Off the meeting.

So good evening, everyone.

I'm representative Tom Bouchard from District One.

And I'm the chair of the public safety and health committee for the Stanford Board of Representatives.

So I'd like to now call the meeting to order.

This is the 32nd Board of Representatives, Public Safety and Health Committee call the meeting to order at 6:32 on the 28th of May 2006.

Thank you all for taking the time to attend.

Our board members, and of course, our invited guests.

So I'm just going to take a quick roll of the committee members who are in attendance.

I do see Terry Adams on board.

Thank you.

David Blank, Matt Dilo, Michael Field, did you join?

Not yet.

Chandra Graham, I see is on, and Kendra Walson is on.

I did get two who coordinated that they would not be able to attend, and that was uh Carl Gilbride and Eric Morrison.

Um so again, thank you for joining us.

And of course, any uh exficio members who are members of the boards but not members of the committee.

Thank you for joining us also.

Um so at this time I'd like to introduce uh the single item on our agenda, and that is item number one, PS32.007.

It is an overview of the Stanford uh restaurant inspection and rating system uh in the public notification process, and that was submitted by myself uh Chair Bouchard.

Um joining us to discuss this.

Uh of course is our invited guests, uh Miss Jody Bushop Pullen, who is the uh director of health and human services for the Stanford, um the city of Stanford, and then members of her team who are joining us.

Um I see that uh Raquel Early is on.

Um, and then we also invited uh Imbrell Job.

I don't know if she's gonna be joining us later, um, but of course um it's nice to have you on board.

Um so I'd I'd like to entertain a motion to um take up item number one.

So can I get a second?

Second.

So smooth and so seconded uh at this time.

I'd really appreciate the opportunity to pass it over to Ms.

Jody Bishop Pullen uh to discuss the item on the agenda.

And again, is an overview of the Stanford restaurant inspection and rating system uh in the public notification process.

Thank you very much for your time in joining us this evening.

Thank you, representatives chair.

Um so uh uh director of environmental health and inspections in Brian Joe was unable to join tonight.

Um if we have something really urgent we need to discuss or that he can answer, I will try to get him on, but otherwise we can get back to you with anything that we he would need.

He's the only one that could answer.

Um, and we have Raquel Early, who is the um administrative supervisor and really does a lot of the systems work.

She oversees all our our systems, um, our software, uh, which we have many because of our many programs, and um the one that involves licensing and permitting also has inspections included in.

Uh she has done a lot of work over the years with that since implementation of a new um online system in 2020.

Um so I just want to say that this is a great opportunity because I know that there's a lot of interest in this subject.

The administration, mayor's office is very um concerned about making sure that this information is available to the public, and um we we are working diligently to get that done, but we have um some barriers really to still address.

Um the uh food establishment inspections.

We have uh about 900 of them in the city.

Um, and this involves not only restaurants that you go and eat at, but all the takeout places, all the um uh, you know, just coffee shops, um, and you know, every uh McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, you know, all kinds of establishments, including retail establishments, a little bodegas, um, the uh food stores like ShopRite, Whole Foods, all of those.

When the Whole Foods opened, um, that had to be done under our purview in order to make sure that uh they had, you know, their plans were correct and all of their procedures were uh the way they uh had to be.

Um so overall we have had um system barriers that have prevented the um inspections from being uh easily transferred to public venue.

Um and uh while we worked really hard with the vendor, uh current vendor to have that happen, it didn't, and they weren't able to do it.

Uh we were hopeful with the new system coming in that it would be able to do that, but that system is still in the implementation process, and uh we you know we we don't know.

We hope for an integrated system, but you know, until then we've had to do some workarounds.

Um uh supervisor early uh would have to you know hand upload every inspection, um, and that is more time intensive than we originally anticipated.

So uh she can speak more to that uh later on, I think.

What the other thing that happened uh in addition to the systems differences is that the um the uh state adopted, we work under the State Department of Public Health, they certify all our food inspectors and uh oversee how we run food inspections.

Um they uh adopted the FDA food code.

Um, and while they had talked about it for a while and were preparing environmental health teams to implement it by with some training and uh other resources, they pretty suddenly um adopted it and uh we were um we we had to implement it pretty quickly.

Uh and to that end, um, you know, we had to wait for them to approve all of our processes.

So that's really the overview of why it hasn't been what it was previously, and I know that's frustrating to um the public, but um, you know, we do want to say that we we do appreciate that and are working to correct.

Um thank you very much, uh, Ms.

Bishop Pullin.

Um do you want to drive on or should we open it up for questions?