you're live Joe good afternoon I'm now going to call the nor County Commission meeting of April 2nd 2025 to order we have a new remote participation clause on March
28 2025 Governor Healey signed into law House Bill 62 a an act relative to extending certain covid-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency which includes a
two-year extension of the option for public bodies to hold remote meetings byend suspending certain provisions of the mass open meeting Law chapter 38 section 18-25
that action was effective immediately extending the option for remote meetings through June 20th June 30th 2027 thank you we're live and remote I'm going to ask you to join me in saluting the flag I pledge allegiance
to the flag 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 you call the role commissioner Collins present and commissioner Shay is present
we have a quorum I believe commissioner stady is out of state commissioner state is out of state on County Business and he's on County Business and I don't see him on the remote he wasn't quite sure so we have a quorum will go forward
call to water roll call no number three we have no executive session today number four minutes of the March 19th and the March 12th meeting for approval I would suggest we would hold these for uh next week so uh
commissioner skady May comment on them motion to hold the minutes of March 19th and March 12 for approval till commissioner stady returns all in favor I I
number five appointments we have none number six public comment each week at our meeting we have a section for public comment we're at that time either you can come in in person uh if you were on the remote you
can uh let us know and have public comment so if there's anyone out in the remote Zoom land as I call it that has any public comment now is the time to express it director Cronin have you had any
contacts public comment no sir okay last call on public comment old business I have none number eight Personnel matters for consideration commissioner sure um soins please so the
first is at the W West recreational facility notice of um con employment for John Coran a seasonal golf associate at the rate stated effective 4325 so motion made second to all favor I it
is a vote next one is the registry Deeds please uh there was a resignation of for Carol Graham as senior clerk um effective 32125 I'll make the motion motion made and seconded all faor
I it is a motion it is a vote number got four or five here on the at the agricultural school that's correct so um the first is a notice of address change for Selena Humphrey um at the rate stated effective 32725 so
move M Maiden seconded all in favor all there's a vote next the next is notice of contingent employment actually hold on a second yeah the notice for the next two is uh is as contingent employment for two student uh laborers the first is
uh Isabel Rose Fitzpatrick and Mary Tessa maznik at the rate stated uh effective 4325 so Move Motion made and seconded all in favor I it is a vote next lastly at the eggy school um notice
of contingent employment for Carlos Teran t e r r o n as a substitute instructor effective 4325 at the rate stated so motion made and seconded all in favor I I it is a vote number nine payroll and exps for
approval okay um the first on the warrant list is 25-39 payroll of the county in the amount of $147,900 125 so moved motion made in seconded all in favor I I the next it is
25-39 subsection 20 payroll of the school in the amount of 386,000 $ 77176 so moov M maid seconded all in favor it is a vote and lastly is um um 04 0125 expense of the county in the
amount of 97,2 18756 s so moved motion made in second all in favor it is a vote next uh that was it that was that concludes personel matters for today n
payroll and expense warrants next no we that's what we that was what we did okay number 10 fiscal year 26 indirect cost revision and possible vote in your packet is a sheet about all the indirect
costs uh I'm going to ask director grin to address this and explain it to us sure thank you Mr chairman uh Commissioners last week you voted the FY 26 budget inclusive of the proposed indirect cost following the meeting EXC me the school business manager called
attention to a line item in the calculation known as reduction of debt which is the very bottom line um I had drawn the costs associated with reduction of debt for both the county and the schools from uh information or Tyler accounting system one of the lines
that I had attributed a $60,000 cost to was erroneously labeled that cost belonged to the schools not the county so there's a slight modification that moves 60,00 from the County's proposed FY 26 indirect cost for debt to the schools so with your permission today
I'm just asking you to affirm and revote inclusively the indirect costs associated with the FY 26 proposed budget uh this new value is shown at the very bottom line under the FY 26 proposed budget shaded Brown so uh if you would like to just make a motion to
approve the revised indirect cost as presented today it is inclusive only of the $60,000 cost shift does not impact the budget at all um and we already voted it you voted the budget last week right
and it was 60,000 off you never it the 60,000 was in in the wrong category yeah because of the uh title system accouny um so we've revised it we just want to be very clear that the indirect cost are now shown to be $660,000 more for the schools $60,000 less with count that's
all you want to make that motion please thank youe I'll make the motion that we shift the indirect cost from the county to the U aing $60,000 motion made second all in favor I thank you commiss
okay number 11 fiscal year 25 supplemental budget request for registered bids bill on register why don't you come right up in the seat there be comfortable looking at thank you Mr chairman two letters the most recent
dated March 31st 2025 it's in your packet commissioner good afternoon good afternoon good i' like to I'm glad you referenced the letters it was one from February 19th I have that and then the one from U March 31st why is the
February 9th heavier February 19th because 19th there's more all right there's more options for you to consider well I looked at the 19th I I didn't read look at this I just trying to be um actually this dates back to December so there's probably no need to really um
delve into the details other than the fact that um in February we renewed what we had put before you in December the renewed uh supplemental was for 12,000 and for fiscal
25 um in December you approved a supplemental request unfortunately it didn't get the full County approval so now 4 months later uh is even more compelling need CU um we need access to funding to get the registry uh through
June 30th 2025 uh there are subgroups in group two and group three that have zero and next to zero um in in the line items um yesterday's letter did point out that the county mandate um which to the
registry for this fiscal year is $3,824 182 that needs to be spent and any increases in supplemental monies uh for the registry in groups two and three as we're requesting uh won't lead will
not lead to spending over that registry County Mandate of 3, 82,6 4082 so with that um you know we're we're in in D Straits we have to get the uh we have to just get through jye and
that's what this does okay so this has got the same figures as as 19 no uh yesterday's letter was just much more just sort of a synopsis um the 19th you know
okay how how you do things you know we're just looking for the favorable vote um yesterday's letter was really just to to to to make you know kind of clear that uh you know we we didn't get full County approved in December and that's why we're back here and things
haven't gotten better you know uh we need Monies to get through June 30th and uh I think one thing that's clear in the 31st letter is you know what the county mandate is and uh that there's no way
that we will be spending over that County mandate um with this supplemental being um funded so uh that's a good that's a good thing um at least you know from different people's perspective so now the letter
yesterday was just trying to make clear that uh you can increase group two and three and it's still not going to put you over the county mandate which has been a concern at this table let back to the 64d
question a big question commissioner any questions I also I'll make a motion to take under advisement okay well I I I know I know Richard saw the first letter he has not seen the second letter and he told me he
wanted to weigh in on the Press letter so uh if we have no other questions I'm going to keep it to this subject uh motion to take it under advis okay I have no further questions I we are going to act on this we're going
to have another discussion when Richard returns so we can ask and uh we're under some well we're sticking to our calendar on the on the uh on the budget so it won't linger motion to take it under advisement all in favor I okay we'll
take it under advisement take care next is number I'm sorry I got it righta that was that was 11 that was 12 that was 11 number 12 12 report of the procurement department for bid openings
and contract Awards have none today none today see none January 2025 trial balance for acceptance here it is this is dated 1
3125 and the bottom line is is this bottom is this the bottom line over here or is it over here I use that number you will use this number here 11,643 28691 you can actually just make a vote
to accept the trial balance as presented you don't have to refer to one I'll do that I'll make the motion to accept the trial balance as presented seconded all in favor I okay that's January tial balance number 14 report of the county
director thank you Mr jman just a few brief notes um for those that are required to file statement of financial interests uh you should be receiving an email from the state ethics commission that your current excuse me um calendar year 2024 for Report with the state
ethics commission will be due on before May 1st 2025 by 5:00 p.m. such just the general announcement check your emails and if you haven't received any information but have previously filed contact our human resources department with any questions um I just want to acknowledge
again there's a u a major trial coming in um through denam Superior Court and as previously discussed we expect um larger crowds um potential jurors arriving in larger numbers than expected I understand yesterday was parking was
difficult at the registry we're working to try to accomodate large areas for staff to park without worrying about those um new visitors so please bear with us as we get through the next couple of weeks uh during this early phase of that uh trial um and my last
announcement is just to alert people that two weeks from today the county will have its Advisory board meeting on April 16th the nor County Agricultural High School the agenda will start at 5:00 p.m. with the finance committee meeting follow it at 6:00 p.m. with the
advisory thank you Mr chairman any questions of the county director no nice job okay moving right along number 15 emergency items of topics the chair did not recently anticipated would be discussed
I have none I do have a comment that I had occasion to go to president's golf course at 8:00 this morning on a chilly morning but the sun was out and I was uh unannounced I I have I have after
leaving there pretty good thoughts I I I spoke to uh K I spoke to uh our new Pro miss m Calabro I spoke to Amy and I
spoke to a couple other rangers and uh I saw uh our former superintendent it's Patrick Fitzroy Fitzroy and uh everything was humming and I was there for an hour by the time I left there
were people came in and were off and golfing and uh Lo everything looked pretty good and ready to go so it was encouraged course we're enslaved to the weather but it it turned out a to be a pretty good day so I'm here to report
that they're up and running at the golf course um which leads me to a little note that director CR had left for me this morning we had an in unfortunate incident yesterday where our North
quinsey High woman's tennis team uses our courts and uh they were there and getting ready to practice and some young uh men came and uh made some
representations uh to their courts and uh forced our girls off so we we've reported this to the quiny police and the school department and uh we're looking forward to making sure it doesn't happen again we have agreements with
uh both qu Quin and North quiny teams I I believe it extends to the golf course but um we had some discussions with col and and these teams come first and there's plenty of room day in and day
out at our golf courts and there's plenty of room on our tennis courts so uh these schools have a contract with us and they come first so we're going to try to uh make sure this doesn't happen again next week but we're on top of it I
just wanted to get it on the record and hopefully it won't happen again okay last call anybody have anything else I'll have a motion to adjourn please for a motion to
adjourn second it all in favor I this meeting is adjourned we have a rig of app meeting next week thank you now that's