 Okay, and we are being recorded. And I'm just looking to see if we have anybody in the waiting room. Oh, so Tim, I see is here is muted, I guess. I like to see my people here. Somehow I'm not seeing everybody. Oh, here we go. That's better. All right. I think I hadn't saw an email that said that Lauren wouldn't be here. So I think I'm just going to go ahead and, and start. I'm going to read the preamble from the state again, it's pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 and renewed by governor more healing this meeting of the board of health will be conducted via remote means. The public who wish to access the meeting may do so by following the instruction on the board health site board of health posted agenda via zoom. No in person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public and adequate access proceedings. And as soon as it is technologically possible. After this meeting, all approved board of health minutes are posted on our website. Once they are approved by the board, I will now open the body art public body art regulation public hearing. And I'm going to do a roll call. Sorry here. Okay. Here. Tim. Here. Here. And I would like someone to give a make a motion to open the public hearing regarding the amendment of the existing body art regulations. I make a motion to open the hearing for modification of the public, you know, body art regulations, but I must. Can we second that. I second it. Okay. Sorry, Risha. The purpose of this hearing is to offer members of the public business owners and other interested parties a chance to provide testimony concerning the proposed changes in the town of Amherst body art regulations. Those who will be asked to raise their hands on the zoom platform. Those calling in will be asked if they wish to speak. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. Those who wish to make a second comment will be allowed to additional minutes. The following are summaries of substantial changes that are under review. Every change in the regulations, but they include the ones that are more than simply changes of wording or length of time that the records should be held. The first one is update to allow an increased variety of piercing sites. Current regulations restrict piercings to those performed on the eyebrow, ear, nipple, nose, lip and tongue. The proposed regulation would allow piercing of the genitalia and other sites. This is specifically restricting the types of piercings that are considered to be of higher risk. This refers to section six. The second is an update to allow for guest artists. The proposed regulations add a temporary license which will allow qualified guest artists to practice body art in Amherst for up to 30 days under the oversight of a licensed practitioner. That is in section 16. An update to codify apprentice programs. The proposed regulations add apprentice licenses and define the prerequisites and the apprenticeship training requirements for, I got lost here. Let me start that again. The proposed regulations add apprentice licenses and define the prerequisites and apprenticeship training requirements for tattoo practitioners and body piercing practitioners. They also stipulate the responsibilities of the training practitioner. Those are covered in section 14 and 15. An update of the standards for autoclave use. The proposed regulations both strengthen the quality control program for autoclave use and add an option to opt out of the autoclave requirement if only single use implements are used. And that's section seven. The hearing is now open for public comment. When called on please state your name, address and any pertinent affiliations. I have two attendees. Oh, and I see that Steven Lambert has raised his hand. So I'm going to go ahead and allow you to talk Steven, just a moment, and you'll have three minutes initially. Go ahead. Hey, my name is Steven Lambert my address seven Jones Street, South Hampton, Massachusetts. I am the owner of wanderluck tattoo. I'm the only tattoo and piercing parlor in the town of Amherst. So, I went over the current regulations that you guys are proposing so I have a few things that I want to address. Is that possible to do now. Yes. Okay. So, on page eight. There is a section B that talks about piercing guns. First of all, I just want to say that those cannot be properly sanitized and when you talk about like a, like a piercing apprenticeship right like. So, the people who are using those aren't going through a piercing apprenticeship so they shouldn't be piercing. Okay, also, on page nine we talked about what what is not allowed. You know, where we talk about piercing like the web, web of the tongue or tongue splitting 3D implants or college modifications. All of those are legal and other towns of Massachusetts I'd like to know why you'd like to keep keep us from doing those, because we may have guest piercers that specialize in those things that would like to do them. Another thing, let's see physical plant. It talks about tattoo stations need to be separated. There are many other tattoo shops in the area, even as close as north Hampton that are completely open concept. Even though like ours are partitioned off, I would like to say that if there's an open concept shop, it actually helps to keep things more cleanly because it's all completely open so everything is completely visible. Okay, also, so I've gone over that. So there's on page 14 and section D, it says no practitioner so provide service to anybody, while they have a communicable disease. So, one, how would we know that and two, if that's under sharing that would basically be against HIPAA laws. So in section three, if we talk about using universal precaution, then basically like wouldn't that negate the other statement. Also, page 17, under employee info, you talk about the requirement of a heavy vaccination, or seconds. And also, like, just closing that would also be in violation of HIPAA law. Let's see, page 19 you talk about, like, in section G, there's something about basically like anybody has like a respiratory infection or anything like that. Would that include having a cold. Yeah, so like those are my questions and my last one is on page 24, there's you have to declare any type of criminal record. And with that, what would basically bar you from a tattoo license, and if somebody served their time, is it just to make them disclose their prior, their prior history. I'm done. Okay, so this isn't, we're not answering questions during the hearing we're just listening to what people have to say. So I appreciate all of those comments. Are there any, I don't know where you are with time but if there's anything else you want to emphasize, you probably have a minute or so. I mean, at the moment I've gone over everything. The only other thing that I saw was like the, the stuff about apprenticeship right and with a length of the apprenticeship it says three years for the apprenticeship. If you look at other towns in the area, it's about two years. I also wonder if we could bring it down to two years so we could be comparable with the other towns. And thank you for your time. You're welcome. Thank you for going over this carefully. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure because I'm the only person tattooing in this town that like, I try to address the stuff that we have, because I realized that like we're the only shop now. But I would like to set a precedent so that it's easier for others to come into this town. For businesses to flourish because I've been in this town in and out since I was in my early 20s and I've seen a lot of shops come and a lot closed down. I'm the only one that's been able to last because we haven't been able to get artists to come in and stay because regulations were so stringent and in many ways. So it was hard to hire new people where other towns around us that had lower. I don't want to say standards but like less standard. It was easier for them to open up stay and flourish. Thank you. No problem. Thank you. Is. Is there anyone else that has raised their hand or is anyone called in I think it was. I would deal with someone who actually was just on the phone if that were to be the case but doesn't. Well it looks that there is one other person. That's here Jill Sherman, I don't see that they have raised their hand so they may not be wanting to make a comment. And Steven if you're finished if you would lower your hand just so it's clear that you didn't want to make another comment that would be helpful. Thank you. And Jill, since I'm not seeing a hand. Sometimes people have a tricky time with the hand so maybe we can just check in and make sure that Jill doesn't want to say anything is that does that sound okay to everybody. Sure. So Jill I'm going to allow you to talk if there's something that you'd like if you want to make comment. Fine if not if you want to make comment go ahead if not that's fine too. And I see that you are muted. I don't want to make a comment I just attend all these meetings I think all of you are doing a good job. Thank you so much. Okay. So, with no further speakers identified. I think we can make a motion to close the hearing what our plan is to close the hearing. We have two different zoom links for this so we have to log out of this one and then we'll log into the second one for the Board of Health meeting and the deliberations regarding These regulations will be part of that meeting. And Maureen I'm not sure if you acknowledge that they're about written testimony did you say that we did not receive any written test I did not. We, we did ask of people for written testimony. It was public, all of this. There's a guideline for publication of these changes and disseminating that information. So, there, there has been no written testimony regarding this issue. Okay. All right. Thank you for the reminder. So, do we have a motion to close the public hearing for the body art regulation. I can make a motion to adjourn the meeting, the public hearing on body art regulations and I must. In the second. I'll second. Okay. So this meeting. This hearing is now closed. So goodbye. Thanks everyone to you. And I know the other one is scheduled for six but I think we're just going to follow while we're not going to take a 15 minute break. See you in a moment. See you in a moment.