Board of Health

Dighton Board of Health approves Pay-As-You-Throw bag contract with Waste Zero and wrestles with flagging farmers market attendance.

Dighton Board of Health tables trash bag vendor decision and adopts two new septic regulations.

Dighton Board of Health unanimously approves betterment loan for 2001 Buck Plain Road at special meeting. Chairperson Tammy Mello, Clerk Vincent Hebert, and Member Christopher Isibor convened the brief special Zoom meeting on June 3 with a single agenda item.

Dighton Board of Health unanimously votes to separate its Stormwater Committee and hire a new office manager.

Dighton Board of Health tables trash bag contract bids and approves swap shed funding amid a staffing dispute.

Dighton Board of Health tables a trash bag price hike and advances a farmers market proposal.

Dighton Board of Health votes to seek competitive bids for pay-as-you-throw trash bags, citing a missing vendor contract.

Dighton Board of Health approves FY27 budget unanimously at brief special Zoom meeting. Chairperson Tammy Mello called the February 5 meeting to order at 12:01 p.m. with members Vincent Hebert and Chris Isibor present; Hebert made the motion to approve the budget as presented and Isibor seconded.

Dighton Board of Health formally adopts dumpster and portable toilet regulations at January meeting. The board voted unanimously to approve both policies at its January 20 meeting, with clerk Vincent Hebert reading the full dumpster regulation text into the record as required.

Dighton Board of Health recommended a new public health nurse, threatened a septic contractor with license suspension, and demanded $75,000 from Hannaford at a special July 1 Zoom meeting.