April Meeting Minutes
Location: Schu’s Bar and Grill
Present: Becky Wyre, Vita Polasek, Kerri Teachout,
Paul Olmstead, Laura Marschke-Lesher,
Theresa Green, Shannon Larry-Burton, Lisa Peeples-Hurst, Jerry Price, Farid
Shamo
I. Meeting called to
order by Paul Olmstead at
II. Minutes from March
approved.
III. Reports
A. BCTRC Web site
1.
Pages mostly viewed include Home Page 1stt, What’s
New 2nd,
Smoking cessation Classes 3rd and Smoke Free
Restaurants 4th. A lot of people are also opening the
Legislation
link.
2.
BCTRC members agreed that changes could be made on
the web site, including adding
news to the Home Page
and linking the
State Quit Line to both the BCHD and
BCTRC web
sites. Paul will take care of this.
3.
Restaurants listed on the web site are 100% smoke free.
B. Advertising and promoting BCTRC
1. Discussed
having the ability to print our own business
type cards that
currently have the Quit Line advertised on
one side and BCTRC’s web site on the
other. Kerri will
talk with Shelli
at ACS to see if we can have permission
to use ACS’s
logo. Goal is to print 500 cards asap.
2. Idea
was presented to distribute Quit cards to Dr’s
offices/Clinics.
3. Need
to get a list of community events – share with
BCTRC members,
then assign who is going to distribute
at the various events.
C. Results
from restaurant survey.
1. Those
that made calls turned in their sheets to Kerri.
2. Mostly
positive feedback. It does appear that
bars are not
supportive of a
smoke free ban, especially
Sports Bar. Theresa stated that she will try to contact
Cracker Barrels
Corporate Office since Corporate makes
the decision.
D. Smoking cessation
1. BCTRC
will begin concentrating on providing cessation
information,
education and classes to WIC clients as a
step towards
reducing high-risk pregnancies.
2. WIC Health form already asks smoking related
questions
but we have to
find a way to encourage and receive
referrals. Paul and Kerri will work on making the
necessary
connections to begin this process.
3.
Talked about forming a committee to developing a
smoking
cessation resource guide which can be
distributed to
various places. Idea presented to have
for
profits pay to
have their information advertised in this
guide. Jerry Price volunteered to head this project
and
suggested that
the YMCA could provide the printing.
Nancy VandeVrede
also interested in being on this
committee.
quarter
retailer compliance checks and passed out her latest report
(see
attached). Lisa also talked about
violators who continue to violate
and
lack of teeth unless they have liquor license.
F. Clean Indoor Air Regulation update: 3 businesses have been
fined so far. Discussed bingo halls and the language used
in the
regulation.
G. Legislative Updates: HB 4163 still sitting in the committee on
Government Operations and
Reform. Members encouraged to
continue their advocacy
efforts. HB 1108 FDA regulation of
tobacco – co-sponsored by
Congressman Upton – passed the
House Energy and Commerce
Committee on
that the full House will
consider it soon. Kerri hand delivered a
Thank you poster to
said that he was going to
hang it on his door in
The poster was signed by various BCTRC
members and TATU
students.
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