Finance Committee - 07/01/2020 Page 15
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION TO TABLE CARRIED
Mayor Donchess
Now Alderwoman Lu, why don’t you go ahead and ask Director Bagley the question you were wanting to ask?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, my question comes from the record of expenditures and my question is, are there staff in the Board
of Health under you that meet with the public for immunizations or anything like this at this time?
Director Bagley
Alderwoman Lu, is your question are there members of the Board of Health on staff that provide
immunizations?
Alderwoman Lu
No, not the Board of Health, but the Health Department, that’s what | meant.
Director Bagley
Yes. Members of our staff do provide immunizations at this time.
Alderwoman Lu
And they haven't stopped during the COVID-19?
Director Bagley
What we have been doing is, it is by appointment only. And so individuals that need to maintain their shingles
vaccinations or other vaccinations, they make appointments with the public health nurses and they will meet
them outside and they will give them their vaccines.
Alderwoman Lu
So | am just wondering why they don’t qualify for a stipend, or do they? Because | know that our First
Responders have stipends and | wondered if ...
Mayor Donchess
Well | can answer that question. So the stipends are being provided by the State, $300.00 a week and that’s a
channeling of the Federal Funds that have come in to the State of New Hampshire; part of the funds of course.
There is a weekly call with the Governor, the Mayors and the Governor. On one or two occasions | have asked
whether the Public Health Employees could be included in the First Responders and in each case the
Governor has answered, “Well a lot of people have made that request and we'll think about it”. But to date, the
people that are being provided the stipend, the group of people has not been expanded so far to include the
Public Health Personnel.
