04/20/1995 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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MINUTES April 20, 1995 2 BOARD OF HEALTH 4.) Response from CCRTCP re: Smoking Regulation - Mr. Doherty stated, "I spoke with Holly O'Brien regarding this incident." "She did speak with the staff members and others who were present." "Everyone seemed to have their own version of what happened." "I don't think it needs any more action on our part other then to say that I think perhaps we view this organization improperly, myself included." "We were one of a number of participants that had applied for a grant that provided the funds to create the committee." "I believe it was supposed to be an extension of the Boards of Health." "Whether it has become that I don't know." "There have been some incidents that have occurred that question that." "I feel there are some other towns that feel the same way." "The matter needs to be remedied." "It's not fair to the taxpayer's who are spending all this money to pay these people." "If we're supposed to holding their leash and we let it go they will do whatever they want." "We need to pick up the leash and bring them back in line." Mr. Cram commented, "The majority of the funding for this organization is coming from the existing "Smokers" as far as the tax they are paying for the privilege of what they decide they want to do at this point." "My major concern on this is that there are numerous articles in substance that is coming out from this organization that to my knowledge we have no foresight or knowledge ahead of time and we are being shown as the ones who are sponsoring this." Mr. Doherty questioned Mr. Cram as to whether it was the article in the newspaper he was referring to. Mr. Cram responded, "That is one of them." Mr. Doherty commented, "You had to read the fine print." "It did say that the ad was placed in there by the CCRTCP, Boards of Health collaborative and it listed all the Boards." "The CCRTCP is an organization that is, in fact, a collaboration of the Cape Boards of Health." "If that's the case then we should have more say on what's going on and know about these things beforehand." "That's not the first time, there have been other times when they have come into town to talk to the DARE officer." "We should know about it." Mr. Cram commented, "If we are to be listed as sponsors to this then our taxpayer's are seeing this and assuming we agree with this." "There is a line of communication that we are missing somewhere."