HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-03-29 Board of Health Minutes Orq O
O
F � Town of Reading
= Meeting Minutes
f
9IMCOPO�PP � � .
Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Board of Health 10
Date: 2020-03-29 Time: 10:03 AM
Building: Location:
Address: Session: Open Session
Purpose: Corona Virus/Covid-19 Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Emmy Dove, Eleanor Shonkoff, Kevin Sexton
Members - Not Present:
Lara Romonowski, Ann Marie Messina
Others Present:
lean Dehos, Laura Vlasuk
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kevin Sexton
Topics of Discussion:
• Call to order at 10:03am
Dove-Asked Laura to provide an update on how the State wants to report number
of positive tests.
o Vlasuk- said the DPH wants to do reginal reporting of numbers, not
town/city specific ones. She is very much against that and wants to know
how many our town has. The board agreed with her.
Delius- Updated the board on her request to the procurement officer.They said if we
wanted to hire a PR firm to put together a public information campaign, that we
could spend up to $10,000.
o Sexton- Added that with the Federal Government accepting our Governor's
request to declare a Disaster Declaration for Massachusetts, that we may be
eligible for up to 75% reimbursement.
Vlasuk- Brought up the idea of having a blood drive in town, that supplies are low.
The board determined that the Red Cross was the right entity to handle that and
Vlasuk was going to reach out to them.
Dove-Was asked by Select Board member Karen Gately Herrick, about high density
housing.What would the Bull's plans be if a resident tested positive for COVID-19.
o Vlasuk- Described the way it needs to be reported. The person gets tested,
the doctor reports to the state, the state makes the name available in Maven,
our public health nurse can then access that system (Maven] and see if we
have any new residents testing positive. If there are, the nurse then calls the
person to inform them they need to self-quarantine for 14 days. The nurse
then will request the names and phone numbers of everyone they have been
in contact with, so they can be notified about the contact with a person
Page 1 1
rR
Town of Reading
fe�
a Meeting Minutes
e
PJfgMOPPOP!
testing positive for the COVID-19 and to self-quarantine themselves for 14
days too.
o Sexton- Mention how a news report told of a retirement complex having S
positives in their building and that home quarantined all residents to the
home. But that was a decision made by the private retirement home and not
one that came from the local Board of Health.
Dove- Asked if we should add to our web site, the State's self-diagnostic tool Bouy,
which lets residents go through a series of questions to determine if they should get
tested for COVID-19?
o All agreed that it would be a good idea to put it on there.
- Vlasuk- Confirmed the emails went out to the businesses about keeping employees
and customers adhere to the 6-foot minimum distance at all times in their stores
and to give adequate breaks for employees to wash their hands and sanitize them.
- Dove- Will be updating the Select Board about what the BoH has been doing during
this pandemic, at the SB's tele-meeting on April 1, 2020.
- Sexton- motion to adjourn
o Shonkoff- 2A
o Role call vote- Sexton-yes, Shonkoff-yes, Dove-yes
Page 1 2