Now going to call the Wednesday, September 25th, 2025 meeting of the North County Commission to order. I'm going to read the uh memo on remote participations. On March 28th, 2025, Governor Healey
signed into law House Bill 62, an act relative to extending certain CO 19 measures adopted during a state of emergency, which included a 2-year extension of the option for public bodies to hold remote meetings by
suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. That's general law, chapter 38, sections 18 through 25. That action was effective immediately extending the current option for remote meetings to June 30th, 2027.
Welcome. I'm going to ask if you will 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 under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Thank you. Roll call vote. Commissioner St. Present, sir. Commissioner Collins here. Commissioner Shay is present. We have a quorum. Number one. Number two is roll call.
Number three, no executive session today. Number four, minutes of the executive session meeting of June 19th, 2025 for approval. I have reviewed them and would move approval as presented. Second. Stipulation not released as the time as
the chair. So declares second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? It is a vote. Thank you. Number five is appointments. We have none. Number six, public comment. Each week at our meeting, we have a section in our agenda for
public comment. We are at that section. If there's anyone out in Zoomland that has any comment, now is the time to bring it up. Commissioner Director Coin, everyone relative public comment. Any request for public comment?
Last call for public comment. Seeing none, we'll move to number seven, old business. We do have one item in our agenda. Under old business, it's a request from the town of Milis for engineering department surveys. Originally submitted
last week and we held it off for one week. Copy is in your packet. has to do with uh our engineering department helping the old grove farm in relation to appropriate boundary lines located in
the use line location to be used of visual aid and we have the paperwork from John Mackoy who is the old growth pond commissioner Patrick are you on the line? Yes I am chairman Shay
Commissioner St. you have a question last week on I did uh yes chairman uh thank you chair mashay so Patrick you've had it seems a run on requests from different towns which is good yes but at the same time uh you know I'm
just worried I don't want to see our department being overstretched since we're just beginning if you will the new fiscal year I mean if this is something you feel you and your crew with no disrespect can handle that's fine but I thought we could pump the brakes and take a look at these things. What's your
thoughts on that? Uh I this is definitely in our wheelhouse and and it's a it's a as um time permits project that the the timeline is is open uh from the farm commission and the town. So it it it puts no added pressure onto the
department. So we this can be a fill in and make work job as as we have openings. Okay. I guess the key thing here is you can do it as the schedule is a little different. Yes. That's timeline.
Yep. All right. I just wanted to hear from you and make sure, you know, but you're doing a great job. Everybody obviously we're getting all these requests. So, that's good. We're trying to work our way, you know, a little bit through the county. The uh the farm I we met I met with the farm
commission and walked the site and then they sent their request on and they uh it's signed by the town administrator and that I talked to the town administrator. They fully support the project at the town level as well. Great. Okay, that's all I have. Mr. Chair, okay. Do we have a motion to grant the
request from the Tom Millis for engineering services? Yeah, I'd be happy to move that uh for the engineering services uh as described and requested. Second. Motion made and seconded to grant the request from the town of Milis for
engineering department services from our engineering department of the town. All in favor? All right. Thank you. It is a vote number. Thank you, commissioners. Okay. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you. This is uh updated from that.
There's one more on you. You want to read personnel matters for consideration. I think we have eight or nine from the school and one from treasur's office. All right. Mr. Chairman, if you want, I'll move. Absolutely. Uh I think there's the one, two, five up
for contingent employment. And so I'll move those as a group, right? They're all student workers. So I'll move it to Northolk County Agricultural High School for contingent employment uh as a student worker the following individuals. Grace Cunningham, Paige
Snder, Olivia McCann, Alise Anderson, and Kylie Bonica. uh for student worker contingent employment at the rate stated effective date on Grace Paige Olivia and lease is 7725
and for Kylie Monica it's 6:3025 so moved second motion made second all in favor it is a vote next is notice of position change yes I'd move chairman notice position change for Isabella Rose Fitzpatrick student labor the rate stated uh
effective date 77 720 25. So move second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I I'll move uh Mr. Chairman a notice of rate change for Julie Randall as a student worker at the rate stated effective date 7725. So move
second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor. And a second last one. Notice for a rate change for Mirabella Romano as a student worker at a rate stated uh 7725.
Second motion made and seconded. All in favor? I I Mela Marabella Romano that's a great name. All in favor I it is a vote. Payroll and expense warrants for approval. Uh treasurers too.
I'm sorry. One from the treasur treasur's office. uh notice for schedule change for Lori Bardi, executive assistant and accounts payable. Uh the uh information as stated it would be effective in a few days effective 7125. So move
second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I believe that takes care of our personnel matters for consideration. Payroll and expense form for approval. Right. Um they have they'll do it for
you. Okay. Sorry. There you go. Sure. Be happy to move it. Uh, Mr. Chairman, the warrant list of 62525. We have four items. 25-51, payroll of the county, the sum $154,752.7.
So move second. Motion made, seconded. All in favor? I. It is a vote. Second. Payroll of the school 25-51 parentheses 26. It's a sum $430,8627. So moved. Second.
Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I third expense of the county uh line 060425. The sum $39,92927. So moved. Second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor? I.
I. And uh there's an item here for Opera Medway. I'm sure we're going to hear about line item 25-51 opera and the sum of $15,000 to the town of Redway. So moved. Second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor?
That concludes that. Thank you. Welcome. Next one in your packet. request from the Denham Square Circle to use for use of the county parking lot at the registry of deeds building July 17th,
2025 from 6 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for the second annual summer stroll event. July 17th, summer stroll. We had this last year. I know we did, right?
Any questions? No, I think we have the letter in our packet from Denim Square. It's for July 17th with a rain day of July 24th. Okay. Yeah, here it is. Be happy to move approval. We did it last year. There weren't any problem, I don't think.
No, I'm sure you would have heard. I do. We need to notify the registry of deeds. We usually do. Yeah. Yep. It's on Thursday afternoon. Okay. Yeah. If not, I'll move uh Mr. Chair, if you want, I'll move approval. Sure. for the Denim Square circle uh
group u or denim to be allowed to uh utilize the parking lot as requested on the date of July 17 from 6:00 to 9. I mean 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Right. It says 6:00 to 19. Must be 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. I believe it is.
And then rate day July 27 for their um event. So moved. Second. Motion made and seconded. to grant the request in the Denim Square circle for use of the registry deeds parking lot on July 17th of their second
annual summer stroll event. All in favor? I. Here's the vote. Thank you. Okay. Number 11. Report from the procurement department. Bid openings and contract awards. We have none. No sir. Not this week. Not this week.
Okay. Number 12, offer transfer for approval. Director Cron. Thank you, J. Commissioners. Um, as you may know, um, the ARPA program continues in space currently, uh, nominated by the NETA
optimized grant awards. Um, as I previously stated, we received a credit back from the town of Canton, um, totaling $18,148 surplus funds from projects that are completed. Um we uh we notified Canton that they might be able to use these
funds for um additional growth or change order against existing grants. Uh they politely declined, was very appreciative of the offer, but they have closed out their projects. They're done. Okay. This uh funding consequently presents itself as a surplus. Um we have received a
request from the town of Medway um for $15,000. I'll read the letter from the town. um manager um the writing to respectfully request funding the amount of $15,000 to support the installation and associated
electrical work for addition of automated doors at the Medway Senior Center. This improvement is a vital step towards enhancing accessibility at the facility and would significantly benefit our senior population and other patrons who may experience mobility challenges. Um the cost for the automated door
units, including hardware and installation, is just under 10,000. The other 5,000 will cover the time, materials, and labor necessary to complete the required electrical work. This particular item, um, you'll see in the document I just gave you, will be assigned against the excess capacity
grant application, um, that Medway had previously, um, submitted to us, totaling $105,000. So, this is 15,000 towards that request. um you had previously approved it under the warrant, but if you'd like to at
this point approve the transfer request, we'll complete the circle and make sure that Medway gets its funding of $15,000 for this item. Any questions or comments? No. So, 15,000 towards 105,000. That's right. To put in an automatic door is 100
grand. Well, there are other additional improvements, ADA improvements. Um this particular item is for the doors. Okay. Yeah, sure. Well, if we can help out all the you dotted all the eyes and cross the tees and Mhm. they can couldn't use the 18 back. Yeah,
they completed their projects and they were very appreciative when we called back. Bill spoke to them yesterday. I think he spoke to Randy and they said, "No, we're done. We don't we don't any change orders coming our way." So, great. We got any more money hanging around like that? This will happen over the next several
months as uh communities arrive at the end point. As you may remember, you advanced a lot of funds towards projects that were estimated based on bid outcomes. So if you gave community, for example, 200,000 and they spent 180 to complete the project, you're going to see a surplus. That's why this project's
process of transfers is set up. So I'm not picking on it. I'm just curious when our first ones kind of sto awards mean. Yeah, I can check. Um I have not heard back on Stoton and how close they are to
resolving their their grants. The last time I checked from a macro perspective, Commissioner was it back in midMay out of the um 30 million that you distributed 130 31 million that you distributed uh approximately 114 or 120 has been
expended. Wow. So we're talking somewhere in the vicinity of 20 to 30 million. Sounds like a lot but it's not. that as of May of 2025 had not been expended against those advances. So that number will shrink obviously as these projects
become completed like Canton and then we'll see any kind of uh cushion change come back to us and we'll find a place to put it. Would you like a motion then to approve the uh the transfer from the opera 1171 of
Canton and Opera 1310 for a total sum of 18,000? No. Oh, for a total sum of 15,000. Oh, okay. Uh, so we'll move the approval of the transfer of the funds from Opera 1171 and Opera 1310 for a sum of $15,000
to be transferred to Midway Opera 1373. Correct. That's just correct. So move second. Motion made and seconded to approve opera transfer of funds from the town of unused funds from the town of Canton to
be used to assist town of Medway on Council on Asian project. All in favor? I. It is a vote. Thank you. Uh you'll note that as commissioner sty to speak u the original uh surplus from Kent was 18,148. So there's about a
$33,148 surplus. We'll find a space for that as we progress. um against existing um and approved excess capacity grants. They have to be for an application that's either existing or a surplus application. That's correct.
Can't be a town like I have one coming. We're looking for more money. Too late for that. That window closed December 31st, 2024. Except for our own buildings county, right? Well, we also created excess capacity grants to receive those. We've dealt with some of that last week as you. All right.
Yep. Sounds good. That is all. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Number 13, report of the county director. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A few items for the commissioners. Um, last week, um, we received a verbal report slashcomplaint
from a grand jury member about the conditions of the grand jury room on the third floor of the registry deeds. Um, the complaint was more um, related to the professional environment conditions. So, um, I contacted the Northfor County DA who put me in touch with his first
assistant. I met with her, uh, yesterday. Um, we went through the space prior to the grand jury coming in for their seating, um, um, Tuesday morning. The, um, the the conditions of the building are fine, but the space needs
um some work specifically, and I've directed Mr. McGawan to do a deep clean of the room. uh that is a steam cleaning of the carpeting and a complete wipe down of all the woodwork including the sills, the flat surfaces and so forth. Um following that um we recognize that
in order to improve the experience of the grand jury who as you probably know sit in that room for eight hours a day, 3 days a week um there's likely going to need to be an investment of furniture. Um and the cost for that would likely be borne by the state trial court. So, I
reached out to my counterpart of the trial court, Chris McUade, um, who has some experience prior to the movement of the grand jury to that space from a space, I believe, that was located behind the Denim Mall years ago. Uh, so he's got some historical knowledge of where we came from and obviously from
the state perspective, what kind of furniture and environment should a grand jury have? So, we're talking about um tables, possibly tables with electronic uh electrical connections, modesty panels, and seating that has casters to allow for comfortable seating for eight hours a day. Um there's also some
concerns about the um rather primitive audiovisisual that the grand jury uses to receive digital information and share it with the witnesses and so forth. And then finally, there's some concern about the um um privacy of the room. Um there's an adjoining um judges chamber
that is used to cue the witnesses before they move into the grand jury space and the trial court's desire a sound barrier sound hardened sound barrier to make sure that um expressions or comments made in the grand jury can't be over heard. So we have some improvements to make. Um the trial court contact is
receptive and we'll be scheduling a meeting um in that space in the coming weeks um after we get past the fiscal year. Um, I'll report back to the commissioners because initially it's more than likely going to be a cost that the county initially incurs and then it gets reimbursed by the state. Um, but we
want to be thoughtful about and and scalable with what kind of improvements we're going to make. I did ask the district attorney's office if they envision the grand jury um uh function moving towards the new Quinsey um justice center when it's built sometime
in the next 5 years or so. Um currently the district attorney does not envision that happening. He thinks that the grand jury's um function will remain here in doubt. So the solution will be thought to be at least a 5 to 10year um solution in terms of furniture and improvements
to allow the grand jury space to be habitable, professional, and uh through an upgrade cleaner. And um so over the next several days and weeks, I'll work with our staff to accomplish the first phase of cleanliness, and then we'll let you know what it looks like for an investment in furniture down the road.
questions. Questions. Just a thought. This is, you know, new territory for us a little bit. Any thought about looking at other courts that are in our county system? You know, we have relationship with them and seeing what they outfit their grand
juries with to get an idea. I did ask the first assistant to do that. She's going to be looking. All right. Great. She's contacting I think she said Bristol and Middle Sex. Beautiful. And they This is reimburseable as far as you know. it. Yeah, it it would be for the furniture. Yep. Okay. Yep.
Even the IT component to upgrade the technology. That's great. Good stuff. Good. Yeah. They as a as a tenant of ours effectively, they they would offset the improvement through their agreement to do so. If they decide, no, no, no, we don't want to do that, it won't happen.
Um so, but I do think there's some modest room for improvement to um make the space more professional, frankly. And when I looked at it yesterday, it was sort of um the remnants of COVID. Um it was explained that when you look at it right now, you'll see static chairs,
you know, side chairs, and in front of them are trays, tray tables that you would use, you know, at a at a dinner function that have something to eat. It's a very small little table in front of a chair, and that's all they have to put their gear on, to write on, to take notes, and it's completely in it's in
it's it's not acceptable. Um, prior to CO, there were multiple folding tables that were dispersed in a U-shaped arrangement and allow the grand jury to sit kind of in a semicircle towards the witness to towards the DA and the
exhibits. Um, those were dissembled and moved to the side because they were too close uh during CO. We're likely going to move back to those until and if we upgrade the furniture. Um, that'll give the grand jury more vertical service to work on. Um, but we have to clean the room first. pretty. It's in need of a
deep clean. Good. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. What's next, John? Um, just any kind of a vote on that. Do you need No, we don't have any expenses coming right now. I've already asked Mr.
McGowan to mobilize his um resources to begin the cleaning and um I'll get back to you on what we might need from funding when the time comes. Okay. Um that's weeks or a couple months away. We'll see how it goes. Um the disaster recovery room in Walpole is um ready for
occupancy. I know our IT office has begun moving uh the hardware from downstairs at 614 High Street over to uh this room. It's been completely uh ready by our maintenance staff. Um both here and at the Aggie. I understand Pete Murphy has prepped the floors, washed
and waxed them as well. Um so we're expecting some occupancy uh or readiness uh within a week or so. And uh that room will be officially transferred from here to um to Walpool. We're expecting the highdensity storage system to be installed the second week in July. So
about 2 weeks out, uh the vendor will be here to um reinvent that room and turn it into the centralized storage that we have um envisioned. So more on that later. Um when the new high density storage system is ready, we'll be
removing files from the blue house and from the registry deeds. We talked about this back in January. Um the county has quite a lot of files, human resource files as well as procurement files in both locations that'll be coming into this space on the first floor once the
um the areas where they're coming from are vacated. They'll be offered for reuse. Um I believe there was some conversation with the register, for example, back in January about providing him more space within the plan room where we currently keep our procurement files for his use. Um to that end, I've
notified Mr. McGawan um to halt any additional expansion of registry deed operational use of the building until we have a conversation because there's so little space left that we need to be thoughtful about what is the intended use of that space and what is the plan
for what the register might need for space going forward and does that building offer the capacity to do that. So um I'll be talking with Mr. McGowan in more detail about this. This be part of his FY26 performance evaluation goals because I think we should do this in a thoughtful and planned way. Obviously in
collaboration in this case with the registry deeds and what they plans are. Okay. Some more on that later. And just a reminder, um the commissioners have agreed to pull off a meeting this Friday, 9:00, uh to handle some uh some year-end business, as well as potential
um um replication of two um collective bargaining agreements, which we've reached tenative agreement on. That would be the facility maintenance unit and the registry deeds. Both units have their union ratifications, I believe, tomorrow. If things progress and it's
favorable, you'll be here on Friday morning to handle that. So, we'll update the public and yourselves on Friday. What what is before us as we end the fiscal year. That is all I have. I may have to zoom in for that. Go ahead. Make it a double double up on Friday, but I'll be available definitely. Okay.
9:00, right? Yep. Yeah. Oh, one other footnote. Um Michelle and I will be having a meeting uh an interview with a potential Palmer candidate um next early next week. It's been a while since we've had an eligible candidate step forward. So, we'll keep you informed on how that progresses.
All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah. Great. Anything else? Oh. Um, go ahead, chairman. I did want to draw your attention to one item. I believe some of the commissioners uh may have received a
letter from the register of deeds. Um, this letter was dated June 18th. It was addressed to the commissioners. I also got a copy and I believe copies were also sent to um certain news outlets. In those letter from the registry expresses his displeasure with um the status of
the disaster recovery space. In addition, he attached a copy of a news article. I'm not sure what news article this was placed in. Quincy Sun. Mhm. Um I'm not here to judge what the register writes. He's an elected official. He can write whatever he wants
as long as it doesn't impose on anyone's character. But in this case, the register writes um among other things um that this is an unfortunate sequel. He writes, "The county CIO wrote that the decision had been locked looked at over
the last 18 months. Yet in those 18 months, neither I nor registry staff were informed of any of this or even consulted by the CIO or the county information technology department or county directly." The register goes on.
There has been no discussion about this matter with me nor my staff. So the elected register deeds wrote this to the residents of Norfor County and I wish to inform you sir if you commissioner.
Thank you sir. Thank you that unfortunately the register is mistaken. As you will note, there has been extensive dialogue or attempted dialogue with the registr on the disaster recovery space. Going back to October 25th, 2024
up through May 8th of 2025, there were 13 emails. Um, five of them with the registered deeds and the rest with members of his staff. Subsequent to that, between May 14th and June 4th, there were four more
emails with members of his staff. On the right, you'll see the response largely ineffective, empty, or non-responsive. The register of deeds and his staff were contacted for their input on this plan, which you saw back in January in the
register was heard about, but to present to the residents of Norfor that neither he nor members of his staff were consulted is factually inaccurate. That is all I have. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Any
other questions for the town? I I'm a little disappointed truthfully about this matter because uh I actually got a phone call from a uh an official from the town of Welssley and then even from my own town that they said you know
what's happening. And I said I I would stand on the record that we've had dialogue on this matter. I know we've had discussions. I didn't have this backup which has given me now but I know there's been dialogue now I know the register did not want that move to take
place I think he had strong objection but to say that there was no discussion or opportunity of discussion is not really accurate and I I understand that we've had our differences I understand that you know he's an elected official
but to portray us as being hard uh heavy-handed and not you know making things without any had discussion. This is not really fair. So on my own I did set those people straight as best I could without this data. I did tell them that uh it's a it's a disagreement but
we feel it's best for the county to relocate that in the Aggie building and uh there was a discussion an opportunity for discussion over the course of the last several months. So hopefully I hope that those kind of comments you know
will kind of be restrained a little bit. We can have our differences, but we don't have information that perhaps is not totally accurate. But thank you for this stuff. This is helpful. Yeah. Thank you. Well, I'm looking forward to
the new space here due to this realignment of everything. I mean, the fact that the emergency centers moved to Walle, you know, it it never got a lot and thank God it doesn't get a lot of work, but it's, you know, that's a great spot for
it to be honest with you. I mean, you could move, you know, if one of those bombs the president is flying all over the world where, God forbid, slip out and we could go down there and operate out of there, so to speak. And uh
we need we need we need spo storage space. We need vital record space. We be in the whole county. Um I cautioned everyone that through through the director that will operate under the
revision schedule that's put out by the secretary of state. Hopefully someday you'll uh you'll see the big truck pull up and they'll be able to take care of the discard. But there's a whole process here. You don't have to keep things for
20 years. You have to keep payroll permanently. You have to keep personnel things permanently. You know, we're going to we're going to get I like to use this phrase sake of it get into the 20th century so to speak. And uh this is just another effort to do it. I mean, we
identified that space. We've all been here a few years now, included during CO, there's very, very little use of it. And that's a good thing because it's an emergency place. No way did it ever say it had to be across the street. But our predecessors
put it here. And that, you know, what what kind of work they did at the time, not question, that's where it went. Now, we're moving it down to the school. I would even think it could have a school use in an emergency and things like that. So, you know,
uh well, I think but I this is very interesting because Yeah, that's very I I get calls like you do. I get calls from and usually I when I when they thought of responding
our legal counsel says don't respond. I don't but this is another matter because this is getting I don't know if anyone else published the way the city of Quinsey did but uh I know that I noticed it myself and I do have some correspondence some
connection with them on occasion and we'll see. Mr. Chairman for you to the director. Do we need to sign these things today? Those are all set. Oh, these are all set. I you gave me the authority to endorse them. Okay. So, they've been sent along and they're probably on their way to the
governor's office where they just for me on the desk here. I believe they're uh they may be uh left over from our meeting. I'll be happy to take them out of the meeting. Okay. All right.
Okay. Last call on uh county director. Do we have any more update on the multicount uh meeting yet? Uh did. Yeah. So, um, I forwarded your request for early August. Um, Bristol County was meeting this week and I believe uh, Chairman Mitchell was going
to evaluate another date. Okay. So, we don't have a date, but the host is examining the options. Okay, great. I'll let you know. That's all I have. Now, we don't we not adjourning, right? We were standing in recess, correct?
Is that right? We're going in recess till Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. So, I I would move. If you're ready, I'll move. I'm not quite ready. Oh, you're not ready. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. Oh, okay. I don't have anything else except I want to and I think we've been doing this throughout the trial, but I want to
shout out to um our maintenance staff. I know that they were doing their job, so to speak. But I think it was stretched. I think it was extra. I I heard stories that when we were emptying the ballots four times a day just to
keep up with uh needless to say there was a big spill over into the registry building and they were using men's and ladies rooms and uh I think that uh the maintenance staff did a tremendous job and I just thought it's a good time to put on the record but uh
we'd normally not stretch like that but it shows that we can rise to the occasion and uh you know god forbid I have to do it again we will we have to do what we have to do but the other thing is it's
I love these historic buildings and and and that building was historic to the point of you know stairs and everything but no one realizes that it's probably built for 1900 courtrooms
in other words the year 1900 the They're not modern. They're not updated. And people are going to say, "Well, there wasn't enough room for us and everything, but you're talking about a big big change over there." If you were to change, you know, the the nearest thing to it is going to be the new
Quincy Court, but that's been a struggle there. It's probably still 5 years away, but you know, these courouses, we keep up with it as much as we can, but they built a long time ago, particularly. So, they have to I had a case as a lawyer. I had to do some work in Plymouth and the
registry building brand new and the trial court brand new. Yeah, those buildings are beautiful. Beautiful modern buildings. What's I don't know what they had before how they got the money. I think it was similar to us. I mean this is a beautiful building. I I stand by this building. I mean you you know I
saw our paint job every time I they put it on the helicopters have been I'm so glad we went for the upgraded paint commission. They did look good. They were great, but they by further size and dimensions, too. It was built, you know, I'm saying 1990 was built long before
that, but probably the last time the courous, the courtrooms themselves were restructured in uh Matt John, you just reminded me when you mentioned Quinsey, I forgot to give commissioners a brief update. Um, as you know, we don't own Quinsey anymore, but we have a an operational interest there.
Um about two weeks ago I informed the commissioners that the compressors that pushed the cold air into the building had all pre pretty much died. Um the state had elected to bring in a portable air solution via trailer. Um that solution's been in place for about two
weeks. Um I spoke to John McGawan who's fresh back from um vacation and he's been down in Quinsey as you know during this heat heat wave trying to help u move cold air into the various spaces. Um the the trial court called me this
morning um quite concerned. Um yesterday they closed the court early. It was an extraordinarily hot day. Uh the cooling could not keep up. I believe they closed at 1:00. Um so this morning um we had extended conversations that the solution that the state had put in place to push
cold air into the building uh in brief terms was basically a 100 ton unit. Um, prior to this meeting, I had conference call with trial court and our vendor and our vendor claims that if we had a 100 ton unit out there, we need a minimum of
120 and maybe 150. And that is just because you have to push more cold air into a building that's got high humidity right now. Got to move the water out, cool the area. So, the state is going to have another call this afternoon at 3:30 that I'm asked to join the uh trial court administrator on. Um, clearly that
building is it's doing what we all know it would do, which was to fail the air conditioning system during a heat wave at the worst possible time. But they need to come up with a solution not just to get them through this summer, but next summer. So, there's more heat emergencies coming and they need to size
a solution that provides uh regular and sustainable um cooling solutions in in that space. And I believe our vendor thoroughly impressed um the trial court to contact today. his information will be shared with the administrator so that they can make some changes which I think will result in a higher tonnage unit
going down there to cool the building. So ongoing problems we're a partner with them. We want to help them. We we provide on-site support and um obviously we want the courts to be open as often as possible. That's the latest on Quincy. So if I could
request an amount is that going to be bigger than what they had on law day? You know what you're saying? A big a bigger unit? Those are big units. They are. But this is going to be even bigger. Yes. Okay. Blood was tolerable. It wasn't great. It wasn't like, you know, this is comfortable. It was It was It was
stuffy. What the um the technician said, and I'm not an HVAC person, but he basically said, "Look, if it's normally it's an 80° day out and it's not 102, you could probably get away with 80 tons of cool air moving in. But the building was hot and it was
getting hotter and you're trying to cool it with 100 tons. it's you're you're never going to get the chiller to create the cold water uh that you need. It's just not you don't have enough power. So, they're going to try that solution. I'll let you know how it goes with the administrator today. I haven't talked to Tom in a while, but um u we're I told
I'll do whatever we can help them out and they're very very happy with the support they're getting from our website uh folks. So, um, that's that's your QDC update. Committ Commissioner Shay.
Thank you. I don't have anything else. I take a motion to recess until Friday at 9:00 a.m. for year end closings. I moved recess at 1:45 until 9:00 a.m. on Friday.
Second. Motion made and seconded to recess this meeting till 9:00 a.m. Friday for fiscal to year end closing work and then we'll close the year on Friday. All in favor? I.
Thank you.