Board of Health re SAPHE Act
Post date: Oct 20, 2020 5:56:39 PM
Good Morning:
The Board of health has officially supported the SAPHE Act, and is forwarding information to the Select Board should they wish to follow suit.
Jeff
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From: BCBOHA <info@bcboha.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:19 PM
Subject: SAPHE Act
To:
Hello Berkshire Boards of Health,
Last week Senator Comerford and Representatives Kane and Garlick filed legislation in the MA House and Senate that would establish minimum credentials for local public health, provide dedicated state funding to local boards of health and accelerate the findings of the Special Commission on Local and Regional Public Health. All Berkshire legislators have already signed on to co-sponsor the bill, so please take a moment to thank them if you get a chance!
More information about the bill, called SAPHE 2.0 and the coalition can be found here: https://mapublichealth.org/saphe2-0/. You can also sign on to the coalition both as an individual and as an organization at this site - please consider taking a vote at your next BOH meeting to sign on as an organization and ask your town selectboard or City Council to consider signing on as well. Any town official can also sign on as an individual.
Finally, please see information below about a webinar tomorrow, sponsored by MEHA, that will go into more detail about the Special Commission, the Coalition for Local Health (CLPH), the original SAPHE bill that passed last April and the new SAPHE 2.0 bill.
Thanks,
Laura
BCBOHA
1 Fenn St, Ste. 201
Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 442-1521, x36
From: Massachusetts Environmental Health Association <admin@maeha.org>
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BCBOHA
1 Fenn St, Ste. 201
Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 442-1521, x36
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Subject: SAPHE Act
From: "BCBOHA" <info@bcboha.org>
Date: Tue, October 06, 2020 1:18 pm
To:
Cc: "Kristina St. Cyr Kimani" <kkimani@mapublichealth.org>
Hello Berkshire Boards of Health,
Last week Senator Comerford and Representatives Kane and Garlick filed legislation in the MA House and Senate that would establish minimum credentials for local public health, provide dedicated state funding to local boards of health and accelerate the findings of the Special Commission on Local and Regional Public Health. All Berkshire legislators have already signed on to co-sponsor the bill, so please take a moment to thank them if you get a chance!
More information about the bill, called SAPHE 2.0 and the coalition can be found here: https://mapublichealth.org/saphe2-0/. You can also sign on to the coalition both as an individual and as an organization at this site - please consider taking a vote at your next BOH meeting to sign on as an organization and ask your town selectboard or City Council to consider signing on as well. Any town official can also sign on as an individual.
Finally, please see information below about a webinar tomorrow, sponsored by MEHA, that will go into more detail about the Special Commission, the Coalition for Local Health (CLPH), the original SAPHE bill that passed last April and the new SAPHE 2.0 bill.
Thanks,
Laura
BCBOHA
1 Fenn St, Ste. 201
Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 442-1521, x36