I was alive in the Reagan presidency 86. I was born in ' 88. So I was alive for four months of the Reagan administration. I was alive for 10 days of the Jerry Ford. Gez, you're that old? I didn't realize you went back to four. Live in delay.
Uh, okay. We're there. Gerald Ward. He's a good one. I will. I will call this meeting to order. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. negligent the last few meetings and noting that this meeting is being broadcast live on YouTube government previously uh on YouTube at Plymouth County government. Previously recorded meetings can be found under the
videos tab youtube.comcount government. The meetings are also distributed to the various local access stations in the 27 member communities for potential rebroadcast of which I believe we're at nearly 100% now. So,
community access channels have been filling their Friday overnight time slots with our meetings adorably. Okay. Make a motion to accept September 11, 2025 minutes. Mo motion. Commissioner Rice, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor?
I. Motion to vote and accept and approve CPS forms. Jada Feragro, extension of temporary part-time custodian at JG3-1. Christine Richards, retirement information systems administrator, effective 10425.
Motion Commissioner Wright, second, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? That's unanimous. Motion to vote and accept and approve vendor. Second. Motion Commissioner Wright. Second, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? I. That's unanimous. Vote to accept and approve payroll vouchers. Second. Motion Commissioner Wright.
Second, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? I. And that's unanimous. Okay. ARPA. I know the treasur is out. I believe we have one community there, Hull. Um I have not been briefed on the specifics. However, I imagine it is a
situation of which uh funds were not used. Was this one of the transfers, Deputy? So, this is one of those uh internal transfers where the community came in under on one project, so they're able to uh reapply towards another.
Okay. So, this is the 10%. Uh no, this is an instance by which they had a project that came in under and thus are able to reapply those funds to uh another project which is great. So chairman, would you like me to read the
uh town and pose application? That would be great. Shuant to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue Plan Act and the grant agreement between Plymouth County and the municipality referenced below the Plymouth County Commissioners grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the
Plymouth County OPA program as follows awarded to the town of Hull in the amount of $80,499.51. Motion by Commissioner Hanley, second by Commissioner Wright. All in favor? I I believe that was it. Okay. Next item on the agenda, vote pricing for 2026
vehicle additions for Liberty Chevrolet with the commissioner's vehicle bid. Mr. Chairman, at a regular meeting of the county commissioners holding at Plymouth on the 25th day of September, 2025 AD, voted to approve the 2026 model year pricing of the following vehicles
manufactured by the Chevrolet Motor Company to the current Plymouth County Municipal Vehicle Bid Chevrolet number 2023-2026 awarded to Liberty Chevrolet, Inc. 90 Bay State Road, Wakefield, Mass.
Motion by Commissioner Annley, second by Commissioner Wright. All in favor that is unanimous. Extension director's report. Molly is out this evening, but I have no doubt is certainly continuing. They are fantastic work in the community. Actually, I think they're probably at the Big E, right?
So, yes, they are at the team is at the Big E this week, which is great. So, if uh you did not get a chance to see our fantastic fourers in Marshfield, they are out at the Big E through the end of this week.
In register's report, Mr. Buckley is absent, but I can surmise that the rate cut is probably a good thing for those of us who work professionally in real estate, but also for potential refinances at the registry. What was the rate cut? Do we know? Uh, it was a quarter point.
So, um, it'll all help. It does. Every bit helps. Yes. Although it doesn't help my savings accounts, but anyway. Uh, treasur support, Deputy Treasurer Welch. I believe we have some uh news I think. Good evening. So, actually the only
thing that we have this evening is just uh news about Peacock, the fun part of the ODB trust uh that the treasurer asked me to share. Um the uh Greg would just ask uh let's see the important thing here. So, we have a
uh that's currently in our OKAD trust. Uh again this is uh as you know is to uh provide for health insurance for retirees. We have an account value of uh about $4,262,9436 and uh some of that uh is principal the
principal that's been invested over the last almost 10 years um has been uh a little over $3 million. So $1.2 million uh dollars of that account value is attributable to investment returns. Now, if you look towards the bottom of the sheet, um you'll see uh the big number
here that the treasurer wants to draw your attention to is the fiveyear annualized return. This program and our investments um Deacon Swam always says, you know, the US bank is the largest bank we've never heard of. That's 9.44%
uh annualized. So that's uh above and beyond um you know what we project in our Gazby 74 and 75 the actuarial valuations and um you know we are coming up with the 10 year anniversary so you'll see the uh 10 year
annual return um again it's uh you know very prudent very wise to be investing in this particularly this is you know the as uh retirement systems get paid down and retirement liability gets paid off I do believe uh as does the
treasurer, but more so my opinion is that uh there's going to be more mandates that the unfunded op liability gets funded particularly, you know, once the state is paid off. Um you know, the uh I've heard it described that once the
retirement liabilities are paid off that it's going to be a windfall. Uh which is a terrible way to actually to to call that is now this is a liability that's been incurred over the years. It's not a windfall. Uh but I do think there'll be some mandates to turn
around and actually fund OPED respectively in a mandatory portion mandatory fashion. Uh if you're familiar with the history prior to the 1980s, retirement was handled as a paid as you go basis. Preunding retirement wasn't something we had to do until the 1980s.
Nothing that winds up. Um so we're already ahead of the game. Again, one of the little things we like to do is try to calculate, okay, what if we just had to start paying uh out of the OPE trust with 165 retirees on Medex.
Um, you know, that would be uh what we have for an account value was,047 monthly premiums. So, we could just pay out of the OPEC trust for about six and a half years. Um, so that's not quite fully funding, but that's uh, you know, we're a long ways off, a long ways away
uh towards that goal. Um so again it's um it's only going to help us to keep these liabilities down. Absolutely. Very good. And um you know on that end to your point deputy treasurer relative to the idea of a windfall I agree. I think that
a lot of folks have uh misstated that. I think as I often say comparing government to being run like a household uh when that uh retirement liability not the opep side of it just the pension side of it is taken care of it would be akin to paying
off the mortgage on your home you're still going to continue to have monthly expenses you're still going to have employees that you're still working that you still need to continue to pay in for so it almost would be more extent than that but the idea that in any way it's a windfall is certainly erroneous um and
you know these returns. I mean, again, I think it goes to the point that, you know, communities, I think Harbor was the first one to enter this trust fund. Uh, they've obviously along with the county have been able to realize what these
long-term gains have been. And it again goes to to your point, I mean, I think it was in the 2000s roughly where the the the federal government uh finally told companies, you can't be carrying uh pension uh liability unfunded any longer. Uh, and to your point, this is going to start catching up. This has
been a multibillion dollar, maybe even trillion dollar uh, piano that's hung over the head of every government entity in the in this state and probably across the country. So, I think the fact that the treasurer's office and, you know, you folks, as it was before I was here,
saw fit to create this uh, it's just been incredible and the results speak for themselves. So for anybody that is especially a local leader out there watching if you're I think as the deputy treasure like say if you're not in pec ask yourself why anyone else chairman
echo your sentiments I vividly remember the immediate impact to car's bottom line when their bond rating improved by just joining Plymouth County OPE Trust and when they were in the midst of borrowing for those schools and those public buildings it was a tremendous
savings for them and I would just say that as you were speaking I was thinking how can we get more of our 27 communities into the program and with the 10year anniversary coming up I think we should have an event I think we should have similar to what we do with
the executives and the electeds have an event to open up an open house possibly and demonstrate a 10-year history I mean as the ch assistant ch deputy treasurer pointed out I mean those returns are way above of
what was expected even when Sandra and I signed the original legislation. So, I would just put that out there as a marketing tool and maybe a way to attract uh member uh communities from the testimonials of the people who are
actually performing it within the county. I think that would be a great way to say, "Hey, join us." cuz you know it's funny even with um Mayflower Municipal Health. Okay. Slow and steady is the race and then we saw last meeting how
two communities wanted to come aboard and actually more than that but two made it through. Yeah. Two we brought in and several more want in now. Exactly. So you know I think we have had a pretty good track record. We literally should try to continue that trend because the more the marrier and the
quicker we can all you know you know retire our debt. So on yeah definitely with uh the way that the OPE trust is structured the uh more funds the greater the funds we have under management uh the lower the fees uh which is kind of a perverse incentive
uh for the fund managers but it does work that that is a very unique yeah it's unique to the way very unique and any really is as said the more the merrier the more folks that join the more money it gets into the uh under management the lower the fees and
that's part of of the success is that you know we have low fees and we were able to return that back into the fund right anyone else commissioner right yeah I think that a lot of people are looking at no matter what they're in invested in uh I think that they are looking at their returns and what
they're in I think they're um questioning of you know what what they're getting uh I also think that it's a lack of education and they need to be uh you know maybe given more information uh So, I think just give them time. I know it's been a long time
since we've been in it, but I think uh a lot of people are are now beginning to look elsewhere from my understanding. So, keep on treading. Let's do what we'll keep on doing. For sure. All right. That's all I have from Treasure.
Thank you. Uh Mr. Welch, next maintenance and administrators report. Mr. Basler. Uh well, the maintenance team's still doing a great job. Uh we actually uh with the added team uh we're training them up right now uh to add uh some
strength to the to the team. Uh it has been fairly um uh the strength of the team has been hurt by uh two people on family medical leave. Uh and then also uh we have a couple of extended vacations uh where people use their time
uh to visit overseas. Uh but uh things are going great. We did have uh some problems with rain uh today with everybody else. Um several inches of rain caused some leaks. We have a little bit of work to do on that. Uh but uh everything is going great at the buildings. Uh the administrator's
report. I do want to just uh call your attention to a project that you have approved um a couple of years ago. Back in April of 24, we started a project on an MVP food resilience project with um
partnering with OCPC and the Marian Group. Uh that's been going extremely well. We've had a number of uh large meetings um and uh work sessions. Uh we had a formal kickoff. Uh and really
there's two prongs to the project. Uh the first prong is the work of uh the uh the marrying group doing a carrot which is a uh a seven category
uh questionnaire that prompts 101 uh different indicators that talk about food ser food and their food resilience food system resilience. um everything from serving the underserved to where farms and how we can get food out uh
fresh food out to all those in need. So that's uh prong one that's in process. Uh we meet on a monthly basis for an hour and a half. Uh we will add be adding a second meeting. Um and we go into all a very analytical approach uh
to dig through uh with uh 25 and 30 people on a zoom uh to get the analysis. Um the second part of the approach is hiring of a consultant. We have an RFP that we uh we spareheaded. Uh we uh uh
released it in the beginning of September. It's due back on the 29th on Monday. And uh so far we've had 57 consultants uh express interest in the in the project. Uh so it's great to know that we're at the forefront of this uh
type of project. Uh I'll keep you uh invol updated as we keep uh moving forward on that. And then uh finally just uh want to give you a quick uh reminder advisory board committee meeting. We'll be doing uh transfers for FY2
26. That's Thursday, October 23rd. We'll start at 5:30 with our regular meeting. Uh we'll uh then uh adjourn or recess for the Zoom meeting of the advisory committee. Then we'll return to open session to finish up our business that evening. Thank you.
I want to thank you for um your diligence on this, Frank. I think this started as a a wide uh roundt meeting at the sheriff's office and um to see this continuing to grow I think is another excellent example of I don't think it's
cost us anything but time. Uh we've already received a grant on well we I'm saying we and the collective of the folks involved here received a grant um that you know helps position the county to be uh in an arena where we can truly make a difference uh for the member
communities here on something as basic as or addressing a need you know such as food insecurity in in those who don't have enough to eat. So um I appreciate your continued uh effort on that. Uh just uh we do have one commitment from
the from the county. Uh so if you recall back in April, we do. You're right. I apologize. Committed. We actually the county put forward the seed money for the grant. We haven't paid that out yet because the grant's still working. We did get $300,000 from the state to do
the uh the the uh grant the project. Uh we also got some funding from uh local partners and then a great deal of support as you said from the sheriff's office. So um this is a very large coordinated group that's collaborating
in in a great um uh we haven't seen this since the opioid um team uh task force uh back before the pandemic. So, it's it's a great project and uh it's very
interesting to see the wide um group of uh uh citizens that are involved. Everything from high school students to farmers to uh shell fishermen to um food retailers and distributors, supermarkets, government team members,
municipal uh leaders. It's uh it's quite inspiring. Yeah, I agree. Um you're right. I did forget that. That's why I saying $30,000 that we'll be paying during the year, but not bad because we got 300k back and and I was at that grant award with um Mary Waldron and of course Governor
Healey and others. And um again, an example of I think Plymouth County um being on the forefront and working with relevant partners and in some cases partners that may not seem so relevant like the sheriff, but they were able to bring other resources to bear to get all
of these people at the same table and have now uh it's created a really uh interesting uh driver for hopefully this project. So, I appreciate your effort on on that. Any uh any questions for the administrator? No. All right. We might
be setting a record this evening. I will entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session, not to reconvene. Second motion by Commissioner Hanley, second by Commissioner Wright. By roll call, Commissioner Hanley. Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. Uh to discuss right motion by
Commissioner Hanley to enter into executive session to discuss strategy with respect to litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the public body. And the chair so declares uh by roll call. Commissioner Hanley, yes. Commissioner Wright, yes. And Commissioner Alenola, yes. We are
adjourned not to return to open session. Any close? Yes. Go live.