Board of Health Gets Money for Inspections

The City Council voted Monday to authorize the transfer of $22,614 to provide additional support for inspections for food service and pools.

"We have 42 pools we inspect," said Board of Health Administrator Robert Landry of the need for the internal transfer that will allow the inspections to be made.

The funds will pay for a part-time temporary position through the end of June, he said. The person will make both health and pool inspections. With the beginning of the warm weather it is time to make those pool inspections, which are roughly 1/3 hotel and the rest seasonal.

Every pool is inspected one or more times a year, said Landry.