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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHealth Board - Minutes - 4/5/2016BAYFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING Tuesday, April 5, 2016 – 4:00 PM Bayfield County Annex Building - EOC Present: John Bennett, Dee Kittleson, Wayne Williams, Fred Strand, Ellen Braddock, Deb Dryer Absent: Elaine Kopp, Kathy Wendling Staff: Anne-Marie Coy, Cathy Moore Others: Mark Abeles-Allison, Bayfield County Administrator 1. Call the Meeting to Order: The meeting was called to order at 4:00 pm by Chairman Strand. 2. Approval of February 9, 2016 Meeting Minutes: A motion to approve the minutes of the February9, 2016 meeting minutes as presented was made by Kittleson; motion seconded by Braddock. Motion carried. 3. Public Comment: No one from the public was present. 4. Adoption of Agenda: A motion to adopt the agenda as presented was made by Williams; motion seconded by Bennett. Motion carried. 5. Staffing Updates: Sara Wartman has accepted the position as Health Officer / Director for the Health Department. She is currently a part-time employee here. Her start date is April 18th. Brandon Rohrig has accepted the position of Registered Dietician / Director for the WIC program. Brandon is currently finishing the Registered Dietitian program. He will be starting June 6th. We currently have a posting for a part-time nurse to help while Caloney is filling in as the WIC dietitian and then will fill Sara’s vacant position. This person will work approximately 16 hours per week. We will also be posting for one or two interns to work under the Coastal Management Grant and the Beach Monitoring Program. 6. Review of 2016 First Quarter Budget: We are right about where we were this time last year for revenues. Our expenses are down because we don’t have a department director or a WIC registered dietitian. We will be getting more funding from the DNR for the well testing program. In the past we have only had to take the water sample. Now we will be required to take a sample and do a site assessment. We will be paid an extra $50 for every one we do. 7. Coastal Management and Beach Monitoring Grant Update: We were approved for $26,300 for the Coastal Management Grant. Much of that would be used for the cost of an intern. We are hoping to get an intern from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). If we get an intern through NEHA they will pay his wages and that will leave us more funding for the groundwater mapping project. We will still be sending water samples to UW-Stevens Point and run the bacteria test here. We are going to set up a booth at the fair for anyone who was missed and wants their water tested. We got the Beach Monitoring grant again this year. They want us to add Meyers Beach to our schedule. We are getting an extra $2,000 to add this beach. We will get this for two years. 8. Budget Developments Due to the Zika Virus: The State is considering taking our PHEP Ebola 2 dollars to give to the southern counties in the state that have the type of mosquitos that carry the Zika Virus. The people at the state don’t think we will have another Ebola outbreak so they are taking any remaining funds in that grant for Zika Virus activities. We do not have the type of mosquitos that carry Zika Virus. The State of WI is trying to get their lab ready to test for Zika Virus. Right now there is only one lab in the US that can do the testing and it takes six to eight weeks to get a result. That is a very long time for pregnant women to wait for a result. To date, there have not been any positive results in Wisconsin. 9. Groundwater Mapping Project Update: There are several different proposals. To implement them all would be $101,000. If we don’t want all the options available we could pick out which ones we want and Madeline Gotkowitz, Hydrologist, could give us prices. We can look for other funding sources to cover the cost of the report or we could use part of the Coastal Management Grant. The Board reviewed the options. We can look at what other counties have to see if it is something we want. We need to look at how much this will be used by other departments. The susceptibility map may be the one we would want. This one could be a layer for land records maps. This was proposed as a three year project. We need to know if there are certain reports that need to be done before others can be done. Anne will explore if the maps have to be done in a sequence. This will be addressed at another meeting. 10. Information on the Manure Spill Response Training: UW-Extension will do an on-site training. We need to have a farm with a manure pit on site. The manure will be pumped into a tanker and blown out at another site. The training requires the use of an excavator, manure truck and other equipment. There will be some cost involved. The Board was asked who they felt should be trained - first responders, police department? The Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) operators should be trained as well as whoever would respond to a 911 call. We may need to talk with Jason Fischbach, UW-Extension; to see who he thinks should be trained. It was suggested that someone ask UW-Extension who took the training the last time the training was held. We could do this in conjunction with Ashland County. We need more than just a training we need a response plan. The County could require the CAFO operators to have a spill plan. 11. Adult Immunization Grant Objective: This is a mini-grant to help increase the immunization rates for adults for several different vaccinations. We are targeting the influenza vaccine. We chose this because our percentage of adults getting flu vaccines is very low. We will work with Human Services to identify those who have difficulty getting to a provider. We will give flu shots at the senior meal sites. We can get names of home bound that want the vaccination. We can ride with the Meals on Wheels driver to give the shots. We cannot buy vaccine with the funds. We will try to combine the school flu shots with the senior meal sites. Dryer would like us to give the pneumonia vaccine. 12. Next Meeting Date: The next meeting is scheduled for June 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm in the EOC. This will be an organizational meeting. 13. Other Issues: None. 14. Adjourn: The meeting adjourned at 4:53 pm. Respectfully Submitted Cathy Moore Office Manager