Board of Health - Reorganization

Posted by M Paradis

January 18, 2008

The annual reorganization of the Board of Health was held last night.

The BOH (Board of health) is responsible for all the Borough food licenses and the dog/cat census and licenses among other things dealing with health related issues.

Three new oath of offices were taken -

Tara Scarponi
Heidi Garcia
Donna Quick

Councilwoman Kathy Bross was nomintated as the Chair and Claire Cichone was nominated as Vice Chair. Borough Attorney Joe Novak was appointed as BOH Attorney.

A new contract approving St. Huberts as the Borough Animal Control Agency for the period of 1/1/08 - 12/31/08 was approved for $1, 745 - up from $1,661.00 from last year.

The Borough currently has the following licensed -

128 dogs
71 cats

And beleive it or not, we have 16 food related businesses in the Borough for 2007.

The BOH discussed reviewing the license fees from other “like” communities around Hunterdon County to see where Lebanon Borough falls in line - more on that later after review.

A huge thanks to the members for volunteering their time and expertise to serving on this board.