Attending: Celine
Servatius,
Roger Case, Chuck Scurlock, Cathy Niiro, David Macys, Leslie
Stevens, Marie Piper, Patricia Terry, Courtney Bell
Excused: Kathryn Stevens, Trish
Rose
Absent: Carl Stephens
Staff: Carrie McLachlan, Keith
Higman, Aaron Henderson
Call to Order:
Chair Patricia Terry called the Island County Community
Health Advisory Board meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. at the Central
Whidbey Fire Station on Race Road. She welcomed everyone after a
summer hiatus and noted we would be hearing from several workgroups
that had accomplished quite a bit over the summer. Minutes from the
June 2nd CHAB meeting were approved.
Committee Reports:
CHAB Leadership:
The CHAB Leadership Committee has met and discussed a number of
items. To summarize their work, they planned for upcoming
meetings and events (October-April 2010, with an emphasis on the
Legislative meeting and the Health Hero event); talked about
membership and decided to develop a recruitment toolkit; they
reviewed Key Health Indicator work and noted three areas lacking
action/accountability (decisions were made to follow-up on the
three areas; and they discussed ways to get the KHI and HYS
results out to the public. They also made several suggested
changes to the By-laws (a draft was handed out at the meeting).
In general, they note that CHAB members must live or work in
Island County; CHAB members can get reimbursed for mileage and
ferry tickets; and more generic language was developed to
indicate they meet once a month. Keith and Carrie will make sure
the proposed changes do not need make changes to the county code
that established CHAB. If no issues arise, the changes will go
out to members for a vote at the October CHAB meeting.
The CHAB
Environmental Health Steering Committee presented the
results of the indicator set. A handout was passed out to all
CHAB members. Each of the proposed indicators has a source of
data and was discussed with CHAB as a whole. They invited
comments and input. Keith Higman suggested two other water
quality indicators. They include the near shore water quality
measures, collected at near shore marine water stations
throughout Island County, and surface water quality data
measured by the Resource Enhancement program which measures the
% of water basins meeting water quality standards. Both of
these indicators of water quality do have good data sources that
include baseline and historical data which is collected
regularly.
Communicable
Disease HAT: The STIs subcommittee will be part of a
community networking meeting in October, an announcement was
passed out to all CHAB members and they were encouraged to
attend. Courtney asked for suggestions for the meeting.
Several good ones were made including a “Fact or Fiction” game
and the use of a wheel used by the Navy. Courtney shared a
social marketing campaign called GYT (get yourself tested) aimed
at young people—it is sponsored by Planned Parenthood Federation
of America with wide outreach through MTV, Seventeen magazine,
and other venues. It ties into a computerized “widget” that
shows youth where they can go for testing.
Patricia invited
Keith and Roger to talk about Island County’s preparedness for
H1N1 and flu season. A handout with flu clinics was passed out
to CHAB. Roger covered what is known about H1N1 especially what
has worked well (handwashing, social distancing) and noted the
need for businesses to get prepared
for large worker shortages. He noted the
different populations at risk for complications
of the H1N1 and for
seasonal flu and the target populations for
the two vaccinations
being offered.
Chronic Disease
HAT: This group has formally ceased to exist due to their
merger into the ACHIEVE collaboration. Time ran short but
members involved in ACHIEVE (Dave M. Patricia T, and Leslie S)
will report on the work of ACHIEVE at the October CHAB
Meeting.
Handouts were also passed out to all
members including “Greatness Takes Time” and a flyer on upcoming
health events under the Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign.
Keith noted a special BOH meeting coming up to review the county’s
new onsite inspection program.
Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted, Carrie McLachlan,
MPA
