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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Date: 2020-03-10 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Select Board Meeting Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: Open Session
Purpose: General Business Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Emmy Dove, Eleanor Shonkoff, Lara Romonowski, Kevin Sexton
Members - Not Present:
AnnMarie Messina
Others Present:
Jean Delios, Laura Vlasuk
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Lara Romonowski
Topics of Discussion:
Agenda
• Chair report
• Health Agent report
• Roundtable
• COVID- 19 update
• 2020 goals
• Review minutes 2-18-20
Chair Report
• Flu numbers are still high in this region; there's still time for people to get your Flu shot.
Health Agent Report
• Month of February: see report for more details
• 14 inspections
• 10 reinspections
• 2 construction inspections
• 1 complaints
• 0 septic abandonment
COVID-19
• Emergency Operations Center setup in town; meeting bi-weekly to stay on top of updates
• Chair reports working on how to provide access and continuity for certain populations.
o Kids who receive meals at school
o Seniors who access the Senior center
o People who access the food pantry
• Consider extra outreach to fragile elders in town, police,fire and elder/human services work
collaboratively to reach the fragile elders population. Think about communicating prevention and
educational material to this population if necessary.
• Consider sharing resources with hospitals, churches, gyms,community centers for posting regarding
hygiene and prevention efforts.
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. Agreed to add CDC coronavirus webpage link to Town of Reading website.
Roundtable
. No items today.
Kevin motioned to close meeting
Eleanor 2 r
Emmy voted to close
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