Minutes for Regular Meeting Of

CITY OF BURLINGTON

BOARD OF HEALTH

645 Pine Street
Post Office Box 849
Burlington, VT 05402-0849
802-863-0442
802-652-4221 FAX
802-863-0450 TTY

BOARD OF HEALTH•

Austin Sumner, MD, MPH, Chair, Mary D. Hart, RN, Julie Hathaway, MD, PHD, Caroline Tassey, APRN, David Casey, RN

HEALTH OFFICER

William Ward

MINUTES FOR REGULAR MEETING OF

BURLINGTON BOARD OF HEALTH

The Robert miller center, 130 Goss court

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015 @ 6:30PM

Attending: Austin Sumner, MD, MPH Mary D. Hart, RN, Julie Hathaway, MD, PHD, Caroline Tassey, APRN, David Casey, RN, William Ward, Health Officer, Patrick Maury, Board Staff Absent: None

Also in Attendance:

Public

Mary Wilk, UVM Undergraduate BOH Intern

Meeting called to order by Austin Sumner chair at 6:40 p.m.

ITEM / DISCUSSION / ACTION
1.  Approval of Agenda and Minutes of Prior Meeting / Caroline made a motion to approve the agenda as is. Mary 2nded the motion. All in favor.
Mary made a motion to amend the minutes from March 2015 to add Burlington Electric’s application on pesticide use and include the time frame in which the use of pesticides will take place. Caroline 2nded the motion. All in favor.
2.  Public Forum
a)  Emerging issues / No one present spoke at public forum
No emerging issues discussed
3.  Synthetic Turf Athletic Field Safety / The board had a discussion about synthetic turf athletic field safety. The discussion included various news reports citing multiple studies but there are no apparent conclusions at this point.
4.  Chair’s Report / No chair report this month
5.  Member’s Written Reports
a)  Environmental Health
i.  Healthy Homes
ii.  Healthy Lawns/Healthy Lives
iii.  Code Enforcement Report
b)  Drug Awareness
i.  Neighborhood Safety Initiative
ii.  Needle Disposal Work Group
iii.  License committee
iv.  E-cigarettes
c)  Food Safety
i.  Urban Agriculture
ii.  Farmers Markets
iii.  Other / Verbal report from Bill Ward
Decision to push back the distribution date of HLHL fliers to May 1 in North Avenue News. Austin raised concerns that the current budget would not be enough for the public outreach.
Written report from Health Officer attached
Verbal report from Julie Hathaway
Verbal report from Caroline Tassey / Julie made a motion to add $250 to the $1,000 HLHL advertising budget for Spring lawn care tips insert. Funds will cover extra costs for printing. Full budget will be used to print 4,800 inserts plus extras. Mary 2nded the motion. All in favor.
6.  Next Meeting
a)  May 14, 2015
DPW Conference Room
645 Pine Street
7.  Adjournment / Motion to adjourn / Motion made by Mary, 2nd by Caroline
All in favor.
Adjourned at 8:24 p.m.