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BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING JUNE 2, 1980 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, June 2, 1980 at 7:00 P.M. in Room G-15 of the Town Office Building. Members present were: Dr. William L. Cosgrove, Chairman; Mr. James W. Lambie and Mr. George A. Smith, Director of Public Health. Mr. Smith told the Board he would like permission to raise some of the permit RAISING fees that are under the jurisdiction of the Board of Health. PERMIT FEES The first one he discussed was the permit to install septic systems. He told the Board at the present time the septic system fee is $10.00 and he would like to change that to $50.00. Mr. Lambie asked: Didn't we raise the permit fees once before? Mr. Smith said that some of the fees were raised but the septic system had not been raised. Mr. Smith went on to say that it use to be that he would spend a couple of hours on one system but now it seems it takes at least two days of his time. Dr. Cosgrove asked if it would discourage putting in septic systems and Mr. Smith replied that it wouldn't. After further discussion of this fee, Mr. Lambie and Dr. Cosgrove said they felt that raising it to $50.00 was too much of a jump but they would go along with an increase to $25.00 a permit. It was voted unanimously the septic system fee would be $25.00 for each permit. The second fee Mr. Smith would like to raise was the swimming pool application fee for public and semi-public pools. He would like to raise the fee from $15.00 to $25.00. Mr. Smith said it costs money today to do the water sample testing and it will not cover the costs but it will help "fray" some of the expense of doing water samples. He said that Framingham gets $50.00 for semi-public pools and $50.00 for whirlpools. The Board agreed to allow the fees to be raised from $15.00 to $25.00 for public and semi-public pools. Mr. Smith said that the new fee would start next year (1981) as all pools have filed their applications for this year. Mr. Smith reported to the Board that the Sheraton -Lexington had requested to SHERATON - operate their poolside food service again this year. LEXINGTON POOLSIDE They had also requested to cook outside at the pool area but Mr. Smith had told FOOD SERVICE them it would not work out. Mr. Smith said that selling sandwiches, individually wrapped would be allowed as they have done in other years. The turkey, roast beef, tunafish, etc. shall be kept under refrigeration.