Board of Health Meeting

Monday, March 6, 2023, 5:00 pm until 6:30 pm
Town Hall Office Meeting Space
A meeting of the Board of Health

Meeting of Board of Health

Members: (Quorum)

• Absent: Tilda Hunting, Member
• Present: Kathy Llamas, Chair, at 5:00 PM
• Present: Jackie Choate, Member, at 5:00 PM
• Present: Emily Sweet, Member, at 5:00 PM
• Remote: Devon Whitney-Deal, Member, at 5:00 PM

Also Present:

• Laurie Lucier

See original Agenda Final Minutes

Meeting opened: 5:04 PM

Meeting closed: 5:52 PM

0. Meeting Preliminaries

   • Meeting Opened / Attendance Taken (see above).

   • Minutes Approved: Mon, Feb 13 - Board of Health Meeting

1. Permit Applications

   • - None

2. Title V Agent report

   • - Nothing to report

3. Health and Wellness report

   • Jackie's Report

     General Discussion...
     COVID - the CDC has moved Franklin County back into the medium risk category. Hampshire and Hampden counties remain low risk.
     
     Meg Ryan (FRCOG) will be speaking at the Greenfield Senior Center on March 30th at 2:00 pm. Topic of discussion is Dementia and Alzheimer's.
     
     Jackie is looking into the Train the Trainer program in regard to the use of Narcan
     
     Short discussion on ''Focus 55'' and opioid fund spending guidelines
     
     LifePath walk-a-thon coming up on May 6th

4. Food Services and Inspections

   • Nothing to report

5. Neighbors Helping Neighbors program

   • NHN Program

     General Discussion...
     Volunteers helping the homebound with light tasks; i.e., computer tasks, minor repairs and/or maintenance, moving furniture, transportation, etc.
     
     Currently a program is running out of Whately, Deerfield and Sunderland. Jackie has asked if they would be willing to take on Conway, or at the least would they be willing to share samples of the required documentation.
     
     Further research into the program to come.

6. Healthy Equity workshop

   • Workshop

     General Discussion...
     One of the biggest issues for seniors is the ''digital divide''
     Our duty to our seniors
     The totality of a persons environment equals their ''health equity''

7. Unanticipated items of concern that arises after posting

   • New Agenda Topics Discussed

     General Discussion...
     Add, at the beginning of the meeting, an agenda item titles ''what have I been doing'' - and another at the end of the meeting titled ''what are my next goals''

   • Be S.M.A.R.T.

     General Discussion...
     Emily has registered for the next two classes to be held on April 18th and May 17th.

8. Public comments

9. Meeting Wrap-up

   • Next Meetings:
     1. Mon, Mar 13, at 5:00 PM "Board of Health Meeting" -- Town Hall Office Meeting Space
     2. Mon, Mar 27, at 5:00 PM "Board of Health Meeting" -- Town Hall Office Meeting Space
     3. Mon, Apr 10, at 5:00 PM "Board of Health Meeting" -- Town Hall Office Meeting Space

The listing of matters is those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.

Minutes approved on Thursday, Mar 16, 2023