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Is it recording? >> It is recording. Yeah. >> All right. So, I'll call this meeting on that. >> Can everybody share the city council meeting before we get started?

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>> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Um, I'll call this uh meeting to order of the Ways and Means Committee. I'm chairing tonight. Um, so I'll do the call to order at 6:00 pm and we'll do roll call.

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See, councelor Bo is not going to be here tonight. Councelor Bottomland here. Councelor Cibson >> here. >> Councelor Williams >> here. >> Councelor Web >> here. >> And we have a floor. >> Uh, can I have a motion to approve the minutes?

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>> So moved. Second. Uh any discussion? All in favor? >> The and we'll have public comment if anyone is in the room, they can sign up. Uh otherwise raise your hand if you have public comment online.

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>> I don't Somebody's hand is up. Uh yes. >> So Michael uh just tell us where you live and you have three minutes >> and he has to unmute >> and unmute please. I need to get a

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>> unmuted. >> Can you hear me? >> No. >> Now we can. >> Okay. So I'll make it quick if I can. Uh okay. The last meeting, this board, this committee voted unanimously to recommend

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to the full council uh the budget which the mayor brought forward. It was a unanimous vote. However, at the end of the meeting, the uh chair said we will deliberate

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next meeting. So, which is it? If you're going to deliberate tonight on anything, I would hope that everything is said tonight and there's no curve balls

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tomorrow at full counsel. So, if anybody on this on this committee that has any want to amend in this budget, I would hope that it gets discussed tonight so the public

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can comment on it a public comment before you people discuss it. Um, and quickly as far as what Donna Ducel uh sent regarding uh

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the chapter whatever it is. Um if you you folks vote on that it will it uh it would create a mess.

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Um Christy Moore had to had many options brought to her as far as filling that position part-time. However, it was for her it was all or nothing. all or nothing at all. And um I know the

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mayor gave her options part-time. I think that this has been put to bed. And um and quite frankly, her behavior at the last meeting was embarrassing. No other department head would behave that way.

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And uh that in itself is uh is uh well it's just it's just awful the way that went down. And um she went on for however long that that this program has been going or it's been

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growing been going success successfully with part-time staff. So I as a as a taxpayer I don't believe that that should even be pursued. That's all I have to say. Thank you very much.

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>> Thank you. Um any other public comment? Uh seeing none, we'll move on. There's no public hearing tonight. Um I thought I'd move through we'll just follow the on the uh agenda under motions. Uh, I'm just going to follow

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the agenda which says we're continuing fiscal year 2027 operating budget deliberations and recommendations. I know we voted on those the items that are listed on there last meeting, but I just it didn't seem like there was a

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whole lot of discussion. I just wanted to leave it open in case anyone had any questions or anything left related to uh fiscal year 27 uh budget if we because if any recommendations we should have from council if we want to amend

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anything or leave it at as is but he's right we did vote on these but um anyway I wanted to leave it open to open it up for discussion if we have any questions >> left or yeah I >> have a question so the uh money for G

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set that was recommended by the mayor's office. That amount >> I do not remember that discussion. >> You mean the amended amount? What was my >> I'm looking at appropriate

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$2,22,21 for the fiscal year 2027 Greenfield Community Energy and GET Enterprise Fund. >> Yeah, that was recommended. >> That was recommended. Okay, that was my question. Thank you. >> Yeah, I felt like the um

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I don't know. I guess my understanding of our vote was like we have to vote and then we have to vote 15 more times before we do something. So I didn't process it as that was the vote. >> Yeah. I mean in the way we've usually done it before once we're done hearing

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all the departments then we deliberate on what our recommendation would be from ways and means. >> Right. >> But we voted yes and I think she said but it could change. So I I mean I can't speak to what that means, but normally

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if anyone wants to make any changes or amendments to the budget, we would put that forward here, >> right? >> So that's why it was just a little confusing. So I thought maybe and since it's still on the agenda, I just thought it would be better to leave it open if

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we wanted to have any discussion. >> That's the only question I had. >> Yeah. The only we talked about it too was just like making sure salaries were correct if we're trying to really shore up our numbers. And then there was discrepancy between um the mayor and

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chief Dodge about the 6,000 in building maintenance whether it could stay or go. So I didn't know if that was worth asking Dodge to make sure where it could be. Otherwise, that's a lot >> because there's central maintenance money for police for building and then

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there's also building maintenance in the police budget. >> It's a tough one. Usually, we don't when we enter into deliberations, we don't ask questions anymore, but it might be worth >> that's what questions of department heads or

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>> but part of deliberation is clarification. So there's a clarification question. >> Okay. >> That perhaps the mayor can answer >> wants to clarify that or Stephen. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. I just know at our first ways and needs meeting he said he would agree that made sense to move it over >> to move to move it from central to him to central maintenance. >> Right. Okay. >> And then I just wanted to double check because if we're moving that money over

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there is police money dedicated already. So do they need that full amount or Yeah. Just Yeah. >> Yeah. I I'd have to find out. Um and you know I could find that back early tomorrow. >> Yeah. That feels really Yeah, that's it.

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>> Okay. >> And then I know um I watched the public safety commission. It looks like y'all are going to get together and fix meas, which we love, which is great. Um thank you for taking the time to do that. Um yeah, and then I

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think God corrected the salaries already, so great. So yeah, we'll get an answer back on that. And so are we okay with our original vote? I >> think so.

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>> So yeah, that's it for questions. >> And thank you for just taking a little extra time to >> Yeah, like I say, I'm not 100% sure how we'll go through this. There's been different ways councils have gone through it in the city council. Sometimes they've actually done the

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budget book where you have the summary and you go down every single department and basically say any concerns for the whole council, yes or no. And that was sort of our way of approving each >> one, but you know, it could also be

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bring considerations forward. It's kind of tedious that way. So, and I'm not sure and I've not talked to councelor Bulock >> about that to see how she's going to go forward. >> Go ahead. All the department heads will be there tomorrow night.

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>> I don't think they're usually all there, are they? >> Um, a lot of them are >> not everybody comes in person, but most of them are paid attent most most like they'll be available to

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answer questions. >> So, we will get a essentially a chance to ask most department heads things tomorrow. But it'll be stated that we're recommending >> right >> a yes on the budget as a whole. >> Yeah.

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>> Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. For the record, I want that clear. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That's good. >> Yeah. >> And I mean, inevitably there are always questions because not everyone watches everybody's means, >> right? >> I mean, it'd be nice if people watched a

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lot of them, but it's just impossible. So, there's always questions that come up. Um >> thought's pretty boring. >> Um yeah, so I think that's great. We can that is our motions which we already voted on. So we'll move on to the

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community preservation budget and we have the chair >> madam more. >> Yeah, thank you for coming. Oh, okay. >> And thank you for your work on this because I to start out I wanted to say like it's so helpful the way the descriptions are listed. The amount of

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outreach you do is unbelievable. >> We've been trying >> like there's so many opportunities for people to speak and then finding other ways online and I think it's really good. I just haven't thoroughly read it but I mean like the survey results it's

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really interesting. Um, we can ask general questions. I also the way this is listed. I think we'll just go go down each one because the very first one listed is the total of all of them. So, it seems kind

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of weird to vote on that first. >> I'm happy to >> or but I thought we'd go through each one. >> That'd be nice. Um, can I just say something to the question that was brought up before? This budget is separate from the mayor's budget. So,

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that we're doing it tonight um is important because it is a separate budget. Okay, that's my that's my one little response. Let me see which 40.

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I'm looking for the actual >> the one that has all the listings. Is that the one that starts with >> Yeah, I love every single chart. If anybody takes anything away from this year on Ways and Means is that I love a chart.

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>> You can thank um Travis Drury and um for for helping us start that process. And then we we use it every year. >> It's really great. It's >> great having an engineer on your commission. >> All right. Yeah. I guess why don't we go

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by what's on on page I think it's 56 which has all of yours because these are all different orders for everything. So I think maybe we'll just start with what you had in your packet which starts with Greenfield City Clerk the preservation of historic documents.

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>> Yeah. Okay. This is um this is one of those uh responding to an unfunded mandate. The state requires that the city maintain records in perpetuity. We have a lot of old records that are falling apart and we are the clerk's

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office is required to maintain them but there is no money to maintain them. Um and since under our historic preservation this is under our historic preservation category. Um, and what this would is a special copier that allows the clerk's office to actually put books

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in in such a way that they will not we will not break spines and we will not do all of those kinds of things and maintain digitally all the information and all that the procedure. Um Quinn brought in a book that I mean it it she

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had she put on her white gloves, she opened it up and it was like this thing is going to fall apart if if we don't do something about it. And there are a lot of those and we we've been in there to see. So um that's what this is for. Um sort of preserving our records as a town

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going back, you know, to the the earliest records that we have. Any questions? So, this is only partial coverage of it, right? Or does this cover the machine? >> It covers the machine. It does not It does not cover the label. Covers the

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machine, but they had originally requested this in their in the um back request. And now it's here. So, >> okay. I you know, I don't I don't know about that. Um what I what I do know is that um you know it's perfectly within

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our purview and we voted unanimously to support >> you need it. Good thing any more comments on that. Um Franklin County Co-op former Wilson's building facade restoration 60,000.

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>> Right. Um they asked us for d they asked for double that. This is for the co-op section of the building. So, it's the bottom section that is now having all of the um the the uh the facade taken off and the work that they're doing. Um they

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are this does not cover the whole thing. Uh there are 120,000 didn't cover the whole thing, but in addition to historic tax credits and some other other things, this 60,000 helps fill the gap. And again, it's under our historic

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preservation category. And um what one of the things we require is that this maintain that we are required to keep this as a historic building forever. So it is it is under our requirements that this is historic

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and it must be preserved historically. They've also got requirements from the National Park Service and others that that are going to be dealing with this. But but this is part of our requirement that it has to be historically preserved. Does that apply to the whole building or just that? It's

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>> that section. It does not. It does not. But the whole building is there's been a lot of work done on the whole building around this. But this is specific to the section the first the first floor and um that area. >> Do you have more specifics on what that means? Just out of curiosity.

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>> Sure. I can look it up. I have all the proposals here. I didn't I came prepared. Okay. I mean there's >> you asked >> I you know >> you're going to hear okay um I can give

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this to you this is the plan >> for doing the work um it's um but basically what it comes down to is that um there you know the

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the entrance the doors and windows the caulking and adhesive the board assembly the exterior painting, all of that is part of the work that they have to do. It has to be historically correct. Um and um and uh so it's a and they it's

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you know the work here includes a specific project manager just to do the historic facade. >> Wow. >> To make sure so it's a very complicated process to do this. Our money just adds a little bit to the already the cost on this. But if you'd like to see the

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budget, I've got it right here. Oh, if that Yeah, preserving character downtown. Okay, I'm ready for the next one. >> Uh, any more questions on that one or what's the next one? The Museum of Our

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Industrial Heritage, Greenfield Tap and Die Historic Paintings Preservation 24,600 >> there. This is this is really cool. The um the tool when the tool die closed they had

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they had 11 paintings that were put together of working people in the tool and die um over the course of that building's existence and they offered them to the museum. The problem is

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they're all they've all been sitting in the in that building for the last 30 or 40 years and they needed preservation. And so what we're paying for is to get them out of their frames, get them preserved. Um the um the museum went

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through uh found a a preservation organization and got this figure as being the um the correct figure to do this work. There actually are 13 paintings. two of them the historic socal society has and one

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of the things they've talked about is probably once they're preserved and ready to go also having an exhibit not only at the museum but also in the library >> um so but it but they're really they're great paintings they're kind of your classic um how do I describe um

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commercial art at that in the in the 20s and the 30s and the 40s they're they're really beautiful p pieces, very bright, very very attractive. >> Any more qu any questions on that? >> Okay. >> Um,

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Rural Development, Inc., 176 Main Street, affordable housing, 50,000, >> right? Um, looking for pre-development work for uh the uh the housing that will be going in 156 to 178, I think, Maine.

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Um it's that area where uh Muldo Mulivite Dreams is that whole that whole section and there will be 32 units of housing going going in there. Um eight of them will be kind of garden apartments in the back of the building

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and the rest of them will be basically they're going to be having to take down that building and put up a new building. um that building the building there used to be um four stories tall and that a couple of the stories were taken down.

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So this will in some ways be um it'll be a modern building but it will be putting the the the uh historic it'll be putting it in the historical u way that it was um in during uh when it when it was first built. Um, and what we're paying

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for are things like architectural plans and that kind of stuff. And that's what that's what the $50,000 is for. We had sent um a year ago we gave them another $50,000 to as part of that pre-development process.

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>> Is the goal to match that design to like the historic preservation kind of vibe or >> I I don't know that it's going to be directly it's it won't clash. I don't know that it's going to be, you know, historical ultra modern. >> It's not all. No, no, but it's um but

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you know, we what we believe is that we need housing so desperately in town. And this is, by the way, this is all affordable and this will all have some level of accessibility. Some of it will be fully accessible. Some of it will be um partially accessible and that it will

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not necessarily but all be wheelchair accessible. So um there there will be and it goes up four of course. And how are you defining affordable? >> Affordable is defined by uh the HUD numbers that we are required to use um

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so that um based on the area median income, these will be 60% of the area median income or lower. So, um, a family I I don't have the numbers in my head for this, but a family of, uh, of four,

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the area median income for a family of four is about 109,000 at 100%. So, we can, you know, so you can go back, take $40,000 off. So, and a family of four that is at $60,000 or lower for income

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would be eligible to be um living in this in this in this housing. Um and the um there are going to be family apartments. There'll also be some apartments for single people and for couples. That's it. That's it. Unless you've got

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questions. Um let's move on to Greenfield Housing Authority Security Deposit and Rental Assistance Fund 30,000. >> Right. Um, this is for people who have section 8 housing. Section 8 allows people to go

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on allows lower income people to go on to the market rate um property market and be able to compete with people who can afford full the full freight on on the rent. They the uh federal government

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will pay 70%, they pay 30%. Uh one of the things that happens though because it's on it's market rate it's in the market um the land these are private landlords and they can ask for a you know a deposit you know a a they

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can ask for first and last month's they can ask for last month's rent and they can ask for a security deposit. Often people lower income while they can pay their rent on a regular basis don't have the savings for the security deposit or

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uh last month's rent up front. And the problem is that they could probably get it if they went to see their family and their friends and pull that all together, but by that time they might they probably will have lost the apartment to someone who can say yes, I'll pay. So this is an effort to give

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them the flexibility that people who have are more means. And what it would do is just um and it's being managed by the housing authority as part of their section 8 program. And it would just be and we've already we already gave them money last year to do this and they

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begun that process and they kind of wait they kind of waited on uh last year's money until they had a system that they felt would would really work and since then we got three families and last time I talked to anyone about this there were three families that had come in on the

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last money but it'll but now they're advertising it so it's going to be something that'll the money will move quickly. I have a question. So, if a family is granted this money, >> uh, is that a grant? Is it a loan?

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>> It is a grant. >> It is a grant. Grant pay. There's no payback. There's It's not a revolving foot. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Does it affect their income levels? >> No. >> So, in theory, when they move out, they keep the security deposit.

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>> Well, the security deposit would go back to the front. Oh, okay. Okay. Because that because that it's security deposit. Yeah. But the last, you know, so yeah, that would go back to >> And you said about do you know how many this was started last year?

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>> We started it last year. My recollection the last time I talked with uh with Jack Redmond about this is that we had three families that had taken advantage of it thus far and it was $15,000. So, um, we we've gone through and my

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guess is somewhere close to a third to a half of the money at this point. Um, knowing what rents are right now. >> Yeah. >> So, what happens if that money isn't used? Does it >> it it stays actually it stays in our actually it stays in the um CPA account.

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So, they have they have to send us a bill and we pay the bill. Okay. So, it stays. So if for some reason that was not used, it would just go back into our our fund and we would use it for something else in another year. >> And

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uh that's there's only been three. You said three families have used it so far this year. Right. That's because is that just because three have now >> they No, they this was a question of uh the the Greenfield Housing Authority wanted to make sure they had all their

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systems in place for this and they didn't want to advertise it until they knew everything was in place and so they started advertising earlier this spring and so since that time um this has hap this has come through.

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Also, um the uh the GHA now has its full complement section 8 certificates. Again, there was a you don't want to know uh there but there was a process with the federal government where we were we did not have our full compliment. We have them now. So, there

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it's also the ability to be able to do it properly. >> Any more questions? Um the Greenfield Conservation Commission Greenfield Conservation Fund 20,000. >> Yeah, this the conservation commission

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asked that we would be we could grant them some money so that they could respond quickly when um land comes becomes available. Things like getting a survey done um you know that these things have to be done quickly or they

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could lose the land. So, so we are we are giving them $20,000 to be able to do that. That money they will send us a bill. That money will go into their conservation fund and it will uh be available whenever they need it to be able to move forward. Um and it means

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that they don't have to for instance go to council to get uh to to get uh to go through a pro the process which would take long and which would also have cause them to lose the uh uh the uh land that they might be offered by a private

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party. >> So this enables the conservation commission to claim open land quicker. >> Yes. Yes. Quicker. Quicker. Okay. Yeah. >> Thank you. The other question I have, do they currently have money in a fund? >> They have a small amount of money in the

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fund. That's my understanding. It's not a lot, like $5,000. >> Any more questions on that? >> Um that can only be used to um procure open space. >> Yes. Um they they have to report to us.

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Um it can it must it must be for a a CPA um appropriate reason. They can't use it just gently. >> So cur does that stay in the CPA until it's used or is this transferred? >> This will be transferred. >> Okay.

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>> We we had a whole discussion about that. >> Um are we ready to move on? Uh Greenfield Department of Planning Miller's Meadow 20,000. >> Yeah. Um, Miller's Meadow for those who don't call it Mill Miller Meadow is the

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area where the trailer park was that got flooded that the city that the city um uh made a um a deal with can remember which department it was, but anyway, uh that that that money that that that area

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would become um a only used it would not be used for anything that had a stand had standing um bodies in it. So, it can't be used for housing. It can't be used for it. It it can only be used for a conservation recreation purpose. This

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money will uh allow for there to be um work done on the the land so that it can be used recreationally, be used for making paths. It'll be used for possibly there where there's discussion about putting in a fishing dock at u in uh at

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the at the end of uh where the the area is, right? Um now so that but it'll be used for that kind of a thing to make it available and more accessible to people in the community >> and just to clarify it can't be used for

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other things because it's a flood plane. >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Excellent. >> Uh moving on. Greenfield recreation department beacon field enhancements $8,730. Yes. Um, this is I'm going to get this

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one out because suddenly I'm lacking up things. Um this is this is a small project that the recreation department is doing um to uh um it's right it will be near the botchi

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courts and it will be um um we did this so quickly for Um uh there'll be a small amount of equipment made available um for

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I showed you what they are the uh this will be an effort to put a cornhole in cornhole program of days a chess table and the ladder ball which is a ball that kind of

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I can't yeah can't show you a picture of me but it's a game it's a game so these are games that will be put into the area next to where the botchi court is and um it's uh it's a small project and the DPW will do the installation um so it would

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it's really paying for the equipment okay >> sounds like an exition that park. >> Yeah. And the botchi courts are used uh much more than I ever thought they would be. So >> yeah, >> it's pretty nice and shady over there.

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>> Yeah. I guess any other questions? I mean, it was interesting looking like I'm looking at the survey. Do you remember how many people applied or responded to the survey? >> Probably 100. It was two couple hundred. We we we usually get we usually get

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pretty good responses to the survey >> because it's remarkable. Your list is pretty close. The committee rank and the survey rank. It's >> Yeah. Um we I mean we had a couple of uh projects that um we did not fund. We had

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um and we had um some uh we had one project that we were pretty much ready to fund but then they backed out because the rules that we require was were not they were not uh something that they wanted to meet. It was a historic uh uh

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project and they they felt that it was um but they they didn't want to go that route. So they they let us know and took it off their the plan >> and I don't this how many issues has been for the city though this

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>> we are in our we're in our fifth year we're in our fourth year of funding uh the first year we organized ourselves made our review process just to give you an idea um every project we have a

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rating system that we use for every single project which is a two-page rating system. Um, and we have very specific questions that we ask everybody. Um, we do a pre-application that have that is out that comes to us

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in September that allows us to make sure that everybody both the the writers and we know that this meets qualifications for a CPA. The CPA law is quirky and we often have situations where we go, well,

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this is a really nice project, but we can't do it. And that happens on a pretty regular basis. And what we do is there's a state coalition. We contact that state coalition and say, can we do this because it doesn't quite fit? And

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um generally that uh because we're talking about physical changes in in buildings for the most part, but also the the you know things like the clerk's office uh things we have to know that this fits within the category. Um and

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the the uh the cate it's pretty specific in terms of what the CDF law will allow or will not allow. Um, but for instance, we can't put anything on private land unless it's deed to the city in some

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way. Um, and it has to be open to the the the public. So, it, you know, you could have a lovely project that's a playground in behind a community, a private community um, nonprofit and it's

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a wonderful project, but unless it is open to the public in general, we can't allow it. And unless land is going to be spec specifically excuse me specifically used in perpetuity for that purpose. We can't

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we can't do it. So for instance the gha has um a an area of a playground area at old courts and they wanted to put they came to us for more equipment. We had to ask them if there was any

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chance at all that they would be using that land for more housing later on. They couldn't promise us that that was not the case. It had to it had to then be deeded essentially to the rec department as recreation and it had to be open to everybody. Interesting.

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>> They couldn't meet some of those qualifications. They couldn't meet others. So, we had to say no. Um, another uh clarifying point for people in general, I remember when we came up to vote on this in council whether to adopt it. Uh, at least for

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me, one of the big selling points was we there's this extra tax, but we get matching dollars from the state, which was really important because it's another way to get more >> funds to come in here for us to do these things. And I it varies though every >> every year. Yeah, it's it's based on um

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it's actually based on the fees that the registar of deeds gets for the um the uh the registration of transfer of of housing of other buildings, that kind of stuff. And there's a percentage of that that goes

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to um CPA communities. Every every community in the state is not a CPA community. And then the question is are we a 1% town or a 3% town? And debate depending on whether we tax ourselves at

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a 1% level or up to a 3% level, the amount we get is different. Uh we um our law is that we tax oursel at 1% above a $100,000 valuation of a property. So, if

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your um your house is worth $200,000, it's taxed. The extra tax u for the CPA is only on the second $100,000. The first $100,000 is just a reg your regular whatever you're paying for um your regular assist.

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So, how much of the 24300,000 is is is Greenville tax dollars? Uh I you know I don't have that number in front of me but it would probably be >> we it's probably 218,000 of u of

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greenfield tax dollars and $30,000 or $20,000 from the state. Um because it's divided up among the number of CPA communities. So the more communities that come on the more the same amount of money has to be stretched. And so every

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year we find out what the amount is in October >> and it's like any council or or something like every town can just decide to become one. >> Yeah, it's a process. You have to the council in our case the council voted on

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it and then there was a citywide vote. >> Okay. >> Thanks for the background. >> Oh, no problem. >> Um the other thing I heard from people, sorry this is like hour but just to clarify for everybody this is new to like floating out there is conflict of

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interest. But I wanted you if you could talk about the makeup of the committee is geared towards specific sectors just to sort of clarify some of that. >> By law I'm going to look at my list of people just so I make sure that I get everybody. By law, we are required to

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have someone from the conservation commission, someone from the historic commission, someone from um the uh housing authority and someone from the recreation commission on this body that

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and then also uh there are people like me who were appointed by the council and there are people that are appointed by the mayor. Um and we have a total of nine members. So that um the and I can tell you who is from Oh, and the

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planning board. I forgot that. And the planning board. So there are five city bodies that are represented out of the nine people on this on this um on this committee and that's required by

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the ordinance that was written and also and also um by the CPA law though it's a it's a little more vague. so that each town can make it relate to what they uh they they what they call things and

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things like that. >> Any more questions or questions? >> Thank you for your work. Again, the committee really is thorough its evaluation every year. So, appreciate your try to do a good job because we it's tax money and we understand that people should have the right to know. By

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the way, um we are excited about um uh uh Councelor Bulldock's idea of doing a communitywide um event next spring for all the commissions. We we we really are looking forward to that. >> Thank you so much.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. So, we can go through and vote on these one at a time. Again, there's different ways to do this. I've always felt that we don't necessarily have to read the order in here, that we

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can just use the what's on the agenda and say appropriate. Uh, and I believe that the official Roberts rules that we have to read these in the full city council. But, uh, we've usually in the past just done the appropriation and vote our recommendation since we're not

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we're just voting at recommendation. So it's on page 51. They're all listed as one to vote. >> Oh, so they're doing it that. Okay, that's >> page 51's already ahead of you. >> Y that makes it a lot easier.

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>> So I guess it's all there. If someone wants to read that, maybe we'll do that just for that order. number fiscal year 26-122 when we're talking about um the city

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council upon recommendation of mayor disorger move that it be ordered that the city council approves the appropriation of $243,330 from the community preservation act funding for the following projects onefield city clerk preservation of

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historic city documents $30,000 Franklin community cooperative former Wilson's Building facade restoration $60,000 Museum of Art Industrial Heritage Greenfield Tap and Die Historic Paintings Preservation $24,600

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Rural Development Inc. 176 Main Street Affordable Housing, $50,000. Greenfield Housing Authority Security Deposit and Rental Assistance Fund, $30,000. Greenfield Conservation Commission, Greenfield Conservation Fund, 20,000. Greenfield Department of

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Planning, Miller's Meadow, 20,000. Greenfield Recreation Department, Beacon Field Enhancements, $8,730. Majority B required. >> So moved. A second. A second. >> Second.

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>> Great. Um, uh, any more discussion on these or all in favor? >> I, >> I. And it's a unanimous positive recommendation. >> Yes, it is. >> We need to recommend again the full

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budget. Are we >> No, I think we're good. if you know if anyone has any other comments. But um that looks like uh there's no discussion at this time uh besides what was listed. The next meeting is Tuesday,

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July 7th, 2026, 6:30 p.m. at city hall. And I guess I'll take a motion to adjourn. >> Goodness. Salute. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I the shortest century.