HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-16-2010 Board of Health MinutesBoard of Heath Minutes
September 16th, 2010
Board Members Present: Don Williams, Dr. Ruth Rector -Wright,
Cinde Ebeling, Stacie Hardage, Michael T Carroll, Nancy Cox, and
Sandra Dulakis.
Others Present:
Benny Cantwell, Jack McCassland, and Greg
Ingham, City Manager.
Staff Members Present: Kelli Shurbet, RN (DON) and Sheila Carter,
Secretary.
Cinde Ebeling called the meeting of the Plainview -Hale County
Board of Health to order at the Unger Memorial Library on
September 16th, 2010 at 12:30 P.M.
First Item on Agenda: Invocation. Don Williams gave the invocation.
Second Item on Agenda: Administer Oath of Office. Cinde Ebeling
administered Oath of Office to Sandra Dulakis.
Third Item on Agenda: Approval of minutes from the May 13th,
2010 meeting. There was no correction to the minutes from the May
13th, 2010 meeting. Don Williams entertained a motion to approve
the minutes as written and Dr. Ruth Wright 2nd. Minutes were
approved as written.
Fourth item on Agenda: Review of expenditures. Cinde asked if any
expenditure's would increase in the near future. Kelli said there was
not going to be any that she knew of. Michael Carroll made a motion
to approve the expenditures for April, May, June, and July 2010 as
written and Dr. Ruth -Rector Wright 2nd the motion. Expenditures
were approved.
Fifth Item on Agenda: Update and discusses communicable disease
reports: Kelli reported that there was an increase in STD'S. There
have been 5 cases of the Flu confirmed and reported to us. There
has been 1 case of West Nile reported in Lubbock County. No other
Preventable Disease's have been reported. We need to encourage
people to cough into their arms and make sure they wash their
hands well.
Sixth Item on Agenda: Health Department News. We have had a
good turn out for back to School shots. We gave over 1200 shots in
August to School Children. We have several Flu Clinics set up.
The car seat program is going very good. Kelli and Sheila has to go
to a class on Friday September 17th 2010 for some update training
on the car seat's.
Cinde said she came in to the Health Department in August and a
lady was throwing a fit and was not being nice to the Employee's at
all because she was having to wait to be seen and she wanted
service right then. So if any of the Board Members are approached
by any of the people in the community about the Employee's of the
Health Department being slow to wait on them we just need to
explain that sometimes when they are real busy they may have to
wait a while for service.
Jack McCasland the Health Inspector explained how he does the
Restaurant inspection and how he does the merits and critical
violations. The critical violations are those that can by themselves
lead to someone getting sick. The non critical needs another action
before an illness will accrue. Greg asked what NO (not observed)
NA (not apply) stands for. Cos (corrected on site). Cinde asked,
Jack if he was seeing better compliance on sanitation and he said
yes. He has had real good compliance with people using gloves and
Dr. Wright said she thought all people had to wear gloves. Nancy
Cox asked if a 4 was good and Jack answered depending on which
violation it was may or may not be good. A number is not used
depending on the violation whether if it has to be fixed before he
leaves or not.
Seventh Item on Agenda: Discuss other health concerns the board
would like to address. Cinde ask Greg if Leslie listened to the PSA
adds? Greg said she had and there was thing there that with it being
such a touchy subject and being associated with the City it would be
better if we didn't get involved in it. Don Williams said he was just
concerned about the Kids living in poverty not having the chance to
learn what some of the consequences are. Don ask if we could
extract some of the wording out of it could we maybe get involved.
Dr. Wright said we are seeing a lot of kids by the time they are 19
years old that already have 3 and 4 kids. Cinde wanted to know if
maybe we could invite Leslie to the next meeting and ask her if she
could give us some ways we could use this. Would we like to work
with Covenant and help them get this going or maybe looking into
getting a Teen Board started to help get information to the kids.
Cinde ask Dr. Wright if she could look into checking out the board
idea.
Eighth Item on Agenda: Discuss proposed future meeting dates: Dr.
Ontai is our Medical Doctor and he wants to know if there is any
way to move the meetings to Wednesday and to have it once a
quarter instead of having it every other month. No one had a
problem with moving it to Wednesday and having it quarterly. Cinde
said if we didn't have a quorum the fist month of the quarter we
could have it the 2nd or 3rd month of the quarter. Nancy Cox made a
motion to have the meeting on Wednesday but to continue to have
meeting thru 2010 and then start quarterly meetings in January
2011. Don Williams 2nd the motion and all members approved.
Ninth Item on Agenda: Adjourn. Don Williams entertained a motion to
adjourn and Nancy Cox 2na
Sheila Carter
Secretary, Plainview -Hale County Health Department