Board of Health: May 9, 2023

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0:24 All the meeting, uh,

0:27 May 9th, 2023 to order. If you could just start with the roll call, uh, Mr. Joanne Todd. Correct. And, uh, the first item of the agenda is to meeting that it’s April 11th. We do not have those yet, but we do have March 22nd. So any discussion on the March 22nd minutes? You want that one to discuss before I make the motion? The, the one they just told? Oh, just it was just a quotation mark. Okay. I, I believe that we approve the minutes of March 22nd. I second received. I second. Uh, Mr. No In favor, Mr. Lane? In favor, Dr. Todd? Be in favor. All right. Moving right along to the training station facility update. All right. So on

1:13 The, on May 4th, we had a meeting with Mass d e p. It was myself, it was Spin Wier, the architect, uh, and name was Ray Quinn of SciTech. Um, and, you know, essentially the meeting was to discuss permitting. Um, so we are updating the existing facility. Uh, we have a residential transfer station. Um, we have a capacity of 15,000 tons a year that we’re allotted. Uh, we’re considered a small facility. Um, and we were looking, so, you know, we wanted to have a discussion with them about permitting process. There’s different ways that you can do this. We met with Mark Fairbanks, uh, and Rick Spieler of Mass, d e p. Um, and what we’ll be doing is going for a modification permit for a small handling facility. Like I said, it’s 15,000 tons a year, uh, which equates down to 50 tons a day, uh, approximately two trailers a day.

2:02 We had a lot of discussion about what comes in there. Obviously we take residential trash. We have a huge, uh, you know, obviously we sell residential stickers, so we take all the curbside trash, the curbside recycling goes to J R M, but the curbside trash comes into our facility. We also have residents that have stickers and bring additional household trash. And then we have Wayne Pay, which is, uh, municipal solid waste, which is, you know, additional household trash, some construction, demolition material, and then some others, um, mixed plastics, other items that can’t be recycled. Stuff like that goes, you know, go into the, the solid waste street. Um, we, we were looking for permission, obviously, to move forward with the projects, but the big piece is that we are looking for permission to do dedicated

2:49 loads of construction demolition once or twice per week. So what you do is that you look at, you know, obviously, like I said, we have permiss to do two trailers a day. We would pick a time where we would pull a trailer off, put an empty trailer on, and do dedicated construction, demolition material. Obviously, all that material would go across a scale. We would work with Waste Management to find a facility that would work for them. We have an existing contract, uh, with Waste Management for the disposal. They, they use CW t to do all the hauling, so we need to do some work with them. This wouldn’t begin until after all the construction. Uh, they were open to that idea and they didn’t have any problems with that, so that’s good. Um, so that means essentially that we’re currently,

3:36 last year we did about 12,000, or we did 12,500 tons of material, uh, 60% of that material. So about 75, um, a hundred PA or 75,000 tons was residential. The 5,000 tons was commercial. That leaves us about, that leaves us exactly 2,500 tons remaining. Uh, if you take that 2,500 tons and, and this is like maximum capacity, we don’t really have enough time in the day to really hit all the maximums. Um, so that would equate down to a, a a hundred additional trailers that we have capacity for. So that could be the two additional construction demolition trailers a week. If we have that material coming in, we will limit that material to residents, uh,

4:26 account holders, building permanent holders in the town, and Marblehead or other Marblehead residents. We would need to control the capacity. Obviously, like I said, we only have, we’re doing one to two trailers a week, and that’s it. Um, so we were thankful for that. Um, and that was a good decision. You know, that was great progress for us. Um, so just going along with the permitting, um, mass DEP will also require us to do an, uh, operations and maintenance plan, an o and m plan and the waistband compliance plan. We have to do waistband compliance plans every so many years. We just had to complete one for the textiles and the mattresses and stuff like that. Um, mass, uh, d e p will issue an updated operations approval, which can later be renewed through a transfer station certification. Uh,

5:13 the town will submit this application by the end of June. Uh, we’re trying to get that application in as quickly as possible. They technically have 90 days to review everything. They are willing to work with us to try to turn that as brown as quickly as possible with the idea that we’re looking to bid the project, um, middle until the end of September. Um, so now that we have this, had this meeting with mass d e p, this gives all Dana, we are the architect, all the information to move forward and put a schedule together for design and all that stuff. So we will see a written schedule from Dana, uh, in the near future. I will get in touch with him to say, Hey, when can we have this written schedule? Um, but this is really the, the schedule that’s gonna be moving forward.

6:00 Well, thank you for looking into that. What did you call that? A modification? I, so It is a modification permit for a small handling facility, And we call this small handling facility. Yep.

6:13 Andrew, can I ask a question? Yeah. Um, you mentioned that you mentioned the people that are the groups that are going to be able to use this. Yeah, so obviously we, you know, we need to make sure that we’re can handle the waste that’s in town. That’s like the biggest concern. Um, so we wanna make sure that we can hit, uh, account holders. Yep. So all account holders are member Marblehead residents. We wanna open that up to anybody that has an active building permit in town. Uh, so they can bring their material in, do the way and pay. Um, and then obviously we wanna offer the same thing to residents. Okay. So we, we would limit it to those people. Um, and obviously the biggest piece is, you know, so a trailer can hold 25 tons of material. Uh, you don’t always get, uh, 25 tons of building material. Um, it’s not as dense. It’s long.

7:02 It doesn’t compact like municipal solid waste does into a trailer. Um, but those are our parameters. And like I said, if, you know, if we have the material in town, we can potentially do two trailers a week. Um, but that’s really, you know, our first priority is to the residents and to the MSW that’s coming into the facility. Excellent. I, I would like to make a comment that we had a conversation with some, uh, businesses in town a few weeks ago, three months ago, that were concerned about the size of their trucks. Yep. And then Liam, who works on Marblehead Movers Yep. Had a really wonderful suggestion conversation and it was a conversation Yep. With solution, solution solutions in sight in this

7:52 resolution, this progress seems to be greatly aligned with what the ask was that evening. Right. And, and because this is gonna be dedicated construction demolition material and it’s gonna be recycled, there wouldn’t be a truck limit, truck size limit. Um, so, you know, these guys could bring in their normal trucks in and stuff like that because it is dedicated to c d material and all that material will be recycled. That’s based on the dep. Yeah, it’s based on d e P. Yep. Well, Outstanding. I think you had a really important conversation with them. Yeah. Very successful. Yes. Congratulations. Um, so obviously, like I said, you know, um, you know, it’s about a 90 day perine progress process with d e p. Our application should go in, um, middle to end of June, um, and,

8:37 and move forward with that. And obviously, you know, we, we had a really good meeting with them. We think we answered all their questions. Um, but some additional questions could come up that we’ll, we’ll need to, to deal with. Now, you said the architect was going to do some design work? Um, Schedule Or schedule, yeah. So he needs to put on paper the actual schedule to take us from now until beginning of construction start the timeline. Timeline, correct. Okay.

9:08 I, no, no reconfiguration. No Reconfiguration, no. So, so planning Zoning boards, those don’t happen until We have scheduled, correct. Yep. So yeah, he’ll outline all that stuff. Um, you know, we’ve had some basic discussions with the town planner about what we need to do. Um, but yeah, he needs to outline all those, uh, and make sure he hits all those deadlines to make, you know, to get onto the, any of the required, um, boards and have those approvals in hand. So one last question just for, um, when we, when we are ready, would, would the, um, ZNY board take us on as soon as possible? Because it’s No, You still have to follow all the time. You still have to follow the application process with all these boards and committees Because sir,

9:54 I know in summertime there’s more building going on than other times here. Uh, not necessarily. A lot of times summertime is the building period, and people try to do their applications more in the wintertime, can be ready for the summer. Um, but like I said, we, we will, you know, touch base with the architect, uh, to remind him, you know, that we have concerns about deadlines, that we have to hit our deadlines. And I’ve had these conversations with him already, but, um, he understands that this is when we need to have it out to bid. This is when we need to begin construction. Did we call this a change that this is gonna be signed, added expenses? No, Just the trailer. That’s It. Yeah. So obviously that those are more operational costs. Um, so I need to talk with, uh, waste management, um, with our contact there to,

10:40 you know, begin those conversations to see what facilities that they have available to us, um, and kind of work out the trucking side. But that’s more on the operations side.

10:50 Andrew, with respect to the compactor that came in lower, uh, estimate than was originally planned, is that, is that going to be, uh, available to us prior to the, the renovation? Yeah. So it kinda aligns all, uh, no, it’s all lines all up with construction. Okay. So the compactor takes about 30 weeks to builds. Um, so there’s a cost savings there, but we still have to repair the chute. So that whole steel structure that brings everything down so it, it, it comes in about even with the budget and stuff like that. Okay. But yeah, it doesn’t bring us forward or anything like that. Okay. Yeah. Thanks Jerry. Okay. Well, we have actually done something that’s gonna get built. Um,

11:37 the, um, the access road, green Street gate, uh, by the end of June will be completely automated. Excellent. And that, for instance, that would mean the truck drivers don’t need the tap to stop when they’re coming in to go to the, um, the bottom compact. And they had just hit a switching truck, people open, and, and so that’s, and unfortunately the bids came in exactly what we estimated and it’s, uh, $20,600. That’s The automated gate you’re talking about? Yeah. So do They have a sticker on your truck to open a Gate or what do they Oh, they, they, no, they, they have a little, uh, remote control, like a key fob, like key fob

12:25 That we’re gonna provide. Yeah. So we’ll need multiple key fobs for different, We got kind of them with this contract. And so all the workers at the duck will have one. They can, they don’t have to waste time going down the end of the day or at the beer. They don’t the gate this home. So one needs, One needs to be in the lower loader, one needs to be in the roll-off truck, one needs to be in my truck. Um, and that way you just pull up to it and you hit the key fob and it can heat opens up. But aren’t we planning and when it’s done to have our trucks be able to use that gate? Yep. So the truck that he’s talking about is the tractor trailer, so that’s one of our trucks. Okay. So they’ll have it. The roll off truck is one of ours. So Yes. And we, we have to go to, I believe the planning board. Yeah.

13:11 But before we can open that to civilian traffic during the day where people have been just going up to the, uh, recycling and the uh, uh, garden waste and stuff, we have to go and get approval from the town to actually do that. And I don’t think we’ve really started, Yeah, we’ll do that all at the same time with Dana’s application stuff. Um, but this will, with, this should alleviate some frustration out of Arnold Terrace where the truck driver stops in the morning, gets out of his truck, walks over, unlocks it, uh, now he can just kind of roll down the hill, have the gate begin to open and he drive through. And then we can either leave the gate open at that time or, you know,

13:59 close the gate behind him. Great. Yep. Makes sense. Yep. And it can all be operated. We could scale house. Oh, there will be a way to Operate. Yeah, there will be, you know, that is the idea is that the scale house would be able to look down and open it if needed. Or when they come in the morning they can open. But generally, you know, some employees do come through there and Ultimately it’ll be the same gate that we’ll be reading cars, residential cars Rather than the stickers. Is that, uh, so that would be the area At this point, we’re not looking at that system currently. Um, we would have some person at the top that would be, so you have a residential area that people are gonna drive it up. So there, there’s gonna be a person there to be assisting customers. So checking stickers as they come through and then helping them with the,

14:45 you know, if they’re trying to get rid of an AC unit or other items like that, they’ll be there to help ‘em with that. Um, that booth there and stuff like that. The idea is to try to move as much transactions online. Um, so people would come up with like, you know, so you go online, you’d say, I want to get rid of an AC unit, you could pay for that AC unit. And then you’d print out like a paid, um, receipt and you can hold that up and say, I’ve paid for this item. And they would put a sticker on that AC and say, all right, it needs to go over here. Um, trying to reduce the amount of transaction time and, and smooth up operations. Um, the other thing that we also wanna move forward to, you know, with is being able to use credit cards online to pay your bill to pay for these items and also potentially to start to use credit cards up in

15:33 the ScaleOut. That’d be great. Yeah. Right. So, I mean, I think our citizens are good people, but if you say someone shows up the paper, if they pay, I mean some, there has to be some way to, Yeah. So it’s gonna be a printed receipt and obviously it worked all that out. Um, so you know, it’s gonna have the date, the time, what you’re getting rid of, um, you know, but it just would be a printed out receipt and it’s gonna have on it paid so you know exactly what you’re getting rid of. No, but I, whoever’s checking that, I mean, we should be able to be able to read The That’s correct. So we Should be large enough so people could see it as they pull up. Yep. I mean, obviously you’re gonna have to stop and talk to the person and show ‘em your receipt and stuff like that.

16:18 Okay. That’s the thing. Really, really positive. Yeah. Thank you though. Um, I mean, obviously, you know, there’s a lot of work to be done, um, but you know, this really sets the, the schedule for us and, you know, the, the first initial meetings with DEP are, are some of the most important ones. Um, so it was great that we had a really good initial meeting with them. Um, cuz they can send you in the oth other direction, um, authorization to construct, you know, we are an existing facility, we’re just going for a modification. So that’s the major difference. Andrew is, is the white metal, white goods, new white goods.

16:53 So the white goods obviously, like, you know, obviously that goes into the metal bin and stuff like that. But we need to take a look at all our operations. Um, you know, there should be costs. If you look at all the other facilities in the state of Massachusetts, we need to be equal with them about what they’re charging. Um, a lot of towns and communities, you know, so we’re now taking ACS refrigerators and stuff like that. Um, we need to look at other costs potentially of white goods. A lot of communities charged for white goods. So a white good is, you know, a free, a freezer or a stove or a dishwasher. Um, there are some costs to handling some of this equipment, um, and stuff like that. So we just wanna review all of our fees going forward and, and we’ll begin to put all that together and we’ll come back to you guys shortly with new adjustments. Um, the other things that,

17:40 so we have to look at, you know, who’s using the facility? Obviously residents pay a fee to use the facility. So their fee covers for the trash that they’re throwing away, the recycling that they’re getting rid of and all that stuff, their yard waste. Anybody else that’s using the facility. So if there’s a commercial business in town that wants to use it for recycling materials like cardboard, we need to set up a a a permit for them to do that. Obviously we’re gonna be living it to Marblehead businesses, but we need to capture those costs because right now the taxpayers are, are carrying the costs of the recycling that the business are doing if they’re not going across scale like that. So we just need to make sure, uh, we take a look at that. We’re capturing all costs as recycling, the cost recycling’s going up and we don’t see it coming top at any times.

18:28 Even cardboard, Even card cardboard. So unfortunately with cardboard, um, demands, you know, we, we, there’s so much supply of cardboard coming in because of all the Amazon boxes and all the shipping that’s being done. There’s not a high demand for it. Um, so, you know, we’re not making any money on cardboard. So it’s, we’ve seen it as high as $95 a ton that we have to pay. Okay. Yep. Okay. Yep. Where it used to be zero or we’d make a little bit of money, like $30 a ton, but it’s been going the other way recently and we do not feel like it’s gonna come back. That is significant from significant $30 Yep. To paying $95. Yep. And that’s the same with, you know, paper, uh, what we call news or mixed,

19:16 uh, that’s the same thing. It’s going the other direction where we used to make some money off of it or didn’t cost us anything. Now we have to pay to get rid of it.

19:26 Now, obviously, you know, the big piece is that it’s not going into the landfill and it’s being recycled, um, which is a big part of, you know, what mass d e p wants. Um, but there’s still a cost to that. Um, and trucking is, you know, a ma a major driver of that.

19:44 Thanks Jerry. It’s your Turn, Joanne Mental health update. Thank you. So, um, unfortunately last night was our mental health task force meeting and many of our members had conflict. So we, we did not reach a quorum. So we are postponing potentially to next week. Um, and that was disappointing cuz we had a big agenda and looking forward to starting some new initiatives. Um, but we did get some, um, feedback from some members. I did get some feedback from some members about the Healthy Kids Day at the Y M C A, which we participated in and had a booth on mental health healthy Kids, mental healthy Kids day. And, uh, we had a great turnout.

20:29 Lots of, um, community involvement and I think it was something we’ll be continuing to do and look for opportunities to connect with people. Um, hopefully we’re gonna have some activity at the farmer’s market. And, um, last night also we were going to have Gina Hart, um, give us share with us, um, a, uh, some, an update on why our bs, which is the Youth Risk Behavior survey. Some data that they’ve connect collected at the high school that, um, is gonna be helpful in, in helping us plan initiatives and, and hope to support the young, our youth there. So, um, one of the things that having not met our quorum and having so much work to do, we were, I I think it might be important to have a conversation.

21:18 I know I wasn’t here when you started the mental health task force, but, um, we have a, a vibrant, great group of people involved. Um, I know that people have been involved for now over two years and, um, we’ve invited two new members who are outstanding and making great contributions. But I wondered if I could get the board’s feedback on, I’m interested in expanding, potentially expanding the task force to bring some more voices and some more perspectives and some more expertise and, um, ideas to, to the task force potentially. I would just love your thoughts. I know three years is a significant amount of time to be contributing and, and spending so much time. For a long time we were doing it every twice a month,

22:06 um, hat holding our meetings and um, now we’ve got, you know, a monthly column in the Marblehead current and we have, um, you know, some subcommittees that are working on initiatives and we may expand, uh, to have more committees that are able to focus, you know, small working groups to get initiatives done. For example, our website, some of the branding, um, for example, we wanna have, uh, brochures and some ways to, to get the word out, make sure the people that need some of these resources are able to, to find them and access them. So my interest was in, um, just hearing from you all as the people that built this and, and inspired it as to how you could foresee

22:52 helping me invite potentially some more members and, and have a little bit of fluid, um, fluid fluidity to this committee task force. So I was wondering if I could just engage how Many, how many people are on the task force right now? 10. 10. We didn’t really set it over, but we, we, um, seem to think that we wanted to keep it small. Yes. Because a, a big group, and I see that in, in, you know, boards across the town. The bigger the group is, the less work it’s done. That that’s, but if you see now that you have people that you wanna do branding and brochures that you have special interests, I think that you should go forward and, and try and find those people. The other thing is, if, if you see that people might be going in different directions now after

23:41 three years that has had the opportunity to maybe step down. I, I think we’ve had, um, Jeff Newsom step down and he brought, um, Ali Carey, who’s a wonderful new member of our, our task force. And now Dan Bauer, of course had to step down and, um, Michelle Carlson will be joining us going forward. But I think that, um, and then we did add Susan Stealth and Mark Levon who have been just a real, this this bolus of energy and creative, creative ideas. So I just thought it would be something to consider. And I was having a conversation with Mark because at the Healthy Kids, um, taskforce met healthy kids there,

24:29 he was able to engage with other people that were invited to join our table and bring some resources to the community. And, um, he heard from other people that are very interested in making contributions and we certainly have people that aren’t official members of the task force that show up every week. And that is fantastic. But I also think, um, with respect to the forum and being able to do the work we need to do, we, if we have people that are going to be able to come every week, um, consistently would, The forum is one more than a half, so that if you, if you get larger, you have to have more people there. That’s, that’s true too. So that’s the only thing, if you say there’s 10, the one thing that we did do is we wanted an uneven a number initially. So that’s, I think we had nine now recall. So, um,

25:15 that might be something you wanna consider as far as Okay. To have an uneven Number, number. I mean, you can’t control that if, if people wanna leave at certain time. But Thank you. That’s a great suggestion. I Mean, I, I believe we created the subcommittee, but now you’re your own thing, so I don’t think you have to, I mean, we’re happy to, uh, feedback and back and forth, but you don’t have to get our go ahead to change the membership or anything like that. Okay. But I did say at the last meeting that when she appointed these two people, they don’t, that she thinks is great. We did vote to of them Yes. Did appoint them. But do we need to do that going forward? I think that we don’t have to be that. Um, I think it since involved, it’s under the auspices of us. It would be nice if she just, we could do it after the fact like we did, but I think it’d be nice that we know who’s on the committee.

26:03 Oh yeah. But I don’t think we need to be approving like, like we’ve done in the past just because there Be pointing, we, we did be pointing initially because we grew it that I can’t answer that as far as, uh, So I, I think, you know, as far as if you’re having quo difficulties, um, you, you should consider looking at the quo number or looking at the group number. So you would want to go down. So if it’s currently, you know, nine right now and the quo would be five, I would consider going down to seven and the courtroom would be four. Um, but obviously, you know, you need to make sure people understand that you’re open to all discussion. So even if you’re not a member, it’s not prohibiting you, you know, to being there, to being part of the discussion, to contributing, you know,

26:50 we want to, we want to hear from everybody in the community, um, even if you’re not on the board. And I think that’s a big piece that people really need to understand. Right. Obviously you need to still run it like a meeting. So there’s, you know, it’s organized and um, people are being respectful of each other and stuff like that. Um, but I think, you know, we, we can definitely continue to talk about ways to, you know, gather more people in. What are some of the obstacles to that. Um, I are you, you take that? Yeah. Are you running as a hybrid, Uh, or In person? We have, we are running it virtually. Okay. So because we started, we did have one hybrid meeting, but it wasn’t, and I think running virtually is easier on everybody. They don’t have to go to a meeting, they can still participate. Right. Um, like, you know, we see a lot more participation with some, you know, online stuff.

27:36 Obviously this is gonna continue. Okay. Um, but yeah, we can definitely continue to, you know, or kind of strategize on how to, um, keep this going and, you know, what other members should we take a look at. Um, but we can also, you know, the board can take a look at the, you know, the total group numbers and what they think about that. But I just wanna say what I said, what I said, making a larger group Yes. Does not give you a Better chance of meeting forums. It makes it harder. It actually makes it harder. And that’s why most boards have decreased in size, but the counseling center Yes. And other committees across town because, um, they, they find it, they’re more successful. But I think that maybe if you wanna have some, and if they’re watching tonight,

28:23 you wanna have some conversations individually that maybe people do wanna step down, be maybe they don’t feel, they feel via captured there. Maybe they wanna take a break. So, um, and they can always come back. Absolutely. You can also have a term limit. You know, you sign up for a year, but you don’t have an expiration. They can do as many years as you want, but then you have be out after a year, something Like that. I think. So I think Thank you. This is the kind of feedback I really appreciate because, um, I wanna keep it vibrant and there’s so much work to be done and I think with respect to organizing you, you’ve both have been involved much longer than I have. So I really appreciate your Feedback. And also we’re both active on other boards. Yes. Right. Especially and otherwise, and we see what works.

29:10 So thank you so much. I think that’s exactly what I needed. And, uh, it’ll keep you updated and Yeah, we have discussions offline about how to, you know, keep everything going and what are the areas to look at to bring new members in. Um, it’s a great group. You know, it’s very beneficial to the community, so we want to try to keep this going as much as possible. Yes. That’s, that’s the one thing that I, that I think that it is good to hear who the people are and that are being, they’re being appointed because it’s, it’s very, I think, important to me to know what their expertise is and what, what we’re seeing. So that’s, I’d like to still share their names. Excellent. Well, I will keep, I’m, I like, you know, I do like to talk about it as a lot of good people doing some great work.

29:58 So I will certainly continue to share that. But go Ahead and try and get your branding people that you know, you know. Yeah. We’ve got some resources now, some funding to build some exciting things. Good. Yeah. Thank you.

30:16 Is that you? That’s it. Thank you. Records report. Report please. I have a bunch of different items to talk about. Um, so we had a tobacco violation. Um, the Marblehead tobacco control, you know, Joyce Redford from the state, uh, did a compliance check. Um, they occurred on March 16th and April 18th. They went to all the establishments. On, on April 18th, we had a violation at the Marvel Head Village market. Um, it’s their third violation. Uh, it results in a $5,000 fine and a 30 day suspension. Um, so I will be issuing a letter to them about their suspension. They get to kind of choose, it’s gotta be sequential, but they can choose when it’s gonna start. Um, and then obviously I will issue the, the fine for $5,000. Um, obviously,

31:05 you know, this is a significant violation As it is their third, what’s the name of the Market? Uh, Marblehead Village Market? Is that the one that closed? Nope. Former White. Yep. Oh, formal. I’m thinking about the one down. Yep. West Shore Drive. Uh, this is the white hand pantry. Um, we have Narcan rescue kits available at our office. Uh, you can see the public health nurse. Um, they’re put together, they’re available to the public. Uh, we can go over everything with you when you come in. Um, but if you need them or if you’re concerned about it, if anything, please come in. We can discuss that with you. Or obviously the public or health nurse, uh, can discuss it all with you. Um, we had a great turnout for the diaper drive. Uh, we collected 1,753 diapers and 16 boxes of wipes.

31:54 So those will go to the, you know, to local resources, uh, you know, food pantries and other, um, areas in the North Shore region. Um, it is that time of year again where we will begin beach water samples, uh, at the beginning of June. So the summer is quickly coming on us. Um, so that tends to be either the first or second, uh, week in June that will begin the samples. Um, and then that will run all the way through, uh, labor Day and we’ll run a little bit afterwards. It’s kind of following the Bathing Beach season. Um, with that also comes camp inspections. We’re seeing a lot of camp applications. So we’re reviewing all those app applications. Um, once those are all finalized, um, the public health nurse and the inspector will go out and actually do the inspections. Um, we have covid test kits. Uh,

32:40 we received some more from the state, from other surrounding communities. Um, so if you’re looking for, to covid test kits, um, the COVID test kits that we have expire in September, so they’ll last also along. Um, we have several boxes of those that are available to the public as well. Um, claim with the budget. You had a question about the Marblehead counseling lieutenant budget? Yes. Um, it was a reduction of $1,188. Um, so you were almost told, but obviously not completely whole. Um, and the board did vote to use our money to make that whole, um, so, but it’s just a small, smaller number than what it was before. Um, but But in the past we’ve already always given 60 thousands.

33:26 That’s correct. So we have budgeted $58,812 from in the, and that’s why 24. But then we o well, not until the override, we’d go back to the 60,000. Nope. So, so if you, so what you guys voted on was that you voted on the 58, 8 12, then you voted on the ARPA to, to essentially fill in the gap. So it’s a $1,188 to fill in that gap. Now if the override passes, you don’t need to use the a money to fill in the gap. So they are gonna get the 60,000, They are gonna get the 60,000. They also, you know, and then the $4,000 for a hawk. Yep. We didn’t, we didn’t reduce A, we did not reduce Hawk. It was a small reduction that originally discussed,

34:13 correct. Yep, yep. You know, we went back to them and said, we’re a little concerned about, you know, the budget and they listened to us and they, you know, made an amendment to it and they fixed the budget and obviously went to town meeting and that is the approved number. Um, also at town meeting they approved or voted on an operations manual. So the state of Massachusetts puts out a legal handbook for Massachusetts Boards of Health. This would be your operations manual. Um, so it has everything in here from, um, you know,

34:48 author, you know, authority regulates specific activities, authority regulators, um, statutes, regulation cases, organiz, organization of health boards, administration of health boards. It has everything in here. You know, if you’re an elected board, if you’re an appointed board, this covers everything. So this would be your operations manual. Um, you, I had given you one in the past. So this is the newer version of it that, um, this is the third version. Um, so anytime there’s a new member, uh, new members should join the Mass Association of Health Courts. We can also provide a copy of this to them. And so, you know, all members should have a copy of this. It’s got Robert’s rules in it. It’s got a whole bunch of case law. Um, it’s a great resource.

35:36 This would be the operation manual for So you’re gonna give a new One too? Yep. I can, I can uh, email you the new version of this to everybody. Um, but I think you guys should vote to make this your operations manual. So I will send this out to all of you. You can take a look at it and I’ll make them review that, you know, or you can approve it at the June meeting. And then that’s check. And then that’s check. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Does that, uh, explain what an official board is? How many people are? So each town is different, you know, cuz everybody, you know, some towns are five, some towns are three, some towns are seven. But it talks about makeup of board and all that stuff. Like I said, some boards are appointed, some boards are elected, but it talks about all that In here. So, but as our community has grown, does it say that we should have more people?

36:22 It does not state That that’s, yep. We can have as many as the three, no matter whether the You can, yeah, you can change it. If that’s something, you know, that you would’ve to take a look at the town charter and see what the change to make that change would be. Um, the last little piece is that this is, you know, obviously we have leaf collection occurring. Um, so for the month of May, uh, it’s gonna occur on your trash and recycling day, but it’s for the week of May 15th. Uh, the last one is the week of June 5th.

36:54 Uh, it’s grass and leaves only and everything must be, and leaf bags. Uh, and that’s it. Good. All right. Public comment, period. If you want to speak, Mr. Use your hand. And based on state guidelines, uh, we’ve determined that four minutes is a reasonable amount of time for giving to speak. So that’s, that’s what people have. Anybody have anything?

37:23 Anybody line Andrew?

37:27 Um, we’re all set. Okay. So no public comment tonight. And, uh, our next meeting will be the second Tuesday of June, which is June 9th.

37:43 We have a motion to adjourn. Moved. Seconded, Uh, Ms. Julie Miller? In favor? Ms. In Favor? Uh, Dr. Al in Favor? Can I, sorry. Mr. June. June 6th. June 9th. June 9th. Unless you wanna do Saturday. Oh, June 9th is a Friday. It’s a Tuesday.