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MANUFACTURE OF FROZEN DESSERTS
Mother Earth Natural Foods
10 Muzzey St.
Friendly's Restaurant
1060 Waltham St.
ANIMAL PERMITS
Peter Tropeano - 1 Arabian horse, 1 Holstein Cow, Chickens and Ducks
19 Revere Street
Seragen, Inc. - 600 mice (inbred)
128 Spring St.
Edward B. Lloyd - 7 horses, 1 steer, 20 chickens and 22 turkeys
202 Cedar St.
RUBBISH DISPOSAL PERMITS
J. Motzkin & Sons
2 Washington St.
Melrose, Mass
G S X Corp
103 Boxford Rd.
Rowley, Mass
SWIMMING POOL PERMITS
Five Fields Pool
Barberry Rd.
One truck
four trucks
swimming pool and wading pool
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Town of Lexington swimming pool - wading pool - instrumentional pool -
Centre Playground diving pool
Meeting adjourned at 9:45 p.m.
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING
JULY 22, 1985
The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, July 22, 1985
at 7:15 p.m. in Room G-1 (Recreation Office) of the Town Office Building. Mem-
bers present were: James W. Lambie, Chairman; Donald A. Goldmann, M.D., Howard
B. Asarkof, D.D.S., George A. Smith, Jr.,R.S., Health Director.
Minutes of the June 18, 1985 meeting were accepted as read.
Mr. Smith, Health Director had sent Mr. Kenneth Goodman of 177 Grove Street GOODMAN
a letter requesting him to come before the Board of Health at 7:30 p.m. and to 177 GROVE
bring his plans and figures of septic system installation and also plans, figuresSTREET
etc, to connect to the town sewer system. After all figures and plans were in SEPTIC
the Board would decide whether or not to "grant the variance". Mr. Kenneth SYSTEM
Goodman did not came into Board Meeting as requested.
The Board discussed briefly that Mr. Goodman's septic system has failed,
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he has put a new addition on his house and has made no attempt to come here
tonight.
Mr. Smith said he has been up to 177 Grove Street and nothing has changed.
The Board was in agreement that if Mr. Goodman doesn't contact them they
will "order him to connect to town sewer."
Mr. Goodman will not be given his occupancy permit by the inspection
department until everything is corrected, the building inspector said.
Mrs. Deborah Halko, Sanitarian, was unable to come to the Board Meeting
MRS. HALM, but left a written report for the Health Director to read or present. Mrs.
SANITARIAN'S Halko had reported that she had been out and had inspected several food es -
REPORT tablishments, has been inspecting and taking water samples (and preparing
them - testing them in the lab).
Debbie had also been to Conefections, a new cone store, for several in-
spections, including the new Goodies to Go, (behind the Conefections), has
inspected several times the Pasta, Etc., Etc., Etc., down at the Countryside.
Debbie also checked out a fire at the Versailles, that was only smoke
damage, no fire damage.
Mr. Smith and Debbie also checked out the Lion's Fourth of July Carnival
food booths at the Centre Playground. They has to hold up the opening for a
couple of hours while they straightened out their problems at their food
trailers.
Mr. Smith and Mrs. Halko had each been down separately to 217 Mass Ave.
There was a rat problem there and Mr. Smith did not know the reason for it.
There was no garbage or rubbish around. The owner had it baited for rats.
Miss Joan Halverson, Recreation Coordinator, has withdrawn her request
for a variance in regard to the age of a lifeguard or two for the pools and
Res. Miss Halverson was able to hire one lifeguard and is working "short"
one lifeguard.
The Board denied a variance to the Sheraton -Lexington to hire a life-
guard that is under 17 years of age for their swimming pool. The state re-
quires that lifeguards be 17 years of age. The Sheraton -Lexington has only
one lifeguard on duty at one time and therefore they should be the required
age.
The variance was denied by unanimous vote of the Board.
WOOD STOVE Mr. Vincent Bucca of 78 Cliffe Avenue came before the Board in regard
COMPLAINT to his neighbor's stove. The neighbor whose stove he is complaining about
BY MR. BUCCA is Wayne Southard of 70 Cliffe Avenue, Lexington, Mass.
The neighbor's house is below Mr. Bucca's and when the wind blows the
smoke blows onto his property and into the house, Mr. Bucca said and it is
hard for his family to breathe.
He told about the smoke, blackness from the stove on snow, etc.
Mr. Southard was present at this meeting and told the Board that Mr.
Bucca was exagerating somewhat on the smoke problems. Mr. Southard said he put
his stove in legally and the inspection and fire departments approved it.
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Final inspection was November 26, 1984.
At the present time there are no laws governing or covering wood stoves.
The Board feels air pollution standards should be established.
Attending this meeting also was Donald Jenkins, builder; Jack Gardner and
Martin Hopkins, residents; and Mr. Jack Edison of the Board of Selectmen because
they thought the Board was going to discuss, in general, wood stoves. Mrs. Bucca
also attended with her son.
The Board was not discussing wood stoves in general although they feel there
is a need to look into the problem at another time.
Mr. Bucca presented quite a bit of written material including articles about
wood stoves.
Mr. Bucca said that he had gone to the D.E.Q.E. but they could not send
someone to monitor the situation. The D.E.Q.E. does not log their complaints.
Mr. Lambie said we do monitor our complaints but we only received one complaint
last winter.
Mr. Bucca is concerned about carcigens in wood -burning stoves but Dr. Gold-
man told those present not to be too concerned about that because it has not
been proven that it is dangerous.
The Board's intention is to check out and investigate this specific com-
plaint and the Board said not to be concerned if we do not act within a month
because this problem will have to be studied.
Dr. Goldmann asked Mr. Bucca if he was pleased with the way this is being
handled and Mr. Bucca said "definitely".
After a brief discussion Mr. Bucca thanked the Board and retired.
Mr. Smith told the Board that the Hanscom Air Base has signed up with the
East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project. MOSQUITO
CONTROL
He told the Board that 5 isolettes of Highland "J" were found in Bristol
County.
The Board was in agreement that mosquito control seems to be working.
Mr. Smith told the Board if we use the "encephalitis" hot line this summer
we will have to buy our own recording unit for the telephone.
Mr. Smith told the Board that he had received a letter from Joan Melcher
of the Council on Aging asking that they close East Lexington Clinic and add C.O.A.
one day to the C.O.A.
Mr. Smith told the Board that he sent a letter to Joan Melcher telling her
that he would discuss it with the Board of Health as the Board is the one to
decide whether the East Village is to be closed and a day added to the C.O.A.
Dr. Asarkof said if they close the East Village Clinic that is one thing -
but he cannot see adding any more time to any other clinic.
The Board of Health has decided it is time for them to re -assess the town's
interest in the Visiting Nurse Association.
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The Board feels that the Visiting Nurses should come into the Board
Meeting and defend their "home visits" on a "case to case" basis. Looking
VISITING over the visits by the months the Board wants to know: 1) who authorizes
NURSE the nurses to go on these visits, 2) why are Board of Health paying for
ASSOCIATION "post partum complications, etc.? 3) colostomy instructions are usually
given by the physician before the person goes home from the hospital so
why do visiting nurses have to go out and if so, why should Board of Health
pay for it?
The Board told Mr. Smith to invite the Visiting Nurses Administrator
into the next Board Meeting in September so that we can re -assess the town's
interest and see what is happening with the town's part of it.
Mr. Smith told the Board that the Visiting Nurse, Glenda Green called
and said Hayden wanted her to do 25 mantoux's and have the Board of Health
pay for it but he told her that Hayden would have to pay that bill if they
wanted it done.
Mr. Smith told the Board that the rDNA Regulations are ready to be
published. He changed the penalty fee from $200.00 to $500.00 according
to state law.
Mr. Smith suggested the Board sit down with members of the Seragen and
Collaborative Research companies to see which way )direction) they are
moving as the regulations are passed. We want to work together with them
within a time frame.
Air Force Landfill - D.E.Q.E. found no cause for concern at Hartwell Place.
Countryside Manor - D.E.Q.E. has not come out as yet. Vic Karian will
be coming out tomorrow. Mrs. Lena Pesces says there is hazardous waste there
but George said any testing that has been done did not show anything.
Mr. Smith reported that they had picked up a rabid bat in a driveway.
The resident owned a cat and did not know if the bat had bitten the cat.
The cat had been vaccinated but had to be revaccinated and quarantined for
90 days.
There has been a rat problem down at 217 Massachusetts Avenue. The
owner removed the vegetation from the property and is having the property
baited. Mr. Smith counted 30 rat holes in the yard.
The "Res" water quality has been good for this time of year. The "Res"
has been treated today for algae.
The bid with a hazardous waste company is down to one bid. Mr. Smith
isn't sure the $3500.00 allotted is enough to cover the cost. "Clean Har-
bors" company has taken over SCA Services. Mr. Smith is not sure that we
will be able to have a hazardous waste day this year.
Mr. Smith thinks it is time to evaluate the hazardous waste program.
The Lions Club carnival food trailers permits had to be held up for
tow hours. One trailer needed a good cleaning and the other trailer needed
a waste tank.
Dr. Asarkof said Darrows Bookstore is selling homemade candy. He
asked if they could do this without a permit.
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Mr. Smith said they should have some kind of a permit and the candy should
be wrapped and labeled.
Dr Asarkof also mentioned that Castiello's back door is still open. Mr.
Castiello had promised about two months ago he would put on a screen door and
it isn't on yet and the back door is right near a dumpster.
The Board will meet again on September 4th and September 10th.
The following permits are to be signed by the Board:
ANIMAL PERMITS
Anne M Butler
22 Rangeway
one horse
Chris Stakutis 4 ducks, 1 rabbit, 2 chickens
160 Grant St.
Ralph J Frissore One horse - One Pleasure horse
92 Blossomcrest Rd.
CATERING PERMITS
Gourmet Farms Kitchen
52 Bedford St.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
Canteen Corp. Cafeteria at Raytheon
45 Hartwell Ave.
Lexington Christian Academy
48 Bartlett Ave.
Gourmet Farms Kitchen
53 Bedford St.
Viking Vending for Hayden Recreation Center
24 Lincoln St
Town Food Store
93 Mass Ave.
Fife and Drum Restaurant at Minuteman Tech School
758 Marrett Rd.
Alexander Castiello
1721 Mass Ave.
MOBILE FOOD SERVERS
Bernie's Break (Bernard Hughes)
81 Hawthorne Rd., Waltham, Mass.
RETAIL FOOD STORES
Sebastian's
1845 Mass Ave.
Joel's
1740 Mass Ave.