Hello. Okay. Live and I'll call this meeting of the council commission to order the pledge of allegiance and ask everyone please remain standing for a moment of silence. I pledge algiance 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. Please remain standing for a moment of silence for Pope Francis as we did not meet that time frame. Thank you.
First item, minutes April 10th, 2025. Second, Commissioner Right. Second, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? Make a motion to vote and accept and approve CPS form as indicated on the agenda here. Do you want me to read all of them? Um, I would not. The only thing
that I believe we will do is do them all except for Matthew Hanley who we'll vote on separately. So So I'll entertain a motion on uh every item is listed except for Matthew Hanley. Motion moved. Motion Commissioner
Wright can vote on this. I can second. Yes. Okay. I second the motion. Second, Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? I I'll now entertain a motion on Matthew Hanley, special assistant to the treasurer, change to 24-hour per week part-time position from full-time.
Second. Motion Commissioner Wright second. All in favor? I opposed. None abstensions. Yes. One abstension 201. Okay. Motion to vote and accept and approve vendor vouches. Second. All in favor? I. Motion to vote and approve uh
accept and approve payroll vouches. Second. All in favor? All right. Motion uh to vote and amend the uh extend Liberty uh Chevrolet and Colonial Municipal Group as the Chevrolet dealers for the Blind County Vehicle for Pyramid
contract for one open year option for one option year as per contract. Sorry, that a red vote or no? Mr. Chairman at a regular meeting of the county commission is Holden at Plymouth on the 8th day of May
2025 voted to extend the contract for cooperative bid for public service vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet Motor Company and accessories and equipment as listed in the invitation to bid Chevrolet 2023-2026 to Liberty Chevrolet 90 Bay
Street Wakefield Mass for the period of July 1, 2025. 5 to June 30th, 2026. Two additional one-year extensions are possible at the discretion of the Plymouth County Commissioners. Motion, Commissioner Hanley. Second, Commissioner Right. All in favor? I.
Motion to vote pricing for 2025 vehicle edition for Liberty uh Chevrolet for the Commissioner's Vehicle Bid. Yeah, there there's actually one one more that is only Sorry, uh chair. Um that is the one for Liberty Chevrolet. Then we have a separate one for Colonial. Okay. There
are two separate ones that we have to uh track individually. Chairman at a regular meeting of the county commission sold on Plymouth on the 8th day of May 2025 voted to extend the contract of the cooperative bid for the public service vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet Motor Company and accessories and equipment as
listed in the invitation for bid uh Chevrolet number 2023-2026 to Gordon Chevrolet Inc. DBA Colonial Chevrolet 11 Pilgrim Hill Road Plymouth Mass for the period of July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Two additional
one-year extensions are possible at the sole discretion of the Plymouth County Commissioners. Second motion, Commissioner Hanley. Second, Commissioner Right. All in favor? Ian. Okay. Okay. Next item is R5. Oh, no. Sorry. Now we have the the new vehicle edition. It is very confusing. Mr.
Chairman, at a regular meeting, the county commission is holding that Plymouth on the 8th day of May 2025 voted to approve the pricing of the following vehicle manufactured by Chevrolet Motor Company to the current Plymouth County Municipal Vehicle Bid Chevrolet number
2023-2026 awarded to Liberty Chevrolet Inc. 90 Bay Street State Road, Wakefield, Mass. Second. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Is that it? Yes. Perfect. Thank you.
You're welcome. ARPA. Treasurer O'Brien is out, but I think we do have one ARPA vote to read. Yes, I do. You want me to? I got the glasses on. I might as well wear pursuant to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue Plan Act and Plymouth County Commissioners
grant dispersement of funds and administered through the Plymouth County Opa program as follows. payment to Clifton Lawson Allen LLP in the sum or amount of 11,62950 for administrative support.
Second. All in favor I unanimous directors of port Molly back from the Washington DC with some of our Lindel Tucker of Dbury as their county representative if he was lucky enough to present to the
department of agriculture. Uh I would recommend if anyone looking for a youth speaker at any upcoming county events or meetings that Lindel would make a great representation and has a lot to share. She was very excited to be on the trip and be at the USDA building and there
was a desk um that was Ronald Reagan's a big table conference table that he used um times they got lots of pictures in front of it. It was um really a hit and something different that hasn't happened over my past few DC trips. Um, Lindel spoke at the for foundation
meeting yesterday and again she she would love to share the word of her experiences if comes up. Yeah, Blake remains extremely busy this time of year. He is basically out straight. I see him coming and going and that's about it. Um, quick phone call or text
if something else is needed, but between schools, community groups, you know, um, boards of health, he's really busy with tick information this time of the year. and me Riley has been assisting lots of local farms with spring births animals.
Okay. Um lots of folks have reached out to her. She's doing all kinds of things, linking folks up with other expertise and veterinarians in the area. Tomorrow we host our first field trip at the farm of this of this springtime. We have 60 students from PCIS which is the middle
school. Good. Great. any questions? Yeah. Um I think it might be nice at our next advisory board to have Linda come in and that's I was gonna say the same thing. Yeah. Tell them what she has been doing
and Sure. And uh give them an update on what 4 does. Give her like a recognition or something. Yeah. I think that's a great idea. Our meeting is what is it? June 3rd. June town. June 5th. June 5. Thursday. June 5th. Right in the middle. Yeah. See if she's available. That would actually be a nice idea to recognize her
in front of the advisory board. highlight our great 4 program. Perfect. Let us know if she's available. Thank you, Molly. Thanks, Molly. Next, register report. This is ugly. Not a lot in her report. Uh we're still
trending above the estimates um through 10 months of the of the fiscal year and uh real estate has not really taken off. As you noticed, the February reserve yesterday did nothing to help us with interest rates, but uh we continue to
move along at least. Great. Any questions? Any questions? No. That's really what's to be expected right now. Thank you. Right. maintenance and administrators report. Mr. Basler. Uh yes, chair. Uh we talked a little bit
about uh our project that's going on at 32 Belmont Street uh in Brockton, which is a complete renovation uh getting the uh building ready to be able to lease for the county as a revenue source. That's going really well. We still have
about um 3 weeks left of the project and it'll be completed at which time uh we'll give you an update and we'll look for next steps uh with guidance from the commissioners. Uh and our other uh eight of these nine large projects are moving ahead uh at a phenomenal pace and uh
coming out great. Uh Doug and the team are doing super. Uh we did hold uh interviews for our new registry of deeds building supervisor uh during the week uh with uh superintendent wedge and
assistant superintendent uh Spears and uh we'll be working on uh uh pointing that position that's been vacant uh for about a year now um as people have come into uh in into that job as temporary and interim uh where now have they now
have the experience and applied for the job. So, we have two great candidates and we'll give you an update at the next meeting. Um, and uh we continue to battle. Uh we still have one of our team members on medical leave and one of our other uh team another team member on
family unpaid family medical leave. So, uh, we still have, uh, two of our 18 or two of our 17 vacant, uh, positions vacant, uh, which do, uh, present a little challenge, but Superintendent Wedge is doing a phenomenal job. Uh, for
the administrator's report, um, I really only have, uh, would seek guidance. A couple of uh weeks ago, uh I talked to you about the Department of Commerce license for having uh a um a a member of
their team uh sit upstairs uh for the summertime for the time being. Uh the uh GSA has come back and said that the Department of Commerce does not have the right to create their own leases. So
they are not um offering uh any compensation for uh any any of the team members to go elsewhere other than existing uh locations that they have uh already people in. Um I told them that
that would probably be a uh a stopping point for us working with them but wanted to uh give the opportunity uh to see if if we wanted to entertain that uh gentleman here for a couple of months uh
gratus um you know I it's it's outside of our normal parameters and it is in uh light uh against the uh inspector general's report that says when counties lease out land or license out
properties, there should be compensation in return for that. So, I would recommend we don't move forward with go uh moving ahead even though we'd like to help out uh the gentleman who's from Plymouth and like to help out our federal team members. But uh because I
did share this with the uh with the head of the department of commerce that um this report from the inspector general and I said I would bring it up to the uh commissioner just to seek their guidance. I think not only that I agree Frank and I think it would be nice to
help this guy but if we offered gratus then my understanding would be technically speaking we would have to offer a gratus to anybody else who requested right so if somebody else wanted to utilize our space or any spaces in the county uh for free we
would be under the obligation to do so because we've offered it to one individual already for free unfortunately. So, um, well, not to mention the liability issues that would come with that. It's just probably not worth our while. I agree. So, I feel bad. I think it would have been a nice
thing, but I think unfortunately, Commissioner Hanley is right to the liability issue, but not only that, just ethically speaking, we we offer it to one constituent for nothing, then we're obligated to offer all of our buildings and spaces to our constituents for
nothing. And obviously that's that would be a physically physically impossible task to uh to accomplish. So um it's too bad. But fortunately I think as you said we'll have to regretfully decline uh
hosting him. Yep. And uh I'll I'll pass that word along and that's the report for now. Thank you. Okay. Chairman may give a quick update on the transatlantic climate lines conference. You may although we're that can I just ask him question? enjoy it. So, um, have you
checked with the, um, court offices up in Brockton? I know that they were showing some interest over at that building. Uh, they were looking for more space. I know you'd have to probably go through the state, but if you contact somebody over there, maybe even ask Doug. I have talked to uh, Chris McUade
several times and although uh, and he is the person that would be dealing covering and they are not interested. he is not interested from the office of the trial court. I know uh uh officers would love more space in a nice new office
setting out of the out outside of the building, but uh I I have, you know, because I thought maybe we could do a temporary courtroom over there and then we could uh phase in and renovate other courtrooms and and uh use that if they're willing to pay for it. Uh he
said that's not within the budget. I will double check again. That was a year ago when I brought it to him. Uh but now that the building's renovated now, maybe he might be more interested. There was some uh rumor about the DA also doing a small
court session outside of the court. Uh so you might maybe you want to reach out. Do you know something about that? I heard something about that. Um just ask. Well, if it's something that you're driving at, I know he's doing a um I want to say a citizen's court. He's
doing something in it's Brockton specific. Y um citizens court doesn't sound correct, but it's something to that effect. It's only Brockton. I'll I'll reach out to uh Kendra is still his uh uh prime administrator.
I'll I'll reach out to Kendra and uh touch base with her. Uh he'll be very happy to know that the roof is brand new. You can't even hear the rain. We were in it in meet with a meeting yesterday and it was pouring and you still couldn't you couldn't hear the uh the day before actually Tuesday you couldn't hear the rain at all. So
there's no leaking on his head this time. So he'll be happy. He will be okay that was all. Go ahead. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you Frank Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to give you the details of our sister county program in the
transatlantic climate alliance conference. The Shia town of Brockton is hosting a welcome dinner on the 21st of May beginning at 5:00 pm to honor our agreement with the county Donnie Gaul.
Uh on that particular night uh we are uh working closely with retired ambassador to Ireland Claire Cronin and she is recognizing uh Neve Kennedy who is the mayor of Dennigal with an inaugural first time ever awarded Claire Cronin
award ambassador Clare Cronin award so we're excited about that ancient order of Hiburnians are awarding uh Irishman of the year to um the clerk of uh superior, Mr. Cedon, and Claire Cronin
is being honored as woman of the year through them. There's a live charity auction that night uh for the Charity Guild of Brockton. Uh we're looking forward to kicking off the conference. Uh and which will be the following day
at Bridgewater State University. Um, as you're aware, we've uh partnered with the transatlantic climate alliance with senator um Pico and we have worked closely with the state who's uh providing the department of energy resources as a panelist in the
conference. We have representation from the city of Brockton as a second panel and the county of Donnie as the third panel. Uh that evening we will be leaving uh for flag uh ceremony, hoisting ceremony at city hall in
Brockton. Uh we will then be moving on to the Masiano family home for um visit and then a picture in front of the statue. And then that evening we will be with the Brockton Rocks for Celtic night uh in Hava 1 is uh sponsoring that event
as well as the Brockton Rocks and the mayor will be throwing in the first pitch uh that evening and uh we look forward to uh a very successful night. So, I just want to give that uh to you and put it on your calendars. Obviously,
the everyone here is invited to that. Um just let us know so we can include you in the headcount. Uh if there's any questions, I can answer them. But just wanted to put that out there so everyone knew that we're in pretty good shape right now. So, great. Worked a lot on this and very
passionate about it. And I appreciate your enthusiasm. do appreciate the inclusion of one of Brockton's finest Italians, Rock Mariana. You can thank the register of deeds for that request. Uh yeah, thank you. I
appreciate that very much. My grandfather was a huge Rocky fan. Loved Rocky Mariano. Well, it's interesting. Under the economic development, we have the conference. Under culture, we have the welcome dinner. And under tourism, we have the Rocks and the Masiano. um uh
family home. So, we've checked all the boxes per our agreement. So, thank you. Great. There be nothing else, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion so move.