11/09/26 Board of Health

At the November 9, 2026 Town of Fairfield Board of Health meeting, members approved the previous month’s minutes without opposition. The health director reported that the Board of Selectmen had approved the purchasing director’s signing of a purchasing cooperative contract to acquire a new nursing database. The department hopes to complete the process by year-end and train nurses in the spring; no vendor or dollar amount was stated. Fairfield University had been engaged for an opioid needs assessment, and the department is switching consultants for its upcoming community health needs assessment, partly to use a shorter, more focused survey. No contract amounts or consultant names for the new assessment were provided.

The director also discussed state efforts to coordinate grant funding around “aging well” and potentially direct more funding to local health departments; Fairfield was not expected to qualify for the rural transformation grants discussed. Other updates covered flu clinics and vaccination activity, rental inspections, overdose prevention and medication-disposal outreach, reflective safety items, and communicable-disease trends. No additional procurement vote or spending action by the Board of Health was identified.