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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING RECEIVED PARIS-LAMAR COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH SEP 2005 CITY MANAGER The Paris-Lamar County Board of Health held its regular meeting, Tuesday~lij~~)~ 2005, at the Paris-Lamar County Health Department. Board members in attendance include Dr. Robert Moseley, Dr. Caroline Wilson, Dr. Bert Strom, and Dr. David Carpenter. Others in attendance included Mr. Tony Williams, Mr. Anthony Bethel, Ms. Martha Jo Anderson and Mrs. Carla Rhodes. The meeting was called to order at 6:15 PM. Minutes of previous meeting was approved. Mr. Williams states if the board members want to move the Health Department to the existing police station, then there needs to be a plan of action on remodeling the police station. Dr. Strom states there is grant money available through McCuistion Foundation, St. Joseph Foundation and Texas A&M, that can be used for remodeling the police station. Mr. Bethel states he needs to know how much grant money to request. Dr. Carpenter states that Mr. Bethel should look at the building, draw a plan of how he needs it to be and get Bobby Smallwood to look at the plan and give him an estimate. Dr. Strom states that he will help Anthony to write for grant funds. Ms. Anderson presented a request for two conferences and the travel expense, that she would like to attend for Continuing Education for Nurse Practitioners, see attachment. Dr. Carpenter made a motion for Ms. Anderson to attend both conferences and motion was seconded my Dr. Strom, motion passed unanimously. Mr. Bethel states that since the meeting that was held with Dr. MaGaha, he has had a telephone conference call with Dr. MaGaha, discussing grant money. Dr. MaGaha will be sending a letter on any funding through grants or anything else that could help the health Department. Mr. Williams states that the board should make their case to the Senate and Representative on needing more money. Dr. Carpenter states that the board should go through Mark Homer. T I