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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />August 27, 2025 <br />S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agendas & Abstracts\2025 Agenda and Abstracts/ <br />August Page 1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT: To promote and protect <br />health, enhance quality of life, and preserve the environment for everyone in Orange County. <br /> <br />THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MET ON August 27, 2025, at the Drakeford <br />Library Complex, 203 South Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC. <br /> <br />BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS PRESENT: Alison Stuebe – Chair, Tony Whitaker – Vice <br />Chair, Brian Crandell, Commissioner Amy Fowler, Davia Nickelson, Lee Pickett, and Shielda <br />Rodgers. Rachel Royce and Aparna Jonnal arrived later. <br /> <br />BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS ABSENT: Bruce Baldwin. <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Quintana Stewart, Health Director; Erica Pettigrew, Medical Director; Dana <br />Crews, Community Health Services Director; Victoria Hudson, Environmental Health Director; <br />Frederick Perschau, Financial and Administrative Services Director; Libbie Hough, <br />Communications Manager; Thomas Privott, Environmental Health Supervisor; Samantha <br />“Sammie” Mizelle, Public Health Nurse II; Molly Chadbourne, Advanced Practice Provider; <br />Chrystal Whitley, Community Health Aide for the FIT Program; Chiletta Collins, Public Health <br />Nurse with the CMARC Program; Ebonie Wilborn, Environmental Health Specialist; and Jean <br />Phillips-Weiner, BOH Strategic Plan Manager. <br /> <br />GUESTS/VISITORS PRESENT: None. <br /> <br /> <br />I. Welcome New Employees <br /> <br />Quintana Stewart, Health Director, introduced the five new employees in attendance: Samantha <br />“Sammie” Mizelle – Public Health Nurse focused on Maternal Health, Molly Chadbourne – <br />Advanced Practice Provider, Chrystal Whitley – Community Health Aide for the Formerly <br />Incarcerated Transitions (FIT) Program, Chiletta Collins – Public Health Nurse with the Care <br />Management for At-Risk Children (CMARC) Program, and Ebonie Wilborn – Environmental <br />Health Specialist. <br /> <br /> <br />II. Public Comment for Items NOT on Printed Agenda: None. <br /> <br /> <br />III. Board Comments: <br /> <br />Dr. Davia Nickelson <br /> <br /> Dr. Nickelson shared that High Point University’s dental school just completed their first <br />year, and Wake Forest University opened a new campus for their medical school in Charlotte. <br /> <br />Tony Whitaker <br /> <br />Mr. Whitaker announced that the Health Department has received the District Court <br />decision on the Gurlitz appeal regarding an application to construct a car port on the appellant’s <br />property, first heard by the Board of Health in May of 2024. The appellant won the appeal on <br />two counts: 1. The Orange County Health Department applies extra-stringent rules for <br />groundwater protection that the court found without adequate evidence supporting their