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Council Public Works & Health Committee
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
311 Grand Avenue, Ste #105
Bellingham, WA 98225-4038
(360)778-5010
Committee Minutes - Final
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
1:30 PM
Council Chambers
COUNCILMEMBERS
Barbara Brenner
Barry Buchanan
Carol Frazey
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
Dana Brown -Davis, C.M.C.
Council Public Works & Health Committee Minutes - Final October 22, 2019
Committee
Call To Order
Roll Call
Committee Chair Barbara Brenner called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m. in the
Council Chambers, 311 Grand Avenue, Bellingham, Washington.
Present: 3 - Barbara Brenner, Barry Buchanan and Carol Frazey
Absent: None
Also present: Todd Donovan, Rud Browne, and Tyler Byrd
Committee Discussion
1. AB2019-521 Discussion of the Whatcom County Health Department Syringe Services Program
Other Business
Adjournment
Expansion
Cindy Hollinsworth, Health Department, read from a presentation (in the packet) on
the moble syringe exchange and naloxone distribution programs, and County data on
new annual cases of Hepatitis C. She answered questions about what percentage of
the population in Whatcom County is positive for Hepatitis C and whether the
Governor's proclamation about eliminating the disease by 2030 will include funding,
the cost of a Naloxone kit for treating a narcotic overdose, whether the Health
Department is tracking why people become opioid users, how people find out about
the locations of the mobile syringe exchange vans and whether it operates outside the
regular work day, pharmacist discretion and authority for selling syringes, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention data on how the syringe program affects the number
of people seeking drug treatment and whether that is being tracked locally, whether
the nurses in the mobile clinic program are able to give a Hepatitis C shot to a client
that tests positive, and the process of acquiring another van for a mobile clinic.
This agenda item was PRESENTED AND DISCUSSED.
There was no other business.
The meeting adjourned at 2:12 p.m.
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WA
Barbara Brenner, Committee Chair