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Board o Health Minutes <br />January 16,2020 <br />3 of3 <br />and meter installation,standardizing drought response systems,and creating a financial strategy.Ms. <br />Moore also noted that the WR team is looking at grant opportunities for water mitigation acquisitions <br />and alternative mitigation strategies.Ms.Moore and team are also working with Department of Ecology <br />on the consumptive use pilot program,and are submitting a request for proposals for meter <br />maintenance contractors and will create a list of approved meter installers.Lastly,they are working on a <br />meter sizing worksheet,as well as code revision and meter billing language. <br />Candi Blackford:The Community Health division plans to put together more community-based <br />vaccination clinics centered around underserved populations,as well as re-evaluating the department <br />clinic,as the numbers of patients seen continues to decrease.Ms.Blackford is also working on a <br />communicable disease outbreak manual,and continuing to work on archiving digital and physical <br />documents. <br />Kasey Knutson:Ms.Knutson is working on creating pre-messaging for smaller,recurring issues in the <br />community for emergency preparedness and response,as well as incorporate those into the emergency <br />communication plan,and test those messages out,especially using the new KCPHD Facebook page.Ms. <br />Knutson also is aiming to talk to and educate the public about the Developmental Disabilities program in <br />a way that is easy to understand. <br />Other <br />Mark Larson addressed a previous question from the board regarding air quality and "non-attainment" <br />status.Dr.Larson stated that the county has not currently had anything on their radar regarding that for <br />a while,but the wildfire smoke/air quality group has re-convened and will start meeting again next <br />week. <br />Rich Elliott noted that flooding was looking like it will be likely come spring,and also briefly discussed air <br />quality,prescribed burning and wildfire smoke. <br />Dr.John Asriel noted in response to a comment earlier about the decline in public health clinic that <br />generally rural communities struggle to find and keep primary care providers,but noted that Kittitas <br />County is lucky to have a residency program,and the medical school in Yakima helps our community, <br />but we will likely have trouble in the next 20 years. <br />Meeting adjourned at 11:29 am <br />Brett Wach mith,Chair ofÍhnard of Health <br />Tristen Lamb,Adm strator <br /><ittitas County P li Health <br />KatioOdiaga,Clerk of e Board o ealth