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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
10: I �
Board of Health `
Date: 2020-04-23 Time: 10:00 AM
Building: Location:
Address: Session: Open Session
Purpose: COVID-19 Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Kevin Sexton, Emmy Dove, Eleanor Shonkoff
Members - Not Present:
Ann Marie Massina, Lara Romanowski
Others Present:
Jean Delios, Laura Vlasuk
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kevin Sexton
Topics of Discussion:
12:35pm Call to order.
• Dove - Motion to approve 3-24-2020 meeting minutes.
I Sexton - 2nd.
o Dove - yes, Sexton - yes.
• Sexton - Motion to approve 3-26-2020 meeting minutes.
o
Dove - 2nd.
o Dove - yes, Sexton - yes.
Shonkoff enters the meeting.
• Shonkoff - Motion to approve the 3-27-2020 meeting minutes.
o Sexton - 2nd.
I Sexton - yes, Shonkoff - yes, Dove - yes.
• Sexton - Motion to approve the 3-28-2020 meeting minutes.
o
Shonkoff - 2nd.
c Shonkoff - yes, Dove - yes, Sexton - yes.
• Shonkoff - Motion to approve the 3-29-2020 meeting minutes.
c Sexton - 2nd.
Sexton - yes, Dove - yes, Shonkoff - yes.
• Shonkoff - Motion to approve the 3-30-2020 meeting minutes.
o Sexton - 2nd.
Dove - yes, Shonkoff - yes, Sexton - yes.
• Shonkoff - Motion to approve the 4-1-2020 meeting minutes.
o Sexton - 2nd.
I Sexton - yes, Shonkoff - yes, Dove - yes.
• Shonkoff - Motion to approve the 4-10-2020 meeting minutes.
c Sexton - 2nd.
I Dove - yes, Sexton - yes, Shonkoff - yes.
• Dove - Future items for the BOH to cover:
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C Finalize face covering signage tomorrow.
c Discuss one-way side walk use, Select Board member Ann Landry received an
email from a resident suggesting one-way side walk use. They also wanted to
know about curb-side pick-ups for the Library.
Dove received and email from Command about a rolling rally for Graduation.
Wanted to discuss how we could better serve this purpose?
• BOH discussed how the logistics would work on something like this
from a social distancing standpoint.
• Sexton offered to sit on a committee, if one forms about the rolling
rally.
• Dove has a great idea with Jordan's Furniture in mind. Maybe a drive-
in type graduation in their parking lot with a big screen TV, pre-
recorded diploma given to the students and played on the screen and
other ideas.
o Dove - There will be a special election up-coming and how we can safely have
one. Public Safety must come first.
• Sexton - Said it would be best to have it in September and hope the
all clear is given by then.
o Dove - Rethinking our policy on High Density Housing (HDH) buildings. She is
concerned about privacy. Select Board member Karen Gately Herrick told her
that people in HDH weren't being notified that someone in the building had
COVID-19.
• Shonkoff - Posting signage will help change behavior.
Delios and Vlasuk had to leave the meeting to attend another meeting.
• Dove - Chief Burns asked the BOH to consider not posting the COVID-19 numbers
on the web site. He is afraid if people see low numbers that they won't take the
threat serious enough.
Dove - offered for us to discuss it tomorrow.
• Sexton - Motion to adjourn at 1:33pm.
c Shonkoff - 2nd.
c Sexton - yes, Shonkoff - yes, Dove - yes.
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