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MINUTES PARIS -LAMAR COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH SEPTEMBER 16. 19 7 The Paris -Lamar County Board of Health met September 16, 1987 at the Holiday Inn. The meeting was called to order at 7:10 A.M. by Dr. Wally Kraft, acting Chairman. The first item on the agenda was the establishment of a quorum. The quorum was present for the meeting. Present were Dr. Wally Kraft, Mrs. Printis Ellis, Dr. Bill George, Dr. Bert Strom, Dr. Richard Bercher, and Dr. Tom Cutrell. Absent were Mrs. Ann Norment and Rev. Samual Evans. The second item was approval of the minutes from the previous meeting. Those were approved by motion by Mrs. Ellis and seconded by Dr. George. Third on the agenda was consideration of and action on creating a full time lab position and recommending that the same be included in the budget. At present, Kathie J. Meyer is a Laboratory Assistant II working approximately 20 hours per week. Her present annual salary is $7,749. The pro - osal is to make her position a 40 hour per week position at 1,069 per month. At present, money is collected as laboratory fees, primarily a $5 fee for water samples and this money had been placed in a savings account for the past 12 months amounting to almost $14,000 per year. This money must be used in laboratory related expenses and could be used to pay the salary of a full time laboratory assistant. Her duties would be to collect water samples, blood samples for transfer to a reference laboratory, stool samples and other cultures and gram stains and other laboratory duties as necessary. Motion was made by Dr. Strom to make her a full time laboratory assistant and seconded by Dr. Bercher and voted and passed. Fourth on the agenda was consideration of and action on authorizing the purchase of a photocopier. Mr. Bethel obtained three bids. He estimates a need for 40,000 copies per year and compared the three bids based on a three year warranty or service agreement and compared the cost of purchase plus the cost of operation over three years. The Xerox machine would cost $4,895, over three years for purchase and operation. The Sharp copier would be $4,435 and the Minolta EP 350Z would cost $3,760 to buy a new model and operate it for three years and to buy a model with less than 20,000 copies of use already would cost $590 less or