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Meeting Name: Public Health and Public Safety Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/26/2020 6:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Virtual
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210356 2210356Public CommunicationUS Postal Service Manager of Governmental Relations responding to #210182 re: Postal Service operations during the pandemic.Placed on file  Action details Not available
210433 3210433OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services report to this Council the feasibility of using weekly pooled Covid-19 testing and/or relatively affordable "test strips" for school children, public employees, and workers at public-facing businesses.Work completed  Action details Not available
210687 3210687OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services advise this Council what services are available to our neighbors experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, and where additional funding could improve those services or enable new services.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
210743 3210743ResolutionProposing a process to create the Somerville Community Safety Coalition.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
210246 3210246OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services work with City Council to create and fund an unarmed agency that responds to mental health emergencies, addiction and substance-abuse emergencies, and other non-violent crises.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
209664 3209664OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services discuss using city policies to address pollution mitigation for new developments along high transit roads and highways.Placed on file  Action details Not available
209666 3209666OrderThat the Director of Somerville Cares About Prevention update this Council’s Committee on Public Health and Public Safety on their priorities for the year.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
209667 3209667OrderThat the Directors of Health and Human Services and Somerville Cares About Prevention appear before this Council’s Committee on Public Health and Public Safety to discuss their roles regarding recreational marijuana applications.Work completed  Action details Not available
210182 3210182ResolutionThat the Postmaster provide any contingency plans to be implemented in the event of a forced shut-down or suspension of service due to a lack of funding or the COVID-19 pandemic.Placed on file  Action details Not available
210208 3210208OrderThat the Director of Parks and Recreation report to this Council’s Public Health and Public Safety Committee the plan to re-open the Dilboy Pool on July 1.Placed on file  Action details Not available
210209 3210209OrderThat the Director of Parks and Recreation report to this Council’s Public Health and Public Safety Committee with the plan for re-opening the department’s Summer Camp.Placed on file  Action details Not available
210211 3210211OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services work with all community partners in contact with parents to make sure those parents identify someone to care for their children should they need to be hospitalized, and make that information is accessible, with contact information, in case it is needed.Work completed  Action details Not available
210282 4210282CommunicationDirector of Parks and Recreation responding to #210208 and #210209 on plans to re-open Dilboy Pool and Summer Camps.Placed on file  Action details Not available
208692 4208692OrderThat the Director of Health and Human Services provide the City Council with a copy of the Safe Injection Site Task Force recommendations.Kept in committee  Action details Not available