The Floyd County Health Department replies.

Here are the questions: On the Harvest Healthcoming Department's festival permit cross-pollination. Below are the answers, courtesy of Dawn Stackhouse.

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Roger,

I am the Environmental Supervisor for the Floyd County Health Department and I received your email from Dr. Harris and wanted to go over a few items with you that you had concerns about.

First, you were required to get a Temporary Food Permit because you were preparing food outside of your facility and serving it outside. Your facility permit would not cover this type of operation. If your facility sets up a booth outdoors and prepares and sells food, you must get a temporary food service permit. If you wanted to have a permanent cooking setup outdoors you would have to provide coverings over your cooking equipment to protect them from elements, and provide permanent fixtures for handwashing.

Second, the temporary food permit for the Harvest Homecoming festival is the same as any other temporary food permit that we issue. It has the same requirements, fees, inspections, etc. We issued you a temporary food permit for the Harvest Homecoming festival because you were setting up the same days as the festival. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention, and in the future we will issue just a temporary food permit to those establishments who are operating separately from the Harvest Homecoming festival to avoid confusion.

Third, we will be unable to issue you a refund for your permit for Sunday. As stated on the application you filled out at our office, fees for temporary food permits are non-refundable. In addition, when your permit was typed up, it stated you were operating for four days. Upon issuance of the permit, you stated you would not be operating on Sunday, so I changed the dates and placed my initials on your permit and you paid $60.00 to operate for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

If you should have any more questions or concerns, please feel free to give me a call at the number below.

Sincerely,

Dawn Stackhouse
Environmental Health Supervisor, FCHD