[Adopted as Secs. 10.01 and 10.02 of the Codification]
[Amended by Ord. No. 1760]
A.
The North Shore Health Department or its designee shall provide public health services for the Village of Whitefish Bay pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between the Village of Whitefish Bay and other North Shore municipalities and shall be and constitute the Health Department, Local Health Department, and Health Officer for all purposes under this Chapter 10 and the Municipal Code generally.
B.
Board of Health.
(1)
Creation. The North Shore Health Department Board of Health shall
be the Board of Health for the Village of Whitefish Bay.
(2)
Composition.
(a)
The Board of Health shall consist of one representative from
the Villages of Bayside, Brown Deer, Fox Point, River Hills, Shorewood
and Whitefish Bay and the City of Glendale; the Medical Officer shall
be a member of the North Shore Health Department Board ("Board");
and those members shall appoint on a rotating basis from the participating
municipalities one community representative for a two-year term. Except
for the Medical Officer and the community representative appointed
by the members, appointments to the Board of Health shall be made
by the Village President or Mayor of each participating community
and shall serve as that community's representative to the North Shore
Health Department Board of Health, subject to confirmation by each
municipality's governing body. The health officer to the North Shore
Health Department shall be staff representatives to the Board.
(b)
Each person appointed to represent a municipality shall have
demonstrated interest or competence in the field of public health
or community health. Appointments made to the Board shall consist
of no more than nine members, and at least three of these members
shall be persons who are not elected officials or employees of the
governing bodies. A good faith effort shall be made to appoint a registered
nurse and a physician. The Board of Health should reflect the diversity
of constituents served.
(3)
Term of office. Each participating municipality's representative
shall be appointed annually in conformance with the municipality's
practice for appointing any board members, subject to confirmation
by each municipality's governing body.
(4)
Selection of officers. The Board shall annually elect a Chair and
Clerk at its first meeting of each calendar year. The Director of
the North Shore Health Department or his designee shall record minutes
for Board meetings.
(5)
Meetings. All meetings of the North Shore Health Department Board
of Health shall be properly posted and notice given in accordance
with state Open Meeting Law.[1] Meetings shall be held at least quarterly. The Board may
meet more often, on an as-needed basis, at the call of the Chair,
so long as the meeting is properly posted and notice given in accordance
with § 19.84, Wis. Stats.
[1]
Editor's Note: See §§ 19.81 to 19.98, Wis.
Stats.
(6)
Jurisdiction and duties.
(a)
The Board shall govern the North Shore Health Department and
ensure the enforcement of state public health statutes and public
health rules of the department, subject to the Agreement for Public
Health Services, North Shore Health Department and applicable ordinances
of each participating municipality.
(b)
Specifically, the Board shall:
[1]
Assist in determining public health needs and advocate for the
provision of reasonable and necessary public health services.
[2]
Develop policy and provide leadership that fosters local involvement
and commitment, that emphasizes public health needs and that advocates
equitable distribution of public health resources and complementary
private activities commensurate with public health needs.
[3]
Ensure conformance with the Agreement for Public Health Services,
North Shore Health Department.
[4]
Assure that measures are taken to provide an environment in
which individuals can be healthy.
[5]
Assure that the North Shore Health Department is a Level II
or III health department, as specified in § 251.04(1) and
(2), Wis. Stats.
A.
General duties. The Village Health Officer, under the supervision
of the District State Health Officer, shall:
(1)
Make an annual sanitary survey and maintain continuous sanitary supervision
over his territory.
(2)
Make periodic sanitary inspection at least every four months of all
school buildings, restaurants, dairies, grocery stores, meat markets
and places of public assemblage and report thereon to those responsible
for the maintenance thereof.
(3)
Promote the spread of information as to the causes, nature and prevention
of prevalent diseases and the preservation and improvement of health.
(4)
Enforce the health laws, rules and regulations of the State Board
of Health, the State and the Village, including the laws relating
to contagious diseases contained in Chapter 252, Wis. Stats.
(5)
Take steps necessary to secure prompt and full reports by physicians
of communicable diseases and prompt and full registration of births
and deaths.
(6)
Keep and deliver to his successor a record of all his official acts.
(7)
Make an annual report to the State Board of Health and to the Village
Board and such other reports as they may request.
B.
Materials and supplies. The Health Officer shall have the authority
to procure at the expense of the Village all record books, quarantine
cards and other materials needed by the Board of Health, except such
as are furnished by the State Board of Health.
