[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Bloomfield 2-2008 (Ch. 26 of
the 2016 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Ontario County Public Health is charged by the New York State
Department of Health with developing a plan to provide mass medication
administration to every resident in Ontario County in the event of
a Public Health emergency. During a large-scale public health event,
such as a pandemic, resources, both human and material, will be scarce,
and it is recognized that the Public Health Department will not be
able to meet this goal without assistance.
Local government, meaning towns, villages and cities, have a
vested interest in assuring that the residents in their communities
receive these medications. The Public Health Department has determined
that the best strategy for meeting this need is to establish Points
of Distribution Sites (PODS) within each local town, village and city
and that these sites be managed by the residents within these communities.
The Village of Bloomfield Board of Trustees supports this effort
by the Ontario County Public Health Department. The individual Board
members agree to be actively engaged in the process of assisting the
Public Health Department in establishing these sites within each community,
with the understanding that the goal is to have these sites be maintained
and managed by the local community. The Ontario County Public Health
Director assures each Board member that, in the event that this goal
can't be met, the Public Health Department continues to have the obligation
to meet this need.
