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Meeting Minutes
Monday, December 8th, 2025 at 11:00 am
North Andover Town Hall
120 Main St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
North Andover, MA 01845
Attended: Coral Hope,Ade Solarin, Bonnie Dufresne,Tom Carbone,Amy Ewing, Brian LaGrasse,
Lea Anne Pero, Lydia Sweetser
1. Introduction&Welcome
• Introduce Lydia to the group
• Icebreaker/Discussion
2. FY26 Term 1 Reporting Update
• So far,we have spent$134,336.55 of our grant total of$532,564.71
• Most activities are in progress and/or completed. Less than ten activities are stalled or not
started due to vacancy in SSC position
• Accomplishments
o Community outreach
o Inspector workgroup
o Workforce capacity&development
o Maven coverage
• DPH update
o PHE funds will be available for inspectional software through FY27
o METRIK is stalled
• Reminder to send your annual notification to the appropriate leaders in your municipality and
send proof to Lydia
3. FY26 Term 2&Strategic Plan
• Foundational Public Health Services Review
• Sustainability and Continuity
o Grant tracker, search, and review
o Seeking ideas or suggestions from municipalities for specialized grants
• Workforce capacity&development
o Training tracker for personnel
■ Tom suggested utilizing tracking for retailer standards and paperwork/licenses
for inspectors
o Hiring full time inspector
■ Haverhill,Andover both also hiring for a full time inspector
■ Reading hired full time inspector
■ Lydia will begin process with HR to hire for the inspector with a goal of posting
the job in January
• Standardize Services and Procedures
o Foodborne illness outbreak—standardize protocol &tabletop exercise for the Summer
• Visibility and Community Engagement
o Translation of materials—suggestion for Portuguese and/or Mandarin
• Advanced Data Use and Regional Insight
o Shared nursing resources
4. Nursing& Inspector Update
• Nursing Updates
o Vaccine clinics, blood pressure clinics across the communities
o Health education
■ Impaired driving impact of medication management
■ Hands only CPR
■ Please send any requests to Lea Anne for specific infographics!
■ Newsletter and Linkedln are successful, 160 followers
■ Blog posts on website continue to be written
o Data review
■ Maven disease reports and response capacity is at 90%
• Discussion on Henry(Epi) leaving in April with COVID grant ending,
would MEPHC take on Henry as part or full time
o Lydia will break down budget line items to see what money we
have with hiring a full time inspector
• Inspector Updates
o General
■ Supporting Reading with routine inspections and complaints follow-ups while
the town inspector position is vacant
■ Currently working on inspections for Andover's indoor pool and hotel/motel
permit renewals
o Special Processes Training
■ Planned and executed special processes training in October
o Standardized FBI Protocols
■ Continuing development of foodborne illness policies& protocols that meet
FDA Standard 5
■ Exploring opportunities to conduct a tabletop mock foodborne illness outbreak
exercise
S. FY26 Meeting Schedule
• Next meeting: Virtual on Monday January 12th 11AM
• Lydia will send out a doodle poll for scheduling preferences