The Olivenhain Municipal Water District needs to suspend its water fluoridation program for up to 90 days to look into employee safety concerns, a majority of the district’s board decided Wednesday. While the topic of putting fluoride into drinking water has been a hot-button political issue of late and President Trump’s Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is encouraging states to ban fluoride in drinking water contending it’s a toxic substance, OMWD board member Christy Guerin said the board’s action Wednesday wasn’t political. Instead, it was in response to safety concerns related to handling of the huge fluoride bags, said Guerin, a former Encinitas mayor and formerly worked as a district director for former U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad.