HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-08-2014 Board of Health MinutesBoard of Health Minutes
January 8th, 2014
Board Members Present: Stacie Hardage, Nancy Cox, Dr. Ruth
Wright, Harold King, Charlotte Adams, Don Williams, and Sandra
Dulakis.
Others Present: Dr. Sidney Ontai, Medical Authority, and Benny
Cantwell.
Staff Members Present: Kelli Shurbet R.N. (DON), Jeffery Snyder,
Assistant City Manager, and Sheila Carter Secretary.
Sandra Dulakis called the meeting of the Plainview -Hale County
Board of Health to order at the Unger Memorial Library on January
8th, 2014 at 12:30 P.M.
First Item on Agenda: Invocation. Benny Cantwell gave the
invocation.
Second Item on Agenda: Approval of minutes from the November
13, 2013 meeting. Sandra Dulakis ask for approval of the November
131h, 2013 Minutes. Dr Ruth Wright entertained a motion to approve
the minutes as written, and Don Williams 2nd the motion. Minutes
were approved as written.
Third item on Agenda: Review of expenditures. Harold King
entertained a motion to approve the expenditures for September
2013, October 2013, and November 2013. Don Williams 2nd the
motion. Expenditures were approved as written.
Fourth Item on Agenda: Health Department news: Kelli Shurbet said
that the Health Department had been slow thru the Holiday's. She
said that we had been busy giving flu shots and we only had 5 shots
left. The audit will be coming up in April. We have had 20 cases of
the flu reported and most of those is type A. The Grant's will be
coming up before long.
Fifth Item on Agenda: Topics of concern the Board would like to
discuss from previous meeting. The board wanted to discuss
Synthetic Drugs. Sandra Dulakis said she didn't know if they were
still selling the drug or not. Jeffery Snyder said there has been
question's if we should have an ordinance on it. Jeffery said to be
able to do anything you would have to send it off and test it before
anything could be done. Lubbock has had a challenge with enforcing
this.
Dr. Wright said maybe we just need to educate people more about
the drug. Jeffery said if we could get into the schools would be the
best thing to tell student's the dangers there is in using these drugs.
Maybe we could have Captain Balderas come and speak to the
Board about synthetic drugs. Jeffery will ask about him coming.
Sixth Item on Agenda: Topics of concern the Board would like to
discuss at next meeting. There were no topics that the Board
wanted to discuss at the next meeting.
Seventh Item on Agenda: Next Meeting Date. The next meeting will
be April 9th, 2014°
Eighth Item on Agenda: Adjourn. Stacie Hardage entertained a
motion to adjourn and Don Williams 2na
Sheila Carter
Secretary, Plainview -Hale County Health Department