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8.08.2023 BOH
Meeting Highlights:
- Fall prevention classes offered to low-income seniors
Passage of an inter-local agreement giving legal framework to cross-county support and collaboration
- Maryann Williams relays gleanings from national local boards of health conference in Tacoma
- Covid hospitalizations up, increased vigilance in health care settings, one death reported
- Bat concerns addressed
- Record set for opioid overdose calls to 911; two “drug houses” destroyed
- Libraries offer clean-air spaces for fleeing wildfire smoke; vigilance encouraged
- Board of Health envisioning creation of finance committee to tackle revision of salaries; new employee sought to deal with emergencies, will cooperate with Emergency Management
- Building permits down in Methow, up in north of county
- Meeting adjourned at 2:32