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Home My WebLink About201015 - Minutes, Community Health Adv.Washington County Community Health Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes October 15, 2020 Opening This meeting of the Washington County Community Health Advisory Committee was called to order at 7:32am by Douglas Spotts, MD, Chair, via virtual meeting. Present Earl Stoner, Jennifer Foltz, Heidi Kendall, Rich Eichelberger, Rob Ferree, Cyndi Powell, Douglas Spotts, MD, Commissioner Randall Wagner, Mark Bradshaw, Ashley Holloway, Dave Chisholm and Peggy Pugh. Old Business • Approval of Meeting Minutes from September 17w, 2020. Cyndi made the motion to approve as presented, Jen Foltz seconded. All voting in favor, minutes approved. • COVID-19 Update provided by Earl Stoner o —2,000 positive cases in Washington County, —42 deaths. Current rate of —3% positive testing rate, Currently, the trend of positive cases is tied to large gatherings, even family gatherings. o Currently, working on developing a team to work with and focus on the school system and reopening, o Earl also gave an update on creation of Behavioral Health Authority. Douglas Spotts, Heidi Kendall and Jen Foltz from this commission will also serve as members of the new authority for cross - communication between our two groups. • Introduction of new member, Mark Bradshaw, Washington County Division of Environment Representative • Review Bylaws, discuss any necessary updates o Reviewed existing member and term limits. Cyndi Powell and Rob Ferree both agree to serve another term for 3 years. We will present this to Krista Hart to be approved by County Commissioners. o No edits to the bylaws were suggested at this time. • Review vacancies and discuss candidates o Douglas Spotts recommended Allan Twigg to fill the vacancy for business representative. We will submit this to the County Commissioners for approval. o It was suggested that we reach out to family health care to fill the position of a dental representative and to contact the Washington County Humane Society for a veterinary representative. Douglas Spotts will work with this group to do that. • Purpose of this group o Commissioner Randy Wagner suggested Douglass Spoils and Earl Stoner get on the agenda to speak with the County Commissioners about the purpose and direction of this group. He thought it would be nice for us to poll the other commissioners on topics relevant to Washington County residents based on their knowledge and community contacts. Cyndi will coordinate with Krista Hart to get on the agenda. New Business • Future discussion topics. Cyndi Powell commented she felt like this group was most effective when we had high level, public health topics to discuss i.e. Maryland Diabetes Plan, Needle Exchange Program, Styrofoam Ban. She suggests we curate a list of relevant topics to review on a regular basis and coordinate presentations or designate a particular meeting to address these topics. Then we as a group will be educated on the topics, we can each contribute to the discussion from our respective backgrounds and are prepared to serve/advise the commissioners as the need arises. o In the past, we talked a lot about water connection issues related to City/County expansion plans and we discussed sewer/septic issues. These could each be a topic for a future meeting presentation. Mark with Division of the Environment could speak to the water quality and maybe invite Jill Baker to discuss City expansion plan. Earl can speak to or invite a guest to speak to the well and septic issues for our county. o We also hope to get topics from the County Commissioners that they would like for our group to discuss. • Go For Bold Campaign kicked off on October 6th by Meritus and partners. o Do, Eat, Believe. O 10 year plan to lose 1M pounds and keep it off. They will have year by year goals and actions to sustain the goals. Currently they have -28 partners who have collectively pledged -270K lbs. By the end of the year, they hope to have —75 partners and total of —1 M lbs pledged. o Diabetes, obesity and addiction are the three main public health focuses for this campaign. Meeting Adjourned at 8:30am. Next Meeting • Thursday, November 19, 2020 from 7:30am-8:30am — Virtual Meeting Minutes Submitted by: Approved by: