--------- set to go there. John, who's Jay Cocker? All set, sir. Good afternoon. I'm now going to call the Wednesday, May 14th, 202 meeting of the NF County Commissions to order. I'm
going to read the motion on executive executive order on remote participation. On March 28th, 2025, Governor Healey signed into law House Bill 62, an act relative to extending certain COVID 19 measures
adopted during the state of emergency, which included a two-year extension of the option for public bodies to hold remote meetings by suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. Excuse me. Mass General Law Chapter 3A
sections 18- 25. That action was effective immediately extending the current option for remote meetings through June 30th, 2027, now live and remote. Thank you. Then I ask everyone to rise and please
join me in saluting the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Call the role. Commissioner Stady, I am
present, sir. Commissioner Collins here. And Commissioner Sheay is present. We have a quorum. We have executive session today. We have three different subjects in executive session. You want me to make the
motions, Joe? There's three motions. Sure. Go ahead, Commissioner Collins. Okay. So, on the motion, can we take all three of them together when I make this motion? Do not. Okay. So, I'm going to make three separate motions. Correct. And we can vote on them uh after I've
made all three. Um first motion is a motion to go in executive session pursuant to master law chapter 38 section 21 subsection A subsection one discuss the reputation character physical condition or mental health rather than professional
competence of an individual or to discuss the discipline or dismissal of or complaints or charges brought against a public officer employee staff member or individual. That's motion one. Motion two. Motion to go into executive session pursuant to master law chapter 30A section 21 subsection A subsection 3 to
discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with ASME council 93 local 2417 maintenance engineering and register units if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body and the chair so declares the third motion is to go into executive session
pursuant to master law chapter 38 section section 21 subsection A subsection 3 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the public body and the chair so declared. So those are the three motions that I've made. Uh
Richard, yes, I'll second each of the motions as presented by uh Commissioner Collins. On the motion on three motions, we're going to take a roll call vote. Commissioner Stady three times. Yes. I vote yes uh for each respective motion
offered by Commissioner Collins. I also vote yes for all three motions and I'm going to vote yes for all three motions. So it is unanimous. Uh we are going to go into executive session. Our local council, our general counsel's
here, council on item number one is here. Peter Summers and on the zoom we have labor council. Uh-huh. We're back on the record on our Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 meeting.
Uh, we're out of executive session. We're on item number four on the agenda. Um, minutes. I want to tell you that none of the minutes are ready from last week. So, uh, we'll take a motion to,
uh, review those next week. Move the table a minute approval next week. Second motion made in second table. All in favor? I, we'll get to next week. Number five is appointments. I have none. Number six, a public comment. Each week at our meeting, we have a session
of public comment. If anyone out in Zoom land uh has any public comment or anyone that wants to come in and speak to us uh for public comment that you can do that too. Now is the time if you're in Zoom land so to
speak. We don't have anyone in person here today. Last call. Last call for public comment. Seeing none, we're going to go to number seven. All business. I have none. Number eight, personnel matters for consideration. We have four or five.
Commissioner Stadium. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Yes. Wallace and Recreational Facility. I'd like to move the notice of contingent employment for Nicholas and Tenuous, a seasonal golf course associate at the rate stated effective date
51525. So moved. Second motion made second. All in favor? I it is passed. Yes. Thank move. No determination for Mary and Conroy as seasonal golf associate at the rate stated effective date 5825. So moved. Second. Motion made
and seconded. All in favor? I. It is a vote. Next. Uh under maintenance introduction of John Davis, our new night uh custodian. And John is here with us. Come on up, John. Okay. Just saying hello. How are you? Have a seat. Fine. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. John, welcome
aboard. Nice to meet you. Hey, John. John. Yes. My feet. Yeah. You're joining. You You're already working, right? Yes. My second week. Okay. Just
saying hello. We like to put a name with a face, of course. And Okay. Uh, you know, we're proud of our crew and they do a good job. Yes. and uh we're happy you could join us. Thank you. I'm happy to be here also. Okay. Little of your background where you came from, John.
Yeah, if you want share that with us. My background where I used to work. Yeah. Well, uh in 74 I was the manager of the Keystone building, 99 High Street.
So, uh, they asked me to sign a contract that wasn't so good in my favor. So, I knew a good lawyer, a friend of mine, Chester Darling. Y'all probably know Chester
Darling. Uh-huh. He was the the attorney for all of that stuff that was going on in South Boston back in the days. He was the attorney. Yes. But anyway, so so I showed him the contract and
uh he says I would you I wouldn't sign it. So he asked me, "Have you ever thought about going into commercial cleaning for yourself?" I said, "No, not really." You know, at my age. So So I thought about it and
uh I did it. So, so I went in business in 1974 and uh started, you know, doing small places, you know, restaurants and so, so, so I left 99 High Street, the
Keystone building. So, so, so when I left there, we was doing some work for a man called Ted Raymond. Now, Ted Raymond is the man that put up the transportation building.
So, so him and I, we hooked up and ever since we hooked up in 1977, he was buying billings. Uh, he bought the Extra Street Theater on Newberry Street and he was buying them and I was
cleaning them. So, so, so then in one of his buildings, three in the mansion, the Oliver Ames mansion, 306 uh DMA Street. So that was one of my buildings that I was cleaning for him.
Then he bought a a mansion on a comm. I was cleaning that. So make a long story short. So So I started working for him. So and I worked for him for over 40 years. Wow. But I met CBT
Architect. I'm sure y'all know CBT Architect. They they put up that building in the back of the pedential. They got the cheesecake factory in it with that beautiful design. Beautiful. And they also renovate the old headquarters on Berkeley Street. The police old headquarters. Oh yeah, they
made an old hotel. Yes, they made Yes, they renovated that and uh make a and they office was uh Enfield in the mansion, but they got so big that they went to 110 Canal Street and I went with them there.
So, so like I said, I work for CBT architect and they also is is developing uh suffet downs. Yes. Yeah. But how we lost contact
uh when they was at 110 Canal Street and that was seven floors and I was working for them and Joe Joe owned the building you know bill works I don't know if you ever heard of bill works they everywhere and hanging them Fenway so so anyway so
Joe sold the building Joe sold the billing and right right be Right before the pandemic, Joe sold the building. So, so CBT got scared and uh cuz they didn't know who bought the building. So, they
started looking for space. But like I said, I've been working for CBT architect for 45 years. And uh after they uh after uh Joe sold the building, they they they started looking for space to carry me with them. But uh thing they
was running out of time and everything. And like I said, CBT Architect, they had 200 employees in 110 Canal Street. So, they was looking for a bill. So, they found a building uh in Charles Town,
Pier 6, and it was uh one empty floor where where they could have all of the 200 employees on one floor. You know, they do when they put up a building, they do all the interior decoration.
They they do everything. So So the to make a long story short, the building that they moved in already had cleaners. So they so they couldn't take me with them. So like I said, it was a big contract and I lost it. And here you
are. Yeah. And that's why I'm here. Well, you definitely know cleaning. You've been around it for a while, though. Yeah, I have all my life. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Uhhuh. Cleaning is a art, you know. You you look for things to do. Yeah. And
you just don't clean the same thing every night, you know, cuz everything need cleaning once in a while, you know. Yep. I just love doing it. Good. And I'm I'm happy to be here and clean. Yes. All right. Well, we're happy to see you, John. And again, we have a good a good
crew. And yes, I met them all. I know I I didn't work with them all. Frank, Mike, Billy, Rick, Rick. Yeah, there you go. Yes. So, you're here in Denim then in Eve? Yeah, I'm in Denim right here. Yeah. Uh-huh. Well, yeah. I've been
cleaning. I clean here. I I've been in all all four places. Yes. It's working out. Okay. Right. Yes. Working out great. Okay. Okay. Welcome. Well, use all that knowledge and energy and keep the place clean. Yes. And we wanted to make sure we said I'm looking
to make a difference. All right. Excellent. Nice to meet you. All right. Nice to meet you, sir. God bless y'all, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work. I will. All right. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Have
a have a blessed day. You too. Thank you. You very good. Um so the next item, Joe, was um fiscal year vacation carryover request for maintenance union employees. Correct. So, do you need me to list those names or just to say that we've
considered them and we're I would recommend a vote that is inclusive of all the requests that's presented to the commissioners without naming names. All right, that's my motion. You want to mention how many requests you received? I have I'll show you the request. I think I have it. It's just the total
number. three four five 6 7 8 nine requests. Okay. Um and um with different uh dates as to be carried over
up to the uh contract limit. Okay. And this is per the contract. That's right. This is the issue that I'll make the motion working on working getting it down over the years. How's that going? I'll make the motion that we approve this. All right. So motion made by Commissioner Collins to approve said
request for vacation carryover pursuant to our our current contract. Believe the number is nine commission also. Yes. All right. Motion made. I second it. That's fine. Okay. Motion made and seconded on the vacation carryover requesting the
maintenance employees. All in favor? I. Thank you. Nine. Payroll and expense war. All right, Mr. Chairman. Four items for the warrant list of 51425. Starting with the first one. I move approval of the payroll of the county
25-20-45 the sum $148,995.78. So move second. All in favor I vote next. Move app pre approval of the payroll of school of 25-45 uh 223 the sum 384,9797
motion made and second payment is a vote third expense of the county of uh line 050225 the sum $1,4142 so moved second motion made and seconded all in favor I it is a vote and last dispense
of the school 25-11 the sum $155,5297 so moved second okay motion made and seconded all in favor that concludes that Mr. 10. Number 10, report from procurement department. Nothing today. Bid openings and
contracts. Nothing on the procurement department. In your packet is your February 2025 trial balances for our acceptance. units. Total is
30,996,497.75 and 55 cents and 55 cent. I'll make that. No, it's 75 cents. Oh, you know what? I looked at the earlier page. It's 55. Yes. The second page is is 75. All right. I'll make that motion. So, motion made. I I'll second that. 30
million. Now, I had 90. Was it 99 996.75? Motion made and seconded. All in favor? The fiscal Yeah. June 20 June 30th, 2025 is accepted. All in favor? I. Thank you. Trial bell. Okay. Report of the county
director. Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a reminder, this afternoon at 5:00, the Northfor County Advisory Board and Finance Committee will begin their work um to consider and vote on the FY26 budget uh starting at 5:00 with finance
committee, following at six o'clock with the advisory board at the agricultural high school. The uh FY25 close is starting to occur. As the commission has observed, we have about six weeks to go in fiscal year 25. I want to announce to the department
heads that might be listening, they'll be hearing from our CPO Mori Mun soon on proper closure um timelines for encumbrances and other procurement items. Uh as we approach June 30th, I would like to announce to the commissioners the datam district for
building management system is coming to a close. Um this project started earlier this year. Um this was a um $800,000ish uh dollar project uh funded through ARPA funds that provides a building management diagnostic system
into the District Court to help us understand and control HVAC related systems. Um the uh IT people are finalizing the uh the work involved with connecting uh the diagnostic tools to the system. Uh we might still have some
last minute um valve work to do. We're evaluating whether any of the valves may have some asbestous on them that's currently being vetted. Um but I want to let you know that the project is moving along and we hope to have it completed quite shortly. Um the disaster recovery room here in Dam um is getting ready
over in Walpole to receive uh the new product including material to ensure continuation of operations. The electrician is finishing his work. I was talking to him yesterday. He's got a little bit more to do to finish up the readiness of that space. Um at which
time the transfer of the denim um disaster recovery room of the first one will be transferred hopefully within the next two to four weeks. Uh and as the commissioners know uh new shelving has been ordered. Uh we expect that to be in in another month or so and installed um
in mid to late June. And at that time we'll start operationalizing that space as a centralized filing uh destination that has been envisioned. And then finally, the FY24 audit uh is nearing completion. Um I do expect work to be done well before the end of the fiscal
year, but as they have wrapped up their work in our books, they're starting some site visits. I believe they're planning or have already started work uh at at a site at the reg recreational facial facility to look at their operations as well as the registry of deeds uh looking at cash operations, how
um the um the various units handle cash. So, uh, that is all part of the contract and we expect those results hopefully in the next, uh, month or so. That's all I have. Any questions of the county director? Comments?
That concludes that? Thank you. Number 13, emergency items. Any topics the chair did not raisely anticipate? I have none. We are scheduled to have a 5 pm meeting at 5 pm with the retirement
finance board of directors and then at 6 is the full meeting. I'll take a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn at 2:15. Second. Motion made second. All in favor? I. We are adjourned. Thank you
very much. Part: 2
We're gonna call the order again. Um on March 28, 2025, Governor Haley signed into law 862 an act relative to extending certain CO 19 measures adopted
during the state of emergency which includes a two-year extension of the option of public bodies to hold remote meetings by suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law general law chapter 38 subsection 18 through 25. That action is effective immediately extending the current option
for remote meetings through June 30th, 2027. So I will take a roll call um of the finance committee. Dr. Childs, yes. Robert Seal, yes. Mr. Connor, yes. Mr. R. He is here. Is he? He is.
Joe, I think you you're muted, but we see you. So we're going to count you in. Anyho? All right. Um, so our first order of business is the board supplemental appropriation of budget transfers. Mr. Cronin. Thank you, Mr. Beckerman. The uh
good evening members of the finance committee. Um, a very brief uh transfer request is before you this evening. As you know, back in April, the finance committee advisory board took under consideration several uh transfers and
um supplemental items. This evening, we're requesting your assistance with approving a single item for I should say a single department item on behalf of the schools. Uh back in April, um the schools requested um line item transfers
totaling, oh, let's see real quick, approximately $55,000. Um the request was put in in error. um the amount of money that was coming from accounts and two accounts were physically backwards and that was realized after your board meeting. So
this evening the schools have updated their request and uh that 55,000 is now 160,000. I have that correct. Um the 160 is coming um from the various line items you can see on the transfer form that Bill has brought up on the screen.
30,000 from professional salaries. Uh 10,000 from the food service professional salaries. 10,000 from classrooms professional salaries, 30,000 from district-wide equipment, 20,000 from other in in uh instructional equipment, 20 from grounds maintenance
professional salaries, 20 from building maintenance professional salaries, and finally 20,000 from building leadership clerical salaries. Um this total will be moved into the following four accounts. 20,000 for employee separation costs,
30,000 for utilities for heat, 70,000 for building maintenance, and 40,000 for contract services. Um, so this will undo the work that was done previously and clean up the school's accounts for the remainder of fiscal year 25. That department item is the exclusive and
only item the commissioners approved last evening and that is before you this evening. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Any uh any discussion or any motion to approve or to recommend to the full committee the fourth budget adjustment? So moved. Second. Motion and second. Any
further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? Mr. Connor? Yes. Dr. Childs? Yes. Miss Seal? Yes. Mr. Ry? Uh three. Mr. Chair, I am in text communication with Mr. Reen. Okay.
Uh he's having trouble hearing us. that appears on his device that we are muted. So, can you put it on your speaker bill? Um, yeah, I think he's going to fix it in a moment. The chair votes I we got a
four. So, we got a majority vote, but I want to give Joe the opportunity to do it. Joe, how about now? Can you hear us? You there, Joe? Crickets. All right. Well, you can keep going. I recommend that he log out and
log back in. Joe, because he's not showing as being muted anymore on his side. Can you unmute it on our side? Uh, I asked him to and he did. So, it looks like he did, but if you hit mute, never
mind. I told him to lo. Okay. So, I I think we can move on. We have a quarter quarter. We'll say a 40 vote. That work? Yes. Okay. All right. So, we'll move on to the next item, which is a vote on the proposed fiscal
26 budget. Mr. Con. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. U members, the uh FY26 budget presentation made to you on April 20, excuse me, on April 16th is largely the same budget um that is before you this evening for a
vote with one minor um correction. the schools um have determined uh through some conversations with state officials that a proposed uh incounty spit tuition model um is not in order. So
consequently, the school's um proposed budget that was before you had to go through some slight modifications. Um, Bill, if you would be so kind as to pull up the proposed budget, uh, scroll to, um, page 75, also known as the, uh,
school summary. Sorry, one, take your time. As Bill's pulling this up, I'll briefly explain to you that the, um, the adjustments made are purely on the revenue side of the school's budget. It does not affect their spending. Consequently, the overall county budget um spending number
is the same as it was on April 16th. Um you just note here I've thrown right down to the pop-up box for there you go. So in this uh space you'll see line 40. Okay. Line 42 um is blank under the
highlighted area. The previous version of this budget, the schools were um planning sped tuition of 600 uh excuse me $266,922. Um that figure is not allowable through state standards. So it
is now uh deleted and a portion of that value is now increased under the incount uh tuition which was previously $1.375. So you can see this what the schools did is they just simply shifted the value of the tuition uh previously
under incount sped into the incount space. Um, so we have a revenue correction and a motion to um uh not a motion to accept this, but the presentation will include um an acceptance of the overall spending of 37,824,798.34. And just for people to
understand, previously the school's revenue model was 18.77. Now it's 18.648. It's just a very minor revenue hit. Um, I do recognize, however, that this change may have an impact on the delivery of um, uh, bills associated
with tuition to member um, communities in and out of the county. I will defer any of that impact to members of the school uh, um, leadership that are here tonight, but I'm I'm not privy to the details from a financial perspective. This is uh, housekeeping almost just a revenue correction
and it was a minor change. The change didn't have it had no effect on it. It had no effect on schedule. No, it modified the amount of money the schools had to carry for reserves. They have less of a reserve now, but um um and like I said, there'll be an impact on how much certain certain number of communities are being changed in their
tuition. How many communities are going to be changed? Like five, four or five. I think it's five or six numbers. Yeah. When he arrives, but I think it's five or six. And those would be unchanged or actually less. Got it.
So five or five or six are going up by uh 2% 30% give me just a ballpark. I don't remember the percentages. Wait for Mr. Wall. It has a lot to do with how many kids are saying.
Yes. Perfect. Thank you. Say again. We had an itemized out a special education B for the M county towns like we had been doing for the out of towns and we based that decision on a couple of factors. One, we needed
to increase the number. Uh two, we were using guidance that we had received four years ago that as it turns out was not proper. So we consulted with the state, we made the corrections. Uh and moving forward, we think this is a model that
everybody will be able to live with. We're hoping everybody will be able to. When you say it was not proper four years ago, wasn't proper at that time or it's been there's been a change that now makes it improper. The guidance we were operating from, Eric, indicated that we
could charge incount special ed itemize in county special ed the way we had out of county. What we were told by the state is we needed to follow a more uh regional school model in which case
those monies are embedded in the regular tuition number directly. Okay, does that make sense? Y thank you. Yep. Any uh questions on any questions on Mr. Chair through you? Um I I do understand the schools might
be prepared to make a presentation relative to the budget. Um yeah, John's coming for the second meeting. So we'll be prepared to go into this in much more detail at six o'clock. Okay. He may have liked to hold your vote between such time.
Yeah, we'll uh we'll we'll hold off voting on the AI part of the budget till the uh or offering our recommendation until the Yeah, the AI budget is integral to the 37.8. I can go if if it's just a matter of a couple of questions, I can go get him. He's
downstairs. Are there any questions from this committee? Make it neat. I have no problem with this. I just wonder why the state is saying don't separate it out. It seems like it's more
information and more transparent than I'm not questioning you guys. It's just it seems odd to me. It seems odd to me too. Okay. Well, I think I think it's Yeah. Yeah. My this is make it neat.
It's because Yeah. that Eggy is governed by a master law statute that is specific to regional vocational schools and that that is very clear and that's not any different. That was the statute before the budget was submitted the statute currently and this
was I think it was submitted in error actually it has to be fixed. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if it has to do with the way that it assesses to the individual um cities and towns. Like rather than having two separate amounts, it might
have to be assessed in two different amounts, they just jam it all into one for in county versus out of county. I don't know, maybe it has something to do with that. Remember, because the cities and c towns already fund the county government through their right through our assessment. So rather than having it
separated, they put it all into one line. Yeah. to be assessed. You know, at the um at the board meeting, we're going to have one of our board members actually knows this law very very well um because he worked with it for years and that's the board member from Quincy
knows this law. So, you know, he does know that laws has to say about that particular We can take a folks are under recommendation. There were a couple numbers that changed there though, right? From the budget.
Yep. Yeah. Not just the the uh in county and the in county sp total school revenues, right? Exactly, Paul. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You should hear that. Yeah. Yeah. And the
reserve. And the reserve. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the total reduction, Paul, from the last version to what you see today is 266,922. That's that's what they were planning for the incounty spent. That's gone. And from what I understand, what the school
did is they took most of it out of the incount tuition piece. Um, that went up by about uh just over $150,000, under 150. So the other delta is coming from somewhere. I'm sure he can address it. So they didn't just simply take the 266,000 off that line
and add it into the income. No, it wasn't. Okay, that that's where I was getting most of it. Yes. Yeah. I guess that's the question. Why why did it change? What was what was the actual budget? Remember most of the most cities in count town.
While we're waiting, I will I will tell you I added a page, Bill, if you could scroll down just a little bit on the the copy that you will see. Um I added information that had not been previously put into the document. Right. Keep going, Bill. Lines 61, 62, 63, and
65. These are updated figures, Paul, that are not in the April 16th number. They're just showing the estimate. uh revenue um and uh the budget request a production of reserve or surplus from the schools that number was higher back
on April 16th. It is now 209 and in addition uh the schools are setting aside uh $555,000. Um you have a PowerPoint presentation part of your packet. Um I expect the business manager at some point will deliver the details of how
they plan to spend that half a million dollars on capital as well. So that's new data. We'll plug it into the original budget, the final budget voting. John's here. Hi John. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Sure. Um question on the in county um sped the
change. Yeah. In your revenue. Can you just explain that a little bit? It sounds like it was 266,000 was in the inount sped number. We wiped that out and incorporated most of it to the incount number but not all of it. So what was what's the difference? The difference
is 129,000 or 140,000. I didn't think we were going to talk about the difference between the two budgets. I thought we'd talk about the current budget. Um, so we took it out like you said, we added it to the other one. There are 26 towns that were cities and towns that were affected because they were 26 26 people
send us. Uh, six of them were slightly worse and 20 of them were better. The worst one that was worse was uh Randolph because they didn't have any special education students, but they were only $4,000 worse. So the worst that anybody was of those six towns was $4,000 extra.
Everybody else had some amount of savings in some cases, you know, savings that were $10,000 or more because the difference was, like I said, $120 or $140,000 was the difference between those two. So I I guess I guess the question maybe I'm missing the point to
this is that if the original assessment was 266,000 what why did it change is I guess is the question some of it was incorporated into the 1.5 million that's updated right not all of it no not all the
original like the original assessment was based on something different than the new assessment. No. Well, the the original assessment was based on an actual charge for an actual number of special education students. When we were told that that wasn't the way Desi thought we should do it, we removed that
and we decided we wanted to increase base tuition, but we had to figure out how much do we want to increase base tuition. If we increased base tuition by another $1,000, which would have been a $1,500 increase from the prior year, that would have pretty much matched the
$200,000 that we just lost by not charging special education. But we decided we didn't want to do that. We didn't want to increase tuition by that much in one year. So, we decided we would instead increase it by 500 and lower our expected surplus. So, it was a
decision based on that. It wasn't it wasn't a it wasn't based on a change in the enrollment. No. Okay. That that's where I was. I thought it was a change in the enrollment that was the different Okay. I I think I follow what you're saying now. Do you have some additional questions? Anybody have any additional
questions for John at this point? No. All right. Can Joe Harrison? Yes. Okay. Joe, do you have any questions? No, I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Then I will take a motion to recommend the um
fiscal 26 budget. You want to make the motion? Yeah. Uh motion to approve the FY2026 county budget in the amount of 37 million24,798.34. Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor?
Dr. Childs? Yes. Yes. Pers. Yes. Mr. R. Yes. And the chair Bo. We will be recommending to the full board both the supplemental and the fiscal 26 budget as presented tonight.
All right. Um, next item is topics that we did not reasonably anticipate. I don't believe we have any. Is there anything else that any other issues? Anything any other conversations anybody wants to bring up tonight? No. No. Okay. Good. Then I guess I'd take a motion to to to adjurnn the
finance committee. So moved. Motion in a and a second and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? Dr. Tiles. Hi. Steel. I. Mr. Rick. I. And the chair. Thank you
everyone for great. Thank you. Should we do our roll call? We ready? Wait, before we do that, I have to do what announcement. Um, this is a hybrid meeting. Um, Governor Healey signed into
law on on on March 28th, 2025. Governor signed into law House 62, an act relative to extending certain CO 19 measures adopted during the state of emergency, which includes a two-year extension of the option for public bodies to hold remote meetings by
suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law, general law, chapter 38, sections 18 through 25. That action was effective immediately, extending the current option for remote meetings through June 30th, 2027. Okay, Barbara, are you ready?
All right. Avon here. Bellingham. Rainree here. Brookline here. Canton. Cohasset. Dam here.
Do Foxboro here. Franklin here. Holbrook. Medfield here. Med here. Milis. Milton here.
Mumm norwood. Plainville here. Lindsay here. Randolph here. Sharon. Yes. Stoen. Walsh. Welssley. Yes. Westwood.
We rent them. 62.18. Great. We have a quorum. Mr. Paleo, in honor of your special day, would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. And now we need a rousing round of happy birthday. Mr. Happy birthday to
you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. So we had to go to camp last night instead. $350. Oh my goodness. Kids don't pay.
They'll always look up. That's true. Well, we're glad you're here. All right. Um, we are going to try to move our agenda forward here. Um, before we do start though, I do need to uh address the was the board got
another letter um from register. And as you all receive this letter, I will make my response to you the board as my only response to the letter. We do not need to belabor the contents of this letter which is filled with unfounded and inaccurate information and
once again personally attacks dedicated county staff such as our highly respected county director, our principled and committed county commissioners and volunteers on this board including yours truly. This letter is out of order in tonight's meeting and
I will not uh waste your valuable time on it. Additionally, it is wholly inappropriate for letters with these very personal attacks to be sp sent to all of you repeatedly and I apologize not for him but on behalf of as chairman of the board that you are getting these
letters. Um thank you very much for uh not inating my inbox. Thank you Mr. Dumas. Were we supposed to have received this letter? Yes, I think most everybody received this letter. Yeah. Came by email. It came by email the
other day. Yeah. And you did not pull. Did you not get it? I don't No, I don't believe I did. Okay. All right. We can certainly share a copy here. Stop. Yes. If I may just one. Is it one of April 17th? This is the one that is dated May 12th. May 12. No, I don't. We
haven't gotten that one yet. It's in the mail. I was going to give him my 17th, but I can do comments in the email. So, I'll give you all right. Thank you. Yeah. I don't think Paul then get one. That'd be great. Thank you so much. Okay.
Okay. We are going to move on to the uh first order of business which is the uh FY25 force supplemental appropriation and transfers. Mr. President, thank you Madam Chair. Good evening members of the advisory board. Pleasure to see you all. Uh very briefly as Bill pulls the form up on the
screen. U the county commissioner voted yesterday to favorably endorse the transfer request of the North County Agricultural High School totaling $160,000. We'll talk about that briefly in just a minute. Please note the transfer shows um a proposed um area
above it supplementing the registry to the tune of $154,840. The register had submitted a revised not revised a new supplemental request very similar to the one you uh had previously heard from um back in
April but was not acted upon. This particular item due to lack of funding was also not acted upon by the commissioners yesterday. Consequently, it is not before you receiving floor for action. Um, regarding the um proposed $160,000 transfer, which is shown in
black, I wanted to briefly explain to the commission uh to excuse me, to the advisory board what this is doing. Back in April, you u approved a $55,000 transfer for the schools. Uh the next day the schools contacted us and said oops sorry um there was a script error
the the money that we were moving it from and to were backwards. So uh we are here today to undo that uh and present an updated transfer with additional funds from the schools. I will speak to them. If you have any detailed questions about the meaning of these I encourage you to address them to the schools uh
management leadership team that's here this evening. But briefly, as you can see on the sheet, um, from a variety of different accounts, including teacher professional salaries, uh, service professional salaries, teacher professional salaries, um, districtwide
equipment, instructional equipment, ground maintenance salaries, building management salaries, and leadership clerical salaries. A total of $160,000 will move from those of various accounts into employee separation accounts for
20,000, excuse me, utilities account for heating at 30,000, 70,000 for building maintenance, and then finally 40,000 for contract services. This is all FY25 transfer/endofear cleanup on behalf of the agricultural high school. Thank you,
Madam Chair. Thank you. Um, do anyone from the schools want to add anything to this? Nope. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, will you report on the finance committee? Yes. Finance committee met tonight and we to
recommend this uh these transfers to the advisory board. Okay. I'm sorry. I was going to make a motion but Okay. Uh, we've got a question. Yes. I can have a problem with the school. It is staying within a budget. It's one
count. So I'm not I'm not questioning this. The money is cool. But the staying the bottom line is staying within but just on the red it's who wants to come on a mandating. Is that the issue we're caught over that the mandating funding issue?
He wants to take 154 out of the mandate funding and move into these accounts. Is that the issue right now? Yes. Yeah. So the only thing about that is how is he going to be paying if these counts a deficit
now how is it going to pay your bills from the end of the year without incurring bills you're not paying I that's just a just a a general question I mean postage stuff out I mean supply I mean I don't know all this I think briefly briefly how can I can't give you
a detailed question line by line but I I would remind you and through you the register anyone else listening um you cannot experience def deficit spending um and the some departments including the registry have been warned um about
that in writing uh chapter 35 is very clear so to answer your question you may not spend deficient um and you shall not spend deficient period um so I can't say with any definitive understanding of the registries's in deficit um that's not
known to me at this time I'm just simply saying the funding that was requested is we don't have sufficient funding in our supplemental funding base to afford that similar position that we took back in April. Regarding proposed funding of supplemental needs through the mandated
funding pursuant to general counsel, we're advised to stay away from that particular account. Okay. And projected mandated surplus in FY25 is just that it's projected and will not be realized and uh certified until after July 10th.
I'm not doing my job. I don't have questions show up. It it's a followup, but it's my point. First off, I recognize the commissioners have not asked anything here. I'm just trying to get my arms around something the the in the and I don't want to open up discussion register letter except to
refer to one point. He talked about the FY25 deeds excise mandated funding which sounds like it could be this although there's no account. My only question is does given the size of that mandated
funding, there's some way that he gets annual revenues from the mandated funding. Yes. So he has what he's claiming in terms of the total amount that made it sound like he wasn't getting it. He does have at
least some significant. It's money that hasn't been realized yet until after the close of the books. So it's not available to you. Okay. Building up this year. It's excess um reg I'm sorry deeds registry excess funds that are building
up right now but until the close of the books it's not realized as actual money doesn't have that. He's requesting to use money that has not been booked yet. I'm just trying to figure out how how works. It would be similar for like the weights weights and measurements department collected 20 bucks and they
wanted to use it for tomorrow. They can't until the end of the fiscal year. Same ide just just look at some of the things here tele. He's not going to go every every month. So if there's no money to pay the phone bill the phone get shut
up. I I'm just look on the outside looking I I I haven't tal about this at all. Okay. I just the meal in in a phone bill. So if you don't mind money he's going to approve phone bills. I'm not in the we all know that. So if you can't pay the phone bill there's no money. What happens to he's not going to shut
it off. So now you got a bill for four or five months and that's what he owes. I don't know. And now how the bill gonna be taken care of. Is he doing it maybe the bonds on illegally then? I would imagine under circumstances like the one you just described Mr. Pledo it's probably very similar to what happens in denim when costs are incurred that are
part of obligations beyond your ability to pay and then the final the following year you account for those as unpaid bills. They do. They do. So in your example I would I would say that's the remedy to that question. Yeah. We have next week we have we have about $100,000
out there in unpaid bills. Some most of it's from attorney bill for lawsuit going on say it came in too late for the fiscal year and obviously some attorney bill but there are like a $20 bill for paper whatever that was saying. So he can the formal don't won't be shut off
it can keep going if that's a normal office stuff. Yeah. And I would also remind people on the trans on a supplemental budget, our um legal obligations under this are to pass up or down what the commissioners
send to us as the advisory board. That is different from our responsibility with the overall budget when we can actually discuss other lines. But that's the other thing. So we really are voting tonight on what was hoped to from the commissioners.
Yes. Just a brief question. Can someone just explain to me employee separation costs? Just a brief example of what we're talking about so I know what that means. Yes, Mr. Wall. Yeah, that's just those would be uh tribulated vacation days, unpaid sick days. It's all mostly
it's teachers. It's it's um mostly governed by contracts that we have in place either for administrators or for teachers. So this year's estimate was a little bit lower than the way it's turned out to be. We had a little a few more retirements than we had planned at the beginning of the year to do about at the beginning of the year. So I just
need a little more money to get through the end. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chairman. Great. No problem. Any other questions on the supplement? Yes. Just a quick question and I'll direct it to John. Y John, I I know what this kind of year end is all about. Um
these transfers, I'm just I'm encouraged in some way that some of the money uh that's available is actually on personal services. Um I haven't found that to be something typically that occurs usually indeed money in those lines. So um would
those be occurrences where we had budgeted a certain amount of money and then based on a higher hiring process someone actually came in at a lower salary to Yeah, that's for the most part. I mean teachers what happens is that of course as you know they plan in
column moves which don't happen and we budget in a worst case scenario when we put our budget together but in other cases they would be open positions. This year we had several transfers from within. We had several promotions from within the mechanic was formerly um a maintenance person and the maintenance
person was formerly a custodian and we replaced him as custodian. So all of those things occurred the benefit of the school. So, we had extra money in a bunch of salary accounts. Probably still more money than salary accounts. I'm just dealing with what's available right now. Okay. And then the sums of money
that you're looking to supplement uh utilities, heat utilities, and things like that is again uh is that a product of cost of energy? It's a little bit of product of cost of energy. It's a little bit of the winter that we had. winter
that we had was what I would call eventful in that we used a lot of salt. We had a cold stretch and then we had some uh stormy stretches. So just um the the winter that we had contributed but I think part of it is is expense. I mean we're going to we're trying to make our
buildings more efficient but this was a this was an eventful winter. Just kind of leading to another question. Is there any current analysis as to what the solar one or the pollution is doing in terms of cost savings? Uh yeah, we I I
report that every year to the trustees. I don't have it here and I don't know the number, but we do I do uh continue an analysis that I think you started where I take every bill that we get from Kierarch, which is solar company. We compare it uh the savings that we're
going to get from Eversource and we keep track of it all. So that that is coming through. I don't know that it was as significant as as we expected it to be. You know, we're obviously subject to the productivity of the solar panels which is subject to what the weather is like
literally how cloudy it is. Um so it's in the 10 it's I think in the $50,000 range savings that we get every um year from solar. And we've we haven't changed our solar array for a few years. It's been up and running. I think the year I
came in 2023 it g it was fully up and running and since then we've had 24 and 25 so we started to have a few years. You could share maybe your latest analysis on that. I think that'd be great. Okay. Um I guess my other question is is just in
terms of terminology what is um building M I N CS building maintenance that's contract services. Okay. Those are those are the various contractors that could be plumbers, there could be electricians, you know, there's any number of service providers and as much
as as much money as we put in that account, it seems like it always costs more than what we what we put. We have an extraordinary line too which we've used our our extraordinary line. Are all these accounts that you're funding 22 currently in a positive position or any
of them negative to this point? Um I think one of them is marginally negative but uh the rest of them are are just out of money but in positive situations. Okay. And I guess my followup to that would be sorry more than
me I've been there. I think these are reasonable numbers to be going back and forth. I don't see anything that's like chopping out at me. Um the you know I I think respectfully I think it's something that you know I always thought
when I brought it to this board and to the trustees it was like okay guys this is what it is I can explain it we either do it now or we do it later. I mean you don't have much choice when it comes to cleaning some of these things up for you close.
So I'm going to support it um as presented. Thank you. Thanks. Many of you have been here for many, many years, but um just in case you didn't know, uh Rick Fitzpatrick, the advisory board members from Quinsey, had
John Wallace's job for many, many years. And in fact, he continued on in that capacity with Bristol Aggie. That's that. So, if you didn't know that in advance, that's why he knows so much about this budget. And and my questions again aren't to
pinpoint against anybody. It's just a drawer information that makes certain things more clear. Great. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions on the supplement? Mr. The red items
uh were submitted by the registry but not approved. Exactly. So for so those are that does not come to us. We don't vote on those because we only vote on what commissioners send us on the subject. So, who didn't approve the I
missed the last meeting. We did not approve those. Commissioners did not approve them. And that's a total 154k change. Yep. That's right. Thank you. Uhhuh. Yep. Okay. Other questions, points on the
supplement. I have a question. Yep. Does the reg did the register come before you to talk about that budget face to face, John? Commissioner, if I if I may. So, very quickly, this is a supplemental request, Paul. And because
it's a supplemental request, it has to come out of uh our budget. And we How much we have left? 13,000. So, we have 13,000 left. And he was asking for um what was it total?
we can't we don't have the money. So, um that's a good part of the reason why we have this requirement. Okay. Thanks. Thanks, John. Great. All right. So, Madam Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 for
supplemental budget transfer request in the amount of $160,000. Second. Thank. All right. Barbara Avon. Yes. Bill second. One second. I'm sorry. Sorry. Got to get to that screen. Can you read?
Sorry. Okay. Thank you. You all set? Yes. Thank you. You got Avon's vote. Yes. Uh, yes. Okay. Bellingham. Brainree. I Brooklyn. Hi.
Canton. Cohasset. Denim. Yes. Dover. Foxboro. Yes. Franklin. Yes. Holbrook. Medfield. I Medway. Yes. Milis Milton. Yes.
Need Norfolk. Norwood. Planeville. Yes. Quinsey. Yes. Randolph. Yes. Sharon. Yes. Stoen. Walpole. Welsley votes yes.
Westwood and Rentham. That's unanimous. Thank you very much. Okay. Um, we're moving on. Um, we have a vote on the proposed FY26 budget. Um, and I'm going to let um, you want to say anything about
the start and then we'll turn it over to them if they want. Yeah. Okay. Start. Um, Bill, if you would sometimes pull up the proposed FY26 budget, present the advisory board. A month ago, I presented a um detailed FY26 proposed budget to
you totaling um 30 37,824,798.34 cents. Um the the model of this budget is unchanged from a spending perspective. However, since we met in April, the schools have informed us of a change in um their revenue uh picture. I
asked Bill, he's already way ahead of me. I believe it's page 75 of the budget. Wanted to briefly explain what this change was. Again, this is on the revenue side only. Does not affect the spending number I just gave you. Um around the time we were meeting the schools had proposed um funding in
county special educational tuition uh only $266,922. Um that proposed what page? Um I have it as 75. You can also view it up here. Tom, we're talking about 75. No, I beg you pardon. Um you can view it
up here if you'd like. Okay. 79. Okay. Thank you. So the um the proposed um funding model that would put that amount into special education costs for incount students was deemed um out of order effectively by Desi. They said no, you
can't do that. So schools had to retreat and um they proposed a revised revenue picture that moves um I believe it's uh just over 137,000 of that into the incount tuition line which previously was 1.375. that is now
1.512. The balance comes from a proposed surplus that the schools were going to have. Um but overall their uh total revenue picture was modified from 18.77 million down to 18.648. Again I want to emphasize this
is revenue not spending. So the total spending number that I presented to you in April is unchanged. If anyone has any questions relative to this one and only change, I refer to the schools which I know are also uh angling chair to do a presentation to your board. Thank you.
Yes, exactly. Okay. All right. I think we should go ahead and have the schools do their presentation next um about um explaining this. Okay. Um who's doing that? John and I you want us to stand back sit back here or do you like Well,
what's easier for you guys? I like sit next to screen a little better people to the screen. I've always wanted to sit next to All right. This is your last chance. All
right. So, uh we were asked to do a presentation of the current budget for the school. uh we could talk or I could speak to a change from the prior budget that was uh contained in in the budget that was presented to you guys in April, but I'm just going to talk at first
before the question period about where we are right now. This budget was approved just last week by our trustees. Um Bill, if you could go into the uh summary of the elements. Uh I will let you guys read. I trust you can all do that. But I think that basically the
important parts to point out are there no no ads to the employment employees of the school. No no no new FTEES. Um one thing I want to point out is the total percentage of incount students has increased from 43% to 46%. This is this
is really relevant to the finances of the school. Those of you that are familiar with our tuition structure, we charge uh a quite significantly higher tuition for out of county than we do for inount. And that will be relevant later on when we talk about our tuition rates.
But I just wanted to point out that um there's been a trend over the last few years where we're getting a higher and higher percentage of inount students attending the school. So, uh, every one of the classes of the school this year, the percentage from, uh, senior to
junior to sophomore to freshman is higher for incount in every one of those in any every one of those grades. And in our budget for next year, we're predicting about 50/50 in county and out of county student mix. We're expecting that trend to continue. And um, I
believe based on applications for the school, well, I know based on applications for the school, it was 50/50 this year. We had half of our applicants from in county and half of our applicants from out of county. The only other thing I want to point out is that we are still in negotiations with uh two of our unions, one union that
represents teachers and one union that represents basically everybody else in the school that's not an administrator. So there is some uncertainty to this. We have made an estimate of cost of living and included that in our budget, but we don't know where we will end up at the end of negotiations. We actually feel
pretty comfortable with our cost of living estimate that's included in the budget, but there may be other areas um uh less significant areas where there there may be more spending that budgeted here. But we did it did this budget the way we were instructed to, which was to
make an estimate of where you end up with cost of living. And then, you know, when the chips are finally when the chips will fall where they will when you're done with your negotiations, which which should be in a couple of months probably from now, then we'll revisit the budget and see how that fits
into what we have here. But I just wanted to point that out to you guys. Bill, if you want to go to the next page, uh it will be impossible for anybody to read up on that screen, but John and I did want to make a few comments about um enrollment in the school just to help people understand
where the county fits into the enrollment of the school and where specific counts fit into the enrollment of the school. We have about 595 students, majority of which about 56% in this year are out of county and 44% are
in county. We are servicing currently 26 of the 28 Norfolk County cities and towns. Um the the Norfolk County cities and towns that send at least 15 kids to the school. Bellingham, Brainree, Denim, Franklin, Randolph, Walpole, Wayouth,
and Quinsey. So those are the big supporters of the school or users of the school. In county, out of county, there are 55 communities out of county that send kids to the school. It's the highest number. Well, since I've been here and and I believe uh that we've
ever experienced. So, 55 individual cities and towns that send at least one student to the school that are not in North County. The biggest uh participants in the school from out of North County, those that send that same number 15, Boston, Brockton, Hollist,
Pemro, Sutton, Oxbridge, and W. So those are supporting communities that are sending significant number of students to the school. Questions at the end of the budget during that that page. Let let's let John finish this. We'll do some
questions. Yeah. Thank you, Bill. If you go to the next page, this is uh just a summary of where we are. I'd like to to use this page to talk a little bit about revenue because the next page would be a comparison of expenses between this year and next and uh the year that we're in
in the budgeted year FY25 and FY26. So here if you look on the left hand side you'll see a representation of our budgeted revenues for the school. You can see it's $8.7 million or 18.6 rounded which uh that John Cronin referred to. Um, if you
go down on the lefth hand side, you'll see that our plan surplus is now $29,000. Bill, can you make that bigger? There you go. And then slide it up a little bit so these guys can see a little bit more up there. You know, you can so you see the surplus down in the
lower left at the bottom of the left. There you go. You see the $29,000 there at the bottom. So that's our plan surplus. We had a plan surplus of $338,000. As John John Cronin referenced, we had to change our revenue estimate and and we we decided to lower
our plan surplus from the 139 to this 209 number. Um the the interesting thing is the components that make up the revenue of the school. The school's revenue is $18 million. Out of the the principal contributor to the revenue of the school is outofcount tuition. Out of county
tuition is 9.8 8 million. So that's 53% of the revenue of the school comes from outofcount tuition and 87% of the tuition revenue of the school comes from out of county. So out of county cities
and towns contribute 87% of the tuition revenue of the school and over 50% of the total revenue of the school. The next most important contributor to revenue re revenue of the school is the county. The county provides $4.6 6 million to the school and that's 25% of
our revenue. So 50 plus% and out of county, 25% from county. The next big is the state of Massachusetts. They they give us $1.9 million which is 10% and then we eventually get to in county cities and towns which provide $1.5
million or 8% of the revenue of the school or 13% of the tuition revenue of the school comes from in county cities and towns and then the remainder is just the various other revenues that the school directly earns and that's how we get to our $18.6
million. Uh I will talk to about expenses on the next page if Bill would like to would please be kind enough to spin to the comparison of expenses. So uh we wanted to talk about what's changed in the expenses of the school. I
know it's going to get me to the bottom there where I can show you the total increase in expenses. So close to getting there. Gonna buy you guys a new laptop, too. you on laptop too.
So there was that uh if you guys want to look at the pages in front of you uh at the bottom on the right you'll see that the total of expenses of the school are increasing 2.5%. So I think that's something that we can be uh very proud of that our that our
expense increases only 2.5%. From one year to the next considering that we are abiding by cost of living increases, staff increases, grade increases from all of our employees. So um there you go, Bill. That is good. That's good where you have
it right there. Um so you see that the the top expense line, we have 3.8% 8% growth in our uh personnel costs. Below you'll see what I call the discretionary costs which are contractual supplies
um obligations and equipment that is black from year to year. That's no expense growth in that. And then the last call, the last group is the indirect expenses and the debt service. And we're fortunate that that is going up only 1.2%. So for the whole school, our expenses
are increasing 2.5 uh%. Very low growth in expenses. I think if we looked at cities and towns uh school budgets, I don't think we'd find too many that were 2 and a.5% or less um and didn't have and you know
that's really a result of no discretionary growth in the discretionary areas. bill. If we go to the tuition detail, which is, you know, super relevant to everybody here, this is our current, as John indicated, we've gone through
a an two iterations now of tuition, but this is where we are with tuition right now. Um, the things I'd like to point out is we have 596 students. One of the reason, one of the ways we could drive tuition costs down is to have more students, but we're kind of constrained. We feel like we're constrained currently
by the physical plant that we have here, particularly our cafeteria. So, we look at 596 or 600 as the maximum number of students that the school could service under its current capital configuration. So, we won't be changing that. We don't have intentions of changing that going
forward. Um, if you go down the left hand side to where the green is, you'll see that our proposed budget is is a proposal to increase the incount cities and towns tuition from $4,500 to $5,500. Rounded, it's about uh
$994 increase. That's 22.1%. If you go down a little further, you'll see that out ofount tuition is now $29,241. see that point of order. Uh, yes, Charlie. Yes. My screen's not changing when you're saying you're
looking at different I'm still looking at the same screen. I don't know if everyone else on the meeting is has the same thing. Okay. Thank you, Charlie. Uh, Bill. Uh, hold on just one second, Charlie. We're just going to try to get Bill to see if he can help with that.
Council, you might want to uh sign out and sign back in. Uh, but can you see it moving? Want to do this? Can you see the strain moving? No. Nope. Yeah, I I think you might be best if you
signed up and signed back in the same problem. Is every is Mike Mike um you're also on. Are you having the same problem Charlie's having? No, I'll set it on my end. You can see it. Okay. Charlie, do you mind signing out and signing back in? Let's see if
that'll work for you. I'm sorry, Judge. Give us a minute here. Let's see if we can get Charlie back on. link on his email. See it that way. Charlie, it's also in an attachment, a link to your email in case you need to just pull up
All right, here we go. Let's try again. That working, Charlie? Uh, still not working, but thank you. You know, Charlie, try your email um with the attachment. and open your email with the attachment that Bill sent you. Um, you just said that yesterday, Bill. Yeah. And see if you could just see the
attachment so you can follow along that way. All right. Yep. All right. Thank you so much. Okay, John. Proceed. Thank you. Uh, so I just refer to the uh out of county tuition number of 29,241. You can see that in the lower
left. Um, it's not in green, but it's below that green line. the green line that says in county special education. I passed over that because we we're no longer asking for a special education uh tuition search charge. And if you go further down that row, you'll see that we're anticipating 275 incount uh
students as opposed to 260 incount students last year. So this is what I referred to earlier is that our p our incount student population is on the increase and we're planning on having 15 more inount students than we did last year which means 15 less uhish out
ofount students than last year. It's not perfect because our number of students changes every um the last thing I wanted to point out in this tuition page before we got to capital which will be brief is in the lower right hand one of the benefits of us of our interaction with
DESIE as it related to tuition uh for special education students was that we have reached an agreement with them about how we might calculate incount uh tuition maximum rate that we could charge for incount tuition and as uh the budget that we have in front of
us for FY26 the calculated rate would be around $7,500. So the maximum rate that we can income tuition is 7500 that will change every year based on the factor of what it costs to
educate students and what the state's approved rate is. But we have a method to do that and and every year we we we intend to figure out what a bas could be really brief is just the detail of what we're going to spend our capital on. Again, this capital is
coming from the schools capital that we've built up from prior year surpluses. Um there are years when we have been given a capital allocation from the county. This is not FY26 is not at least starting out to be one of those years. So you could see while the
capital needs that we've identified are great. Um in addition to a couple of building needs, uh just the building maintenance needs that we have are over $7 million and we've just picked a handful of those that represent
um that represent projects we intend to tackle in FY26 that represent about a $550,000 That is it. Okay, Mr. Chair, if I can remark. Yes, please. Members of advisor board, as Mr. Wallace just indicated, the
capital considerations page is uh inclusive of funding from the schools in FY26. Um, as I mentioned in my presentation in April, it is too early to determine if if the county building 24 and FY26 capital budget. We'll be speaking with you about that in
September once the close of FY25 is realized and any surplus of baseline revenues are realized. In the event that we do have a uh capital budget, this number would be four to five as the schools would be able to participate as well. So, too early to tell, but we'll talk about it in September.
Thank you. Okay, Mr. Qu question. H how do you uh enroll students uh for the count and how do they apply? are certainly just paid to meet the budget or you saying you get I don't
need this yet you have county do you cap it at that amount amount and the rest get on a wait list or that's all apply I just don't know how you want to yeah it's a blind admissions process which means that every student who applies whether
from in or out of county comes into us without any identification we don't know where the kid lives we don't know if the kid is on an ed plan or not. Uh and then after we tabulate the scores uh on a 100 point
rubric, the kids who are at the top of the list get letters of acceptance and the kid everybody else afterwards gets on a wait list. And as kids decide to come, uh we we enroll them. Kids drop out for one reason or another, we move
kids on a wait list. So, but we never look at the kids town of origin as a criteria by which they're admitted to the school. Another question. How many students apply and counting
that are going to have kids coming? I mean, they know this year. How many apply? You know, do you know I don't know the in versus out split. uh we had close to 500 admission uh or applications in total.
I can give to Yeah, I believe it was close to 50. So yeah, so there were about 250 uh kids that apply from in county roughly and we've accepted 160 kids. So about 80 of those kids that applied from in county because our our freshman class is about 5050. So it's
about 80 in and 80 out. We've got 160 right now. Question about our county. How do you achieve they have you had any problems collecting the money from these towns? How did you build them up front for the year? Are you quarterly or how monthly? How do you how do you build all
these I mean monthly that's out of county? I want you to monthly. Yeah, we build we we bill out of county uh we we bill out of county twice a year. We
build them after we do our assessment, our SIMS data collection in October as we build them and then we build them in the spring. We have been wonderfully supported by out of county cities and towns. We have not had any significant problems since I've been here and
collecting. We've had one or two even questions about about rates. Uh we do sometimes have students move in the middle of the year. We have to prorrate bills and we have to get uh that through the county. But I mean through the cities and towns, but we've been wonderfully supported by cities and
towns. We've we've uh received basically no push back. That's that's the comment I was going to make piggybacking on John's comments. We've had questions over the years, but never real push back. In county people all bus, right? Is that correct? We offer busing
for all in county students. Yes. Do they pay? Yeah. Now the out of district the parents got a driving or they service off along the way. The out of county cities and towns are responsible for transporting students here. What we offer out of county cities and towns is
the ability to use our buses inside North County if they can take their students to one of our bus stops. We will finish that trip for them. So, if you're from Rand, not Random, you're from Brockton and you get yourself across into Norfick County and to one of our bus stops in time, then you're
welcome to get on one of our buses and we'll complete that transportation for you. We also uh facilitate um cities and towns that are located near each other to pool together to get their students here to school. So our transportation manager who's also our dean of students,
Don Karen, she works with cities and towns and helps facilitate them pooling their resources so they can get one van from three poor towns so that they could economically get their students here to the school. But we don't have any financial uh responsibility for students could out of county students finding
their way to the school. I'm a little school committee and we have we have last four years there are 550 kids applying. We only have 250 spots. So I mean the the type get schools you know what you have here is the same nationwide I mean we're getting more and
more kids apply every every year go to school like funny one of those schools don't trade that's where they come saying so every year it's going to get worse and worse and worse I mean good for us to come in the more kids don't fly because
we're going with it now 550 kids fly last year only 250 spots Great. All right. Let me go emission and then I'm gonna go to talk. If I may just share some positive news, we had Senator Feny address organization can talked about
blind admission vocational ed. They're under the radar. They're on the radar. And there's really a concern and an awareness that this is the way to go. and he said, you know, without making promises, there's going to be action in the upcoming years to get more seats at
our different schools because that's see that's the issue. It's just a great interest. We need more seats. We're going to do that. We're going to see at least there's an awareness and we don't we don't want the lottery. No, school. We can't that's just
different issue. We're saying that there's an awareness. We need to increase capacity both in our own school as trustees and at the vocational school. So that we can do. Thank you. All right, I'm going to go to Paul from Foxboro and then we're going to Charlie, you're next after Paul. Go ahead.
Um, just FYI, I was in attendance at a Foxboro Select Board meeting earlier this year and Mr. Wallace made a presentation uh, very thorough and very wellreceived. I think you followed the southeastern
presentation, didn't you? You know, uh I'm wondering uh grades 10, 11, and 12, do you have kids transferring in from uh you know, the regular district high schools? We we we have a target of
having um 155 students in the freshman class. So, uh we start the year 160 acceptances. Usually, we're in the 150 plus when the year starts. If they leave early enough in the year and we go below 155, we will replace them early in
freshman year as ninth graders. Then between ninth and tth grade, we tend to lose some students who who have put in a year at the school and decided it's not for them. So we will then backfill the class right back to 155 students for sophomore year. So we have an acceptance of nth graders and we have an acceptance
of 10th graders. Once we start to lose 10th graders, we don't backfill anymore because it's not possible unless they're coming from a vocational school for them to plug into our school and be able to graduate. So, it's basically 10th grade is the last time you have a chance to get into the school unless your
circumstance was really extraordinary. I don't believe that's happened, right, John? Since you and I have been here that we've admitted anybody after 10th grade. We've had requests, but we think it was not a good match. All right, Charlie.
Hi, I have a couple questions please. Um, what is the current rate for an incount and outofcount student? Okay. Well, the the if you mean the proposed rate, I'm assuming FY current rate. What's the
current rate? What's the current rate? The current rate is I'll go on that page. It's 40. It's approximately $4500 for an incounty student and it's approximately $27,900 for an out of student. Okay.
Charlotte, and what is it proposed? 5,500 in and 29,241 out. And that's a FY26. Yes, sir. So my question is
um I can't if I did quick math if you went up like uh 10 20% what's that like an over a 20% increase? Yeah 22.1%. Why are you raising the incount uh
tuition that much in one year? It it's a function of a couple of things. It's a function of a slight increase in expenses, but the primary driver is a reduction in special education students, which reduces our total tuition and the
fact that we have more in more and more incounty students. The more incounty students we have, the more the tuition in county will have to go up to compensate for the fact that we're losing that $29,000 student who was pri prior uh student of ours from out of
county. So this is something that I've tried we've tried to educate at least our own trustees on over the years is that this is there's a balance between in and out of county students. John is uh M John Martin is correct. We are agnostic about where the students come from. We're very
particular about admitting the students that would best benefit from the school and we feel would thrive here without consideration of what of how much their respective communities are going to pay us. So, it's those all of those things together in addition, Charlie, to a
desire to have a slight amount of surplus, right? If we if we weren't if we could we could have tuition at 4500 or we could have tuition at 5,000, but we would have no surplus. We'd be running the school at a deficit, which we don't feel is responsible. So, that was a decision that we made to increase
our incount tuition by $1,000 to provide for all those things I just discussed. So, I have a follow-up question, please. Um, so every year the number of students that are in county and every year the number of students that are out of
county changes. It's not something new. It happens all the time. But now you're going up 22% this year. Are you telling me in the past when it's changed, you've made drastic increases to incount tuition as well? Uh, when you say in the past, are you talking about John and I
in the last few years or prior administrations? So I I don't recall uh incount tuition going up 22% um from one year to the next. I think your memory is good, Charlie. For 10 for
10 years, there was no increase in the inc county tuition effectively. Uh that was the a period immediately before John Martin and I joined school. The school had been in a deficit position for probably four or five years prior to that and John and I didn't feel like
that was a responsible way to continue. So we increased the tuition significantly um our first full year here, the first time we determined tuition. Since then, the the the the increases have been relatively modest, uh $500 or less per student, but this
year, uh because of those factors I mentioned, we decided that the prudent thing to do would be to do this 22% increase. Uh last last thing, so our brain uh schools were talking about closing
elementary schools were in such bad shape financially. um we did um a debt exclusion that passed and we're still um you know discussing closing schools. So it's very
tough situation for Brainree. Um and for you know just to raise the the the cost of incounty students that's a big deal to us and to go up 22% I don't think
it you you might think that's the right thing to do. I don't think it's the right thing to do to go up 22% to um our cities and towns that make up Norfolk County. That's a big increase to the um to the to the cities and towns in North
County. It's a big increase to Brainree in light of what uh where we are financially. So, um I I I really I don't support this. And one final note, I hope when you were talking about cost of living increases
um for collective bargaining, I hope we're not going to have the same situation we had last time when we have we're trying to give the Norfolk County uh the the employees and the teachers at the Northfor County Agricultural more than we're giving everybody else in the county. I think that's uh going to be
problematic again and I'm not going to support that again either. Thank you. Thanks, Charlie. Okay, other comments, Gus. I'm looking looking at the half million dollars in capital and the $7 million wish list, and I don't know whether to feel good about that. So,
I've got a couple couple questions for you on that. The the list, the $7 million list, I'm assuming from year to year that's like 90% stable or the things don't come off. You don't get brand new list. So, this is kind of your ongoing list. Um it struck me that with
a half million I'm looking at the $2 million roof and the one half million dollar windows and said well that you'd never have a year that would give you enough money to do that. Do you in in I'm not concerned about what we have here, but in your management of that you
have you program those things out to where well here's like a total here's what we wish you know here's what we need to do and here's the priorities over time for when we think we need to have them done by. So like I'm looking right now saying that could be 14 years
capital expenditure and by that time you'll have another list at least this big. So it's got more to do with how you manage your projection that goal. Do you have at least internally a way of prioritizing and time facing this? Yeah, we we did we we haven't I haven't listed
it here and and and u it was suggested that perhaps we try to prioritize everything on this list but internally yes we we've gotten our facilities manager has given us a list that that he he has prioritized the things that need to get done. I mean, we're frankly struggling with trying to figure out how
to deal with capital issues because our market is limited. Our surplus obviously is is is not something that we want to or feel comfortable creating surpluses. So, because it would be on the backs of cities and towns that are sending us students. So, we're trying to balance
these things, but there is no easy answer. The the reason I asked the question is because our town used to just sort of do a pay because we had a list and well how much was left over after we took care of all the expenses and this was the amount that could go cap. That was the last decision made and I was looking at what was at the bottom
of the can after you had done everything else. Sure. And then we did a comprehensive assessment of the maintenance needs of our town and came up with a shocking number like $40 million. And so when you kind of just incrementally do it,
u it's easy to wander into a big hole and that doesn't do you any good any either because then suddenly you have major capital. So it's got nothing to do with budget. It's got to do with in thinking about it. If if there is a number that's the number it should be,
it's easier to get that number on the table and articulate it. If there's some sort of here's everything we've got, here's what we need to have it by. this is what it would look like. And the more you don't take care of the stuff along the way, chances are the more you're pushing it out and that as much as you
don't want to hurt anybody, uh, at some point you're going to hurt somebody a whole lot worse because of everything you get pushed. It's a little bit like O. Yeah. I'm sorry, John. Just a quick follow up to that, Gus. Uh, two things.
Number one, um in April, I proposed um a plan uh with with placement coming in uh to enjoin the schools and in some kind of a a thoughtful program to match county available county um capital monies with school capital monies to um
sort of amplify or multiply their ability to get to some of those big ticket items. That's number one. Uh number two, and feel free to talk about this either John or John, your proposal, I understand, includes a development consultant. um on on your screen that can help raise money um externally and
above what we can provide uh for the school's benefit and it's new in your budget and I know you talked about it your trustes meeting so bring that up too suggested by one of our trustees Mark Parish at a meeting a couple of months ago that we explore the possibilities of developmental quote
unquote consulting and we think that idea has a lot of merit in some ways looking at this school not even though it is a public school, but perhaps starting the administration would start behaving like we were a private school and that we would start looking at ways
to increase revenue by looking at alternate revenue restraints and somebody who has an expertise in that area certainly isn't me and it's not John Wallace but somebody who who knows how to do this for a living would really
uh benefit the school and help us to buy a new plant science group perhaps. because they're going to be able to target folks who are going to want to contribute larely. Yeah, I just like to kind of detail on
to your comment, John. So, conceptually, I think it's a good idea. I would ask you as an administration and as a school when you were to design
scope or what direction this individual could to go, do you kind of have laid out what your priorities would be in terms of if we get an influx of x number of dollars kind of to your point I would think that
consultant would want to know what people he needs to get in front based on what your needs are. So, is that going to be part of the development of the position? Not again, not to use the word development, but um is that going to kind of be the way that you'll
design this with this individual? It's an excellent point, Rick. And yes, the short answer to your question is yes. Okay. We've talked internally an awful lot about the alumni, for example. And right uh and we know some of those
folks have deep pockets, but I don't know who they are. He doesn't know who they are. But we got to find somebody who can determine what that list of people looks like, how deep their pocket their pockets are, and say these are the three things we would prioritize, right?
Would you contribute fundraising activity? Would you contribute money to fix this? Would you contribute money to replace them? It's part of the the process. Okay. And again, not to just point it point out myself, but I'm doing some of
that work at Bristol and it's more in the world of grants, not so much private foundations and economies. And what I have found to be most challenging when I have an opportunity to look at a grant
funding is there's more and more of that money being less eligible to agile aged to um I'm going to use the term low income communities.
Um, so you know, I I think, you know, kind of going in that direction, it doesn't really steer to the federal state monies because that's that's their focus. Um, yeah, we're not eligible for most of that money, right? And the money that we are eligible for
wouldn't fund any of these things, right? Great. Um, I'm going to recognize uh Paul Jorgus to the board. Hi, everybody. Um I am F because I have the privilege of being the chair of the board of
trustees here at the school and and I um first want to share with you that we had a discussion um with uh state senator Pauline and as a result of that discussion there's a new mark in the
state budget of $100,000 to replace one of the um green houses which is uh in desperate need of those actually all of them are in need of repair but we uh selected the one that was largest in
in the worst condition in addition to that we have been in touch with both United States senators and we do have an application knowing full well that when federal governments
ability to keep commitments at this point in time is unknown, but we have made a request uh through the two senators. Uh and I had a discussion with one of the staff me earlier this week.
Um and it is still in the hot and that was for $3.4 million uh for the plant science building. So I I don't want to make a commitment that we're getting the money but look to other
sources. The other thing I want to share with you um is our superintendent has decided to retire uh which I'm I'm pleased for him.
I'm sorry, he's leaving the school. Um, but we have selected uh a individual um earlier today and we'll be going through some uh contract negotiations,
but I wanted you to be aware that we do have finalists and we look forward to moving forward and continuing to work with you in a very positive way. Thank you. Thank you, Paul. Yeah. Yes. Did
Bill, didn't you submit a bill um a grant proposal, too? Yeah. I put one in. You did put one in two years now. Yeah. Two years. We're wait We're waiting on federal federal side. A federal side. Okay. All right. Congressional director. Okay. Congressional director's funding, but there's no movement on that. Good
luck this year. I'm sorry. Say good luck this year. Okay. That's not It's not Okay. All right. Okay. That was but for the school, you know, for the school, right? That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Um Okay. Um I'm sorry. Yes. and I'm not in
competition with you with question but um I was pleased to see that you were able to obtain some sort of um ruling by I think it was Jesse giving you this number
of 2163 I can tell you how sparkling that was back several years ago no one touched that um didn't want to touch it. legislation didn't want to touch as to what was the definition and
I'm referring to the law that allows the county to charge me county and it's the difference of the overall budget and the state right so I'd be curious to know um I mean we looked at different ways to come up with that that's the spending
the contribution you know all those formulas in chapter 70 so I'm curious as to what methodology they gave that sum of money. I will get back to you with that quick. It wasn't uh it was just a published rate. That's just a
published rate on the Desi website. That was not a calculation, but I can I can be more specific with you. John and I looked it up, found it on their on their website. And that kind of goes back knows to your comment about not increasing in county collision. And one
of the reasons we didn't do that was because they didn't have clear authority as to how much we could charge. In fact, if anybody on the board remembers that when we instituted county tuition,
Mr. We had a town that uh decided they weren't going to pay it. And in fact, we you know, we had a hire attorney. They didn't go to court. there was a settlement and in that settlement
um it was agreed that the statement rate was in fact what the out of county tuition rate was. So we had no leverage to charge anything beyond that to the in county student. So it wasn't a matter of
us strategically saying you got to stop charging something. was a matter of we didn't have clear authorization that we could charge anything. Um, and I can remember in the very beginning when we even instituted the entire tuition,
there was commissioners that were elected that really had, you know, kind of a, hey, I don't know if I can go to my communities and, you know, explain to them that all of a sudden they're going to have to pay in county tuition for something.
So I mean it was a learning curve, huge learning curve. So I mean where we are today seems to be in a much better place and I would agree that you know whatever um because we always thought that no matter how you looked at it I need
county students a good deal at that rate. Um but at that time and and John I kind of want to point this out to you
that we had no in county tuition. So the contribution that we were getting from the county was huge. That was our false that was our fail safe. and you know to the point where we would uh sort of go
in front of the county commission and say listen you know there's got to be some way that you can support the school financially at a higher rate because we can't afford you know keeping in the structural deficit that we rent that's kind of the history behind it. So I
think goes to getting that that number that's huge. Um, the other thing that I'd like to comment on is I think strategically they're doing this at Bristol and I hate to bust to them but it's there. It's the same place. Um,
this talk about line water lottery I'm hearing more and more that that's going to happen. Um, and I think you need to plant that um because um what's going to happen is that this task force that
they're that they're formulating, deser gears to make it a political thing and we all know what can happen when it comes becomes political. Well, um I think there should be some thought about what the consequences would that not to
say that you have to engage in something at least put it on the back burner. I we have a neutrality though it's not being fair. These are topics that are beyond reaching the budget here. If I could bring us back to what we're doing the budget the whole idea of what you say
what I say. We could argue this all night but we can go all night if you want. I hear we're not going to get it. You're going to hear we are going to get it. We have a new superintendent coming in. I would think the trustees working with the new superintendent will be looking at a plan. They'll develop a plan. I think they need to work on their
own and give the guy a chance. You just just got to vote today. It's not being a John. He's going up the door or anybody say, "Well, you plan. Give us time. We have a new superintendent. Your words are well taken." I understand that. But I've been at MSAC conferences. I've
heard Representative uh Scandlin who said, "We're going to have a committee. We're gonna separate things. So you hear one thing, right? You know how it is. Then you go to somebody else. You hear another thing. You go. This is all over the place to me. Madam Chair, I could like to kind of move the question and get the budget done, please. We're
getting kind of off the track. Thank you very much for bringing that up. Gus, this is not a political, this is a math question. I couldn't help but notice that the 29,241 total costs in the box equals the
29,241 out of county tuition. So I'm assuming then I I just don't know how it works. The out of county tuition is a straight function of the average cost per student in the school. That that's how they get absolutely the whole cost of education.
Okay. Thank you. Great. Okay. Any other questions about this last half of the budget? I do think um I do think commissioner I'm so glad you brought that we'll move right on. I just think we are identifying a risk to the budget a risk to the our future budget and that's just
important. Okay. But in you heard our superintendent he did say that we use a blind admission. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean absolutely we use a blind admission criteria. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Absolutely.
And I just before we end this, I just want to um recognize your service here, Mr. Martin. Thank you as the superintendent of the Okay. Anything else on schools? All right. We're going to circle back to the whole budget, which is still the same bottom line number
that we had in April. And um any comments or discussion about that? Yes. Uh so missing something. I didn't see any number for legal bills the budget. There is a number for legal bills in the
budget and I'm going to go to see if we can help you find that. I have a followup on that. Legal services are budget in line 1045235 for $119,000. Um, apologize Mr. Numis, but
in April I I understand you may not have been present, but I did explain to the group then that that is um approximately $50,000 below last year. Okay, that would be we're projecting a savings due to um hopefully the end of the
litigation with the register and uh furthermore we won't be in collective parking as intensively as we were in FY25. We see some savings coming back. No problem. Other questions about the FY26 budget is just going on on the uh
employees uh contracts the 2020 do they how many have contracts now are you all negotiations or who are all in negotiations unit I'm sorry unit is in negotiation that's right yeah all three and you have money put aside for that we do it's in
reserve for all units that's correct okay I don't know. I don't know. We have we have to move that money probably another meeting. Once the contracts are ratified and um uh we we come around to you probably in the fall.
Everything goes well. If not the spring, we'll have to transfer from there into the respective take. When the contracts are June 30th this year, that's right. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Other questions on the FY26 budget? Anything else? Anything? Okay.
Nothing online, Bill. Okay. All right. Okay. I am ready. Would you like to give us the bottom line? Very quick. I met tonight and we um voted unanimously to recommend the budget as presented.
Okay. Make a motion. So, I will make the motion to approve the the fiscal year 2026 North County budget in the amount of 37,824,790.34. A second. Thank you. Okay, I think we have to vote this. Barbara,
excuse me. Avon, hi. Billingham, Brainree, hi. Brooklyn, I Canton Cohassid. Denim. Hi. Do Foxboro. Hi.
Franklin. Yes. Brook Medfield. Hi. Med. Yes. Milis, Milton, yes. Needam, Norolk, Norwood, Plainville, yes. Quinsey, yes. Randolph, yes. Sharon, yes. Stoen
Walpole, Welssley votes yes. Westwood, Rentham, that is 62.18 unanimous. Thank you very much, Bill. Okay, budget passes. Thank you very much. forget about.
All right. Okay. Um, we are going to go through the next items pretty quickly. I think gentlemen ladies, um, do I have a motion to approve the minutes of the meeting of Wednesday the 16th? So move. Second. Second. Thank you. Um, all in
favor? I was done. Okay, we got to keep going. Avon, hi. Bellingham Brainree. I Brooklyn. Yeah. I Canton Cohasset Dam.
Hi. Dober Foxboro. Abstains. That was absent. Okay. Uh Franklin, yes. Hol Brook Medfield. Hi. Med abstain.
Milis, Milton, yes. Needam, Norfolk, Norwood, Planeville, yes. Quinsey, yes. Randolph, yes. Sharon, yes. Stoen Walpole, Welssley. Yes.
Westwood, Rentham. Uh, that's um bear with me here. Oh, no. the way it's concerned extensions. Uh that's 58.65 yes and 3.53 abstaining. Great. Thank you very much. The budget the minutes
pass. Okay. Um one last order of business before I uh finish my last meeting with Mr. chair is um the bylaws were last reviewed back in in 2018 and um for this board and there are some housekeeping things that just need to be
done on those updated. Uh there's just some things that are just gray just uh we should look at them periodically. Um and I wanted to propose that we actually have a bylaw review committee to just get that work done and bring that bring the renewed by laws back to to the board
for review. Um, and uh, does any thoughts about that? Preferences, disagreements, this a hot topic. Bylaws are always such an interesting conversation. Um, hearing no discussion. Carl, did you
hear the last one? Did you last about review? It'd be a good idea to look at them. That's what that's what five years, right? Exactly. We should do that. It's a It's a function we should just complete. Might be nothing changing either. It's just it's possible, right? So, um we we have
talked about that Eric and I and we suggest we want to make a suggestion for that. Yes. Um so, would you like to move um committee to do the bylaw review? I would like to um make a motion to formulate the bylaw review committee
made up of three members. Um if they will serve, Dr. Childs from Brooklyn as the chair, Mr. Duba Franklin and Mr. Murvby from Netfield. Okay. Is there a second to that motion?
Second. Thank you, Mr. Fo. Okay. Barbara Avon. Yes. Bellingham. Brainree. Brainree. Sorry. I Brooklyn. I Canton Cohasset. Dam. Yes.
Do Foxboro. Yes. Uh, Franklin. Yes. Bullbrook Medfield. Yes. Medway. Yes. Milis Milton. Yes. Needam. Norwood. Planeville. Yes.
Quinsey. Yes. Randolph. Yes. Sharon. Yes. Stoen. Walpole. Welsley. Yes. Westwood. We Rentham. Unanimous. Thank you very much. Motion
passes. Okay. The last item before other topics is a report of nominating committee. Mr. Ren and Mr. Connors and Mr. Connelly graciously served to help us come up with the slate. And uh would you like to report out Joe? I'd be happy
to. Madam Chair, thank you and thank you to the members. Uh the nominating committee was appointed by the chair to advise her as to individuals who may be suitable for nomination to serve as officers for the
upcoming year. And with the advice of the committee, the committee spoke for the chair and the chair is nominating the following individuals for election. Uh tonight, Mr. Beckererman of Avon as chair, Mr. Fitzpatrick of Quinsey as
vice chair, and Mr. Murphy of Medfield as Clark. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I appreciate it. Um that's is that a motion? Um or is that a recommendation? That's the recommendation. The recommendation. Yes. All right. Thank
you very much. Okay. So, I would entertain a motion. Um we can do this. We can vote this in block. Correct. Nominations from the floor. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. Are there any nominations before? Yes. Uh, have they
all agreed to serve the three nominees? Yes. If anybody has a better idea, thank you that question. Thank you guys for Yes, we have to ask for a call for any Are there any nominations from the floor?
Nominations. What's that? Got to do it three times. We have to do it three times. You got to call for further nominations. Three times. I do. Okay. All right. We'll do. Thank you. All right. So, I've only done it twice. So, I have to do one more. Yes. All right. Any further nominations?
Okay. Three times. Yes. I'll total total nominations. I'll accept your motion. I'll second it. Thank you, Mr. Guys are great. I We're going to get it done here. Okay. Want to move you all fast. All right. Good. All right. So, we um I think we can vote
these in block, correct? We don't have to vote them individually, right? Okay, that's right. All right. So, we're going to vote the slate. Mr. Beckerman from Avon from chair, Mr. Fitzpatrick from Quinsey for vice chair and Mr. Murvy
from Medfield for clerk. So move. Thank you so much, Mr. Ryan. Okay. Um seconded. Thank you, Mr. Connor. Okay. Um, I think we're ready to vote. Five minutes. Go. Good. We're going for
it. Okay. All right. Barbara Avon. Hi. Bellingham. Brainree. Hi. Brooklyn. Yes. Pantheon. Cohasset. Dam. Hi. Do Foxboro. Yes. Franklin. Yes. Pullbrook. Medfield.
Hi. Med. Yes. Milis Milton. Yes. Needam Norfolk Norwood Planeville. Yes. Quinzy. Yes. Randolph. Yes. Sharon. Yes. Stoen Wal Welssley. Yes. Westwood. We rent and
62.18 unanimous. Thank you very much. And thank you to all of you for being the one that served. Um topics. Other topics. Mr. Dubas. No. How many people online at the meeting? Two. Two. Three. Actually, three. Two
members and an observer. Well, I see. Yep. Thank you. Uhhuh. No problem. Okay. Any other topics? Mr. Pito, it's a 2116 topics, but thank you. We got We got to get here. So, I bring the Of course, I sent an email back to I think Bill and the kind director about
every meeting I've been to, there's always been open discussions meeting in boards. There's always a you know open open discussion. Someone wants to come come in front of this board of a question they should be able to come in front of us. I mean every board I've been on there's always that part. I mean
some means you let people speak and some means you don't. One meeting you let the trustee speak and not last mean don't speak. So we should have a if you want to speak they want to speak at the beginning of the meeting and at the meeting starts there can be no more discussion outside but there should be
man there's always open discussion. Sometimes there's nobody here at all, but they get the privilege to talk. That's all. I think if there's a new chairman, it's a new chamber issue. I was just going to say it's probably new chairman and obviously there'd have to be a policy around public comment. I would say there is there are differences in this board from many other boards
such as community board, a select board or school committee because we actually do represent the towns at this board and everybody on this board is hopefully is bringing to bear what's happening in our communities. So I think it is a different situation and we do have
public comment annually at the budget which is our primary responsibility which is to pass that to get that but it's only they got three or five minutes and that's it. They shut up about that if the board chairman may want to do something about public comment policy
but it's a very different issue. Yes. Thank you. Link calling birthday but there is no requirement that you have to have again it would be up to the board this board we we did have it as noted by the
chair at the time of the budget hearing. Yes and on this particular meeting the concern was because it wasn't wasn't posted on the agenda that there be public comment but that's again you got a new board coming in Dr. Yeah. Knock yourself out. We have commission. We do,
but there's no requirement. That's right. You limit the limit the amount of time until we've been discuss. Thank you, Mark. Carl, I would just like to note I would like to thank the the board to recognize thank the chair for her service and this board for their
service. That's great. I'm glad she just didn't hurt me when she strongly take. Okay. I think we're ready for a motion to adjourn. Motion. Thank you. Exactly. We have to get to the game, everybody.
Okay. All right. Um, do we have we have Barbara? I think we got to do this. Yeah. Unanimous. Great. Sounds good to me. Avon. Hi. Bellingham. Brainree. Hi. Brooklyn. Hi. Canton.
Ohass. Denim. Yes. Dober. Foxboro. Hi. Franklin. Yes. Holbrook. Medfield. Hi. Medway. Yes. Milis. Milton. Yes. Needam. Norfolk. Norwood. Planeville. Yes. Quindsy.
Randolph. Did we get a yes from Randolph? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear it. Sharon, Sharon, yes. Thank you. Stoen Walpole, Welssley, yes. Westwood, we rent. That's
unanimous. Thank you very much. We're on a jour.