 So we're starting and then let's see the attendees are zero and there's one, there's Ed who we're going to promote. Okay. Promote to panelists. So. Okay, so we can start. Thanks. Okay, so welcome to the Board of Health meeting. It is 532 when we're starting the first thing is roll call. So your name comes up first. So Lauren or Mills, are you here? Lauren. Can't hear you. Can't hear you. Okay. Okay. Maureen. Tim. Here. Prima. Are you here, Prima? Unmute yourself and Prima. Prima, can you unmute yourself? You did. There you did. Okay. Sorry here. Okay. And Nancy, I'm here. I got everybody. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we're going to do is review and receive the minutes. From Jen, our January meeting. And thank you, Nancy Schroeder. Once again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have to do a very good job. On our minutes. Does anybody have. Any comments? Edits. Changes. I didn't see anything to change. No, neither did I. So may have a motion. Yeah. Do you have a change on the minutes? When I was looking over them. We can't hear you, Lauren. You're in an echo chamber. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Hello. Hello. Okay. Now we can hear you. I just wanted to. I just wanted to. Do the notes of. Is anyone, it's coming in broken or are there people having that same trouble? Yes. She logged off. Maybe she's going to try to come back in with another connection. So she's not here. She just jumped off. Okay. So I'll wait till she comes back. Okay. One thing I just want to make a comment not to change the. Minutes, but I was doing some more public health. Reading and. Thank you to chief living stone. Because when we look at what we're doing here in Amherst. The focus is on a harm reduction model. So we're going to change the subject of public health. Focus. Change a whole lot of things. Fortunately we're doing okay. But I thank you to. Chief living stone for the harm reduction. Unsafe. And Lauren. Yeah. Yes. I'm going to add it in the chat. Is that okay? Yes. I think the chest disabled. Yeah. I'm going to try again. Something could be added. The notes. It says mental health plays a part. And. I can't hear you, Lauren. It's, it's, it's. I hear. Like every other word. Yeah. Unfortunately. I'm going to try again. Something could be added. The notes. It says mental health plays a part. And. I can't hear you, Lauren. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Like every other word. It was something about the mental health. Mental health under. A place apart and done violence. Is that what you want to talk to? Lauren. Oh yeah, I see that one. Stand alone sentence something. Right. Well, maybe later on we can. Well, should. Should we just move to accept the minutes? Yeah. Okay. So we'll just move that to when she can come in. Better. Okay. So next is public comment on topics of the. Gender today. Let's see. Attendees. They're four attendees. So no hands are raised. No hands are up. Okay. Next is all business. And the toxic chemical regulation. Tim at our last, before our last meeting, I went into the minutes of 2001. When the toxic chemical regulation came to be. And. What had happened back then. Is a constituent went to the. I'm going to say town, the select board asking if there could be a bylaw about cleaning. And it was cleaning products for toxic chemical, but they bumped it to the board of health. And the board of health came up with. That those. Regulations. No other city or town of 351 cities in town in Massachusetts. The city of Massachusetts. Has a toxic chemical regulation. Not that it's not important. But one thought I had was to contact. Toxic use reduction institute at UMass Lowell and ask them for advice at how we should go. I asked the. The city of Massachusetts. Except Amherst has this regulation. So I don't know how you might want to handle that. Any comment. Tim. So what I was planning on doing said I would do would be to speak to the maintenance. The director and he's not available. So I think it would be really important as a guest, if I could get him on to speak to what's already being done. So there's no redundancy and maybe we're, we're doing everything possible. So I think I kind of felt like that was important next step, but I'm not able to deliver on that right now. So board members. What would you like? What action would you like to take? I think I'll put it on the agenda. Yeah. I'm not going to go off until you get someone else. I mean, get the, certainly at least the maintenance director to weigh in. I think your concern, Nancy, was that it was unenforceable. Or was not. Yes. Yes. Nothing's been enforced in the. 21 years. We've had it. Well, yeah, maybe, but I mean, I'm just being like. clarify. Oh no, not to get rid of it. I think we should contact the toxic use reduction institute because they are the body in Massachusetts that can advise people on toxic chemicals and we should ask them for directions. We say well we have this, we want to we're reviewing and revising it. What what can you offer us in this process? Yeah it seems like rather than a regulation it's being like out there as a guideline you know. So I you know the question is what the role is of that piece of work which was substantial at the time and still out there and all the work that Tim and Lauren have kind of done trying to bring it to the new to the new era here but but the underlying issues are still complicated about how does one regulate them. Right and there's legislation that has been forwarded by the state looking at statewide PFAS regulation so that that's in the works and I'm not saying that this is not important but I think we have to take a step back in and thank you Tim and Lauren for all your work and I wish we had done more of the historical thing of in 2001 why did we get this regulation and finding out that no one else in the state has this regulation. How do we proceed with this review and possible revision? So just because there's no other board of health having this by-law doesn't mean that we shouldn't because we are in many times and I think we had been pioneers in that one I think. Right so one thing is these types of toxic chemicals even though they are very close to the public health we usually just don't take them into account you know you know I mean even though there are a lot of EPA regulations the EPA regulations I think enforcement is not the primary objective because we are you know we just give some guidelines and the guidelines is primarily saying if there is an alternate approach which is primarily can mitigate toxins and then we should go with that alternate approach which has less risk and that is the guidance I believe when we wrote it the final recommendation was to give that flexibility not an enforcement that you cannot use it or use a particular toxic chemical you know so it's it's primarily saying look for alternatives which are least toxic and then right if you cannot you know then you come back to the board and see if we can get a relief on that you know and that was the primary purpose of that as Morin was saying it's not a enforcement mechanism it's a some sort of a guidance you know that that we have this in place and this is not didn't this didn't start two or three years ago I think it was an old toxic chemical document we were updating. Yeah what I did is I went through all the oldest regulations and started a review for review and revision of our oldest regulations almost two years ago and that's how it came about and we did the biological lab safety one and and and this one was from 2001 that's why I chose it. Lauren are you trying to say something you're muted? Oh join again so Lauren you're muted but I I just was able to join so I I'm not sure where you guys are I don't have anything. Sounded better there for a second. I don't have anything to say. Okay thank you. Tim would you mind writing an email to the toxic use reduction institute and ask them send them what we've done and ask them for any possible guidance they have? Yeah I can do that. Yeah because that's when I went back and and went over the whole history of all this they were established after the toxic reduction act was put in in Massachusetts and I think it was 1989 I can't I don't have my dates here this institute was started to help anyone in the state with toxic substances. Yeah I can I can reach reach out to the institute but also the I think we were talking about the procurement office here right yeah almost so maybe that one also could go simultaneously or that's the person that Jennifer isn't able to reach now correct Jennifer? Right I think just we can wait a little bit just a few beats and see if the facilities director. So why don't we wait until our April meeting? That was that yeah okay great. Thank you everybody for your work. Yeah meanwhile I could reach out to the institute you know have some yeah some input from them. Okay great thank you because it is important but we just have to find the correct way to address it. Okay any other comments on toxic regulations? The community health assessment update all rolling along Emily Connors is in her last semester of the four plus one public health program at UMass and she's taking the lead and we're supporting her. We're finishing the key informant slash stakeholder interviews in the next week or two and we're getting ready to do listening sessions. We're having a pilot listening session for the students to practice and we will critique them on February 17th it's a Friday. One concern we have is that we really want to give voice to people that are difficult to reach and I know Lauren is helping us set up two focus groups with two different groups healthy Hampshire and butternut farms and Wayling Greenie is going to help us set up a one or two focus groups with clients that she works with and so we we want to do that. So we will be doing listening sessions and the students are doing a great job and given that there's no budget for this we don't have any incentives and we're all I'm going to bake and bring the refreshments to these we're doing the best we can. Any questions on that? Are there are there other groups you're looking at I know you're trying hard to reach people or hard to reach and are there more other general groups of people that you're trying to reach out to? They're going to try and reach elders through either the the neighbors group and or the senior center. As we ask people if you have any suggestions of groups who we should be reaching out to and know how we can reach them please let us know. Yeah I guess I was thinking about elders because there are a lot of needs there and I think those are the two thoughts that I had to in terms of finding some of those folks. I don't I can't think of others right right as a moment. And also we're going to ask Hailey at the senior center for results from the survey they did last year right right but so we're we're going through it and they'll be giving us a report at our May meeting. Okay next Lauren are you there so we can do the minutes? All right well we'll move on to the geothermal well applications and Ed is here and it's on Rolling Ridge and we all have the documents. Yeah hi everybody. This one has gotten approval from the conservation commission. Karen Jack did review it and state that it was while appearances outside of their jurisdiction. I visited the property sent you a letter and this is another one from Dandelion and their application is quite it's quite complete as well illustrated. There seem to be setting a good example as far as these applications go as far as coming into the inspectors department and I didn't see any reason not to recommend it to the board for approval. So Ed back to running this smoothly is there a way if the driller is licensed if the driller has liability insurance if the installation diagrams are complete and if we have the conservation commission wetlands approval can we just go through these is there anything else we need to be aware of? I don't know I mean at some point in the past when title five was new back in the 90s the board probably you know at some point said you know enough of this let's delegate the responsibility to the local agent or decided not to so you know that's where we are. One thing that I have been working on and I showed Jim a draft that I worked up last week I spent most of a good long day just going through the different regulations that apply to wells in general and tried to make a checklist much like mass DEP is supplied for reviewing the systems to create a document that I could you know just make sure that each time I get one of these applications I'm considering all the different possible regulations that need to be considered and then check them off the list is much longer for drinking wells than it is for geothermal wells but but there's still quite a few things besides getting Aaron Jock to use for expertise to see if conservation is happy with the sighting but there's you know the overall questions that you talked a bit at times about like you know is there a cumulative effect from many wells in a town or say on one property like at the proposed school site those are the questions that you know are outside of that checklist and you know I totally understand if you want to wait to delegate that say down to the inspections department for review we can keep bringing them to you this would be the example of one where I think it's a single family house with two boreholes application but by all appearances it's easily accessible the company has a good history of compliance control and runoff and you know I really don't hesitate you can I just say that I notice that the massachusetts well driller certificate is expired do you have enough I can make sure that we thank you primal I didn't catch that no obviously I didn't thank you no the the representative from the company I think this is the first time that she hasn't listened again in the audience but I can easily email with her tomorrow and make sure that's rectified so you could hold this up or you could make a decision pending receipt of the upgraded one what would the board members like to proceed how would they like to proceed I think we could make it a agree pending the updated license so do you want to make the motion line sure almost that we approve the geothermal well on rolling rich road pending an updated current license for the well driller any more discussion oh no I need a second right second second any more discussion okay it's been moved and seconded we're going to vote on the geothermal well given the updated license primal yes maureen yes tim hi lauren lauren you have to unmute lauren can you unmute to vote Nancy yes Jen I'm going to lean on you what what should we do it's being mourned unmute I'm seeing if she's I mean attendee I have her under participant yeah sometimes she comes in on another number I don't see any email I can text her I don't have to tell you can we do with this absent because her camera's off and her microphone is off can she call in through to the meeting and just be a voice I mean just done that in the past Jennifer I'll ask the question since I'm a newbie and I have no idea what the regulations or the politics are is it possible for us to assist lauren with or for the town to assist lauren with um some IT help yes yeah we've gone through a through a few rounds of it so it is something we've worked with but I I agree is there's there's not good yeah chat can she vote by lauren can you hear us but if lauren can hear you know maybe she can raise the hand just up rule lauren can you raise your hand is it an issue of reception Jennifer or I'm sorry premise is it an issue of reception if you're you know we've just we've been working and we'll continue to you know even if there's a possibility of a landing a hard spot for it for a day when the meeting is happening I think that'll be a we've tried a few avenues but we'll continue okay so we'll just have her as absent then because her microphone is off and her video is off I've um called and I've I've texted but we'll we'll continue to make sure this is easier now I have nothing with her oh now lauren are you there now no okay so it's been moved in oh yeah we've all voted and Nancy yes so it's been moved and seconded and we have four approvals and one absent okay temporary housing request from patricia smallman on 1240 south east street so miss smallman suffered a fire in this last couple weeks I think my brother bought it in the paper and she is well on her way to having the pieces in place to restore the home she's contacted us and said that she will be having an apartment in town that she'll be living in but she wants to establish something on the property and in this case she's proposing a small RV to to use the property to bring her dog out to continue to live there during the day and this would be self-contained parkers portables as a licensed sanacan company nearby that services other places in town has a good record and they have agreed to service the RV while it was parked there they'll have access once construction is starting up to temporary power but an RV would have its own power too so she's bringing this to us there's a section of the sanitary globe number 430 that says temporary housing is allowed only would grow our permission and this is talking about more than 30 days and up to a year and if it came to a year and she was not finished then I requested that she contact us ahead of time and let us know what the best guess schedule would be but the code reads no temporary housing may be used without the permission of the board of health so we're asking the board to take a vote and it would be in the minutes whether we would give permission for this request comments from board members there's plenty of room on the property I guess I read that they also the neighbors amenable to this idea in fact suggested it so I don't I think it's reasonable I know that where the property is I've seen the results of the fire it's going to be a while before that your house is ready again I think it's a reasonable exception to the to the regulation any other comments I agree Maureen I've driven by it and reading the letter that the neighborhood the neighbors suggested it and support it and you're a distant neighbor yeah I go by there a lot I run by there walk by there we saw this unfortunately any other comments or questions one question if it is approved what is going to be the extended time you know is it going to be are the six months a year or the proposal is for a month to a year but it's an extensive renovation it could take most of the year and if it gets close to the year's time and it does not look finished and an advantage of my sitting in and being a building inspector as well as a health inspector is that this I probably will be sending being sent out on routine inspections to the property and we'll be aware of the likely timeframe myself but her networking friends seems to be intent on helping with this process and I've informed her in writing that we expect to be updated if it's getting close to a year and the letter says she'll be living at another housing unit not there and this is for during the day and she can be there with a dog and supervise the renovations so it's not like she's going to be there 24 seven seven days a week correct and is there any need to inspect those these units periodically or you just feel like it's you just it's fine and I just don't know what the standard is plus this hasn't happened that many times although I've done this for a while I think if there was from the outside a reason to think that we needed to that I needed to I mean that's the bulk of my job is either responding to housing complaints or traveling around town with my eyes open and using experience to figure where I ought to get nosy and then request an inspection so the part of our being on the property will be to keep an eye on this temporary housing any other discussion if the if there is a sanitary company which is already contracted there I think that's a good thing right but yes yeah they're already licensed there okay any more discussion not may have a motion to accept other permission for temporary housing rv at 1240 southeastern for one month to one year did you just make that motion I guess I made it I made the motion and I have it seconded I seconded yeah okay so it's been moved and seconded for the temporary housing 1240 southeastern and now to vote Maureen I Tim I Premola I and Nancy I and Lauren's completely gone so she's just absent well put her eyes absent okay the next considering that I'm sure this yeah okay thanks and see you next month alright take care season so next is the body arts establishment regulation so Jennifer do you want to just say how this came forward and I've done some homework on it okay yeah so we had a request from our body arts establishment if they could bring in a short term visiting or guest tattoo artists so this is something that other communities do and I did a little bit of research as well so it would be a short term and could there be a short term permit to to welcome these people in for a short period of time and what did you find out about short term permits well you know I looked around different communities so you know our fee for a tattoo technician for example is $250 annually in other communities the temporary or visiting body our practitioners have that fee so that's the case in Worcester and as well as in Northampton and the permit's good for 14 days in Northampton just for an example and they need over just about a week to process 10 days to process okay you saw what you found I found that and I went through and I looked at our regulations the state template put out by the Massachusetts government is the same one we have here yeah and I looked at Worcester and then I I didn't have access to the 2004 2006 or 2007 minutes but the amendments for the 2012 were prohibiting body piercing under 14 and prohibiting tongue nipples lips for under 18 or having a properly identified parent legal custodial parent or legal guardian and then I went on we only have one establishment which is Wanderlust on North Pleasant Street and I went into their website and he has all this stuff covered nicely he doesn't do piercings at this time he has information about 18 years and older he won't touch anyone under 18 without a whole big parent thing he has after use instructions and he does not even allow children in the tattoo parlor so if if a bit that was like if a parent goes to have a tattoo and they have a child they cannot bring that so I thought that and I was I walked in there once and it seems like a pretty good establishment yeah it is so I think we just have to add a come up with what we want for a visiting tattoo artist or technician our licensing says technician comments can I ask questions sure so and this has nothing to do with them being granted a visiting technician license I just was curious about on page 11 right above the standards of practice under section F it says the establishment shall require that all body art practitioners have either completed or were offered and declined in writing the hepatitis B vaccination series I'm surprised that they aren't required to be immunized that that isn't a requirement um by the state good point I mean they're not healthcare providers but you know they certainly are well at minimum I I think if I were going in I would want or I think the public should be aware if someone is unvaccinated against hepatitis B that's my thought but you know I mean that's if there's state regulations there's state regulations I was just curious about it we could revise it well you know I mean I think that probably is a more involved discussion yeah not right now but we can we can take on having that as a revision well I noticed it was a little old but it doesn't it doesn't seem I don't know you know I didn't get a chance to look at it compared to anything else but um so so that's a good a good question I didn't realize that part of what brought this up was the temporary visit guest artists coming right would they have to have the same qualifications of course that the full-time folks have right the experience that was a little confusing to me how that was written but if that's what it the state is I guess that's that's me that's confused just in terms of the years of apprenticeship and the year of license or whatever in another town or state so that I guess that's that that we would need to have somebody who has the similar qualifications but the same qualifications the same the same the same we would I wouldn't change that no so the only difference would be the fee and the duration of them being on the premises is that am I right is I think it might not even um I think this was generated from this one um place of business but you know it wouldn't be just directed at them it would just obviously future ones coming so we would you would decide and then we'd speak to inspections and fees and that would get changed for all and I was I was wondering if if they're asking for this because if when you go on their website like you have to wait maybe a couple of months to get an appointment for your tattoo so that's what came across my mind when I went on their website like oh maybe he wants a little help here and there or maybe he wants to offer some special designer tattooist tattoo artist how would you like to proceed board members yeah I was gonna say it seems too complicated to just do it right here right now oh yeah right now definitely it is pretty brief if it's just adding this but I think someone or two people should take it on and try to update it to that language and then bring it back to the next meeting and I would be willing to be a partner in that I can work with you Maureen unless as someone else wants to Premlin do you want to get your feet wet or do you want to observe no it's fine I can be involved I just want to know exactly so are we looking to other communities that have this exception yeah yeah that's really the first step is to look at what other people have and and compare and see what we like and don't like and then and we can also both each take a look at it maybe collaborate a little bit send a draft out to other board members and then discuss it at the next meeting sure I'm assuming the regulations themselves are just standard yeah yeah and that's what I went into the state and I went into the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards and and this is the template and then I went into Cambridge I went to other places and they're pretty much using using this I didn't go word for word but I quickly looked and most towns or cities have used this template that the day when tattooing became legal in the state the state put this out I was thinking are we aiming to revise this by law or we just focusing on our definition of visiting versus permanent practitioners you know if you say that the whether it's a permanent practitioner or a visiting practitioner should follow all these rules that could be just enough you know we don't need to revise it you know and then it'll become a matter of just how much fear we are going to charge mm-hmm yeah and the and the length of the the residency or whatever of this artist right and and in the past you know none of the these regulations haven't been signed in 2012 the physician who was on the board did it in like two months it came up one month and then it was revised and it was just about the piercings and the ages so we can just put that amendment and I think it's better if we have people sign it to there's this inconsistency with older regulations not being signed so Maureen and Premilla do you want to do this do you want my input to if you have the time yeah or yeah we it doesn't seem that complex right no compared to some of the things like the smoking materials and those others of things that had major structural renovations seems like a piece of cake but we'll see yeah and then we can consider requiring heavy vaccine if we because that that is a is a very important public health piece because it blurs blood there well okay well yeah the question is that's protecting the tattooist really right right um well that there's not something to think about I know like for like maintenance workers are in that the colleges they aren't required to have the happy but they're offered the happy because because but come across sharps or other kinds of things in there in their work they do get OSHA training in which which the tattoo artist gets it's some I don't know if we can make you know mandate it with the mandate is the education and the opportunity yeah yeah if that's not what the state's requiring I think it would we would be hard pressed to make a case for being an exception and there may not be a reason I I'm just responding to yeah no realizing that that's the first time I've read that that you know then I have a question about hepatitis C but another time okay so we can be in touch and come up with something in the next month okay directors updates okay so just to let you know I got a text from Lauren and she has a bad connection tonight and she's going to hopefully email her comments so I'll let you know if I get an email from her so so um so directors comments um updates so with COVID I know I've been repeating over the past um you know a few months that we're really not having the surveillance um so I'll say it one last time and then I think at some point you know the COVID I mean as we know sort of the COVID emergency the declaration is ending and we'll we'll follow the lead of DPH and the CDC with reporting so I just want to sort of say that there but we're really getting about 20 percent of the tests the positive tests are showing that's what the latest research is showing that 80 percent of testing is done at home and not reported so um I said the emergency status of the pandemic's ending May 11th but we're going to continue here as many communities are doing to make sure that we continue what we can for supporting our community with everything we can do to um with vaccination and testing and surveillance and especially vulnerable populations who will probably be hit the hardest by this emergency status ending um so I guess we're not really in an endemic state yet um the CDC has not decided what the COVID vaccine regimen is going to be so there's no word out from my knowledge what's happening for example this fall a lot of people want to know what's going on with the COVID vaccine bivalent vaccine if it's going to be an annual thing but we haven't heard yet so I'll update people as I find out and other people may find out ahead of me so just to let you know that the Amherst department still has rapid antigen tests and is free here at the bang center and we continue to pass them out to our community um partners you know Amherst survival center craig stores um so I really would like to see those tests you know as always leveraged use them before you go out use them after or if you're symptomatic so we do have them here if anyone needs some and they expire in in June the wastewater surveillance that continues to be a program and it's been extended to the end of the calendar year so three times a week that testing from the wastewater combined flume um the combined flumes goes off to Jamaica Plain gets analyzed at Biobot and then we get the results and they can be seen on our website and also MassDPH has a really good website looking at combined surveillance um let's see and then vaccination clinics um we are transitioning like a lot of communities to uh COVID um bivalent vaccine clinics that are monthly now so the first Wednesday of every month um from three to five p.m we have Moderna we have Pfizer bivalent and we have uh bivalent for five ages five to 11 Pfizer if you those times are convenient for people um we can call in and we can arrange another time for you to get a vaccine we do have um a link just as an FYI that we share with the Musanti Health Center so if they have people that come in that need a COVID shot they have a direct link to our our department so they can get signed up right away that's it for COVID update I'm trying to make it more succinct any questions on that so just moving into a health department update I don't do it every time but this time I just wanted to give a quick sort of rundown what's going on again a thank you to Maureen for helping us with the childhood immunization program it started in September and we've given 53 immunizations to children so our program is for students uh student age or under 18 um that have no insurance or under insured and they need vaccines to get into school so we will give them one round of vaccines sometimes too but I've said this a few times it's one part vaccination the nine parts education so sometimes we'll vaccinate people and from my window we can actually see people go down into the Musanti Health Center and we've made calls and they're expecting them and we try to get them with a provider I want to say welcome to our new employee here in the health department we have a program assistant his name is Kyle O'Connor and he comes highly recommended we had him here working volunteering for COVID clinics and now he's been hired and he'll be helping us coordinate COVID clinics office duties and public health programming while he continues to finish up with a community health assessment so we're so thrilled to have him he was here Monday he started I gave him an assignment um we went over it and I thought it would take him two hours and after 15 minutes he said he was all done so he's very skilful he's amazing on the community assessment team oh good good I'm so glad the third bullet item I have is that um I've we've always had good partnership with the Musanti Health Center but there's a new employee there her name is Deborah DeStefano and she is in a new position she's the DEI coordinator and she and I have been talking um and we're really um sort of pinpointing some ways that we can do more outreach to the community um and increase access so she's very committed they've always been great to work with but I feel really optimistic working with Deborah about thinking about improving access to the community um the next item is next month at the Board of Health meeting I'm going to um give a more formal update or maybe I'll invite Ed Smith back to give us information on the new sanitary code so there's new housing yeah what's that I saw I I was looking today and and the state's coming out in title five mainly aimed in in eastern Massachusetts to decrease nitrogen especially on the cape is that why you're talking about no it's something different maybe they're combined somehow so okay you know um so new sanitary code so the inspector's just completed the training I think this past week so I'll get more information um the the changes are going to go into effect April 2023 so this has been a long time coming these um revisions and one thing that I think that will that may impact the Board in us is that there's going to be a change in temperature requirements so the end of heating season is going to be moved up two weeks and then the Board has an option to move it up two weeks so it's used to be that June 15th ended heating season but now it can end actually a month earlier May 15th because we have had complaints just ourselves and I'm sure it's across the state that some houses housing apartment complexes the heat has been kept on to June 15th because of due to regulation so that's something that I'll get more information on but that'll that'll impact us I don't know was anyone on the board when that was yeah well it'll be very helpful because the Clark House and other units they either have the heat on or the air conditioning on and you can't switch back and forth and it would be 90 degrees out and they couldn't turn the air conditioning on because of and we would have to give them a variance for for that so it will make life much easier unfortunately in in our climate changing yeah because we did that multiple times for the it was the Clark House it's a Clark House yeah yeah well it seems like it could also flip the other way though if you just if you can't do both you know you have this transition period no matter when you set it where it might get down to freezing and you know sometimes there was that lake frost in May or you know it's just it seems really a tricky tricky thing I think it does sound tricky I do like that this are these two week blocks you know so maybe there's some kind of you know something you can do with Noah and looking at the weather but but next month I'll try to get Ed in and we can talk about those subtleties the next thing is that I'm continuing to think about what we're going to do with the information that Nancy and her group is coming up with a community health assessment so what are our next steps are going to be and I know last month I talked about considering the chip the community health improvement plan so it'd be a format of community involvement identifying what the issues are and then looking at how we can best intervene and do programming to address those issues so I say this again that something that I'm working on and one of the first steps will be as I said identifying what the issues are so I think I'm going to come to the board at some point and go over Nancy Gilbert's you know what the the community health assessment what came up what you came up with and what the top issues are so it's just going to be a community a continuing conversation about what's going on in Amherst after Nancy's done with the health assessment any thoughts on that very preliminary thank you anybody have questions for Jen thank you Jen um public comment we have four attendees I don't see any hands up no hands up okay topics not anticipated by the chair um just a reminder on the conflict of interest you go into the state website Jen has provided us with the link please do that and then I I did when I was looking at state things today that the state is proposing an overhaul of the septic regulation um the title five and it's aimed at like the cape and uh waterfront areas and the islands um because of high levels of nitrogen our area wasn't highlighted but that's coming out I I noticed that um otherwise I don't have anything um anybody else have any comments or questions you know can I just ask does the board want more information on COVID or is what I'm doing okay and you you'll ask as you go along I'm happy with the reports and I check CDC I also look at Amherst ending thank you Art and Maura and I look at the state numbers and the Amherst website with the school you know the school reports and other things are helpful so this I think we've kind of learned where to look for this information although I'm getting you know it's changing in terms of how relevant it is since the reporting is different um but if you're looking at hospitalizations deaths whatever that's that's still real and wastewater we love the wastewater yeah and thank you for sending out the the uh water report too with the uh oh with our with our yeah I'll continue to do that and I'll post that in the packets I think that's really interesting yeah okay any other questions or comments our next meeting is March 9th at 5 30 and may I have a motion to adjourn adjourn I join adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn okay Maureen anyone second it I second it okay so it's been moved and seconded all in favor Tim I Maureen I Premola Premola okay for adjourning okay and and Nancy I well thank you all for your work and I'll be in touch with Premola and Maureen and see you next week have a good month stay well bye