9/14/1987 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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BOARD of HEALTH MEETING SEPTEMBER 14, 1987 - Angelo' s/Purity Supreme FULL BOARD PRESENT ALSO PRESENT: slack MacDonald Mashpee Angelo' s Manager Sean O'Brien counter Health Inspector Bob Sturtevant Purity Supreme Pat Desharnais Angelo' s Jen Morris Angelo' s Irene Farwell Angelo' s Dawna Cardeiro Angelo' s Tori Cummings Angelo' s Melinda Gallant Field' s Point and others. FB: Joe Reardon, Town Counsel expected momentarily. Suggest that we start o him. GC: Removing myself from meeting, record to show. c FB; Looking for ars informal discussion to accomplish two things, 1 . That the corp, can defend itself against charges of complaints by consumers* 2. That this Board and the Corp can together rale Angelo' s a good place t shop i n. There seers to be a reluctance on the part of people to put complaints in writing. We have had some written complaints. I have an anonymous complaint in hand. 3/16/87, coy p1ain- ing of hamburg. Robert Grodberg RG : May I suggest, as General Counsel for Purity Supreme, as in my letter to you , that the Boil is regulated be rules and reps describing how inspect- ions are to be made and how violations are to be established. Anything short of that is improper. It is also improper to deal with specific complaints, part- t i cu l a r l y anonymous ones. Who knows what the motivations are. We have 2 super- markets, uper- mar ets, we have in c s of .1,°300 Erni 1.1�.�io�i�_4in4�. a1es'.+W s!, �f. 1-vddoommend t{i�on . We invite you t conduct your business in accordance with State Regulations. We provide a fine product at a fair price in a sanitary condition. c FB: 1 take ,your point. Would you prefer- to have formal charges brought against Angelo' s Rather than meet and discuss charges? We have worked out charges in the past w/o going the formal route. RG: If as in Mr Fisher' s letter of March, you or EAM call Mr Sturtevant to discuss complaint, that the way we think such matters should be handled. EAM: That' s exactly what we have been doing. RG: 1 think not. Eam: And a follow-up letter has been nailed to Fisher or Sturtevant. I have copies. Rather than making a full inspection following every complaint, I feel that on occasion a phone call would suffice. Joseph Fisher JF :It' s mfr desire to be here tonite as it was in March. To be able to work with the Boil, to maintain the highest levels of sanitation in our store. It is my intention to work very closely with the Board on any matter of con- cern to the Burd. I sent the Board a letter on March 2 1987. I listed definite things we were going to do.I indicated when I was down that I wanted to be per- sonally involved. That if there was a problem, all you had to do was to call me. I have to tell ,you that since that letter I have never had an attempted contact by you, the Board or the Agent. or the clerk, Mr. Sturtevant has advised rye o the contacts between hire and Mr McQuaid, of the issues which I classify as minor housekeeping issues, and not major, critical sanitation issues.The process we have been working under has been that Mr Sturtevant after receiving a call from EAM has had to either go to the store from Billerica or call the store. We"v had one full inspection since March, this was in June by County Inspector, Sean O'Brien, he was asked to have a follow-up. He characterized his findings as one of the cleanest stores on the Cape. The next thing that happened was an article in the Messenger with serious allegations and some nit-picking issues. It was after the article that Bob Sturtevant received a request for appearance before the BOH. The damage had been done.Man r of our employees are Mashpee residents and are proud of our store. Notwithstanding the problem lasting many