Good afternoon. I'm now going to call the Wednesday, November 12th, November 5th, 2025 meeting of the Naro County Commissions to order. I'm going to read the governor's proclamation on remote participation. On
March 28th, 2025, Governor Healey signed into law House Bills 6 and2, an act relative to extending certain COVID 19 measures adopted during a state of emergency, which included a 2-year extension of the option for public
bodies to hold remote meetings by send by suspending certain provisions of the mass open meeting law, general law, chapters 30A, sections 18 to 25. That action was effective immediately, extending the current option for remote
participation through June 30th, 2027. I'm going to ask everyone to stand and join me in saling the flag. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and
justice for all. >> Thank you. I'm going to call a role. Commissioner Stady, >> I'm present, sir. Commissioner Collins, Commissioner Shay is present. We have a order. We're going to skip executive session. Uh but now and if we have no
objection, I'd like to go to item number five. >> Sure, no problem. >> Commissioner stating item regarding the town of Canton can fire department regarding opioid grant program funding. Turn it over to you, Rich.
>> Thank you, uh, Mr. chairman and members of the board. I'm very pleased uh to introduce this afternoon uh for the audience and for our meeting we're very pleased to have the new fire chief of can well Rob uh beside him is Dr.
Michael >> Candace. >> Okay, I got that name almost just on the way over here and also is former chief and town manager of Canton Charlie Judy. Uh at the 911 ceremony, which I was very wanted to attend in Canton, I got talking to Chief Robory about some
things that maybe we could do to help him out. And he had mentioned he had a great program, but there was a need of some funding. Uh it's a bloodwarming program, and that's all I can say. I don't want to steal that thunder, but he said he had the need for some money. And so I said that perhaps we could be of some assistance in the county. I'm very
pleased that uh we were able to put our heads together and come up with some small funding for one of us. types of sleeve warmers that they use uh for their vehicles that go out and transport the blood, you know, to save people's lives. So, it's it's a great day, not just for can, but for the county that
they're called upon to help help other towns and they'll tell you about, you know, where they go and how far they go and things like that. So, I don't know if you wanted to give them a chance to say a few words. >> Yes, absolutely. >> Okay. And speaking, would you like to speak first? >> Yeah, sure. So, I >> You want to come up here and come up
here? It's okay. >> Sure. >> Uh, yes. So I can um uh the money that we um requesting is for the blood warmers. So uh recently the blood warmers that we use now have been discontinued >> and with that the tubing with the blood
warmers are discontinued. So they're not compatible now. So we need new blood warmers and uh basically that's where the money is going. We can use we reuse the blood warmers. It's the tubing that that um you have to get. So that's we
need the new blood lungs uh cuz the old luck that just continued. >> And I understand that there was a private donation in ultra from someone in the town that there is definitely named anonymous. Yes. >> But this will this will purchase the third one. >> Exactly. >> And it's in conjunction with you're
going to get a partial grant from the Kansas Association of Business. >> They're going to donate some money at Christmas time or at the holiday party and then they'll have enough to buy the things you need which is great. >> That's great. We appreciate that. That's fant. >> How about the doctor? Do you want to
call him the doctor? Say a few words. >> Well, Bla, we we were talking on the way over about this fascinating program. This is kind of new though, right? >> It's it's brand new to the Commonwealth. Um, actually Northeast and New England has no services up until the last year,
2024. Uh, nowhere in the Northeast was doing this. Um, it's something they were doing down in Texas. It's from military data. Um what we did is we took the clinical data and the clinical treatment of patients which we do in the emergency room, brought it out to the field and we
operationalized it through the fire department in the regional dispatch center and we use it as a shared resource to the area around Northolk County going to Bristol County sometimes. And the way we set it up is we have uh two units of whole blood
which is the best blood to give if someone's bleeding out and losing blood. We give that to create a bridge to get the patient from the scene of injury to the operating room at a level one trauma center. So, we're able to get the patient who who may go into cardiac
arrest and then be forced to go to a community hospital where they cannot be worked on, give them blood, get a get them through the stage of shock, get the pulse back, get them to a level one trauma center where there's a trauma team standing by and they can go right to the O. So, we're we're saving a lot of time in the golden hour that they
talk about. Um, but we're allowing the tissues to be profused, the brain to be perused, the heart, keeping the patient alive long enough to get to the hospital. And this is exciting because this is the only advancement really in trauma care since, you know, the 1970s
when paramedics started. And even then, we went through mass dance, different types of devices and everything that never played out. This is what you do in the emergency department. It's not till now that we have the technology to store the blood remotely. The Canton Fire Department is an agreement with Boston
Medical Center in Boston with their blood bank. It's a a satellite blood bank for Boston Medical Center. They carry two units of blood at the station. Um, it's probably not the most efficient way to do it. If if I had all the money in the world, I would set it up so we
have two paramedics on standby for a region that are available to go out and respond immediately to a call. You have active shooter calls. You have Metroleac um call outs where the police department needs force protection if one of their officers get shot. Um they would need
blood to replace being lost just as a bridge to get them to the O so they can survive. Without the blood brain's going to die, the tissues, the kidneys are going to die. They're going to what we call coagulopathic, which means they might make it to the O, but the surgeon will start trying to sew up the wound
and they'll just bleed out right on the table. When we replace blood, we're replacing what carries the oxygen. We car we replace platelets. We replace clotting factor. And that allows the wounds to heal. So we're actually we're not creating what we're not fixing the
trauma. We're just creating the bridge to keep them alive to get to the ER. So by putting the blood in Canton, that allows us to intercept with different areas of the of the of uh North County. Um, for instance, we found this incident
that occur in Brockton. Initially, they were being dispatched to the scene in Brockton. We discovered that it would be better to set up intercept points along the highway to go to. So, Brockton Bridgewwater somewhere gets a major trauma. There needs to be a level one trauma center. They contact North County Communications. Norfolk County
Communications dispatches the per the transfusion team. They get the blood. They put in the truck. They go out and they meet them along 95 90 or 24. If they get there and there's a delay, they they go towards the ambulance. They meet up. We've done this. We've done the
stats of last year. The the biggest delay is three minutes. They they meet the [clears throat] ambulance. They already know they're going with them whether they need the blood or not. They get in the back, they start the transfusion on the way. >> Um the time from injury to the point of arrival at the hospital is about average
29 minutes. So there's no delay in this. Any blood that's not used, it gets we can store it for up to 27 days. If it doesn't get used, it gets brought back to Boston Medical Center, replaced. That blood gets broken up into its components and there's absolutely no waste. So, we
either use it or there's no but we found actually we're using it at least once a month. >> So, we've gone out >> I think in last year, geez, we've gone out like almost 91 times. We've used it [clears throat] >> 30 35 times. The last time we used it
was a call in uh Milton where the guy was actually had couple had amputation. They required multiple tourniquets. That patient would have probably bled out on scene or short before getting to the hospital. He probably would went to a local hospital. Instead, they not only took him to a trauma center, but they
bypassed a local trauma center to get him to the trauma center that can do reimplantation. So, he had his limbs reimplanted and he's lost, I think, one limb, but he's alive. um is doing well. The first patient was actually in Brainry uh June 29th, 2024 like 2 in the
morning. They got called out to a major car accident with this prolonged extracurric um they gave him blood. He became alert and oriented and rude. They were able to get him to the O and he survived. >> Wow. >> Well, so a couple of quick questions to help us out. I should have asked you.
What's your background? What's your title? So you talk to >> um EMS medical director for a group of towns in the area >> for your EMS director and that's and this is a fairly this is a new component right and again the emphasis is not just for Canton it's for county shared
resource it's a shared resource we're fortunate enough you know talking Charlie Dy at the beginning and and Wendell um >> to to you know present this to Ken select board and everybody and [clears throat] the union and everyone's agreement that this is something worthwhile. So Canton is actually
putting out resources in not really getting anything in return but fast. Um we're the first in the state and we're saving lives. We've you know seen patients come out come back to the station and talk to them. >> They would have probably does this
require sorry does this require the medical people to have specialized training? Yes. You mentioned something about the people that >> Yeah. So we selected >> beyond paramedic they got special training. >> Correct. So these are paramedics that we selected. We we tried to select the uh best of the best in can um and then we
took them into Boston Medical Center. We trained them in, you know, blood transfusions, blood products, went to use them. There's some risk. We talked about the risk and the benefit and everything. Went to use it. We found that initially like some of the push back we'd get would be, okay, you're putting it something new, a new toy on
the on the truck, they're going to give it to everyone. These paramedics, they we found that they they're giving it appropriately. When they don't need it, they're not giving it. We've gone out, like you said, like 90 times, giving it like maybe 30 something. So, they're appropriately holding when they don't need it and giving it when they need it.
>> Is it on a specialized truck? I'm just curious. >> So, we all the ambulances. >> Well, it has to be on it has to be on an ambulance. Okay. We have a class 5 ambulance. It's basically non-transporting ambulance that we use uh that fully equipped to do all ALS
care. And uh we have special equipment though bags uh keep it cold and then everything is carried in a bag and we put it on the truck like we stick out. >> Wow. >> Fantastic. Really? >> Yeah. Give me some calls. >> Um so I'm just curious. So I know that
there are many different blood types and you have to be careful about that. So do you have to carry all the different types? >> Nope. Nope. So it's funny because online if you listen trolls but if you listen to people like commenting online that's one of the things that they said well you're delaying things typing screen we
use what's called O positive blood so O negative is a universal donor but through research and everything we found that O positive we it's called low tighter meaning there's less antibodies in there to cause a reaction uh we use that and the chances of a reaction >> I thought there positive
>> oh well o positive is much more prevalent O negative is very rare type. So useful positive. So the answer is we don't have to worry about typing any screen. >> Great. >> And what's the biggest risk? >> What's the big in terms of state level? What's your next goal? I mean I know so canon has one but is there some you're
looking to get something in the north? >> So my goal Yeah. So my goal right now in this area so what I was trying to show and chief duty chief W trying to show that we could operationalize it. I think the clinical data is out there that shows that it's something that we can do
for patients. It'll save lives. So, how do we operationalize it? Everyone can't have blood. Um, having it on every ambulance isn't really feasible. So, if you have a shared resource among the towns to do it, um, so we elected to put up in Canton because we're at the corner
of 9524 and 128. Uh, every ambulance going into Boston usually is going through that area. So, we put it in that area. we more likely to intercept the patients that way. My goal is to put it down in Mansfield down the other end of 95 because those patients go towards
property. So now we've covered the whole corridor of 95,495 and 128. They actually made it to a call that's coming out of Dover up on Route 9. >> Wow. >> They they met up with Dover's handlers on the way that Beth is railro county.
It's okay. They they take care of the county. chief duty or manager duty. Would you like to say anything at all? >> Real real brief commissioner. >> Yeah, >> that's nice. Do um I just want to thank the commissioners obviously and director Cronin as well for the support for the
the kids blood blood program. It is um so new and it's really not been done in the northeast before. So to try to get support, particularly financial support, it's been really difficult, but we see it as such a resource for the county. Um it's clearly working and saving lives,
many lives. So that struggle is ongoing. So we we appreciate the support that that you've given us. Uh and we will put those funds to good use and uh it will undoubtedly save lives. So thank you all very much. >> Fantastic.
>> Well, we made the motion last week to approve the funding for the grant. I was wanting to do that with my colleagues and uh the check is supposedly in route but would you mind with the chair's permission if we took a quick photo in recess for a minute do a picture and then >> then they don't have to you know
>> sit through the rest of me. >> Would you mind if we do that just a quick recess in a recess a photo outside quick picture and then we'll let you be on your way but great job really very interesting to learn about this. >> It is fantastic program very happy and good to see it.
>> I'll take a motion a fiveminute recess. All right. So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I We're in recess for 5 minutes. >> Thank you very much. We're back to our November 5th, 2025 meeting, >> regular regular uh
weekly meeting. And I'd like to stay on item number five. If no one objects, which is appointments, we did the town of Canton Fire Department. Yeah. And we have an appointment today with our team from Wallist Recreation Facility
G Miner and Sabro and I'd like to have them come up. They'll take care of that. So folks, come on up. >> John, you want to sit? >> Thank you, Mr. >> Um John, I'm going to ask you to just synopsize the purpose of this visit and
we'll take it from there. >> Sure. Thank you, chairman. Good afternoon, commissioners. the uh golf course through Carl and Sue has had u a bit of a pivot season with a new golf pro on board. Um I've asked Carl to come in and give the commissioners an update as they wind down the season which has
about another month of golf to go. Um but there's been some changes and some favorable results which I think are in your packet. In addition, there's been some um work done at the golf course uh from ARPA funding to improve some of the tennis courts. Um we asked Patrick
Higgins your surveyor to kind of take the lead on that as it was involved a fair amount of engineering and Patrick's done great work over the last 6 months uh working with the vendors uh and getting the work done. So he's here to address uh sort of the status of that pro project which is also in your packet. So uh without further ado I'll
I'll defer back to you Mr. Chairman but uh it's a pleasure to see Carl and Sue have done a wonderful job this year for your W recreational facility. >> Thank you. Okay, why don't we have Patrick do his overview and we'll go right into the rest of us here. Hi Patrick.
>> Hey Chairman Sh, how you doing? >> Fine. Um the the golf course is uh nearing project is nearing completion. We've replaced course one and two fully. Um most of the gates I would say 80% of the gates have been replaced with ADA compliant access gates uh to the
exterior. Um the practice court uh has been resurfaced. The practice wall has been uh resurfaced and painted. Um we have four new access points that are ADA compliant to the the ports one and two. The practice port and ports 9 and 10.
And then from Evan Street side, we have new sidewalks that come in that are ADA compliant. Um from the Evans Street sidewalk to ports uh 3 through 8. So those are all improvements there. There'll be new ADA ramps. People will notice when they drive through there's new 88 ramps and uh for parking and and
uh loading and unloading and also crosswalks at two locations where the sidewalks um people coming in from end street or from the um the from the tennis courts going going to the the golf would need access to it.
That's that's about it. We're at a >> substantial completion and we have a small punch list of items. Um we're waiting for like a handrail for the new stairs right there. Uh there were a couple of uh water uh drinking fountains that were out of service, so we had
those removed. Um but these are all new improvements for um access. So the state does have a handrail that's coming. It's on getting painted now. They're being that's course one and two >> and completely ripped down to the base. ripped down with the base completely
compacted uh a new base course and finish course and uh from what I understand there's three applications for what you see there for the finish. So um we have uh CSS architect is the um architects that that we house architect
that we're using with Gail who is used to doing sports uh athletic facilities. That's the practice uh part there with the wall. How long is the surface good for that uh gone there? >> When does it have to be? >> I think it's it's it's depends. I I
think the surface should that one should last at least up to 8 8 to 10 years. And I'm hoping typically when we we've been res uh the last time the course were rebuilt like this was in the '90s and probably about every 5 to 6 years once you get cracks in them and water gets underneath then we've been resurfacing
them with uh with repairs and then and then sealant on top. So, uh, this this should last, I'm hoping 8 to 10 years and then from there on we do resurfacing every 5 to six. >> What's the makeup of those? We can go back those little pickle ball courts there. Is that turf material?
>> No, it's it's it's pavement between this asphalt and then it's it has the first base course is like a a sand epoxy filler that fills all the voids on the pavement. So, it's smooth, but it still has a grit and >> and then the finished coats on top. >> Wow. And the line strip.
>> They look great. We worked with Carl to pick out the colors. They were amendable and it kind of match in with the rest of the the tennis courts. Um, so it was good. We worked really well with Carl and enjoyed the process. >> Are these being used now, Patrick?
>> No. Um, we're we're going to have the uh posts and the the nets put in as a test run and then have them immediately taken out. Uh because it's winter time, they close them down for the winter. So, uh, yeah. So next spring. >> Yeah. Okay. Everybody's ready to open.
Do >> they get covered up during the winter? From the winter snow or ice? No. >> Oh, they they get so nice on them. Yeah. >> I know. No. Do you cover them up? No. Okay. And >> the way they're designed originally from the I think it's 1975 76. They all have
sheet flow diagonally across the courts and there's a two drain catch basins in the middle of the middle court that catches the the two ends are elevated at both ends uh one and two, 9 and 10. they drain down to the lower courts and the lower courts drain to catch places that are down below.
>> Yeah. >> Commissioners, one thing that Patrick mentioned, but I think bears some um accent is the the the safe path of travel has now been completely looped and cleaned. Prior to the work that was done on the courts, pedestrian walking,
say from the clubhouse had to navigate a variety of different improvised paths to get there. We've now installed, as he mentioned, new sidewalks that are ADA compliant that bring them all the way back in the loop to the pathway that takes you down from the clubhouse. So,
it's now a safe uh pedestrian access point that as Bill is pointing out right there that uh pedestrians can now use. That was sort of an extension of the project that we thought was beneficial to the front of the house there. >> And re recently, within the last couple years, the um city had repaved Evans
Streets. And when they did that, they did new curbing and sidewalk out on the Evans Street, the public road coming in. They had done uh new concrete sidewalks. So, we've connected to those and and then they can get from the C from Evans Street right to the course directly or come around if you're in a wheelchair,
you can access the the playground that we placed a few years ago or or the courts or to the clubhouse. So, it's it's fully compliant coming in from the public walking in from Evan Street. >> Mr. Chair, can I ask a question? Sure. For you. So you mentioned something that
you said we're almost done. We're not quite done. So and cold weather's coming. You winter's coming you sooner than later. Will you get it done before winter or we're going to have to put off till those spring? >> I'm inspecting all the details. So we have a a small punch list that we're working off of and it's time dependent
and temperature dependent on what the contractor can do. >> Yeah. >> But it's it's really close. We can >> Okay. Okay. Fingers crossed. Sometimes in November we have a >> I know I know
>> what date when does the course close? >> December 10th. >> December 10. >> Yes. >> I thought it was next week. I'm missing the boat here. >> A lot more time left. >> More call. >> Thank you commissioners. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Thank you Carl. >> Yeah. Wonderful. Carol move. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um purpose [clears throat] of this meeting is an update. >> It is Carl report whatever we want to call >> Carl has other updates for you relative
to capital as soon as updates on. >> All right. And then if we'll have some questions and then we'll move on after >> Kyle whenever you open up and go from there. Thank you. Um, I just want to say I'm very happy with um, Sue Calabro and
um, Todd Solomon, the assistant golf course superintendent who doing fabulous job this year and um, they've been pleasure to work with. Um, >> the course conditions this year were um,
great. Um, can't say anything better about them. We've had a lot of compliments about them. um Sue ran the Norfick County Classic and Forball this year and um went off without a hitch. Um over the winter we'll be um looking
at a possible rate increase for green fees and um we haven't had one since 2024. So we're going to look at that again this winter. Um, there's been $50,000 allocated for
the irrigation study. I have a list of uh consultants. I've narrowed it down to four and Todd Solomon and myself will be um interviewing them and we'll get one on board. Um there's $74,000
for project money. Um I don't have a project at at the moment. Um but there is a lot of tree work to be done. Um the ash trees have been um attacked by the emerald ash bore which
um and they've taken out nine trees and these are trees that um we can't uh handle. Um so that might be part of what that money goes to. And also there's also a a dump where we put all our brush
and logs that need to be um taken out. It's very unsightly. It's in the middle of the golf course pretty much. Um we used to burn it every year, but we haven't done a burn since uh I believe 2017. >> So [clears throat] um that needs to be
taken care of. Um other than that, that's that's about it for me. >> Okay. Hello commissioners. I have here today. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Um I have the revenue part of how the golf twisted. I'm not sure if I already got this sheet. I think it's in your
packet. Um 2024 did over 1 million 81691 and this year 2,016256 where we stood um from last year to this year. We ended at November 1st cuz that's what we're up at. Uh I attribute
a lot of the revenue being up. Um, one of the changes I tried to implement with working with Kyle stuff I noticed right away was um, rounds played in 2024 was over 37,000. This year it was up it was 37056. This year we jumped around 700
rounds up to 37793. I attribute that cuz one of the things I noticed right away is people calling and saying they had a hard time getting tea times. We have a very active membership which is super cuz that's your shoulder season, the support in the offseason going into the busy season. Uh the cheat times were uh
you could call 48 hours in advance. I extended that to a week in advance. So I think that really helped capture more players and uh make use of the time of day that we have as the season winds down. You want to capture June, July and August when we have so much daylight, maximize the golf course with leagues
and from from dusk to when you know from dawn to dusk that that place was busy. Um outings are very good source of revenue. We generated over 116,000 just in outings alone. These figures don't include the c revenue um cuz I'm not sure what you know we get a certain
split of it. So I did basically just the greens fees and people on course but we there was 17 outings in 2024. Um I booked a few more so we had 20 in 2025. Next year I booked an additional three. So we're up to 23 next year. We love to
run these. There's one on a weekend but that's been grandfathered in. These folks have done it forever. the sushi one. Uh great family. Um a lot of them we love to run on Mondays. That's a little slow day. So I think 80% of our outings were on Mondays and then we
utilize Friday uh for the other ones. Um John, director Cronin had asked me to start a demographic thing this summer to see when people check in uh where they came from, where they live. And 90% of our golfers come from Boston, like Dorchester area, Quinsey, Brainree,
Weimoth, Canton, and Randolph. The other 10% would be somebody visiting. Um, in that case, they usually call me about a month in advance. Hey, we'll be there on vacation. Can we get about 14 times? And we always accommodate that because we want these people to come back if they have a great experience. They're vacationing in Boston. We want them to
play presidents. Um, that pretty much summed up our year. Looking forward to next year. Kyle and I have tossed around the different ideas to increase more revenue. Um, now that I got my feet wet this year was a bit of a roller coaster, but it was a lot of fun. Love coming to work every day. Yeah,
>> love talking to Kyle first thing in the morning. It was uh it was dynamite and thank you very much for the opportunity >> and looking forward to next year. >> So, in layman's terms, are we $200,000 ahead of last year? Is that >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. I got on the sheet. We're up.
Everything's up. >> I know. I looked at some figures from couple of years prior too. They're in that package. >> That's good. >> Yeah. And I I also gave >> trending up. >> Trending up. I also gave dire director cron the detailed the report is very detailed but um as far as did you take a
look at that as far as the golf shop revenue on that side it's up I >> thought it was 20% >> it's like 20% I mean so we really increased it that's kind of a tough sell because we can sell it as the same as somebody can online dick sporting goods
so for people to come here and um start buying stuff home is great another thing we took on board is the used golf balls which for we probably sold 5,600 and at no cost to us. They come and they um
they dive the pond on 15 um we get 10% of what they pull out and we resell it for $125 a ball. So that was easy money and that's all I have. >> Not not trying to put you on the spot. I'm just curious. I remember last year I
think we had a county advisory board meeting and the Quinsey and Timmy Cahillo was the chairman at the time so it might about a year ago cuz he's down he's now in charge of Southshore but the Quincy Chamber of Commerce had an outing and they were very pleased. Did they come back this year? Yes, they did.
>> They did. Yeah, they were fantastic. They were wonderful. Look Tim left. He's he passed the torch to somebody else but they were they couldn't believe how good it was. They raved about it. >> Yeah. know, uh, they're they're a lot of fun and the way I look at it is, you know, anybody can go anywhere. So, it's the hospitality we're going to give them
and, you know, a great make it a great day for them. I mean, everybody's there to do a charity, whether it's raising money for a county or, you know, someone in a hospital or somebody that's passed away. It's just they're a lot of fun working with people like that. But, they were fantastic because they did say we're new at doing this. So, um, between
myself and Billy and Kyle, we just walked them all through it. But um as far as the golf course goes, just to piggyback on that, the people that played in the North County Classic in May, then came back and played the football in October, they said it was amazing the difference in the golf course and the greens. >> Wow.
>> Everybody that have played there in the past said it was um it was a great experience. >> Just an idea, just food for thought when you're germinating over a cup of coffee in the winter and think of things to do. I know the Aggie has a golf team. I'm pretty sure they do. And I know there's
a lot of schools in the area that have golf teams. I'd like to see if we figure out a way to maybe help out the Aggie or other schools that may want to use use our court in some way. Might be a nice thing, you know. >> Yeah, we um we just took on
>> Archbishop's Williams. Okay. We have um we have we have Font Bond, the golf team there. Fontborn's only spring. >> Um took on Archbishop spring and fall and we have uh North Quinsey there in the fall. Um the the pro we have leagues every single night and of course the schools play on Monday and Wednesday at
three, right? >> Um so I've worked with the leagues that when the kids are going to be there, they take a step back and let the kids tee off first because that's the future of the game. We want to have the kids there. >> So I'm sure we can work something we can kick around. >> Yeah, if we utilize the back n there's
always ways to get creative. >> I know John, you might know through the chair where's the Aggie player match up. Do you know >> I was just I think it's a it's a country club in Norwood and like Norwood country they get plastic golf balls >> and then sometimes we stay on campus and last >> if we can help them out that'd be
>> okay. Oh good. >> Okay. >> Well, great job. >> Commissioners, Carl also sent some course picks. Um Bill's brought them up for unity so you can see. >> Oh yeah. >> As Sue echoed, it's in tremendous shape. That's a fairway shot. Um I believe you had a couple in that picture skiing
Carl. That's the 18th hole. We'll come to the clubhouse. You take these pictures, skull, >> I did. Yeah, they could. >> The only one up. Good. That's reflective of the whole course call. I presume it's all >> It's all
>> greened up back. >> Yep. >> Looks great. >> Really does. Is it safe to say if our ship came in prioritize spending that irrigation is number one still? >> Yes.
>> We got to keep got to look. We got to long as we're all on the same page. But >> keep your revenues know the story. >> We will keep keep bumping them up. >> It's going to be better next year. Trust me. >> Not the pressure on you, you know. No, I you know, halfway through this halfway through the season, I said to Kyle, you
know, [clears throat] you want to take baby steps because there's so many people that have been there for so many years, right? They take baby steps with the change that's going to benefit everybody. But there are changes with the association that's going to increase revenue and have already had the meetings with the presidents of the men's and ladies and totally on board with some of the
changes we want to do next year. >> So, looking forward to that. >> Good. And it's all weather to tendant, too. Got to got to remember that, right? >> Yeah. Right. The early rain say this was a great night in the summer. Was the weather a good hot but
>> you know didn't get a lot of rain, right? So >> a lot of sunny days. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. A lot of just a few Saturdays in the spring. >> It was there was some rain but other than that it was fantastic. >> Okay. Last call on the golf course. Good job. >> Nice job. >> Would it be appropriate to ask Carl to
come back? um you know prior to budget time to talk about rates and fees and any changes proposed for the next 12 season. Would you like to see >> Can we set the rates before we do the budget? We do >> generally >> um at the same time pretty much. >> Okay. Yes.
>> Yes. If any >> if you're looking at market changes and fees and so forth um we can bring that forth in the spring. >> Okay. >> Or late winter. >> Great. Sounds good. >> Okay. Last call. Anything else? >> No. Great job. Thank you. >> Oh, golf. Okay. Thank you a lot. Thank
you very much. See you. That completes letter number five. >> Uh I'd like to go [clears throat] back and take care of the minutes and then go to executive session. >> All right. >> And we have one introduction before we go to executive session. >> Uh Mr. Chairman, if you want, I'd be
pleased to move approval of the open session meeting minutes for October 22nd as presented. I did rejoice. Second >> motion made in second to approve the minutes of October 29th, 2020. >> 22 >> 22 >> 22. >> Okay, I got
>> inverted. That's all right. >> I know I did 22. >> All in favor of October 22nd. >> I >> It is a vote. Next, >> chairman, I'll move approval of the meeting minutes for the open session of October 29th as presented. >> Second. >> Motion made seconded to approve the open
session meetings of October 29, 2020. Thank you. Uh, I just want to jump off. >> Yeah. All in favor? >> All in favor? >> I just want to jump off and introduce Gerard Foy. Gerard, come on up and have a seat.
>> Gerard Foy is commissioners. >> As of Monday, past Monday, our new uh employee, what do we call him? >> Human human resource. >> Human resources director. and uh he comes to us with a great
resume and uh I know John and uh the previous human resource director spent a lot of time and effort interviewing people and after a worldwide search we settled on a Franklin Mass individual
>> Gerard is here and uh come in and say hello. >> This your first week? >> Uh yes, it's my third day. >> Third day. Oh, first day. Oh, third day. Monday. Okay. >> So, hello and >> thank you. I I'm glad to be here and
look forward to uh you know getting everything going here and pitching in and doing what uh country director John Conan wants and uh what you guys need to do and uh you know
keep keep things going and improve everything and um you know just uh support everybody here. Look, if you don't know, the prior HR person with the help of John and others, we did a a complete revision of
our personal handbook. I want to take a good look at that. Maybe dust off the old ones. You'll see some differences. >> Yes. >> Because occasionally there seems to be some >> instances where people still haven't seen that there's a difference between the old and the new. If you know what I'm saying. So, look at the old as well as the new one. Absolutely. That will
help you maybe moving forward a little. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. >> Just a thought. >> Yes. Absolutely. But uh it's great to have you. It's exciting. >> Great beard. You know, >> um our uh interim HR director, Michael McGovern, will remain for the rest of this week and into next week
>> to complete the transition uh with Gerard, but we wanted to put a face with the name. >> Um pleasure to have him on the board. A lot of work to do, so >> looking for users. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Dad.
>> Thank you, Comm. Welcome aboard. Thank you. To North County. All right. Good. >> All right. Great to meet you. Thank you, Eric. >> You want to go? Should we go a little? >> Yeah. You want your ex? >> Can we do public or
>> What do you want to do a few more? >> Scotsswag. >> Okay. That's what I thought. Number three, executive session. >> We're going back. >> Yeah. I'd like to go back and we can get into executive session. >> You don't want to make sure I'll make the motion to go in executive [clears throat]
law chapter 38 section 21 subsection 8 subsection 3 discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a definable effect on the bargaining litigating victims of public body and the chair so declares. >> I'll second the motion presented by commissioner college as read.
>> Motion made and seconded [clears throat] take a roll call vote to go into executive session. We will be returning for the remainder of our November 5th regular meeting. Commissioner Sty, >> uh, yes, I vote yes. >> Commissioner Cons, >> yes. >> Commissioner Shay will Yes.
>> We are in executive session. If you make plans bill, thank you. We're back on the record on our November 5th, 2025 meeting of the North County Commissioners. Gentlemen, I'll call your attention to
item number six is where we left off and we went into executive session. Item number six is public comment. Each week at our meeting, we allow public comment. Whether you come in in person or you are listening on the Zoom. So, if there's anyone out in the Zoom who has any
public comment, now is the time to bring it up. Yes, sir. Seeing none. Director Croner, do you have any? >> No, sir. >> Notified you. >> Last call for public comment.
That concludes public comment. Number seven, old business. We have none. Number eight, personal matters for consideration. We have several from the agricultural school commissioner stadium. >> Yes, Mr. Chairman. I have several. We'll
through best we can. um summer resignation, summer retirement. So we have first the uh notice of resignation for Danielle Camarano as camp horse instructor at the race stated effective date 102425. So moved.
>> Second motion made second. All in favor? I. >> Thank you. >> Move approval or retirement of Gary Muse building maintenance supervisor at the rate stated effective date 121525. So moved. >> Second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I. It is a vote next
>> approval of contingent employment for Samantha Reynolds as substant instructor at the rate stated effective 11625. So move >> second motion made in second with all in favor. >> I it is approved. Thank you. >> Move approval and notice of regrade
Kim [clears throat] Kimberti Brenton a special ed professional at the rate state effective 11525. So moved. >> Second. >> Motion remains seconded. All in favor? It is a vote. Next, >> I move approval of resignation of Kurt
Buckman as animal science for person at the rate stated effective 111625. So moved. >> Second post remain second. All in favor? I [clears throat] next >> move approval of notice resignation of Olivia McCann as students summer camp
and at the rate stated effect of 103125. So moved. >> Second. Motion seconded. All in favor? I >> I. Next, >> I'm going to move approval of the resignation for Sheamus Michael Mcurten uh and also of Nicholas Stubs, both of
student labor rate stated and both dates 10:3125. So moved. >> Second. >> Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I It is a vote. >> Move approval of resignation of Caroline Troutman student labor race dated effective 103125. So move second.
>> Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I a vote next >> move approval of resignation of Paige Snider as student summer camp stated effective date 103125. So moved. >> Second. >> Motion made and seconded. All in favor for a vote.
>> Last one I believe move approval of notice of resignation for Grace Cunning Kmah for student summer camp. The rate stated effective 103125. So move second. >> Motion made and seconded. All in favor. >> All right. That completes the uh uh
personnel mask. >> Thank you. Welcome. >> Back to Commissioner Stadium. Nine. Payroll expense of approval. All >> right, Mr. Chair, we have four for a warrant list of 11525. First, uh item 26-18 of approval of the payroll of the
county for the sum $145, $18.75. So move. >> Second. >> Motion made second. All in favor? I vote. Next. >> Next. I move approval for 11-0126 the expense of the county the sum of
$51,344.73 so moved >> second motion made and seconded all in favor >> I >> it is move >> next I move approval of 26-05 expense of the school to sum 133,89.36 so moved
>> second motion made and seconded all all In favor >> I go. >> And finally, the Walter Recreational Facility Credit Kai payment 11-525 moves approval of sum $30,71. So moved.
>> Second. >> Motion made second. All in favor? >> Please. >> Thank you. Number 10. Report from the procurement department >> for bid openings and or any contact awards. Good afternoon, Moren. >> Hello. >> You tell us about what we have here. So,
we have two very minor contracts. One is for actuarial services uh through Sherman actuarial and it's just 4 hours of work that we'd like to get approved. And the second is um a very brief
carpentry contract to finish up the ladies room at Ren Courthouse. So, we found a carpenter that's licensed and can do the work for us. >> Okay. Let's take them one at a time. Okay. >> Personal is a approval of a contract for
actuality services from Sherman Associates. The background explanation is here. I think the director who can speak for himself uh has been working with the North County retirement board relative to the county's amount we put in for our people and
other cities and towns on the same issue. Uh John has reached out and uh spoken to this uh person and a limited amount of resources. John thinks I need to we can
help to have information when we explain it a little better and help talking about actual services. I don't need we don't need to get too much but that's what that's about. >> This does u provide for 4 hours of work and then four additional if needed.
Correct. >> Correct. No, not to exceed. Right. >> Four plus four if needed. Exced. Right. Okay. So, unless there's any questions. >> No. Any questions? >> All right. I'll move approval of the to award the contract from the county commissioners to Sherman Actwell of
Services LLC. um where located to promote provided actual cost consulting services as requested uh as pertains to uh different components of the county retirement system. The the
rate stated is 250 an hour and normally 4 hours with no additional hours if needed. I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Motion made and seconded. All in favor? Sherman Sims. Second part of this, it's a contract for some carpentry work to be
done at >> Retham Court before the snowflies. We don't have a top right now, but >> yeah, Commissioner, if I could um this um is an urgent item. We have an urgent need for carpentry work at Rethm District Court, not wait. So, we're asking for you to approve it uh under
this week's agenda item. Um under this week's agenda, excuse me, as an item of urgent need. Please. Thank you. >> Right. Uh with that, I would make the motion, Mr. Chair, if you want to uh approve
this uh emergency situation to approve the work for Ryan Love Construction where I copy services after rent court uh to finish the lower level bathroom remodeling work at the rate stated not to exceed the sum of $9,999
and all the other particulars in terms of against the charis. the work to be completed before the end of the year. Correct. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. Have to have that. >> He's aware of it. He's going to come right in. >> I'll second. >> Motion made and seconded on the
commentary work at Quom District Court of $9,999 not to exceed work to be done immediately. All in favor? >> How is the search going for the Apenter? That's not >> okay. Great. Okay. >> Any reports of it? Right.
>> All right. All right. Anything else you have to [clears throat] >> All right. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Hey, we're going to get your signature on this one. Okay. >> That later. >> All right.
This is the capital. Okay. Okay, who's that? 11 of the county director. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a few items. Uh, Commissioners, um, to Commissioner Stady's remarks on the questioning of the, uh, status of
carpenter interviews. Uh we will be conducting I believe a total of five interviews this uh this Wednesday, tomorrow throughout the day. Um I think I previously mentioned we got quite a few resumes um for this position. Uh we see some very promising candidates ahead
of us. Uh so we will conduct the interviews tomorrow and if needed a second interview round will be uh used to kind of settle things up if we don't find a a front runner. Um similarly the RSVP volunteer coordinator um hiring process has proceeded. They've conducted
the first round of um Zoom related interviews to screen candidates. They have two preferred candidates coming in also tomorrow for uh interview and we'll see how far that takes them. If further interviews are needed, they'll do it. But right now they're looking at two
more tomorrow. And then finally uh just a notice to the department heads who may be listening. Phil and Tosska will be sending out a notice on Monday, November 10th, alerting them of the upcoming deadline for submitting supplemental transfer needs with the December 17th advisory board meeting. As you probably
know, the commission has received and act upon any requests um on the week before, December 10th, and with a holiday in the middle, we thought we'd give people adequate notice to um uh submit their needs um shortly. So, watch for the email from Phil and the directions to uh file supplemental
transfer ease for the upcoming um advisory board meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Anything else for John? Any other questions? >> Um no, I think that everything.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. on the 12 emergency topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate to be discussed. Now is the time I have none. Uh Commissioner Stady, please.
>> Yeah. Really quick, uh I happen to see something in the newspaper that we all belong to the National Association of County Commissioners >> and they had said they were asking everybody to urge in support of our veterans. next week where Veterans Day is coming up to shine a green light in
your porch or your house or something of that effect. So, just put it out there. I mean, people have their own way of honoring our veterans. It's a wonderful thing, but I guess they're saying go green and show green light. That's just what they That's bring it up. Nice thought >> and um very pleased how we did today
county with that medical procedure. I was appreciate all the work that was done to help out make that facilitated. Appreciate that great deal. No, we have the Aggie tonight. We have We have the no Aggie meeting tonight. >> Oh, yeah. So, they go to school meeting tonight.
>> 6 o'clock, right? Correct. >> We'll be there. >> Yeah, that was it. >> Okay, last call. Anything else? I'll take a motion to adjourn. >> Now, let's get the right time. >> So, I'll move we adjourn at 2:42. >> Second.
>> 2:42 p.m. Thank you. >> Motion to adjourn and seconded. All in favor? >> I. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much.