Longtime Oak Bluffs health agent Shirley Fauteux has indicated that she will retire from her position effective February 14, 2015. Born in Oak Bluffs and raised in Vineyard Haven, Ms. Fauteux has worked for the town for 22 years. “I’ll miss the people and I’ll miss learning something new every day,” she told The Times.
Reading from the job description she was preparing for the town to post, Ms. Fauteux said her job required knowledge of sanitary codes, septic systems, food codes, farmers markets, seafood handling, Vibrio, medical waste, tanning salons, lead paint, asbestos, emergency preparedness, chemical and biological emergencies, incident command, composting, tick-borne illnesses, school cafeterias, volatile organic compounds, quarantine and communicable diseases.
“Sometimes people forget that the rules are for the good of the public. Enforcing them can be a difficult balance,” she said.
Ms. Fauteux is considering several job offers on the mainland.
Town administrator Robert Whritenour told The Times in an email that the health inspector position will be posted next week.
