1.

CHANGES TO THE AGENDA (Added Items, if applicable, will be noted with **)

2.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

3.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1

August 11, 2016

4.

DELEGATION REQUESTS

5.

CONSENT ITEMS

5.1

Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Semi-Annual (BOH16039)

5.2

Physician Recruitment & Retention Committee Report 16-001 - June 28, 2016

6.

PUBLIC HEARINGS / DELEGATIONS

7.

PRESENTATIONS

7.1

A Comprehensive Public Health Approach to Drug and Substance Misuse (BOH16035)

7.2

Public Health Approach to Revising the Legal Framework for Cannabis (Marijuana) (BOH16021)

7.3

Supervised Injection Sites: Evidence and Proposed Next Steps (BOH16037) (Outstanding Business List Item)

8.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

8.1

Sale and Display of Drug Paraphernalia in Convenience Stores Licensed as Food Premises (BOH16022) (Outstanding Business List Item)

8.2

Naloxone Expansion Feasibility (BOH16036) (Outstanding Business List Item)

8.3

Secondment of City of Hamilton Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Services Staff to Towards Recovery Clinic (BOH16043)

8.4

Safer Inhalation Kit Distribution (BOH16038) (City Wide)

9.

MOTIONS

10.

NOTICES OF MOTION

11.

GENERAL INFORMATION / OTHER BUSINESS

11.1

Correspondence from Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, McMaster University respecting Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (GREO)

Recommendation:  That Medical Officer of Health be authorized to receive, utilize and report on funding from the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research to fund staffing costs for a social worker in the Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services program, and execute a secondment agreement between the City of Hamilton and the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research for 5 months, satisfactory in form to the City Solicitor.

11.2

Outstanding Business List

(a) Items to be removed:

Item “D” - Regulation of Drug Paraphernalia

(Item 8.1 on this agenda)

Item “P” - Safe Injection Sites

(Item 7.3 on this agenda)

Item “Y” - Feasibility of expanding the current Public Health Services “Take Home Naloxone” Program

(Item 8.2 on this agenda)

11.3

**Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care – Public Health Standards, Practice and Accountability Branch “Standards Modernization – Practice and Evident Program Standards Advisory Committee – Highlights #2”

Recommendation:  To Be Received

11.4

**Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care – Public Health Standards, Practice and Accountability Branch “Standards Modernization – Executive Steering Committee September 2016 – Highlights #4”

Recommendation:  To Be Received.

12.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

13.

ADJOURNMENT