Board of Health - Regular Meeting

Let's get started then. Good evening and welcome to the what is it Monday uh March 9th 2026 Grafton Board of Health meeting. As a preliminary matter, this is Jennifer Mayer, chair of the board of health. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the board are present and here to hear me and can hear me. Excuse me. Members, when I call your name, please respond to the affirmative. Andrew Chalupka. Andrew Chalupka. Here. Bill Mueller. Bill Mueller. Here. Oh, sorry. Oh, you're good. Yes, I am. I I'm working. It's You're here. Let me hear you. Uh, Radika Pu. Pu here.

Great. Uh, staff and anticipated speakers on the agenda, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Nancy Connors. Nancy Connors here. I'm gonna go based on who's on the top. Annette Garcia. Annette Garcia here. Bridget Hurley. Bridget Hurley here. Allison Turner. Allison Turner here. Great. Uh I'd like to open the meeting. May I have a motion to open the meeting? This is Andrew Chalupka. I move that we open uh tonight's board of health meeting. Second. This is Bill Mer. I second Dr. Chalupa's um

motion. Motion. Sorry. Roll call. Andrew Chuca I. Bill Muller. I think I mayard I.

All right. This open meeting of the Grafton Board of Health is being conducted remotely consistent with the act extending certain CO 19 measures adopted during the state of emergency. Governor Healey has further extended this act until June 30th, 2027 of the remote meeting uh provisions of former Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 executive order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. In order to mitigate the transmission of the CO 19 virus, the act extends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members members of public bodies are allowed to participate remotely. The order, which you can find posted at the town's website at www.gfton-mass.gov, gov allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as that reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Ensuring public access does not ensure public participation unless such participation is required by law. There are no public hearings scheduled for this evening's meeting. If the public has a question or comment on an agenda item, please utilize the Q&A feature in Zoom. Please include your full name and address when submitting a comment uh for this meeting. For this meeting, Grafton Board of Health is convening uh fully by video conference via Zoom as posted on the town's website identifying how the public may join. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and this and that all attendees are participating by video conference. Accordingly, please be aware that other folks may be able to see you and to take take care not to screen share your computer. Anything that you broadcast may be captured by the reporting. Any supporting materials that have been provided to members of this body are available on the town's website unless otherwise noted. The public is encouraged to follow along using the posted agenda unless I note otherwise. Before we turn to the first item on the agenda, permit me to cover some ground rules for effective and clear conduct of our business and to ensure accurate meeting minutes. I'll introduce any speakers on the agenda for a topic. After they conclude their remarks, I'll invite the board members

to provide any comment, questions, or motions. Please identify yourself by name when speaking. Further, please remember to mute mute your phone or computer when you're not speaking. Please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps generate accurate meeting minutes. For any response, please wait for uh wait till I yield the floor to you and state your name before speaking. If members wish to engage with other members, please do so through me, taking care to identify yourself. Finally, any votes on on any motions made during this meeting will be conducted by roll call vote. Oh my goodness, this one was a long one. Thank you for your patience. All right, so the first agenda item tonight um is our new agenda item for public comment period. Uh I just need to check and see. I don't believe there are any other Currently there are no other attendees um in the waiting area that haven't um that aren't already on this panel to to speak. Um, so since this is our first or the second time that we've had this, if we don't have anybody for public comment, uh, do we have to leave it open for public comment till the 20 minutes or can we proceed and then, uh, allow for comment if others join?

You can proceed and allow for comment later.

Okay, great. I'm sure we'll be here for at least 20 minutes. So, all right, with just reading the introduction, right? All right. So, we're going to move on to the um next uh agenda item on our agenda for tonight, and that's the advisory board meeting presentation slides. Great. So, that will be me presenting. Let me just um pull up the slides here. Oh, okay. I just requested to share Okay. Oops. Sorry. Just one moment. I'm just configuring my screen. Can you see the slides or no? Yes.

Yeah, it's in presenter mode so we can see your speaker notes, too. I don't know if that matters. Oh, I can get out of that. Hang on one second. Bear with me. I'm sorry. Did I miss something? I had to step away for a second. Did you need me? No. No. I'm just getting the slides up here. I'm sorry about that. That's all right. All right. How about now? Perfect.

Okay, great. Thanks again and apologies. Um, it's wonderful to be with you all this evening. I know we've met before, but just as a a refresher, I'm Allison Turner. I'm the regional public health coordinator. uh recently joined the Central Regional Health Department and just really thrilled to take a moment um to just do a very quick refresher of the public health excellence grant for shared services. And this is a presentation that we recently delivered to the advisory board. So we thought that it would be useful to just take a little bit of time during each of the board of health meetings to just do a very quick overview uh of some of the information that was presented. So I'm going to just go through a quick background. I know you're all familiar with the grant, but just a little bit of information about the grant, some of our accomplishments to date, and then a very brief overview of our FY26 work plan and budget. Okay. Um I'm sorry, I'm just getting oops my screen so I can see everyone. There we go. Okay. Um so this provides a little bit of information about the public health excellence grant. It's funded by the Department of Public Health's Office of Local and Regional Health. And the purpose is really to support municipalities in meeting established performance standards, expanding capacity, and delivering more equitable local public health services. So, under this grant, there has been 26.2 million in grant funding awarded statewide. And you can see on the map here the different shared services arrangements that have been put in place to date. Um so a total of 322 municipalities supported across the state. And so as a result of this grant, our department um has come together and uh decided on this mission statement earlier this fall. So the central Mass Regional Health Department protects and promotes public health through collaboration, transparency, and evidence-based practice. We provide consistent, responsive and equitable

services that strengthen the health of all residents across our communities. And this is uh the composition of the advisory board. So you can see um each uh municipality has one primary and one alt uh representing uh the community on the advisory board. And now we just wanted to take a moment to go through some of the accomplishments um from when we started in uh August up until the end of the calendar year. So first one of our main accomplishments was in terms of the intermunicipal agreement. Having that fully executed was a a really big milestone in terms of the grant administration and governance. Also um forming the advisory board was another uh big milestone that we were really happy to bring the group together recently. Um we have now uh completed the recruitment of the all of the staff. So really thrilled about that. Um we are also engaging in uh a DPH this is an office of local and regional health initiative um the state action for public health excellence pilot testing. This is a performance standard that our um shared services arrangement has volunteered to to pilot test. And so we're actually pretty far along with that. Um and it was a really great opportunity to be able to be engaged in in piloting the system and and providing feedback. Um now that we have all of our staff on board, we're really excited to to dive into more of our community outreach and engagement. Bridget has been keeping very busy. Um you can see here some of the public health nursing accomplishments. um that she has been doing across our communities. Um and we also have been busy with developing internal and external communication plans which we will be reviewing with the advisory board at our next meeting. In terms of standardizing the inspection systems, we're developing standardized procedures related to temporary event permitting, residential kitchen permitting, and

mobile food permitting. We're also working on a crosswalk to identify priority regulations that we can implement across the municipalities and developing a draft enforcement policy for housing cases. And this just gives a highle snapshot of the inspections performed between August and December 2025 across the three municipalities. And you can see across the different categories here. And just to note, the the Title 5 um inspections are performed by a contractor, but we are um working to move this over to our inspectors later this year. So now I'm going to just really quickly walk through the FY26 work plan and budget, which was approved by the advisory board in our meeting. Um so first and foremost as mentioned previously we have uh completed all of the necessary grant administration tasks related to setting up the new shared services arrangement. So this includes items such as the IMA um as well as other necessary operational steps to getting the grant program in place. Um we are stalled on the foundational public health services review and there's a little bit of a backstory here but this was actually an exercise that was completed um in FY24 when we were still uh combined with Worcester and so we do have um the data from that and we're just in discussion with DPH about the best way to really get a baseline of the foundational uh capabilities across our shared services arrangement. And then the last item on here um is in terms of the pilot that I mentioned for the the reporting requirements. So then um those were all the required objectives from the office of local and regional health. And then we did have the opportunity to pick a few uh sustainability objectives as well as a few performance standards. And so these were uh customized activities that we decided to add into our FY26 work plan.

So first of all in terms of improving sharing of resources we've developed an internal and external communication plan we are also um in the process of discussing what a strategic planning process might look like and thinking about how to uh best time that in terms of our other activities that are ongoing. Um we're also looking to explore other opportunities to expand the sharing of services. So, as mentioned, um we're standardizing permitting procedures and completing this crosswalk to identify some of the priority regulations across the municipalities. And then in terms of the performance standards, um we have recruited all of the staff and completed onboarding and then also developed a SOP to help standardize the process for requesting shared staff across the SSA. And then in terms of the last item on here, I I mentioned this already, but we have um we're we're underway with reviewing food inspection processes and then developing a draft enforcement policy for housing cases as well. And so this just gives a really highle overview of the budget for FY26. Um we've received a total of $461,014 for FY26. And you can see here the um we're about 310,000 spent against that. But I do want to just note that this includes all of our projections through the end of the fiscal year. So this grant is a little bit unique because it's divided up into three terms of four months each. So we actually just completed uh term two which ended on February 28th and now we're at the very beginning of the third term and the it will go through the end of the fiscal year on June 30th. And so obviously the the third bar there um the term that we're currently in um not only reflects the um increase in activities and implementation and and staffing now that our our full team is on board um but it also does include um some of our

projections through the end of the fiscal year. So we are projecting to be um at at least 67% spent. We are looking for other opportunities to increase that spending. Um, but really excited to be able to to start ramping up activities in the coming months. And that is actually my last slide. So, I'm going to navigate back here. And thank you so much again for your time. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Allison. Um, but first I just want to say I think it's pretty incredible how um all of you really just sort of jumped right in and hit the ground running. Um so I you can see by these slides like there was has been a lot of activity activity as it relates to surveillance um but just again in building your infrastructure uh and the incredible team that you all have. So just want to thank you all for your efforts and um you know again we we never knew what was going to happen when we kind of jumped into a new a new relationship but it's been um so far you know really really impressive. So, thank you. Uh, board members, any questions for Allison or others? Just going to turn off your sharing so I can see people again in case they're shaking their heads at me. Anybody? Awesome. Thank you, Allison. Um, Annette, did you want to provide any other updates for um, the alliance tonight?

Sure. I'm happy to talk about some of the inspectional work. Um, so we're very excited to have McKenzie back from maternity leave. So, we are back fully staffed. Um, I know while we were short in inspector, um, inspections were a little bit slow. So, McKenzie came back midFebruary. Um during February in Grafton, we conducted nine food inspections, three housing inspections, and five nuisance inspections. Um we are in the process of taking one case to housing court um to try to get compliance. So the the court did issue an injunction um and they have until the end of March to come into compliance. So we're kind of working through that. Um we've been working through some septic issues um at a food establishment. And so trying to do some investigation working with water and sewer in the building department to help them come into compliance as well and address any of those concerns that have come up. Um I know we have a lot of community education that I'm sure Bridget will touch on um when she is working through hers. But um that's all I have I think if happy to answer any questions. You're on mute. That's a first. That doesn't happen very often. Any questions for Annette? I'm just recognizing just in case folks are um keeping track. Still no um outside attendees on for public comment. Uh did we want to kick it over to Bridget then for her updates?

Hi, how are you? Good. How are you?

Good. Um so just quick little updates. Um I'll start with just the flu season. So cases are starting to decrease across the state and in our region. As of today, it is now a moderate flu activity, but the severity still low. Um for the month of February, there were 49 reported influenza cases in Grafton and 13 CO 19 cases. But again, these are just cases that had testing done. So, it doesn't show the whole picture, but it's just a little snapshot. For the month of February, I did two routine case investigations through Maven. There was no foodborne illness investigations done that were related to local food establishments. Um, briefly just touch on measles. So, as I'm sure you all know, there was two cases of measles in Massachusetts as of late February. Uh, potential exposure locations were reported in Boston and surrounding areas. While risk is low for vaccinated individuals, public health officials are advised and monitoring for symptoms in area visited by infected individuals, particularly for those unvaccinated. Those who may have been exposed have been contacted by DPH and by the local board of health. So, we followed up on any uh close contacts that may have been exposed. And then just some upcoming events. So, I continue to do my monthly nursing hours at the COA. I do that on the third Thursday and there's a great turnout at those. It's a really fun crowd. So, that's been going great. Um, I'm holding an education on ticks. So, that will be at the COA on April 22nd at 10:00 a.m. And then on June 12th, we are in the works with the Craft Family Blood Donor Center to host a blood drive at the Shrewbury Town Hall. And once we have some more information and signups, we'll be sharing that out with you all. Great. Any questions for Bridget?

taking it easy on you all. It's Monday. It's always Monday. Uh let's see. Um those are I think what we have for standing um agenda items tonight. Um any new business? I think I know Annette I think you have one and Bill did you want to give um just a summary from what Dan shared?

Uh sure. I I did hear from Dan earlier today. He unfortunately um has another meeting at a bank. Um so he asked for me to fill in um uh regarding the activity the Grafton Opioid Recovery Community Partnership. Uh we did have a uh meeting that was at um uh the headquarters of Gorp um that's on Lynwood Avenue in um Whitensville. Was actually quite well attended. We had good representation including representation from the police department and other um um concerned um uh constituencies. Um it does seem like we've um been making progress. Um they had applied for some additional funding which unfortunately they did not succeed in securing although I think apparently they uh they can have another stab at it. Um uh within the next couple of months. Um but I do think that we've actually made quite a bit of progress. Um, and I'm impressed with the um the individuals that in fact are primarily carrying the ball on this. Um, and I think we're pretty far ahead of what other communities have been able to do.

Yeah. And it looks like Dan, if it's the Dan just joined as an attendee, uh, I'm going to allow you to talk. Well, he's going to critique what I said then. Oh, I doubt that. Dan, I've promoted you to speak. If you wanted to add anything, Bill was just, if that's Dan Finn, uh we were just giving uh an update on um the subcommittee that you still are uh helping to chair for us. Okay, let's see. He's still a pregnant pause. He's still muted. That's all right. You might be just listening in. I think you did a great job, Bill.

Okay. Yeah. And I know there any questions or um any questions for Bill or Dan? I know they also came up with a um um an emblem sort of. So if there's any Yeah. any mailings or anything that go out from the board um you know specific to this or anything like that any anything to uh the community and I think the funding um that was declined there's also a possible path for them to get some additional funding elsewhere. Yes. Yeah. Yes. And we continue to have uh funding that will be coming in over the next several years from the uh opioid settlements and so forth.

Yeah. It sounded like um there's been a lot of uh engagement not just with individuals from the report that Dan shared, not just with individuals, but um the police department um and and uh different uh training activities in the community as well for um deescalation, Narcan training. So I think um from what we had started originally, we wanted to expand access for individuals that might need um the support in their recovery journey. uh but then also you know again engaging and educating the broader community and it sounds like they're accomplishing a lot of those goals which is great right and we actually have invited someone from DARE to come to our next meeting so

great that will that will help with that educational piece as well yeah I don't know that a lot of communities still have uh DARE so that will be um definitely interesting to hear about uh how that's that program has changed over time for sure. Yes. Yes. Great. I remember was introduced. So, some of us might have been in the program back then. There you go. Uh, great. Any questions for Dan or Bill? Yeah, he just he just missed me. Great. Uh, I will kick it over to Annette then for your updates.

Yeah. Um, and I hope I'm I'm thinking about the same update, but if I'm missing something, let me know, Jen. Um, so Nancy and I met with um, Mary Lauria and the finance committee today just to kind of do some brief overview of next the fiscal year um, 27 health department budget. Um, for the most part, everything's been level funded between um, this year and last year. Um, so that was a great conversation. I think they had some good questions and I was able to kind of along with Nancy provide some context of who we are in the new region and the type of work we've been taking place um and also give them a little bit of glimpse into the future of um our funding as it relates to the public health excellence grant so that you know we're funded for um through next fiscal year but after that it's a little less certain um on what the future of that grant funding from the state is going to look like. Um, the other thing I want to mention here that I think you all got the email, but um, there was a recent article in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette about um, a tobacco letter that we had sent out. Um, this was just part of an educational campaign that our department is taking on to help retailers understand the FDA's requirement to have the marketing granted orders for any new tobacco products. So, that covers electronic cigarettes and n and the nicotine pouches. Um, and within those MA marketing granted orders, the FDA has classified Zen Smooth and Chill as flavored products. So, we use this letter as an opportunity to remind retailers that they can't sell tobacco flavor or they can't sell flavored tobacco products here in Massachusetts under state law. Um, so just kind of giving the board a heads up that, you know, there's some talk out there in the media about this letter. Um, but we're really taking an education first approach. We haven't issued any citations. Um, we haven't done inspections. We're really just helping our retailers kind of navigate these

requirements and providing resources where they can check their inventory to make sure that they're in compliance with both the federal and state regulations. Did I miss something else you thought I was going to update? No, I think that's perfect. Thank you for that. I forgot about that one, so thank you for flagging it in case anybody gets any uh inquiries.

Yeah, definitely. Um, we've had quite a few media inquiries. So, I talked to um the reporter from the Telegram and Gazette, but we've also had Boston 25 reach out and Spectrum 1 News reached out. Um, I haven't seen anything yet from them, so I don't know if they're going to if they drop the story or I don't know what their plans are, but um there could be more news media for a new health department. Yeah, it sounded like there were also some other communities that were taking things a step further than what we were doing. And so there was at least when from the Gazette um write up that seemed to be a little bit of a concern for the um associations that represent some of those folks. So

yeah, definitely it seemed like the main crux of it is kind of how health departments are determining whether products are flavored or not. And so in this particular instance, like we didn't make our own determination. We were using this report that the FDA conducted an analysis of the ingredients and they made that determination. Um, I know some boards of health do the sniff test. Um, some boards of health have tried products. Um, there's there's all sorts of methods out there. And I think there's um maybe the city of Framingham is in some litigation currently around that. So, I think it all just got wrapped up into the overall for sure.

Yeah. And I think there was to your point, Annette, um, some question around whether or not um, sniff tests were being performed more broadly. Um, and so, you know, for our communities, it was a it was clarified in that write up about how it was just a clarifying education. And in fact, um, at least from my read, I think that education was actually consistent with prior conversations and education that we've been having with folks. But, um, it definitely going, uh, into multiple different areas. And I think even, um, the the sniff test and things like that is, uh, and some of those decisions made up higher levels like CMS and um, and the state are in question. So, you know, less for us directly. Also, I think um it's not widely known that a lot of mun municipalities are part of like a joint a joint venture, if you will, like a public health alliance. Um and so I think um reporters are also just trying to understand um what sort of authorities uh these different groups have when speaking on behalf of um boards of health too. So uh certainly I think everyone's getting quite the education as they're trying to explore these issues. So, and tobacco, as we know, it's always an education, right?

Yeah. It's a it's a tough industry to keep up with. They're always like two steps ahead of us. Um, so, you know, we definitely work close with with the retailers to make sure we're providing that education first before we go in and issue fines or do any compliant any um enforcement. Yeah. Yeah. And thank you for the um finance update as well. Um it's uh obviously fiscally challen we we hear a lot about the budget stuff in town but statewide I think um you know from a from a federal perspective and statewide there's a lot of um moving parts and things up in the air so

definitely definitely challenging uh budget season this year. Fun time to be in all pockets right now. Uh any questions for Annette? any other old or new business I did not flag.

Um just noting for the recording um we do have uh four sets of meeting minutes uh listed on our agenda for this evening um we do have to um those are with with us for review or with some of us for review and going to make some edits before we go and proceed with those. So um we'll bring those to the meeting next time. Um, and it's becoming it's feeling a lot like spring today. Let's hope it sticks. Um, so with that, we have meetings scheduled uh through June, April 6th, May 11th, and June 1st. Um, for the first two uh conference room F and via Zoom, and then the 3rd in June, conference room A uh and via Zoom. So, we'll be uh trying to move in as as anticipated into our hybrid meeting space so that um the public can join us in person or uh via Zoom if they wish. Um and of course they can they can always contact us uh via Nancy and others that that answer those calls in the interim as well. Uh any other items to bring forth this evening? Yeah.

Um have we had any further followup from um I fields in terms of the status of uh irrigation wells and whether they need additional um you what the process is of proceeding with any any further attempt at establishing irrigating wells.

Yeah. So the first thing just to clarify so from the approval that they received that permit is good through July. Uh but we were clear with them on our last call that before they p cuz they had basically said you know they were abandoning it. We did tell them on a call last time um and in followup that we expect that they tell us if they're pro planning to do any proceeding with that particular well. Um so I don't believe we've heard anything there. Um, and then if they were to ask for anything else, it'll be a whole new request. But Annette, um, did you want to um, speak to just some some of the follow-up information you had provided to High Fields? I don't think we've received anything in response.

No, we didn't receive anything in response. I asked just for some clarification on like their regular water usage. um you know asking about their exploration of the Blackstone um how they plan to monitor if they did draw like uh design a well um and I haven't heard back from them. I think if they come back to the board whether they're saying they're um going to go with their original plan again or if they were submitting a new variance I think that's something we would just require at the time but where they're not taking any action it doesn't really impact their operations. Um, so at least we have a good set of questions out there that they're aware of if they were to come back to you all for a consideration of a new location. Um, we can make sure to collect that information at that time.

Yep. Yeah. Or even to proceed with this second one. They know we uh wanted some clarifications and we wanted to be notified prior to any action. So nothing yet. Um we did receive slides from Phil which you know if there are any requests uh at all we will um have a presentation as we had indicated um but we have nothing updated there um and Annette did share um Annette I don't know if are we in a good space from what you um received back from was it um EPA or the the state group that you checked in with um from the select board's uh inquiry as to whether or not folks that are on other on municipal water um their ability to or the board's ability to allow for people to disconnect from municipal water to to request their own well. Um can you provide any update on what we sort of heard back about um our ability to do that and what concerns might come up with that?

Yeah, definitely. So, I mean the the board anytime you set forth a regulation, you have the ability to offer a variance. So, if somebody would wanted to come forward and request this variance um to disconnect from town sewer and drill a private well um you're certainly within your right to do that. Some of the concerns that Mass D I spoke with one of their well specialists had is that um whenever you have both a private well and public water connection on a single property, you run the risk of crossconnecting. Um so there could be a number of ways that could happen. And that could be if they wanted to keep, let's say, town water for their home use. But then they propose putting in a well for irrigation. That plumbing can get cross-connected and the unregulated wellwater could then backflow into the public drinking water supply and contaminate that drinking water supply. Um they said they often also see um somebody who disconnects correctly from the town water and then puts in a private well. And it may not be them, but it could be the next homeowner that doesn't really understand what's happening with their water system that then reconnects to the public water supply. And then they have cross connection issues. And you know, that way um that they weren't quite aware of what what that private well and the um town water would interact in. And so those are kind of the main concerns that the board of health would want to think about if you were somebody were to come forward with one of these variance requests to put in some stipulations to make sure that didn't occur. Um they said they have seen instances of this c these cross connections contaminated public drinking water supplies here in Massachusetts. So it's not an unfounded risk if someone were to put a private well on their property um when they had access to the public drinking water supply. Um, some towns have put in requirements for um, testable backflow

devices if you were to have a private well and also the public drinking water supply to ensure that that cross connection didn't take place. Um, and then you had to put in stipulations about how often it was testing and the type of documentation they had to submit to the board of health. um you know there some towns have put in very specific regulations about the process for disconnecting from the public water supply and then putting a flag on that property so that um any future property owners were aware of kind of what went on. Um, so, you know, again, something that the the board could consider if somebody brought it forward to you. Um, but certainly would want to require that type of research to figure out how to prevent um or, you know, mitigate any possible crosscontamination.

Yeah. So, it sounds like the the safest way would not nec would still allow for people to come and request a specific variance. Um it certainly sounds like you know as we talked about previously we would want to be able to talk to um you know someone at the state level or somebody with expertise in this area because there could be you know increased risk there versus uh making a change to our existing regulation that would outline um you know parameters. we'd have to really kind of see if there was um uh an interest and a need because um just to note obviously this isn't something funded by the town. That would be something that would be funded by a property owner. So um you know they would have to be considering all those costs and likely the different testing and things. Nancy, did you have something? Could something be put on the deed that goes with the house from person to, you know, sells two or three times?

Possibly. There there could be like a deed restriction similar to how they might do with a septic system. Um I'd have to look into the the legal parameters of something like that more, but that could be a possible flag to kind of notify future property owners. Yeah. Yeah. It certainly sounds like um there's already some challenges as we know with the the current sort of situation with water. Um we would really want to be very cautious with any changes.

And luckily there's like a a technical assistance program at the state for private wells. So if this ever were to come up that somebody requested a variance, there's definitely good resources at the state that can provide more of that technical um expertise that I think you know we can do some basic research but having that person who's really in depth with knowledge on it is helpful. Yeah, that's great for sure. And it it's helpful that it's, you know, at that level, you know, they don't necessarily have a they might not necessarily know our community, but they know all those those risks and things. That's great. Awesome, Bill. Thank you for that question. Uh, any other items?

Looks like Dan is our only person still listening to us. Still holding in strong there with us. All right. Uh, would anybody like to make a motion? This is Andrew Chalupa. I move to close tonight's meeting. Is there a second? This is Bill Muller. I second that motion. Uh, roll call. Andrew Chulipka. I Bill Mer. I Jen Maynard. I Bill. I don't know who put our meetings on Monday, but it wasn't me. I empathize. All right, everyone. Thank you so much. We will see you April 6.