Hello, and welcome to this session in which we would look at the idea of dividend. What is a dividend and how does it work from an accounting perspective? Well dividend is the company's distribution of the profit to the shareholder. And that's the big idea. What does that mean? It means a company operates their business, they generate revenues, then they incur expenses. And we hope that we have more revenues than expenses. As a result, the company will generate their income, which is profit. Then what's going to happen to this profit? The company is going to take this profit and either keep it, keep the profit or distribute the profit. So first, first, first, first, first, basically they keep it. And when we keep the profit, think about it. Where do we close revenues and expenses? Well, we close them to retained earnings. So they keep it in an account called retained earnings, which is the earnings that we will retain. Then some of that profit will be paid out. When we pay out the profit to the shareholders, we call it dividend. So the point I am trying to make is this. The first point is dividend comes out of retained earnings. Retained earnings is the company's profit. Company's profit is generated from revenues minus expenses. So that's the first idea I want you to know. So dividend comes out of retained earnings. Why is this concept important? Because sometime the company could give you a distribution that's not out of retained earnings. Then that's not dividend. We call those liquidating dividend. We cover this in another recording. And you need to know about liquidating dividend for tax purposes. Liquidating dividend is beyond the scope of this lesson. But the point I'm trying to make is you have to be aware that not all distribution is dividend. The distribution has to come out of retained earnings. So I want to emphasize this point as much as possible. Cash dividend, when we pay cash dividend and usually we pay cash, we pay the dividend in form of cash reduces both assets and equity. Of course it does reduces asset because we're paying out money, cash. So it's going to reduce cash and reduce equity. We will see later in the next session that we have something called rather than cash dividend, sometime what the company would do rather than paying cash because they want to keep the cash rather than paying cash. We will give the shareholders stock, stock dividend. And we'll talk about this next. Stock dividend will not reduce assets and equity. It comes out of retained earnings. We'll see how later, but it doesn't reduce both assets and equity. So cash dividend reduces both assets and equity. Now, do all companies pay dividend? And the answer is no, not all company pays dividend. And the question should be why not? When the owner want to have all the money? And the answer is there are many reasons for that. One is the creditors. So if you have creditors, if you are borrowing money, the creditors may impose certain restrictions or limitation on your retained earnings. For example, they will tell you your retained earnings should not fall below half a million. What does that mean? It means once your retained earnings is a half a million, you can no longer pay dividend because you have to keep it at a half a million or above or any type of restriction. So that's why you cannot pay out the dividend. They simply tell you, if we're going to lend you the money, you have to suspend your dividend or you have to pay only a certain percentage of your profit in dividend. So they may impose restriction and limitation. That's one reason. Another reason, and that's basically the main reason why companies don't pay dividend, is for internal finance for growth and expansion. What does that mean? That means when the company makes a profit, they need this money to reinvest this profit into more profitable project. Take at a company like Google. Google, they make a lot of profit, a lot, billions. Do they pay it out in dividend? No. Same thing with Amazon. Do they pay out in dividend? No, at least not yet. Why? Because these companies, they are still growing and they still have many profitable projects they can invest in. So as a result, if that's the case, they're not going to pay out the cash. And as an investor, as an owner, you are better off keeping the cash at the company because Jeff Bezos, he's better off finding project. You're better off letting him find project and refinance your money. So that's why you don't pay out your profit in dividend. Well, some companies, they want to simply keep the cash on hand. Why? Bad times. Well, we're making profit this year, next year, but maybe in year three, year four, we may not make profit if the company goes south. So that's why I want to keep a cushion, cash on hand, for bad times. Now, especially tech companies and pharmaceutical, tech and pharma, they're always growing. They're always trying to find new projects. That's why they are very conservative when it comes to dividend. And you have to plan your dividend payment properly. So you have to plan the growth of dividend payment in a conservative proper way. What do I mean by this? Once a company starts to pay dividend, that gets factored, that gets baked, that gets assumed that the company will always pay dividend. It's not a law, but the investors will expect dividend. When you buy a company and the company is currently paying dividend, the company suddenly cannot stop paying dividend. They can. There's nothing against the law. No one can stop them. But if they do stop, the stock will suffer. I know, I'm aware of two companies that they had to suspend their dividend for a quarter or two. BP, Bridge Petroleum and GE, General Electric. Bridge Petroleum, when they had that spill in the Gulf of Mexico, because they needed this money for the cleanup and GE during the economic crisis because they were involved in lending money. So what they did, they suffered a lot of losses. And as a result, when they suspended their dividend for I believe two quarters, they get hammered. Therefore companies, they plan their dividend very, not conservatively. They assume once they start to pay dividend, they cannot stop. Also companies they have, if they don't pay dividend, they have to let the users of the financial statement know, give them an idea, whether they plan to pay in the future or not plan in the future, because as an investor, that's relevant. That's most relevant. As an investor, you're getting dividend. You're getting cash. And that's what you are really interested in. So the best way to show you a sample company is to show, look at Microsoft. So this is a graph of Microsoft since, I don't know, 1986, when the company went public. So notice, all the way, assets are split, which we'll talk about in the next session. So the first time, although Microsoft from 1986 till 2002, they were making a lot of profit. But guess what? The first time they paid dividend in February 17, 2003, I still remember that day, they pay eight cents per share. Then they paid, then they double it, 16 cents per share, which they didn't really double it because they skipped one quarter. Therefore they paid for two quarter. Then they kept paying eight cents. Then they paid special dividend, $3 dividend because the investors kept telling them, you have a lot of cash on hand, give us some cash, so they paid $3 and eight cents. Then they went back to eight pennies, eight pennies, eight pennies, eight pennies, eight pennies, they grow it in 2006 to nine pennies. Nine pennies, nine pennies, then they grow it to 10 pennies in 2007. And if you keep going, 13 pennies and 16 pennies in 2011, 28 pennies in 2014, 39 pennies in 2016, and now they are paying 62 pennies. So notice they started paying eight pennies in 2003 and 20 years later, they're paying 62 pennies. The point I am trying to make is this, companies plan their dividend, they plan to pay the dividend basically forever. So that's why you have to be very careful once you start to pay dividend and how much you pay in dividend. Before we proceed, I would like to remind you whether you are an accounting student or a CPA candidate to take a look at my website, farhatlectures.com. I help you to pass your CPA exam. I help you during your accounting education. Don't shortchange yourself, invest in your career. My subscription will give you access to additional resources, lectures, multiple choice, true-false that's gonna help you understand the material better, in conjunction with your CPA review course, in conjunction with your accounting courses. This is a list of all the courses that I have on my website that include multiple choice, true-false, lectures, all organized by chapter and course. My CPA resources are aligned with your Becker, Roger, Wiley and Gleam. So you can go back and forth between my material and your CPA review course. I also give you access to 1500 previously AI CPA released questions in addition to thousands of multiple choice questions with detailed solution. If you have not connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. Take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation like this recording, share it with other connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. The best way to illustrate the concept of dividend is to look at an example. So the dividend is not really a dividend, is not really a liability, is not really an obligation until the board of directors declares the dividend. So once the board of directors declare the dividend, the board of directors are the people who are in charge of the company. Those people are elected by the shareholders. Then it becomes a liability. There are three dates that are relevant to dividend and those that's the date of declaration. So let's assume a company declared a $1 million dividend. So what they do, remember, dividend comes out of retained earnings. So once they declare it, you reduce retained earnings. We declared the million dollar worth of dividend. We credit dividend payable for a million. This is the date of declaration, the first date. Then we have the date of record. On the date of record, we don't make an entry. On the date of record, we determine who are the owners of the company, who owns the stock as of that date. For example, today's date is December 23rd. Let's assume the company today declared the dividend. This is the declaration date. The date of record, January 5th. So you have to own the stock by January 5th. And the date of payment will be January the 15th. January the 15th. So what happened is this, if you own the stock on January the 5th, you get the payment on January the 15th. On January the 15th, basically we pay off the liability. We'd have a dividend payable and we credit cash. Simply put, we get root of the payable. And what we're left with is we reduced earning by a million and we reduced cash by a million. But remember what I told you, cash dividend reduced both assets and reduces equity. In contrast, what we're gonna be looking at next when we look at stock dividend, it's gonna be different. The best way to learn more about dividend is to actually go to my website, farhatlectures.com and work multiple choice questions and look at additional resources. Once again, don't shortchange yourself. I can help you with your accounting career. I can help you pass your CPA exam. Invest in yourself. The CPA exam is a lifetime investment. Study hard, good luck, and of course, stay safe.


Good morning, everybody. Happy Sunday, yesterday, Saturday, June 25th, 2022. Catherine Edwards and I had an opportunity to sit down with Ishmael Perez. Now, that full episode, that full conversation, is in the description box below in the link to Esoteric Atlanta's Rumble Page. Now, as always, I would suggest that you go ahead and subscribe to our Rumble Page as well as staying subscribed on our YouTube page. Our YouTube page is our main page where most of our work and our content is put up. Our Rumble Page, however, is our backup page and the page where I will load up interviews and videos that might be a little bit too potent for YouTube. Now, in case anything were to happen to our page here on YouTube, I would suggest that you go ahead and be subscribed to the Rumble Page just so you know where to find all of our content, once again, in case anything were to happen to our YouTube platform. Now, tomorrow, Monday, June 27th, there will be, again, no Monday mystery because, as most of you know, Stephanie Schatt from Spiritual Perspectives of our Great Awakening and I have been traveling around doing a lot of filming. We've been filming different locations here in Georgia for a lot of different reasons. Some of those reasons I cannot say yet on camera, but I'm very excited about showing you guys all of our footage. Now, Monday, tomorrow, again, no Monday mystery, but we will be on with Aquarius Rising Africa 2, their second channel. So Aquarius Rising Africa Roman Nubule Number 2 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss some of our findings. I will put a link to their page down in the description box below in case you are not subscribed to them yet. That will be a live show. So as with most live shows, you're welcome to comment, ask questions, etc. Now, for those of you who have a Twitter account, I have been posting updated little short videos on Twitter to keep you guys in the loop of our travels. So go ahead and follow Esoteric Atlanta on Twitter if you aren't already, so you can see those videos. I am also trying to remember to put them on Instagram too. All of the Instagram links and Twitter links are up in the handle above. I will also place links to them in the description box as well so that you can follow us as we go along our journey throughout Georgia. Hopefully next Monday, we will be back with a Monday mystery. I thank you guys for your patience as you have allowed Stephanie and I to take this opportunity to travel and do some on-site investigation. And once again, I'm very excited about allowing you guys to see all that footage once we have it all up and ready to go. I hope you guys are having a wonderful, wonderful day and I will talk to you soon.


Nuts and seeds are a common staple that we consume almost daily, they make a wonderful nutrition packed healthy snack to take on the go or just to munch on dissatisfied mid-afternoon hunger pangs. They've been eaten by our ancestors over many many years, however what a lot of us don't realise is that like grains and legumes they can also contain substances known as anti-nutrients that interfere with our body's ability to absorb nutrients. Through this simple process of soaking grains, nuts, seeds and legumes, it improves their nutrition and reduces their anti-nutrient levels making them more beneficial to the body. Sprouting and fermenting also takes it to a whole new level. So in this video I'll be showing you how to soak and sprout nuts, seeds, grains and legumes to help them to do more easily digestible and to help improve nutrient absorption. Plant foods like nuts, seeds, legumes and grains, especially raw seeds, contain naturally occurring anti-nutrients like phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors. These nutrients prevent the seeds from sprouting too early, however they also have been found to impact humans by binding to nutrients in the body which can contribute to nutrient deficiencies and digestive issues. While our digestive process in the body can neutralise some phytic acid, it's important to soak, sprout or ferment foods that are particularly high in this nutrient to help reduce levels even further and prevent an overload on the body. You can dehydrate them afterwards as well to bring them back to their crunchy tasty selves again, which as well can help to reduce phytic acid even more. Traditionally many cultures used to soak, sprout or ferment nuts, seeds, grains and legumes before they were able to consume them as they understood that it would enhance the body's ability of absorbing the nutrients within these foods and help deactivate anti-nutrients like phytates, lectins, tannins, gluten and other harmful compounds that bind to minerals in the body and prevent them from being absorbed. In today's video, I'll show you step by step how to soak and sprout nuts, seeds, grains and legumes to make them more easily digestible and to enhance their nutrient absorption in the body. When soaking nuts and seeds, you'll need warm filtered water and salt. The warm filtered water helps to increase the bioavailability of many nutrients, especially B vitamins, while neutralising many of the enzyme inhibitors. The salt helps to activate enzymes that deactivate the enzyme inhibitors found in these foods. However, when soaking grains or legumes, you'll also need a more acidic substance such as yoghurt, buttermilk, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, whey, milk kefir or coconut kefir. You can also use baking soda for legumes such as lentils, which I'll be soaking today. For the acidic medium today, I used apple cider vinegar that I had bought from the store, as the apple cider vinegar I was making wasn't quite ready yet. It still has a few more weeks left of fermenting before I can use it in my recipes. The nuts I'll be soaking today are macadamias, however, they cannot actually sprout, same with pecans and walnuts, while seeds like raw pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds which I'll be sprouting today actually make the best candidates for sprouting. The plastic packaging that these nuts and seeds came in, I actually put in my soft plastics recycling bag which I then take to the supermarket to drop off at our red cycle soft plastics recycling drop off points. Now if you do choose to soak other nuts like almonds, just make sure that they're non-irradiated as this will prevent them from sprouting. You'll know if they do not sprout, otherwise you can source non-irradiated nuts or seeds online or ask at your local store. So to get started today I thought I'd break it down and show you how to soak nuts and seeds first and then show you how to soak leggings like lentils today. So to begin with grab the nuts or seeds you're going to be soaking today and pop them into a glass jar with some filtered water that covers just above the level of the nuts and seeds in your glass jar. If you find that during the soaking period that the water gets absorbed, just add more water in as you don't want to leave them to dry out. You want to ensure that they're submerged in the water solution, then you're going to add one tablespoon of sea salt or pink Himalayan salt. Once you've added the seeds, water and salt to your glass jar, secure with either a cheesecloth and rubber band or you can use these sprouting lids like I have used. I find they're really helpful as they're easy to drain out the water later on rather than taking off and putting on a cheesecloth each time. Then all you do is leave the seeds or nuts to sit on your countertop in a warm dry place to soak for how many hours it takes. Each seed and nut is different and how long it takes to soak. I do have a chart on my blog post for each kind of seed, nut, grain and legging which shares how long each of these types of grains and seeds take to soak or sprout. So if you are interested in finding out how long the seeds or nuts or grains or legumes you're soaking will take, you can find out the times there. I'll link this post in the description below. For legumes and grains it's a little different, so here I'm going to use lentils. All you do is add them to a glass jar with some water and then you're going to add an acidic medium to them as they usually contain higher amounts of phytic acid. An acidic medium again can be yogurt, kefir, whey, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and things like that. I'm going to be using apple cider vinegar today as that's what I had on hand. I was going to use my homemade apple cider vinegar, however it wasn't quite finished fermenting and still had a few more weeks. So I just used our store bought one that we had stored at home. Then once you've added it to a glass jar, again secure with a cheesecloth or you can use a sprouting lid like I have and let it sit in a dry warm place. I just let it sit on my countertop. For lentils it takes around 12 hours to soak or up to three days to sprout. Whereas sunflower seeds only take eight hours to soak and 12 to 24 hours to sprout, so they're a little bit less. So for the sunflower seeds and lentils I let them sit on our countertop just to soak for around 8 to 12 hours. The macadamias only require two hours to soak, so once they'd finished I then drained them out in a colander, popped them into a blender and made them into some nut milk by adding some water. Once it was finished blending I then strained it out using a nut milk bag. You can find the recipes for how to make macadamia milk and macadamia cheese in my blog post which I'll link in the description below as well. But all you do is basically add the macadamia milk pulp to your blender along with some lemon juice, some nutritional yeast, sea salt and garlic powder then you just blend that up on high speed until it's well combined and then store it in the fridge until you're ready to use it. Once the sunflower seeds had finished soaking I then rinse them out with some fresh water then let them stand upside down in a bowl to drain for the next 24 hours. For the lentils I did the same I rinse them out then drain them and let them sit upside down in a bowl to drain over the next three days. I made sure to rinse the lentils and seeds a couple of times a day just to make sure they weren't getting too dry and again to mimic the germination process in those seeds and lentils. It was very exciting to see little sprouts appear in the sunflower seeds and lentils over the few days, I just love seeing this process unfold. Once the sunflower seeds had finished sprouting I then pop them into my dehydrated to dry out again this helps to reduce phytic acid as well and also helps to increase shelf life of these seeds and nuts, lentils and grains. I dehydrated them over a 24 hour period just until they were completely dry and there was no moisture left on them. To make sure they were dry I would just fill them before I would pack them into the glass jar to make sure that there was no moisture left as if there is any moisture on them it can cause mold to grow. Once they felt dry enough I then packed them into a glass jar and stored them in my pantry to use later on in the week. I will be making a vegan sunflower seed yoga later on this week so do stay tuned if you're interested in seeing that it will be up in next week's videos. We've had non-stop rain this past week so everything is totally soaked. It's actually lovely to listen to when you're inside. However Ari has been quite restless. She hasn't been as active as she usually is so she's been trying to accept some of that energy in her kennel which has been very funny. Once the lentils were finished a few days later I then popped them onto the dehydrator and dehydrated them for around 24 hours or until they were dry. Again I made sure to check that they were dry by just feeling them to make sure that there was no moisture left. Then I popped them into a glass jar and stored them in my pantry to use in later recipes that I made that week. That is how you soak or sprout those nuts, seeds and legumes. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I hope it inspired you guys to try soaking or sprouting some of the nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and beans that you consume in your daily life. Thank you so much for sticking out this whole video. I really hope you enjoyed it and I hope to see you again in my next video. Bye!


Hello, and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brenton. Today we're in episode 30 of the Wizard101 Death Walkthrough. If you haven't checked out last episode, we started off with Stereo, so go check that out if you haven't. And now we are going to talk to Captain Ohia. You certainly sent some of them packing. Things might be a little cipher now that they know not to mess with you. Our head gardener, groundskeeper Vern, is missing. Can you go back into Pegasus' place again and see if he's alright? Okay, let's find out if Vern is okay. Hopefully he is. I know that he is, but if he is, that would be good. Um, yeah. Let's go. This place is kinda cool. Um, so yeah, we'll get that stone block. And here we go, Vern. Oh, hello. What are you doing here? This place isn't safe for students. Mysterio was once wild and overgrown with vines, but we cut them back and made this place a school. I am groundskeeper Vern, head gardener around here. It is my job to know every inch of these streets and parks. These goblins and their hobgoblin overseers are new, arriving just when the tournament was to begin. They're not native to this world of Wisteria, so I would like to know where they came from. Since they arrived, some strange new plants have sprung up on Pegasus' place, and I suspect they're tied to the new visitors. Can you go and collect three samples of these strange plants so I can do some research into their world of origin? Let's go and collect some of these plants then. Um, these hobgoblins, I had to defeat six of them, and I did that between episodes like I said I would. Um, yeah. Just because it's a bit annoying. It's a bit tedious defeating them. But yeah, that's one plant. Where are the others? Oh, here's another one. Two. And three. Where's three? This is so... No, that isn't the wall flower. Nope. Um, it might be down at the end of the street. Where's another weird strange plant? Maybe. Maybe I just go back and have a look around. Um, is it up here? Kind of doubt it, but you know, we'll check. Checking can't do any harm. Nope, not up there. Um, yeah, let's go over back over here. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Hello, Mr. Wood. Okay, and, um, hmm. We'll just collect this one again. Yeah, we can. Sweet. Perfect. Okay, let's head back over to Vern. G'day, Vern. Wonderful I'll compare these to my field journal plants of the spiral and see what I can learn With the guards afraid to enter Pegasus place. The area is undefended What's the airy? Well, it's the stables where we raise Pegasi to be trained as mounts and gifted throughout the spiral If you're up to it, could you check on lap and wing tamer the stable master of the airy The area is just down the street Okay, let us hid to lap and then He's we saw him just before He's over with all the With a in the park area ish type thing over here over here Not Kelsey But up here Hello Whoa, I dared not hope anyone would come to find me with the goblin horde all around I Don't know who was crazy enough to send a kid into this place But as far as I'm concerned any help is welcome My first concern is for the well-being of the Pegasi under my care. Can you help me see to their feeding? Unfortunately the goblins came through and stole all of their food. I don't know why because they don't even eat the stuff Tell you what if you want to help you'll get back five bags of Pegasus feed you'd be a lifesaver Okay, let us do that then That's one pieces child done For to go is one down here Nice being this would Down here is another one here That's two Three left There's one. I think yep one down here to lift And one in the middle of the road here A very safe place for and one down here somewhere probably Strange plant Pegasus child. Here we go. Easy peasy Perfect Next quest Get on this way back up to the left and I think yep Perfect He's actually kind of a long way away Here we go. Well good work. That reminds me of an old joke. What do Pegasus I like to eat? flapjacks Well, thanks for your help I'd feel much better though if I were able to lock the Ares doors against the goblin horde I left my keys inside, but they were stolen by the hobgoblins when they ransacked the place Could you recover the stable keys from the hobgoblin who took them when you get them bring them back to me?  That would be bad. I Will form my own over here Hello and We will hopefully win But hopefully I mean we will win 660 Okay, that's a blade and a Blade and a Skeletal Pirate probably All right, that really depends on what we get Card drills Fizzle Thank you And what do we get? What do we get? What do we get? We got a Skeletal Pirate, cool I'm gonna hit you Just because I can Boop 80 perfect Oh 22 okay 91 that's not too much and we can hit with a Skeletal Pirate on you perfect Go one down and we will probably Vampire I think That should be fine Hopefully Yeah, that should be fine. We can always go and hit But hopefully we get a power putt or Not just a nope. Okay, that's fine.  Aren't we? No, okay, that's cool Um, sometimes I really hate the lack of power putts. It's really annoying It makes you think that their Percentages are not right, but they actually are. It's just it's really annoying Like a school's mere what? Okay What's weird about these guys is they don't have any Boost at all like usually balanced creatures boost to The spirit schools, but they're not at the moment. It's kind of like what? So yeah, that's strange Okay Anyway, that's that done and we got the stable keys as well Move around there. Don't get in that bed. Oh and come up this way to weapon again Hello You've done it. Thanks to you the area will be secure When the goblin horde first arrived, I did some scouting to see what was going on. I saw where they came from The goblin sprung from a magical portal down the street You should take a look at it and tell groundskeeper verb Okay, let's go and look at the portal then A strange portal Hello portal You examine the magic portal it would be you should describe it to groundskeeper verne Maybe he's figured out where those plants came from by now Okay, let us see hid back to the verne Again Yep Oh Here we go over the way Those plants you collected for me earlier were listed as native to the world known as Weirwood if the goblins are coming through a magic portal Then it stands to reason that they are from Weirwood as well a student from Weirwood came to the tournament Beatrice Wildwind. I think her name was Maybe you've met her. Maybe you can ask her if she knows anything about this magic portal I'd hate to think she was responsible, but best to check Okay, let us hit over to Beatrice Carefully Verne, but I will that's fine that is fine Let's go down the stairs down the other stairs Down the other other stairs Actually, that one's a ramp Down the other ramp and go into the dormitory. Hello Beatrice is over here good day What's that a magic portal from what you describe the plant is wild Viridian It grows native to Weirwood where I come from the goblins like to use it as a seasoning So they plant it wherever they go if it's here on wisteria. It's they're doing a Goblin portal is dangerous to meddle with but I know of an incantation that can close it never to return We'll need some ingredients for the incantation and those can be found in the merchant street here in Pigswick Academy Here's a list of ingredients Visit the merchants listed and return to me when you Beatrice copies a list of ingredients from her spellbook and gives it to you Some of these items seem a little strange Okay, let us go and to get all of the things It's just a whole lot of talking again.  It's kind of annoying, but I will It's fine. I'll have a quick needle Is and this place Who's next I wonder and what wonder we need there's so many different ingredients It's kind of funny a spindle of enchanted thread spun from fog and spider web. I have that right here Okay, and let's talk to a Philly and moon reach and Where is she over this one here? Hello a crystal made of the dried tears of a cyclops Those run special this week Okay, and next up is G3 spell smith. I think his name was was it was it was it was it was it was it was it I think it was Was it? Yes, it was I was right. I Was right. I was right. He's in here Okay, open. Let me in plea ease Hello Rainbow ink from a sky squid you're in luck the shipping from imperial just came in 27 they Interesting Emeline Silvercraft Where is she? She is she in the upstairs one all the downstairs There's like two shops the next two shops like I think from memory are like exactly the same Except one's upstairs and one's downstairs I think Is that right? I think so. I don't even know. I don't know Nope, this is downstairs Some adamant metal filings sure I have that laying around. I usually throw it back in the kiln to melt again Okay And big your know The music in here is kind of calming I like it And you are we're oh Yeah, you're in this one the pit place Interesting Interesting indeed. Let's go up.  I'm pretty sure I have one somewhere. You're welcome to it Okay, and down here and back to Beatrice Back to Beatrice back to Beatrice Beatrice isn't here hello I never know how to find my way around the city it's so annoying. I've never done it That should do it my spellbook and I realized I have the ingredients for the ritual But I don't have the incantation They should have a copy of it at the library here in pigswick academy. Could you go to the library and get it? I think the librarian is named Hugo Chatterley. Tell him it's up Okay, let's head back then And hopefully get this Incantation Let's go He is over here G'day. This is the library. It's kind of an interesting place. I Think we get to go into the archives or something. I can't remember though Yep Incantation to dispel a goblin portal That's not exactly the sort of spell we let new students meddle with that's in the Restricted collection. I can only release the incantation with the permission of the head mistress Speak to head mistress crisp and return to me with the permission slip. It's but a formality, but rules are rules Well, you know it occurred rather this Inconveniently these works are spread throughout wisteria. So you will have to keep your eyes open for them Okay, um don't need that one. That's a waste of time Yeah, let's head over to head mistress crisp then and see what she thinks about this situation Um, yep boop boop all the manner yay 110 of it. Uh-huh. Let's go up here Let us talk to her hello What's this? I send you to help captain O'Hare and the next I hear from you You're talking about dispelling goblin portals very well then I'm getting a clear picture of how Ambrose runs his school and Believe me. It's not a pretty picture Take this back to Chatterley and tell him he's to help you to the best of his abilities Is that all head mistress crisp hands you a permission slip for you to access the Incantations book that you I understand from your Ravenwood transcripts, but you're quite a detective willing to help solve mysteries I Don't know what that was about But um Don't think we need it. So that's always good. Um, yeah, let's talk to Hugo Chatterley once more And he should hopefully give it to us. I think hopefully if he doesn't I'll be angry Excellent I took the liberty of copying the incantation you need while you were speaking with head mistress Chris Use it with caution Hugo Chatterley hands you a strip of parchment paper with the incantation written You know it occurs to me that as a visiting student you haven't received any instruction in history of the school Okay Well, it's here. God Head back down to Beatrice so much talking and walking.  It's just talking and walking. It's really annoying Yeah, let's head down this way Hello Okay, and Beatrice once again hello If you're the only one who has permission to enter Pegasus place you'll have to perform the incantation yourself Just take the items you collected from the merchants and the incantation you got from the library and follow the instruction You should check in with groundskeeper Verne before you do anything He should know what to expect if it goes badly. Don't worry. You'll be fine. I hope Okay, let us hit over to Verne then and We will try to Remove the portal hopefully Then hello you came back. Don't you realize this place is doomed? You brought a means of dispelling the magic portal and all of the ingredients Let me see that There is a problem the final ingredient in the spell requires the soul stone of the leader of the goblin horde The goblins have spoken fearfully of Lord Graustark. I suspect that whoever he is He's lurking in the tower down the street You should go and defeat this Lord Graustark and collect his soul stone the source of his magic Only then can you use the incantation to dispel the portal return to me when you have done that Impossible deep. Okay. I will be back once I am at The guy the crystal tower place thingy move will be here. Okay. I am back Here is the wall flower for Pegasus place And let's hit on it. I suppose. Yeah Anyway, she get the sword and chest but seems really good and Um For some reason there is a lot of people roaming around with Stereo And I do not know why because I hate the world so much Um, but you know, that's cool. Um, I suppose there's more people Is it time already for my afternoon snack? I don't remember placing an order for wizard But you'll do Okay, then I see how it is Um, let's do this. We will add In a couple of You Sure. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go I should have put in some more blades. Oh, well, that's fine. Um, let's do this.  Hopefully Hopefully and if it did not I will be upset Much upset such wow Oh, yeah, but I should Okay, they're getting he dead He dead. He dead. He dead. He dead. He dead. He dead. He dead. Um, I mean might as well We'll do that We will do Yep, okay That's cool. You will do that. That is fine. Nearly kill me in the process. That's cool 999 health. That's fine. Um, yeah And Another blade. No, okay, that's fine as well Um, we'll shield them Shield need another blade Another blade is much needed Much need such wow Thank you for another blade and also no, thank you for giving me all these power ups Um, I mean I want them I mean I just need to faint and I don't want to waste the power up upon a faint Because that would be bad 100 damage There we go Let's do that storm shield. That's fine. I'm not storm Um Okay, and we can hit hopefully yes we can Hopefully this kills Hopefully I won't kill now. That's unlucky Um What will we do?  Um, okay, we'll save up for a poison. That's cool Power up. Thank you power up strong point though. So that's always good Okay, no man, that's fine 334 and there we go 50 percent No, I mean we can just banche you we'll just banche you see that's why I put banshee in Amazing boop you fizzled you would wouldn't you? Okay Okay, then you find a small gleaming gem Shimmering with power. This must be the soul stone grounds keeper verne spoke of pirate bone Lots of things all the things All the things okay, let us head over to the strange portal The strange portal You follow the instructions in the incantation Using the items you gathered when you finish the incantation the magic portal vanishes No more goblins will come through it Okay, I'll be back when I'm at the Okay, I'm back just made it to verne By the great tree you've done it lord grouse dark will trouble this street no longer You should tell headmistress chrisp the wonderful news Be proud of what you've accomplished. Okay. Well, let us head to miss chrisp and We We'll end off the episode there. I think It's been a decent episode See, let's head back through um, we Probably won't get to level 30, but we might If not, if we don't get it today, we'll get it tomorrow. So definitely Um, and as soon as we get level 30 we'll do the Mount Olympus dungeon What's that? You've impressed it. Maybe you've been able to learn a thing or two about magic despite your training Though your aid in the pegasus place matter is appreciated It will not affect your participation in the tournament speaking It is time for you to report to mrs. Dowager the first round of magical dueling is about to commence Okay, so um, yeah, thank you for watching Um, next episode we will continue on and we will compete in the first round Um, probably get to level 30. 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So we're starting and then let's see the attendees are zero and there's one, there's Ed who we're going to promote. Okay. Promote to panelists. So. Okay, so we can start. Thanks. Okay, so welcome to the Board of Health meeting. It is 532 when we're starting the first thing is roll call. So your name comes up first. So Lauren or Mills, are you here? Lauren. Can't hear you. Can't hear you. Okay. Okay. Maureen. Tim. Here. Prima. Are you here, Prima? Unmute yourself and Prima. Prima, can you unmute yourself? You did. There you did. Okay. Sorry here. Okay. And Nancy, I'm here. I got everybody. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we're going to do is review and receive the minutes. From Jen, our January meeting. And thank you, Nancy Schroeder. Once again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have to do a very good job. On our minutes. Does anybody have. Any comments? Edits. Changes. I didn't see anything to change. No, neither did I. So may have a motion. Yeah. Do you have a change on the minutes? When I was looking over them. We can't hear you, Lauren. You're in an echo chamber. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Hello. Hello. Okay. Now we can hear you. I just wanted to. I just wanted to. Do the notes of. Is anyone, it's coming in broken or are there people having that same trouble? Yes.  Maybe she's going to try to come back in with another connection. So she's not here. She just jumped off. Okay. So I'll wait till she comes back. Okay. One thing I just want to make a comment not to change the. Minutes, but I was doing some more public health. Reading and. Thank you to chief living stone. Because when we look at what we're doing here in Amherst. The focus is on a harm reduction model. So we're going to change the subject of public health. Focus. Change a whole lot of things. Fortunately we're doing okay. But I thank you to. Chief living stone for the harm reduction. Unsafe. And Lauren. Yeah. Yes. I'm going to add it in the chat. Is that okay? Yes. I think the chest disabled. Yeah. I'm going to try again. Something could be added. The notes. It says mental health plays a part. And. I can't hear you, Lauren. It's, it's, it's. I hear. Like every other word. Yeah. Unfortunately. I'm going to try again. Something could be added. The notes. It says mental health plays a part. And. I can't hear you, Lauren. I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Like every other word. It was something about the mental health. Mental health under. A place apart and done violence. Is that what you want to talk to? Lauren. Oh yeah, I see that one. Stand alone sentence something. Right. Well, maybe later on we can. Well, should. Should we just move to accept the minutes? Yeah. Okay. So we'll just move that to when she can come in. Better. Okay. So next is public comment on topics of the. Gender today. Let's see. Attendees. They're four attendees. So no hands are raised. No hands are up. Okay. Next is all business. And the toxic chemical regulation. Tim at our last, before our last meeting, I went into the minutes of 2001. When the toxic chemical regulation came to be. And. What had happened back then. Is a constituent went to the. I'm going to say town, the select board asking if there could be a bylaw about cleaning. And it was cleaning products for toxic chemical, but they bumped it to the board of health. And the board of health came up with. That those. Regulations. No other city or town of 351 cities in town in Massachusetts. The city of Massachusetts. Has a toxic chemical regulation. Not that it's not important. But one thought I had was to contact. Toxic use reduction institute at UMass Lowell and ask them for advice at how we should go. I asked the. The city of Massachusetts. Except Amherst has this regulation. So I don't know how you might want to handle that. Any comment. Tim. So what I was planning on doing said I would do would be to speak to the maintenance. The director and he's not available. So I think it would be really important as a guest, if I could get him on to speak to what's already being done. So there's no redundancy and maybe we're, we're doing everything possible. So I think I kind of felt like that was important next step, but I'm not able to deliver on that right now. So board members. What would you like? What action would you like to take? I think I'll put it on the agenda. Yeah. I'm not going to go off until you get someone else. I mean, get the, certainly at least the maintenance director to weigh in. I think your concern, Nancy, was that it was unenforceable. Or was not. Yes. Yes. Nothing's been enforced in the. 21 years. We've had it. Well, yeah, maybe, but I mean, I'm just being like. clarify. Oh no, not to get rid of it. I think we should contact the toxic use reduction institute because they are the body in Massachusetts that can advise people on toxic chemicals and we should ask them for directions. We say well we have this, we want to we're reviewing and revising it. What what can you offer us in this process? Yeah it seems like rather than a regulation it's being like out there as a guideline you know. So I you know the question is what the role is of that piece of work which was substantial at the time and still out there and all the work that Tim and Lauren have kind of done trying to bring it to the new to the new era here but but the underlying issues are still complicated about how does one regulate them. Right and there's legislation that has been forwarded by the state looking at statewide PFAS regulation so that that's in the works and I'm not saying that this is not important but I think we have to take a step back in and thank you Tim and Lauren for all your work and I wish we had done more of the historical thing of in 2001 why did we get this regulation and finding out that no one else in the state has this regulation. How do we proceed with this review and possible revision? So just because there's no other board of health having this by-law doesn't mean that we shouldn't because we are in many times and I think we had been pioneers in that one I think. Right so one thing is these types of toxic chemicals even though they are very close to the public health we usually just don't take them into account you know you know I mean even though there are a lot of EPA regulations the EPA regulations I think enforcement is not the primary objective because we are you know we just give some guidelines and the guidelines is primarily saying if there is an alternate approach which is primarily can mitigate toxins and then we should go with that alternate approach which has less risk and that is the guidance I believe when we wrote it the final recommendation was to give that flexibility not an enforcement that you cannot use it or use a particular toxic chemical you know so it's it's primarily saying look for alternatives which are least toxic and then right if you cannot you know then you come back to the board and see if we can get a relief on that you know and that was the primary purpose of that as Morin was saying it's not a enforcement mechanism it's a some sort of a guidance you know that that we have this in place and this is not didn't this didn't start two or three years ago I think it was an old toxic chemical document we were updating. Yeah what I did is I went through all the oldest regulations and started a review for review and revision of our oldest regulations almost two years ago and that's how it came about and we did the biological lab safety one and and and this one was from 2001 that's why I chose it. Lauren are you trying to say something you're muted? Oh join again so Lauren you're muted but I I just was able to join so I I'm not sure where you guys are I don't have anything. Sounded better there for a second. I don't have anything to say. Okay thank you. Tim would you mind writing an email to the toxic use reduction institute and ask them send them what we've done and ask them for any possible guidance they have? Yeah I can do that. Yeah because that's when I went back and and went over the whole history of all this they were established after the toxic reduction act was put in in Massachusetts and I think it was 1989 I can't I don't have my dates here this institute was started to help anyone in the state with toxic substances. Yeah I can I can reach reach out to the institute but also the I think we were talking about the procurement office here right yeah almost so maybe that one also could go simultaneously or that's the person that Jennifer isn't able to reach now correct Jennifer? Right I think just we can wait a little bit just a few beats and see if the facilities director. So why don't we wait until our April meeting? That was that yeah okay great. Thank you everybody for your work. Yeah meanwhile I could reach out to the institute you know have some yeah some input from them. Okay great thank you because it is important but we just have to find the correct way to address it. Okay any other comments on toxic regulations? The community health assessment update all rolling along Emily Connors is in her last semester of the four plus one public health program at UMass and she's taking the lead and we're supporting her. We're finishing the key informant slash stakeholder interviews in the next week or two and we're getting ready to do listening sessions. We're having a pilot listening session for the students to practice and we will critique them on February 17th it's a Friday. One concern we have is that we really want to give voice to people that are difficult to reach and I know Lauren is helping us set up two focus groups with two different groups healthy Hampshire and butternut farms and Wayling Greenie is going to help us set up a one or two focus groups with clients that she works with and so we we want to do that. So we will be doing listening sessions and the students are doing a great job and given that there's no budget for this we don't have any incentives and we're all I'm going to bake and bring the refreshments to these we're doing the best we can. Any questions on that? Are there are there other groups you're looking at I know you're trying hard to reach people or hard to reach and are there more other general groups of people that you're trying to reach out to? They're going to try and reach elders through either the the neighbors group and or the senior center. As we ask people if you have any suggestions of groups who we should be reaching out to and know how we can reach them please let us know. Yeah I guess I was thinking about elders because there are a lot of needs there and I think those are the two thoughts that I had to in terms of finding some of those folks. I don't I can't think of others right right as a moment. And also we're going to ask Hailey at the senior center for results from the survey they did last year right right but so we're we're going through it and they'll be giving us a report at our May meeting. Okay next Lauren are you there so we can do the minutes? All right well we'll move on to the geothermal well applications and Ed is here and it's on Rolling Ridge and we all have the documents. Yeah hi everybody. This one has gotten approval from the conservation commission. Karen Jack did review it and state that it was while appearances outside of their jurisdiction. I visited the property sent you a letter and this is another one from Dandelion and their application is quite it's quite complete as well illustrated. There seem to be setting a good example as far as these applications go as far as coming into the inspectors department and I didn't see any reason not to recommend it to the board for approval. So Ed back to running this smoothly is there a way if the driller is licensed if the driller has liability insurance if the installation diagrams are complete and if we have the conservation commission wetlands approval can we just go through these is there anything else we need to be aware of? I don't know I mean at some point in the past when title five was new back in the 90s the board probably you know at some point said you know enough of this let's delegate the responsibility to the local agent or decided not to so you know that's where we are. One thing that I have been working on and I showed Jim a draft that I worked up last week I spent most of a good long day just going through the different regulations that apply to wells in general and tried to make a checklist much like mass DEP is supplied for reviewing the systems to create a document that I could you know just make sure that each time I get one of these applications I'm considering all the different possible regulations that need to be considered and then check them off the list is much longer for drinking wells than it is for geothermal wells but but there's still quite a few things besides getting Aaron Jock to use for expertise to see if conservation is happy with the sighting but there's you know the overall questions that you talked a bit at times about like you know is there a cumulative effect from many wells in a town or say on one property like at the proposed school site those are the questions that you know are outside of that checklist and you know I totally understand if you want to wait to delegate that say down to the inspections department for review we can keep bringing them to you this would be the example of one where I think it's a single family house with two boreholes application but by all appearances it's easily accessible the company has a good history of compliance control and runoff and you know I really don't hesitate you can I just say that I notice that the massachusetts well driller certificate is expired do you have enough I can make sure that we thank you primal I didn't catch that no obviously I didn't thank you no the the representative from the company I think this is the first time that she hasn't listened again in the audience but I can easily email with her tomorrow and make sure that's rectified so you could hold this up or you could make a decision pending receipt of the upgraded one what would the board members like to proceed how would they like to proceed I think we could make it a agree pending the updated license so do you want to make the motion line sure almost that we approve the geothermal well on rolling rich road pending an updated current license for the well driller any more discussion oh no I need a second right second second any more discussion okay it's been moved and seconded we're going to vote on the geothermal well given the updated license primal yes maureen yes tim hi lauren lauren you have to unmute lauren can you unmute to vote Nancy yes Jen I'm going to lean on you what what should we do it's being mourned unmute I'm seeing if she's I mean attendee I have her under participant yeah sometimes she comes in on another number I don't see any email I can text her I don't have to tell you can we do with this absent because her camera's off and her microphone is off can she call in through to the meeting and just be a voice I mean just done that in the past Jennifer I'll ask the question since I'm a newbie and I have no idea what the regulations or the politics are is it possible for us to assist lauren with or for the town to assist lauren with um some IT help yes yeah we've gone through a through a few rounds of it so it is something we've worked with but I I agree is there's there's not good yeah chat can she vote by lauren can you hear us but if lauren can hear you know maybe she can raise the hand just up rule lauren can you raise your hand is it an issue of reception Jennifer or I'm sorry premise is it an issue of reception if you're you know we've just we've been working and we'll continue to you know even if there's a possibility of a landing a hard spot for it for a day when the meeting is happening I think that'll be a we've tried a few avenues but we'll continue okay so we'll just have her as absent then because her microphone is off and her video is off I've um called and I've I've texted but we'll we'll continue to make sure this is easier now I have nothing with her oh now lauren are you there now no okay so it's been moved in oh yeah we've all voted and Nancy yes so it's been moved and seconded and we have four approvals and one absent okay temporary housing request from patricia smallman on 1240 south east street so miss smallman suffered a fire in this last couple weeks I think my brother bought it in the paper and she is well on her way to having the pieces in place to restore the home she's contacted us and said that she will be having an apartment in town that she'll be living in but she wants to establish something on the property and in this case she's proposing a small RV to to use the property to bring her dog out to continue to live there during the day and this would be self-contained parkers portables as a licensed sanacan company nearby that services other places in town has a good record and they have agreed to service the RV while it was parked there they'll have access once construction is starting up to temporary power but an RV would have its own power too so she's bringing this to us there's a section of the sanitary globe number 430 that says temporary housing is allowed only would grow our permission and this is talking about more than 30 days and up to a year and if it came to a year and she was not finished then I requested that she contact us ahead of time and let us know what the best guess schedule would be but the code reads no temporary housing may be used without the permission of the board of health so we're asking the board to take a vote and it would be in the minutes whether we would give permission for this request comments from board members there's plenty of room on the property I guess I read that they also the neighbors amenable to this idea in fact suggested it so I don't I think it's reasonable I know that where the property is I've seen the results of the fire it's going to be a while before that your house is ready again I think it's a reasonable exception to the to the regulation any other comments I agree Maureen I've driven by it and reading the letter that the neighborhood the neighbors suggested it and support it and you're a distant neighbor yeah I go by there a lot I run by there walk by there we saw this unfortunately any other comments or questions one question if it is approved what is going to be the extended time you know is it going to be are the six months a year or the proposal is for a month to a year but it's an extensive renovation it could take most of the year and if it gets close to the year's time and it does not look finished and an advantage of my sitting in and being a building inspector as well as a health inspector is that this I probably will be sending being sent out on routine inspections to the property and we'll be aware of the likely timeframe myself but her networking friends seems to be intent on helping with this process and I've informed her in writing that we expect to be updated if it's getting close to a year and the letter says she'll be living at another housing unit not there and this is for during the day and she can be there with a dog and supervise the renovations so it's not like she's going to be there 24 seven seven days a week correct and is there any need to inspect those these units periodically or you just feel like it's you just it's fine and I just don't know what the standard is plus this hasn't happened that many times although I've done this for a while I think if there was from the outside a reason to think that we needed to that I needed to I mean that's the bulk of my job is either responding to housing complaints or traveling around town with my eyes open and using experience to figure where I ought to get nosy and then request an inspection so the part of our being on the property will be to keep an eye on this temporary housing any other discussion if the if there is a sanitary company which is already contracted there I think that's a good thing right but yes yeah they're already licensed there okay any more discussion not may have a motion to accept other permission for temporary housing rv at 1240 southeastern for one month to one year did you just make that motion I guess I made it I made the motion and I have it seconded I seconded yeah okay so it's been moved and seconded for the temporary housing 1240 southeastern and now to vote Maureen I Tim I Premola I and Nancy I and Lauren's completely gone so she's just absent well put her eyes absent okay the next considering that I'm sure this yeah okay thanks and see you next month alright take care season so next is the body arts establishment regulation so Jennifer do you want to just say how this came forward and I've done some homework on it okay yeah so we had a request from our body arts establishment if they could bring in a short term visiting or guest tattoo artists so this is something that other communities do and I did a little bit of research as well so it would be a short term and could there be a short term permit to to welcome these people in for a short period of time and what did you find out about short term permits well you know I looked around different communities so you know our fee for a tattoo technician for example is $250 annually in other communities the temporary or visiting body our practitioners have that fee so that's the case in Worcester and as well as in Northampton and the permit's good for 14 days in Northampton just for an example and they need over just about a week to process 10 days to process okay you saw what you found I found that and I went through and I looked at our regulations the state template put out by the Massachusetts government is the same one we have here yeah and I looked at Worcester and then I I didn't have access to the 2004 2006 or 2007 minutes but the amendments for the 2012 were prohibiting body piercing under 14 and prohibiting tongue nipples lips for under 18 or having a properly identified parent legal custodial parent or legal guardian and then I went on we only have one establishment which is Wanderlust on North Pleasant Street and I went into their website and he has all this stuff covered nicely he doesn't do piercings at this time he has information about 18 years and older he won't touch anyone under 18 without a whole big parent thing he has after use instructions and he does not even allow children in the tattoo parlor so if if a bit that was like if a parent goes to have a tattoo and they have a child they cannot bring that so I thought that and I was I walked in there once and it seems like a pretty good establishment yeah it is so I think we just have to add a come up with what we want for a visiting tattoo artist or technician our licensing says technician comments can I ask questions sure so and this has nothing to do with them being granted a visiting technician license I just was curious about on page 11 right above the standards of practice under section F it says the establishment shall require that all body art practitioners have either completed or were offered and declined in writing the hepatitis B vaccination series I'm surprised that they aren't required to be immunized that that isn't a requirement um by the state good point I mean they're not healthcare providers but you know they certainly are well at minimum I I think if I were going in I would want or I think the public should be aware if someone is unvaccinated against hepatitis B that's my thought but you know I mean that's if there's state regulations there's state regulations I was just curious about it we could revise it well you know I mean I think that probably is a more involved discussion yeah not right now but we can we can take on having that as a revision well I noticed it was a little old but it doesn't it doesn't seem I don't know you know I didn't get a chance to look at it compared to anything else but um so so that's a good a good question I didn't realize that part of what brought this up was the temporary visit guest artists coming right would they have to have the same qualifications of course that the full-time folks have right the experience that was a little confusing to me how that was written but if that's what it the state is I guess that's that's me that's confused just in terms of the years of apprenticeship and the year of license or whatever in another town or state so that I guess that's that that we would need to have somebody who has the similar qualifications but the same qualifications the same the same the same we would I wouldn't change that no so the only difference would be the fee and the duration of them being on the premises is that am I right is I think it might not even um I think this was generated from this one um place of business but you know it wouldn't be just directed at them it would just obviously future ones coming so we would you would decide and then we'd speak to inspections and fees and that would get changed for all and I was I was wondering if if they're asking for this because if when you go on their website like you have to wait maybe a couple of months to get an appointment for your tattoo so that's what came across my mind when I went on their website like oh maybe he wants a little help here and there or maybe he wants to offer some special designer tattooist tattoo artist how would you like to proceed board members yeah I was gonna say it seems too complicated to just do it right here right now oh yeah right now definitely it is pretty brief if it's just adding this but I think someone or two people should take it on and try to update it to that language and then bring it back to the next meeting and I would be willing to be a partner in that I can work with you Maureen unless as someone else wants to Premlin do you want to get your feet wet or do you want to observe no it's fine I can be involved I just want to know exactly so are we looking to other communities that have this exception yeah yeah that's really the first step is to look at what other people have and and compare and see what we like and don't like and then and we can also both each take a look at it maybe collaborate a little bit send a draft out to other board members and then discuss it at the next meeting sure I'm assuming the regulations themselves are just standard yeah yeah and that's what I went into the state and I went into the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards and and this is the template and then I went into Cambridge I went to other places and they're pretty much using using this I didn't go word for word but I quickly looked and most towns or cities have used this template that the day when tattooing became legal in the state the state put this out I was thinking are we aiming to revise this by law or we just focusing on our definition of visiting versus permanent practitioners you know if you say that the whether it's a permanent practitioner or a visiting practitioner should follow all these rules that could be just enough you know we don't need to revise it you know and then it'll become a matter of just how much fear we are going to charge mm-hmm yeah and the and the length of the the residency or whatever of this artist right and and in the past you know none of the these regulations haven't been signed in 2012 the physician who was on the board did it in like two months it came up one month and then it was revised and it was just about the piercings and the ages so we can just put that amendment and I think it's better if we have people sign it to there's this inconsistency with older regulations not being signed so Maureen and Premilla do you want to do this do you want my input to if you have the time yeah or yeah we it doesn't seem that complex right no compared to some of the things like the smoking materials and those others of things that had major structural renovations seems like a piece of cake but we'll see yeah and then we can consider requiring heavy vaccine if we because that that is a is a very important public health piece because it blurs blood there well okay well yeah the question is that's protecting the tattooist really right right um well that there's not something to think about I know like for like maintenance workers are in that the colleges they aren't required to have the happy but they're offered the happy because because but come across sharps or other kinds of things in there in their work they do get OSHA training in which which the tattoo artist gets it's some I don't know if we can make you know mandate it with the mandate is the education and the opportunity yeah yeah if that's not what the state's requiring I think it would we would be hard pressed to make a case for being an exception and there may not be a reason I I'm just responding to yeah no realizing that that's the first time I've read that that you know then I have a question about hepatitis C but another time okay so we can be in touch and come up with something in the next month okay directors updates okay so just to let you know I got a text from Lauren and she has a bad connection tonight and she's going to hopefully email her comments so I'll let you know if I get an email from her so so um so directors comments um updates so with COVID I know I've been repeating over the past um you know a few months that we're really not having the surveillance um so I'll say it one last time and then I think at some point you know the COVID I mean as we know sort of the COVID emergency the declaration is ending and we'll we'll follow the lead of DPH and the CDC with reporting so I just want to sort of say that there but we're really getting about 20 percent of the tests the positive tests are showing that's what the latest research is showing that 80 percent of testing is done at home and not reported so um I said the emergency status of the pandemic's ending May 11th but we're going to continue here as many communities are doing to make sure that we continue what we can for supporting our community with everything we can do to um with vaccination and testing and surveillance and especially vulnerable populations who will probably be hit the hardest by this emergency status ending um so I guess we're not really in an endemic state yet um the CDC has not decided what the COVID vaccine regimen is going to be so there's no word out from my knowledge what's happening for example this fall a lot of people want to know what's going on with the COVID vaccine bivalent vaccine if it's going to be an annual thing but we haven't heard yet so I'll update people as I find out and other people may find out ahead of me so just to let you know that the Amherst department still has rapid antigen tests and is free here at the bang center and we continue to pass them out to our community um partners you know Amherst survival center craig stores um so I really would like to see those tests you know as always leveraged use them before you go out use them after or if you're symptomatic so we do have them here if anyone needs some and they expire in in June the wastewater surveillance that continues to be a program and it's been extended to the end of the calendar year so three times a week that testing from the wastewater combined flume um the combined flumes goes off to Jamaica Plain gets analyzed at Biobot and then we get the results and they can be seen on our website and also MassDPH has a really good website looking at combined surveillance um let's see and then vaccination clinics um we are transitioning like a lot of communities to uh COVID um bivalent vaccine clinics that are monthly now so the first Wednesday of every month um from three to five p.m we have Moderna we have Pfizer bivalent and we have uh bivalent for five ages five to 11 Pfizer if you those times are convenient for people um we can call in and we can arrange another time for you to get a vaccine we do have um a link just as an FYI that we share with the Musanti Health Center so if they have people that come in that need a COVID shot they have a direct link to our our department so they can get signed up right away that's it for COVID update I'm trying to make it more succinct any questions on that so just moving into a health department update I don't do it every time but this time I just wanted to give a quick sort of rundown what's going on again a thank you to Maureen for helping us with the childhood immunization program it started in September and we've given 53 immunizations to children so our program is for students uh student age or under 18 um that have no insurance or under insured and they need vaccines to get into school so we will give them one round of vaccines sometimes too but I've said this a few times it's one part vaccination the nine parts education so sometimes we'll vaccinate people and from my window we can actually see people go down into the Musanti Health Center and we've made calls and they're expecting them and we try to get them with a provider I want to say welcome to our new employee here in the health department we have a program assistant his name is Kyle O'Connor and he comes highly recommended we had him here working volunteering for COVID clinics and now he's been hired and he'll be helping us coordinate COVID clinics office duties and public health programming while he continues to finish up with a community health assessment so we're so thrilled to have him he was here Monday he started I gave him an assignment um we went over it and I thought it would take him two hours and after 15 minutes he said he was all done so he's very skilful he's amazing on the community assessment team oh good good I'm so glad the third bullet item I have is that um I've we've always had good partnership with the Musanti Health Center but there's a new employee there her name is Deborah DeStefano and she is in a new position she's the DEI coordinator and she and I have been talking um and we're really um sort of pinpointing some ways that we can do more outreach to the community um and increase access so she's very committed they've always been great to work with but I feel really optimistic working with Deborah about thinking about improving access to the community um the next item is next month at the Board of Health meeting I'm going to um give a more formal update or maybe I'll invite Ed Smith back to give us information on the new sanitary code so there's new housing yeah what's that I saw I I was looking today and and the state's coming out in title five mainly aimed in in eastern Massachusetts to decrease nitrogen especially on the cape is that why you're talking about no it's something different maybe they're combined somehow so okay you know um so new sanitary code so the inspector's just completed the training I think this past week so I'll get more information um the the changes are going to go into effect April 2023 so this has been a long time coming these um revisions and one thing that I think that will that may impact the Board in us is that there's going to be a change in temperature requirements so the end of heating season is going to be moved up two weeks and then the Board has an option to move it up two weeks so it's used to be that June 15th ended heating season but now it can end actually a month earlier May 15th because we have had complaints just ourselves and I'm sure it's across the state that some houses housing apartment complexes the heat has been kept on to June 15th because of due to regulation so that's something that I'll get more information on but that'll that'll impact us I don't know was anyone on the board when that was yeah well it'll be very helpful because the Clark House and other units they either have the heat on or the air conditioning on and you can't switch back and forth and it would be 90 degrees out and they couldn't turn the air conditioning on because of and we would have to give them a variance for for that so it will make life much easier unfortunately in in our climate changing yeah because we did that multiple times for the it was the Clark House it's a Clark House yeah yeah well it seems like it could also flip the other way though if you just if you can't do both you know you have this transition period no matter when you set it where it might get down to freezing and you know sometimes there was that lake frost in May or you know it's just it seems really a tricky tricky thing I think it does sound tricky I do like that this are these two week blocks you know so maybe there's some kind of you know something you can do with Noah and looking at the weather but but next month I'll try to get Ed in and we can talk about those subtleties the next thing is that I'm continuing to think about what we're going to do with the information that Nancy and her group is coming up with a community health assessment so what are our next steps are going to be and I know last month I talked about considering the chip the community health improvement plan so it'd be a format of community involvement identifying what the issues are and then looking at how we can best intervene and do programming to address those issues so I say this again that something that I'm working on and one of the first steps will be as I said identifying what the issues are so I think I'm going to come to the board at some point and go over Nancy Gilbert's you know what the the community health assessment what came up what you came up with and what the top issues are so it's just going to be a community a continuing conversation about what's going on in Amherst after Nancy's done with the health assessment any thoughts on that very preliminary thank you anybody have questions for Jen thank you Jen um public comment we have four attendees I don't see any hands up no hands up okay topics not anticipated by the chair um just a reminder on the conflict of interest you go into the state website Jen has provided us with the link please do that and then I I did when I was looking at state things today that the state is proposing an overhaul of the septic regulation um the title five and it's aimed at like the cape and uh waterfront areas and the islands um because of high levels of nitrogen our area wasn't highlighted but that's coming out I I noticed that um otherwise I don't have anything um anybody else have any comments or questions you know can I just ask does the board want more information on COVID or is what I'm doing okay and you you'll ask as you go along I'm happy with the reports and I check CDC I also look at Amherst ending thank you Art and Maura and I look at the state numbers and the Amherst website with the school you know the school reports and other things are helpful so this I think we've kind of learned where to look for this information although I'm getting you know it's changing in terms of how relevant it is since the reporting is different um but if you're looking at hospitalizations deaths whatever that's that's still real and wastewater we love the wastewater yeah and thank you for sending out the the uh water report too with the uh oh with our with our yeah I'll continue to do that and I'll post that in the packets I think that's really interesting yeah okay any other questions or comments our next meeting is March 9th at 5 30 and may I have a motion to adjourn adjourn I join adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn okay Maureen anyone second it I second it okay so it's been moved and seconded all in favor Tim I Maureen I Premola Premola okay for adjourning okay and and Nancy I well thank you all for your work and I'll be in touch with Premola and Maureen and see you next week have a good month stay well bye


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