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Presenter urges county health review after medical memo links solar‑array equipment to health concerns
Summary
Worth Township supervisor Walt Badro summarized a medical‑director memorandum that raised possible health effects tied to electronics used with solar arrays and asked Sanac County’s Board of Health to review the claims; board members agreed to consider the memo at the health board level.
Walt Badro, supervisor of Worth Township, told the Sanac County Board of Commissioners that a medical‑director memorandum presented to the St. Clair County Board of Health raised concerns about health effects associated with electronics used in solar‑array systems. Badro said the memorandum asserts “there’s a loophole in Public Act 233” that leaves health‑department oversight unclear and noted that the St. Clair Board of Health voted to accept the memorandum and asked the medical director to expand his analysis.
Badro said the document, prepared by a medical director identified in the packet as Dr. Nevin, lists symptoms the presenter described as linked to certain electrical components and their operation. Badro paraphrased the medical director’s summary of observed health complaints and said the matter had prompted more than an hour of public testimony at the other county’s advisory meeting. “Migraines is a big issue,” the memorandum and presenter highlighted, Badro said while describing the testimony.
County officials did not adopt any regulatory change at the Jan. 21 meeting. Commissioners suggested the issue be referred to Sanac County’s Board of Health for a fuller review and discussion with the local health department. Badro said he would be willing to bring the material to the county board of health and that he had provided copies of the memorandum to commissioners. Board members present encouraged a formal agenda item at the next local Board of Health meeting so public health staff can weigh the claims, review the memorandum and advise on any county role.
The presentation did not propose immediate county action; it asked the public‑health body to study the memorandum’s claims and report back. The county’s health department did not provide a statement at the meeting. Commissioners welcomed further evaluation by the Board of Health and asked staff to facilitate one of the next health‑board meetings as the venue to discuss the memorandum and any recommended follow‑up.
The matter remains at the review stage; no policy or permit changes were made by the board on Jan. 21.
