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Board of Health
November 18th, 2008
OFFICIAL MINUTES
Dr. Merritt Warren called the Board of Health meeting to order on Tuesday,
November 18th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the meeting in City Hall.
Committee Members present: Dr. Merritt Warren, Emil Klavetter, Pat Lyons, Roberta
Wagner, LuAnn Napton, Jesse Ronning and Paul Irwin
.
Committee Members absent: Karen Cook and Trish Matson Buus
Others present: Robert McGrath and Todd Langland
1. Approval of Minutes: (Klavetter/Lyons ) Motion to approve minutes for the August
19th, 2008 meeting.
All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
2. Additions to agenda: no Additions
3. Approve Agenda: (Napton/Irwin )Motion to approve agenda.
All present voted aye. MOTION CARRIED.
4. 2008 Budget Update – The City Council made no changes to the Landfill and
Collection budgets and first reading of the budgets is set for August 26th, 2008 and final
reading is on September 9th, 2008. So, the budgets are set for 2009.
5. Electronic Waste Recap: Bob presented the Board of Health members with the
recap for the September Electronic waste program. There is money set aside in the budget
for the year 2009 to build a building to store the waste as it comes into the landfill. This
will mean we will discontinue the weekend program.
The recap for the last two years is listed below on the next page:
Electronic Collection Event Recap
Date Held: September 22, 2007 September 20, 2008
Number of Vehicles: 109 108
Number of pounds of electronics: 15,027 15,170
Costs
Advertising $1,026.00 $ 1,165.68
Labor
Millennium Recycling $ 600.00 $ 450.00
Collection Crew (overtime) $ 1,318.40 $1,118.38
Landfill (overtime) $ 579.60 $ 264.83
Food
George’s Pizza $ 101.77
Hy Vee $ 152.21
Recycling Cost
Millennium Recycling $ 2,987.50 $2.953.25
Freight $ 250.00 $ 325.00
Fork Lift
Prussman’s Contracting $ 335.60 $ 236.40
Total Cost $ 7,198.87 $5,665.75
6. Update Pandemic Influenza Planning- Bob gave an update on the planning and they
are setting up times to visit the schools to enhance the students about the influenza
program that is being set up in the Brookings area. There are also targeting the shoppers
during the holiday seasons. In the spring they will be setting up to contact all the
churches in Brookings.
7. Other Business – The Board of Health would like to thank Emil Klavetter for all his
years of service as the Brookings County Representative. The next meeting will be set for
January 2009.
8. Adjournment: (Lyons/Klavetter) Motion to adjourn meeting. All present voted aye.
MOTION CARRIED.
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Todd Langland, Secretary Dr. Merritt Warren MD, Chairman