Gardner Health Director Micah Blondeau Updates City at Board of Health Meeting
Gardner Board of Health met on March 25, 2024. Listen to the meeting on any device. CLICK PLAY.
Abandoned Housing – The Director has a plan in place for handling abandoned housing with the ACO’s office of the State, “Whenever we identify a new house that we think they would find suitable, we’re going to refer that to them.”
Landfill – Director Blondeau stated, “I’m going to be meeting with our environmental consultants at the landfill so we can get a clear view of the sort of work that we need to do. And then we’ll start getting close and working on figuring out how to pay for those projects. …We did get a quote to install some precast concrete steps where the residents throw the trash into the bagel containers. So that was about $3,000 for pre-made steps. And then we would be able to install them. And we probably need railings. So we’re still exploring our options with that.”
E.L. Harvey – No complaints “since the last meeting, we haven’t had any complaints regarding E.L. Harvey and co-handling trash recycling or anything like that.”
Norovirus at a restaurant – “We did get one complaint about potential food borne illness, but we don’t have a lot of details on it other than two different people ate at a restaurant at two different times, and they both had norovirus, but we don’t know what they ate or when they ate. We did do a preliminary inspection today and just went with it as far as making sure they’re following the procedures for restricting or excluding employees, hand-washing, educating about norovirus, all that good stuff. So we will keep working on that as much as we can.” What is norovirus? Here’s the detail from the CDC, CLICK HERE.
Vaccine Clinics – “We are still waiting on a schedule for the next clinics, where the vaccinations go.”
Health and Wellness Fair – So far, there are 54 vendors for April 17th.
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