask? Oh, what did we decide is the closing date? We’re going to meet on the 24th. How the clothes on the 22nd. Okay. Yeah. That would give us plenty of time to read everything over. And then your meeting’s going to be held on it before the 31st. Yeah. And it’s zoom. So it’s. You know, it shouldn’t. people can get to their computer. Yeah we’ll have to talk to Kyle about the zoom and setting up a zoom account. We’ll have to figure that out too. Okay. Because we have to post it through the town clerk like everything else. Yep. And do we should should I say in this email when the first that the meeting will be held on or before the 31st? It just that you have to have the 48 hours or is it 72? I’m just blanking. For this letter should I say that we’ll be meeting on or before the 30 does that need to be in this letter? Well we’d have to so we met on the 24th

1:25:53 and created the names on the committee then it would be I guess doable but but tight to be by the 31st just because of the 48 hour window. So we just have to keep that in mind as well. So you could have set a 24th and still have the 29th 30th of the 31st. Yeah that’s true. She’s looking towards the 29th. Yeah that’s and I think that would be important to write that because you know and maybe they can even write which is more available the 29th or the 31st she thinks that might 30th might be problematic but I don’t know she can decide that she can write it in the letter or not so that people know when the first meeting. Okay. Okay. All right and then I so I think we’ll have a separate separate but the same verbiage but it will say health care professional. Do we how well so the medical professional or health care professional? I prefer the term health care professional. Because there’s certain health care providers who are not medical professionals. Is that? I don’t know I just in professionally in our work we just always use the word health care professional and just I don’t know that just

1:27:23 seems to be the appropriate verbiage and they honestly don’t really know why but that’s just what we use. Yeah. Okay so we can you know tomorrow or tonight even you can email this to Chris Stevens and then she could she could post it on the reporter’s website page. I’ll keep an eye out for it. Great thank you. You’re welcome. All right so you can slow down this. I don’t think the letter can be consensus can it? Yeah I don’t think we need to vote on it. What do you think Andrew? You’re good. We’re good. Yep. Okay. All right. Next meeting is two weeks and tomorrow. Yes and then do we have a motion to adjourn? So moved. I’ll second that. Okay. Miss Hazley. In favor. Miss Gottlieb. In favor. Dr. Velfbecker. In favor. That everybody.