The Fall River Board of Health held a virtual meeting on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, chaired by Thomas Corey. Board members Michael Coughlin and Dr. Steven Gagliardi were present, along with Secretary Sandy Barby. Tess Curen, the Director, was absent. The board approved the minutes from a previous meeting with a unanimous roll call vote. Two requests for variances to keep chickens were on the agenda, both of which were tabled due to the applicants' absence and pending issues. The first request, from Noita Marin at 165 Blackstone Street, was reported by Lisa to have an incomplete chicken coop and an outstanding issue with the building department. An abutter, Mr. Calvan, expressed opposition due to concerns about smell, sound, disease (Avian flu), and the congested nature of the neighborhood. The board unanimously voted to table this request. The second request, from Jokam Das at 1144 Mariano Bishop Boulevard, also lacked the applicant's presence. Lisa reported that while the yard was generally clean, there were vegetables on the ground and only a small bait box/rat trap was observed despite a Terminex contract. This request was also unanimously tabled. With no director's report or citizen input, the board discussed future meeting schedules, deciding to skip a November meeting and convene next on December 12th. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to adjourn.
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good after good afternoon to everyone and welcome to the Board of Health virtual meeting on Tuesday October 24th scheduled for 3:30 my name is Thomas Corey present with me via Zoom is Michael Coughlin Dr Steven Gagliardi and Sandy Barby our secretary of the board various guests and participants in today's meeting Tess current is not with us today pursuant to the open meeting or any person may make an audio or video
0:36recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such additions deletions or corrections to be made to the minutes of the meeting is printed no motion to approve second can we have a roll call Sandy Thomas Cory yes Steven gaglardi yes Michael Coughlin yes okay the next item number five is a request for the variance of keeping of
1:10chickens but noita mar mar Marin 165 Blackstone Street Lisa what do you have for us I have their packet and all the credentials are here however I went out to the property today and they're in the process of building a chicken Coupe that the building department had left them a card three or four months ago he said and they never responded back to him for that okay so they need to get in touch
1:43with the building department um and then I went to the yard I walked around the property um they do have a contract with teric but yet I never saw a Bait Box um and the yard can be cleaned up a little you know it wasn't bad but they have a a fair good fairly good sized garden growing and there's still vegetables um that are going on the ground so um they're just going to have to be
2:14very careful um I don't know about the bait boxes though I'm not sure why they don't have those but I didn't see any is is Mr and Mrs Marin here on the call
2:36is there anyone from from the Marin chicken application on the call I'm not sure who 40125 3577 is I think that's that's uh caval County LLC the butters okay very very good hold on Sir we'll get to you in just a second um okay you I I did go buy the property on Saturday morning before the downpour started um because I was concerned Blackstone Street is what I would describe as a heavily congested for
3:08River neighborhood um there are all three Deckers on that block there's a three Decker to the right a three Decker to the left I think there's a six tenament behind um and I saw that the what I thought was the chicken hoop has not been completed yet either it's under construction so so since there's no one here um may we may I suggest someone make a motion to table well if we have an AB butter
3:41shouldn't we hear from that person well yeah okay Mr calvan yes Mr calvan could you state your name and address for the record sure my is o um we are the Property Owners of of 446 which on the corner of black we have the this eight family there on the corner there's the backyard and then there is small paring lot which ab buts 165 Block Stone um I wrote a letter to Lisa a while ago
4:30oh we we have it as part of our packet sir oh fine okay so basically I just wanted to chime in onto the zoom meeting reiterating um basically smell sound ease especially Aven flu happening and again you know what you just mentioned about a very very tight neighborhood so we are in opposition to it more he and and the and the and the smell of chickens is incredible I don't know if you're
5:07familiar with chicken smell but it's nasty okay sir we're going to ENT your your your um your testimony into the record and again because there's no one here from the family to answer or or from the application to answer um again I would suggest we table it and there's some according to Lisa there's an issue with the building department okay that's there's no chickens there's no chickens there now
5:39right Lisa no no no there's no chickens so the people who are applying are they in a tenement or is that a single family surrounded by no uh Dr Gagliardi the whole neighborhood is three Deckers yeah they three Decker but it's three decka they own it yeah they do I think there are two or three three deckas to the right there are two or three three Deckers to the left I think that's a six
6:04behind them there's a six tenament and probably two more three Deckers to the left behind
6:23them Mr cabak you're breaking up can you speak a little louder or our property I believe large that neighborhood I mean without hearing from the people applying it doesn't sound like a a great choice of location yes chickens but I I guess we can table it and let's hear from them but so I motion the table we have a second second Sandy can I have a roll call Thomas Cory yes to table stepen gaglardi yes Michael
7:11Coughlin yes Mr kavalan thank you for your time this afternoon you're very welcome thank you for the opportunity okay next we have a request for variance for the keeping of chickens for jokam das 1144 Mariano Bishop Boulevard um again I don't see anyone here from the application Lisa can you tell us what you know okay I was there again I was there again today um they have everything
7:40their packet is is uh up to date they have a a contract with uh Terminex also they didn't have bait boxes on the property I saw a little one and I saw a larger size and I also saw a rat trap okay that was baited did but you know there was nothing on it they also have a garden with veggies on the uh on the ground um The Yards clean it's I mean there's
8:10things that's a fairly good siiz property and um it's it's not anything like trash or anything like that it's just stuff that belongs in the yard okay but it was clean MH you know considering how large it is and with the garden there and um they did have some veggies on the ground in the garden um it looked like Tater Peels and stuff like that so I don't know if they're trying to I don't know what
8:42they're trying to do with that but I didn't think that looked pretty okay it wasn't it didn't I don't think it belonged there okay once again there's no one here from the application um we would normally go over the the rules about the no the number of chickens and the no roosters and we have a a rodent contract I would again suggest we table it pending someone appear before us motion to table second Sandy can we
9:14have a roll call Thomas Corey yes Steven gaglardi yes Michael coflin yes okay um in the absence of test curen there's no director's report today unless Sandy has something to pass on no was anything received for Citizens input none okay um Sandy when is test du back we don't have an exact date yet um but it should be in the next few weeks it depends because she has some sick
9:44time left if she chooses to use it m mid November maybe okay thanks okay on the if we file the fourth Tuesday that would be the 28th the last week of the month um in past years we have kind of skipped the November meeting and gone into a week in December and then we skipped the meeting at the end of December and resume in January um whatever your pleasure is gentlemen that's that's fine I
10:16I would like to keep on the Tuesdays I've I've got another six weeks of classes on Thursdays to very good educating young minds we're very proud of you thank you you want to do the 19 you want to just jump right into December or you want are we doing November um again in past years we've kind of it's been a slow month for the board in November um and we usually go into December like the
10:41first or second week and that way there's nothing the end of the month in December I can do the 12th or the 19th either one is fine with me okay December 12th Michael how's that with you yeah I'm sure that's fine okay then Sandy will go with December 12th unless there's something that comes up before then so Sandy is there anything else of such a nature that it could make the board agenda there's nothing okay
11:10gentlemen can we have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second we have a roll call Thomas Cory yes stepen gaglardi yes Michael cofin yes okay thank you all we won't meet till after the holiday so everyone enjoy your your Halloween and your thanks giving bye bye thank you