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1 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING FEBRUARY 2, 1981 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, February 2, 1981 in Room 5-25 (Board of Health Office). Members present were: Dr. William L. Cosgrove, Chairman; James W. Lambie, Dr. Michael S. Erdos and George A. Smith, Director of Health. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as read. Mr. Smith told the Board that Mr. & Mrs. Williams of 344 Lowell Street had applied for a permit to keep 2 Nubian goats. He said the Animal Inspector saw nothing to object to. Dr. Erdos asked if they have the facilities to care for them? Yes, they do have the facilities and there really isn't much care that goats need. He said there are several people in Town that have these goats. Mr. Smith said that basically people keep them for the milk and they also can keep the yards cut down by their grazing. The Board voted to give the Williams a permit for two Nubian goats. At seven -thirty p.m. Lisa Fitzgerald came before the Board. She is requesting to keep six horses and her permit calls for four at the present time. Dr. Cosgrove told Lisa that she had already put six horses on her property. She said she had moved the two extra out of the stable this past weekend. The Board asked how long she had the two extra horses without a permit. She said she had them there approximately a month. Dr. Cosgrove told her that she had no right to have the 6 horses there with- out first applying to the Board of Health. He said also, that the Animal Inspector had not given a very good report to them about the property, that there never had been a manure pit put in as he had requested her to do. Lisa saidshehad hired a contractor to put in a manure pit. She brought a plan with her for the Board to see. Dr. Erdos said for Lisa's information and to be read into the record he will read the report from the Animal Control/Animal Inspector after conducting an inspection of the property. I quote the letter: "Following Virginia's (Fitzgerald Lovett) request for an increase in the number of horses she may keep under per permit, I conducted a pre -permit inspection of her property and the property next door at 336 Bed- ford Street, owned by Mr. Frank Johnson. My inspection revealed that although there are, in fact, six suitable stalls in the barn now, Mr. Lovett and Miss Fitzgerald did not wait for a permit to be issued before bringing in all six horses. I found four horses corralled on the Fitzgerald -Lovett property and two more horses corralled on the Johnson property. +3