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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of
Weld County, Colorado, within 30 days heretofore, did
establish a County Health Department for said County,
pursuant to statute, and
WHEREAS, it now becomes incumbent on this
Board to proceed to organize said department by the
appointment of a County Board of Health, and provided
by statute,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by said Board
of County Commissioners that a Board of Health for Weld
County, Colorado, be and it is hereby appointed, and
that said Board of Health shall consist of the following
members who are hereby appointed for the respective
terms herein stated, to wit:
.5/7'Carl D. McKinley, for a term of one year,
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7S$ 7 Mrs. Cyril E. Lyster, for a term of two years,
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-�� Ella A. Mead, or a term of three years, �Iiti. -.744÷14-4315-0�N. ew 1 . I 45-5- �,W, �/. ► TO �L
G. B. Windder, for a term of four years, �v �YS6
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Benj. A. Woodcock, for a term of five years. 4,74-11:14. fy
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The above and foregoing resolution was, on -1N2"/ 73; 2`f-r7
motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following
vote:
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THE BOA D ,-IgIF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
WELD COUNTY, COLORADO.
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DATED: May 23,1947.
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Commissioners
Appoint Weld
Health Board
Members of the newly authorized
Weld county health hoard were
announecd Thursday MOInhag by
the county commissioners shortly.
after they had completed action
.on the appointments.
Member's of the board and their
terms follow:
Carl ltl cliinley, Greeley invest-
ment I.eolccr, one year.
Mrs. Cyril E. Lyster, northeast of
Greeley, president of the Weld
county advisory health council, two
yea rs.
Dr. Ella Mead, Greeley. secre-1
terry of the county medical society
three years.
G. 1;. Winter, Windsor, member
of the county agricultural advisory
committee, four years.
Benjamin Woodcock, Fort Lup-
ton. attorney, five years.
Hereafter appointments will be
made for a full term of five years.
The board was formulated under
senate bill No. 83, passed by the
last session of the state legislature.
The bill is an act relating to pub-
lic health and providing for the
establishment and maintenance of
county and district health depart-
ments.
In making the appointments, the
commissioners sought to form a
hoard that would be widely rep-
resentative, non-partisan and at-
tire.
The bill states that the mem-
bers shall serve without compensa-!
tion but shall he reimbursed ford
their actual and necessary travel-
ing and subsistence expenses when
absent from their places of real-'
dence Undern attendance meetings.
the bill the board and the
health department have legal juris-
diction over all rural and urban
areas.
Regular meetings of the board,'
the act states, shall be held not
less than once every three months,
at such flute or times as maybe
fixed by resolution of the board.
Special meetings may be called by
the president, by the county or dis-
trict public health officer, or by a
majority of the members of the
board.
Duties of the board are to es-
tablish general policies
the of
the
health department, advise
health officer, issue orders and
adopt rules and regulations regard-
ing health, bold hearings, appoint
health officer, and prepare budget
of the health department to be
submitted to the county commis-
sioners.
First meeting of the Weld county
board is being planned for the first
week in June. Dr. Roy Cleere, di-
rector of the state health depart-
ment, has been invited to attend
the first meeting.
Commenting on the bill,_.Dr•
Maurice D. Vest, administrator of
the Weld county health de wit
ment, said that one effect or the
act was to strengthen the
tion of the health department in
law enforcement. His department,.
he said, would continue to olt
on the basis of explanation,
ever possible.
The bill provides that atttjl*b.
ments to the board shall be
so that no business or proles- .. 'l
group shall constitute a ma$i4ty
of the board.
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