The Fluoridation Advisory Committee

[lilypads]

Here is the public comments page for the Dept. of Health Services Oral Health page: https://www.sonoma-county.org/health...liccomment.asp. I posted the whole Iowa study, just to see how large a message it would accept, and it accepted it. Sebastacat, maybe you should post your Kentucky piece.

And everybody else, let's let them know there's a lot they aren't saying.

[Sabrina]

Promotion of Sonoma County Water Fluoridation up on Dept. of Health Web Site!
I just went to the Sonoma County Dept. of Public Health Website, and even though this is a "controversial" subject, and not yet become a reality in Sonoma County to have Water Fluoridation, The county of Sonoma has a full on promotion of fluoridation on their website: https://www.sonoma-county.org/health...uoridation.asp. I wanted to email our Dept. of Health the page mentioned below from Iowa study (https://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/ifs/ ) but I could not easily find the E-mail address! I called the health Dept. number: (707) 565-4700, and the receptionist, named "Annie" answering today, who said she's just the receptionist, and that there is limited staff today, said there is no email address!!! And, she said she had no idea who would be responsible to put that up on the Sonoma Co site, nor who makes those kinds of decisions to put that up, and that no one else there would know either!

This is extremely frustrating: Makes me think, with all the folks needing jobs can't they hire a more informed Receptionist, or rather, are they hiring people who will be particularly apathetic for a reason? And WHY don't they have an email address?? All she could say is that the next meeting for the fluoridation meeting is in Sept., she had no date and said it would be posted on the site. I asked when would it be posted to the site and she did not know that either. I left a message with her stating I wanted to know when next meeting would be and any info on minutes from past meeting. Looking up meetings myself, I see that the meeting was held on June 24 (there are no minutes attached, only the announcement is still there. : https://www.sonoma-county.org/health/meetings/fac.asp.

WE CAN EMAIL THEM!
Within minutes of my message, I get a call back from Receptionist Annie letting me know that that she looked it up herself and it shows under "agenda" on the June 24 meeting, that the next meeting will be held on Sept. 23, 2013 form 1:30 - 3:30 in the DHS-Public Health, 625 5th St. North South City View Room, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. She said they have not yet put up minutes from June 24 meeting. She also commented that there is, and I also noticed there IS an EMAIL for them there too! (not easy to find if you are just on the site) It's: [email protected]. I will now email my concerns. Lets continue to stay very involved. I will keep putting word out to folks as best I can, however due to work, may be hard for me to physically get to that meeting up and coming.

[lilypads]

The Health Services Dept. has a page for public comment, and I actually was able to copy and paste the whole Iowa study into the comment box, so it accepts a pretty long comment. Here's the link:

https://www.sonoma-county.org/health/topics/publiccomment.asp

[sharingwisdom]

Thank you so much for posting the website! I just sent over a comment with the article that former Crescent City councilwoman, Donna Westfall wrote (https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showt...tep-Newsletter) that appeared as a comment on the PD's article back in April on the fuss over The Next Step newsletter advocacy against fluoridation. It covered it all, and what better place for it to be but on this website you provided. It, too, was rather lengthy but it seemed to go through.

The Health Services Dept. has a page for public comment, and I actually was able to copy and paste the whole Iowa study into the comment box, so it accepts a pretty long comment. Here's the link:

https://www.sonoma-county.org/health/topics/publiccomment.asp