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Home My WebLink AboutRe: Child Recreational Camp - Correspondence - 125 WINDKIST FARM ROAD 7/20/2009 0f ttORTH ��4=0 ,4. 6�ao O <uw�wi u• �. �s9SSAC HU5�4�y PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT Community Development Division July 20,2009 Windkist Equestrian Centre Sent: e-mail:plambert@windkistfarm.com Patricia Lambert &via Regular Mail 125 Windkist Farm Road North Andover,MA 01845 Re: Child Recreational Camp Dear Ms.Lambert, This letter is in regards to your application to the North Andover Health Qepartment to hold a recreational camp for children at Windkist Equestrian centre at 125 Windkist Farm Road. As a result of your appeal of the denial of the application,the North Andover Board of Health heard testimony from you at two separate public meetings. The evaluation of your program and how it relates to the Massachusetts regulations led to lengthy discussion and resolution. Subsequent to the meetings you sent an email notifying the North Andover Health Office that all references utilized for advertising as a"camp"have been removed from your literature and from your website found at: http://www.windkistfarm.com/. This has been confirmed by Health Office staff. The basic elimination of the"camp' designation addresses a primary concern of the Board of Health.Going forward you have agreed to only hold programs,clinics or the like and only refer to them as such(and not as a camp) in your advertising and literature. Further, since you have indicated to the Board of Health that the horsemanship training is conducted all year long,and that the summer program is devoted to only the single sport of horsemanship(with no other camp activities),you will not be considered to be a child recreational camp,as that term is applied by the Board and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health,Community Sanitation Division. As long as you do as you proposed which is to: disseminate the attached document,provide proof of disseminating the document,and you do not refer to the program as a camp,you will not be required to apply for a permit for a recreational camp. Therefore,with this determination, Windkist Equestrian Centre is not required to submit an application to the Health Department for the 2009 camping season,or in the future,unless you 1600 Osgood Street,North Andover,Massachusetts 01845 Phone 978.688.9540 Fox 978.688.8476 Web www.townofnorthandaver.com 4 t o become a designated"camp".You do not need to appear at the next Board of Health choose t Meeting on Thursday,July 24,2009. With regard to the building applications to the North Andover Building Department,any future applications,as always,would require sign off from each department including the Health Department. All applications would be reviewed per the situations that are current at that time. I discussed this with Building Commissioner, Gerald Brown,in the presence of Curt Bellavance, the Director of the Community Development Division. Sincer4 ./'~' Susan Sawyer Public Health Director cc: Mark Rees,Town Manager Thomas Urbelis,Attorney Gerald Brown,Inspector of Buildings Curt Bellavance,Director of Community Development Board of Health Members 1600 Osgood Street,North Andover,Massachusetts 01845 Phone 978.688.9540 fax 978.688.8476 Web www.lownofnorthandover.com Page 1 of 1 Patricia Lambert "Sawyer, Susan" <ssawyer@townofnorthandover.com> From:To: <plambert@windkistfarm.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:42 AM Subject: letter from Health Dept an email with a letter attached. The hard copy will ill be in the mail today, but I want to I just sent YouIf ou et the email with the attachment could you please make sure you received it eeceiveday y 9 respond that it has simply been Thank you for correcting the website. Everything looks good. After you notify the parents, please submit an email or letter indicating when and to whom the notice was disseminated to. The matter will then be considered closed. Thank you Susan Sawyer Page 1 of 1 Patricia Lambert From: "Sawyer, Susan" <ssawyer@townofnorthandover.com> To: "'Patricia Lambert"'<wind kistfarm@comcast.net> Cc: <tat.boh@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:33 AM Subject: RE: letter from Health Dept Hello Patricia, I just left you a message, at the farm, with a young woman. The Board members have not placed Windkist on the agenda for tonight, as they too are satisfied with the action taken, therefore there is no need to attend. As for the notification. If you can send the participants an email or hand them a paper notice that will be fine, just let us know via email how many people you notified. I believe it is really not necessary for us to know the names, just your acknowledgement of how many should suffice for our purpose. Thank you Susan From: Patricia Lambert [mailto:windkistfarm@comcast.net] - Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:08 AM To: Sawyer, Susan Subject: Re: letter from Health Dept Susan, I am sorry I just got the e-mail. My web has been down off and on for a week and a half. The letter is fine. I can bring my book tonight and will have a list of kids who signed up with the Recreational Camp literature on the web site. Either you can notify them or I will, at your discretion, if that works for you. See you tonight. Tish Lambert ----- Original Message ----- From: Sawyer, Susan To: 'plambert@windkistfarm.com' Sent: Tuesday, July 21,'2009 8:42 AM Subject: letter from Health Dept Patricia, I just sent you an email with a letter attached. The hard copy will be in the mail today, but I want to make sure you received it before Thursday. If you get the email with the attachment could you please respond that it has simply been received. Thank you for correcting the website. Everything looks good. After you notify the parents, please submit an email or letter indicating when and to whom the notice was disseminated to. The matter will then be considered closed. Thank you Susan Sawyer 7/23/2-009