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01.14.25 Tues PM BOH
Meeting Highlights:
Summary of Important Discussions:
Resolution 2025-1 passed to codify a paid lunch break for non- overtime-exempt public health employees
Blue Sky Minds director Maria Hines shares recent food assessment action plan objectives: sustainability of land, living wage for farmers, eliminating hunger and food deserts, creating food access, promoting access to native foods on Colville reservation
Top priorities from food survey: housing, farmers’ need for living wage
Food Council working toward local-based farm-to-school program for school lunches
Health Officer’s report: influenza cases well above seasonal average, four-year low in Covid cases, “pretty brutal” past two months for drug overdoses, north central Washington’s need for treatment center, problem with fentanyl-laced drugs