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Tri -Ton Coalition Advisory Board Meeting
Meeting Minutes
November 19, 2025
2:00 PM via Webex
Attendees: Susan Lumenello, Director Burlington Board of Health, Shelly Newhouse, Director
Wilmington Board of Health, Alicia McCartin, Director Lexington Board of Health, and Katie
Capobianco, Shared Services Coordinator
I. Approval of Minutes
• Approval of September 17, 2025 meeting minutes - approved.
II Presentation — Tahycha Soto- PHE Health Inspector/Tobacco Inspector
• Tahycha was not feeling well and has been rescheduled to present at the March 18, 2026
meeting
III Program Updates
• Alicia advised that staff will be out from January to April and she would like to request
Tahycha fill in. Susan asked Alicia to send an email request through the Tri -Ton email
address requesting dates and what she is looking for Tahycha to do.
0 Susan said hopefully the new part-time PHE Health Inspector will be able to help with
inspections or help with tobacco.
• Alicia will email Tahycha inspections on a monthly basis to avoid conflicts with
Burlington inspections. Alicia would prefer that Tahycha have set days that she will be in
Lexington. Currently she works a half day on Mondays and a full day on Tuesdays.
Alicia will let Susan know what the set schedule will look like for January to April.
• Rebecca is working on Fall Risk Assessments and has been conducting them in
Burlington and Wilmington. Shelly is very happy with the work Rebecca is doing in
Wilmington.
• Rebecca will be taking a certified lactation course to become a lactation counselor
through the Healthy Children's project and looking into the possibility of opening a Baby
Cafe for new mothers. She could also hold them in Lexington and Wilmington.
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• Rebecca can also do infant CPR for new moms.
• Rebecca is working on a maternal/child resource list. Please let her know if anyone has
anything they would like to add to the resource list.
VI Update on Positions
Offers have been made to the new Epi and Health Communication Specialist. They will
both be starting after Thanksgiving.
Susan said she will try to have them attend the Tri -Ton Advisory Board meeting in
January,
Susan has resumes for the Health Inspector position and will set up interviews soon. Susan
said they did not receive too many resumes and she would like to have the new person
train with Marlene Johnson, Burlington Health Inspector, as she has a training plan for
new inspectors. Alicia said she would like to be part of the interview process and they
also have a set health inspector training plan (Certified Professional Food Service
Trainer) and could assist with the training of the new inspector.
V New Business
0 Susan said they are looking into getting SAS for the Burlington office for the new Epi.
Susan advised that the PHE grant can be used to pay the annual fee for Lexington's
software, Win Warn. Alicia said the fee is already paid however, she will look into any
additional fees for forms, etc. that the grant could cover.
• Katie advised that she can do document translation that Alicia or Shelly may need done
and the Propio phone number is available for any language translation services need.
Meeting Adjourned at 2:25 pm.