2024-02-21-BOH-min (Tri-Ton Coalition Advisory Board)

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Tri-Ton Coalition Advisory Board Burlington.Lexington.Wilmington • Joanne is attending the Opioid Abatement Conference on March 19th and 20th and invited Katy to attend. • Katy is working on a digital newsletter to send to all staff and BOH members. Joanne will share the staff email addresses with Katy and include the town manager and select board emails. IV. Municipality Updates • Joanne advised that Lexington Public Health week is coming up in April. The movie screening of Below the Belt will be shown. The movie theater holds 150 people and the owner is not charging for the use of the theater. The cost of the screening is less than the originally anticipated $5000.00 and will cost $1100.00 however there will be a cost to rent the AV equipment. • Katie will send Joanne and Shelly the information on the upcoming Mental Health First Aid training for anyone who would like to attend. The PHE staff should attend this training. • Joanne advised that she will continue to need help with the families in need at the Lexington EA shelter. • Lexington will be holding a vaccination clinic on February 22, 2024. There are only eight children signed up but they will be offering vaccinations to other family members age three and up. Tahycha will be there to assist with translation. V. Tobacco Funding • Mary Brush is pushing for policy/regulation updates. Model regulations can be used. • Joanne commented that is would be good to have all three communities in sync with the regulations. Joanne can provide Tahycha with what their former contractor had done to update their tobacco regulations. • Tahycha is continuing with her training and is available to help in Lexington and Wilmington. Tahycha is also being trained for pool inspections. VI. New Business DPH has provided updated eligible spending guidelines that would include the purchase of vaccine refrigerators. The next meeting will be held on March 20, 2024. Meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM.