I'm now going to call the Wednesday March 5th 2025 meeting of the Nora County Commission to order on Wednesday March 29 2023 Governor Healey signed into law chapter 2 of the acts of
2023 an act making Appropriations for fiscal year 2023 which included a two-year extension of the option for public bodies to hold remote meetings by suspending certain provisions of the mass open meeting law
Mass General Law chapter 38 section 20 that action was effective immediately extending the current option for remote meetings through March 31st 2025 fast approaching so we're live and
remote today if you'll all stand and join me in saluting the flag pled United States of America and to stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all thank you call roll commissioner stady I am present sir commissioner Shay is present we have a quorum we're ready to go today um director Cronin will not be with us today so substituting in the big chair
will be uh assistant director Bill Buckley I thought it's a big chair that's a good point number three no executive session that's correct sir number four minutes of the open meeting of February 19th
both open meeting and executive session for can we vote those 19th pres wasn't Joe away when when you vote for minutes you just attest that the record keeping is correct that's all you're doing physically and these were Ted last okay
I'm Mo approval of the uh uh February 19th uh meeting with as presented all in favor I it is a vote next I'm Mo approve an executive session of February 19 has presented with stipulation not to be released until such time as a chair
so declares motion made in second it all in favor iov number five is appointment we have a couple no I don't think so we're going they're later on the agenda they later on the agenda okay take care no
appointments we'll go to number six public comment every every week we have a session at our meeting for public comment allows anyone to come in and speak to us uh on any subject and if there's anyone in Zoom land that would
like to speak now is the time director Buck Buckley has you had anyone that wants to uh no Mr well business we have none Personnel matters for consideration we have several I might say at the outset they're all the golf
course where we might be a week away from opening we might be two weeks it's going to depend on the Sun but everyone's working hard to get presidents up and ready to go there is some more further Personnel changes coming but hopefully
they'll be before us next week but this is a list of some veteran part- ERS need come back to get the golf course open Mr chairman with your permission right I'm going to divide him into two groups one is a rehire contingent employment as noted they're all at the golf course and
they're all for seasonal golf uh associate appointment so I'll move the following group of individuals uh for rehire at the wallon golf course wallon Recreational facility for seasonal golf Associates at the rat stated and with the effective date for
all these people individuals at 31025 number one James Fitzroy of planville mass number two georan Wallace of quinsey mass number three Michael Smith of wouth mass number four jacn oo of quinsey mass number five Brian Foley
of Quincy Mass number six Sabrina Tai of hook mass and number seven Kelly O2 of quiny mass all to be seasonal golf Associates at their age dated 31025 so Mo I will second it and I might make a
couple of notes when you talk about longevity and people now these are two of the people at the top here of Jim F Roy course is a fmer superintendent who returned to us a couple of years ago because I think he got bored in retirement he's invaluable and georganne
Wallace is a 30-year employee I got to meet her I haven't had the pleasure she's there and she's Jim and she's been there for 30 years oh wonderful and it's bad time deal and these other people I don't know but I'm
one two three four five six motion made and seconded all in favor I I next the other two CH I'll move approval of contingent employment as seasonal golf Associates for Christine Ryan of quinsey and Maran Conroy of brain Tre at the
rate stated effective dat 3 1025 so move I'll second that all in favor I it is a vot thank you payLo and expense warrants for approval all right Mr move the F for approval we have four items on the warrant first item the county
expense warrant of 3125 mov the sum 77,000 $381 42 so moved I'll second that all in favor all it is the AY school first item move approval the agie expense warrant for 20
just 25-9 moves the sum 158,000 now have $816 so moved I'll second that and motion all in favor it is vote next next at the aie again for payroll number
25-23 subsection 18 uh moves a sum of $395,500 [Music] $33.30 so moved I'll second it motion made and second it all in favor it is a vote that concludes the Warr Mr thank
you number 11 first up a transfer request for approval town of DOA since this is the first explain this we are so close to being ready for prime time but we once more are not uh this week we're trying
to be very responsive to the town of DOA as you know DOA was the first Community to receive an arpa Grant from this board they will probably be the first to do a transfer uh from this board uh as we have talked about sort of
at length um because of the um the December 31st deadline for obligation we're now into a transfer phase and that requires a height heightened level of tracking of where these where these funds are going and where they're coming
from the town of Dober is transferring money from one existing application which was a sew and Water application where they had $49,000 remaining they were able prior to the deadline to put in an overallotment application for the same
amount for a culvert project there's been a lot of uh water issues in Dober I believe our engineering department did some survey work for them they had some flooding around there uh DPW as well so a lot of these projects are um connected uh um and so we've developed over the
last few weeks working with the other counties and cla a transfer form to track this so we we the form was completed last week we sent it over to do unfortunately much like here at the county a number of people are ill a number of people are out so they haven't gotten us the form back so we just put
this on we'll put it on next week as well to make sure uh we get it to them in a timely fashion uh they want to get started uh with the construction process and they need those funds so we'll Wai in the paperwork so soon as we will will'll take action absolutely okay any question this is yeah real quick
right quick exp we've never done I know this is new so the money was already appropriate to Door you vot you voted uh you voted for this project already but that money they want to use now for something else because what the project came in under under correct under and now this other project you also approved
as an overallotment application so we're just you're we're we felt that you should take a a secondary affirmative vote to go from that one approved project to a second okay and it was all done before December 24th uh 30th and so in the but to anticipate your question
in future months we may have something from Holbrook uh they may have because they couldn't expend them and that money may be transferred to Bellingham because they put it in ask you about so so we'll use this form as well not there yet but uh right we will use the same form and process for that it just so happens that
with to it's going between two do applications but to use any money towns had to have put something in again okay that's what uh Charlie asked me last night so so if you had an overage if you're a community that didn't you're unfortunately out of luck
so but we will be documenting that we're taking it from one application okay and moving to the I get it okay thank you not a lot of these but they'll be periodic for sure thanks Mr so is it is it is it okay to say that that DOA deserves a little uh how do you do because they they read the small print
and figured this out yeah the uh Carl Valencia who was their interm Finance director now he was their intern manager who's been tremendous to work with uh and Mona over in the sou board's office has been great as well um so we we worked closely with them but as I said they were the first uh to have an
application in and now they're the first to transfer on the ball right out of all right okay well as soon as we see it we'll push it ahead right excellent you want a motion to table that the next week yes I move approval move we table the OPA transfer request from Dober uh
to next week Mr Sam yeah number 11 letter letter of support from the commission for R Community devel I made a motion to table you got I'm sorry motion to table the transfer request from the town of DOA for Opera money all
in favor I we'll put that on hold number 11 letter of support of town of Randol Community Development block grant uh commissioner I have a letter here to secretary Ed Augustus executive office
of Housing and liberable Communications liable communities under Cambridge Street we guing town of Rell fiscal year cdbg application the town has asked us to
write this letter to secretary Augustus we need a vote on that Mr chair we did have a uh a request on the community Rand uh they are in a competitive Grant process for uh uh cddg Grant uh all these acronyms have changed
since the change over from the governor's Administration housing and livable communities used to be dhcd I think it has a new title title it did it it threw us all for a loop a bit but they they had reached out they've uh been able to get this grant in FY 2122
23 and 24 um they thought uh rightfully so that the more stakeholders and elected officials who can weigh in in support of this community Grant process will be helpful so they sent us over this uh form uh we tweeted a little to
talk about the county and uh thank you and so we have it before you now uh it's done some great work they've been able to uh do uh eight Rehabilitation projects in um 24 and they hope to do the same amount in 25 excellent okay they done they did it before this is
their this will be their sixth year wow uh hopefully it receive the gr and who else I'm just curious who else would they get support from select board probably you know the city Town Council with Randolph's case but yeah so they what they do is they'll put all those letters of sport together
in the application and send it in okay excellent so if if if you are amenable uh we can we'll send this over to Randol today after I vote to send the letter I take a motion yeah who who's the applicant is it the town of Rand Town
Rand is it the town manager or the council uh I believe it's their Housing Authority oh the house that's when we ask it so it's housing so get the Town Council approval too would they yeah that's everybody okay all right so I move Mr chairman that the County commissioners of Northfork support the
application of the town of Randol fiscal 25 cdbg application as outlined in the letter U and I'll move it I'll second it all in favor I little late time can you a stamp for Peter you wait
get i'll we'll get commissioner call sign it of course okay in favor I I number 12 RSVP American core week Proclamation this is is this
America cor week director come on up next right next week I don't know that John and John from the college have met Lucille C hello from agricultural school not the college and Bill Mullen thanks to meet you everyone knows Chris I'm
Lucille the Lucille is now Bob is gone Robert retired and Lucille is the director of RSVP go ahead Lucille tell us about thank you Commissioners for the time so next week is americor week March 9th through the 15th
2025 so americore is sort of the parent of RSVP at the national level and uh they guide us and offer us our grant every 3 years to operate the program so next week
uh they they do this annually um the theme is bringing out the best of America and as you know americor seniors RSVP program pairs thousands of Americans age 55 and older with organizations making change in
communities across the country americore senior volunteers who serve in our RSVP program choose how where and when they want to serve and commitments range from a few hours to 40 hours a week you can find any opportunities uh with thousands of
organizations that they work with including Nora County RSVP and be of service at at the local Regional level americor senior volunteers report Better Health and Longevity having served their
community so uh with that said just a few local uh facts uh we have 200 volunteers with the Nora County RSVP and 10% of those have a second position uh as well
and last week we just uh noted that we added three new drivers in the month of February for our rides for vets program beautiful so we're doing really well but we always need R uh drivers so if anyone is interested please give us a call uh
here at the county of nor and ask for the RSVP office uh we'd be happy to explain to you what's involved in uh rides for vets really really important but today I would just like to have the Commissioners uh read a
proclamation uh designating next week as um americore week and that we're celebrating along with uh the folks at the national level uh of volunteerism in our country so that said if if one of
you would like to do that Commission State since I passed him my copy okay commissioner I hope my my voice in last is still not 100% but I'll give it a shot I'm going to move the uh approval of the Proclamation declaring americore
week 2025 in Nar County it's a lot of Weir asses we'll give it a shot whereas more than 30 years ago Congress established americor formerly the corporation for National and community service to unite national service programs under one agency create service
opportunities that strengthen communities and expand Pathways to education careers and civic participation for those who serve and whereas americor is America's smart investment in local communities where public dollars leverage private
contributions to support locally locally LED datadriven solutions to Urgent needs and whereas americore and americore Senior programs brought opportunities for two 200,000 Americans annually to
serve their country through service at nonprofits Schools public agencies and community and faith-based organizations across the country and whereas national service represents a robust public private partnership that invests in community Solutions and leverages
non-federal resources to strengthen Community impact and increase the return on taxpayer dollars and whereas americore and americore Senior programs Within in Nora County strengthen bridge building skills by bringing people together from different backgrounds
generations and Geographic locations to address critical issues facing the country Forge relationships cultivate mutual respect and help build resilient and thriving communities and whereas volunteering prepares americ cor members for future careers and improves the
mental well-being of americore senior volunteers and their commitment to service reflects the dedication and patriotism of those who serve and whereas through their service America members and Americal seniors volunteers improve the lives of their families
strengthen communities and force the Civic engagement in norfor County as a whole and whereas americore week is an opportunity to recognize the dedication and commitment of the americ cor members and volunteers who serve each year the nearly 1.3 million americore alumni and
millions of americore senior volunteers and their Community Partners as well as to encourage more Americans to follow their Footsteps in service therefore be resolve that we the Nora County Commissioners to hereby designate the
second week of March 2025 as a Amore week in n county and we urge citizens to thank americore members and alumni and americore Senior volunteers for their service and to find their own ways to give back to their communities this petition and Proclamation having been
signed and will be signed by Joseph Shay chair Peter Collins and myself as County Commissioners Perfect all right now second the motion all in favor I okay so we we will adopt that and whatever
you do to get us some publicity absolutely thank you very much I would like to Stage a photo after the meeting after you finish your thank you thank you so much for doing that thank you okay thank you Chris we're all set well yes done yet
you're coming back to your budget right yeah you can okay whatever okay you can just hang that's fine not today all right yeah who see us today services oh not me right oh you don't yeah you're not presenting okay okay thank you Lu
next Mr chairman we have uh procurement Department contract was hi Mar good afternoon all how we doing director of procurement what do we have here we have two contracts ready to be signed if you agree the first one is
for the lease of our Tennis Courts at wallston Rec for tennis pro who comes in and gives lessons oh I love this so this is familiar and an easy one to I got to tell you a story oh do tell when I first came here about eight years ago maybe it was
nine um things were cooking at the course and the Patriot Ledger called me for some comments because so was some complaints that the courts were always busy and I said well I I think that's good and
uh I delved into it thought I was being a good dubie and I found out that the person who was complaining was the person who was there teaching people and he wasn't he he wasn't paying us anything we would we would we were Supply the
courts and everything and uh I get caught a little bit and I looked into it so uh if it's taken that long to formalize this I'm not sure I'm happy that we're doing it Carl Miner came to us this year with
it this is a re this is a reup okay we did repair it a few years ago okay okay but I it was always a stickler because yeah you know here I am misquoting to the Patriot Legend because I didn't know that and he
supplied us with a Certificate of Insurance with I think we F but yeah just more fur all right sry Mr chair any questions we're ready to go it's I make the motion I I'll move we approved uh the agreement uh dated this date between
Matthew K of brry uh and the as tennis pro and the Ala County Commissioners uh as the other party in the agreement for the use of the tennis court at the wallon recreation facility and with the terms as outlined here in and dated this
state so mov I'll second it all in favor second part of this today is grounds Master Lease right so also from Carl Miner um there's some equipment they will be leasing very
expensive equipment for crowns keeping and they put together a beautiful lease with PNC B similar to one we saw last week and so we need that signed by the commission if possible in many many places so do it at the end if you'd like it's
can't stamp this huh no this is a mostly Joe commissioner sh has to chair has to do all the work on this one all right primarily uh Mr chairman would you have permission yes I move the approval of uh the top products lease financed by PNC
Bank uh the terms outlin here for the leas of the ground Master 4500 multi Pro 5800 gm45 and plow for 5 years all in accordance with the Mass state contract faac 116
pricing on the terms are outlined it's for a period of five years so mov how much is the one one or how many uh it says here yearly payments 34,0 537 for five years so I know okay and this is off the state bid so off the
state bid total amount is 172,000 okay well we we need we need this equipment B today's golf course day and I think next week will be too but it is the season mhm get these right over here I moved it get the second I guess
voted or something I'll second motion we'll just put a chair right the chair sign yes chair only was there one more in there for you I'm not sure think so that looks like chair and this is
chair very good all right thank you so top two everybody the others are Joe motion been made Mr I'll second it all in favor all right and we're going to sign these and yeah I don't know what the time how long does it take to get this equipment here
do we know worried I'm not sure once we have that we can issue the pl and get it moving y thank you for that anything else for procurement today we'll have some things coming up in the near
future sign all these quotes for some office furniture and uh high density storage units and in the process but under $10,000 so no concerns sign away sign away sign away
all here we go Mr chairman while you're doing that if you want we can transition into next agend agenda item being our budget presentations okay we'll be right with [Music] you March 5th right
yes yeah sure FES how's that golf course one wasn't it working should we get one for the GOL should we get one for the school while we doing this we
have yeah but in there are little panics not free ranging idea coffee today what this page here says signature of secretary CLI right I'm going to take that down to take that down Superior
Court sir hook you right up okay I almost signed it by mistake no problem is some of that furniture for the U that new office we're going to be creating over at the Yankee school not yet this is for about that woman that was just
here is sticking over for Robert and also my own office oh you're upgrading huh for the director all right okay we'll have to put my nice old desk on the Surplus list anyone would like it would like to move
might not move far okay good heat tabs but that is in the works right if we want to get that other place set up yes M okay good okay okay I'm sorry to hold you up but
it's good to do all this one thank you thank you Mor this concludes department for today number 14 fiscal year 26 Buzz presentations we have three today we're going to start with the north
agricultural school so I'm going to have the Johns come up to the table and we go can I ask a question Joe direct them yes is this the order that makes the most sense because I just want to do the order that makes the most sense you know if else is you want us to uh well I just
want to be as considerate of the two other parties as possible else is five minutes all right should we go some else is got to be five minutes why don't we let them go you mind let's go to no if you don't mind that's a very good suggestion yes I'm number three reg said that the wrong
way I guess that no that's good Regional Services Bill Mullen that's sealer of weights and measures sh um okay you have your budget book b yeah feel how you do I'm well how are you good six is regional Services which is RSVP and
weights and measures uh six thank you buy thank you so spoiler alert we we're pretty much level funded we have uh We've not augmented the salaries as you know because we'll do that later on we continue to we have two FTE and weights and measures we have two
FTE in in RSVP obviously there was a director change at the top uh of the RSVP program underneath the regional Services umbrella uh we've left the um for both the uh our both programs we
have kept their expenditures the same 50 uh thou $50,000 in total 30 for rfcp which is flat 24 um weights and measures uh this is a very brief overview weight to measures we're doing
Canton Franklin needam Westwood and RAM currently the town of denam our sixth Community has put uh funding in their FY 26 budget to have us fully on board them uh director Mullen just got back from the sealers conference we have good
leads on two other medium to large siiz towns in the eastern part of the county who may be looking for uh additional ceiling Services which we may be able to actualize within FY 26 as well as we will be meeting this month we hope or
perhaps early next month with the division of standards to talk about the four smaller communities that the state do their ceiling for them Avon Dober planville and northfalk um all of those towns are on oneyear contracts with the state two of them have expressed
interest to us at the end of the year that they'd like to join us do has three places uh it can be sealed in an afternoon uh but they had re reup with the state but we understand with the changing workload of the state we're excited to have a dialogue about possibly taking that off of their plate
much like the town of barille does for the smaller communities around it in the center of the cape so uh while we can't project which of those we will land we are very confident that Dam will join us uh we are proposing an annual fee of $30,000 for Dam the reason you may ask
dam is so much larger that their fee than many other communities is they have how many Oil Trucks pill 30 yeah they have a a very large amount of oil trucks which is a much more um number one expensive inspection but also a larger
um amount of work to to do so as I said we've we're keeping our budgets the same last year's weights and measures expenditure had the funds for outfitting and rigging a second person uh while those funds only need two uses here we assume with additional towns there'll be
higher gas bills so we that's why we left that those uh two line items in group eight level funded we on the RSVP program side we continue to watch closely uh with their staff the
developments of the federal government obviously it is partially Grant funded it's a day-to-day situation there uh but in the meantime Lucille's off and running she's already looking at efficiencies looking at the ways in which we do things as a department there
and to see if there may be within FY 26 some things we can Tinker with so that when we're back here a year from now their budget number may be a little different we may be breaking things up in a different fashion but uh she's been here 4 days and is already looking at all sorts of things like that so that's
um the overview of where we are uh they did ask us to put Capital requests there are no Capital requests for RCP weights and measures we did have three arpa requests of 50-gallon oil prover um an additional uh Ford
Maverick and uh perhaps a 50-gallon high-speed Prov with additional seraphin test meas measures all of these things are um we had we had put them in it as a possibility for arpa but we would not seek to move forward with capit quests
until some of the larger communities came online uh and if and when Capital Money would be available so they're um I would characterize them as moderate term Capital requests but as we get bigger um there are some great pieces of equipment
which we won't belabor with you um that you can kind of pull up to a gas station and do a bunch of pumps and Rapids session instead of using a a 5 gon pram with efficiency comes the ability to serve more communities which uh gives us the ability to widen the County's
footprint so put it in let us know what it is no so it's in there so um it it's the fourth page of our memo so wait to much just program soon uh 50 gallon oil approver uh so we put all these in as oper request as well uh
but that kind of gives you we would we would not buy them until uh at least denim comes on by okayy so if I may Mr so we have five towns right now right definitely five and denim you said is is going to in their budget they're pretty much in so we're going to have six and
any proposing or suggesting we may pick up a couple of midsize towns of smaller communities so it's possible we could be up up to 10 we could be up to 10 Poss and and that's for fiscal 26 at the end yes at the end so do we have enough staff and equipment to
handle up to 10 Towns or we going have to I would believe so yes you would think so okay especially some of the smaller ones are just okay okay all right we're we're really excited about that discussion with the state because these communities really don't care who does it either way we
think we can do it for a little cheaper for them yeah uh and also uh because the state's so large a lot of times if a complaint happens it you might have to talk to three people and be bounc around for three or four days for a citizen over or Avon whereas with our
program we're bills turning around on average 24 hours investigating complaints on devices so there's a lot of very positive constituent feedback there so we think it would be a good win for everyone very hopeful about that dialogue good may I ask one more question you
brought it up I didn't we segue RSVP that's also in that's in Regional services so when I PP I remember Bob pearon and his last appearance several times made a plea that we try to consider increasing the
budget to accommodate some extra uh either mileage or something for the ride of program which is so I forgot about that yeah and I I don't want to let that go I really would because I I know myself I had said I would have loved to have seen the part-time vet agent that
we used to have back in to help out our town when I go out and I meet with these veteran agents in different towns I mean you go to be you always hear how great that was to have that person to step in now we don't have that I know that but um I'd like to see more services for our
vets so if there's some way that we can incorporate more services as B was suggesting I'm all for it I just I'm all for it so on that note it's important to kind of in a general way talk about because it's under the regional services on PR yeah we had had dialogues with
rentham and planville had difficulty they they were in a Consortium with rentham planville and North North adoro yeah uh in which they were sort of the junior Partners they were initially looking to do something um but that that need didn't materialize we had had
dialogues with uh Milton as well they have a very small um FTE in Milton he's retiring right so we've been talking with uh so we haven't lost sight of that veterans piece M I think obviously the rides for vets which grew this month
which is great right is the vestage of that but we continue to have dialogues with the managers to see if there's a place where we could recreate through a um in Municipal agreement something similar to what we had with Franklin and avar okay good but they're very iterative right like so towns get
together Walpole will stand alone then Walpole joined W Medfield now it's wo Medfield Sherburn um so these towns kind of uh in a lot of these well he serves R in Milton currently somehow yes so he's retiring too he's leaving you have to
you have to be without a way they have to be geographically contigous oh so that's how like North Northboro playville and rent them got could we do something with North Ado they're not North County they're Bristol County no but I think that was part of the dialogue we were having was because
North Alo was the large town so was a North employee that they were sort of sharing um so they were kind of checking out other opportunities but okay uh yeah we continue to have uh every month I go to the manager meetings and I check in with them and which is one of the pieces
I I see where people are well if you could you mean just like I said before we forget flag the right I know Bob made a point of saying that I think we're all in agreement that's a good point I had forgot do a little more than that that'd be great question that's all I had great
job great job great news huh if we had de is denim Bill Mullen how do you tell is denim larger than than Franklin in terms of services yes in terms of services okay and Franklin's our biggest
Community now I don't I mean and how secondly how do you determine how many places you have to go I know the the standard ones you think of the supermarket you think of the the scale but if if Joe Jones has a one oil truck
out of his house how do you identify him or find him just Mr chairman we received like uh the list from deim but we've also done searches ourselves you know online of um and especially things that
that I I realize everyone's supposed to register their business at the Town correct but sometimes this C former life as a city clerk sometimes you you'd go into the police would report that Joe this guy we were known on a police call This Guy's running a business out of
apartment etc etc right I don't think you could run a well you could run a oil truck your pocket but I'm just wondering what how how we find everybody Oil Trucks get pulled over frequently by state and and other Town sealers just to make sure that they're compliant so
those guys are very cautious um obviously Gas Stations don't move around superstate find gas stations um you know but things that are under the radar can be jeweler store jewelry stores the cash for gold okay
Cas do you do the pot shops now we do okay we do they're growing I mean it's there was one in quiny for last year so it's very successful yeah in the next six months it's going to be three in quiny there's four in Franklin including two Grove facilities where we're there
literally all day and uh you know we grab like a bag of Twinkies on the way out you know so that's a no I know there that's a that's a new industry it's a new industry but okay I I I you know what what
commissioner St and I think we think this is a win-win thank you we congratulate both of you Bill Buckley was around this one day one and it's really taking a life of its own I don't I I mean I think we're I mean I don't want to run around and I
it's six six people and get three C I don't think we're ready right it's all uh it's built for growth and and we're growing at a a manageable Pace but uh we were also talking chairman there's a we mentioned another few communities who have sealers now who may be on the back
end of their um careers and they have mentioned to me the managers well our backup plan is just we're going to call you when this person quits or retires so um that's good to know that people are planning to join us as well so there I think there's a 12th and a 14th Town out
there for sure if as we go through the next I mean that's that's what we're here for all right ready a great great work okay for the on weights and measures any questions I'll take a vote to take it
under consideration yeah so move okay I'll in favor on uh thank you RSVP vot to take it under consideration one it's regional Services we want to do it all into one vote okay thank you Bill thank you sir take care
okay uh next is County commission's Office it's number six in the book uh yes no it's behind number five behind Mr chair it's very straightforward you see the uh the salary page uh is level funded at
present there is one uh decrease in the purchasing officer Chief procurement officer because that person is retiring a replacing a tired employee uh who was at a higher stepping grade all told our on the second page you can see our
expenditures they are just about level funded uh and uh professional and Technical is um is up a little we we we've tweaked a few areas but all told we have about $9,000 decrease in the commissioner's budget one of the things director Cronin
was looking at we had such great success with uh the intern who was uh downstairs from the uh Treasures Office last year as we look at centralizing our records over the summer there's a lot of um digitization a lot of filing to be done
uh we we could perhaps move this to Temporary salaries and explore having we discuss that with the treasur because we're going to take us under advisement I think it's a good idea we move the inter to us that that is a that is one path we could take okay for sure and
it's $99,000 less than 9,000 okay any questions commissioner yeah this doesn't reflect any kind of a uh wage adjustment that's nothing does right now is that that will be plugged in afterwards I see okay none of our employees are union so they'll be lost
we'll be lost last okay Wonder it's like okay level find now okay that's corre so not much suppos to say all right fine take it under I don't want to keep the school waiting I'm fine I'm we take it under revisement we'll second that all
in favor by okay that concludes budget for today accept to school it Standalone budget uh there's they have aack they give you a pack yeah we have come on up Bill I'll just put this in after I'm
done all right bill you want to stay over here sit I don't got to go check this okay all right sounds okay all right agricultural school we could be quicker than those guys we have superintendent John by and our business manager last time
you John Wallace last time yeah and we have uh yes we have a hand out which hand numbered so we can follow along the pages that sometimes helps yeah right because we are numbered in Okay so we've got this hand out it's got It's got the pages numbered so we
can uh follow along uh first of all thanks for letting us come by and give you you know face to face you know ideas about what why we did what we did in our budget and how our numbers are working um like we usually do we talk about the principles that we put the budget together we're definitely uh holding
headcount flat and we're also holding all of our discretionary expenses flat so you will see that when we get into the details I mean the only increases that we have this year in our budget are salaries for our individual employees no new employees but salaries for individual employees and indirect costs
being higher which you know come from the county directly and it's mostly retirement and and uh healthare costs right so you'll see that when we do a comparison to the prior year so the only the only initiatives that John that we're going to take this year are in the areas of development we're going to try
to use a consultant to try to raise some money for a project that we're going to come up with for uh the school as a way to figure out can we start to unlock additional Revenue sources other than from the county and from Grants and from our sending districts we would like to
try to get another flow of resources started John and I have talked about it since since since we were hired and we we are now going to put a little bit of money behind it we're going to do it on a Consulting basis rather than an employee basis because we really don't know uh we don't want to make a
commitment to an employee but we're going to look into possibly hiring somebody to run a program for us it would be a defined um it would be a defined amount of money and it would be a defined activity in other words we would say we would like to renovate a building or
we'd like to replace the green houses or we'd come up with a program a project and then we would h hire somebody to help us raise the funds for that project so that we can pay for the whole thing they target specific goals that aren't being funded currently and therefore and You' like to tackle and that' be
something people get get behind what we feel there's there's um people out there who be willing to give yeah they just don't know that that that either that we need the money or what the the money would be targeted for so we're excited about the possibilities we did mention
it at a trustee meeting couple months ago it was late fall early winter and Mark Parish had jumped all over it um so we'll see what happens he believes director of development of some sort right we're GNA
stick our toe in with a consultant though not with an employee and then we are also going to hire somebody to help us with our energy analysis of our energy usage because we we spend over half a million dollars in in um energy for the school uh and on two fronts we
want to reduce our our our carbon footprint you know we we are committed because the state's committed to reducing carbon use in all of a government and so we we feel like this would be a smart use of money to hire
again a consultant uh who would analyze our energy uses and make suggestions for us on how we could reduce our energy costs I firmly believe that this would be something that would pay for itself in a very short get that through like ever Source or uh ever will do some
things to you but that's mostly for homeowners that's mostly for analyzing existing buildings and trying to figure out this is going to be broader it would have more of a green energy component not just to save energy and reduce your bill plus this would go across utility so you'd be talking about gas and you'd
be talking about electric and we have a little bit of propane and we buy gasoline a diesel fuel so we we it would be across a bunch of different um providers it wouldn't just be for instance eversource we wouldn't just be dealing with eversource problems sounds good so um those are what I would call
the initiatives they they're modest I mean we're in the middle of our strategic plan so when the Strategic plan's done I think for FY 27 we might have directions that come out of the Strategic plan of stuff we want to spend money on but for now we the Strategic plan is obviously not complete so and
the budget does need to be complete so we're just going to go forward with these two rather modest initiatives you know combined just tens of thousands of dollars combined and I I think again there's a chance for both of them to more than pay for themselves so obviously the development person you
would hire under the idea that they would raise some multiple of what you're paying them for the school right and that's the way your contract with them would work is you know we're going to have a program to raise $200,000 and we're going to pay you $50,000 and that's the way that's the way it would work so hopefully you're not ever
spending money and not getting a return it's it's always that you're you have a goal in mind and that person signs up to raise that amount of money so I'm going to get those numbers exactly right I don't know exactly what we would have to pay for an for one person for one year to do a project for us an individual
project but I know there are people out there that do this and and love this kind of work and I feel like they they would look at the they would look at the Aggie as like a ripe fruit sitting there on the ground because we've been around for a hundred years we've got uh we've got alumni of
all ages all stages of life and we have really never asked them for money never asked them for money and and I've have experiened with this in my charter school days if you have a pro project that's tangible that people can look at and say I was part of getting that roof built or I was part of getting the green
houses replaced or I was part of you know revising the superintendent's house whatever it is people like that kind of thing they like to be able to see their money that they so they'd be like more independent contractor people would be employees would not school and as far as the funding uh what would it be using
old terminology but we got a rolv an account the money no no they would give the money to the foundation we we would they would raise the money they would give it to the foundation the foundation would then donate it to the school but then how do they get paid say how do we pay these people oh we can pay them directly we we could we could pay them
directly from the school okay so we can hire them as so I'm looking at the big picture so we still have to appropriate that money yes which which is in here which is in here take of them yeah which is in here but we're not really getting it back we're not like you know what I'm saying it's like say say you appropriate 50,000 yes you need to come up with
50,000 save for the energy consultant I'm just making that up and and then he saves you 100,000 okay that's that's good the saving helps cancel that out but let's take the other one yeah 50,000 for someone to raise money and they
raised 200,000 yes but that 200,000 is going to go for a specific building corre so that doesn't really cancel out that 50 you're down 50 no but effectively you've paid $50,000 to get a $200,000 project down or a $250,000 project down so that's what that's what
you're doing and that's money that we don't have to spend out of a capital fund or in some other way yeah okay and I'm with you I support the idea on the on the picture though you're still out 50 Grand you know it's like even you're
hiring an employee independent person you still need like that money to FR like front money you know what I mean y okay so we we're we're speculating or anticipating that this will in the long run still save us money because we're not going to have to use money out of our regular bud
necessarily to tackle that to tackle the project I mean the other other way we do it if you lowered your Capital thing or something like that and then the books it kind of wash it out but that's I'm getting be onself yeah all right right all right so those are the principles um
the risks there's there's there are pretty much the typical risks of of any plan in that in that uh we don't know about tuition tuition um you know out of county in county has always been an issue for the school and that will continue second thing is you know we did add the special education for in County
cities and towns so to give you guys a little bit of feedback especially you Richard because you were interested in this one that was proposed in the meeting we got probably a higher level of interest from that announcement that we were going to do that um than previous announcements then when we had
talked about tuition and even when we' increased tuition however now that two weeks has gone by I would say there's been no negative there has been no negative feedback it's mostly been inquiry how does this work is this is this for every student is this in addition to the other thing and you know
when we walked people through that the few people that have asked or the question often was well how many special education students do I have because they don't know so we tell them well you currently have four and one of them's a senior so you might have three next year but you might get new ones from The Freshman Class see they they they sort
of it's it it they seem to have reconciled themselves I think honestly people are going to look at it in different ways with all due respect but the main thing is they proba want the number as soon as possible that's all you need because the towns are getting ready for their own town meeting or vote
and they need to get that number crunched in right so that's the main thing is get it out there like you said you had a letter ready to go out didn't you yeah we we did it that night know that night we went back and there I'm all about communication let it out there you know so that's one thing Rich that
we found out is it's we it says sounds weird but the money is almost less important than the certainty what they really want to know is they just want to know how to put their budget together they it's almost like they'd rather have $5,000 of guaranteed expense than
$10,000 but they're not sure whether they're going to get zero or or 10,000 it just that just drives them nuts things things are all relative if you got a town that has a 60 million 70 million $80 million budget and you're looking at your cost for the Aggy school which might be 10 or 20 or 30,000 it's
it's all relative it's just that they need to know yeah what it's about that's all so yeah okay anyway that's good so so and we're in the midst of contracts not only the normal teachers contract but also a a support unit contract so we have two contracts this has never
happened at the aie right the support unit contract is brand new so so we have even more uncertainty than usual normally we have the teacher's contract we have two contracts now maybe different than these other groups but we've already built in what we expect
that cost of living or whether result of those contracts in here that's what I understood from John cron and we were supposed to do is take an estimate we weren't supposed to do it by person but we were supposed to do it on on an individual line so there's an individual line in there that says this is what I think the teacher raise is going to be
this is what I think the support unit raise is going to be that's reflected in here that's the way I understood we were supposed to do this and I think I confirmed that with Phil I think I confirmed that with Phil is that that that that's the way this is going to be done so just so you when you see our numbers you understand that an estimate
of that cost of living increase is included in these numbers it is it is included in these numbers it's not included for each individual person Joe 100 people and I can't do this and then have to reverse that's the way I'm pretty sure that that's what
John cronin's directions were I'm I'm not doub with John he's not here to talk himself he's sick I'm sure he's got to figure what I you know right everything we do here we're going to take yeah so have the the only other risk that I would say is new is we we we
do have a turnover the superintendent position so you have that potential salary change you have any add-ons of any other changes that take place uh in the school as a result especially if you have an internal candidate then obviously you have to replace the internal candidate with a different person that you have to figure out a
salary for so there's just a tiny little bit do I think it's going to cost us a lot of money no I I don't think it's going to cost us a lot of money but I don't have a ton of experience either so just my gut says it should it shouldn't cost a lot and teachers and teacher and administrative turnover actually works
typically a little bit oftentimes differently teacher turnover almost always results in a less expensive teacher as a replacement because you're generally dealing with retirements of people administrative turnover a lot of times that turnover isn't retirements those turnover is just normal churn in the job and then you're subject to the
market if the market is up and salaries are up you may end up replacing somebody for equal to or even more than they left you know teachers retirements are for the most part teacher departures are for the most part retirements so then there's always room to save money and you will typically save money and this
budget will anticipate some saving does your budget anticipate certain teacher retirements yeah the four teacher retirements that we're familiar with are reflected in this budget and their Replacements y yeah okay so if you go to page three um there's the there there's
the detail of the of the income and expense but what I want to draw your attention to is bottom left which is our Sur our Surplus is only around $200,000 that might be might seem a little familiar to you it's very close to last year's number last year's number was $189,000 so practically the same
number so that would be less than or equal to about 1% of our revenue and expense John cronin's goal dream ideal would be somewhere in the 5% range and I think U Mark Parish talked about that in
the past too so this is again a sort of a break even budget I would say this doesn't really generate a surplus for us but it's not a negative number obviously typically we've we've exceeded these results so every year that I've been here except for the first one which is the timing of a payment of money we
generally exceed the result that's reflected there there's also um going to be a capital uh expense too so we can get to that at the end so this is this doesn't reflect Capital this is just our operating result so I I'll talk about Capital the next page next page page
four here's where we talk about relative to the prior year right so this is about expense growth or or lack of expense growth and you will see if you look at the line um that's that has that's in the expenses so let's just deal with revenue revenue we have a revenue going
up about 3% right and that's half of it is is is tuition and half of it is support in other areas including the county increasing their support by two and a half% which they have done every year since I've been here and some other things that are accruing to benefit
including support by the state so 3% growth in revenue and if you look all the way at the bottom where you have total expenses you'll see 3% growth in expenses right so that's kind of uh equal those are equal to each other but if you want to break down our growth in expenses you will see if you look at
that first group of expenses you'll see there's a $400,000 increase in that first group of expenses if you guys see the 398 right the 398 in the $400,000 growth of expenses then if you go down a little lower you'll see $200,000 in the indirects right 2011 in indirects in
that same column at the bottom almost bottom of the same column you'll see $200,000 of increase in indirect expenses so those two together are $600,000 so that's the whole increase that we have here right the middle which is what I would call discretionary
contractual supplies obligations and Equipment that's not going up at all that's flat you will see that uh $531 so basically uh there's no increase in those the decision-making ways of spending money that we're doing here all of our increases either people salaries
or it's uh indirect expenses that we're getting from the county We have basically no control over and retirement and retirement and uh medical dominate those those expenses there all right so I I think we can look at ourselves in
the mirror and we can also look at our sending cities and towns and say we are doing a good job of controlling the expenses of of of the school right and the only thing that could make this better would be to have less employees that's really there's really nothing else to do unless you start really cutting back on the things that you've
traditionally spent your money on and a lot of it is is not discretionary truly because it's heat it's utilities the things that we really we can't decide not to do so I I do feel comfortable that we are controlling the expenses of the school which is our ethical moral
obligation here since a lot of this is paid dollar by sending cities and towns let me ask you a question I know it's an overtime one here and it seems teachers don't get overtime correct correct teachers okay because that seems
actually it seems small to me so yeah that would be support staff maintenance people everybody yeah and we we we do not have an an environment with a lot of overtime as you can see here no it's very small that's why I wondered and I didn't think teachers got overtime but okay yeah
what's your expenses for like Heating and light that's all in contractual that's contractual subject to contracts yeah okay actually so really didn't go that much but last year right no well that's because we yeah we we're having Savings in other areas okay the heat
itself if you went in the detail line would be higher the transportation would be higher but we have Savings in other areas okay than well John has a handle on that however um we're not we haven't broadcast this but we're
we got we this the county is in the throws of of a larger than usual uh request from the Retirement Board the retirement numbers are lged up not that
doesn't affect the teachers although probably the teachers you're in fight it too but we got a disappointing every year we pay U pay a yeah yeah retirement we get some old obligations from the sheriff's department when it left which
is choking the numbers this year were a little little scary and I mean it does well you probably get 40 employees in in our retirement system right yeah that should people yes so that numbers we got to fight with that so we
don't know what it is yet because it's a back and forth Retirement Board and US mainly John yeah and he'll get it done before before we print the budget we have to all right so the next page is tuition you guys are pretty familiar
with this I just wanted to draw your attention to a couple of lines all right in the lower left uh lower left little grid there you'll see that there's the $3,883 which is the charge it's in bold it's the charge for in-county special
education right so that's what we that's what you guys approved last meeting right and you'll see the private year that's zero right because you'll see in FY 26 you'll see the 3883 and the prior year at zero right because we just initiated that charge this year and then down below you'll see the out of County
Special Education which is twice that 7 7,7 7,765 now I have had one kind of extensive conversation about this with one town which is Walpole and they did express some appreciation for the fact
that we weren't charging 100% of the special education which we were allowed to charge and we were only charging 50% so we we did get some credit for that and you know Jim Johnson said oh so you could charge us the 7,000 if you wanted to and I said yeah we can charge you the 7,000 if we wanted to but we're going to
phase that in because we understand that that okay is some thing for you guys to absorb and he he he appreciated that um but we're doing 50 we're doing 50% 50% yes so good an interesting thing to look across is on the right hand side there where you see all of the actual gross
numbers of tuition so you see FY 26 tuition you see fy2 tuition FY 26 tuition being 11, 450,000 last year being 11,1 15,000 right so tuition has only gone up year-over-year by
$3,000 that's all it's only gone up by $300,000 and the special the Inc count special education number which you will see there is $267,000 you see that on the left hand side just up so basically the entire increase in tuition this year is is
practically coming from our decision to increase special or begin to charge special education in County right without that it would be flat why would it be flat it' be flat because the p the percentage of outof County students is going down right so even though we're
raising the outof count tuition and we're raising the in-county tuition the combination of those two absent the special education change would would result in no increase in tuition for the school which would be basically intolerable right if you think back at
our Surplus the Surplus is $200,000 right so now now I will say 100% of that Surplus comes from this special education charge of $267,000 had we again not charged this $ 267,000 we would be in a deficit position and we'd have to be looking
elsewhere to save money so that shows you the importance I think of making this special education change I mean I'm preaching to the choir because it's already been approved but it just at that time at that night I don't think you could fully appreciate the significance of that for the schools
bottom line right you're just we were looking at it correctly from the point of view of the cities and towns and how would they receive it and what what would this mean to them um but I just wanted you guys to see the effect of that increase and that will obviously go
up our plan would be to ask for it to be you know increased to 75% next year um that's for you guys to decide whether you want to do that why what next year yeah next year let's let get get this you please Joel you well that's a good
point I always wondered and I didn't want to verbalize it because I didn't feel confident but I'm more confident now God bless the outer County because the Practical matter is car disproportion but I always thought the
day is going to come what would you say if you got into the public forum or even man to man to a superintendent or a selectman or a mayor who said you mean to tell me you're taking x amount of kids from out of County and I can't you can't get two more kids from
quiny and two more kids I always wrestled with that moment hasn't happened yet but it's a good question but if we're y this proportion is coming down of County kids corre we're doing the best we can the fact of the matter is we have a
record here of taking care of the number of other County people yeah and eventually those numbers are I think will ultimately reverse themselves yeah okay that's the direction we're heading in a way it is our mission everything I don't like but I hope they don't go away
out of County no but but then we'll have to we'll have to have another conversation about okay yeah how to balance it bing go all right yeah right I think we going in the right direction but it's tough okay so the next the next uh pages from 6 to 12 or 11 are just the
detail expenses right so I don't want to go over detail expenses for any particular line I mean obviously I'll answer a question of of anything that stands out for you guys but um generally you've been given the overview so this is just the support for the numbers you've already seen if you if there's
individual lines that interest you I don't feel like I need to point out any line except for on page seven if you look at the top right hand of page seven you on page seven Joe you are you're editing Joe uh right there it
says raise placeholder for teachers and raised placeholder for staff so that's what I that's what I mentioned is that so there's there's the better part of $300,000 put in this budget that's for the eventual result of our negotiations our contract negotiations right we
didn't do it by person but we did it for the whole school in in one line or at least in two pieces right one one for the teachers and one for everybody else right so that represents every person that works at that at the at the um School whether they're in the teachers union whether in the're they're in the
support Union or whether they're not in a union all of them we made an assumption about where we're going to end up with cost of living and we put it in there I just wanted to draw your attention to that line I already told you I did it I already told you that that I believe that was the direction I received from John Cronin but that's
that's in there all right and then the last thing that I wanted to say is just the very last page page 13 where we can talk about Capital right because we do have an estimated Capital expense for this year it's a very last page Joe Joe you had asked about this at the last right I I I think even if it's all zeros
I think if someone asks you you pull it out say we have the capital needs we don't we don't know how we're going to fund them but here's what we need think because I think it's fair to do that so we've done this before we're trying to do that at the golf course too because uh they need a they need a Sprinkle
system and it's it's over a million dollars but it's it's but the last and he talk at the last meeting we had asked a question about what is our Surplus and I thought you said we had a surplus of
like $2 million of surplus money from prior years yeah we from prior years we do y so why aren't we using some of that Surplus to address somebody these Capital programs we could there's nothing and no one present preventing us from doing it
other than John and I suggesting it mhm and you guys are proving it okay but we not not everything and not everything here that's a need uh or a want or a potential is something that we want to
start working on now that we believe we should do now and there are some things that are contingencies for instance we have a we have plant science HVAC upgrade for $250,000 well we don't want to do that until we F fix the roof of the plant science building and the windows of the plant science building so
we do have some things that are contingencies other things we just there's there's a there's a throughput issue of the school we can only do so many projects at the same time with the staff that we have it's mostly falls on Pete Murphy to run these projects in
addition to doing the job that he has to do of maintaining the school so every year we feed him two three five projects and say hey Pete could you get this this roof fixed and could you get this ladder fixed and could you get the HVAC updated in Camp and you can get this is this year's projects right this roof fixed
this Jimmy removed this ladder replaced this storefront and then the HVAC updated in PA and the HV up update in administration bill so that that that's probably not as many projects as P can handle that's probably more projects than Pete can handle so I fully expect
we'll get to the end of the year and not have done all of those things because there's only so much time that Pete has and so much time he can expend in seeking bids and seeking contractors then overseeing what they do and then making sure they do it right so there's
there's only so much we can get accomplished in every year so John and I are picking things that we feel like these are the priorities for next year we said in the past we were focusing on safety and on potentially Energy savings things that we could get a a dollar back
for the money that we're spending you know get resources back for what we're spending so next year we we do need a new bus so we're going to and we do need we do need to replace our vehicles with electric vehicles where whenever possible as soon as a vehicle nobody is
saying take a perfectly functioning gasoline vehicle get rid of it for electric purposes but what the guidance is is when you have to replace something that's when you make the change to Electric when you have to replace something you're going to spend the money anyway for a replacement of your
bus so we have 14 passenger buses you say slowly they'll I'll go to Electric right and so we're going to the way to go we need a new bus all one of our buses is really old we you know we only you're going to need the electric stations yeah yeah we're going to need the electric charging station D it there
it is you're toying with it I mean we've got you in there right yeah we can we can survive with one bus you know and just park it near a building and have a charging station on the side of a building but the long-term solution yes is we need to have the charging brought out to where we park all of our buses
and right now we'll have hopefully next year one all right so you're you're proposing on your page 13 I'm getting the cut of the chase you're proposing one two three four 1 two three four just four items for fiscal 26
to be tackled as P the capital yeah am I right on that okay and that would be the van campus lighting window repairs and half of the energy energy recycling units that are on the roof we're going repl two of four of them so 555 is that
out of that Surplus money2 million that I just mentioned the 2 million so okay there's not not going to affect our budget we've got that Surplus we just tap into that and that comes over here okay beautiful now last question I would think you're probably going to agree with me on this I hope it would help I
would help no I would help I think I know question I think on all these items here which are great it would help me as a commissioner if you laid out priorities like you'd like to see this in year one in year two or fiscal 20 I'm not trying to make more work but this
could be F 26 27 28 just lay out a plan I think Peter would like that too it's not going to not this cast in stone that's my but we want to plan because I think it helps us to see hey you know what we're going to here's our reason why we're going to put on the uh stand
on blower that might be you know 2030 or whatever but lay them out there like this is great fully support this this is great I'm with you 100% if you get a charitable donation maybe again knock off another one right that state this m
our Reserve beautiful 100% yeah with you and of course we all know the Big Apple we want the new cafeteria someday right the shake stady building or whatever call this is an ass because no it's that's I I was at the ribbon cutting of
the mcfallen building before I was commissioner wow the very cold day how can that was not that Ong going it needs a roof of 3 286,000 already I don't know the details of this keep in mind that McFarland was an
addition to an existing building so I'm not sure whether the old part of the roof that that need to be replaced that there were concessions made when it was built that were what we call Value engineering which is a way of saving money from something that's becoming too
expensive more than you've borrowed or more than you have access to so I'm not sure but Pete Pete knows that the scary part you because I thought I knew we were going with this joke is the um a Mac Erv unit Replacements right which is down there for
$400,000 yeah that building is 10 years old too and Joe and John and I are both had the same response how could those things be broken all right how could those things need replaced after 10 years we meet with director of facilities Murphy once
a week yeah and this topic comes up very very regularly and we asked the question how can this be broken so soon and it it's just the life expectancy of a lot of these parts and a lot of this Machinery it doesn't last the way it used to so a boiler all right I'm not
being critical because but I I know yeah that's a good question Joe is the ad building roof replacement is that the mcf building no no that's the AG Mech building itself what's ad building which which one's that was that's the the the furthest one down in the on the property
where the giant garage is where the welding shop is where the wood shop is it's past the Horse bar it's the last building on the real property okay per se proper well or before the livestock bar and how critical is that one is that mean that need to be it's it's listed
it's listed but yeah we're going to put it on well we're putting we're we're deal beginning to deal with it next year we're not to mention the fact that our bond is in bad shape we know that and hopefully we get money from that but we don't know that's limbo somewhere getting back to your your
initial question you we're trying to be conservative with that Reserve right you know could we fund three four five more projects out of that money sure we could but then we wouldn't have a reserve so right when we have an emergency we're going to be really out of well no but I
appreciate the fact that you mentioned that it's in my head now I got it I don't want to spend it all either but now I know that's what this is going for so on the capital program we've got something which we have to approve and then the vaji board has to approve and all that and I want them to be able to pull it out when someone when Charlie
Ryan says well well we have one you know can afford is another question and we us small here's what we're looking at you know show show again again again let them see let us see this is Maybe projected for fiscal 27 fiscal 28 fiscal 29 a threeyear thing that's said most
towns do I think most towns do 3 to 5 years on their Capital right most of the time you know and then things come up we know that anybody in the game knows that things come up but that would help you know yeah yeah and if we're successful in development you know that could really be a not a game changer but could
really make a difference in in this list if we are if we become successful and that's why John and I think it's worth taking that chance to so did you put that person in the budget where' you put that person you contract Services contracted service okay what
you know ,000 what was the p uh you will you mean you'll see it in total on page uh four in the line that says contractual and we just said added development contractors we were explicit about that okay that's why contracted Services went up by $41,000 it's because
we added a $50,000 contractor for wait I'm missing something here contract page four right page four you have contractual Services you'll see the 41950 yeah and then right next to the right of that Richard add development okay okay so yeah that's in there oh I
see so it went 2106 to 2148 okay thank you yes okay and that's what that is okay yeah yeah well okay and still with all that we're still making are showing a slight cplus with that right with that in there okay see that's what my mind
was good I'm fine and I noticed yeah on the last page here on the wish list as I like to call it you talk about superintendent's house and it says $100,000 yeah it didn't make the the top
10 so to speak yeah it's is this the without chairman York series I want to reiterate again during our superintendent search not going to be included the house is out it's out we all agreed out yeah that would be I mean we going to deal with it but that could
be 20 29 or well not only again w't be superent house right might be something it's still going to be fixed maybe to be you know could be classroom be another it also could be it also could be yeah it could be a different
employees house you could maybe move the if you want the facilities person to have a house you might move them on put them there and deal with deal with the house on the top of uh on the top of the hill there but I mean I wouldn't make that a priority right now no John and I talked about that we decided yeah that's
goes on the list it but it should stay it should stay nestled on the back burner but the heat should be on it a little bit so it's simmering because the longer these buildings are not addressed the less the less of a lifespan they're going to have you know
you're going to spend as long as we're on the same side of it a lot more money trying to rehabilitate them or I hear you reusing the property in some iar y you're right you're right yeah so we we just decided to put those on there with some estimates that we just recently just developed with Pete Murphy talking
about those two houses and there's another Point Pete Pete lives lives there and that's fine and going fine yeah but it'll be addressed when he Lees too correct you wouldn't the next guy might not you know we might not offer it but we end up with buildings that we do have to maintain we can't just walk away
from them and let them fall apart piece by piece right we're going to have to decide either take it down or or invest it every time I drive by there I think of an old movie very clear it's it's got that old farmhouse look it's right on the street I don't even know your
building never but you go buy peing I think of an old movie you know you can't miss got a tremendous location some people would love to be in that with a big backyard and you're on top of the hill and you got nobody near you I mean I think the history of all that is it
was part of the jail originally and they there was a there was we just took it down a couple years ago there was a yeah the D there they think it was for the kids the prisoners stayed there during the summer and till the field so to
speak that's the history of all that huh I I don't know who lived there yeah I don't know it's an old it's an old piece of property and and it's an old building and it doesn't it is in need of update and Pete's been living there we' have gotten inside of it but when Pete leaves we're going to have
decision to make right oh that's his house too that's where P yes the one further down right couple look at we'll have to make a decision when he leaves are we going to upgrade it we going to do try to repurpose it for something else that might benefit the school or the county more which is you know maybe
you want to get a tenant in it and take it off the RO I mean we're spend we're buying we're spending we're paying for the utilities we're paying for the upkeep of the house obviously if you could avoid paying for the utilities and you could get some rent coming in it might be a decision that you'd want to make and say this makes more economic
sense than us having three residences maybe the town of walpool might want for something never know Well we'd have to offer to them if we wanted to sell it we'd have to go to the town what that assistant director's house oh assistant County director you
hear that one going to be your expense never all right gentlemen great job well I move that we take this under advisement all the budget but send this to John all right wow okay yeah nice
job great thanks do we have a special what you call Strategic plan yeah tonight uh are we on next Wednesday night no it's two weeks before the uh 19 I think I have Mee Wednesdays in a row and then we have the superintendent meeting I think the committee meeting
next week I don't know I know all right I'll be over there I'll see you later on see you y three minutes chair just to close out this is the this is yeah sorry we got to go this marks the final uh FY 26
departmental budget presentation direct and I are working on the indirect cost as you know they many of them are what they are we're given especially unemployment lat the pension number which we've had extensive discussion about as as
un um as well as health insurance which uh Michelle labadini does has done great work Mayflower and she did show uh there was a study done that we're doing pretty well compared to a lot other places especially folks who have Maya um so
that that'll be forthcoming in our larger budget but all those things kind of pull together to to make our full budget number our cost so stay tuned as as we say that's uh that's all you have a department okay so wish we're on an ongoing budget
process here and we stick into our calendar as of now so that completes all the budget presentation okay take it do I due diligence fur the questions and go when do we start voting the budget for a couple
weeks couple weeks okay okay then 15 second 26 second round of op gr over you Mr uh chair as you know we've been party now with District shy morsy to do
these opioid grants to communities we did some earlier in in the in the process we did one to Randolph we did uh around last year we did a round in fy2 we we ALS we've also done one round
already here in fy2 uh five this will be the second uh round of grants that we we have available uh to us uh uh from Michelle's office has been running point on this and we have for
your approval uh grants totaling $112,000 uh to be divided equally to to Brook line foxville Public Schools the H Brook cares initiative the town of Medfield the town of Milton the town of Norwood
uh the city of quinsey and the town of Sten so I again more L has put all the letters together she's been tracking all this stuff and this is these are the folks did we get that group and what R we were helpful that first the G that
was in the first these are the folks who we were still waiting fores yeah good right self approv okay so just vote required on that to we approve the second round
of op Grant $12,000 yeah second $1,000 yeah okay send them send the checks all in favor I all right nextcell number 18 vot on electric car charging statements I spoke with representative I mean I spoke to commissioner stady I'd like to
have a full board here as well as director pram here had some comments and uh so I again but this respectfully ask for all he's looking for is he's looking to just gather information he needs to go to the place look at the site and
then get a copy of the electric bills more or less for that particular building or area and then he can do an analysis and then he can propose a proposal Forest I I'm going to support it okay but I'd like to have it all the five of us here all right
bear in mind that not our vendors change it's urce here it's Mass Electric in two other courts I fet I know quinsey but we don't have quiny anymore but there's one other too it's a different vend good when you get down I don't know whether it's Stone that's good different
yeah we have more than one yeah we'll see what happens that's all okay all right on on can we extend it the week yeah all right all in favor all okay 17 report of the county director through through you Mr chair
while sure stadi and I's Voice last there's a couple of quick things we're closely tracking speaking to a number of my colleagues today even about the remote meeting matter um we we know it expires at the end of this month uh we
all all three of us as members of the mass Association of school committees did get a sort of push email a few weeks ago saying hey talk to your legislators we have had some good conversations with legisl tours uh from my experience as as it was last time this may be right up to
the end yeah so just as is uh I got a feeling they're so overwhelmed with everything going on and they are that this is so Off the Grid but someone has to step up and do it that's correct because it's going to run out and so you know we're going to look at a two-prong
of way to deal with this I would strongly urge you to um make every effort to be participating here because in the event that we don't uh we are unable to do a zoom hybrid meeting we just do a regular meeting uh from here and um while there there is uh we could
look into a policy to have remote participation of board members there are some opportun I forget the general Law chapter you can do that but you need a quorum of the board has to be present physically go back and you have to read all the information have to create a policy so that's uh that might be
something we can uh kind of poke around I've been looking into bit yeah it seems to me in the local area there was a member of the Canton board who was traveling a little bit and you could you could do that and you could do it this is before hybrid Co he had CU he had he would he would zoom in they would have a
they would have a tablet at the board yeah and he would talk to the tablet his vote counted everything else however that only allows for the board members to participate right so all of the our friends was chairman Chay says out in Zoom land like there there's no I from my reading I don't believe there's
anything when look at some of the policies these communities who have that there's no uh opportunity to have other people kind of participate fully remotely from the public as well so and we like that let's just get the B I mean let's contact we cont we're continuing to we we had a conversation with uh with
MMA the other day we brought this up as well so it's on people's Radars I did kind of give you in the weights and measures Regional Services budget report uh update on what we're doing there we're working uh with Sam and the IT department to get the uh Advisory board
members emails we would talked about that for a while uh we we just begun to sort of look at the timeline and we'll send those out a couple weeks before the packet goes out so people have some time to to get that uh later in the week I'm going to begin working with same staff to to look
at some of the sort of website Data Tracking for how how many people we have in different parts of our website see if we can do some analytics that's in its infancy but some uh exciting it stuff as well and with that Mr chairman those are all the updates I
have presently than okay thank you good meeting you got strategic planning tonight yeah I got that's why number 18 emergency items
topics that chair did not reasonbly anticipate I have none you have none you have none I'll take a motion to adjourn move to we adjourn at 237 CH motion made in second and all in favor this meeting is adjourned thank
you very much good job