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Board of Health Minutes
July 13th, 2011
Board Members Present: Dr. Ruth Rector-Wright, Cinde Ebeling,
Harold King, Nancy Cox, Judy Shannon, Belinda Pena and Sandra
Dulakis.
Others Present: Mr. Greg Ingham, (City Manager), Laura Mason,
Benny Cantwell, Kelly Northcott, and Dr. Sidney Ontai, Medical
Authority.
Staff Members Present: Kelli Shurbet, RN (DON) and Sheila Carter,
Secretary.
Cinde Ebeling called the meeting of the Plainview-Hale County
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Board of Health to order at the Unger Memorial Library on Julyl13,
2011 at 12:30 P.M.
First Item on Agenda: Invocation. Harold King gave the invocation.
Second Item on Agenda: Approval of minutes from the April 13,
2011 meeting. Cinde Ebeling said there was a correction to the
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minutes from the April 13 2011 meeting. The minutes should have
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read next meeting would be July 13, 2011 and not October12th,
2011 corrections were made. Judy Shannon entertained a motion to
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approve the minutes as written and Sandra Dukakis 2the motion.
Minutes were approved as written.
Third item on Agenda: Review of expenditures. Cinde Ebeling ask
about a check for Janie Larsen. This was a check for her mileage
and food to do the Immtrac job and to go to the Ipos meeting in
Lubbock Texas. Cinde Ebeling, ask about a check that was on the
expenditures twice made to Milstead Hardware for helium. The
check was made out twice and we will get a credit on our next
report. There was no other question Sandra Dulakis made a motion
to approve the expenditures for March 2011, April 2011, and May
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2011, Judy Shannon 2 the motion. Expenditures were approved as
written.
Fourth Item on Agenda: Update and discusses communicable disease
reports: Kelli reported that there was 2 cases of E.coli in Hale
County she said the source could have come from Lake Allen
Henry. A 22 month old was admitted to the Hospital. The other case
involved a teenager but he was not admitted to Hospital. There has
been an increase in STD’S.
Fifth Item on Agenda: Health Department News. Kelli Shurbet said
we had given 182 shots and seen 65 children doing the back to
school clinic in June. Cinde Ebeling ask if we were going to give
shots at any of the other schools. We will go Coronado Junior High
on registration day to give shots. We will go to other schools in
September or October if they ask us to.
Sixth Item on Agenda: Discuss other health concerns the board
would like to address. Kelli Shurbet introduced Kelli Northcott from
the Texas Department of State Health Services Emergency
Preparedness. Kelly Northcott said we needed 4 pods to help with
the residence population in Hale County which each pod is made up
of at least 60 volunteers. Kelly said it is a struggle to go out and get
that many people to help with the pods. At one time we had about
240 people that had volunteered. First Responders and Volunteers
and their families would be the first one to get medicine.
If there was an outbreak in Hale County the State would only be
able to send 2 people to help out. Some of the Volunteers have
other jobs that might have to come first. A lot of the pod places are
Schools and Principals and Superindents can’t make staff help with
them.
Cinde Ebeling ask if we could staff any pod right now Kelly said we
would have enough to open at least one or two in Hale County.
Kelly said that the Health Department would be trained and maybe
then those people can go out and train other people. The volunteers
are ask to sign forms and go to a training class that last about 3
hours and it would include a tabletop exercise every 2 years.
Cinde Ebeling ask if it would be feasible to go to Civic groups and
ask for volunteers. Kelly Northcutt ask if we could ask the group to
take on the project as a whole. Nancy Cox said it would be good to
talk and explain what a POD is. Kelli Shurbet said maybe Nursing
School students could help. Greg Ingham, ask how long it had been
since they had went to the Civic Groups. Kelli Northcutt said it had
been about a year.
Seventh Item on Agenda: Next Meeting Date. The next meeting will
be October 12,2011.
Eight Item on Agenda: Adjourn. Judy Shannon entertained a motion
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to adjourn and Nancy Cox 2.
Sheila Carter
Secretary, Plainview-Hale County Health Department