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O� OF$ O! <br /> Town of Reading <br /> r' <br /> Meeting Minutes g <br /> Tir <br /> jWN CLERK <br /> sJ9+lNC044�P A�D Nl ` 191 a <br /> Board - Committee - Commission - Council: 2016 ApR 25 P �: 03 <br /> Board of Health <br /> Date: 2018-02-20 Time: 5:30 PM <br /> Building: Reading Public Library Location: Community Room <br /> Address: 64 Middlesex Avenue <br /> Purpose: General Business Session: General Session <br /> Attendees: Members - Present: <br /> John Costigan, Kevin Sexton, Heidi Pfieier <br /> Members - Not Present: <br /> Others Present: <br /> Jean Delios - Assistant Town Manager, Laura Vlasuk - Health Agent,Karen <br /> Richard - Resident and Student, Jean Maloney-Stewart - Reading Garden <br /> Club, Denise McCarthy-- President Reading Garden Club, Joah Kingston - <br /> Reading Garden Club, Mary Ann Higgins.- VP Reading Garden Club. <br /> Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kristen Grover <br /> Topics of Discussion: <br /> Costigan called the Board of Health meeting to order at 5:30pm in the Community Room at <br /> the Reading Public Library. Members of the Reading Garden Club were present. <br /> Costigan had the Garden Club members introduce themselves. <br /> Costigan introduced the matter of previous guidelines for bake sales being on the agenda. <br /> He opened up discussion with the Board and Garden Club members. Discussion included if <br /> there were going to be changes to temporary food permit applications, and that the Garden <br /> Club is willing to accommodate a totally nut free event if that is the new regulation, the <br /> Garden Club keeps records on file incase of allergies including those to latex gloves. <br /> The Garden Club discussed topics pertaining to their upcoming event including - that instead <br /> of portable toilets - guests use the Police Station and Church for restrooms, and that in the <br /> past they have had only one person handling money who does not handle food, and that <br /> hand sanitizers.are used and gloves are changed often. <br /> There.was discussion about food prepared and packaged ahead of time versus prepared and <br /> packaged on site and the difference in regulations for each. <br /> The Board, Delios and Vlasuk discussed legislation, allowable food items, the issue of hot or <br /> cold food items, and nut allergies. They reviewed the application and guidelines and revised <br /> wording to make'a more clearly defined document. They also discussed the topic of issuing <br /> a permit versus a registration. Delios mentioned that Town Council will also need to <br /> approve the revisions. <br /> Motion by Sexton to accept guidelines as amended and subject to amendments from Town <br /> Council; motion seconded by Pfiefer. Roll Call vote: Sexton (yes), Pfiefer (yes), Costigan <br /> (yes). Motion carries.3-0-0. <br /> Page i <br />