Board of Health - Regular Meeting

Yes, we report. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Burrow of Pmpton Lakes Board of Health reorganization meeting January 12th, 2026. The Sunshine Law Statement in conformance with the Open Public Meetings Act. Notice of this meeting of the board of health of the bureau of Palton Lakes has been posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building and mailed to the North Jersey Herald News and to the trends. Salute to the flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Kelly Hollowitz is excused. Um myself, Valerie Quigley, Katie Cole here. Allison Foscalto here. Mike Foscalto here. Jessica Frier here. And Michael Morris

and others. Maryannne Oreelo our health officer. Brian Guterez, Lynette Naderos, Councilman Bobby Cruz, Mayor Mike Michael Sierra, but they're not here yet. Okay. Um, approval of the minutes from December 1st, 2025. So moved. Okay. Uh, second. Second. All in favor? I Who's that? Mike. Mike. Mike. [laughter] Pause.

Okay. Resolutions for approval. Um the resolutions. Do you want me to go through each one of them? I or can you can read like the numbers [clears throat] like 260 2601 resolution establishing a meeting schedule for the board of health. Um do I have someone to Do you want We can do them all together. Yes, you can. Okay. Can I read the titles for you?

Sure. 2602, resolution designating two newspapers for the board of health notices. Uh resolution 2603, establishing a board of health powers when not in session. 2604, resolution establishing certain positions and salaries within the board of health. 2605 resolution establishing flu pneumonia vaccinations be at no charge for burough employees, first aid and fire department volunteers. Um, do I have a motion to accept? Motion to accept. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I um I don't know when I should make a comment about the dates for the meetings. Okay.

You have March 2nd and none of us are here March 2nd. We're all down in Atlantic City. Okay. [clears throat] I don't know when to yeah if you guys want to switch it or we're just not going to be here. As long as it's okay with you guys. Well, that was actually a bad day for me and I was going to have to change plans on something. So, [laughter] I'm going to have to see when the room's available. Okay. Problem. Okay. Everyone's good with the nth. You want to check for the 9th? I don't know if that's this way. So she at least has a date she can Yeah. Are you the I was going to say just check all the Mondays and whatever. Just let us know. I can. Yeah, that's fine. You sure? And I know I can't make the fourth. Not that that should matter.

May I? Yeah. Check the Just check the Mondays, please. Listen. May 4th. I can't. I'm sorry. No, I'm glad you said it. Not that that I was going to dinner, so I'm not going to miss it. [laughter] I thought it. Okay. [cough] Should [clears throat] we wait for Yeah. Wait for Liz to come back. Okay.

Yes. I can send that. Well, I can send them to Yeah. But I doubt you will. No, I don't think that's over. And I just wrote them all in my calendar. Did [laughter] you change it? And I did it in pass. Of course. The only issue is it's in the calendar. So, we'll have to just Okay. Okay.

And you know, on the website, the meeting was on for last week. Okay, we showed up. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. March 9th. You want it? Yeah. Is it available? Yes. Oh, sounds good.

Okay, great. Okay. So, March and then May. I didn't even look at the dates. Right. And then September and then it was September 14th and December 7th. Okay. Okay. It was January 11th for your York meeting. I saw that just so we had it on there. Okay. But I will read. [clears throat] Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Wherever we're advertising, I don't think it's working. Maybe it is, but this is for us. This [laughter] is it, right? So, public hearing. Do I have um motion to open to the public? So, moved. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I And there's nobody here from the public. Motion to close the public's session. Um motion. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I um committee reports. So this is where we decide who's going to be on what committees. Okay. Okay. So going forward for the year.

Yeah. So does anybody want to switch or does everybody okay? [laughter] Looks really good with written here. Okay. Except Mike, you're not I think Mike needs something. [laughter] So then you would go on finance. Sure. We could do a mic and mic on financing with that. Okay. This way. We're going to So don't use anyone. [laughter] We have mic. That's good. So ordinance. We'll have Val and Katie finance Mike and Mike. Uh personnel Jessica and Allison. And Kelly is Kelly everything. Okay.

Do you Okay. [laughter] Motion. So motion to accept the committee reports. So moved. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I. Okay. Um staff reports. Like I said before, you guys were busy. Those reports of all the inspections and everything. I was trying to read your handwriting on a few of them. Brian, I have to tell you when it says get to the end and read the comments like read remarks. Brian, please use [clears throat] a better pen. [laughter] Please, please try. See, you got used to Gabby. She wrote me. [laughter] I'm trying to read them, but it's really tough to read.

I have to pull them up on my iPad because I'm trying to read them on my phone. Oh, I tried. That's what I did. I read them on my computer. Report on um It was on Mr. sushi. No, Mr. Ramen about a freezer that would had mold or something in it or Oh, yes. One of them. The ice machine. The ice machine is all molded. Are they using this thing or Yeah, they they shut it off and they just everything. So Oh, they got rid of it. Yeah, it's a small ice machine. Oh, don't worry. Cuz I was like, "Okay, good to know that, you know."

But yeah, I'll die. Is there any ordinances of how often they have to clean those or change the filters or anything for ice machines? No. I mean, I do tell them to clean it as often. It doesn't say anything specifically, but it's got to be maintained. Maintained. Usually manufacturing guidance, but they usually don't read that. Okay. That's why. Yeah. [laughter] And the water hardness here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's that. Yeah. It's terrible. It is. So then you see like that calcium build up inside ice machine. I'm still trying to get used to that from I didn't have that problem with the calcium. We didn't have that.

Yeah, we have oil rub bronze fixtures and it's horrible. Yeah. Just turns white. Yeah, I keep a razor blade in my [laughter] kitchen cabinet. She's got a water. [laughter] I was just wondering cuz in the hospital we have to keep it posted on the outside of the ice machines of when it was checked and filter change. So I just didn't know if there was anything that's protocol [clears throat] way to do it. Not everybody does it.

And one of the tattoo places listed Dr. remain in Riverdale as something. And I wondered um Pretty and Pink. Yeah, cuz they're doing the permanent compromises. Uh so does that mean Dr. Roma knows about this? Yes. You should be doing it. Yes, they're supposed to have paper along. Okay. In Riverdale or Pumpton Lakes Pretty? No, it's a Pumpton Lakes thing, but it listed Dr. Roma in Riverdale. Yeah. as the doctor on file and I just know some of Allie's policies and I just want Is he a valet doctor? It's a valet doctor. [clears throat] Did he just get himself in trouble?

Oh, [laughter] if he knows. I was going to say if she knows cuz that's the big thing cuz I was wondering that. Okay. I'll have to find out. Ma'am position. Got it. on call. You mean a physician on call or it's a medical procedure technically. So they're basically saying you need to have a physician's uh like a sign overview. Yeah. Overview. To put together their policies to do

Katie's probably right. I mean Valley's a big place. I don't know. You know, sounds odd they would take that on. A lot of little family practice. when I worked for Valley in that same office, we used to do it and then the Valley um legal department stopped us and and even though we had contracts with different camps and different places in the area, they did not want to be in that business [cough] any longer, [clears throat] so they stopped it. I'll get that paper. No, no, that's I I just, you know, I'm just was like, "Oh, look at this." Yeah. that they're forging or changing something which sometimes we don't know anything but they can trouble. It actually has a new manager over there who may not know.

They may not know that they can't just do this. Mhm. What are they doing? The doctors on staff or what is that? You have to have a doctor oversee any be in charge of any procedures. It doesn't mean that they have to be on premises but and depending upon the procedure for a tattoo par no for cosmetic which is basically a tattoo but yes I guess it's like but it's like the eyes your eyes your lips that kind of could be reconstructive could be you can get tattooed eyebrows if you want

I was thinking about that [laughter] okay just was curious but it seems like most of the restaurants were all all checked out. I mean, there was no real what's that? Thankfully, just Yeah, it didn't seem like there was any like major problems that I was No, I mean, with Mr. Suchi and Mr. Ramen from last year's report, I guess Gabby got That's good news. Yeah, that's good [laughter] news. Yeah. Would you eat there? I actually wouldn't eat at most places. Even [snorts] in Humbok, I think I only had like six places that I eat at like 300. That's interesting. I was surprised at the number of places with broken dishwashers, including Lincoln School.

Yeah, you had like three three different places, I think, had broken dishwashers or something. And I was like, "Oh, I don't know if I would like I'd like to believe that, you know, like at home, I even use this sanitizing uh thing sometimes." Yeah. A lot of them don't check that's the problem. And it's not necessarily it doesn't get the temperature or the disinfectant isn't going in and and they don't check a lot of unfortunately. Yeah. The company I think it's homework that they need. Mhm. They were aware of it but they need to get pieces and then the holidays but they had it closed.

And again when you go into these you're not going into these places on schedules. Correct. You just go in there randomly whenever you deem you should go in there. It has to be once a year or more. We try to get in more. Right. Interesting. By law, it's once a year. But we're for twice. Yeah. At least twice. We're trying to get Okay, that's great. I mean, you know, the the previous administration of Yeah. you know, used to schedule vac worked as a health inspector in another community and scheduled his vacation for like the first week or second week of July and everyone knew they were getting inspected during that week.

It was once a year during that week and that was that was how it was done. [clears throat] And then we switched over. It was Yeah. Well, that was Pumpton Lakes and then we switched over and things changed which was for the best. It took us a while to to clean up some of the stuff. The element of surprise is what helps us during inspections coming and they prepare and they're great for that week and Right. And I mean even the vape shops and stuff like they could put things away and all. This is great that you know you just walk in. I think you saw it in one of them. Um there was a flavored one or something in one of them. Unfortunately

or everybody magically picks up a mop. [laughter] starts like you calm down. You're not going to fix it now. Okay. Um, any more questions about staff reports? No. Okay. Um, All right. So, we'll No old business. Old business or new business? Correspondence. Any other questions? M motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor?

I I Okay. So, next meeting we're going to shoot for the 9th, right? March 9th. That's auction day.