HomeMy WebLinkAboutBoard of Health Meeting Minutes - 12 09 2009_201402051541504130BOARD OF HEALTH
TOWN OF NANTUCKET
MINUTES – DECEMBER 9, 2009
NANTUCKET SUPERIOR COURTROOM
MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Kopko, Ms. Roggeveen, Mr. Reinhard, Mr. Atherton
and Mr. Chadwick.
MEMBERS ABSENT: None.
Chairman Kopko calls the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
AGENDA
Nantucket Tick-Borne Disease Committee Report – HO Ray introduces Committee
Chair, Dr. Malcolm MacNab, who discusses the committee’s report. Chairman MacNab
outlines the problem, the transmission of diseases, and the solutions. He also summarizes
six recommendations: to manage the deer herd (10 per sq. mi.); manage habitat; the use
of pesticides; the use of 4 posters, public education; and personal protection. This must be
a continuing, long-term community message.
The BOH asks about funding and resources (shared?) (a sense of dollars coming from the
town itself?) and states that costs will depend on the approaches the town takes to limit
diseases (civic group involvement?).
Chairman MacNab gives BOH a general idea of costs associated with various
recommendations.
BOH asks the committee to continue with their work and ask that reporting of disease be
a priority. Ms. Roggeveen asks the committee to focus on special implementation
actions, to work on the wording of the non-binding referendum questions, and structuring
the financial mechanism (data tracking and education).
Chairman Kopko asks for public comments.
Mrs. McLaughlin thinks that the “February hunt” repeat is a bad idea. Mr. Willauer
suggests the possibility of individual civic associations funding their own 4 posters. Ms.
Dunton agrees that deer numbers have to be reduced to control diseases. HO Ray
indicates that the entire Tick-Borne Disease Committee Report is available on the Town’s
website.
Update of H1N1 – HO Ray announces that on December 10, 2009, from 5-7 p.m., at the
Nantucket Cottage Hospital, there will be a flu clinic (nasal spray), for those ages 10-24
years old.
BOARD OF HEALTH MINUTES -2- December 9, 2009
Update on Home Rule Petition to Establish Separate Board of Health – Ms. Gibson,
Town Manager, informs the BOH that the petition has started going through the
legislative process. Mr. Madden has told Ms. Gibson that at this time nothing else can be
reported.
BOH is adjourned at 7:00 p.m.