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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Board of Health
Date: 2016-10-19
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: General Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
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Time: 530 PM
Location: Berger Room
Session: General Session
Andrew Friedmann, Nancy Docktor, John Costigan
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Steven DiLauro, Staff
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Darlene Foley
Topics of Discussion:
Board of Health meeting came to order at 5:35 pm on October 19, 2016 in the Berger Room
of Reading Town Hall.
Minutes
Minutes of September 15, 2016 were presented. Costigan made motion to accept with
revisions, seconded by Docktor. Motion passed 3:0
Tobacco Regulations
The Board reviewed the proposed changes to update the current regulations to restrict the
sale of flavored tobacco products, except in adult only tobacco stores; enact a minimum
price sale cap for cigars, enact a proximity ban where no tobacco products sales permits
would be issued to new retailers with 500 feet of a school; enact a permit cap to limit the
number of tobacco sales permits and amend the Environmental Tobacco Smoke Regulation
to ban the use of any tobacco or nicotine products in or on town owned property including
parks and playgrounds.
Costigan will write next article for publication in the Chronicle.
Open session for topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 7:00 pm.
Materials Distributed:
Draft minutes of September 15, 2016
PHN Monthly Report
Health Agent Monthly Report
Draft Tobacco Regulation Language
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