10.27.2025 Board of Health

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.

My 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?

Thomas Corey.

Yes. Michael Coughlin.

Yes.

Oh, 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.

The 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?

No.

Move to approve.

Second.

Sandy, can we have a roll call?

Thomas Corey, yes.

Michael Coughlin, yes.

Dr. Steven Gagliardi.

Yes.

Next, we have the request for approval of a tattoo establishment for Allison Pavo at New Heart Tattoo, 224 Pleasant Street, Fall River, 02721.

Josh, I assume you're presenting.

Uh, yes, I am.

And Allison is here. Yes.

Hi. Yes, I am.

Good afternoon.

All right. What do we got?

All right. Um, I did the inspection on Friday. Um, she passed the inspection.

It'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.

Okay, gentlemen. Any questions?

No.

Okay. We We'll need a motion to request the approval for tattoo establishment.

Motion to second.

Sandy, can we have a roll call?

Also, yes.

Michael Coughlin, yes.

Dr. Steven Gagliardi, yes.

Okay. 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.

Is that the right zip code? Pleasant Street 02721.

No.

Okay, we'll get that corrected in the record.

Gentlemen, questions?

Yes.

Josh any No, I' I've checked all of her paperwork. All her paperwork's up to date. She just did her blood pathogen.

She is uh ready to roll for tattoo.

Okay.

All right. Motion to approve.

Second.

Sandy, can we have a roll call?

Thomas Cy, yes.

Michael Coughlin, yes.

Dr. Steven Gagliardi, yes.

Allison, good luck.

Thank you very much.

Good luck.

Okay. Thank you.

Next, we have the request for a variance for the keeping of chickens. Bonsi mule, if that's correct. If not, I apologize.

45 Niagara Street, Fall River. Who's presenting? Faust.

Yes.

Okay. So, Mr. Mule, and I and I did never ask him how to pronounce his name.

It'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

got 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.

Those are considered rat proof. That's that's why Fall River uses them.

Um the coupe itself is in a garage bay.

He'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,

but they all looked uh they all looked happy and healthy. Um, and he's he's ready to roll as well.

Uh, 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

present, but no, none of them weighed in with us.

Okay.

Well, if he's already had the chickens, they probably don't have a problem with it.

Okay. Is is there anyone here who wants to speak on the application?

I see several people on the call and I'm not sure why you're here.

Yeah. Yes.

Okay. Susan.

Yes.

Susan, would you state your name and address for the record?

Yes. My name is Susan Boycealt and I live at 99 Niagara Street.

Okay.

Yeah. 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.

And that you approve of this, right? Yes.

That's a first, right?

Close to it. Yeah.

Of having anybody attend the meeting to approve it? Yeah. Yeah.

How are the eggs? Do you get any eggs?

No, actually not.

a dozen.

Yeah.

Okay. 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?

Jennifer's with the U Health Department.

Oh, okay. I'm sorry.

Hi.

Okay. Yes. The person identified under Eiffel.

Yes. 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

the 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

then 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.

So 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?

Okay. Thank you for your comments.

Okay. You're welcome.

Gentlemen, do you have a feeling on this one?

Sounds good. Motion to approve. Second, Sandy, can we have a roll call?

Thomas Corey, yes. Michael Coughlin.

Yes.

Dr. Steven Gagliardi.

Yes.

Good. Good luck with the chicken, sir.

Thank you very much. And thank you all for participating.

Thank you.

Thank you. Bye. Now, Sandy, was anything received for citizens input?

Not at this moment.

Not 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?

Uh, if you want to push it to the ETH and just do one meeting for Yeah, that's fine with me.

Okay. So, we're going to go with um Monday, December 8th.

Sure.

And then we'll the next meeting will be in January sometime.

All right.

Okay.

All right. Can we have a motion to adjourn?

So move.

Second.

Sandy, can we have a roll call?

Thomas Cory?

Yes.

Michael Coughlin?

Yes.

Dr. Steven Gagliardi?

Yes.

Thank you all for your participation this afternoon. This is going to go down as a record. We have two positives on a ticket.

Hey Sandy, before you go, when is test back?

We don't have a date yet, but um we're expecting late November, maybe early December.

Okay. All right.

All right. Thank you. Thank you all.

Have a pleasant rest of the day and happy Halloween. Yep. Have a good Thanksgiving. Take care.