Board of Health

The Board of Health is comprised of three members who are elected annually for a three-year term.  Responsibilities of the Board of Health department include the following:

* Permits and inspections for:

  • restaurants
  • caterers
  • church kitchens
  • coffee shops
  • convenient stores
  • disposal works installers
  • elderly housing
  • residential kitchens
  • school kitchens
  • bodywork establishments
  • body art/tattooing establishments
  • mobile food trucks
  • one day/one event food vendors
  • trash haulers
  • septage haulers
  • tobacco vendors
  • private wells

* trash and recycling collection

* deep hole and percolation testing

* disposal works/septic system plan review and inspections

* asbestos issues

* air quality issues

* abandoned housing issues

* housing issues related to minimum standards of the state sanitation code

* annual emergency preparedness drill with the state

* response to public health threats, such as: COVID-19, West Nile, EEE, bird flu, rabies, Lyme disease

Staff Contacts

Name Title Phone
Carol Villa Secretary 508-634-2203 Ext. 222

Board Members

Walter Swift

Term to expire 2026

Jason MacDonald

Term to expire 2024

Mary Watson

Term to expire 2025

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