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okay uh welcome to the special meeting
of the Board of

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Health November 28th
20123 M Mars roll call please first the

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statement of the open public meetings
act in accordance with the requirements

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of New Jersey open public meetings act
and notice of the special meeting was

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filed in the office of the Township
Clerk clst it on the bulletin board in

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the municipal building and on the
township website a mailed to all persons

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requesting notice in accordance with
Township policy 48 hours notice of this

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meeting was also trans submitted via fax
or email to Suburban Trends and Daily

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Record newspapers notice of this meeting
included a statement that the purpose of

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this meeting is to review the Panic
Township Health Department annual report

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and that no formal action will be taken
all right thank you so much a roll call

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please Mr Dy president Mrs Lawrence
Lynch here Mr herd is absent Mrs Russell

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here mayor Cole here items uh next on
the agenda is items for discussion and

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I'm going to turn it over to
our health officer yes thank you very

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much um in the packets you guys received
uh we have um uh the summary of all the

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activity that we've had for the course
of

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2023 and um uh as in previous years
we've completed all the mandated

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requirements uh we've gone above and
beyond anything that's an elevated

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public health risk we do well above uh
what's required at a minimum standard um

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and so we're going to continue that uh
tradition it's an important policy that

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we have in place and that we're going to
keep moving forward with that uh in

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section one I provided a summary here to
give you a little bit of a a supplement

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to this vast report that's got a lot of
numbers and shows all the activity we

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did throughout the course of the year
but the summary is something I'd like

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you to just take a look at uh section
one of the summary um deals with all the

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mandated activities that are required
all the things that we accomplish

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throughout the year uh that are uh
mandated uh section two of the summary

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uh pretty much uh talks about um the uh
Disease Control emergency response that

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we've been engaged in that we were
always engaged in but but uh in the

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summer U you know it's a little each
season has its own challenges we're

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moving into a winter season which
primarily is respiratory illnesses um Co

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is still there uh but it's it's it's
become all these VAR subvariants of

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covid which are offshoots of Omron are
are very much like the uh Corona viruses

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that we've had for a hundred years uh
the seriousness of it is is greatly

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reduced uh hospitalizations are way down
uh so the concern with Co is the concern

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that you have with Corona viruses uh
it's a little more severe especially

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with people who have underlying
conditions or of age uh so they have to

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take some more precautions than than
what we experien with the common cold

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which most of the other Corona virus
isn't a concern uh but um uh we also are

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looking at RSV flu and uh right now it's
been fairly mild The Season's kicked off

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slowly which is which is nice so
hopefully we'll have a less than average

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uh impact this winter um the next
section three

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um uh again that's that's the uh
emerging threats that we really just

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talked about um um and uh what we do for
Disease Control which was really in the

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other section but Disease Control we do
all kinds of things with Audits and

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health education our inspections and
we're out there to really reduce the

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instances of disease the prevalence of
disease in the community and that's

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always being done at a high level the
staff the health department staff's

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still performing has always performed at
a high level I'm really lucky to have a

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staff that's dedicated they're
credentialed and we' we've really done a

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lot of good work the last 3 years but
but I'm excited about what's coming and

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now that we have the scourge of the
covid pandemic behind us we can start

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directing to a little more proactive
activities to to help the community

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further um the last part of this summary
I just want to bring to your attention

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some additional achievements that we've
had that's nice yes yes that's a that's

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a great one um the first one is we
expand the Public Health Region we took

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on town of botin and uh it's enabled us
to actually increase our capacity uh to

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serve all six communities better with
with more resources by bringing them in

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um and at the same time it's enabled us
to reduce cost which is really not

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something you're hearing these days with
the uh inflation rates and everything

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that we're seeing that not only did we
keep that at Bay we actually reduced

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cost substantially to all six
municipalities so that was really a Cod

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bringing and expanding the region uh the
second part is the award that we

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received the grant funds uh was able to
acquire an award of over

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$625,000 I
was very excited by that um and uh we

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worked uh we wanted to apply these to
projects and purchases that aren't only

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for public health infrastructure but
actually could be broadly applied across

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all Town operations
so I want to thank Mr Brewer who helped

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me coordinate with the other department
heads to identify projects that are for

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public health but also used broadly by
all the other departments and uh and we

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identified some fantastic uh projects
apped to yeah so it's it's across the

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board that's been a great thing and then
we've also entered into a contract with

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Atlantic Health uh to augment our health
education services and uh they assigned

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a fantastic ftic professional uh to us
we've been working together all year

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she's really a
dynamic uh person who's who's uh excited

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about what she does we've gotten a lot
of U we've put together some nice

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programs that are allowing us to do some
Outreach in the community we've actually

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uh reached out to hurl Village and some
of the other senior clubs uh not only

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here in panic but all all six towns
we're looking at um augmenting the

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school systems health courses because
they're not really touching on some of

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the things kids are dealing with now
postco um there's been a lot of mental

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health issues since Co there's been uh
substance abuse and addiction problems

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since Co um and uh we're working with
the superintendent of schools uh in in

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all six
municipalities I just had a meeting with

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Dr Portis about a month ago was very
productive he was very pleased uh to to

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work with us and we're looking to put
some programs together in the schools

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not only for the students but for the
parents about some of these emerging

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Public Health threats that people may
not be aware of and and it's really

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incumbent upon the health department to
bring these issues to the FL and and try

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to have some kind of a program to
address them and uh and so those are the

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additional achievements that we've had
this year looking forward to continuing

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this in in the future with more things
that we can uh do connect with the the

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community and uh that's pretty much it
in addition to the summary you've got

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volumes of paper with the like I said
the statistics and the numbers that you

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were provided um and um and that's
pretty much it with the routine report

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is it five or six towns that we now
we're at six towns so Bloomingdale for

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Park Kon Riverdale and town Bo which one
am I missing us oh

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us yeah so I would think that Chilton
would be

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should be I mean because five of the six
are in Chilton's Network area so it

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would definitely be wise for and the
rest are in marown yeah fore Park would

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probably go to marown hospital so and
one of in the health education services

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are based out of marown and they do work
here at of Chilton too so it connects

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all the towns to marown and Chilton both
works out great you're doing yeah it's

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Cassidy Doc is the health
educator she's been doing it for about 2

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3 years very enthused and uh has some
great ideas brings a nice fresh uh A

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View to to what we're trying to
achieve when did we when did we say we

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brought botin on board how long have
they April April was the first month

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that we that's why their numbers are
lower CU they a full year yes and going

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into um next year we're as I said the uh
fees for all six municipalities have

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dropped
so they they were quite surprised when I

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gave the
numbers um and so before I if you have

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any other questions if not I'd like to
delve into the uh legislation I'm

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interested in discussing that that also
has to do with public health threats

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that are emerging um they were already
intensifying before covid but since Co

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it's gotten worse and so I went through
all the ordinances um to see if there's

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any legislative approaches in addition
to the programs we're trying to develop

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um if there's a legislative approach to
certain aspects of it and I came up with

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uh actually three small small but
important changes I like to make to some

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of the ordinances that we have um uh
there was a memo that I had sent to the

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board um and so if you want to take a
quick look at that I can uh show you uh

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on here what what I'm
suggesting in the first section here uh

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the changes I'm proposing are the three
there's three changes to the existing

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ordinances so the first is instituting
reinspection fees and reinspection fees

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really are an a way to um have an
administrative fine for to to

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establishments that have failed
inspection and have been downgraded to

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something less than
satisfactory when they're less all the

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all the establishments facilities and
institutions that we regulate the reason

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we regulate them is they they're not
operating in a compliant manner they're

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they're inherently dangerous to the
public so when they're downgraded from

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satisfactory to something less there's a
problem and so rather than do

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reinspection and and try to we educate
is a primary thing but but sometimes

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you're dealing with businesses who are
refusing to comply and with that the

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next option for us is to go to
court it's very time consuming not only

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for for us but for the business business
owners and uh it just becomes it

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sometimes ties up the court system and
so I've used this in other

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municipalities it works very well where
you can Institute a reinspection fee

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right on the spot if it's if it's
something that has to be downgraded

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because of their failure to operate in a
compliant manner um the fee would be uh

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equal to the amount they pay for their
license so whatever they pay for their

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license is what the fine would be and we
don't like to to find it's a

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reinspection fee but it is equal to the
whatever license fee they're paying that

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fee will continue until we can Elevate
them back to satisfactory status so we

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go back a second time and they're still
haven't become compliant they'll be

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given the fee again and again if they
fail to pay the fee then we'll issue a

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summons for fail to pay the fee and then
we can also issue summonses for the

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citations that they failed to correct
and so there's a it really intensifies

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our ability to do enforcement and get
them on board much more quickly every

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day they're operating at a compliance is
a day they're threatening the public so

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this abbreviates the process court dates
can sometimes be a month off uh this is

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something you can do immediately you get
good results very swiftly and once they

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get that understanding you don't have to
do it that often it's really they know

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it's there they know it's something you
can Levy and they they're they're just a

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lot more interested in what you have to
say when you walk in how does it work

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now if they have to be reinspected you
just go back at a particular back it's

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usually unannounced a lot of the times
we'll give it a like we'll say you have

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a week to correct these items so at some
point after a week we'll go back or two

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weeks depending on what it is and then
if U if they haven't done it we say okay

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we'll give you you know we'll give you
another few days but if not we'll give

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you summons and it's like a negotiation
all the time yeah so it's better just to

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have the faith this way you can go back
and say look I'm sorry but there is a

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reinspection fee because we had to
downgrade you to a conditionally

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satisfactory rating or an unsatisfactory
rating uh or if we had to close the

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place that that happens on occasion um
these additional fees and fines hit hit

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the hard so and I'm assuming that the
license fees vary greatly depending on

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the industry yes it depends on the type
of business we're regulating and so for

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instance for the reinspection fees we're
looking to do it for body art which is

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your tattoo and body piercing and
permanent Cosmetics we're also looking

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to do this with public recreational
bathing facilities so all all the pools

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and the complexes uh at gyms and things
like that and then all of your food

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establishments so this is what we want
to Institute for all these three

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categories can we just do three
categories isn't that like picking and

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choosing should we just do everything
through can you just three well these

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are the these are the main three that
that we that we actually expect that

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present the most threat to the public if
they're not in

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compliance um just so everyone knows
this will if

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we CH these changes do come they'll have
to come in front of us as a resolution

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and we'll have to approve them we're not
approving these are just on Tom's wish

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list that he wants to do yeah this is
right this

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is yeah for instance uh Mr usik and I
would have to go through the ordinances

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figure out where we're going to place
this I have some they're only to give

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you they're really it's a concept only
to give you the concept of what we're

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trying to achieve obvious people but we
would actually make this an ordinance

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and then we would we would just do when
we go into a place we're going to find

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them we would find them on the
spot um the other part of this we want

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to really uh go through the definitions
especially with mobile food vendors

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temporary retail food establishments and
farmers markets we had a farmers market

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here in town uh I don't think we have
one right right now but it could

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reemerge and there's a lot of confusion
of how you're going to license farmers

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markets and how they operate uh if you
treat it like a temporary retail food

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establishment every seven days they have
to come and get a new license but the

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farmers markets usually run from like
April till November so we want to have

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one license that covers the entire
period so we want something specific for

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farmers markets and we also want
something to to distinguish mobile food

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vendors for temporary retail food
establishments a little bit better

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because a lot of times the law is not
being equally applied and it's also

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creating a lot of confusion to the
business owners of what license type

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they want to get so we really want to um
sharpen up those uh definitions and that

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way everybody's treated equally does
that include the trucks that we have out

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here like on a Tuesday so they would be
they would actually be a temporary

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retail food even though it's a truck
because they're not on a route but

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that's where some of the confusion comes
in so we're going to we're going to make

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those definitions a little clearer and
then the last one that we'd like to do

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is right now we are training food
workers they get a very cursory course

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that we give to their employees which
makes us managers in their business in a

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sense because it's their responsibility
to train the food workers it's not our

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responsibility and with this vicious
turnover of food workers they're they

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come and go in two three months so by
the time you get to train them annually

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they're got they you may have had two or
three generations of food workers

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already none of whom were
trained and because they're not trained

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how many people were exposed to foods
that were not prepared properly so this

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uh this change would would remove that
from the ordinance we no longer have the

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Health Department training Frontline
food workers with a cursory kind of a

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course but the establishments would have
to actually have managers trained uh

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with this more extensive course it's
about a 16-hour training course and each

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shift will have to have have a food
protection manager there and they'll be

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responsible to on every shift have
somebody present when we do inspections

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they'll have to show us who that manager
is the credential the certificate who's

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on shift they'll have to show us their
license to make sure it's the person

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whose blackard is there and and that
will go a long way to make sure

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everybody's trained all the time on
every shift and so that's the other part

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that we'd like to to for you guys to
consider and again Bob and I will be

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going through all three of these changes
and ultimately sometime early next year

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uh the draft for your consideration will
be presented okay the last one and and

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importantly we'd like to propose new
legislation entirely in regards to uh

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electronic smoking device and
psychoactive substance establishments we

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want to actually create a new license
type yeah psychoactive sub that's

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interesting word it is I had to find I
had to find a very one that encompasses

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and that is a scientific term for any of
these

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things and the definition is in here
what psychoactive substances are I put

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it into the memo just to give you an
idea but basically um it these are drugs

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that alter your Consciousness and it
comes in all forms and so we'd like to

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put this I I have a draft there it's
about 15 pages it's taken about eight

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ordinances from across the states I
Cherry Picked the best parts out and

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then I wrote the blue that kind of pulls
it all together and all six town all the

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everything here is being presented to
all six towns by the way okay and so

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there's going to be Bob and um uh Fred
sro's office will be taking a look at it

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but I'm going to try to coordinate
multiple attorneys to kind of put some

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kind of a model code out for all six
towns we'd be ahead of the curve but

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it's important to do this because not
only your kids getting CBD which is

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actually cannabis because it's got more
THC in it than it's supposed to and

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people are buying Vapes with CBD but
really they're it's

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cannabis we have to so we have to
identify these places that are selling

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gummies that are really cannabis related
they're not they're not the legal form

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of CBD there's also stuff like ketamine
which is a cat tranquilizer called

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Special K that comes in liquid form that
gas station cell and Retail food

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establishments sell it's it's liquor
stores sell it uh and kids are getting

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their hands on it and most of these
businesses aren't observing the uh uh

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the the age restrictions and they're
also selling things that are flavored

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like candy uh cookies the packaging is
cartoon figures so these businesses are

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like predatory in a lot of ways to our
kids it's proliferating it's a real

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Hazard I don't even think parents know
what's going on out there because it's

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rapidly uh proliferating and it's taking
advantage of the mental state of our

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kids postco
the addiction issue postco and it's

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incumbent upon us to to try to counter
this so that's why i' I've put this

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legislation together and I'll be
proposing it with you know Bob's help uh

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I would say sometime in the spring we
should have it pounded out enough to to

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present it to you for consideration we
were just talking about the smoke shops

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and what sell Li we to be doing
that gone a long way from sniffing

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bottle

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glue Jee so anyway that concludes my uh
reports any other comments for the offic

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J yeah no very good job whatever you're
doing you're doing a great job keep it

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up yeah thank you thanks you for coming
out car do I have to adjourn this

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meeting can I get a motion to adjourn
the meeting I'll make that motion second

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I'll second all in favor I I thank you
Tom