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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01 January COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING VITAL STATISTICS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HEALTH EDUCATION JEFFERSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT 802 SHERIDAN PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. 98368 (206) 385-0722 HEALTH BOARD Minutes: January 20, 1988 BOARD MEMBERS: STAFF MEMBERS: B.G. Brown, Chairman Larry W. Dennison, Member George C. Brown, Member Rick Miklich, Director of Environmental Health Mary Catlin, Administrator Director of Nurses J. Peter Geerlofs, M.D. Health Officer CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND REPRESENTATIVE: Karen Chang *********************************************************************** ******************************************************************** The meeting was called to order by Chairman B. G. Brown at the appointed time. Commissioner Larry W. Dennison and Commissioner George C. Brown were present as were Mary Catlin, Rick Miklich, and Dr. Geerlofs. City Representative Karen Chang was not present. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The Minutes of the December 15, 1987 meeting were approved as read by motion of Commissioner Dennison, seconded by Commissioner George Brown. The motion carried by a unanimous vote. Resianation of City Representative Karen Chanq: Chairman Brown read a letter of resignation from City Representative Karen Chang, which stated that she would have to resign if the meeting time remains at 1:30 p.m. due to a conflict with her work schedule. After discussion, Commissioner Dennison moved to change the meeting time to 10:00 a.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. Commissioner George Brown seconded the motion. The next meeting will be at 10:00 on February 23, 1988. The motion carried by a unanimous vote. Health Board Minutes: January 10, 1988 Page: 2 ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT: on the following after submitting the month of December 1987: Administrator Mary Catlin reported the written report of activities for Annual Report: The annual report of Health Department activities in 1987 was submitted by Mary Catlin. She further reported that Irene Senior Pomeroy has been hired as a full time Public Health Nurse. Bob Gibson has been hired for the part time clerical position approved in the 1988 budget. Staff Retreat Update, Goals and Plans for 1988: Mary Catlin reported on the items that were discussed at the last staff retreat including: The model standards program, the services provided by the Health Department during the past year, mileage reporting, the Health Departments role in sex education in schools, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, etc. The model standards program is a national program that sets goals for all areas of public health. Commissioner Larry Dennison served as Acting Chairman for the rest of the meeting because Chairman B. G. Brown had to leave. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIRECTOR'S REPORT: Rick Miklich submitted the report of environmental health activities for December and for the year 1987. The following items were also presented: Environmental Health Fees: Rick Miklich presented a list of proposed new fees for some of the environmental heal th services. The proposed fee changes were based on the current break even point for these services. Rick asked that the Board set a public hearing for these proposed changes. On Site Sewage Disposal Program Procedures: Rick Miklich presented a proposal for changing the procedures for the on site sewage disposal program as follows: Currently a permit application for an on-site sewage disposal system is submitted, reviewed and if approved the applicant has up to three years to install the system. (one year plus two, one year renewals). This is causing some problems for applicants, especially for those people who are subdividing property. The proposal is to make the application and the permit process two separate stages. The first stage would be the application, which would be submitted for approval. This form would be kept on record and if approved the applicant could pick up the permit any time in the future. There is a Health Board Minutes: January 10, 1988 Page: 3 disclaimer on the front of the application that states if any changes have occurred on the site since the application was approved, that the Health Department must be made aware of the changes and the application will be reviewed and could possibly be denied. Commissioner Dennison asked if the disclaimer would relieve the County of liability if a problem occurred in the future when the permit is issued? The possibility of changes to the property, or changes in regulations, from the time that the permit is approved to when it is issued, which could make the approved application invalid, is the problem with this type of system. Dr. Geerlofs outlined the issues involved as follows: 1) A conditional approval (site evaluation) was tried and is not good system. This type of approval was "conditional" on the time that the system was to be installed, the condition of the site, and an inspection of the site to make sure that it meant all the regulation criteria, 2) At the point that someone inspects the property to make sure that all of the requirements for an on site septic system can be met, there needs to be evaluation standardization which was not always the case in the past, 3) Is there a statute on the books that prior to short platting there has to be a guarantee that the short plat includes a buildable site. After discussion of "conditional approvals", and how this system would fit in with the County's platting regulations, Commissioner Dennison stated that this issue will have to be discussed further when Chairman Brown is present because he is the only Commissioner that has been on the Board long enough to provide a historical perspective on this issue. Commissioner Dennison added that the possibility of changes happening to a site that would make a permit approved previously invalid, is a question that must be answered. Another meeting will be arranged to discuss this proposal further. ERA Real ty and Gene Seton re: Individual Sewaqe Disposal System Permit; Robert Gooch; Black Bear Subdivision. Four Corners: (See also Minutes of November 1987 Health Board meeting) Rick Miklich explained that Mr. Gooch's septic system application was tabled until a winter evaluation was performed on the site. This evaluation is needed to make a determination on the ground water level. Tom Beavers of ERA Real ty has asked when it will be made, because he thought that the rainy season is what we are in now. Kerry Perkins of the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was contacted for an explanation of the "rainy season", Health Board Minutes: January 10, 1988 Page: 4 Rick Miklich reported. Mr. Perkins advised that the rainfall on the Quimper Peninsula has not sufficiently made up the deficit caused by the 1987 summer drought. The rainfall that we've had recently has been taken up by the plants and is not adding to ground water. The Chimacum valley has not reached seasonal saturation yet. Southern portions of the county (Quilcene and Brinnon) have had sufficient rainfall to reach saturation, however. There are two ways to handle this permit, Rick advised: 1) Continue to wait for enough rainfall to provide the information for a winter evaluation, or 2) issue the permit under the conditions which are present on the site which would mean that an above ground alternative (mound) system would be required. After considerable discussion of the "rainy season", when saturation of the ground may occur, and the water table in this area, the salesperson from ERA Realty asked if this type of situation would be one that will come up more in the future or if it was caused by the drought cond it ions this year? Ri ck Mikl i ch reported that only a small percentage of applications are held for winter evaluations. Approvals are based on the soil logs and conditions on a site. Rick Miklich will inform Mr. Gooch of his choices on this permit. Being no further business the meeting was adjourned. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH ~4~) B. G. Brown, Chairman " ' / 4:~~~ Larry Dennison, Member /t!:.-tJ-<.-~ {L.dl-?/9--rA ~-- -George a7. Brown, Member . ~.,fllIUC tIIftCI ....~'"T_". . "",dlSV' t.l~~." TIle regular . ,,~lln9..f tile ~,~,Qf~ln Jonuary a._~- cI\oneed lI' foIIolItlC ...... " January '20. I_ill ,.lOp,lIl. ",,-,.~~'::!;;'t ,'r,_c::2--"'" ,-, ,L_:,~ Februaf-t 23; \988 at. 1 :30 fl'.nl. Th. ~9" are ~ in ,lIelK>...., menf_ference . in'lIeJ\l!ferJOn c.-,y~8uiilline .at 8Sl2~1\, J.~~Y .... ~rd;qfCqJ!llft\~ a.j:;.Jlr.o",,~, ~iflll!"P' ".' .... . ,.n#MJ ,-,,___J~ Affidavit of publication STATE OF WASHINGTON) COUNTY OF JEFFERSON) ", fRANK W. GARREO, being sworn, says he is the publisher of tne Port TownsendlJefferson County Leader, a weekly newspaper which has been established, published in the English language and circulated continuously as 0 weekly newspaper in the town of port Townsend, in said County and State, and for general circulation in said county for more than six {6} months prior to the date of the first publication of the Notice hereto at- tached, and that the soid Port Townsend/Jefferson County leader was on the 27th day of June 1941, approved os 0 legal newspaper by the Superior Court of said Jefferson County, and that annexed is true copy of the public Notice change of meeting dates Jefferson County Board Health os it appeared in the regular and entire issue of said paper itself and not in a supplement thereof for a period of one consecutive weeks, beginning on the 13th January ,1Q~, day of and ending on the 13thd f oy 0 January 88 19___________, and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during 01\ of this period. That the full amount of s 12. 38 has been paid in full at the rote of $5.50 per column inch for each insertion. Subscribed and swor!'o'.to ~.f_QI...___tlolisl.1t:h day of Januarv,," :ill!. ,T9o;.-~':-- ~--~ ..-.'. ,-" " ~r,L..t:' '~,r(!jtory "u~lic m <;Hic!--h;,r the State of Wq,sh.'':'9!OW, -re~1ding at Hadlock (\ (,1?~bliSh 2,times: January 13 and February 10. 1988 l\~" 0) J Ji ~,' '~-4~!!c? i/r If ~IP; r~ kU({<'hG), ;6 PUBLIC NOTICE CHANGE IN MEETING DATE JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH The regular monthly meetings of the Jefferson County Board of Health in January and February are changed as follows: January 20, 1988 at 1:30 p.m. February 23, 1988 at 1:30 p.m. The meetings are held in the basement conference in the Jefferson County Multi-Services Building at 802 Sheridan. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS V[)l 14 fW nt, -- 199