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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHealth Board - Minutes - 2/14/2017BAYFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – 5:00 PM Bayfield County Annex Building EOC Present: Fred Strand, Jeremy Oswald, Elaine Kopp, Ellen Braddock, Rachel Coughtry, Deb Dryer’ Rachel Coughtry Absent: Wayne Williams Staff: Sara Wartman, Cathy Moore, Brandon Rohrig Others: Ted Eastlund 1. Call the Meeting to Order: The meeting was called to order at 5:01 pm by Chairman Strand. 2. Approval of October 11th, 2016 Meeting Minutes: A motion to approve the minutes of the October 11, 2016 meeting as presented was made by Oswald; motion seconded by Braddock. Motion carried. 3. Public Comment: None. 4. Review and Possible Action Regarding Citizen Member Appointment to the Board of Health: An application was received from Elaine Kopp to be reappointed as a citizen member to the Board of Health. The process for appointing a citizen member is as follows: The Board of Health reviews the application and makes a recommendation to the County Board Chairperson. The County Board Chair appoints the person with approval from the Full County Board. Goodwin made a motion that the Board of Health recommend Elaine Kopp be appointed to the Board of Health and forward this on to the Full County Board. This will be a three-year term. Motion seconded by Coughtry. Motion carried. 5. Human Health and Hazard Ordinance Update: The ordinance was passed by the Full County Board on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. It should be available on the county website soon. 6. Update on Health Department Staffing: Amanda Paulson, our part-time nurse, started on December 5, 2016. We also hired a part-time person, Jessica Zakovec, to work at the WIC Office. Jessica started on January 17, 2017. The TNC (Transient Non-Community) well program has strict requirements regarding reporting. Hiring a part-time clerical person for WIC frees up clerical in the Washburn Office to enter the TNC data in a timely fashion. We are being considered for placement of an intern through NEHA’s (National Environmental Health Association) Internship Program for our Beach Monitoring Program. We will know more about whether we will be placed with an intern this spring. This internship is paid through NEHA; no county levy will be used. 7. Discussion and Possible Action Regarding the Strategic Plan: Health Departments are required by the State to do a Strategic Plan every five years. This plan outlines what areas the Health Department will be targeting in the next five years. We have established a sub-committee group. The Plan will be completed by the April meeting. We have Prevention Grant funding for the planning sessions. 8. Hydrogeological Atlas Update: The Land Records Department is taking the lead on the Hydrogeological Atlas Project with support from the Health Department and Land Conservation Department. They have applied for funding from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program Grant for the “Bayfield County Digital Interactive Hydrogeological Atlas” project for 2017-2018. The proposed grant request is for $30,000 with $30,000 county match; they have been recommended for funding. A service agreement has been signed between Bayfield County and University of Wisconsin System to begin working on county-wide water table map and database for Bayfield County starting in January and ending May 31, 2017. The intent is to have usable data from the testing that was done summer 2016. There is an upcoming meeting to discuss progress with Madeline Gotkowitz and sub-committee group; this is scheduled for March 8, 2017 via Skype. 9. WIC Update: WIC has unveiled their new logo nationally. They have a planned outreach campaign for April. There is also a state outreach plan that has been unveiled. We have been implementing our own outreach plan. In the near future we hope to be initiating a cofactor campaign. The aim is to align WIC and the hospital regarding breastfeeding and make the hospital more breastfeeding friendly. We went through the state WIC audit. There were a few recommendations made. An Internal / External Referral Policy was one of the recommendations; that has been done. Also a couple after-action reports have been written. The Director will be going to the National WIC Conference in Washington D.C. in a couple weeks. A scholarship has been received so there will be no grant or county monies involved. There are a limited number of attendees so this is quite an honor. There will be changes coming to the WIC ROSIE system specifically to crack down on fraud and abuse. 10. Review and Possible Action Regarding Resolution to Secure State Funding to Support Communicable Disease Control for Population Health: All health departments are mandated to do communicable disease control and prevention. This is an unfunded mandate; it is supported by county levy. This resolution points out that communicable disease control and prevention is a critical part of public health that helps control the spread of disease and that we support funding for local health departments to continue this much needed service. This will also bring awareness to our legislators. We can send this resolution to WALHDAB and they will post it on a map with other counties that support this resolution. A motion to approve the resolution and forward to the Full County Board was made by Kopp; motion seconded by Dryer. Motion carried. 11. Discussion and Possible Action Regarding New Policy & Procedure The policy that requires action is the WIC Internal / External Referrals Policy. We needed to create this per State WIC audit. It basically outlines who can make referrals from WIC, who they can make referrals to and how to do them. A motion was made by Kopp to approve the WIC Internal / External Referrals Policy; motion seconded by Oswald. Motion carried. 12. 2016 Environmental Health Inspections Completed: There were 561 establishments inspected, 40 pre-inspections for new businesses, and 16 follow-ups for business that needed to make changes. We will be enacting a 10 percent surcharge on the license fees. This was approved in 2016 and will be implemented for the 2017/2018 license year. Three food manager classes were held this year. The Director will be meeting with the DNR to go over the 2016 TNC program. The DNR is increasing the contract amount they pay per well from $130 to $150 and $50 for additional site visits. We are working on new signage and a flag system for our Beach Monitoring Program. 200 test kits were given out for the Coastal Management Grant. UW-Oshkosh will be printing a summary of the results of the test kits that can be distributed to the community. We had 14 human health hazard investigations in 2016. We a still giving out radon test kits. We did radon testing for the lower levels of the annex and courthouse due to concerns. There were no adverse findings. Michelle does follow-up on animal bites. She is updating the policies and procedures. 13. Finalizing Well Water Testing and Billing: We will be meeting with the DNR on March 7th to review the timeliness of testing and the results for the TNC wells from Washburn and Sawyer Counties. This is definitely a revenue generating program. 14. Discussion and Possible Action Regarding Sharps Collection Program: It is very difficult for community members to find a place to safely dispose of their sharps. Officially we don’t accept sharps containers. We don’t have a formal policy regarding this. This can be costly. It is becoming a concern in the area; needles have been found on beaches and in regular garbage cans. Ashland County Health & Human Services will take them for a $5 fee. Red Cliff and Bad River each have a program. Per DNR regulations sharps can only be collected in approved red sharps containers or Tide detergent bottles that are taped shut. Some pharmacies will take the container if you buy it from them. We have a $500 grant we could potentially use for this. Our Prevention Grant monitor may let us this as Objective 2. There was a suggestion we partner with someone in the needle exchange program. Also check with other health departments to see what they do. Another option may be the Clean Sweep event. Dr. Dryer would like a policy to be written that she can review at the next Board of Health meeting. 15. Grant Updates: We are working on updating the PNCC (Prenatal Care Coordination) policy. We have been having car seat clinics at WIC. They have been well received. The Chequamegon Area Home Visitation Coalition has been meeting to improve coordination of services and interagency referrals. MCH (Maternal Child Health) grant, we have been working on updating policies. We are also working on breastfeeding initiative for worksites and how to support employers to be breast feeding friendly. With the Community Opportunity Grant, we are working on a toolkit on policy level changes to reduce alcohol use and abuse. 16. Next Meeting Date: The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 5:00 pm in the EOC. Dates for the rest of 2017 are June 13th, August 8th, and Oct 10th. 17. Other Issues: None. 18. Adjourn: The meeting adjourned at 6:04 pm. Respectfully Submitted, Cathy Moore, Office Manager