Board of Health 06/16/26

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The Board of Health stayed condemnation proceedings for 40 Century Street for 30 days to allow safety repairs to proceed, received updates on outreach programs and disease surveillance, and honored retiring member Kathleen Charbonnier.

0:14 Approval of Minutes — The Board approved the meeting minutes from May 2026.
0:47 40 Century Street Non-Emergency Condemnation Hearing — The Board voted to stay condemnation of 40 Century Street for 30 days pending re-inspection, with priority placed on addressing fall risks and other immediate safety hazards.
16:30 Medford Connects and Outreach Team Update — Catherine Dhingra and Patrick Donovan presented the Medford Connects team's work over the past six months, focusing on multilingual community outreach, immigrant support, ESOL programming, and health resource navigation.
36:39 Reportable Disease Report — Public health nurse Jill presented year-to-date reportable disease surveillance data and noted upcoming vaccination efforts.
38:46 Board Member Recognition and Other Business — The Board recognized long-serving member Kathleen Charbonnier upon her upcoming retirement and discussed coordination with the Mass General Brigham mobile health van.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Okay. Jenny's here. She's been off camera, but she's here. So we, and Dr. Plata was just here. Yes. So we have all board members present, which is wonderful. Thank you.

[David Pladziewicz]: Okay. Let's open the meeting versus our review of the minutes from May, 2026. That was mailed to everybody.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Everyone have a chance to review the minutes and the changes, deletions, additions.

[David Pladziewicz]: Well, they were pretty good. Motion to accept the minutes as written.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Thank you, Dr. Cladowitz. Motion accepted. Roll call. Kathy Schabonia? Yes, I accept. Jenny Vitale? Yes. Dr. Cladowitz?

[David Pladziewicz]: Next is hearing on 40th Century Street. You want to give us a little introduction, Miriam?

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Yes, Raven's here. Raven was the inspector. She did an initial inspection at the beginning of June. I think found like 23 or 24 violations, 10 of which were conditions deemed to endanger. So those are 24-hour correction violations. And the others were 30-day correction violations. She conducted a re-inspection on 6-15. Um, which was yesterday, an electrician was there making me PS at the time. And but the violations remaining on 9 of them are still conditions deemed to endanger an additional 2 new violations, 22 violations total.

But a contract has been given to us for following repairs to take place. They had scheduled a contract at the earliest time to get them there was 6-24. So that's going to be the window rope, the broken window, handrails, securing of the bathroom vanity. Basically, we have all those CDEs that they're going to be dealing with at that point.

[Raven]: Um, yeah, some of the main CDs are on there, but some of the 30 day violations are also on there, including in those repairs, not every violation, but most of the CDs. Yes.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: So, what we're thinking about talking about today is potentially a non emergency condemnation, but we do have representatives here from, I believe. for both the tenants and the landlord. Can folks identify themselves? Mr. Bunnell?

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_09]: Yes, I'm attorney Colin Bunnell. Can't really hear you, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me now? Yeah, just speak up a little louder maybe. Sure, sorry about that. My name is Colin Bunnell. I am the attorney for Arthur and Elaine Spada, who are the tenants. Thank you.

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: Uh, and, uh, good afternoon board members, uh, Mr. Chairman, board members, uh, Bill O'Leary for the owners, the Santoros. Uh, if we could do something with the volume, that would be helpful.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Yeah, I know I missed her, but I'll maybe just check your connection speaker. Uh, that's much better.

[Raven]: Yes, I can touch just like a little bit more on this. So, yeah, the initial inspection was on June 3rd and then at the time, you know, there were 12 CD violations, which that means correction or conditions deemed to endanger based on the state sanitary code. 26 total violations when I did the re inspection on. June 15th, which was yesterday, there was an electrician present and by the time. Like, I was completing the inspection, I was able to mark that.

basically all of the electrical violations were corrected. Besides just one of the new ones that I observed at the time of the inspection, the re-inspection, it's just a light fixture on the back porch. When you flip the switch on, it just doesn't work. That is a CDE based on 410.630. Then yes, we've received a signed contract. So it's signed, it's in place, it's ready to go for majority of the other CDEs to be corrected on 6-24, which is next Wednesday.

So, you know, at the time of the initial inspection, there were just safety concerns and that's why we decided to go the non-emergency combination, especially because just of the age of the occupants that live there, they are elderly and have experienced some accidents in the unit. And so that's why we went the non-emergency route on this specific case. Does do any of the board members have any questions for me?

[David Pladziewicz]: What's the details of a non-emergent condemnation? Just explain that a little bit more.

[Raven]: Yeah, definitely. So the non-emergency route is basically we have this hearing where both sides can be heard from the owner side and the occupant side. In this case, we have, I believe, some lawyers representing those individuals. And then we would present they would both have a chance to talk to be heard and then you as the board would make a decision whether we move forward with the condemnation or if you would like to not move forward and then I can do another re-inspection after the 24th whenever some of those other CDEs have been corrected.

[David Pladziewicz]: And as the inspector on the site what is your recommendation?

[Raven]: I mean Typically, whenever we have something like this, it's also because we haven't really received any sort of response from the owners in correcting the violations. In this case, it does feel like the owners are trying to make repairs and everything. So I know that the occupant starting some extensive medical treatments today I believe and so he does have concerns about repairs taking place you know while he's in that treatment but that would be something that their representative would help them with based on our report.

[David Pladziewicz]: And if the end point ends up being a condemnation, what's going to happen after that?

[Raven]: So if we proceed with a condemnation today, you know, the repairs are still expected to be made, um, because the condemnation would not be lifted until the. Until the CDs have been repaired, um, and then. Like I said, the representative for the occupants could take all of our documentation and then assist them with, um. Potential alternative housing through the housing court.

[David Pladziewicz]: Okay. Right. That's not our jurisdiction that we just say that.

[Raven]: Right. Exactly. Right. They would we would make the decision. We would give them the documentation of that decision and then they could pursue that.

[David Pladziewicz]: Okay. One other question if I may. I saw a contractor's proposal in here.

[David Pladziewicz]: What was the total amount of money regarding all these repairs?

[David Pladziewicz]: Okay. So what we're talking about are all these repairs. That's what I wanted to try to get to a $600 bill.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Would the representative for the tenants like to speak?

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_09]: Yes, thank you. Again, Colin Bunnell representing Arthur and Elaine Spada. As Raven said correctly, my clients today have begun, Arthur specifically, has begun a series of medical treatments. That, as a result, moving right now would be very potentially detrimental. Obviously, there are concerns with, you know, his treatments are going to leave him immunocompromised. And so, in addition to imposing a significant physical burden on him. So, you know, we obviously very much want to make sure that the repairs are made. That was the primary reason we sought an inspection in the first place.

Based on our conversations with the landlords, we believe that they are making sincere efforts to get these repairs addressed. And so as a result, we would, while we, you know, obviously we think there are concerns with this unit. We could not have requested the inspection otherwise, but we also think that there are significant potential, there's also a significant potential health cost to my clients being forced to relocate at this point when they're having effectively daily medical appointments.

And it would just be, it would be a tremendous burden. And so as long as, as I said, given, we believe that at present the landlords are making a good faith effort, we would request that the property not be condemned at this time.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Okay. Would the representatives for the landlord like to speak?

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. We agree with Attorney Barnell's assessment that we don't want to condemn either. On our side, Carmen Santoro, one of the owners, is not here today. He's at Tufts New England Medical Center. He's been there for three weeks. I think the attorneys are both sensitive to the fact that both parties have serious medical issues, and Colin and I have tried to set up a system where if one of the workmen is coming to the property to correct the code violations, I send him an email or a text message. He communicates that the best he can with his client, and we're trying to have an organized system, and it's not perfect. Sometimes someone's five minutes late, someone's a half hour late. but we're making a very good faith effort to bring the property into compliance and respectfully request that it not be condemned, that we allow the contract that we submitted to go forward on June 24th and then have the board re-inspect the property with the contractor to make sure everything is in order.

[David Pladziewicz]: All right, well, I agree with both attorneys. Let's stay the condemnation. I would recommend that we vote to stay the combination. What does the attorney suggest would be a good time period before still a lot of work to return?

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: The contract has said 6-24. you know, in a perfect world with the next day, I'd give it a little bit of slack. Maybe a material doesn't come or something's going to happen.

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: Thank you, sir. I know that. So I would leave that up to the inspector's schedule and say, well, you've got the fourth of July holiday. Could it be after that week, or? Yeah, we've got 4th of July, Mr. Chairman.

[David Pladziewicz]: Yeah, we go one month from today, a reasonable expectation. Okay. Yeah, we expect all repairs to be made one month from today, followed by a re-inspection. And pending that, then case closed, and if it's not all done, then we'll have to revisit it. But it sounds like both parties are in agreement, and let's agree with the both parties.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Thank you. Kathy Chabonier or Jenny, any comments or opinions, thoughts?

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: All right, this is Kathy. Just a comment. So, Raven, is it safe for this patient, this person to be in this home for a month with these weird repairs, with these health issues?

[Raven]: Um, so the, the main concerns are just like, safety wise. So, something that I would just like to maybe. Add to this agreement, if we are going to extend it for a month or something is to put the primary focus on those safety issues, like the handrails, especially the ones that are non existent, like, going down into the basement and things like that. And then. The securing of the vanity, which all of these are seem to be on the 624 agenda. Because my main concern is just like, especially with them being elderly fall. Risk is really high, so without those handrails present, that's just what I ask. I ask that those. Safety measures be at the top of the list for repairs to be made.

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: So, they've been living with this in this way for a while now.

[Raven]: They have been living there for quite some time. They've lived there since 1969, I believe. So, and it's on the 2nd floor. So that's why the, the safety handrails are are a big concern on my end. As well as the vanity, as well as the vanity, the, the tiles in the bathroom that are loose, you know, just, just anything that could pose as a fall, a fall risk is what I would say needs to be prioritized.

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: We'll prioritize the inspector's request. I appreciate that.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Motion to vote on a 30 day stay at the condemnation followed by re-inspecting and priority areas of the safety concerns being addressed as soon as possible.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Kathy Chabonet? Yes. And Dr. Plattowitz, let me motion again. Yes.

[CAS00002490_SPEAKER_11]: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you members of the board.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Take care, maybe we'll be in touch. Okay, so next on the agenda, we have invited a health equity coordinator, Patrick Donovan, and our Office of Prevention and Outreach manager, Catherine Dinger, and they are going to present. They've actually been invited to present tomorrow, I believe, at a statewide conference. Called announcer prevention, it's a conference of prevention professionals, and they've been asked to present their work. So they're going to give us just a little bit of a update as to what the office has been up to and all the outreach team activities.

[Catherine Dhingra]: Good afternoon, everyone as Marianne said, we've been invited to. All right, I'm going to the office with me. Right, we've been invited to.

[Raven]: I think if somebody in your office has their mic on too, Catherine, then it's going to pick up.

[Catherine Dhingra]: Okay, hold on just a second. Did we mention the need for additional office space? Sorry about that. So we'll be presenting tomorrow at the Ounce of Prevention conference. And we just wanted to give you an overview of some of the things the Medford Connects community engagement team has been up to over the last six months. I know as Marianne and myself have mentioned in the past, we are really becoming a model for the state on really looking at social determinants of health and how to do community outreach to connect people to city resources, to health resources, to the resources they need to live and thrive in the Medford community. So we'll give you a little overview. I'll start out in And then I'm going to turn it over to Patrick, our Health Equity Coordinator. So here's just a few updates about what our team has been up to. And you can see our team works really closely with Jason, our Social Service Coordinator, Emma, our Communications Coordinator, and Chris, our Recovery Coach. So we're really a cohesive office in the Office of Outreach and Prevention. We've really, in the past six months, expanded our multilingual outreach and language access across the city. We've strengthened our community resilience through some emergency preparedness planning and climate education. We've increased access to food, financial literacy, ESOL classes, and family support. And we've engaged over 600 residents through workshops, cultural events, and volunteer opportunities. And we've really fostered deeper partnerships between residents, our community partners, city departments. We work really closely with our public schools and different community organizations. So one of our first themes is language access and immigrant support. And we've been really kind of the forefront in supporting all of our partners across the city on understanding current immigration trends and what the needs are for our vulnerable residents, staying up to date on current laws and bringing in state resources to provide people with support to fill out emergency paperwork, in training our faith-based leaders across the city, training school officials to really become aware of how they can support residents during this time. We have a tremendous ESOL council where we coordinate all the ESOL classes across the city. Over a dozen organizations offer classes, so we kind of are the pinpoint where people come in and our connector connects people to the class that's most appropriate for them. We are constantly expanding ESOL offerings. We just have a couple new faith-based organizations that have picked up classes and really working with the schools. We had a successful family preparedness night. The schools reached out to us and said we really need parents to have the appropriate paperwork So we worked with them to create a family preparedness night. We're offering a lot of translation and interpretation for all the departments across the city where they wanna make sure they're reaching everyone with information. And a good example of that is the new high school building project. Our team has gone to those meetings across the city and provided live interpretation. So everyone's aware of the process, what point they are and are able to give feedback.

And then we, of course, have the multilingual resource line and can provide translation on any department, whether it's the library planning, and we want to get information out about a new initiative. The engineering office is doing, they reach out to our department and translate that. And of course, they work closely with our public health nurse, Jill, to communicate information. We're doing a lot with families. We've done a lot of caregiver education over the past six months and launched with the Medford Public Schools Caregiver University. And the highlight was having Lynn Lyons, who is an expert on anxiety, do a workshop at the McGlynn. And it was well attended and very well received. We see we're trying to hear from parents and caregivers what information they want and trying to meet them where they're at. So working with the schools on things like that. And we've partnered a lot with the Medford Family Network on how to reach our younger families. So in addition to the welcome baby initiative, we're working with them on the diaper days where they're seeing 70, 80 people to come in and get diapers. We're providing other resources for them. and connecting them to social services through our social worker. And we're also, we're having our, some of our liaisons reach out to families that don't speak English. WSAMI and our office works really closely with the citywide PTO for engagement and collaboration. We helped lead them as a multicultural event. And we're doing a lot with our young people and in collaboration with the YouthWorks grant, we have and Matisse and Joe, our new staff that run our youth employment programs. We had a very successful youth summit where we had 15 different partner organizations come, youth were able to apply for jobs and then take workshops in things like building a resume, financial management, interviews, things like that. So it was a great collaboration and showed the strength of our partnerships across the city. And then food security and community well, being we, we continue to work on that, working with our partners to expand volunteer food delivery programs. We've got about a network of 20 volunteers that are helping across the city with some of the delivery programs. restocking the mini pantries and cleaning out the community fridge. Although I know it's not always clean, but our volunteers are trying and we do a lot of work with the Medford Housing Authority residents on that.

And we're building, we continue to have our monthly food task force meetings, which come in really handy when we have an incident like the snap disruption that happened in November. And we're really trying to promote the mystic community market and using the community market as a hub to connect residents to resources. So we're very excited about some of the work we're going to be doing with the market this summer and with the farmers market. And then climate equity and financial resilience. One of the things we're really excited about is we are financial security. Connector Sharpell has been working really closely with the Housing Authority and has offered over nine workshops in the last six weeks with residents and Cambridge Savings Bank. So we really serve as that connector hub of saying, we have this great resource. This is what your residents need. Let's make this happen. We're doing a lot of climate preparedness and working with other departments to support initiatives like Electrify Medford.

And then finally, with our older adults, we're really focusing on building decreasing isolation and increasing social connectedness. So we are looking at which populations are particularly isolated using our younger, older adults as an asset. A lot of them have retired or working part time. So they're working to connect with older adults. And we noticed our Haitian seniors weren't utilizing the senior center. So our liaisons started a Haitian social club on Friday afternoons. And we're seeing those residents really respond to that and not only use the senior center on Fridays when the club is, but starting to use it other times of the year. So really trying to recognize how can we reach seniors that are isolated and connect them to people, whether it's through the phone, in person, or even in their housing authority buildings. So we're continuing that communication. I'm gonna pass it over to Patrick for the last few slides.

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm going to talk a little bit about the work of our community liaisons who serve both as entry points to help navigate essential services and benefits as well as providing a lot of community outreach and opportunities to bring the community together as well as addressing access barriers as they come up. And our liaisons work in Haitian Creole, in Brazilian Portuguese, in Spanish, in Arabic. We have a liaison for English-speaking communities of color, and we have a subcontract with the Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition for liaison work and translation into Mandarin. And all of our liaisons also work with all residents of the city.

And so, in thinking about the culturally responsive support that they provide, 1 of the biggest things that they do is provide enrollment and navigation assistance through mass health. And this is particularly important given that. Currently, and in the months ahead, we're going to be seeing greater restrictions on mass health eligibility, things like greater work requirements, things like limitations on which immigration statuses are eligible for mass health. And so our liaisons really help community members navigate to get the best coverage possible for themselves and their families.

We also help with housing and benefits navigation. As we all know, housing is a big challenge for a lot of our community members and families. And so whether it's getting onto lists for affordable housing, whether it's dealing with landlord concerns and livability concerns, whether it's finding help with covering moving costs or furnishing a new affordable apartment. Our liaisons really help people meet people where they're at in their housing needs. We've been doing some really exciting work over the last few months with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on the topic of patient advocacy. So how someone can either advocate for themself or for a loved one to get the best possible medical outcomes. And Dana-Farber's outreach and navigation team has been working with us both with the Haitian Seniors Group, that Catherine mentioned, and as well as being a speaker through the Black Health and Environmental Justice series. Our liaisons support the ESOL program, whether it's by assistant teaching, leading discussions, or just helping people enroll and find out about it.

As we mentioned, we provide a lot of translation and interpretation both at events, but also in materials that are going out to the community and crucially in some example, in some instances where we, the city are looking for the community's feedback. And so, whether that is through the high school building project, or whether it's through different surveys that have gone out through the planning. Development and sustainability department. It's broadened the reach and allowed us to hear from a more comprehensive cross section of the community.

So, some of the major events that we have organized, some of these have been led through the office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Some of them have been led through our office, but there's a lot of overlap on both sides. So, there's been the MLK Day celebration. These are roughly in chronological order starting in February. There's the Lunar New Year celebration that was held at the Senior Center, the Black History Month events that the DEI office organized, the Interfaith Iftar during Ramadan, the Arab American Heritage Festival, the Mississippi Multicultural Event, The Haitian Flag Day celebration that filled the Andrews with 200 plus attendees at a time when getting the community out in the current social political climate has been challenging. The disability fair, the family preparedness event where parents were able to get key documents around who's going to take care of their kids if they're in an emergency where they're not able to. The Black Health and Environmental Justice series that addressed environmental factors as well as cancer, as well as Alzheimer's through a lens of racial justice and Medford Pride. And so these were ways to bring the community together, but also to get people connected with key services.

And some of the main impacts that we've seen over this work of the last 5 months have been that developing these trusted relationships with our team allow community members to access earlier intervention and connection to city services. So oftentimes, somebody is reaching out because they have a family member in crisis or they have a rental concern or a health concern, but they're reaching out to a team member who they've already worked with over the course of several months.

As we mentioned, language access has been increasing participation. And looking ahead to the summer, Some of our priorities are expanding summer preparedness so that people know how to stay safe and healthy in extreme heat, growing our ESOL program and our volunteer networks, launching food justice council initiatives, expanding health outreach through patient advocacy, increasing our financial literacy and employment programming, strengthening our multilingual preparedness, continued climate education, and deepening partnerships that promote equity, resilience, and belonging. That's one of the things that we've heard a lot from residents is that this work helps them feel like they belong in Medford.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Thank you. Patrick and Catherine, and I think also going forward, well, the liaisons are most, if not all, community health worker trained as well. And in the next couple of weeks, I believe Jill, our public health nurse, is going to be doing some blood pressure education with them and giving them the tools they need to get out there and actually do maybe some screenings in their communities. So that's kind of exciting. I'm really looking forward to seeing that happen.

[David Pladziewicz]: I congratulate you, Patrick, on the belonging sensation that the people have at the end. That's what we want. We want it to the city.

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much. And thank you, Catherine, and the rest of the team for all the great work that everyone's doing.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: It's really quite amazing the work that we're doing, and I highlighted a lot of it at my budget hearing, and I think the council and some of the other folks were really, really amazed and pretty impressed with the success that we've had in building that cohesion and feeling of belonging. So keep it up. We'll keep it up. We'll do it. And we're looking forward to hopefully hearing on our next grant cycle to continue to help support this work as well. We haven't heard. get later this summer, expecting that. Any other thoughts or questions for them?

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: Anybody? No questions. Just great work. I'm amazed. That's unbelievable. Thank you so much.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: OK. Next on the agenda, Jill. Virtega Public Health Nurse will give you the monthly update of the reportable disease reports.

[MCM00001812_SPEAKER_07]: All right, so I'll review the disease data for this year to date compared to the five-year average year to date. So we've seen slightly more hep B and slightly less hep C cases this year so far. And then enteric disease rates are pretty comparable to the five-year average, but we have seen Few more GRD cases so far, but the numbers for all of these are overall very small. And then for respiratory diseases, our influenza rates this year are pretty comparable to the five-year average. There's only about a 5% difference. COVID cases are, of course, much lower than previous years. And then this year to date, we've not seen any pertussis, lesion years, hemophilus, influenza cases yet so far, which is good. And then for tick-borne diseases, we have seen a few HGA cases so far this year. And then as I mentioned before, alpha-gal syndrome is now a reportable disease in Massachusetts as of April 1st, but we've not had any confirmed cases of that so far. That's it for me.

[MCM00001812_SPEAKER_07]: We have some clinics coming up, or? We did a COVID clinic a couple of weeks ago at the senior center, and we're still doing some homebound vaccines as well.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: That's the recommendation now is for booster doses, right, for COVID?

[MCM00001812_SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. For COVID, they recommend for people 65 and older and or immunocompromised to do a booster dose six months after the last COVID shot. So we've been working on that. And we do have RSV, pneumonia, and Tdap vaccines available for adults now as well.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Okay, and then next on the agenda, I want to do a little recognition presentation to our board member, Kathleen Chabonan. Kathleen has been on the board Oh gosh, for over a decade or so, right? Oh yeah. Long time. And has done amazing work and support and really always there when we need her and is always very helpful in these meetings and beyond. So Kathy is retiring from COVID and from work and gonna have a wonderful retirement ahead, but I do want to read to you a citation from the mayor to Kathleen for her work. It reads, be it known to all who read that, her honor the mayor Brianna Lungo-Curran of the city of Medford, Massachusetts hereby sends her most heartfelt gratitude to Kathleen Chabonier. Thank you for being a long standing and valuable member of the Medford Board of Health. Your years of dedicated service and commitment to protecting and improving the health and well-being of our community have made a lasting impact. Signed on the third day of June, 2026 by Mayor Brianna Longo-Pratt.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: I just wanted to recognize you and thank you, and thank you, and thank you. And we will be sending this lovely citation and mail off to you. Attached with a check.

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: I enjoyed it very much. It's helped me in my career at, you know, I'm the chief nurse at Mass Eye and Ear for Mass General Brigham. And it really helped me. And I recommend all my leaders to join a board. It really does teach you a lot. It humbles you. I worked at Hallmark, Lawrence Moore for 35 years with Dr. Plowdowitz. And it's a pleasure to take care of the people in Medford. That's probably the biggest thing that I'll miss is my 35 years there. So thank you so much for allowing me to be on the board and be able to put that on a resume. It works for me.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Thank you. We'll be in touch, I'm sure. I'm not going to let you go that easy.

[David Pladziewicz]: Eye and Ear. Right, right, August 7th is the big day for everything, okay.

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: We will miss you. I'll miss you. I have to go to this meeting once a month, I do, because I'm like, I'm going to learn something today, and every single time I learn something.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Well, with that, It's any other business, just more to come on this. Jill and I did have a nice meeting this morning with mass general big owns health fan. Who we are trying to coordinate to schedule to come here to hopefully the parking lot behind us and Riverside and the senior center and the elderly housing units. uh and be able to do some screenings and help with prescriptions if folks need it um some you know primary care checkups and colon screening it's really some nice offerings um feel free to insert my name uh into that i would love to as a local member of the medical staff at mgb if you need some pull or some help because that will get some extra stuff i hope Well, I did kind of mention you already.

[David Pladziewicz]: Oh, yeah. Well, we got we got big plans from effort. We're in Mass General Brigham. We're entirely committed and we've been growing and we're going to pull in more resources. So I'm tickled pink that they're doing this also and more to come.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Great. Awesome. Yeah, we're hoping to, we were hoping for July, but it looks like we're going to get pushed back to August before we can really get everything together. But so what a common July's meeting, we should have more information on it. Good. That's exciting.

[David Pladziewicz]: Yeah, we're here to help if you need any extra help. You know, we got a big practice rate in Bedford. So if any snags come up or anything, just let us know. We'll take care of it. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: Motion to adjourn by Dr. Plattowitz. Do I have a second?

[Director MaryAnn O'Connor]: I second that, Kathy. OK, we'll do a roll. Dr. Plattowitz?

[MCM00001784_SPEAKER_07]: All right, you take care, Kathy. We'll be in touch. Thank you all very much. Thank you so much. Thank you.