--------- All right. Um, we're going to start. It's Wednesday, December 17th. We're at the fire station for the monthly public safety commission meeting. So, welcome everyone. Um, I will call the meeting to order. Um, if anybody is recording this meeting
outside of the city or the public safety commission, could you please state that you're recording the meeting either on Zoom or present? Is anybody recording the meeting? Great. All right, we will move on. We will do roll call. Um,
we have our seventh and final public safety commissioner. Um, Bryce Barger here. >> So, welcome. >> Um, so we will do a roll call. So, Bryce, Commissioner Barger >> here. Great. Commissioner Jarvis
>> here. >> Moscato is here. Commissioner Graph >> here. >> Commissioner Burge >> here. and Commissioner Dixon >> here. >> Great. We have everyone here. This is awesome. >> And welcome again to our commission.
>> Um, >> all right. >> One person missing. >> No one's missing. >> Oh, Davido. Yes. He told me he wasn't showing up. >> Um, he had a previous engagement. All right. We're going to approve meeting
minutes. We have we all have September and October's from Shannon. Thank you graciously. We appreciate you. Um I will start with September meeting minutes. Can I get a So move in a
second? >> All right. Did everybody have a chance to look at them >> right now? Let me know if you need another minute. It's going to have to be um Ed Graph Moscato and Burj who's at this
meeting. So the four of us David Leno is in person. So who did the second for that? Somebody Okay, great. So are we ready to approve? Okay. Um Hey, Commissioner Jarvis.
>> Yes. >> Commissioner Braph, >> yes. >> Loser, yes. Commissioner Burge. >> Okay, great. September has been approved. All right, we'll move on to October, right? We have Commissioner Jarvis, Moscar, Graph, Burge, and Dixon are
present. Does everybody need a second to look at them? You good? >> Okay. Um, Commissioner Jarvis, >> yes. >> Okay. Moss Keratlo, yes. Commissioner Braph, >> yes. >> Commissioner Burge, >> yes. and Commissioner Dixon. Great. All
meetings have been approved. We're playing catchup. You're doing good. Thank you. All right. I will move on to public comments. Is there anyone in the room who would like to make public comments? Is there anybody on the line that would
like would like to make public public comments? Please speak up now. once, twice, three times for public comment online. All right, we will move on. Okay, I will ask the police chief to come up
uh for one item and then we'll move right into the police department updates. >> You meant the fire chief. >> Fire chief. Sorry, fire chief. You don't have any uh you >> just so the audience in the crowd knows uh all the microphones are on I see. So
just be aware of that. Usually it's just the up here. >> So that means you're talking in the audience. >> It will pick you up. So >> you're about to hear some stuff. >> You can hear some stuff. >> Uh commissioners, thank you. I asked to go first because uh the the firefighter
that I'm recommending or the lieutenant that I'm recommending >> to permanent lieutenant is on shift and the day they've been having he probably won't be here long. So um uh we had a long process. There were uh I think 11 candidates 10 or 11 candidates that went
for the the permanent lieutenants position. Uh it was an assessment center and a test uh and a final interview with the chief and the deputy chief. uh that process uh gave us a list of candidates and I'm happy to say that the candidate that was uh chosen for recommendation
for promotion by the uh chief uh is uh firefighter uh William Strereer. He's acting lieutenant William Strereer and hopefully that you'll concur that he will be permanent lieutenant William Strereer. Uh, please accept this letter as my professional recommendation for
firefighter William Strader to be promoted to the position of permanent lieutenant. Firefighter William Strader has held within the Greenfield Fire Department to positions of EMT, firefighter, OIC, preceptor, and currently temporary lieutenant. He has consistently demonstrated great great
leadership qualities and a passion of doing things right and has quickly proven himself to be an honest, dedicated member that I rely on. I without hesitation recommend firefighter William Strereer for promotion to permanent fire lieutenant in accordance
with the public safety commission's promotional policy submitted to you folks. So I will ask Will to go ahead and come up if you have any questions or you want to know anything a little more about Will.
Will uh started his career in a college as a uh as a student firefighter, worked career in Bradboro, and we were lucky to uh have him join our department about two or three years ago.
>> Thank you. Welcome. >> Is there any anything you'd like to add? >> Uh don't believe so. No. I've been lucky enough to do this job for 10 years now. almost good career and it's been a great opportunity in the acting position to
get to to see what the position is really like and feel like it's a good fit. >> Any questions from commissioners? >> All right. Can I get a motion to recommend uh William? >> So move.
>> Second. Okay. All in favor? I I no oppose. Congratulations. Uh Will is really the example of of the future leadership of the Greenfield Fire Department. Uh he brings with them a bunch of knowledge and uh skill set and
we're happy to have him board. So thank you for uh that recommendation to be forwarded now to the mayor for final appointment. So congratulations again. Great. Thank you. All right. We will ask the police department to come on up.
And again for the folks in virtual world, please say who you are. We all know who you are. For them, they might not. >> We got two months. >> Yes. >> October. >> Can you state who you are for?
>> Chief Dodge Greenfield Police. Deputy Chief Chris Green, >> Lieutenant Emily Resh. >> Thank you. >> Okay, the floor is yours. We get right to it. >> October 25, calls handled, calls for service, 3,372.
That's down 213 from the previous month. Total time spent on those 1687 hours, which was actually down 609 hours. uh calls handled in the business district. 358 in that month. >> It is up a little
>> 94 calls. That's uh more than 11 calls a day that they're busy. That's not necessarily bad stuff. It's just you're initiating activity, interacting with individuals,
things that um incident reports issued 167. That's up six. Accident reports issued 57 which is up nine. We had a little bit of inclement weather then. No, not that. Um arrest reports issued were 41 which
was down 22. Everybody was behaving. Citation issued 237 which was up 30. This was a man a few words. Officer movement nothing. Main Street substation is run.
um in October. We're still waiting for our cruisers. That has since changed. Um and we didn't have anybody to introduce >> not for October >> budget. We're doing our best. Nothing new to report. Um you know when we will see the budget >> in November.
>> Um do you know when we will see the budget for this year? >> Public safety commission for the >> next year for next year's. Yes. We're just putting it together capital. >> We just supply capital to Aaron. Um, we can talk about that what we're what we're looking at, but it's part before
the worst kind of stuff. We got a lot of time today. Calls for service with correspondence total 35. Uh, hospitalizations section 12 were 13. ED diversion nine officer injured was zero and one arrest charge or summons in
the month of October related to response. But we're still averaging about 35 to 40 a month, right? Yeah, we have a co one of the corresponders is ahead of time.
So, we're down down one and I think uh well, you'll see in the next month there was another incident or not in another family matter with another co-responder. So the numbers will be a little bit less because they weren't able to work
in November. >> Any questions on October from commissioners? >> Got a meeting to go to November. November calls handled uh 3,84
down 288 calls. Time spent on calls was uh 1,223 hours down 464 hours. Calls handled in downtown 260 which was down 98 calls.
In some reports issued 112 which is down 55 reports issued 46 which is down 11. Uh arrest reports issued was 20. So we're down 21. Citation cit Yeah. citations issued 203 down 35.
And I actually wrote something on the special report. So >> did you officer pollen and officer Kratz retired on in November. As you know, green academy trainee Hunter Grass accepted a conditional offer. Um once we
get more solid with him, we'll bring him before you and introduce him. Uh he's right now he he's doing filling out his background stuff. So we want to make sure that we're all good in that area before we go any further with it. Uh conditional
offer was made to Miles Master Daro. He accepted. Uh he is right currently works in New Hampshire. He was mass um he worked in Mass uh Academy trained, went to New Hampshire for several years, and now he wants to come back to the
Greenfield area to work. So um once once we get again um more gold than him, we'll bring him before you and through some Right now he's in New Hampshire working. >> Will he have to be reertified from Massachusetts because of his absence?
>> He won't need a full academy. Um, we'll have to do a CPR, firearms, uh, he'll have to do a core competency exam, you know, yeah, some basics, you know, a physical, a psych, and stuff like that. So, it's,
uh, streamline, but he had several years working in math, so he knows the laws anyway. New Hampshire has their he's been he's been current. >> It's different, though. >> Yeah. Yep. you know, unlike unlike a full transfer, he was trained in Mass. He went to a Mass full-time police
academy. So, his transfer in is unlike past transfers. He's got only like a smidgen of what the others had to do. >> Yeah. So, he's got an updated >> That's right. Do that. >> That's a piece of cake. Yeah. >> And what is his um expected start date or estimate? >> January, February maybe.
>> Yeah. >> He's got to sell a house and find a place. And so, he's just in the middle of that. Everything is well underway. Well underway. He's got a lot of it actually done. So worst case scenario, he's got family here that he may just
camp with for a bit. Um but his goal is to get here as soon as possible. >> A lot of experience. He's a sergeant. He's actually a sergeant coming back. So he's a leader there and we asked him to be one here. >> And just so the other commissioners know, I did attend a wasn't really an
interview. It was kind of a introduction. So, um, if you had any questions tonight, I could answer those. But it was pretty pretty pleasant. Uh, he's smart, young, you know, family.
>> It's always rivaling yours, by the way, >> but um, >> mess them up. >> He'll be he'll be he'll come in front of us for an introduction to some. >> Yes. Any questions on um I had a couple questions, but any commission any
questions on the uh pre-academy folks or Miles? How's the first pre-academy traininee doing? It's Justin. Is it Jake? How's he doing? Well, you can answer that. >> Tell us, please. >> Let's see. Um he seems to be doing really well. He gets along with uh all
the officers in our department. He's been able to now that he's done all of sort of the administrative stuff, he's getting out on the road a lot more. He's with uh his now third FTO, his field training officer. Um, so he's doing it extra time, 7 to three shifts still, but
more on a rotating schedule to get out there, see the actual interactions with officers and the public on different calls as long as they're deemed safe and appropriate for him to either enter a situation or observe on motor vehicle stops. Uh, he's engaged with the public
a lot with the community events that we've had, especially lately with holidays and everything coming around. and um we've got his next FTO all lined up for the next month after that. So, he seems to still have a very good attitude, asking a lot of good
questions, retaining a lot of the information, which is really great, especially for somebody without sort of that prerequisite basis of knowledge. He's really retaining quite a bit and asking all the right questions. >> Obviously, he's showing up on time and he's showing up, right? >> Yes.
>> Okay. And when when is his academy date if he's approved? >> March 3rd is the academy in Holio that we are hoping to send him and hopefully at least another one too. That other pre-ac academy >> is the goal.
>> And Hunter is going to start pre training. Do we know when that is? >> Early next year. >> He's got all of his um sort of pre-employment physical and other exams uh the end of this week. and then his
background, all of his information has to be submitted by Monday. That way the investigator can begin their work. And once that is complete, um, and they know that the time is sort of the essence, we want to be able to give this pre-academy traininee enough time on the road
pre-academy before they go to the academy in March, early early March. We don't have an exact date yet. Are you guys putting a formal pre-academy training process together? >> Yes, we are working on it.
>> We have a software that we use for several different modules of things >> and within the field training module, we have some mod modules in there. So, we have um post academy, postacademy
program, a pre-academy program, a transfer program. Um, we have the whole entire dispatch operation training program in there. So, um, Emily is now she's the one who's actually crafting that training program inside of that software. So, and we're learning as we
go and we said that before. This is the first time we're doing this. So, and and were there mistakes? Sure. there was, you know, and again, uh, the the the beta tester, Jake, has been very good at communicating what he found to be strengths of what we're doing and the
weaknesses of what we're doing. And we've changed accordingly because, again, he doesn't know what he doesn't know. We know that side. Um, but what he does know is how um, successful various attempts at things have been where he's actually picked stuff up versus seemed
like we're wasting a lot of time. So, it's good for us if this model continues because we're going to make it far more efficient. We want to get as much bang for our buck as we can. So, uh I think we've changed that. >> Made quick changes and it's it's been
noticeable and he's keeping up and we're hoping with the new hire will come right out running >> actually be productive every minute they're there. We don't want to waste any time much. >> I had the program built and then I wanted to after officer Su or Jake Su
had already done a few weeks of that pre-academy training what I believed was sort of common knowledge as a unacc trained person. I wanted to run by him first and he gave me a lot of really good feedback. So I sort of readjusted the program and so it's all completely
built now. It's just a matter of the data entry into that field training program like the chief was saying that I'm doing right now. Thank you, Chief. Is there we good with the Right. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it.
Main Street substation. >> Slow run smooth. >> No lights or >> are doing doing a good job. They're out and about. Um yeah, nothing. No complaints there. Um I don't know. Did
we get the cruisers at the end of November or December? I can't remember. Anyway, we got the cars. We got the cars. >> This is build week. So, I don't spoiler for next month's uh report, but this is build week for them. They're um
outfitted. They're getting their um theaters, watch guards, and all the necessary equipment installed in them uh throughout this week. So, hopefully by maybe tomorrow, they'll be 100% online and we'll be able to use them. So, yeah.
>> The truck isn't here yet. The truck is on the build line right now. So, we're at the I I'd say probably January. So, it's on the build line. They have all the necessary stuff they need to complete it. And once that once that's
done, it'll come back to us and we um we have all the equipment that will have to get installed there, too. So, be another complete build as just like the other ones. >> Ford Lightning. >> Yep. >> The charger project. discontinue their purse.
>> They're losing money. So, the larger project looks like I just got an email from Carol Collins. >> Um, it looks like final quote will be in literally within days and she actually anticipates maybe digging will start right around the first of the year. So,
I don't I don't believe it takes too. It's not a long trench. They have to run from the pole and then they basically hook up the kiosk to place high capacity chargers. >> Where where are they going? >> In our parking lot. where in the buck is it >> halfway down street side? >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, if we need to later expand it, we can. We got the room. So, >> um again, if everything goes horribly right, we'll have a charger in there maybe sometime in January. >> Yeah. >> GG. >> 100%.
>> Yep. >> You might hear that again with capital coming. Any questions from commissioners on special reports? Report. Still doing the best we can. Transfers to cover retirement buybacks.
As you know, we had three. We had uh Spollen, Jason Kratz, and we had Jason Haskins who is now the chief of Monu. So, um we're requesting to cover their buybacks. Um the cruiser maintenance
budget, we're over 15,000 and that's as we sit here right now. That's just the older cars and a lot of updated work getting done to assume that all figure it's going to go up. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. There's some in the shop as we
speak. >> Yeah. >> Questions on budget >> question. Um can you explain a little bit more about the retirement buybacks with that later on? >> So when when an officer leaves throughout their career they can acquire
certain things. One of which is sick time. Um in the middle of any year they could have x amount of vacation hours left. Uh they could have comp time. So which we call FLSA, right? So they can depending on when you started um contractually
the Fair Labor Standard Act allows officers have up to 400 or any employee up to 480 hours. Right? So in the event you have these things in your bank when you leave the city has to pay you. And what it came down to was I believe it was probably around $100,000
out of the three which is pretty good because one left last year at 130. So um but again it's not something you budget and there are funds in the city to cover those things like salary stabilization and other stabilization funds that we're
hoping uh we're hoping we get a transfer because our both of our lines right now both salary and expenses were overhead. It was a really really it's unlike I've seen ever it was a hard hard budget year. You know, the mayor, she did come out swinging. She needed to and things
were cut down to the bone in terms of budgets and we're all feeling it now. I mean, again, when we get hit with cruiser maintenance budget to the extent we are, $15,000 is a lot of money. We're having a real tough time. So, I actually asked for a transfer on there knowing I
probably wouldn't get the transfer now. Um, and then we'll have to do some sort of reallocating closer to the end of the fiscal year. But we're we're in tough shape with the expense side of stuff particularly. We're closer with with the salary line, but that 100,000 is going
to really put a hammer on us. >> So, does it traditionally come out of a city budget outside of the police department? >> Comes out of the department budget and then it's again reconciliations happen towards the end of the year if you're over and you explain why, but I'm trying to do that in advance to get ahead of
stuff and hopefully the city can just directly pay. I think we already paid them out. But again, that's why there's salary stabil stabilization accounts in the city for them movements. >> That's what I mean. Does it traditionally for all departments come
out of the stabilization fund? Not >> the point department's budget >> unless you can unless you can support it. Like last year we the salary stabilization account was zeroed out >> for the city >> and yeah because city hall if you remember a lot of people have city hall
every one of those people leaving city hall >> took some money with them it drained the salary and contract stabilization budgets >> so we had to plan accordingly and with the person who left with $130,000 buyback we had to sit on our hands for a while without hiring
>> we never got to 30 we never got to 35th position position and we didn't hire the 34th halfway through the year. So, we were playing a numbers game to try to pay back ourselves $130,000 and we again I met with the mayor. We were one of only a few agencies or departments that
actually came in under budget. So, we we did good last year. Just to explain it a little bit, every department in the city always has to take it out of their budget first and then they go back to city council and the mayor and ask for money out of that fund if there's money in there and then
they and they give you back the money. But every department in the city has to front that money for buyback and then they have to go before the city council and the mayor to get it reallocated to their budget. >> That's the way it works. >> Like I said, last year we we were able
to deal with it. Mer, I'm not seeing it. There's not a lot of Thank you. Any other questions from commissioners on the budget? >> We move on response activity. As I said, we were down a couple responders. So,
protocols was 16 uh section 126, ED diversions two, no one was injured and no arrest or summon. >> And this was because we have one two. We had two. >> Two out. >> Well, we had it was like one and a half. Well, one one went on leave and then the
second one had a family matter to deal with. It's temporary. So, we need a motion. >> No motions. >> Is that a presentation? >> Any any questions? >> Would bring all the goodies. I don't know if you guys made it up to the
fairgrounds for the the light festival that they had up there, but we had a display up there and they make it up to Friday 1:00. We will have groceries and a little get together at the TV. So, you guys are all invited to that. Um, have a
ton of food. Not a lot of room, but a ton of food. So, come out, eat, have fun, talk, hang out. >> Bring a tractor trailer. You're probably going to be someplace else. >> Bring snacks. No, I'm just saying I'm on the road on Friday.
>> Well, you're invited. >> Thanks. >> We'll be doing that at 1 o'clock on a Friday. So, come on up. >> Any other questions from commissioners for the police department? >> We appreciate we plenty of time, too. We could have gone last. >> Yes.
>> We'll get We'll get you to your meeting. >> I'll ask the fire department. >> We'll get you to the church on time. buying apartments. >> She just runs. >> Yeah, she's hungry. She wants to eat. >> She's She's ready to get some food
before she gets to go to me. Hello. Hello. Hello. I will try to keep it quick because I have to be at the same meeting as the police chief does. >> Thank you. You're welcome. smiling. >> Huh? >> You're smiling.
>> Actually on the agenda today. >> Smiling. He is >> smiling. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> An agenda item. >> Uh thank you. Uh it's nice to see everybody for everybody out in Bob Stram, fire chief and emergency
management director. Uh and our call statistics, we'll get right into it. Our call statistics are as followed. 270. You can see the breakdown. Um calls for service year to date are about 3,200. Uh which is noticeably high as it's always
been. Some uh notable calls that we've had in the last month. Um we had a full cardiac arrest on Jane Street. Um I need my phone. Excuse me. Greenfield Fire, Greenfield PD responded to it. Uh there was no mutual aid ALS
available. Uh and it was one of those nights that there were just ambulance calls everywhere. And so folks were unavailable. Um uh I want to recognize from the police department Joshua Barber, uh Melvin
Morano. If I tortured your names, please correct me. >> Morano. >> Um and Alyssa. >> Thank you. from our dispatch side. Uh Trevor Bernett, uh uh Yavon, >> hello.
>> Thank you. Uh from the fire department, Jesse Phelps, Adam Mitchell, Kevin Warden, uh Matt Gardner, and uh Patrick Crowning Shield was the lead EMT. Responded to James Street for reported cardiac arrest. Upon arrival, found a
male party in full arrest. uh immediately went into high quality uh CPR uh initiated defib uh did our advanced techniques which is we can do an airway um and then transported to the hospital. Um we have requirements that
we have to work a code uh on scene for uh at least eight minutes and then we put on our Lucas device. Um, and it between all the responding agencies and our dispatch and and I believe there I haven't been able to look into this and I apologize, but I believe AMR gave
instructions over the phone for the cardiac arrest. Um, uh, between all of that, I'm happy to report that that gentleman is home with his family. Um, which is remarkable. Uh, I received a a letter from the medical control doctor
uh wanting to uh uh extend his appreciation and admiration for the professionalism um and quality of work that both the police department, Greenfield Police Department and the Greenfield Fire Department did. So, more to come on this, but job well done. So, by
everybody that was involved. Uh some notable fires. Uh I'll get into the Ammeris fire in a little bit, but we've had a couple fires up in Shelurn. One in uh Shelurn and one in Shelurn Falls. Uh the one in Shelurn is the picture on the right. Uh fully involved structure fire.
Uh we assisted with extinguishment of that. The one on the left is up in Shelurn Falls. Uh we were the second engine on scene for that fire with uh we took the first uh uh lines in the door. My engine showed up and I was right behind them. Um, we had two floors of
fire. The captain took half his crew to the first floor and I took uh the other half to the first I mean he took his crew to the second floor and I took the other half of the crew to the first floor because I can fight fire when I'm out of town. Uh, and uh we were able to
uh extinguish that fire um relatively quickly once uh additional uh backup got got there. Uh job well done by everybody that was there. Some personnel updates. Uh we have a captain that remains on long-term IOD. We all know Captain
Whitney. Um firefighter uh a firefighter remains on long-term IODD uh with an injury. He's going through the retirement process now. Another firefighter is out with long-term IOD for um a a mental health injury uh and
he's going through the retirement process now. And then we have a captain on long-term uh off the job injury uh return day unknown uh extensive time going to be out. So we are still down four firefighters uh out of our out of
our shifts. On paper we are fully staffed. Uh in reality we are hurting for staffing. >> So what does that mean? uh if they're on injury and they're going through retirement, they're actually decided they're going to retire and is it >> there are two methods for retirement in
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Employee initiated and employer initiated. >> Okay. >> Um the employees that are going through the retirement are employer initiated. >> Employer employer initiated. >> Correct. It sounds terrible, but it just there's
reasons for the employer to get involved with the retirement. They're they they are if a person does it on their own, they do it on their own. This way, the department is helping them get through the process. We're updated in the process and and if there's any bumps in the road, we can assist with it. That's
the only difference. It's sounds terrible, but it's not. >> Okay. Okay. the lieutenant uh promotional list you just had. Uh we have an established list. Uh Will was on the list and he was chosen to be the recommendation going
forward. Uh the the finalist like we said was Will Streer. Um the captain's list has expired. We uh have anticipating uh possibly making a permanent captain down the road, but because of timing, we do
have an MOU with the union extending the existing list by a year. So, we don't have to go through the whole testing process to have the same names show up on the list because nobody else is eligible to take it except the people that are already on the list. So, uh firefighter Terrell is graduating the
academy on Friday and we're excited to have him back. Um, our safe education, uh, we're getting into all the schools doing the fire education. Our, uh, safe educators are doing a great job. In addition to that, we're working with the Red Cross on installing smoke detectors
again for, uh, our elderly population, uh, and people with need. Uh, we did that several years back and a lot of the detectors that we've installed are now at the end of their life because they're a 10-year sealed battery. So, a lot of them need to be replaced. So, that's an
a big project. Um, but that's one thing that we've done for a long time. 304 inspections. Uh, if you have a liquor license within the city of Greenfield, you are required to have a fire inspection every year. We're wrapping up on that. It's a tremendous burden to the fire prevention bureau, but we're
getting that done. Um, we did not receive uh our FEMA grant. However, I reported I think a month or two ago that we did receive a grant to replace most of our thermal imagers. We're very excited about that. Uh the technology summit, the international fire chiefs
had a technology summit last week in Irving. Uh I was chosen by the Western Mass fire chiefs to be a representative from Western Mass. I had the privilege and honor to go uh to that class and there is a lot of things technology that the city and the public safety agencies
need to put on the front burner. Um because there's some great stuff coming down the line, but there's also challenges that come with that. specifically um some AI components and dos and don'ts with AI and some other stuff. So um cap capital any questions
about that capital request? I'm trying to fly through this just so we can get everybody out of here quickly. Uh the first capital request uh probably the biggest uh capital request is we're putting in a request for a UTV. Uh it is
an all-wheel drive uh four-person cedar that can have a water tank and the ability to put a stretcher in the back of the rig for off-road rescues. We currently have a 25year-old K Cabota uh
that gets heavily used um and it's a vital piece of equipment for us. It's getting very tired. Uh there is a question of the our counterparts at the at the police department have one and it's a great asset and we use it all the time in conjunction with the one that we
have. Theirs is a great off-road vehicles um not to sell it short. Ours is a little bit different. It's a little bit beepier and has it's has to carry more weight. It has to carry a pump and
a water tank on it and it it has to carry a stretcher on it. So this is this that >> that's the price for Yeah. >> So that is the request putting forward. Uh there is going to be obviously there's going to be some concern about we already have one in the city of Greenfield. I will tell you that if we
had four of them in the city of Greenfield those times all of them would be used. So um so any questions about that one? >> How how is this used? Give can you give us some examples of >> Sure. So, uh, at the bare minimum, it's used at every large festival, Green
River Festival, uh, the fairgrounds at, uh, the Franklin County Fair, Wormtown, any big festivals where we have EMT details where you can't get vehicles around big crowds. This gets us to the crowd quick, but more importantly, we can pick up a patient, carry our medical
supplies, and get a patient in and out. If you go to the Big E, the Big E has not only the ones from West Springfield, but they borrow about eight different communities UTVs to get around the Big E for fire protection in EMS. Um, it uh I
won't I won't speak about the police officers other than theirs is very similar, but a lot of times they're all rolling. The police are are doing you could be going to the same place, but they're doing their own thing uh transporting their own people when we are. We are too.
>> The current one we don't. This one we're asking for. They do not. >> Right. So, you can't put out a fire without large extingu. >> That's correct. And this one is like, you know, a higher clearance, higher trans, you know, a bigger transmission. >> Make it over all kinds of different terrain.
>> Correct. They're totally different. Although they look the same in concept, they're totally different animals. Um and uh um we are really in need of replacing the one that we have. So it's a critical piece of equipment.
>> Any questions about that one? And >> this is for the the capital for >> Yep. >> next year. >> Yep. >> Next item for capital that I'm requesting is what would it cost if we just want to replace the current level of TV that we had and that pumps and
stuff on it now? >> Uh probably about 15,000 cheaper. Okay. Yeah. Um, and then we had 90,000 left over from the ladder truck, but that went to public works. Is there a reason why that wasn't used to cover these capital expenses?
>> Honestly, the mayor, and I agreed with her assessment on this, there was a critical need for the electrical department for a replacement of one of the vehicles that they work with every day. That took priority, and I was happy that that was able to be used for that.
So, kind of on those same lines of questions, um, where are we at with the old ladder truck? It is sitting down at the DPW yard. I sent a letter to the mayor today asking that we officially surplus the
vehicle, which just means a sign off that says that the vehicle is being surplus. Share that. I'll give you in a minute. Um it will be sold uh and we are hoping uh that we will get anywhere between 50 and
$150,000 for for the truck which will go into capital stabilization money maybe. I can't speak for finance but that may be a where that money goes to. >> It might go >> we we can't we can't use it. It goes into the general fund. >> General fund. Okay. So, so even though
it's a a a vehicle p purchased for the fire department, the city purchased it. The money goes back into the city's account. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> The next item is a shared request. Uh it is a police and fire request and this is
for um uh defiills. Uh the defiill that I told you about that was used on James Street is an older defibrillator. The newer defiills will change the brand. So, all the pads that go on uh somebody that's having an arrest uh are
compatible with all the advanced life support monitors and and uh equipment. So, if the PD shows up with one of these defibrills, they put it on. We don't have to take it off to put our pads on. And when the medics show up to do the
advanced u u work that they do, they don't have to rip them off. They can use the existing pads. homogeneous product >> and it's pretty much what everybody in the county is using for uh for advanced life support. So, they're compatible with it
>> and this will be in every unit that we can put it in. >> So, we're asking for 20 10 of them for the police department uh and 10 of them for the fire department. They will go in our first two engines uh in some of our command cars. I know personally I have
one in my car. I don't have it anymore because it was taken out. one of the ones on the trucks was taken out of service. Uh, and so it went to them. But I will tell you personally, the one that was in my car I've used twice. So they they do get unfortunately they do get
used and they're a vital piece of equipment. So asking for any support on that. >> So this is this is 20 >> 20 of them. 10 for us, 10 for the PD. >> What do we have now? Sorry. >> Uh, great question. The fire department
has every frontline piece has them and three of the cars have them. So that is four engines. The ambulance have different ones. Uh four engines, the ladder and three cars. So we have um we have we have about 10 of them now. Um I
know we have 10 of them. I'm not sure where the the other three are located. Uh but they're all in use. Oh, one's in a one's in a detail bag. Uh, and then uh two of them are out of service. >> Believe we have five. >> You have five. Are they in vehicles?
>> They have to sign them out. >> So they're at the station. Will these additional ones allow you to have them in the vehicle? >> That'd be the goal. >> I mean, it does does it make So if there's an issue, they have to go sign it out before they go to the scene. >> Well, they sign out for uh roll call
before they do their cruiser and get >> Oh, so that happens every day. >> Yes. Every shift. >> Okay. Okay. So, it's in a car. They're in the car. The four vehicles. >> They're in the four vehicles every day. >> In the ready room. Shift comes on. They grab their stuff. >> And that's part of it. >> Okay. I I may have a silly question. Um
>> when we take if they get the new ones >> if we have uh enough to get all to get them all, will the old ones be able to be turned over to schools and other things to be utilized or will they have to come out of They'll have to come out of service. >> Yeah, they'll come out of service
completely. is the batteries and all the other uh >> electronics in them. >> Yep. >> Some of them are are close to three years old. >> Oh, I guess you got to have it updated as others just like fire the smoke alarms.
>> Yeah. Is it vital piece of equipment that save lives? >> Is there an official end of the life for those? Is that 20 years seems to be stretching it? >> Uh some of them are 20 years. A lot of them are, you know, probably 10 years. >> All right. But yes, you want to you typically replace them within 10 years
or so. 10, 15 years. >> I get you. Okay. >> Maybe sooner depending on the brand. >> You know, like I said, we have two of them that are service. We can't we can't service them. Okay. So, >> and it's one of those pieces of equipment that although the ask is big
price-wise, the individual units aren't themselves overly expensive for what you get for a payout for them. Um, so >> what's a life worth? >> Yeah, I think it's worth. >> Yeah, listen, CPR and substaining a life
will not bring somebody back. You have to get early defibrillation. You've got to get the heart started. So, and our success rate is increasing recre increasing by having the right equipment
show up at the right time. Next one is rescue equipment. Uh we have a uh actually the deputy um or commissioner Jarvis when he was a firefighter way back in the day did a fundraiser to get the jaws of life. That is the set we're looking at replacing.
Um, we also are getting five uh self-contained breathing apparatus bottles that are used for our rescue tools and other things uh like the tuna which is a inflatable boat uh airbags and things like that. Um
>> fiberglass >> the the bottles uh fiberglass. Yep. They're compatible with the SCBAs that we have so they can be interchangeable within the fleet. But I know that fiberglass has a a lifespan also. >> Yep. Those What's an SEVA bottle? You
remember? 15. >> 15 years. >> 15. Uh >> they have to be hydro tested at >> bottles are 15 years. The packs are 20. >> Yep. >> And we have two jaw. How many jars of ice do we have? >> Two. >> We have one complete set. >> Yeah.
>> Uh on one rescue on on the pumper rescue and we have an incomplete set on second piece. >> Okay. So to put a little earmark on this, I've been retired nine years as deputy chief. I was five years as a captain. That's 14 years. And I would
and I was a private when I did this fundraising probably five years before that. So this set's over 20 years old just to date myself a little bit. >> And those those are the ones you use as demonstration at the fairgrounds. >> Yes. Those were the jaws of life. Well,
the one the one and a half sets. You give us a car and we can take everything apart of that car with those tools plus other things we do with it. But that's pretty much what they do. They're very powerful. And the set that we're replacing were hydraulic, which means
you had, you know, cords and whatnot. These are battery powered. So, uh, and they're unbelievable, uh, the amount of cutting force that they have. >> So, is it one set? If they ask us one set >> cutter spread want to be
>> they no longer have any hoses or reservoirs. >> Correct. >> And they're super quiet because instead of a motor running they only you only hear them when you actually are using them. >> So >> So they provide less uh trauma for a person.
>> Yep. >> Later waves they're we have a primary set. Happy to show you the the primary set. Uh this is our backups. This this one would be the primary and that would go on to a second engine. The problem when you take all your equipment, you
put them on the first piece, if they're out in a hole, you you need to have you need to have redundant equipment. And there's many the cars accidents that we go to when they're horrific car accidents. A lot of times we're using two free sets.
The last one there be a turn here. Yep. The last one is turnout gear. The turnout gear is a line item within our department budget. That line item has been reduced over the ask the last two I
think three years consistently which is fine. Uh however when we cut that line item out of the budget we get behind. And so one year every five or 10 years we need to augment that. This is
that augment. We our turnout gear is every firefighter receives two sets of turnout gear. Turnout gear is no older than 10 years old. So every firefighter every five years is getting new turnout gear. Turnout gear right now just for the pants and the coat are running about
$5,600. Very expensive. Um our budget we do the best to keep up on on a replacement. Um but we fall behind when that item gets um reduced uh as budgets get reduced. So
we need to play catch-up. We track every set every stitch of turnout gear within the department from your helmet to your boots to your gloves to to your coats and we can tell you exactly when the end of life of every piece of equipment is coming. This year
we're falling behind by about four to five sets. So this is going to augment us to keep us on on pace for making sure the firefighters are properly protected. This is vital. >> This isn't set for every fire person.
This is sets for the ones that are up, right? I mean, if you have you had the new hires, can I get new sets? So it's not >> requested in the older sets. >> Correct. We order new sets. uh which makes a challenge to balance out the replacement, but when a new firefighter
comes on, we have to get them a new set of turnup gear. Uh their second set's usually a hand-me-down set, but their primary set is is has to be fitted for them um once they're qualified and get get into rotation. Uh and they and then
their cycle begins. Um, so this is >> Kevlar and >> no Max stainless steel impregnated beds. >> Yeah, it's also uh we're looking at going uh PAS free. Uh there is no
turnout gear right now. That's PA fast free. Our turnout gear is PAS limited which means all the PAS is sealed. >> So that's in the insulation. Mhm. >> So it's >> fire retardining is is leg legacy
chemicals and they're trying to find a way to get that out of turn here. >> When's the capital budget doing? >> It's already been submitted. It's it'll go through capital improvement uh committee as soon as they start setting
up meeting. >> They haven't. And when do we know when that is? When >> probably January. >> Okay. So, we're supposed to just get a recommendation from you folks. Uh, if you recommend these projects or not, I
will tell you the the turnout gear and the defense are the are they're all priority. They all need to be done, but they're the priority priority. We need a recommendation by a vote. >> What what I would like to have happen is
that we get these things so we have some time to think about them and ponder them and ask questions, not get them and then make the vote the same night. That's what I would like to happen as the chair. Um so when are these >> I don't think you're going to have time if you're going to wait till they
>> are they going they go in front of the council on January? >> No, they go through the capital improvement committee. >> When do they meet? uh whenever they set up the meetings. Capital improvement is the superintendent of the schools, uh a
representative from finance, a representative large, and somebody else. It's spelled out by charter. My understanding they haven't met yet, but they should be meeting within the next month or so. I mean, I'm I I think
you're you're fine waiting, but they could call for a meeting. I I I I don't know the schedule. >> If we don't give a recommendation tonight, will this cause a problem with the funding?
>> No, it still'll go as is to the capital improvement committee. It just won't have a piece of paper saying that the public safety recommend. >> Can we review Can I Can I have a motion to discuss whether we're going to uh talk about
approving these or not? Did somebody make a motion >> in a second? Sorry. >> Okay. So, let's discuss this without the chief's involvement on whether we feel comfortable that we can approve these recommendations tonight or if you need
some time to ponder them over and then either a yes or a no. So, does anybody have any take anything to say? Commissioners, >> I have just one question. I guess um in terms of I mean they all do seem like priority in terms of different things
and obviously you want your staff to be fully equipped with with equipment that's going to work and and help them to save people. Um would um and I really like the AEDs um and the
plan to do 10 and 10 and and to put those into circulation that will work with all of the other you know cities and towns and everything. Would it be I mean if if there's a possibility for cutting somewhere, could it be more that you do this year like five to police,
five to fire, and then maybe next year or in the, you know, kind of like a cycle just like you've done with your vehicles and other things, you know, um doing it more over a period of time. Um or are these really just they're they're no good in terms of what you have? Um, I
think at a bare minimum if there if there was going to be reductions to it, it would be I hate to say it, but like drop it to 10 and then the fire and police get five each. We need new defense. >> Yeah, the front line pieces need new defense.
>> So, let me make the statement that we're only we're only giving a recommendation positive or negative for these four items. What happens with the capital committee and the mayor and the council or whoever
votes on the money is different. They could say they want them or not too. So we could say yes to all four of these. Doesn't mean that we're going to get all four of these. Our job is just to say this is a good idea and we recommend the these recommendations that the chief
wants to make. So we're not making any type of we're not making any type of vote on approving anything financially. >> So we're going on ideas. In other words, accept the ideas that he has because then the capital uh
capital people will make the decisions. Basically, >> they're going to make there's a long road of who makes the financial decisions. We're just making a recommendation that we think that the fire department and or the police department need these items. >> It helps. >> It helps. >> It does help when we go forward.
>> Yes, it does. >> That's what it does. >> But I just wanted to explain to the commissioners, we're not making the decision on the finances, just on the recommendations for the >> that the chief has brought in front of us. >> So what happens is in years past, it's
just gone to capital. Didn't go to public safety. public safety was given a heads up. It helps us to receive backup from the public safety commission that says we agree with the chief's recommendations. It then goes to capital improvement. Capital improvement makes a
recommendation goes to the mayor. The mayor makes her final recommendations and then it goes to city council which goes to ways and means and then to the full city to vote. There are multiple multiple steps. >> Sorry.
What this does for us is says that our priorities are confirmed by the public safety commission. It goes a long way to have the public safety commission support behind it. >> I have no I have no problem as one of
seven public safety commissioners to give a recommend pause my positive recommendation recommendation to these four. I'm just stating that as one out of seven people >> priorities are already listed on the sheets. Not all of them are a priority one. If you wanted to afford them based
off of the priority ones and twos. Um I I still say I mean the whole uh accounting of all these things needs to be recommended as a as a commissioner. I feel that every single recommendation you've made
is logical and needed and let the finance uh group consider it. But I think that we still need to uh keep our fire department and the police department as up to date as we can.
>> Yeah. If there was an expense that I put forward to you folks and you went, "Oh my god." And and you didn't you would have gotten that. But what I'm saying is that that that's that's okay, right? Because when when I put something
forward, I'm only putting the priorities. I can give you a massive list of other stuff that's needed. >> So there's a laundry. >> Yep. >> More input from commissioners. >> Say it again. >> Why didn't we get something similar from
the police? >> You can The chief is right here. You can ask him. You're a commissioner. >> We didn't just add that on the >> Yeah. list of things this week, but I can get that to you guys. No problem. I can get you emails. We've submitted it to the city. So, >> we only have two. We're doing we can
summarize. It's cruisers and um I can't talk I'm not going to talk about it publicly but departmental the building securities which I'm going to ask for executive session discuss that stuff anyways >> with in the council >> with the council or
>> okay >> not with us >> to talk about them would actually identify weaknesses I don't want to talk about >> and and in and in fairness again this is the first year in a very long time that
I've asked for a recommendation from you you folks because it's the that's >> here's my takeation of it. >> I may be a little biased but >> no um I don't want my firefighters I call them my firefighters because they're still my firefighters um and
they always will be. I don't want to run into burning buildings with Nomx and and S and and protective gear that doesn't protect them. I don't want the people that we're here to protect not to have 80 defibs
>> that will save their lives. I mean everything I had a lot of jaws Jaws that doesn't work. I worked a whole year on raising awareness through the city and raising money and selling t-shirts at the fair
and everything else to buy equipment for the fire department to pull somebody out of a vehicle >> or a tractor trailer truck that we worked on for seven seven eight nine hours on route two and when we got the guy out he had
he coded and then he he made it. Um, but it was a long endeavor with with lots of equipment that was being used and and the K Cabota, I mean, it's it's not just at the fairgrounds. It's for a high angle rescue when we're bringing people
out or in difficult situation. We're putting brush fires out that are out in the middle of the woods or the chief makes me walk up another mountain on foot. Um Um, so this is all vital life saving life saving equipment. It's not buying
buying a a new stove or anything like that. It's this is these all this equipment here saves lives and protects our firefighters. Um so um it's going to get a positive recommendation for me. And the police department, they they
already know how I feel about their vehicles and stuff like that. They need they can't roll down the street with what they have now. So um >> and and the defibs for both agencies. defibs are for both agencies and it's going to benefit I mean a lot of times a
lot of times the PD were they were on the scene before we were on the scene um they would have their defib in in use um you know so sometimes they're the closest because they're out on the streets roaming the streets with their vehicles so I mean we're could be at the other end of town could be at the puppet
station could be at the swimming pool and they have a cruiser nearby I mean it's the faster you get life-saving equipment to the patient that needs it the quicker here. >> Yeah, >> it the minutes. What is it? >> Yeah, one to four minutes in before you start.
>> So, >> cycle of life. So, anyways, >> I did tell Chief Dodge that I would put the request in uh jointly for us. So, because it just makes sense. We can get the better deal. >> Uh we can get them cheaper through our medical vendors and uh um it just makes
just makes sense to be cooperative. other public safety commissioners. >> I don't I don't have a problem with anyone anything that said I totally support that but I do have an issue with I don't like doing something the same day to make a decision
but I will >> I positively support it. I just didn't, this is new to me because I joined the commission after the fiscal budget year had started last year. So I just wanted to know what my role was. >> But I agree all of it. So
>> I support this. >> So a couple things could happen. We could have take a vote and approve these or if commissioners feel like they needed more time, we could always have a if if the charter comm the commission is
going to set up meetings in January, we could have a special meeting before theirs. Um, >> I'm good with >> I'm good. I mean, okay. >> Yeah. I mean, I think this is just us showing support of >> what they're submitting and I support. >> Well, it's pretty much unanimous. I mean,
>> any other comments? Do we vote on them individually to report them? >> I think we can vote on them all together and I mean unless do the commissioners have individual issue with any of them. I think we can just vote on them all unless you have an individual issue with
them and you can let us know now. >> We can discuss it. >> The UCV was originally donated. So I'm wondering why we're now buying a new one. the gentleman that was a very good friend of the fire department has passed
>> and police department he did every alternative years >> or he probably would have purchased a new one. So what had happened with with that I'll just give give the gentleman a little bit I won't mention any names but every year he went to the police department he'd go to the fire department he go back to the police department go back so every year he
alternated departments and he made said you know what what what do you need funding for and what do do you think you're not going to get funding for and what can I buy you and that gentleman and his family >> the original reason why this came to be is we had in the middle of winter we had
an injured a severely injured hyper up on uh on Rocky Mountain. And back then, nobody really had him. Uh and we waited 45 minutes for a piece of equipment to go get that victim off the mountain. And he came in the next day after that after
reading in the paper and said, "I'm buying you something that you can handle that." That's how it came. No, on that >> I'd like to make a motion that we approve give a positive recommendation on these on the items that presented to
the chief. Um, and I'd also like to add to that that we give a positive recommendation to go along with that for the police department's equipment that they have or requests that they're going to have knowing that they can't talk about one because of safety issues and
the other one is the cruisers that are going. So I I think we need to bundle them both and give positive recommendations for both departments to the to the committee for purchases. >> Second.
>> Do do we just a positive recommendation to all the capital requests both from fire and police? Let me reframe that to my recommendation. >> We have a second on that. >> Thank you. Okay. Um, I'm going to take a
roll call vote. >> Commissioner Barger. >> No. >> And Commissioner Jarvis. >> Yes. >> I will say yes to it. Um, Graph, Commissioner Graph,
>> yes. >> Commissioner Burge, >> yes. >> Commissioner Dixon, >> yes. The only statement that I would like to make is that we would like this stuff in front of us and not have to make a decision on the spot next year is what I would ask both departments.
Um okay. Um you have the majority for the positive recommendation. All right. Anything else? >> Yep. >> Last thing why I have to go to city council.
This is a letter and a resolution from the town of Ammerst thanking the Greenfield Fire Department and their response and the major fire that they had in uh
the um UMass campus. We sent a uh we did not think a lot of you I can share a copy of you. >> Thank you. Good luck tonight.
>> I'm short one. >> Um so, uh a couple weeks ago, um Ammeris had a really devastating housing fire at last projects or the UMass campus that
um had several three large buildings that burnt. Um Greenfield Fire Department um it burnt for probably three days. Um 18 hours into the event, they needed to swap out the crews that were there. Uh
and they put a call out the Greenfield Fire. We sent a brand new ladder truck where they worked for 13 hours. Um uh helping them if the fire was not put out when they went and they had a lot of fire that they ended up putting out with the new ladder truck. It was good
exercise with the ladder, but they were very happy and impressed with the professionalism of Greenfield Fire Department to the point where they wrote a letter and a resolution from their city council thanking us. >> Very nice. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> I'm sure they greatly appreciate support
and >> we all know we saw we saw it on the news and we know how big it was. So, welcome. >> Any other questions? >> Any questions? Chief, how about the new piece of equipment? >> What about it?
>> How's it working? >> The ladder >> and training. >> Uh, great, great, great, great. The guys are embracing it. It's going on all tight types of calls. Uh, you'll notice when it goes out on alarm sounding, they'll end up throwing it uh for training. Uh, they're very proficient in
it very quickly. Uh, they got 13 hours of work with it. We've had some issues with it, as every new fire truck has issues. Uh, but the company stands behind them and they've been repairing them. Uh, and it's been a great piece of equipment so far. >> And I just wanted to get that in there.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's it's uh it's being used all the time and it's given us some capabilities that we just didn't have with the old ladder truck that we're already learning the new capabilities and putting them into action. >> Yep. >> It went right before your meeting. It it
responded on on a call street and Chapman. Yep. >> Thank you, Chief. Good luck tonight. I will invite AMR to step up the table. Dispatch is going last. >> Cindy, she's been with us.
>> We had 10 interviews earlier today. Just FYI, >> just say that we're saving the best for last. >> I'm not submitting any capital. >> You said end of year thing. So, there's also an end of year. >> Thank you very much.
>> Oh, nice. Yes. Great. It's been a few months, right? >> We missed your faces, >> but you're busy. >> Welcome back. >> All right. We can flip through the book if you'd like. That's where the majority of our details are. >> Yes. >> Oh, let's introduce.
>> Oh, yes. Please introduce. >> Hi, I'm Kendel, the operations manager for AMR. >> Patrick Lane, the regional director for AMR. >> I'm Tim Cunningham. I'm the uh dispatch manager at MR. >> Nice to meet you. Are you in Greenfield? >> No, in Springfield. >> In Springfield. Okay, great.
>> Yes. >> Yes. She's in San Die. >> Newampshire. Yeah. >> He has a big workload with us. >> Thanks for being here. >> First, we've included some fun pictures. Uh we're not only your 911 response, but we're really proud to participate with events throughout the community. So, our
team is always eager to either decorate a truck or get dressed up for your events up here. So, we included some pictures of them. Uh, we also have continued this year with coverage of the high school football games, which are always really fun events for our EMTs to
sign up for. They look forward to them. Um, you can catch us in the parade. We decorate the outside of the truck with I say we, you know, we have some really awesome crews with here that come in off duty and decorate the trucks. We participate in quite a few tent trucks, um a handful of job fairs as well
throughout the schools in the region. And then just before Halloween, we participated in the trunk or treat, we decorated a truck, but also with the turmoil in government relations at the time and food insecurity was high on concern list. Um a couple of our
employees reached out and said, "Hey, can we bring not only candy to this but also food?" We said, "Yeah, let's fill the truck." Um, so we filled the entire ambulance behind them. They did stack it on tables, but we went to Aldi's, who was great when we swarm their store with
lots of shopping carts and filled them all. Um, but it was great. Any food that we had left over went to one of the local charities in town. So, was positive. Kudos to There's our check. As we were shopping, Sue, Ellen and Courtney, and then Emily and Jess did
the standby. Jess asked if she could go as a dinosaur EMT, and that's what we did. So they had a great event. Um during contract time, I know a big topic of conversation was how do we facilitate a CAT to CAD link between our dispatch center and the Greenfield
dispatch center. So we have more visibility. Um the EMD process and the fact that we EMD and the first responders aren't able to receive all of the information that our crews have going into the call because they're already in route by the time our call takers are on the phone with them. Um I
will take no credit for this. Tim has been working really hard on making this happen. So, do you want to describe the process that we just rolled out this week? >> Sure. Yeah. So, this is just just this week we were able to get it going. Um, and it's been a long time coming. So, um, so, uh, accounts are available
through a website um, for right now. We have it set up with a few of the higherups at the fire department and Cindy at dispatch. Uh, and then we'll roll it out to everybody in dispatch. Um, and this is these pictures here under shared visibility are actually live pictures from earlier today. Um, so
anybody in dispatch or whoever has these accounts can pull up a live view of the GPS locations of all of our units. Um, any active incidents that we have in our system uh, and who is responding to them. Um, so it dispatch on the green
field side can see immediately when somebody is sent to a call um or if uh there's uh you know what resources are going to each call, what other resources are available on our end um without having to make back and forth phone calls and have all the delays associated
with that. Um also with this system they can look at the individual calls and in this example there was two active calls at the time. um they can pull up those calls and see all of the notes that our call takers are getting through the EMD process or any other notes that we make into the call. So it's a live view into
our CAD effectively um where they can and so between that and the GPS tracking um it should hopefully let them get a good view of the resources so they know what's going on. >> And this just started >> we just >> 48 hours ago. >> Yeah.
>> So that's fantastic. Who is using this now? So Cindy in dispatch has has an account. Uh she is the only one in dispatch that has one right now. Um and I I'll let her speak to to that because she just got access. >> So and and uh then we we gave some
accounts to um a couple people at fire that were on also. >> We did a soft roll out with the chief once he saw what the capabilities were. So there's a select few that have it now that are working through it to make sure it meets all the expectations that we had laid out in the contract. it seems to be doing exactly that. So then once
we they feel comfortable with it, then we're going to expand that role to all of the users. Um but the chief has some uh meetings that he has to get involved with with dispatch and make sure they roll it out the right way. But uh yeah, like he said, it's literally being served hot 48 hours ago. It came up um
some enormous work by Tim and the IT departments to finally figure out exactly how we could meet that goal that we had uh talked about. So we're we're excited that it's coming at Christmas time. So that's your gift. I watched it all day. >> Take it. >> It is cool. You can see them driving in
real time. >> Like that map. >> It's awesome. Mischief manage >> at least maintain. >> This is an excellent Christmas. >> No, I mean we talked a lot about this during the contract and about improving
communications with dispatch the two dispatchers. You know, all going in a gazillion different directions. So, I mean, for me, I'm thrilled. So >> yeah, there there are many different different we could have gone and clearly there's some that are more expensive than others. I'm happy that this was
done at zero expense um to the city of Greenfield, to the fire department and to all of you um to his um willingness to participate in getting this done with us. So >> no dollars and full 100% access to all resources and past history to call. So
>> all that, you know, back and forth phone calls and updates and investigations have to do time stamps, it's all at their uh fingertips within that system. >> Excellent work. >> Thank you for that. >> Is there
the system for both services? >> So it's only showing 911 calls. If there's a transfer, it's not visible because of that issue. uh when we book a transfer, we do have all the patients information, but anything that comes through with EMD is not identified aside
from an address. So, it's the same information that could go out over the radio, which is how we are able to use the access as a website. Um the biggest hurdle we had was to get into our CAD system. You need to be on site at location with full permissions to get
in. Um, so they were able to set this up in a way that they were still able to view the information that they wanted, but making sure we're still HIPACO compliant. >> Excellent. Very good question though. That that was the biggest hurdle to overcome to be able to get exactly the right divide so that we could share that. So yeah, exactly.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And it's not included here, but speaking to things in the contract because hearing the discussion of looking into purchase 208s, we do know the cost associated with that. In our contract, we do have a section about the ability
for a green field to purchase through us. We do have substantial purchasing power based on the volume we tend to purchase these products at. Um, so we'd be happy to collaborate with the chief to see if our prices can get any lower than what they're looking at based on the volume we purchase at.
>> But I'm excited to hear about compatible pads. That's like Exactly. Uh the rest of your packet is just the data review from 2025. Obviously, December resigned, including that since
we're still here. Uh you will see we are 20% trended up in requests in transport since the beginning of the year. So, we have seen a very very busy year throughout the city. Um October and November ran right along the highest
request for the month. We were uh over 300 transports with over 500 requests for service which is pretty busy for a small >> the other transports were taken care of by the fire department. >> Yeah. So well so they go to mutual aid
so the majority are to the Greenfield Fire Department but then they will feel that mutual aid as well if they're already on calls um or cancel canceled calls. The difference is not necessarily that the fire department took all the calls. Some of them
>> a lot. Yeah. So like a patient refusal if you got a car accident three patient refusals. Yeah. So it's any patient that we personally didn't take with us to the hospital. Rainfield might have sometimes chlorine comes in to help. Um but bigger portion of that cancel. >> Got it.
So it's I it's kind of deceiving thinking that oh well they only took half or you know yes 23 of the >> Yeah. So it's% that we transport. Yeah. >> But it's not it's not necessarily >> what the figure shows is actually some
cancellations of all. >> Yes. So our dry run rate personally is between 25 and 30%. So it's like that 10% delta range past. >> Is this an annual? Like does it go down in January every year or is it looking
to stay high? >> This is higher than we've been. >> So we'll see. I would be surprised if we drop back down in January because the last four or so months, September we ended up low, but like July forwards we were just busy busy busy.
>> And December's trending the same way. And it typically has a lot to do with whether RSV and the flu strain of what the vaccines are match for the year or not. And if there's a peak, right? And usually it hits it depends. It can hit early in the season or later. If you see the peak, it happens mid January through
early March. Um, so it all depends on whether the scientists got it right or not. >> The other thing is there more events going certain times of the year where people get injured or they're not thinking squarely.
They've done something that's supposedly fun for them but not quite wide. >> Or when does the snow fall and everyone crashes, right? >> Falls, slips, accidents. >> To that point, November was the busiest month.
>> I mean, we had one >> heck of a snowfall and a lot of people were just putting their their snowshoes on, >> so to speak. Every year, right? >> Yeah. It always happens. >> Yes. versatile for all everybody testing.
>> That is true. Uh the last page is the QRV utilization. Um September and October we tried trended pretty consistently. Uh we did have three paramedics that were full-time that um have gone to different employers in November. Um our main priority while the
QRV is an awesome addition, our main priority is making sure the primary ambulances are staffed. Um, so with their loss of those roles until we were able to backfill, the paramedics that was assigned to the QRV got moved to the ambulance. Um, so there's significant out of service time for the QRV to make
sure that our primary ambulances were all staffed in November, uh, December, halfway through the month, we're pretty much halfway through where we were September and October. So, we're still trying to feel it out. It's still figuring out what times are we passing calls,
when is the it's it's hard to gear the ALS level emergencies and what time they'll come in. Um, so we are still right now Monday through Friday 11:00 to 7:00 p.m. with a fly car. It's too soon to change times and try different time slots. So, for the
moment, that's where we're living. And we were able to We have a new paramedic um not new to Greenfield. She's been EMT with us for years. She recently promoted. she completed her FTO time. They do a few months riding double paramedic once they complete field training time to make sure they're
comfortable. Um she has been cleared. She's good to go and she backfilled one of those positions. So we do currently have two night shift paramedic spots that are open right now. They're being staffed by Springfield paramedics. So it's still full. It's still staffed. They're just not full-time assigned up
here. >> What is QRV and ALS stand for? >> Sure. A QRV is a quick response vehicle. So, it's an SUV that's not able to transport. Uh we use it essentially as a complement to the fire department. So, they run basic life support ambulances.
So, everyone on their staff is running at the EMT level. Um the QRV is staffed with one paramedic that has full paramedic advanced life support gear. So, if we've had a call field fire, we are trying to always send the fly card to go with our QRV. We send them with
them. They'll go and assess the patient. If paramedic care is needed, they'll hop on board with the fire truck or fire ambulance. If it's not, we put them back in service and then that way they can respond to another call that comes in while our other ambulances are on calls already.
>> So, this chart transports and requests. Transports means I guess the QV can't transport. >> They jumped in with a transfer amount. So, they the majority of the calls they go to are with Greenfield Fire. Um, we're trying to expand that a little bit
regional. We do recognize that we get mutually aid from other areas. So, it's going to help. So, we contacted Turner Falls. They have a BLS truck. So, sometimes we'll go they'll go and intercept them. Same thing if they transport it. It's not in their vehicle. They're taking their equipment and jumping on board with the fire
departments and riding it with them. >> So, this floater, just so so you know, this floater car is something. It's a new This is a new program >> just rolled out September. >> So, we're not really sure
day of week time wise. We're looking at it mostly based on how it could change, but we're a little too soon to tell it. >> Any other questions from commissioners or an statements? >> So, this goes up to what part of
November? >> All of November is there. because you forgot something. You guys provided some support for us at 5K. >> Yes, we did. >> And that was wonderful. I don't I personally don't have pictures.
>> That's what we're looking through our pictures. You're right. There is more. >> I could have, you know, out there and asked for pictures of that day. But thank you very, very much. If it wasn't for the public safety groups, you know, the police department, the fire
department, the AMR, you know, all these groups, you could not have pulled it off. It was, you know, safety first was my my concern. That that's what stressed me out the whole time. >> It ended up being a very safe event, though. You guys did a great job.
>> So, we hope we hope to see you next year. Time running. that just escalated. >> City council um not to interrupt them, but the partnership that we have with AMR is >> stronger every day
that they gave us. Uh I was fascinated by it watching the callit. >> As far as to follow up with a question that that you had, um some of the information is is sensitive information and and it's protected and so the
general public wouldn't be able to see that. nor would we want them to see where critical assets are because fortunately in this day and age public safety entities are targets. So um just to clarify the question that you have so
Shannon when I ask the board to be off >> Yeah. Sure. Okay. >> Thank you. Good luck. Thank you for >> anything else from your fine folks? I only want 20 ADs and 10 trucks time.
Um, from my standpoint, I just I just really appreciate how ingrained you are in the community, you know, we, as you know, it was contract time, you know, back whenever, and companies come in and they give you the big spiel, you know, about how great they're going to be, you
know, and they've never stepped foot in green field. And you guys have proved that you want to be part of this community and you're giving back. So, I want to commend you and I want you to bring that back to the folks that get involved in volunteer and let them know that at least from my standpoint that
publica safety commission rec recognizes what you're doing and how involved you are in the community. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> It's a true partnership. >> Bring that back to the cruise. >> Just like the chief said, it's a true partnership. So, thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Overtime.
>> Our overtime. >> Did we cover the over? I know it's on the agenda. That wasn't true. >> I >> You want to talk about our I mean, we cover the cost of our overgeneral. >> Oh, good. Okay. I missed it. I went to your line.
>> You don't need to do that. >> Appreciate having your own overtime. >> You're feeling generous. >> Thank you very much. And it's good to see you. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. I just want to say, you know, a lot of people look at an Amos company as just somebody who
transports people to a hospital, but we're much more than that. We're a healthcare company that does a lot more and gives back in the community or seated in the community and our providers, I think, that constantly reach out to us because it gives them a different way to give back than just the regular work they do every day. And it breaks that up for them and they look
forward to it. So, anything we can do within the community for them, we're more than happy to be involved. And the other thing is is you know when the chief or we come to you with an idea or a problem you guys jump on it and th
this solution that you just talked about we talked about the challenges between the two groups you know and you didn't like make us bring it up again or again you were on top of it and that goes a long way so it's really appreciated. Okay. All right. Thanks.
>> Oh, I don't mind. I'll talk to you after. >> There you go. All right. >> Okay. >> We saved the best for last. We have to say that. >> Oh, I thought that was us this time.
>> You just have to say that. That's all. >> He was so quiet in the back. >> He usually gets to go way ahead of this. So, you guys are usually first, too. >> Wait till the day I'm the first. Hi. >> Hi. I am with >> Let the Zoom folks know who you are. Cindy Hunter. I'm the dispatch
supervisor for Greenville Police Fire Dispatch. So, I have given you a print out of I I have to apologize ahead of time because I inconveniently left the number for November on my desk, but put together the numbers for the year end. But that's what you have in front of you
is quite of it is that. Um, I would just like to say um a couple things before we get into my stuff is that one I would like to say how moved I was by Commissioner G Jarvis and his comments about the capital projects for the fire department. You have since your time on
the city council, you've always been very supportive of us. Um I mean the entire commission is but I mean you in particular have been the supporter of us for years and so but I was very moved by your what you said and I mean I certainly uh it's something to get
behind what they need. So um so in regards to actually the conversation you just had with AMR um I that was the first time I have seen that program was this week when we had a Zoom call. Um I also was uh very impressed with it. uh when we put out medical calls to the
fire department, inevitably the first question we get from the firefighter on the ambulances, is AMR group very first question. And and I understand why because they need to know they do operate at a at a basic level. Uh if whatever the call reason is depends on whether or not they're going to need ALS
if AMR is not available, we have to reach out to mutual aid partners. And so I think without having looked too much more into the program other than what I saw on the Zoom, I do think that it's a fantastic program. It looks great. um it will definitely give us um a heads up on what's going to happen with the calls
that we have. So I appreciate all the hard work that they put into that and I was following up with the chief on it. Actually today we had interviews going on so I couldn't speak to him for very long but I think it's a it's a great tool. So we're happy to have that. Uh so
hopefully in the next well by next week hopefully we will have all of the information for our dispatchers email so they can get them all signed up for accounts for that and get them logged in. >> We'll look forward to the update in January. >> Absolutely. Um so again I apologize I can get you
the November numbers next meeting. Uh so for our year end we did January 1st to December 17th. Uh we've had 40,810 calls entered into the CAD for the year. Um it's down a little bit. We had 25,375
911 calls in and out of our center, so we're pretty busy. Um so a couple things to let you know as far as personnel. Um Trevor Brunette, who has been with us for about a year, actually his anniversary date would be next month. Uh
he was full-time. Unfortunately, he has decided to move on from his full-time position. uh he is pursuing some academic uh goals of his. However, he has remained with us PDM. So, we have he has been taking shifts. He hasn't really
left us. Uh his last day of full-time service was December 3rd. Uh so, total right now, we are uh we are short three dispatchers. Um I at the last meeting that we had I um let you all know that we did have one trainee that was or one person that was
in training uh Dona Sharma. Uh unfortunately on Monday of this week um after having a meeting with Dona and his trainer uh he had been having feelings that perhaps this job was not for him. Um we are only into his fourth week of training. Uh I give him a lot of credit
for having that insight. We were all on the same page. This job is not for everyone. And we appreciate the fact that he recognized that and before we got too much further into it and and he felt quite bad. Um he he really didn't want he didn't this is not what he
wanted of course but we appreciate that and we appreciate his 110% effort that he gave to training. Uh so again that leaves us three people short. Uh but bringing us to today um we did hold interviews today for our food positions.
I would like to thank Commissioner Dixon for sitting in on our panel today. We really appreciate the insight that she brings to that and she does bring a lot. >> I would like to thank her that it wasn't me. Appreciate it. I appreciate you
>> spreading the spreading the wealth. >> Uh so the panel consisted of myself, um dispatcher and trainer Megan Pullen, Sergeant Emily Ral Kash, and of course Commissioner Dixon. Uh we had actually 18 applications this time. I was very
impressed because we've not had those numbers in quite some time. Uh we we ended up with I sent out 12 invitations. Uh we got 11 responses. Uh but unfortunately we did have a one who had a family emergency and couldn't come. And then one was a no call no show
unfortunately. Um so we're kind of disappointed about that. But uh at the end we did feel like we had four or five really strong candidates. Uh we all actually were in agreement in our top three. Uh so we will uh be offering uh those three positions to those three
candidates. Uh something that we've not done before but we've talked about as trainers um is that we want to offer them or give them the invitation to come in and sit in dispatch uh for a 4-hour block of time on a 3 to 11 shift to see how it can get busy, what we do, give
them a a glimpse into what they would be coming into. Uh hopefully that will help them to make the decision that they >> all it will. So this is this is this is before um hire. Yes, you're saying invite them in before hire. >> They're not officially hired. They're
given a conditional offer from HR, but they're not officially hired until they do their orientation with HR, which is >> So yes, we want to give them that um that option to come in and observe what we do. >> And I think that will be helpful again to maybe weed out anyone who may not
think at the end of that four hours. >> Y makes sense. >> Yes. Uh so um uh in also in regards to personnel uh we had a uh I let you guys know a few months ago that one of our full-time dispatchers Patrick Dope he had left us and went on to see another
opportunity full-time. Uh he has requested to come back as a premium dispatcher. Uh so and I am completely happy to do that. Uh we definitely need the help and he left us in very good standing in September. So, uh, I have received the okay from the mayor's
office, finance, and from our chief to extend that invitation to him. Uh, HR has contacted him and he has his onboarding meeting on the 23rd. Uh, so just after that, he'll be able to sign up for shifts again. So, we're that will bring us to six pidium dispatchers,
which we've never had before. So we're very excited about that leading into so our our total numbers for pdium hours. Uh so for October we had 257 hours were covered by our prediums in November was 28 hours. Our
year-to-ate total minus or plus maybe eight or eight hours or so. They covered a thou 1,220 and a half hours for us this year. Um, again, I can't I guess I can't stress enough that that takes so much stress off of the full-time dispatchers.
>> Um, being short three people right now, there is quite a bit of overtime, but and also financially, it definitely helps our budget because we don't have to pay them overtime. >> What is the total and what is this percentage of the total hours utilized?
>> That I would have to get back to you on that. I don't have time. >> That's what I'm saying. In other words, it it seems like 10,000 hours is rather a small >> total compared to how many hours the dispatchers put in per week, doesn't it? >> Well, over that year, um we didn't have
we right now we have well we had four most of that period and so we didn't have we didn't have six. One was out on a maternity leave for several months and we didn't have her helping us out. Uh, so, uh, but I can get I can definitely get you that that breakdown.
>> I was just just wondering because again, you have to cover >> how many hours a week? >> Seven times? >> Yeah. Seven times three shifts times 40 hours a week. It's a lot of hours. >> So, by comparison, only a,222.
may not see. Yeah, it may not seem a lot in the grand scheme, but uh again, we I would have to go back to January and see how many pdeiums we had each month. Again, some were, you know, had sick time, maternity leave. >> It it may not seem like a lot of hours, but it it it totals up to a lot of
money. >> It definitely does. >> That's the difference. We would be paying it overtime if we didn't have the >> Yeah. 12 almost 1300 hours. So, >> absolutely. But we're also employing people who need the money and need
>> work. So that's great. >> Um, and I have also continued to cover shifts. Um, I know it's over 40 hours a month. Um, I would tend to think that it's I don't have exact numbers, but I think it's more like eight or 10 shifts a month that I cover. And these are
either shifts that everyone else has declined and I just cover it. Sometimes it's uh I skew my hours so I may not work my regular day shift. I'll work somewhere else or I just work the hours. >> This is on top of a regular shift that you
>> sometimes. So, I may work my regular shift and then do another shift on top of that. I don't get paid overtime because I'm a salaried employee. Uh so, I keep track of how many hours I'm working and then I may take time off another place in place of that. So, so
there's no overtime for me in that. You know my opinion about that. >> I do know your opinion about that. Yes. >> Um it actually was a little bit of a struggle not to offer to when we became short and under dispatcher. My conversation with the chief was that do
you want me to move back into a full-time position in dispatch until we get this covered? And he said absolutely not. >> Thank you. >> Um what you're doing is too important and there's too much of it. And so >> yes. >> So um just more of sort of the year- end recap. Um it's been it'll be a year next
month that we move back into old new dispatch. Um so I would just like to say again in that year that how thankful we are that the city supported us, the citizens of Greenfield and our administration. Um if you haven't already, please come by and see Dispatch. It's fantastic space.
Uh all the technology is brand new. Our desks, our monitors, all our computers, everything is state-of-the-art. So we're very grateful for that. >> We've all been into dispatch, right? You haven't been in dispatch. You should definitely make an appointment with me. >> Yeah, absolutely. Stop by >> view dispatch. >> We'll give you the tour.
>> I think I looked in. >> You should go in. >> I looked in one. >> You should go in. >> I don't have to make >> uh let's see. We updated our fire protocols this year. Uh we collaborated with um Lieutenant Alex Kulie. Uh he was
a he's always a Alex is always a great resource. Uh especially now that he's in the um or excuse me, no, I'm sorry. uh he is in the his title is escaping me prevention position. Uh we I call him pretty much
on a weekly basis, sometimes a daily basis to ask questions and he's always very responsive. I would also just like to say that Pete Maccgyver in his current role of deputy chief has also been fantastic resource. Um he's always ready to answer questions and um
just give us feedback and we try to implement that feedback where we can. Uh so on that note I would like to so we have been updating uh some of our dispatch policies. We have a lot of policies that are antiquated andor haven't been looked at in a very long time. One was our uniform policy and I
do happen to think that um a uniform guideline is very important. The way that we project ourselves to the public to other first responders is very important. Um we want to be professional. So, we have rewritten the uniform policy which I'm going to give you a copy of
our new uniform policy. Commissioner White is actually union. >> They are union um center. Yes, we are they are sort of an offshoot I guess of IBO which
is the international brotherhood of police officers. So part of their union that what I was handed or what we had for a uniform policy was basically two uh two paragraphs on a piece of paper and uh it said that uh as long as you
weren't wearing Rickford foreign clothing you were presentable. So uh so basically what we have done is we've just um made it the policy that polo shirts, dress pants, appropriate
footwear, nothing and open toes. Uh baseball caps are appropriate if they display the department logo or they're in support of the department in some way. >> But yeah, so just to kind of get us more up to date. Certainly if you have any questions
about the uniform policy I'd be happy to answer that is our and and we're working there are definitely more policies that we need to go through and and update and I will keep you guys updated as we move along with those. >> Do we anticipate anyone
leaving because of policy or >> I don't no I don't anticipate that at all. Um the everyone was more or less uh deputy, excuse me, retired deputy chief Gordon was instrumental in sort of getting us to a professional place um a
few years ago. Um and everyone was more or less going by by what he was asking. It just wasn't in in in writing. There is one thing that I I just I cannot do is um one of the things that I saw happening was uh people wearing
slippers to work and Crocs. I just can't do that. And so that's when we've decided to have the conversation about where should we be and let's get everybody on the same page. >> Well, I think that I think that even though it's a enclosed room and it's in the dark >> and you know, you need to be
professional. >> No, you do. >> And it motivates folks to come to work and say I'm at work, not coming in with your slippers, saying I'm at break here. >> So, I mean, I'm all for it. So, thank you. And and there are definitely times where we have to step out of dispatch into the lobby or there are times when
we uh my next comment actually my next um comment was going to be that we are participating more as we've talked about in public festivals and um public educational um happenings out in town. Uh we were invited to the public safety
festival this year and we also participated in the Franklin County Technical School had their career fair. We had a table there as well. And I thought both um both went extremely well. We had several dispatchers who volunteered at both and
it gave us a great opportunity to meet the public. Um at the festival we definitely let met a lot of kids and gave out some educational materials and things like that. So uh it's a good chance to educate the public, interact with people and to get a face with the
dispatcher I think is important. Put a face. So this uh for this year or for this fiscal year, our training grant was approved as well as the support and incentive grants were approved as well. Uh coming up in January uh we have a
training opportunity. I'm going to give you the print out for both of the classes. Progressive law enforcement uh is someone that we have hosted before. Uh this is actually happening in Ammerst. Ammerst Safety is hosting, but we were given the opportunity to
to participate. Uh several dispatchers have already asked to attend. So, we're going to be sending at least a few dispatchers. Uh the first class is uh dispatch response to domestic and sexual violence, safety, and evidentary concerns.
The second class is dispatch communications uh during major incidents and large scale events. Both I think are very relevant especially given our political climate these days and rallies and things happening. So >> how many will we sending to each?
>> Uh right now I think there's four signed up for each. Um I think there may be more. Hopefully there will be. >> Yeah. >> The dates. >> Um oh did I did the date not get on there? It's January 21st for both of them. Yes. Uh they're four-hour classes and they're going to be I believe it's
8:30 to 4:30 >> and they're going to be held at the Emers College if they have the space there. >> And it's and not only for the information the classes, but it's a good opportunity for them to get out of the center to interact with uh dispatchers from other agencies, do a little
connecting, a little >> Yeah, good opportunity. >> So, and they don't have a lot of uh opportunity to get out of other places. So, we like to do that when we can. I I would also like to just as a last
note um piggy back off of something that the fire chief said um in regards to the James Street medical call. Um I was very proud of everyone involved in that. Uh especially our two dispatchers. Um Trevor Brunette, again, uh he's gone to PDM status now, but he's only a year
into the job and I thought he did a fantastic job. And Avon Mumbo has been dispatching for about three years or maybe a little bit less. Um but um she she also did a great job as well and um they supported each other and worked together in a very cohesive way and so
that was that makes me very proud of them. And I I actually didn't know the outcome of that call. We had been asking at the police department if anyone had heard of the update. So I was extremely happy and I actually uh texted text messaged both of them and one of them was crying to
find out that the gentleman had actually gone home to his family. So very excited about that. Please let them know public safety commission appreciates their question. >> I absolutely will let them know that for sure. >> That's all I have. >> All right. Well, thank you. Okay.
>> Thank you so much. Oh, sorry. Question. >> Hey, I would just like to be able to say thank you very much for everything you folks do. And I can understand that where where some of these people come from that say this is just isn't for me having to have to answer emergency phone
calls before. God bless dispatch took over doing it for us and Maria had to do it probably as the police off the police department answered phone calls >> and it's very stressful job and and I and you're still answering phone calls and you get an agencies going and it's a
very tremendous stressful job and it's not for everybody and I do appreciate everything you folks do. It's a very u draining job um emotionally and physically. And
on that I would also like to say I was ever so glad to see when we went to DNA level calls as as a firefighter to see the ambulance on the scene saying I hope they're there when we get there. So we I do appreciate everything that AMR does
and the um medical professionals do for the city of Greenfield also. was very appreciative and you guys do a very very very professional job at it. I listen to you. You're on my phone. I hear you guys. Um so I hear everything you're doing and um I say that you've you've it
it's stepped it up to a different level and you guys have doing are doing a fantastic job for the city both both dispatch and AMR. So thank you very much for everything you folks do. I I would like to say also that um I've only just spoken to the AMR dispatch supervisor
this week for the first time. Uh we've communicated before. I think we may have run into each other a couple of times, but uh we had a very productive conversation in regards to not only the program that's being introduced, but um also an issue we had had with a call. Uh he was very responsive to it and we got
the the issue hashed out. And uh I felt pretty good going forward that we can we will be comfortable talking to each other about any issues that come up. And uh I think it's important to not only for police and fire just because they're in town, but I know these guys are out of town, but uh to have a good working
relationship with them as well. And uh the people in the trucks have always been fantastic. The guys we interact with are the guys and girls that we interact with. And uh Suell and Bellowos, I don't know if she's still the super. >> She is. Sure. Okay. But she's always been fantastic whenever I've called her
and asked questions. Um and she's u she's amazing as well. So I can't say enough good things about them. I think it's a great idea and might be even good if you further do like a meeting every month as a recap, you know, and you get together and talk about things. So, but it's a important relationship. So,
>> Alex Kohley and I had actually um sort of been instrumental in getting uh we had been having semi-regular meetings with the police department, fire department, AMR was always invited. So, Suella would usually come and we would do them here at the fire station and kind of hash out any issues we may have been having, anything that you know, sort of like these meetings. Um but I
don't we haven't done one in a while and we really do need to reconnect all the agencies together. >> It might be an important thing to >> get back. >> Absolutely. Yep. >> Any other comments or questions? >> All right. We thank you for your time. >> Thank you so much. >> Just um for us uh we have no other
guests coming up. Just for us a little maintenance. So next month uh we will be um doing a reorganization of the chair, vice chair and the secretary. And I would like throw the invitation up here for each and any one
of you to step up to any of those positions. Um the this the uh secretary position has changed a little bit. This might encourage somebody. Um, so the the the Shannon Shannon is
>> They look Shannon is doing the notes now, so you don't have to do the monthly notes. So the secretary's position will consist of communicating with Shannon, making sure the notes are complete. Bringing the notes forward to the public safety commissioners if they get
approved, just communicating with Shannon that they were approved, and she will send them into the corpse's office. So it's really just kind of communicating with Shannon. There's no like looking at the tape for two hours having to do the meeting minutes. That's Shannon's job now. So, I will encourage
in January if folks are thinking about it to step up for all three positions and that's all they will be on the agenda and I won't say any more about that. Um, and does anybody else have anything they need to not that we're going to discuss anything new, but
anything that needs to be brought up um about the January meeting? >> You mentioned schedules. Is it going to stay the same or are we considering different? >> No, I think the SK the schedule's going to be the same. It's going to be the fourth w the fourth Wednesday of each month. Some months have five Wednesdays,
one one and two. So, it will be the fourth Wednesday of each month. This time just changed because you know it's all we always have issues with November and December with the holidays. Um but nothing will change um uh with that. Um so again, we'll do the reorg meeting in
January. So if I have a motion to adjurnn >> and a second. >> Second. >> And everyone say I. >> Opposed. Thank you. Thank you. Part: 2
So, I have >> Okay. So, I'm going to call the meeting to order. Um, this meeting is being recorded. If anybody else is recording the meeting, please let us know. Now, um, do we have anybody in the Zoom?
Okay. Uh, so I'm going to start with a roll call of members. Uh, in no particular order, JJ White >> present. Daniel Lucier, >> Marcel, Ella Lavi, >> and Timfisk is present.
Thank you. Um, the next order is to order of business is to approve the December 4th, 2026 cultural council meeting minutes which are attended uh which are attached to this agenda. So, they're within the agenda itself. Um, do we need anybody need a minute to read
through uh the minutes? I thought we had 45 applications that we got through this. >> I believe it was 42. >> I think some were like might have been popped up. You already proven yourself to be amazingly efficient and >> and I love JJ that you would even
remember that number. Like I was like crosseyed. Um >> and then >> we notated our opinions outside live spreadsheet. Um and the decisions that the council adopted a preliminary funding
methodology for round one 18 applications will not be moving forward that they do not meet the priority guidelines and no final votes were made. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes? >> So moved. >> Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor?
>> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? >> Are approved? point of information, the very helpful email that you sent in advance of this uh meeting. >> Uh, and it might just be my issue on my
computer, but I tried to click on uh >> one of the things >> that uh wasn't the spreadsheet, the other >> playbook. Mhm. >> Yeah. And I had no idea what the playbook was, but it sounded like I wanted to look at it. >> And it wouldn't work for you, huh? >> Wouldn't work for me. >> Yeah, it wouldn't work for me. Very
wouldn't open and drive. It's a very big file. >> Yeah, you have to download it. >> I did eventually do it, but it's like a 100 megabytes. Like you need it. >> Yeah, it's a it is a it's a file because it's a single application along with
anything they may have sent in. I think the spreadsheet format is perfect like warn us warn me don't don't download it unless you want to >> uh put your computer into uh a a deep uh
early death >> um >> so we are on number 46 on our sheet. >> Yes, >> that's 45.
>> Yeah, >> there's but there's stuff uh above the number number uh the rows here and Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> There's lines that are not grant lines. Okay.
So, we are on number 46 or 45. I'm sorry. >> We're on number 46. We did. Did we? Well, let's just look at our Bluetooth. >> The square. >> We totally did the square. >> You Bluetooththed it? >> Yep. >> We Bluetooth it for $500. Okay. >> And is it helpful for you guys if while
we're doing this if I open up the applications to be up here? >> Yes, >> I'm going to do it on my computer, but >> it is good for you. >> I will try. It's hard for me to like get you to see much more,
you know. I like to hide the column so that I can see Bluetooth close. >> Okay, so number 46 was Daniel Lucier grant Andrew Hutchkins the local bias. Um >> $900 local bias 2026 season.
interview program which started production in 2006. >> Oh yes. >> Neighbors in our community who are experts on diverse topics. >> Yes. So they go through he's been running this on his own for years now and has been interviewing people from all over. They have like 200 plus
episodes that they've filmed. Um, and they are looking to potentially have it so that he is not pulling all of this money out of his own pocket and can have a little extra funding for getting this going. Um,
>> $7,000 budget. Um, >> they're looking for 900. I think this >> Yeah, I was doing the same thing. I was like, "Wait a minute. I feel like I'm reading the wrong thing." Um I don't know. I think it's a good
program. I They have also applied to like 10 other cultural councils if not well 12 maybe. Um so I guess if anything they definitely might not need the entirety of that budget considering >> But I'm glad they applied to us cuz it's
in >> Yeah. And it's >> No, it's not. >> But it was Is that right? >> I mean, not like you're programming it, but it's it's once TV, right? >> Old episodes. >> Old episodes. Yeah. >> Where are the new episodes? >> They're going through East Hampton
Media. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> But they said they would be it would be showing locally. I was kind of on the fence because if it's through East Hampton, but they also applied to all of those cultural councils as well. Berneston, Ammerst, Northampton, Hadley, Monu, Deerfield, they applied
everywhere. So, >> it's on the YouTube channel. >> Andrew is a Greenfield resident, >> so that fits that qualification as far as like >> created by somebody in Greenfield. >> Does anybody else have any thoughts
about this program? Does anybody know it? Seen it? >> I haven't. >> Oh, have you seen it? >> Do I have to disclose one of my closest friends is in has been interviewed?
>> No, I don't think so. I think it's such broad community impact. I'm sure dozens of people locally have been interviewed. >> You know, when you see it, you might as well ask it. I'm just wondering if it hits like, you know, either the target population which
we talk about like or it's it's not like a festival, it's not performance art, it's not public art. Um, and it's not a social justice project per se. I was looking to see if there was some sort of social justice bent, but it seems like more of a
it'd be cool if he did something like this and then did like a live version of it like in Greenfield and then recorded it, put that on TV. That would be cool. >> He does say that he will work with GCTV to promote the show to their audience, but I have some doubts about that.
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't technically fit into the type of programming that is a priority. >> So, I think we could not blue glue it for right now. >> We'll certainly go through all the ones we didn't blue glue and just make sure
that we didn't really overlook somebody. >> Yeah. So, are we totally passing on this for now? >> Yeah. >> It's so hard to do the first one again >> because like we're on such a roll with like what we were looking at and identifying and loving and like you kind
of get in this role. >> I was like my brain just stopped for a second. >> The next one is Danielle as well. So this is someone from Sunderland applying to do a program for the Greenfield Senior Center. It is >> another one.
>> Yeah. Coal mining songs and the music of country living. Uh they're doing like a historical story um production. I don't know what our thoughts were about the senior center because we they
have a billion on here and I just wasn't sure how we're supposed to prioritize which ones get chosen and which ones don't. Um it's kind of hard when they have so many. But >> they're looking for $600 which is their total budget.
>> It's their artist fee. >> Yeah. Which is for musicians, artists, and it's just going to be divided amongst them. And what >> seems like local people doing a local program. >> Yeah, >> I would say pass the first round.
>> Yeah, that's to it. >> Okay. >> Can we go over like half $300 if >> that's to the full? >> Yeah. >> Or we'll So for the first column or last time we sort of did the full amount. So if we're if we're if we want to change,
we can, but the first column is the full request. >> Yeah, please. Thank you for reminding me. >> I feel like there were a couple though that we ended up doing a little bit less. >> Yeah. I mean, if it was like spe It's things that were ineligible or where we were on quick glance though. You're right. It's I'm looking at the requested
next to the blue and it's they're all the same number. >> Quick glance. One was not which was Eli Elus. two musical storytelling folk performances. Otherwise, >> we can skip because they didn't don't
have a location. So, they're right up. >> Oh, nice. >> Yeah, I knew there was something >> comedy project. >> Awesome. Okay, that brings us to uh 39 Springfield Military Band. >> Sorry, we 49.
>> Sorry, I am so lost here. How about I make this a little bigger? >> I'm gonna do the sound. >> Sorry. >> No, it's I'm looking at my my screen. It's like >> I'm so sorry. Um, which one did you say wasn't in town,
Bella? Or wasn't didn't have a venue. >> Uh, 48. >> 48. >> Okay. Sorry about that. >> The Jewish Cultural Festival. >> That's That's the next one. 49. >> Okay. I'm sorry, but 48. Did you say we're skipping that one?
>> I would say we should just automatically say no because it doesn't have a location. That's kind of what we >> decided. So then you have to skip. >> So 49 is Cummington. Um love this
festival. It's in Cummington. Uh they say that they want to work with Temple Israel to do something here. When you read the application, there are no specifics about that. Like they say that they're going to do that, but then
the budget says nothing about here. It's all about what's going to happen in Cington. >> So, I felt a little at least underinformed about what the green field component would look like. >> Seems like enough to slash to me.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And they don't have it's not like they have to it's not nothing is set in place. They're just looking to partner. >> True. Right. And yeah, there's no like letter from >> commitment to partnership. >> Yeah. >> Giving us a $25,000 budget for an event in coming. >> Yes. Got it. Okay.
>> I've always wanted to go to this. I hope to someday, but >> it's awesome. You should go. >> Yeah. Maybe not with our funding at least this year. >> Okay. Are these next two are Bella? You the You're the applicant. >> I'll leave. Do you mind shutting the door behind
you? Thank you. >> Why Why is she leaving? Oh, >> she's the applicant. >> She's the applicant. >> Yep. >> So, this is the Greenfield Cranky Fest. Um second annual Cranky Fest in Energy Park. It's the panoramic kind of story
storytelling with puppets. Um, it's a festival, so it's definitely in that kind of festival arts thing. Um, it's in Greenfield by Greenfield. It certainly like warrants a pass through a
blue book. So, um, >> great. >> I would agree. What a cool thing. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I'd never heard of that before. I was looking it up the other day. It looks so fun. >> And that one was >> Okay. free joyful events to downtown Greenfield. Yes, please. Yes. And then
it's how the moth fell in love with the light winter carnival puppet show at the Greenfield Public Library during winter carnival. So, this is a library grant like we have the senior center grants. Um, and
um, the ask is for $400 and it's performance art, puppetry, children. Um, Greenfield Public Library is a great
program, right? >> And they have a letter of support. So, it's a pass through to Blues Clues. >> Yeah. And then we'll we'll ask her to excuse herself when we talk about the amounts and stuff.
Okay. I do want to say though we bring Bella back in that we might want to have a conversation about the library as a whole and I think it's okay for Bella to be part of that conversation and then you know we can ask her to excuse herself because we won't um
>> we'll just be mindful not to involve her in a conversation about her grant specifically but just about the library. >> Makes sense to me. Great. Oh, thank you. any ling. >> Oh my gosh.
>> Okay, it's got a date. >> So, this one is someone from Ammerst applying to do a program at the Lava Center. Um, it is I don't know. I had a few notes. Let me
see if they stayed. >> He's stamped in poet Lily. >> Yeah, it's going to be they're going to be doing like a readrough of a bunch of poems from Palestinian poets and then their own work that's themed around uh protest or advocating. Um,
I wasn't really sure about like how how much community access there was to this. Let me see. I think it's going to be about like 40ish people that can go to it. They're asking for $810.
Um, most of that is prep and payment for the artists who are going to be presenting at it. seems like it should pass the first round and might not get fully funded. >> Yeah, I put a note like maybe maybe a
portion of this just because it's local people doing something local could be nice than that. >> I guess it's um >> what what what's the identity populations? >> Um it's basically like disenfranchised
populations. So it's we it does list them all >> but everything from bipok to um LGBT to >> I guess >> elderly >> I guess these families >> might not be the population but they're reading Palestinian poetry
>> and and the language is or speak to the experience of >> so by or speak to the experience of so it does fit in that regard. Okay, >> extra point for them. 53 >> local access to Valley Arts
>> lava also I think building >> on the previous years if I have right one yeah festival. So
basically this is uh writers and playwrights and people putting together a a sort of a series of I guess you call it theater and u poetry and
um and it while it's in Greenfield and it involves Greenfield people. It's not exclusively Greenfield. So, >> it's a very successful though. >> Yeah, I think >> I think it's a bigger event. >> Bigger event.
>> I mean, it shows with their budget and >> uh so I I was inclined to fund it. Um because it's a small portion of >> uh and you know, they're building what's it called? uh you know they're they're
they're building something uh more uh sustainable >> in the community in terms of arts. >> I like that too. Yeah. With the broader budget, the kind of institutionalization of it and I also think that like this format elevates theater in general
>> giving a lot of people opportunity to >> Yeah. How many people they had >> participating >> said like 700. Oh, that's great. >> List >> this one already happened there. The
next one. >> Yeah, the makers market. So, I mean I we uh there was something else for which we sort of wanted to do provisional funding for next year. I'm wondering whether just our pockets will end up being a little too
empty to to be able to do that. But I mean, yeah, I I I guess if we did that for another one, then we ought to treat this one the same way as far as something that's already happened. But we should treat it. It was
It was um the winter festival or it was something from Christy >> Jingle Fest. >> Jingle Fest. >> Yeah, it was Jingle Fest and basically she would never be able to catch up and get funding for it >> if we didn't do a provisional for it. So, um, we can totally put this in the
same category. Um, pop-up market. It supports local arts artists. It's it's more of like a market though, then it's not really performance art. It's right a >> It's not really a festival either. It's
a maker show. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Which Yeah. sits differently in terms of our priorities. >> Yeah. It doesn't really seem to fit the priorities of the content itself to >> Yeah, I agree. I'm okay.
>> I'd be good at passing on this. >> Yep. >> Pass. >> I say as someone who sells stuff at a lot of these markets, they do charge a lot for a table. A lot of the artists, I feel like they make a good amount. >> We talked about Jingle Fest. Well, the Yeah. Whatever it
was that was heavy metal concert, >> the farmers market. >> Oh, yeah. The musicians. >> Yeah. So, but there were seem to be two people were asking for the same thing. >> The farmers market and a musician performing at the farmers market. I don't remember how that fit into this, but >> yeah, this is just its own standalone
event where makers come and set up booths and sell their stuff that they >> might look here. Our friends, >> yay. >> Look here. Um, this is me. Yes. Okay. So um we have funded this in the past. Um
it is I think for their like annual um >> magazine. >> It's the yearbook edition. Um and with the release party. So they have like a party and they release the yearbook um
you know 300 people. They're asking for 1250. I think that's a heavy ask. Um, but I think they are blues glued and we can talk about it after. Yeah, thank you. >> 56.
>> Miss Bella. Okay, this is Jan from the Lava Center again. Uh, doing a reading Greenfield people doing art. Uh, so it seems like it should pass the first round on that alone. I guess kind
of how we're doing it. Um, she's asking for $200 uh to do her own reading her own stuff literature book talk spoken word formance I guess you could think of it that way.
I feel a little bit less enthusiastic about this one because in a way like the book has happened as I understand it. And so in a way like the the art exists. This is sort of a representation of the
art as opposed to something where like the art is in the performance. Um, I mean, find me talking about it later, but I, yeah, relative to something where that is truly like performance-based art in the first place, I would be a little bit less enthusiastic.
>> Okay. >> Do you feel like that's splitting hairs? >> Yeah, probably. Yeah, I it seems like a book reading seems like it's >> Yeah, I mean >> it's in the culture. >> I think we should glue it and then talk
about it. >> Although I really want to say like another lava center rental for 100 like just back to all the lava center. >> Yeah, I know. I've been very involved with Lava, so I was helping them with their
>> Yeah, they have very everybody has a different rental fee, >> right? And you know, they're they're struggling like many people who have offices on Main Street are uh their landlords just raise the fees, the the
rent, and so they've been scrambling to find other options. And I think in the the end, if I understand correctly, they had sort of negotiated a short-term uh lease or resolution with their existing
landlords, which, you know, might be the best short-term solution. So, I think they're, you know, their goal is they they're trying to uh, you know, make their way through the
months of uh, paying rent and dealing with uh, the organizational issues. So, every $100 is goes to that kind of bottom line. Yeah, >> that's Jan's skillful in that regard for
proposals. not just our our route. Okay, so 57. >> Next one is Mohawk Trail Concerts from Shelburn applying to have Kamaya Diggs come to the jail to perform.
Um they're looking for $1,000 to cover some of the fees for the artists going there. They did note that Mohawk Trail Concerts does have a quote reserve of funds in the bank that they will dip into if they don't get funded. So,
if it comes down to splitting hairs between which programs were supporting, I mean, they do have a backup at least if >> right if that falls through. >> And they don't have a date yet. >> No. So, and it's a very like it says it could happen in November 2025 all the
way to May 2026. So, and I feel like it's not going to be something that's announced to the public. So, we don't even know if this has already happened or not. >> I don't know that it's open to the public. >> Well, yeah. So, we wouldn't be able to tell if it's like how do we know it didn't already happen in November. >> Exactly.
>> Yeah. I I will say that um we Julie Lipenberg applied last year for um the performance at the jail and she actually had ended up reaching out to me um back in June um because they were just unable to really get anything going with the
jail >> and she does this like Julie specifically works with the jails, right? So, >> um I'm just not if they don't have a commitment, I'm not confident that it's going to happen. >> In crisis, >> in crisis. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, I
just don't and and it's not open for the public though there is precedent that we have funded jail performances. >> Well, there was some show that we funded last time which I thought was felt really positive about, but was that the same? >> That was the Julie Likenberg and then what they did instead was they moved the performance to the Shay
>> and so they kept the funding. Oh >> yeah, it's not the same. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I just sort of thought incarcerated people who are maybe there for a good reason, but that doesn't mean they're not >> don't have any. >> It's the performance project and they specifically work with inmates and so
like Yeah. So, she's so good at it and that the fact that she couldn't get it done at the jail was surprising to me. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, we can pass on this. Yeah. 58 JJ >> Hugh Public Libraries >> a library applied
>> I'm just following Susan's uh cursor >> a children's show um with Jonathan Mirren who lives in >> is that my >> is this yeah I I was waiting to >> right
>> yeah it's 58 which is >> story wizards >> story wizards >> yeah so that's this theater. >> I I couldn't really get my wrap my mind around it. It seemed like it was talking about things that I
didn't really know much about. Stoiz public library. >> Oh, that's okay. >> Uh, it's, you know, I I don't know if youth are youth are uh priority. >> They are. You think >> they are,
>> right, Tim? Yeah, >> they're they're part of our uh neighbors target groups. >> Yeah, I'm sorry. No, they're not, which I find crazy target overlook, I think. But >> we have elders, but we do not have >> elders, but we don't have youth. We have low-income families.
>> Um, >> well, I think we have low-inccome families and that's why we didn't choose you because you're getting families or children >> or it came out of the out of the survey and it just didn't come up or something. I don't know. It was It was interesting. I I always was shocked by that, but we have like definitely funded youth
programs. >> Yeah. So, I like I said, I couldn't wrap my mind around how to fund this, but it was not in Greenfield. Uh >> I will note that the same folks, the same theater company also has down on
line 69 an event here in Greenfield. So, >> let's >> if we wanted to difference. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like I I feel like with these ones that are not actually taking place in Greenfield unless like it's a a must. >> Yeah. Or like at the Shay because it's
has to be in a Pinian theater or something like that. Like this is just at the library. Um I don't know. I could see us in going back to it again just saying why take money away from a Greenfield performance from this. Yeah.
>> One thing if we didn't have 94 applicants. >> Yes. Jonathan's doing fine. >> So, we're going to pass on. >> Okay. >> 59. So, we hear from these folks every
year. Um, this is sort of a new offering from them. Um, the format seems to be like a a lecture uh and sort of discussion about hiphop um which they're they're proposing to do um at the
library. Um, don't think they have a library commitment. >> Doesn't seem like it because when will it take place? On or after Black History Month? >> Um, I guess I just also felt like
lecture was maybe not our top format. >> It could fall under social justice. I don't think you could have a conversation about hiphop without talking about social justice, but they're also the second the next applicant too. The same >> we have three in
>> three in >> without a commitment to space it's really hard to push them through because we've been cutting off people that don't have a committed space time. >> That project I think we should pass on. >> Um the other one is I am autistic. I am
fantastic. Wow. >> Which sounds amazing. >> Yes, it is. >> Um, yep, exactly. And the musical, uh, Senior Citizens and Their Families from Greenfield. It is at >> before or after April 2026. I like that.
>> They keep before today. >> Yeah. So again, they don't >> again, they don't have an event space. It's >> so they say firm commitment in the application but there's no letter >> from who is is the firm commitment
>> uh from memory care unit green field rehab and nursing center like bottom of page four >> um they would perform this there >> commitment memory care unit
>> gave us the name and phone number of the Mhm. >> Um date. I wish they had a date. I think we should glue them through and then they might get bumped in the next round for that.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Because we're going to have these conversations, I know, about like do we fund like a smaller amount of them and like really make sure these things happen. >> Yeah. >> But based on our rubric from before, I think we could loop them through since they have a firm commitment. We have to
believe them. >> And then the next music say we we also like they have requested that exact event before uh both line 60 and 61 the hip hop chair dance. So that's not to say it's not great but it is a repeat of past.
>> Did we fund it last time? Oh we did that. >> Actually what number are we on? 61. 61. It's the >> the third music dance.Uu. >> Oh, yeah. This one really didn't seem to have a certified location. >> Yeah.
>> Or time. >> Honor. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I do love the idea of seeing some seniors doing chair or hip-hop dancing. >> Oh, yeah. Obviously, that sounded super fun. considering I'm a senior. I'm not sure
uh >> I'm not sure what hip-hop >> would be, >> right? >> Like, you know, I mean, I think I'm a good dancer, but I don't know if I know hip-hop. >> Well, maybe this would be the opportunity.
>> I think I think of the three, the I am autistic, I am fantastic would be the one to fund, but I feel like there are also issues with that one. >> Yeah, I think we should pass on this, too. It's not really performance. It's not like social justice or public
>> festival 62 music of Franklin. >> So this is Music of Franklin. They're a free afterchool social justice music program for kids. Um it's grades 1
through 12. They run March through November, so it takes up a good chunk of the year. and they do a bunch of concert performances. Um, they do this through the First United Methodist Church. So, they do have a location they do this at. And
this is just another year of a pre-existing program. So, they're looking for some bonus money to help fund some guest artists coming in and teaching the kids different things. >> Where does it take place? In >> at the Methodist church.
>> Methodist church in >> And it's open to kids from all over Franklin County. So, it's kids from our area as well as, you know, they're open to taking kids from all over, which is nice. >> These guys seriously are the low-inccome family population. >> Yeah, they're awesome.
>> I think it's so great. >> Yes, I did that. And Funfest is the next one that they do. That's Unity Park also. They applied for that. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, this is mine. I uh
you know I I guess I have to disclose that I'm not particularly a patriotic American. Uh I think that I could be in parts of the country that seem to honor what is good about America as opposed to
other parts. And >> you're talking about FunFest. >> Yeah, Funfest. >> Am I on the right one here? >> Yeah, you just set it up. >> I was right. Okay, great. Thank you. >> I I but I I I wasn't sure.
Uh it was in Turner. Is it U I I think that we we may have funded some of it last year because it's just music of Franklin. Um but again, I think I just got tripped up on the details about what I thought. Uh
I guess it includes social justice programs. Uh, so that would hit one of our and it has I'm not sure the date, but it said May 31st. It has a specific date, >> right?
>> Um, >> yeah, I had a question about that. They have like a $1,000 in there for a possible rain day budget, I think, >> should be at the Greenfield schools, public schools. >> Yeah. And then photography and
videography is $1,100. I Anyway, you know, I think I just got lost in the details. It said brain location, you know, that's >> 20% of their budget is things like brain location, >> something that might not happen. You mean >> and Yeah.
So anyway, um >> why don't we push them through and then just have a conversation about them when we go through it the second time. >> Yeah. I feel like it seems like we should fund one or the other. >> One or the other. >> They did mention in their application, the one that was right before this, that
they received an MCC grant to for the same program. So, they do have like backup funding, right? So, >> this is a great organization to champion. >> Yeah, sure. >> Um, so,
so this is uh the FanFair Brass Ensemble. um wanting to go to the Arbors for a concert. Um they do have a an invitation um from the from the facility. >> Um
yeah, I mean I I wouldn't move heaven and earth to go to it, but I it seems like a performance. Uh for elders, which is one of our focus populations, uh $900 is a lot to ask for, but I guess I'd be
inclined to move them through. decide on a funding level. >> Let's do it. >> All right. Go. >> Next one is Secrets of the Sovereigns. It's a trivia show and drag show that takes place during Pride. Um we are
hoping to theme the show around pride and highlight pride trivia where artists through the art form of drag. Um I always miss where the heck these things are. six for Phantoms Brewing Company on
Wall Street. So, it's Greenfield, um, it's performance, it's social justice, it's LGBT. Yeah, it should get blue. >> Why not? >> Push it through.
>> Push it through to the next round. >> Round 66. Um, okay. Oh, I just messed up this in my notes. Okay, another concert at the senior center. It has a real date. Um,
the artists are from Weightley, Northampton, and Leiden. Very close by. They're asking for $600 just for um themselves. >> Uh, seems like low priority, but would check off some boxes. >> Yeah, maybe we can have it go through
and then have a conversation about the senior support. Yeah, it says a letter of support from the director. >> Yeah, she passes that out like candy. >> Like, >> why would you not? Free money. >> She's given She's It's amazing. I I just wanted to talk to her next year.
>> We'll have her join the committee. >> Yeah. Right. Get her to join. Next one is an application from Becca Paisley from Worcester. It's going to be an event that goes from Turners to Greenfield called the Bicycle Noise
Creation Machine. Um where a bunch of folks are going to get on their bikes and Turners and play a bunch of sounds while riding their bikes from Turners to the Last Ditch Bar. Um, one thing I thought was a
little confusing was they said that it's an all ages performance, but they're going to be going to a bar. >> That place can be all ages. >> Okay. Okay. I wanted to check on that cuz I was like, um, >> I knew that for sure. >> Yeah. So, I mean,
I don't know. I It It's a project that engages with the public and some music, but apart from I'm not really sure. I haven't really seen it. I don't really I don't know. >> It seems like do it for free. >> Yeah. Right. I was like that sounds like
Yeah. If you want to go Yeah. You know, >> I don't know if they necessarily >> What does their budget say? >> They're looking for $600 to pay for the people who are like leading it. And then they're going to pay two
supporting acts, $75 each to perform Atlast Stitch when they get there, I think. And then 150 for the bar itself. which is probably what makes it LMH is they're like renting it. I just don't see it as it's not performance. It's not a festival. It's um social justice and
it's >> not public art. >> It's not public art. >> It says it's a performance. >> I mean, I think technically they're they're riding bikes and playing instruments or noise. They're playing noises. Seems like a noise show. I went last year. It was fun.
>> Where did you go? It was at um the Finders Collective in turn to the end of it. Did you go to the end of it or the beginning of it or did you stand along the route of it? Just curious. People engage. >> I don't think it was a parade last year, honestly. >> Yeah, cuz I'm just wondering like if
unless people have a bike like people aren't really going to be I don't see people like sitting on the side of the street waiting for this chunk of bikes to go by playing bunch of songs and then just it's gone. Yeah. No, it's just fun.
>> I I just don't It doesn't seem like >> it's just it didn't I had it down as maybe a lower priority. >> I would send them 50 bucks personally. >> Yeah. You know, just just for funies. But I think even if they did that on their own accord, they could bring money to the bar just by bringing people to
the bar on bikes. >> Um >> yeah, it probably still will happen. >> Yeah, I feel like they would do it anyways. I think this project is going to it's that project is still going to happen. >> Yeah. >> Whether we fund it or not >> culinary club.
>> Yeah. Do we have these people? Do we have before? >> No. I've never seen these guys. >> It was in Northfield. I don't know if there's any Greenfield people >> um >> involved. There was a three. >> Awesome. >> Huh.
>> Uh this is Chris Henle who lives in Turner Falls. He he doesn't say that it happens in St. Cass, which is really frustrating because um that's where it happens >> where >> St. C. >> Well, he emailed you to say that, right? So, it's in one of the other fields
>> you or someone put it in >> in the overview >> column X. >> It does say St. Cass's. >> It does. Okay. Just not on the >> not in the >> in this application summary. Okay. >> So, can we count it? >> Says events since our exception events
have centered on the society in terms. Oh, >> so that was >> again >> I mean I love >> creative I mean from like a culture
perspective right like it if we take our arts hat off and put our culture hat on I guess I sort of see it as like food waves like celebrating sort of community specific food waves which is kind of cool. It's definitely different than like another brass band playing at whatever. >> Senior center.
>> The senior center. Yeah. >> Yeah. Hold on. It's Thank you. >> This one. >> Uh, no. I think it was further down. >> Yep. >> Uh, yeah, that's it. Our programming.
Okay. Social cohesion, whatever that is. Uh, >> there are no specific dates. >> Uh, >> yeah. Yeah, I would cut it. But um you guys should all come on Friday. It's so fun. >> Wait. Well, they have two dates in 2026. January 23rd, February 20th. >> What's happening Friday?
>> Where did you >> Oh, okay. Because it's at St. Cass. It's super interesting because >> that's happened this Friday. >> Here it just says that it's ongoing. >> Well, because I think this was an email. This was like a belated >> Okay. >> edition.
>> Okay. You're And that's just in this that's in the spreadsheet. >> Mhm. I see. All right. That's right. That email was sent to me. >> So, so one >> how easily I can forget things.
>> Um, it takes place in Green. >> No, >> it's Turners. >> Okay. I think shortlisted >> because um you think it should be shortlisted. >> I don't. >> Yeah. No, but I do I do agree with my colleague Marcel about
>> it's I won't die on the hill, but I just Yeah, I appreciate that it's happening. >> It's good for the culture. I'll say that. >> Although they seem it's not like it's uh you know particularly uh unique food or I mean I guess French.
I didn't see any I didn't see any like you know real heavy diversity into the culinary world but anyway so >> me and Marcel go Friday actually that sounds fun I'm going to go on Friday time >> I'm definitely going to be there it's like from 5 to 8 but you got to get
there kind of early because they sell out so fast >> really >> all these things are happening in my backyard now I've got a friend coming so >> yeah it's so fun >> why is it because everyone goes party
>> and it's like foods you food places that you can buy like food all over. >> No, it's like they it's like you can sign up to be a chef and you get like to have a pop-up restaurant for a night and and it already has big following. So, you you know it's >> they'll be fine without us. >> They'll be fine without us.
>> But it's a great project. >> Maybe they should maybe we should I'm just sorry. Like I know probably move on. Maybe we should encourage them to like create an event around it that's specifically forities. Next is the pity. Again, our pity friends,
>> right? Yeah. So, this is part of Dino Fest. Uh fest sort of uh a um event at the library because uh sort of concurrent with DFest, although separate
from the festival itself. Um, yeah. I guess of the two events, it's the one that they applied for. It's the one that's happening in Greenfield. >> I I would see putting it through. >> Um, >> yeah, >> Dino Best.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, >> the next one is the senior center, and it's just another one of the senior center ones. So, we should just put it through. >> Okay. Sorry. >> Where's the senior center? Oh, the blues jazz. >> Yeah, Kathy posts blues jazz. You're
>> saying it should just go through. >> Yeah, that like be same conversation rest. Let me talk about all the together. >> Around 72. >> 71. >> Doing great, guys. >> 71. >> 71. >> Oh, that's Bella.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. 71. Francis Ryan. Uh, it doesn't have a tater time. So, I would say automatically cut even though Francis is lovely. >> Yeah. >> Doesn't have a time. >> Doesn't have a day or time. >> Uh, sorry. A venue or time.
>> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Unfortunately. >> Yeah. >> I'll tell her next year. >> Right. >> Next one is >> Yeah. I mean, >> this is not in Greenfield. >> It's not in Greenfield. And I did uh
full full disclosure participate in the fascist show >> scenario. 72 72 >> 72 >> is real life theater. I will say they don't have dates. They have a a list of
random locations throughout the valley, but Lava is the only one in Greenfield that they might be performing at. Um it's a pretty huge budget. They're looking for 1,500 of it to cover the um
probably the lava center portion of it, but there isn't a date or anything down, so I didn't know if it was if we should just skip it. >> Yeah, let's cut it. >> I think so, too. >> And then JJ, you were saying this one, they don't have a They're not in
>> It's in It's in Springfield. As much as as much as I like Richie Richardson, like they gave us a chance to >> show our stuff and it was kind of fun and different. Well attended >> and two years ago we funded Richie and
he had the money back and he >> didn't do the event, gave the money back. >> Oh, he gave the money back. >> Yeah. This was a couple years ago. >> Yeah. Well, that's that would speak well for Richie. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They they didn't do the event. They gave money. >> Okay. Yeah. So, it sits just out of our
league. >> Okay. >> 74. >> RPM. >> Uh I mean, this seems cool. I feel like it it went into the category of just like I don't know that they need our like it just it's a it's a big and
seemingly commercially viable festival um of heavy metal music uh in Millers um yeah so so big sort of hundred plus thousand budget of which they're asking
for a couple thousand from us u it's a for-profit organization that's putting it on I guess I just like that. >> Yeah. >> I mean, >> they're so so cool that they do that here and there so many local people and it's so cute.
>> Um, you know, >> it's a big thing for us volunteers to pull off. >> It is a big It is a big event. Put it that way. >> Yeah. If they come that like if we get a chance to talk to them, it would be like, um, Green Riverfest has applied to us before for the local tent, >> right? like
>> for the local dance play like something like that that could be more specific would be awesome if they came to us next year for something like that >> and let's talk about outreach when we're done boarding it kept >> 25
>> is me Elizabeth Ryan $570 for >> senior center >> senior center classics >> official No date and candy letter from Kathy Dton
>> blue >> blew it blew through and then later >> 76 >> 76 was not in green field that's why it's orange right >> it's not in green building yeah >> oh
cuz it's on Corine Yeah, >> on our not touching Greenfield. >> No, it's where we listed as a neighboring community in the guidelines. >> We list Corain. >> Yeah, it definitely touches us.
>> My definitely does. >> Yeah, >> cuz my house is touching co rain. >> Anyways, it can be disqualified for other reasons because it says that it's going to happen in winter of 2027. Okay. I mean, he's qualified.
>> Maybe next year. >> The next one has no location and a rough date of being in March. So, I don't cut it. >> Sorry. >> It sounds cool. >> I told Mo I said we can do it.
>> What is it? >> Should have come to the um grant writing session. You would have got >> cool. They wanted to basically they want to do dinner theater at local restaurants. So, they were going to pair with local restaurants and then do like a theatrical performance while people
were having dinner, but they didn't actually solidify anything. >> That's the rub getting the restaurants to want to do it. >> Yeah. >> Oh, no. We have We had restaurants. >> Sorry, I'm involved in this. This is my name. Um, yeah. I can't believe how bad this obligation would be for my
roommate. >> You should ask me to look at it. >> Right. Like if I like wheel >> Yeah. So here's Mo's next one. >> Uh 78. Really? >> 28.
>> This is the Hometown Heroes, right? >> 78. >> Wrong one. Sorry. >> 78. >> I I in all honesty, my son was in surgery today, so I did I got as far as this one, I think. >> No problem. This has been applied for
before in the past, I believe. Hometown Hero sounds really familiar to me. >> I don't think it was. >> It's a reading at Lookie here and it's um local writers um >> literature. >> It's not >> not really performance.
>> It's not really performance or any of our thing. >> Did we do the literature one at the lava center? >> January 26. Yeah, I mean >> I guess I mean if somebody wants to take a look on look here's calendar and see if it's there.
>> Yeah, >> I I could pass on. >> Yeah, >> I made fun of them a lot for these two applications already. >> Um >> Oh, sorry. Good sports. Uh
>> uh no venue. All right, then. >> Rick, >> what is it though? >> Salon. >> Art salon. >> So, the next one is the Shay and it's their lounge like series which they do
um basically in the lobby area or like in the downstairs. It was kind of like overflowing last time and it's a variety show so it's pretty cool. Um, >> you know, I think it ticks the buttons. It's certainly >> I think should just be blue clued
through, but >> Okay. Yeah. I mean, there's no set date yet, >> but it's them. It's that they did it last year and it's at their >> Excellent. >> their programming, their venue, the key cultural center.
>> Yeah. on the show >> 81 >> 81 um >> a princess >> or a play made by local people about underrepresented under represented people and at the
seems like it would get a blue dot. I will say these people are terrible about um doing all of their paperwork. >> Really? >> Silver Thorn is >> they they're like an They're a theater >> artist
uh artists. Exactly. Trust me. >> Ezekiel. >> I own hair salons. >> That's funny. Ezekiel really um uh >> takes care of grants. That's their job.
not giving back to me. >> Okay. >> I mean, I'm >> that that is not something that should um deny them. >> No, no, no. It just means >> theater wagging for sure. >> Yeah. >> Like,
>> so why why are we blue tooththing? >> That's a it's a local theater company with local >> Oh, right. Silverthorn. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> Um Yeah. See, is Brick House and Turners
um doing a theater program called Playback Theater and they want to apply for some money to stipen their disabled bipok facilitators. Um they meet up a few times a month at
Brick House and on Zoom. Yeah, it's like a training theater training group. But we funded something there before. >> They offer the training for free to people in the community and then this is
them looking for a little bit of money to fund the people who are teaching these classes. >> Seems like it's local people and our priorities. >> Yeah, it seems like it's Yeah, I think it's a good Bluetooth. We do. Okay. Then it's the Community
Young Men's Christian Association YMCA. Community Yield. New CEO. By the way, congratulations, Sant. >> Always exciting. I'm a huge Y fan. >> Raised by the Y.
>> Um, so this one was stress reduction for adults through mindfulness and gentle movement. >> This really doesn't fit any of our pract. Oh man. Okay. Okay. 84 Marcel. >> Uh okay. Yeah. This is Baker Project.
The um full Snowman Gathering uh which we have funded in the past. Um happens at GCC. >> Um ticks all the boxes. >> Ticks all the boxes. I would say >> blew it. >> Other one is the one that actually
happens at Unity Park, I believe, if I remember correctly. And it's the celebration, the Native American festival at Unity Park. They asked for $250. This is a no-brainer. >> Big budget. Just like a little sl more than 250. >> I know it's a $38,000 program for 200.
>> Okay. >> I mean, I'm just saying like it's so humble. That's Yeah, it's a pretty modest ask. >> 86 is Isaac wants to hope James Dean January. >> Yes. Sounds like I'd say
>> sounds great. >> I think we should do it for sure. >> He reached out to us just so you know, like asking about the posters and like taking um >> promotional material because it's in January and including our logo and I said, you know, I think you should leave
the logo off and we'll let you know in January whether you got the funding. M >> so that's which one >> it was nice he thought about crediting the capital >> or I wonder if he was just trying to figure out >> a little bit of each
>> but yeah I mean institution in the same way as any >> my lips were sealed >> gosh we're so close >> a jeans Dean lookalike contest I wonder who's going to come up the victor there
>> all All right. So, this is >> next one is another farmers market ask. This is for the Tumble Science podcast for kids. Um, they have a toy table at all of the Greenfields farmers markets. They're
looking for some money to help pay the people who have been volunteering for this table, but also to buy some better toys and things for kids to play with there. So, normally they just get a bunch of donated toys, things that are around. So,
>> our toys are >> I don't think that it's necessarily within our >> Yeah. And I think they could easily get some some cool tone toys donated if they made a nice post on Facebook about it. >> Yeah. >> Okay.
These are always so cute. >> They are. Too bad kids aren't on our priority list to work on that next. >> The next two were orange. So >> yeah, I just want to double check. Well, Cumington.
>> Yeah, Cington. >> And then yeah, next one. >> Mother Community Arts. So this is um Monagu World Music Fest. Um it's June 27th, 2026. Ponamc Park,
downtown Turners. I think it's, you know, it falls in line with other things like whatever. I think we should glue it through. >> Cool. >> Festival, >> world music, world cultures, free
festivals. Did we just jump over the traditional shave horse project? >> Yeah, they're not they're not they don't >> they're just not >> cuz they're incoming incentive. >> Oh. Oh, yeah. So, that there were two
>> Yeah, there two two on >> same same applicant. >> Yeah, I see. >> Okay. Amy on 911 is a Boston based puppeteer who has been hitting up the cultural councils to
perform at every library I've ever seen. Uh the show looks awesome. >> Um but this is seriously not a local puppeteer uh without a local draw doing a thing at the library.
>> Yeah. Uh, but it is it is cool that it's puppetry and the show is very cool and they use shadow. >> I think we have to add it to the library conversation. >> Well, I think this one's even >> like this person is Boston based and has
definitely applied to every cultural council. >> Do they have a letter of commitment from the library? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Unless >> I think it's it's useful to add it to the conversation of the library because it it shows like a juxiposition like
>> we could not fund it but like I'd love to have it as an example of like what we're getting >> instead of the library applying and curating their thing >> so I think it should just be included in the conversation >> and I'm totally open to no
>> but I don't want to leave it out especially when we go back to the library and say, "Look, >> especially when we should have puppets be a priority for next year. >> Write it in the uh >> yeah, fill up the surveill. >> Get ready. I'll skew our priorities.
>> She's probably going to come for your job, you know." >> Listen, I only have one year left. So, >> well, there she is. >> Have to go. Go ahead. >> Next one is winchonden. So I think we can skip that. Yeah. >> All together. >> Dennis wise, what's the next one? JJ, I
know you didn't get to it. So bullying awareness assembly for middle and high school students. >> Not art and culture. >> It's not arts and culture. It's not >> even though it's a great thing to work on. I think it's just we there there's now bully bullyism has been enshrined
now into >> bullism >> core values of America >> sorry it's somebody who who was a recipient of bullying >> uh I guess the cultural council
>> uh okay 94 Um, I think this one did not have a venue letter allow allows. Um, >> it doesn't have a date or date. >> Okay. Shall we skip? >> It appears the last one was not assigned to somebody. So, I apologize.
>> It was assigned to me and I I I'm in it. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. So, this is hat um um and it's a happening at the Shay. Very very successful, very cool. should be boosted. >> Cool.
>> In the same vein as the lounge thing. >> Big budget. >> Big budget. Big. It's a very cool thing. >> What a good job they do. >> All local artists. >> All local. Yep. And they're really not asking for that giant budget. Very thoughtprovoking stuff, too.
>> I like. >> Okay. So, can we um by chance just hide all the cells that are not don't have anything and just look at this? We're at 44,000. Um, we only have to cut down.
Yeah, please. I don't know if I can get into >> You should be on the You're not in Gmail like um >> I must be sharing with me. What's the title of it? I can just >> It is called
sorry it is called the GLCC FY 2026 >> 2026 >> grant proposals >> better work on grouping the centers >> oh wait excellent get in there
>> it's good time for a stretch >> yeah that's just a quick stretches and then we want to take a bio like um just going to hide a couple of things here just to make it better to see. Is that okay? What do I just hid? >> I trust you.
>> I mean, can you see it? >> Aren't you doing something? Are you doing it on your own? >> Uh I was just going to search for all of the senior centers, >> right? >> And put more the library. >> No, for sure.
>> Would it be awesome if we only funded puppet projects? >> I think that would be great. >> You had the column. >> I k some columns. That's why I asked. >> Oh, yeah. Maybe bring this back just because we're searching for the senior center. >> But okay, so can I just hide like a few
so I can >> Can we um >> see more? >> Primary contact, primary discipline, project description just for right now. >> Sure. >> It doesn't actually have show the location on this, does it? That's a bummer.
I wonder if our do a little revert to previous version and just see if >> Yeah, project location was R. >> Oh, okay. Wait. So I can go back.
Yep. It's from Q if this computer was terrible. >> Is it a city computer or is it yours? Yeah, >> it's
incredibly slow and um >> groaning a PC. >> It's just Can we We're all working. I want to I want to propose.
>> But you have a Yeah. process. >> Well, we can talk about what we want to do with the library stuff and the COA stuff without >> just gonna >> without having all of those together. >> Yeah. And I finished I had all the ones that are not blues. So, we have a list
of blues. >> Okay. So, what do we want to do with them? I I I do want to say about them like kind of the thing that kind of gets me is like they're putting the onus on us to curate them and I don't think that that's correct. >> I feel like the senior center should
curate it. >> I feel like that's a that would be a um a miss or like a cultural an institution that needs our support. >> So So >> I wish we could >> could you reiterate your central
position? So, say like there's like five let's say there's 10 artists that apply >> um to do something at the senior center. >> There's there's five. >> There's five. So, there's five people that are applying to do something at the senior center. We're the ones deciding what the programming is going to be at the senior center,
>> not the senior center. >> And should it be the senior center? >> Yeah. Like if the senior center only applied for $1,000 for programming, then they could decide how to give that money away. Can we can we say we will give these five programs $1,000. Can we call
Hope and ask what she wants to do? >> Well, but I think that's she's >> not the because she's not the applicant. >> Yeah. No, I think we should the way you suggested it. Like >> I mean, maybe this is a future conversation. >> It's Yeah, I think next year she should
apply because the senior center is not an applicant. So, we don't have to deny everybody, but I don't think we could give the senior center anything if they're not an addict. >> Right. >> We don't have to get Can we just bring her in as a consultant? >> How much is um is are all those total?
>> Um let me So, the senior center has its own budget. Is that kind of the issue that we're struggling with or >> the senior center as an entity should apply for the fund? >> But but if it's if it if these are just groups that are randomly picking the senior center because it's the place to
do it and and a constituency that matters then why shouldn't they be coming to us because it's >> well because for one we don't have no I mean a lot of these folks are reapplicants and we have no idea whether they're good. Like that's one concern I have. It's just that they're like coming
back and offering these programs and maybe these senior centers like us terrible and we wouldn't know. Oh, well that's a whole >> senior center could hear >> and like if you can get the funding maybe, you know, just to try to deter them from doing something there, but maybe
>> look, we're we're we're a citywide priority entity, this council, and they're a city. Uh >> yes, it would be a big miss. >> So, so yeah, but we should somebody should initiate
>> Oh, 100%. a a conversation that says we're all in the same, you know, the same place. Let's have a conversation. How do we do this? >> Yeah, let's go to that next. >> I got offered money to play at the senior center. Do they have Do you do they have a a budget for
that? I don't know. This is precisely why we should just open this up. I'm sure we'd have support. >> They do. I don't >> They have more money than we do. >> Money. >> Yeah. >> Um three grand is the answer. Uh, so five five applicants, $3,100.
Fully funded all of them. >> Yeah. And like when I'm thinking about like funding the senior cent's our cultural programming, like I could see giving them $1,000. I think we gave pride $1,500, >> right? Like, >> you know what I mean? Like that's the
the range in which we give to the impact largecale festivals >> in the $1,500 range. Like if then if we're gonna give him a thousand dollars, who do we give it to? >> Right. >> Um >> the blue graph because I like blue
graphs. That doesn't seem right there. >> JJ has a proposal. the proposal. I uh I move that uh we should uh um you know empower them to initiate a discussion with
relevant people at at city hall and city government about this particular issue. >> Do we have to decide it all tonight? >> We really need to decide it tonight unless we want to meet before the 31st again. >> Um
>> yeah. So you can't have these conversations with these people >> in this grand cycle. No, we would deny everything and then have the conversation. >> I That's what I would Yeah. >> Is that what you think we should do too? >> Yeah. >> I feel like that too. Unless there's some like super local artist that's just
like really deserves our >> So, so we were funding things because they were in they were at the senior center basically local you know priority even though >> they're from Attboro and they just apply to all of the senior centers and
>> well that's fair. So should we what if we filter on that? So like of the five we have Fiery Hope which is based in Greenfield and that's a good that's that's a mandelola. >> Mhm. That's a That's a core been around for a long time. >> Yeah.
>> We have an Ammeris which is a band. Dear Ella, >> we have Sunderland, >> Wheelfield. Let's find the Greenfield. >> Let's find the Greenfield one. >> Fun the Greenfield one. >> All right. So, do you are these all arranged by >> are they in an order?
>> It's number two uh in the in column A. >> I I didn't get a second on my motion. Should I just uh uh sort of recall my motion? >> No. Can we get a second on the motion to reach out to the >> Yeah.
Or point somebody who is a willing volunteer to have that conversation. >> And so you're saying like after this >> after this grant cycle? >> Yeah. Okay. Then I would second that motion. >> Does it still hope? >> Thank you. Can we call for a vote? >> Yeah. All those in favor of reaching out to the
>> city >> city. Yeah. >> Senior center about programming wholesale for next round. >> Is that what motions are for? >> That was my I can do this stuff too. >> So move. >> What were you? >> No, that's fine. I I just feel like
>> that's who you vote on. >> We had this conversation last year. I think JJ just wants to make sure it's a priority for this year. >> Okay. >> I just want to move. I'm trying to >> get past it. Yeah. >> I'm just moving things along. Yeah, you got it. >> So, I can remove all the other blue. >> Yes.
>> Senior center >> or senior centers number two. >> Do you want the numbers or does >> um I got it I think. Yeah. >> If you want to do the same work for the library stuff, JJ, that would be awesome. And then I can remove these.
So for the library for $550 >> we've got a Greenfield aaitly Greenfield Boston >> Puppeteer all >> and Shelbur so if we funded the two
Greenfield ones by the same would we want to apply the same the same logic? >> Yeah. What's the total that they're asking all >> for all the library ones? You want to sure you get a number? It will compute. Yeah. >> 900. The last one.
Yeah, but it's a puppet spectacle. >> Then we could probably do the same thing for the lava center because I think they're on here like five or six times. >> But the lava center I feel like >> knew that they pay for the artist is paying for the vener. >> So $5,000 for the library.
>> Okay. >> What was that? $5,000 across the library. >> Is there any how many applicants? >> Five. Five. >> And there were two that were in Greenfield or >> two that were Greenfield. Yeah. And I think one of the green fields asked for a bunch of money which we could not give
them all of. >> Yeah, they were looking for 2500. >> Yeah, the fairground one. So remember that was the um >> series where they >> like make stuff to enter in the fair, >> right? Yeah.
>> Which I think we liked but just it's last time around too. They had >> a really good turn. >> All right. So let's prioritize those two. We don't have to decide the amounts that we're giving. We're just deciding who to eliminate from the library right now. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Are there any library ones that um are
like something about priority populations? >> That's a great question. That's a great question. >> JJ, are you do you know which ones of the library we're going to keep? Which >> number 20? What I
>> if we just did the green field ones, it would be 26 and 51. >> 26 and 51 are the ones that stay >> that stay. But I I like the question about the target population, >> right? >> Military 26 and 51.
>> I don't think any of them do. >> I don't remember any of them being >> Isn't a Grange Hall and Guiding Star Grange the same thing? I don't know. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Um,
Dino Fest K is a priority. That's just Okay, we'll change that next year. Puppets and children for next year. >> Okay, >> cool. Hold on. Library. >> So, are we comfortable with the two green field ones? >> Yeah. Yeah. To keep >> to keep and then we'll decide on the
funding later. >> Yeah. Is that the one that builds on the successful blah blah blah blah? >> Yeah. So the fairground one and then line 51 puppets. >> Okay. Not >> 51. >> Not 41.
>> Oops. >> Ernest Hemingway. 42 seems to be out. >> 51. Man, I'm going crosseyed. I bet you are. >> Good god.
Cool. >> All right. This feels fair. This feels >> We're cutting >> reasoned. Yeah. Was that your last one or did one more? >> Yep. One more. >> No, we only got $4,000 out of it. >> Okay. What's our next What's our next
cut? >> Anything non greenfield? Well, now I think we should go through them because um we can just, you know, put leads down the list again. >> It' be kind of like they get one point
for being a green field, another point for being target audience >> and >> fiery hope. >> They can't give out grants based on coolness. We do give some preference or we've said like new applicants
particularly encourage. So that's another just yeah >> new applicants I like I love the idea of prioritizing like things that >> um lots of artists can participate in >> um festivals. >> Okay. >> There's no public art in here though. Is
there any public one? >> Oh yeah, that one we should find. >> Cool. So let's go down. I just noticed that um one of the ones at the senior center, I don't know if we kept it on here or not.
>> Oh, nope. It just disappeared. My computer just hadn't checked in. I was like, one of them doesn't even have a date, but it was blueed. So, >> okay. Um Fiery Hope, this is so >> at the senior center we kept. >> Um and then the other it was the only
senior center that we kept, right? art space. >> Well, I think that we should um do we think we should fully fund this this or um >> can we just look at what the budget is quickly? Sorry. >> Okay. >> It's just for the artist then. No.
>> So, yeah, we're still just below 40,000. So, we've got a ways to go. >> This is 550. So, it's salaries fees artist, salaries fees admin, supply materials $25, marketing and promotion $50. Um, >> which one are we on? >> Fiery Hope. >> Oh, okay.
>> At the senior center. Oh, >> the very first one. >> Yeah. >> So, do we give them half? Do we >> Well, I mean, it's not a big ask, >> right? >> And it's a it's a it's a core kind of local. >> What if we gave them the salaries for
the artists that 425 >> and let them fun the rest? Because like honestly the the senior center itself could do the promo. >> Yeah. >> And then the admin >> I think we need to fund the admin. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So 425 and you can put it in the column
>> and the um amount award amount. >> 425. Yeah. >> Goes in column X. >> Keep it real. >> See if we get there. >> Okay. >> Okay. The next thing is the Art Space
light show. Do you like this one because a lot of artists can be involved? >> I do, >> but it's not it's also not our priority type of event, >> right? >> It's not a performance, a festival, u
social justice, or a public art. >> It doesn't necessarily speak to disenfranchised communities. >> No. >> Okay, that's got it. >> Summer, I would like to fund them, but you know what? They had a good year of raising money. Yeah, they really
>> just so I can follow Susan, are you when you cut them, are you taking the uh something out? >> The blue. Okay. And in in W column W. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Thanks. >> Mhm. Okay. The next is the Gy Star Grange.
>> Mhm. So, this is the like under reppresented dance series >> in the Contra world. >> Yeah, >> I think this is pretty good. >> Cool. It's a lot of money though. >> Like to take 120th of the whole thing
basically. So >> their budget is super high. Their budget is $12,000. >> Yeah. Big budget. >> Um can we just say fully fund it at least in this round?
>> We can. I mean, we are trying to make >> Yeah, given time, I think we should if we can put something provisional in. I guess I'd be a fan of that. Like, what if we just say half for now? Like, we we need to cut our total by about half. >> And we'll keep the blue next to it so we
can revisit everything. >> I feel like for them coming up with $400 is not going to be that difficult when they're spending $12,000. So, >> $445. >> 45, right? Okay. Greenfield range.
>> Community chorus. >> Feel like we should give them >> Oh, we already said half. >> Oh, >> did we? >> Yeah. >> I think the only one that we did that. >> Mhm. >> So, put them in for 500. >> That sounds fine. >> That sounds good.
>> Yeah. >> We might be well over 20,000. Just so you know, guys. We're going to have to go this. So, let's let's do this part quickly. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Then we said $300. >> Starcats. >> Oh, yeah.
>> Quintet or um >> park in Bernard. >> It's the Kushman Park in Bernard Stone. I would say we should. >> And that is during Scarecrow. >> It's the Scarecrow. That's Yeah. >> I say cut it because it's not green.
>> Yeah, I say too. Unless it's like super compelling like Milanika or a Sha Festival or you know something with a big draw, >> right? >> That does have a big draw. >> Yeah, it does. But does have a big green field draw? >> I'm sure.
>> Yeah, it probably does. I mean, just cuz >> they weren't getting charged play there either, though. So, it's not like they need to like pay a a fee to play. It's more so to pay their artist for playing. Yeah. >> So, I guess. Oh.
All right, >> that's fine. The Arabic ensemble that Marcel went to. >> Uh, this isn't the one I went to, but it is the one I was really jazzed about. Uh, yeah, just fairly small ask. Uh, I think this was one where, yeah, what
they said the lava was charging was maybe out of sync with what we understood them to be charging, but I feel like 300 bucks is a pretty reasonable. >> Let's do it. church. >> There's poets at the St. John St. James and John.
>> Um >> I say for a $6,000 budget, I say we shouldn't fund it. >> Cuz it's just a small little bit of it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, >> it is hitting the population. >> Yep.
>> But us not funding them is not >> make it not happen. Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Dues from chorus members. $4,000. >> They pay to do this. Okay. I got it. I got it. >> So, what are we g We're not giving them anything. >> No. >> No. >> Why? I thought we were just fully
funding them. >> This this chorus because they >> No, the lava center one. We are. >> No, the the that one >> the LGBTQ composers of. Yes. because they actually are a group that like are dues paying people that sing and their
budget is $4,000 just in dues from the people that are in the chorus. >> So basically they are the $300 they asked for is just inconsequential. >> They asked for Yeah, they asked for $500. >> Yeah. >> Um is inconsequential. Yes. >> Okay.
>> That's what our thought was. Senior center we already cut. >> Yep. >> Stone Soup. This is like it's the only Is it the only stone soup in here? >> I think so. I think this just that should be fun. >> Okay. We had before we I guess we had
said we would do half of it. So >> because one of the performances had already happened. >> Excellent. >> The next one doesn't have a date. >> Oh, >> but it's for the dino map. >> It is for the dino map. I was looking through the application though, but
there really is absolutely there's no like confirmed date at all >> because I think it's a state a place on the dino map now. >> It's they're create they're making something. Are they building? Is it to create something? >> It's public arts, isn't it? >> That's kind of what I think.
>> It's actually >> I thought it was an event. >> Says live science events across Western Mass. >> Oh, yeah. No date. spring 2026 on bank row >> because there's >> just seems a little for such a big thing.
>> $17,000 budget, but they don't have a date yet. M firm commitments of partnership from NEP. >> So basically you get a passport and then you get a sticker like and then it's happy project refreshes and livens the
region. I think this is like a pretty big vest. Kind of like the vest or but definitely not $1,500. >> What about $500
>> sold? >> Yeah. >> I mean, it is popular thing. >> And it happens in Greenfield. It's I know they don't have a date. >> Oh, yeah. I just wanted to >> it's outside so it's not like probably it's probably not booked. >> Um
>> so this we funded at $1,500 last year. >> I should do that. >> Me too. Yeah. >> Me too. This is a city big giant city event. >> And did anybody attend last year? >> Yeah. Pouring rain. Yes. It was awesome.
>> Un unfreakingbelievable. It was like one of the best ones. >> People were crying from the side of the road. I I felt chills going down. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, how how much are we going to give the craft series
>> for the library? >> The one round house series for the fairgrounds at the library. Okay. >> They're asking for a lot of their budget. >> Yeah. Their
budget is four grand. >> Is it free? Are the classes free? >> They are. Classes >> are free and they're getting 1,500 from the fairgrounds. >> So, they go through the entire pamphlet of what you can enter into the fairgrounds and artists are allowed to
create classes based on all of those different things. >> So, that's cool. >> Yeah. I mean, I taught a whole range of things last year from like woodworking to painting to portraiture. It was all sorts of stuff. >> And you were paid. >> Yeah. And they pay all the artists. How
much did they pay? >> Really decent wage. They're usually 2hour classes and they pay like $150 for the two hours. >> So, it's it's a really nice paying um thing for local artists, too. >> What about $1,000?
>> I think that's good. >> It's Super Greenfield Honey. Go to the artist >> belly dancing. This is our wants to be trying to get through this whole thing tonight. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> We've already cut it down to 37,000, too. So, we're we're doing good so far.
>> Lovely belly dancing. Feel like we could cut back the ask. >> Yeah. 500. Oh, they're asking for a bunch of is that eight shows
>> quarterly. Four shows. So, I think we should give them a fourth of what they asked for. We fund one of them. >> Uh, okay. Well, we're into 1500. >> Or if we So, because they say eight dancers, $50 each, four shows a year.
So, what if we funded the dancers for one show? That's $400. That feels >> okay. >> Like we can afford that. >> Okay. 400. >> Yeah. >> Oh, then the GDA GDA storefront. I think we should
definitely fund this. So, I feel like >> Did you say we should fund it? >> We should. Yeah. This is only public art application on here. >> Oh, yeah. >> And it's the empty store one. They I don't think she They chose it the artist yet.
>> Yeah. But they chose >> No, they did. They chose the artist. >> They did. And they chose >> the vacant storefront. >> I think they did. Yeah. >> Is it just a random vacant storefront? >> 220 Main Street. Whatever. >> Oh, I thought that was Oh, Project Lok. Yeah, >> I see. I thought that was where they
were located. >> Cool. >> Um, Richard Little geology collection. >> This is the tarballs. >> Tarballs. Oh my gosh. Did I get that right? >> Armored mud balls. >> Mud balls. Wow. >> Marcel's not a real fan of somebody
remind >> the mud ball is he's trying to make it the Okay, we don't care about this right now. We need to get >> Oh, I deeply care about >> I'm just looking for this one fully fund. >> Oh, I see. This is the That's This is at GCC.
>> It's going to be in the museum. Ah, so it's like going to the museum at GCC >> and they ask for 785. >> Say no. >> No. I mean, I say yes, but let's keep going. Christmas is coming early.
>> Okay, I'll cover my ears for the next two. >> Oh, yeah. Um, are these both yours? >> It's Yeah, GC TV. >> Oh, GCTV. >> I just >> Um, no. I need We need you to leave. >> Yeah. Can you do >> you want to go outside? Yeah. >> Can you do those and then the other two
I apply for at this time? >> Yes. >> All right. Will you guys fill fill in the boxes for me? >> Yes. >> She's talking to somebody else. >> I'll do it. >> I have it up here. >> So, lights, camera, green field. Um,
>> which one is this? >> This is 32. >> Okay. Um, the sixth annual Lights, Camera, Greenfield. All ages create short films, secret prompts. They're asking for $600. I think we should give them $600. >> Kids making
>> proposal 32, not line 32. Okay. Yeah. That's great. >> Column A. >> Sorry. >> And then the skate thing. Maybe we give them halves. >> This is the Greenfield clip day skate competition where they give the kids like the cameras and they film their own skate stuff. >> Love it.
>> So cool. But yeah, 500 bucks. >> Okay. And then the other from >> Bella >> Bella was >> it's the the pop one, right? We can get >> everyone. So So number 5051.
>> Okay. So this is um Cranky Fest and How the Moth Bone Love. These are just so good. They're so fun. >> Um >> so maybe we give Cranky Fest have >> like 500 and 400. >> Yeah.
>> Where where are we? I'm just following up here. >> See, we're on our 600. >> Yeah. >> Well, but it's it says help fun the annual lights. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> Oh, yeah. >> It's not on that computer. >> Oh, thank you. Okay, that's right. If it can't be on that computer, then I can't
focus. So, it's the um Cranky Fest, which is the puppet festival at Energy Park, and they've asked for $1,000, and we're proposing to give them $500. >> What's a Cranky Fest? >> It's their puppet festival. >> Oh, okay. >> It's the puppet festival.
>> Yeah, the Crankies are like big illustrations on scrolls that they roll through and then they story telling the story through on these big scrolls. >> Okay. the crank. It's really interesting with the crank that I've been to a few
puppet shows. Not >> that particular one, but >> uh >> Yeah, I had never heard of it. Yeah, it looked really cool. And they usually hand illustrate the scrolls, so it's, you know, an artist doing all of this illustration work, too. >> Yeah. >> And then the other one is Winter
Carnival. It's part of Winter Carnival. It's at the library. It's a play. Um, >> okay. A winner card is >> So, that one they only asked for 400 bucks. We said it's given the $400. >> Okay, great. >> Cool.
>> But yeah, if we shaved those two by half, I think that gets us closer to where we need to be. So, we're we're at like 8,800 out of the 2,000 based on what we've awarded so far. >> Sure enough. Okay, great. I didn't get that800,000.
>> That was the total so far that we put in black. >> I can't see. Right. But that's the same >> spreadsheet. >> I'm doing it on the same uh Google spreadsheet, right? >> Yeah. She's just not moving her, >> right? You're just not moving. I'm moving her cursor. >> Okay.
>> I just added a sum thing to the bottom so it's keeping track of where we're at so far. >> Excellent. Thank you, Reggie. Magic. Okay, so we are on >> 34 >> 34 which is >> farmers market
>> and where we kind of knew we would have to cut this one down. >> Oh yeah, this is a huge ask. >> Yeah, >> look at their budget. >> So they already have $50 to give to artists and they want to just double what they give to artists >> over 27 weeks. So that's why the ask is
quick. So, >> did they give the artist 50 bucks to be at the farmers market like for a day? Is that what it is? 50 bucks for the day, >> I believe. So, performance and then whatever they make in tips, they get to keep. >> So, they want to give them $100 for the day plus tips.
>> Yes. >> Say everyone gets 50 and give them zero. >> Or like do we fund a couple months of it? Like >> what if they give them 75 instead of 100 and we just give them half? They asked for 2,700. I don't think that we can. We
gave Pride 1500. >> Yeah. I think it has to be pretty big to >> Yeah. 1500. >> Yeah. I think we should cut this just >> Yeah. >> Well, I like that. Let's Let's justify with something whether it's, you know,
we'll spend $25 for the, you know, uh, performer or we'll do whatever. >> Oh, Marcela mentioned Oops. But I I like the idea of if we're going to do it, we should do it for the 27 weeks and then
however much we want to add to that. >> Well, $25 time 27 weeks would be 675. >> That's on. So, we'd be covering a quarter of the >> uh well, what they want, >> right? >> We'd be covering half of what they get
>> currently, I think. >> Yeah. They they they are desiring to pay artists more, which I'm in favor of. However, it's it seems >> I can go with that. >> 67575. >> Excellent. >> Wrong wrong wrong shell. Right.
>> Wrong. >> This is for the the next one is for the foreign language department at Greenfield High School for that like >> that um food day that they do, the international food day, which definitely hits on a lot of immigrant students there that bring in their own cultural
foods. I will say that we granted the money last year. They didn't use it all. So they have $597 from last year >> and like here we are funding people for half. Feel like we should cut it in the gap and spend their 5.97 last year. >> Yeah. And I thought there were
complications. Somebody told me that they, you know, >> there was complications because you're not allowed to bring certain foods in, >> right? Yeah. That too were the ones who told So >> I think let them spend their funds. Yeah. >> From last year. We're We'll allow them to apply the funds to the next.
>> Yeah. Okay. >> Film series. >> Illegal film series. >> Love this. >> Only if if only there were films about puppets. >> Bootleg films. >> There are only >> they could I could give them recordings
of my puppet shows. >> They wouldn't have to pay for the right. I love this nonself committee. This is great. >> I think we should fully fund this >> and have them talk to our lawyer. >> Fully fun them.
>> Where does it take place? >> Courts in Greenfield. They want to do a film series for the kids during summer. >> That's cool. I think we should $500. >> Yeah. I think >> I don't think we should give it a thousand. >> It's a lot of news technology stuff. We
have GCTV. support it. >> Maybe >> four Thursdays, March, May, July. Um, the comedy project. This is like classic performance in Greenfield by Greenfield, right? >> At Lava. Yeah.
>> At Lava. >> I think it's something different. >> They asked for 600 bucks. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. We just give them 600 bucks. >> Sure. >> I guess. Yeah. >> If we can swing it. >> We can. >> If we can swing it. Yeah. How are we doing on that?
>> We're about halfway with our budget. We're at Well, we're actually less. We're at 10,600 right now. >> Yeah, we're at like number 40. >> And we're like halfway through, right? Or I don't know how >> we're doing good. There's a lot of >> I think we're close. >> Yeah. >> Greenfield military band.
>> I just love these people. >> Yeah. >> Do you think we should look at the end budget here? >> Yeah. Grand peace. >> I agree. >> I think we should I think what we had to do is like cut out the military part and
just put peace or department of war. I mean really let's have fun. >> Um >> they should keep their name. >> Uh no they asked for 800. >> They asked for 800.
>> Polo shirts. You can do that. Oh, new polo shirts. That'd be cool. Pay for their new uniforms >> and have our and have green $700 have our names as the committee members on the shirt. >> Well, at least I got some people who
appreciated that. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, we're giving him 700. >> I'd rather give him 750 for the director. >> Yeah. And then it's at least >> Yeah. >> I mean, we're not going to say >> $700 for the shirts. Oh, okay. That's
fine. >> Thank you. >> I'm not going to get that detailed letters. >> We have $700 to offer you. >> Start giving them some for this for next
year. >> Yeah. >> 500. >> Here's here's the thing, right? Like, >> so our >> jingle festival is another big thing, right? Right. It's a big event downtown. I think 500 is great, but and then tell
them >> they have to apply in 2020 for 2027. >> Yeah. >> And then we could consider a larger amount. >> I think that's good. >> Okay. >> We're literally throwing on the bone here. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> This will be interesting what this one is. >> Miss Hemingway.
>> Oh, I think we skipped that one. >> I think that we need to >> Oh, I just missed hiding it. >> The library. Yeah, >> I missed hiding it. Okay. >> Square dance. >> Moni square dance. >> The monu dance. >> No, but this is gender inclusive square dancing where the calls are g non-gender.
>> They all are these days. >> No, it's just 500 bucks. >> Yeah. We've still got a decent amount of room left here. >> This is like halfway through, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. That one was a senior center
one. That one was a East Hampton one. >> We've already did these two because they were Bella's. >> Okay. >> Alisian poet. >> They might still come back. So, don't get your hopes up. >> I can't wait to cut some more out of that budget.
>> Yeah. Got it. You change your name. You have to change the name of it. JK. >> I'll I'll be sure to give you detail award letters. >> All right. What if we juts on the artist? That's 600. >> Yeah. >> So down from the eight. Yeah.
>> It would be so great if we get to the bottom. We have extra money to go. That would be wonderful. >> On the boards. I think this is a great one. I think we should give them $750. >> Oh, on boards. >> On the boards. Yeah. There's lots and lots of artists. Agreed.
>> Perfect. Lookucky here magazine 750 as well. >> Yeah. >> Really? Okay. >> I agree. >> Uh is it I mean I I've been on a number of occasions to look here. I don't know about the magazine. What >> a big launch party like it's a big like
it's a very big community event for lucky year and the literature and community. >> Right. So, uh, if I can just have a point of information just as sharing from somebody who has experience. Uh, so
I went to the party that was a fundraiser that, uh, you know, the art auction that was at >> at at the pint. >> Oh, okay. >> It was a big, you know, it was a big deal. They had stuff. >> It was for lucky year. >> Yeah, it was for lucky year. And I I
mean, you know, I I I gave a $100 contribution and I didn't take any art because I just wanted to support >> the the organization. >> The problem is is that uh the followup and protocol for people
who are running these nonprofit organizations uh is it really needs to be improved. I never got a thank you note. Never got a like, you know, whatever, whatever. And I'm sorry, but for Greenfield, $100
contribution is is a big contribution. >> And anybody who gives a hundred can, at least in my former business, can give a thousand. >> So, you know, it it's it's it's my desire as a point of information to find a way to
>> um uh to Vanessa to ask you for more money next time. add value to to managers and to the way that organizations conduct themselves. Um because they're all competing for some of the same money.
>> Anyway, so I just asked for point of information. Thank you very much, chair, for letting you do that. Was that irrelevant or bad to say? >> It was good, but onward just our time is short. >> Yes. Um let's try the book talk. Naming the river third trilogy.
Um, feel like $200 isn't going to break us, right? I think we should put it in fully. >> Okay, I agree. >> If we didn't ask them, >> um, same thing with this one. This is I am autistic. I'm fantastic. The musical
>> support, >> but this one was like, we weren't sure about these guys, right? >> Yeah, they're notable. >> Yeah, >> this is um memory care at Greenfield. when they don't have a date, >> right? >> Oh, yeah.
>> Before or after 2026. >> The the most big date that we would >> fun so far. >> I would I think that that that alone should make it not >> disqualified. I agree. >> We have to be tough. >> Sorry guys.
>> Music. So they have >> the next two were music. Yeah. Music. Do you want to fund FundFest or the organization itself? Basically, >> I think that we should fund the organization >> which is
>> the first one. >> The first one. Yeah. >> And isn't that the one that's $1,000? >> Yeah. >> As long as I don't have to listen to the kids, Caroline. >> All right. So then and then not the next one. Not the next one. Okay.
The Arbor's patriotic concerts are short songs of America. I don't remember this at the Arbor. Oh, this is talking about >> it did say something about social justice issues like but I can't
>> $900 for musicians. That seems like a lot. >> We give them $300. But that's what I'm saying to you. >> I'm going into the narrative. JJ, >> I know
>> to see if what what that said. Um, concert pass out songstster patriotic music. The girl behind my country says of the Did we talk about this? >> Very briefly. I mean, just Yeah, they have a letter. Uh, >> oh, okay. It just passed through to the next.
>> It just Yeah, I I can't say I'm like wise. fanfare brass ensemble. Best and brightest musicians in Western New England. >> Yeah. >> Doesn't have a >> attached flyer. >> Fanfare brass ensemble. Sunday, June
14th, 3 p.m. The Arbors in Greenfield free and opens to the public. It's got a letter of support from the Arbors. >> What are they asking for? It's just paying their musician basis. >> 600 bucks.
>> Is that this one? Are we on 60? >> No, we're They're asking for a,000. Sorry. They're asking for $925. >> Oh, I see. >> I I vote 300. >> 300 bucks. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's not like for Springfield artists.
>> Um, Poor Fantasies Brewing. This is The Secrets of Sovereigns local trivia show and drag show. You know, I go 450, you know, >> in Greenfield. It's >> It's a show. >> It's a show. It's drag. >> Okay.
>> Pack Saxs. Um, >> nope. >> We're not senior center. Senior Center, Senior Center. And now we're down all the way to Council on Aging Being Cherish Classics. >> The Greenfield Public Library. Is that out to >> We took this guy out. Okay. Where? Yeah, let me test.
>> So, we just have >> So 570 is is out. >> No, 570 is not out >> even though it's at the Greenfield Senior Center. >> It's at the Greenfield Council on Aging Senior Center. >> That's a senior center. >> Yeah. So, this must have been a Greenfield artist
because we kept a Greenfield artist. >> Yeah. >> I just missed this when I missed it. >> Okay. So, let's zero it out. >> Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Shay supposed to be >> Shay's lounge. >> Shaya's lounge. Yeah.
>> Oh, yeah. There's there $1,200. >> I kind of want $1,000. >> Yeah. Thousands event. >> Should we give like us >> a line item in the budget? >> Uh, I'm thinking like >> give them half
>> like um like look at all the Shay events. No, this is an actual SHA event that's being produced by the SHA at the SH. >> I say, you know, give me give me the whole thing. It's a it's a fun event. >> Where are we at?
>> Or a thousand. >> We're at 16,380. >> And we're like close to the >> And we only have we have like maybe eight left after this one. Actually, I think maybe like seven. So, >> let's Can we push a thousand on them and then see what happens? >> We can always cut it back if we have to.
I don't know if we'll need to. Okay. >> Just point of order. It's 8 o'clock. Can we go for another 15 minutes? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um, >> here's the Silver Thorn Theater. >> $900. They're like an institution of theater. I feel like we want this exact kind of company.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. And it's it's the disenfranchised populations. What's that? >> Did you 900? >> Yeah. Give them their their ask. >> I guess the the the brick house one is kind of the same deal.
Yeah. The brick house one is like a it's a theatrical training program. >> Yeah. Um so it's not so it's not directly I don't know. >> It's not funding the actual performance itself. >> No it's performing the training of people to do theater.
>> You think we should cut it? >> I think if we have 500 bucks we could give them that. It's a it's a place that focuses on one of our 500 >> groups. Yeah. And we want to elevate, you know, so training is good. >> Yeah. We we
>> um people >> This is full snowmoon gathering for um Nabika. She g the whole thing. >> Yeah. >> What is this one? >> This is Nolan's festival. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> And then the Unity Park, I think, too.
>> They're only asking for 200. Jeez. 250. >> Okay. The James Dean Festival. Totally want to fund this, but not for 1500. >> Yeah. What's Oh, that's because it's the Garden Cinema. >> Yeah. 500. >> 500. 500. >> What did uh
what did Isaac uh email you about? I ran into him. >> He wanted to email me about the sign. He wanted to print a sign. I wanted to know if we should put our logo on. >> Right. Right. >> He said he should not put the logo on. >> Yes. Right. I was struck. I read that and then he ran into me the next day. >> Y'all got close. We're going to make it.
Yeah, your total budget's what? 22. >> Yep. >> So, we could fully fund these last two and still be under >> Okay, let's give them the consideration. So, Montigue World Music Festival. >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> So, 500 for them.
>> Shadow and happening for sure. 500. >> What's the exact amount? >> 21530 >> and we have 22 uh 22,000. Is it 222?
>> 22. Is that what it is? >> Ah, we have to get to the actual number. So, let's make sure that we confirm that. >> Yeah, I think we have a validation. >> I'm surprised it's not in this website says the 26 allocation is 20,200.
>> Oh, 20,200. >> 2200. >> So, it's 20,200. >> I thought it was And did we have extra money left over? Um, >> it did. >> I don't know what the account is for
this. I think it may have been that crossroads cultural. I don't know how much money we have. We haven't asked. So, we'd have to cut about 1,300. >> Can we provisionally cut the money and then see if we have a leftover money from last time? There are people
there was some leftover money. I just think that last year there was leftover money. Don't >> I don't know. I haven't been involved. >> Let's go to 20,200 and we'll just So we have to cut >> same thing. So let's see. >> I think like Chase Lounge. I love them,
but maybe less than a,000. >> Yeah. >> So >> can I see what the total is right now? I'm sorry. Can I see what the total is? >> Let's look at the four figure ones and look at who we can take off 1330 >> except for pride. >> 1330.
>> Nobody touches pride. So like >> All right. So >> do 750 for Sha's lounge. >> Um yeah, we can do >> which is which one? >> So number 80. >> Number 80. Okay, thank you. >> I'm going to do like addition on my
calculator. >> Do it. >> We're taking we're taking two. So we need another what? >> Now we're at 1080. >> Okay. >> So what's another big one? It's hard to cut. >> I know.
>> There was a bunch of others that I think we could cut. >> It's this one. Um, >> Greenfield Public Library craft series. >> The craft series. Yeah. >> Yeah. The 750. >> Yeah, we take 750 off a few of them or
250 off some. All we need to do is find five of them. >> Storefront. What about the storefront one too? Like we should look at that, too. >> Yeah. >> I I kind of want to >> You want to pay the mirrorless? >> I do, but like they can get $500. >> Longevity, too, though. Like, how long
are those windows going to be boarded up? >> No, but they're going to They have a plan to the art. >> We can take $100 off that, right? >> We take $200 off. Make a $500. Sure. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> $880.
Um, so, >> oh, Pride. No, I can't do that one. >> No, I think we should totally come. >> There's some other ones. >> What about the theater company? >> Silver. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Which number is that? Somebody help me. >> It's down towards
>> 81. Right there. >> 750. So, that's taking 150 off of it. Yeah. Ella, you're on it. Can you go off of this? >> 750.
>> Oh, that is not what you asked me to do. >> Sorry. >> No, I think that's Susan's on the >> So, that's taking 150 off, right? >> Right. >> 730. >> There were 20. >> We're $680. Oh, no. $440
over >> 440. >> Yeah. Uh, >> all right. Cal points line 152. I think we could go down to 500. That saves us another. >> Okay. >> Cut the puppeteers. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Cut the puppeteers.
>> Cut off the straw limbs. >> Cut the Cut the sticks in half. >> Maybe we could do slightly less on the boards are looking here. They're both getting 750. So maybe we could cut them down just a little bit. Even if it's by $50 each or something, that would save us a hundred. >> Maybe 600 each.
>> 100 each. >> Let's say let's piece each. >> Where are they now? >> 750. >> What is the line? >> Yeah, tell me the line. >> Oh, uh 54 and 56 >> 54. So that will go down to
67 or 650 and for each of those. Yeah. >> And the one right below. Um Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. On the boards to 650 and then the keys to 50. So it's $200 that we just saved, right? >> Yeah. >> So now we're at 140. >> Yeah.
>> What was the 94? >> We need to cut 140. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Oh, well it says we're at 380, but maybe that's not >> Yeah. So it's 180. We have to take off, right? >> We're supposed to get to 2200.
>> 380US 20,200. 20,2 need to cut another 180. >> 180. All right. >> We do like 9 900 instead of a,000 for $180. What is the reading about Jan's reading? >> 56. I don't know y'all if anyone wants
to fight for that. I just >> No, I I agree with you. >> Yeah. I mean, >> book teacher named the river. Oh, that's the reading for the book that already happened. >> Um, can we cut it all the way and give $20 to somebody else? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah,
>> that would be mine. >> Look at all the squares that are over there. Everybody's like hovering around her grant. >> Exciting. >> Who get All right. Who gets $20? >> Gives it to puppeteers. >> Yeah. Give it to Lucky here.
>> That is >> Wait, we're going to give them 10 extra dollars. >> I think we should give $20 to um on the boards. That's my >> Yeah, >> it's all going to these artists that are creating stuff. Looking here is like a party for their >> 53
or >> I don't think $20. >> Yes. >> And then there will now >> um Oh, I think just the one below us. So keep that one at 500 and then the one below would go up to 670. Yes.
>> Yay. >> Oh, look at that number >> 2200. >> Move to a journ. Right. >> Can I have a motion to approve these grant allocations as seen here in the spreadsheet? >> Sorry. Does Belle does Belle need to map
out or how does it work for the for one? >> Sorry, now that we got >> you can vote for all of them except for the fourth. >> Do it. >> Yeah. So, um to vote for the slate ex with the exception of the four that
Bella has abstained from. So to approve that slate. >> Motion. >> I'm Yeah. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I unanimous. >> Opposed. >> Did you get the motions again?
>> Oh, it's recorded. >> Um on the agenda >> and then we have one more thing on the agenda and then um Bella will abstain from this vote. >> Right. So um motion to approve the four the allocations that included Bella's
name on the >> Okay. and a second. >> Okay. Well, um second JJ. All those in favor. >> Um any opposion? >> Oh, yes. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> So, we have it. We have a docket. Um, we have one more thing that we quickly have to vote on, um, which is a extension request from Pulis Center, Teresa Kaine, to use her $700, uh, in fiscal year 2025 for the film project line, the Bay State Stories from Across
the Generation. She received the award. It just needs to get pushed forward. >> Can I have a motion to um, approve pushing it forward? >> So move. >> Marcel, can I have a second? Anybody? >> Second. Danielle, all those in favor of
pushing it through. Thank you. Any >> against? Any abstensions? Okay. Is so voted. Um and then one last one, I'm sorry, is would be the um the high school's world food program, right?
>> Um to be able to utilize their $570 in 2026. >> 597. Thank you for their 26 for their projects. Can I have a motion to move that forward to page 26? That Bella second.
>> Marcel. All those in favor? >> Any abstensions? No. Okay. So, done. Last but not least, a motion to adjourn this meeting. I'm sorry. What did >> we need to set any more meetings up for this? >> We do not need to set any for this time. Right. So, what's going to happen before
we adjourn? I'm sorry. What's going to happen now is Susan and I are going to go through this list and make sure that we're assigning the um reasons for denial. >> Thank you Susan. >> So that all that's a little bit of work to go through, but it doesn't require a vote for that to happen. So we we'll
take that on and get it done by the 31st and we'll u make sure that this gets all wrapped up and um you'll you'll get to see it like in its full glory. um will be able to close and then there is a period of two weeks where people can
contest after we deny them. Um and then it gets sent to the MCC January 15th or January 16th I think >> and then um we will do a press release and you know say all the things and hopefully put it up on the website. So that's kind of the the process. That's
cool. And I would just say like let's think about reconvening in March, let's say, right? I mean, to do a kind of offcycle meeting, but where we could talk about meeting with the library and the senior center, doing another survey. Yes. Like
I feel like yeah, we we had a really good state of doing we were meeting monthly for a while. Maybe over ambitious, but like yeah, I would say let's give ourselves a month or two up and then >> Okay. >> Yeah. Great. >> Okay. >> Okay. Okay. Motion to adjurnn.
>> Second. >> Um all those in favor and uh post any chair. Happy holidays. >> Bravo. >> Happy Hanukkah.