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Board approves emergency septic loan renewal, pay ordinance tied to workforce grant and appoints environmental health trainee
Summary
The board unanimously approved Resolution 202601 to renew the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund authorization (emergency), passed Ordinance MBH 202601 to adjust pay language tied to a workforce-development grant, and appointed Sydney Harlo as an environmental health specialist in training starting July 6.
At its June 9 meeting, the Middletown Board of Health unanimously approved an emergency resolution to renew the city's Water Pollution Control Loan Fund authorization, adopted an emergency ordinance aligning pay and benefit language to support a workforce-development grant, and confirmed the appointment of Sydney Harlo as an environmental health specialist in training.
Resolution No. 202601 authorizes the health commissioner to apply for, accept and enter into a Water Pollution Control Loan Fund agreement to repair and replace home sewage-treatment systems and declares the action an emergency. Staff said this vote renews the annual authorization used to administer the grant. The board noted two homeowners have already been approved for 100% funding based on income; staff explained the next steps include soil-evaluation bidding, design contracting and a later construction bidding step that the department estimates could take six to seven months.
The board also adopted Ordinance MBH 202601 (emergency), which updates pay ranges and benefit language in the Middletown Department of Health and Environment to ensure compliance with a workforce-development grant that allows retention and recruitment bonuses. Staff said the ordinance implements administrative language needed to allocate roughly $400,000 from the grant for retention and recruitment activities and that council previously approved the ordinance language in earlier readings.
Finally, the board voted to appoint Sydney Harlo as an environmental health specialist in training, with staff noting Harlo’s animal-care experience and customer-service skills and saying she is expected to start on July 6. Staff reminded the board that sanitarians in training must complete two years of health-department work before eligibility to sit for the registered-sanitarian exam.
Each motion was called by Miss McDonald with roll-call votes recorded by the clerk; voting members present — Miss Sipsy, Miss Bagot, Dr. Z., Mr. Bonell and Miss Miller — voted yes on the measures.
