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12 and weren't addressed satisfactorily. It really bothers him and the BOH will address that internally. He would relate this to a food poisoning situation where EMT's why don't you do something about that restaurant we are always getting sick there. His response to them "Did you report it?" It bothers him that the BOH did not know. Did it not come from the health agent to the members of the BOH? He will look into the records and the file and find out. He recalls having talked about Lapio's farm in the past. However, he doesn't remember complaints like this. Maybe he is wrong. But, it hasn't been in a while. When you get one and then another and you see a lot of complaints you start to have something to go on. Obviously this has come to a head otherwise you wouldn't be here. He is not saying that nothing is going to be done. They will address the situation as the law provides. As far as the zoning issues are concerned there are a lot of structures in town that were there prior to town line zoning. When the town was very young you just threw up anything anywhere. There was no zoning. Then zoning came along. Then they said what do we do with these old buildings. Well, these are pre-existing non-conforming. They were here. They don't conform to our current zoning law. But, everybody has the right develop land. We aren't just going to go around and say, "well we don't want it there anymore. You have to tear it down." It just doesn't work that way. The fact of the matter is that it's there and we are going to have to live with it within reason. He didn't want to come across with the wrong impression to say that we are not going to do anything. We are going to look at it. We are going to work with Mrs. Murphy. This is not a board that is usually heavy handed. Mr. Coughlin the interrupted Mr. Doherty and stated that he believed that they have all exercised different levels of patience with the Murphys. He then reiterated that Mr. Doherty said that he lived next door to a barn. He asked Mr. Doherty what they feed their horses. Mr. Doherty responded that his next door neighbor has a barn. They feed them "ormoline" and hay. Mr. Coughlin then stated that he would rather not become a familiar face in the health department and make this a big issue. Like he said he spoke with Mr. Murphy on numerous occasions and had a civil relationship with the gentleman. He tried to continue it. Things decayed. It happened. They were the holdouts. Everyone received there certified letters. He came to him and said, "Rick if there is problem please come to me and we'll work together and try to get through it." Then the horse ran through his yard. When he addressed that it was the girl fell off the horse and got a concussion, which is not what he wants to hear on his homeowners policy. He also doesn't want to hear about a little kid falling off a horse in his yard. He stressed to you before that the sanitation issue was covered. Let's work on containment. Mrs. Murphy obviously said that there is problem with the fences. That needs to be addressed. If it hits the papers that a horse has trampled a little kid then it is not this meeting anymore. Mrs. Herrera then stated that the kids sit in the street and play hopscotch. Mr. Doherty stated that he used to play hopscotch in the street when he was little.