Board of Health

Minutes Anaconda Deer Lodge County Board of Health Meeting Wednesday, April 27, 2023 1st Floor Conference Room at Community Service Center 118 E 7th Street Anaconda, MT 59711 1) Administrative Agenda Items a. Call to order at 06:00p.m. b. Attendance i. Angie Galetti – Member ii. Vern Tuss – Enforcement Officer iii. Chad Lanes – Sanitarian iv. Kathy Russell, NP – Member v. Katie Gruss – Member vi. Ian Lux – Member vii. Ann Campbell - Member viii.Lauren Bolton – Health Director ix. Denise Clark – Public Health Administrator x. Mike Huotte – Commissioner – (Teams) xi. Jennifer Robinson – Public Health Emergency Preparedness (Teams) xii. Amanda Booher – Tri-County Tobacco Education Specialist (Teams) c. Approval of the meeting minutes from March 23,2023, Board of Health meeting. Angie Galetti moved to approve the minutes and Katie seconded. The minutes were approved. 2) Public Comment(S) On Any Items on the Agenda a. None 3) New Business – Action Agenda Items a. Elected a Chairman to the Board of Health i. Katie Gruss – Appointed, motion passed unanimously  b. Elected a Vice-Chairman to the Board of Health i. Angie Galetti – Appointed, motion passed unanimously c. Elected Secretary to the Board of Health i. Anaconda-Deer Lodge Public Health Dept – Appointed, motion passed unanimously d. ADLC Pandemic Influenza and COVID-19 Plan – Discussed changes that were made. All changes were to contact and personnel information. Approved, motion passed unanimously e. Promulgation Document-Pandemic Influenza/communicable disease – Discussed- all approved. 4) Updates a. Environmental Health – Chad Lanes i. Discussion on development visits and site visits and how he will be doing routine visits for commercial businesses. ii. Discussion – Pests in Davidson Building- Vern Tuss- will work with Lauren Bolton about the case involving the bird/mice dropping in the building, discussed with Chad Lanes to get authority to work on these issues. a. Process i. Owner of building responsible ii. Letter to abate issue to owner. iii. Timeframe (now) – then follow up – delegate for inspection (PH) iv. Board will address issue. v. Motion to support sending letter. Motion passed unanimously. 5) Public Health updates a. Lauren Bolton: May 11th Covid emergency ending/ the start of paying for covid immunizations. We are just under budget, will be working with John Sholey on a budget proposal for the next meeting. b. Program updates- i. Family Planning: working on outreach to increase STI education: April is STI awareness we are doing STI testing at the Job Corps and Public Health Department. Provider search is still in effect, hopefully have a provider by summertime. ii. Immunization: Slow but steady/ billing for immunizations are starting to come in, FLU clinics will begin in end of September then through the month of October. iii. Tobacco: Continuing to provide service out at Job Corps and facilitate REACT coalition in Powell County.  iv. P.A.T: Caseload almost full with 19 families. Getting ready for a busy group connection season during market season. v. Asthma: Prepping for world asthma month in May for plenty of outreach vi. WIC: Staying busy with 152 participants. Working to collaborate with the community market. vii. PHEP: Jennifer Robinson is updating plans 6) Public Comment(s) On Any Items Not on the Agenda a. None 7) Next meeting a. The next board meeting will be held at 6p.m. May 25,2023, in the 1st Floor Conference Room at Community Service Center 118 E 7th Street Anaconda, MT 59711 8) Adjournment