The Fall River Board of Health held a virtual meeting on Monday, October 27th, 2025, chaired by Thomas Corey, with Michael Coughlin and Dr. Steven Gagliardi also present. The board began by approving the minutes from their September 29th, 2025 meeting with a unanimous vote. They then approved two requests related to a new tattoo business: a tattoo establishment for Allison Pavo at New Heart Tattoo, located at 224 Pleasant Street, and a tattoo practitioner application for Allison Pavo herself, both passing with unanimous votes. The most significant discussion revolved around a request for a variance to keep chickens at 45 Niagara Street by Bonsi Mule. Health Department representative Josh reported that Mr. Mule had removed roosters, maintained approximately 20 birds, and had proper feed storage and a coop in a garage bay with a fenced run. Notably, no negative comments were received from abutters prior to the meeting. Two residents, Susan Boycealt of 99 Niagara Street and Eldora Moore of 48 Warren Street, spoke during the public comment period. Ms. Boycealt expressed approval, stating the chickens were well-kept. Ms. Moore, while not objecting, raised concerns about a dead chicken found on her property and past rodent problems, emphasizing the need for cleanliness. The variance was ultimately approved with a unanimous vote. The board concluded by rescheduling their next meeting from November 24th to December 8th, 2025, due to Thanksgiving week, and then adjourned.
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Good afternoon to everyone in the land of Zoom and welcome to the board of health virtual meeting on Monday, October 27th, 2025 scheduled for 3:30.
0:11My name is Thomas Corey. Present with me via Zoom is Michael Coughlin, Dr. Steven Gagliardi and Sandy Barabby, secretary to the board, various guests and participants in today's meeting. Sandy, can we have a roll call?
0:27Thomas Corey.
0:28Yes. Michael Coughlin.
0:31Yes.
0:32Dr. Steven Gagliardi.
0:34Yes.
0:35Yes.
0:35Oh, I'm sorry. Pursuant to the open meeting law, any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting and may transmit the meeting through any medium. Attendees are therefore advised that such a recordings or transmissions are being made, whether perceived or unpersceived by those present, and are deemed acknowledged and permissible.
0:58The next item of business is the approval of the minutes of the meeting from Monday, September 29th, 2025. Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections to be made to the minutes of the meeting is printed?
1:12No.
1:15Move to approve.
1:17Second.
1:18Sandy, can we have a roll call?
1:21Thomas Corey, yes.
1:23Michael Coughlin, yes.
1:26Dr. Steven Gagliardi.
1:28Yes.
1:29Next, we have the request for approval of a tattoo establishment for Allison Pavo at New Heart Tattoo, 224 Pleasant Street, Fall River, 02721.
1:41Josh, I assume you're presenting.
1:44Uh, yes, I am.
1:47And Allison is here. Yes.
1:49Hi. Yes, I am.
1:51Good afternoon.
1:53All right. What do we got?
1:55All right. Um, I did the inspection on Friday. Um, she passed the inspection.
1:59It's a brand new buildout the shop. Uh, it's a one one woman shop and uh, she's pretty much ready to go. She's tattooed in the past that up in flames. So, she's been tattooing for a few years and she's pretty much ready to go.
2:13Okay, gentlemen. Any questions?
2:17No.
2:19Okay. We We'll need a motion to request the approval for tattoo establishment.
2:24Motion to second.
2:29Sandy, can we have a roll call?
2:32Also, yes.
2:35Michael Coughlin, yes.
2:37Dr. Steven Gagliardi, yes.
2:40Okay. Okay, next we have the request for approval of a tattoo practitioner application for Allison Pavo of 40 Scott Street, Fall River to work at New Heart Tattoo on 224 Pleasant Street, Fall River 02721.
2:56Is that the right zip code? Pleasant Street 02721.
3:00No.
3:01Okay, we'll get that corrected in the record.
3:04Gentlemen, questions?
3:06Yes.
3:08Josh any No, I' I've checked all of her paperwork. All her paperwork's up to date. She just did her blood pathogen.
3:16She is uh ready to roll for tattoo.
3:19Okay.
3:19All right. Motion to approve.
3:22Second.
3:23Sandy, can we have a roll call?
3:25Thomas Cy, yes.
3:27Michael Coughlin, yes.
3:29Dr. Steven Gagliardi, yes.
3:32Allison, good luck.
3:34Thank you very much.
3:35Good luck.
3:36Okay. Thank you.
3:38Next, we have the request for a variance for the keeping of chickens. Bonsi mule, if that's correct. If not, I apologize.
3:4645 Niagara Street, Fall River. Who's presenting? Faust.
3:51Yes.
3:53Okay. So, Mr. Mule, and I and I did never ask him how to pronounce his name.
3:57It's my bad. Um, like many of our uh current permit holders, had chickens before we realized it was a regulation. Uh we were made aware of it because he was keeping a couple of roosters there. He's gotten rid of the roosters. I checked uh double checked on that today. Uh it is about 20 birds. I'd say maybe a little bit shy of that. Um so uh he's got everything in place. He's
4:22got the uh the stimulators contract. So that was the purpose of the site visit today, just to verify that on the ground. Um he's got uh a uh a trash cart style um bin for the storage of feed.
4:37Those are considered rat proof. That's that's why Fall River uses them.
4:41Um the coupe itself is in a garage bay.
4:45He's got several garages in in the back and that's where he's keeping the chickens. He does have a um a separate run and a and a small area around that that's fenced in for the chickens. Um, I I didn't ask him how he got them from the coupe to the run because I didn't want to know. I know that seems like it's a lot of work to get him there. Um,
5:05but they all looked uh they all looked happy and healthy. Um, and he's he's ready to roll as well.
5:13Uh, we did Oh, I should mention because you're going to ask me, this is a first for me. We did not get any comments at all. We didn't get any written correspondence, any phone calls. Um, it was it was weird even. I mean, we I we've always gotten at least one or two, but to my knowledge, we got absolute we didn't get a phone call either. So, I don't know if there were any above his
5:36present, but no, none of them weighed in with us.
5:39Okay.
5:40Well, if he's already had the chickens, they probably don't have a problem with it.
5:44Okay. Is is there anyone here who wants to speak on the application?
5:49I see several people on the call and I'm not sure why you're here.
5:54Yeah. Yes.
5:56Okay. Susan.
5:57Yes.
5:57Susan, would you state your name and address for the record?
6:01Yes. My name is Susan Boycealt and I live at 99 Niagara Street.
6:07Okay.
6:09Yeah. And I just wanted to say that I felt the chickens and the roosters were wellkept um during the time that they have been there.
6:21And that you approve of this, right? Yes.
6:27That's a first, right?
6:29Close to it. Yeah.
6:30Of having anybody attend the meeting to approve it? Yeah. Yeah.
6:34How are the eggs? Do you get any eggs?
6:36No, actually not.
6:39a dozen.
6:40Yeah.
6:42Okay. Is there anyone else? I see an iPhone, a Jennifer Milri, and a T. Pavo. Are any of you here to speak on this application?
6:54Jennifer's with the U Health Department.
6:56Oh, okay. I'm sorry.
6:57Hi.
6:59Okay. Yes. The person identified under Eiffel.
7:04Yes. My name is Eldora Moore and um I own the property with my brother at 48 Warren Street. So we are on the back side basically um as in a butter um if the gentleman has been maintaining the chickens for a while and um that all seems satisfactory to the city. I personally do not have an objection either. However, um I did speak to um my cousin who lives on the first floor of
7:32the home and he did find a dead chicken between like our property and the wall of the garage, if you will. Um where, you know, it was formerly the Milansen property that when I grew up there. Um and um there are several you know, the the building abuts almost our the corner of our lot. Um, so I I don't know if some animal came along and took the chicken and killed it, of course, and
8:01then it's back there and the gentleman didn't know what happened to it. Um, but that concerned me a little bit for um, rodents, etc. And I know if a while back there had been a real rodent problem. I didn't know the gentleman had chickens until I got the letter in the mail. And I don't even know that that's where the rodent problem came from, quite frankly.
8:23So for me, as long as it's kept clean and um you know, it doesn't initiate any more problems, then yes, more power to him right?
8:35Okay. Thank you for your comments.
8:37Okay. You're welcome.
8:40Gentlemen, do you have a feeling on this one?
8:43Sounds good. Motion to approve. Second, Sandy, can we have a roll call?
8:49Thomas Corey, yes. Michael Coughlin.
8:52Yes.
8:53Dr. Steven Gagliardi.
8:55Yes.
8:57Good. Good luck with the chicken, sir.
8:58Thank you very much. And thank you all for participating.
9:01Thank you.
9:02Thank you. Bye. Now, Sandy, was anything received for citizens input?
9:08Not at this moment.
9:09Not at this moment. Gentlemen, we have to confirm the date for the next meeting. the next following our usual pattern, it would be Monday, November 24th, which is the Monday of Thanksgiving week. Do we want to go with that or or maybe push it a couple weeks later and we'll just have one meeting in December before the holiday? What is your pleasure?
9:34Uh, if you want to push it to the ETH and just do one meeting for Yeah, that's fine with me.
9:41Okay. So, we're going to go with um Monday, December 8th.
9:47Sure.
9:47And then we'll the next meeting will be in January sometime.
9:52All right.
9:52Okay.
9:54All right. Can we have a motion to adjourn?
9:58So move.
9:59Second.
10:00Sandy, can we have a roll call?
10:02Thomas Cory?
10:03Yes.
10:04Michael Coughlin?
10:06Yes.
10:06Dr. Steven Gagliardi?
10:08Yes.
10:09Thank you all for your participation this afternoon. This is going to go down as a record. We have two positives on a ticket.
10:16Hey Sandy, before you go, when is test back?
10:20We don't have a date yet, but um we're expecting late November, maybe early December.
10:25Okay. All right.
10:28All right. Thank you. Thank you all.
10:29Have a pleasant rest of the day and happy Halloween. Yep. Have a good Thanksgiving. Take care.