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Resident urges housing authority to consider filtration pitchers for at-risk tenants amid PFAS concerns
Summary
Sandy Smiley, a resident, asked the housing authority to consider using municipal grants or budgets to provide individual filtration pitcher systems for vulnerable tenants after PFAS concerns were raised at prior meetings.
Sandy Smiley, identified in the transcript by name, spoke during public comment to follow up on a previous PFAS discussion and urged the housing authority and related boards to consider providing filtration pitcher systems to vulnerable residents.
"Maybe they could use their municipal power to leverage grants or other budget, ways of perhaps doing a one time buying of the individual filtration pitcher systems for populations that would be considered at risk or vulnerable like those people living in the housing authority," Smiley said. She suggested either the town or the housing authority explore grant funding or other budget mechanisms to make pitcher filters available to at-risk tenants.
The chair acknowledged the comment and said the PFAS issue would be revisited at a future meeting so members could hear updates from related agencies and the select board acting as a health board. The transcript does not record any immediate board commitment to purchase filtration systems or identification of a funding source.
