Brenda Murray, Health Officer(903) 731-8449
Brenda Murray, Health OfficerThis program provides for the enhancement of the quality of life within the City of Palestine through the enforcement of ordinances regulating the Health Codes inside the city limits by conducting routine inspections and investigating complaints on all food services and sales facilities to decrease the threat of food-borne illnesses. This program is also responsible for investigating general sanitation complaints concerning weeded lots, rodents, vectors, refuse, sewage on private property, and seeking compliance of these violations and for ensuring compliance of local and state laws governing public swimming and bathing facilities. The City contracts with a local physician to be the City Health authority, whose responsibility is to administer state and local laws relating to public health.
Continue making frequent inspections of restaurants and other food establishments.
Maintain an environment to promote and enhance neighborhood beautification.
Create an overall system of surveillance including mating, production, breeding, harboring and the elimination of the general population of mosquitoes and buffalo gnats.
Inspections will be made twice yearly.
Continue food training programs and ensure state laws and local ordinances are enforced.
Coordinate programs with local contractors for the upkeep of lots.
Eliminate breeding sites for mosquitoes and buffalo gnats before the season begins.
Educate the public on methods of prevention and do mail-outs about difference diseases carried by insects.