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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Board of Health
Date: 2013 -05 -09
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: General Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 5:40 PM
RECEIVED
TOWN CLERK
READING. MASS.
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Location: Lower Level Conference Room
Barbara Meade, David Singer, Andrew Friedmann
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Ruth Clay, Staff
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Darlene Foley
Topics of Discussion;
Electronic Cigarettes Article Minutes
The minutes of March 27, 2013 were presented. Meade made motion to accept, seconded
by Singer. Approved 2:0
Keeping Animals Application
Application to keep chickens from Richard Hand, of 20 Meadow Brook Lane was presented
for approval. Included was a letter of opposition from Robert ). Mclsaac of 267 Grove Street
whose property abuts the rear of the applicant's property. Clay made a site visit to view the
proposed location of chicken coop and provided a description of the property. As the
application met all requirements of the Keeping of Animals Regulations, the permit was
approved.
Health Director's Report
A new fingerprinting law has been enacted this year for all Ice cream truck vendors.
Documentation has to be provided first to local permitting authority, Reading Police
Department. Licensing will then be issued from the Health Department after completion of
truck inspection.
Other business and Items not reasonably anticipated at the time of posting:
Discussion regarding the definition of an abutter in Board of Health Regulations will be
addressed in the future so that it properly applies to the regulation.
Clay met with the school department regarding their summer programs. She had requested
details of the programs prior to the meeting and was told they were not sending them but
they would be available at the meeting. Their programs appear to be duplicates of those
offered by Reading Recreation which fall under the camp regulations. There Is an
exemption for class based programs with no high risk instruction or exemption if the school
Is licensed by the Office of Child Care Services. The school department will be seeking a
license from OCC.
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A MAPC meeting will be held May 22 at 7:00 pm on Public Health and Planning at the
Wakefield Police Station. Board members are welcome to attend.
A copy of the FY14 Reading Appropriation Request and Schedule of Costs and Services
regarding mosquito control was distributed.
Meeting adjourned at 6:45 pm.
Materials distributed:
Agenda
Draft minutes of 3/27/13
Mosquito Report & Budget
Childhood Obesity Article
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