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<br />LEXINGTON BOARD OF HEALTH <br />MEETING MINUTES <br />Wednesday, May 15, 2019 <br />7:00 P.M. <br />Cary Hall Memorial Building <br />Estabrook Hall, (Lower level) <br />1605 Massachusetts Avenue <br />Lexington, MA 02420 <br />Board of Health Members in Attendance: <br />Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Sharon MacKenzie R.N., CCM, Burt Perlmutter, M.D., John J. Flynn <br />Office of Public Health Attendees: <br />David Neylon, Public Health Nurse <br />Kari Sasportas, Public Health Director <br />Speakers: <br />Fawn Dare, 676 Marrett Road <br />Documents: <br />Community Health Report <br />Lexington Public Schools/Lexington Board of Health Summer Immunization Clinic <br />Revised Vaccine Restitution Policy Effective January 1, 2019, MDPH Memorandum <br />Agenda for ROP Training, Inn at Hastings Park <br />Pool Variance Requests from the use of Lifeguard, 105 CMR 435.23 <br />676 Marrett Road, timeline <br />676 Marrett Road, OTC <br />Emergency Preparedness Report <br /> <br /> <br />Wendy Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. <br /> <br />Minutes of February 20, 2019 and March 20, 2019 were reviewed. In a motion duly made and <br />seconded, the minutes were approved with revisions. <br /> <br />The board reviewed the Community Health Report; <br />On May 8, 9, and 14 the Health Director and Public Health Nurse attended at MA PHIT (Public <br />Health Inspector Training) sponsored by the Local Public Health Institute, Mass Dept of Public <br />Health, Mass Health Officers Association. The class reviewed 105 CMR 410 Minimum <br />Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation (“Housing Code”) and discussed proper procedures <br />for responding to housing complaints, conducting housing inspections, issuing Orders to Correct, <br />as well as topics such as hoarding, bed bugs, chronic dampness and dwellings unfit for human <br />habitation. <br /> <br />On April 30, the Health Director and Public Health nurse attended the Mass Dept of Public <br />Health/ Mass Health Officers Association Spring Community Sanitation training. Topics covered <br />included Recreational Camps for Children, Bathing Beaches, Medical Waste, Pools, <br />Communicable Disease Control and issues related to housing. <br /> <br /> <br />