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It says Please be advised that this meeting is being recorded and broadcast live on YouTube. This meeting file will be shared with various public access channels throughout Plymouth County for further potential re-broadcasting. First on the agenda of the minute acceptance for June 4th. Do I hear a
motion? >> Motion to accept. Second. >> Okay. Uh next on the >> We'll call. We'll call a vote. >> Yep, okay. Um Commissioner Valenzuela. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Hanley. >> Yes.
>> Commissioner Wright, yes. Okay, executive minutes acceptance for April 10th, 2025 and June 26th, 2025. This is a bi-annual release of executive session minutes. Uh these two involve the Woodlot cell tower. Do I hear a motion to accept?
>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. Okay, is this a roll call also? >> Yep. >> Okay, Commissioner Hanley. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Valenzuela. >> Yes. >> Okay. Next >> a motion to approve all CPS forms listed
with the exception of Sandra Wright's salary adjustment, Gregory Hanley's salary adjustment, and Jared Valenzuela's salary adjustment. >> Second. >> Okay, before that, all these yearly updates are for July 1st, contractual and pleased to percent and are consistent with the budget.
Okay, we have the motion. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. >> I'll make a motion to approve Sandra Wright's salary adjustment. >> Second. >> Okay, Commissioner Valenzuela. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Hanley. >> Yes. >> Okay, all in favor? >> Aye. >> I don't
>> No, you can't vote on this the same. >> Yeah, I can vote my thing. >> I will make a motion to approve Gregory Hanley's salary adjustment. >> I'll second that. >> Abstain. I'll perhaps call the vote. >> Yep.
>> Be a better idea. >> Commissioner Valenzuela. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Wright, yes. >> Commissioner Hanley abstains. >> Okay. >> Make a motion to um grant the Jared Valenzuela's pay increase as well. >> Second.
>> Call the roll. >> Yep. Commissioner Hanley. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Wright, yes. >> I abstain and just note that the salary adjustment information is salary. >> Aye, that's salary. >> Signing all this paperwork for you. >> All in favor, aye. >> One abstention, I abstain. >> Yes.
Um >> [clears throat] >> Okay, so um Vote to accept and CPS form, we did that. Okay, contractual. Uh do I have a motion to accept and uh approve vendor vouchers? >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor, aye. Five.
Motion to vote and accept and approve payroll vouchers. >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor, aye. Vote to approve uh vacation carryover all approvals are within county surcharge uh and uh all employees are
within compliance. Do I hear a motion? >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor, >> aye. >> Okay, and then I'm going to turn this over to uh to the administrator, Frank Basler. >> Madam Chair, >> and surcharge, I think we all have that uh file in front of us.
>> Yes. Uh so in your file uh in in your handouts is the uh annual uh adjustments. The team has been working with our vendor health group on the July 1 renewals for our insurance. And after increases of 38% in FY 23, 12% in 24,
and 11 and 1/2 in 25, uh we're we're very excited uh uh to announce that we have a 1.5% increase this year. And that's because we took advantage of some building and technical uh improvements that the commissioners have approved uh over the
last couple years, and that we were able to highlight uh so that we got uh so we were able to get better rates on the premiums uh for the insurance policies. Uh and as we mentioned in your package, the breakdown of the policies and premiums. With your approval and vote,
please authorize me to contract with Hill Group for the FY 27 policies. We'll have them bound and get them to us by July 1. >> Motion to authorize. >> Second. >> All in favor, say aye. >> Aye. >> Thank you very much for the cameras. Okay.
Moving on. Uh American Recovery Plan Act update and distributions. Uh Mr. Ali. >> Stepping in for agricultural lines. Thank you. >> I did. I'm glad to be here. >> Of course. >> Um commissioners, good evening. Uh
there's no huge update. Uh nothing changed since the first for a vote uh at this meeting. Um right now we are working on uh getting uh a good read on the amount of money that we have left to distribute to
communities. We can do one final round of distributions um for the program and so >> Okay. >> We hope to have that for you for uh the next time. >> Very good. Any questions by my commissioners? No? Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you. Okay, we have extension directory report. Thank you. You're coming up. >> Good afternoon, commissioners. Um I just want to thank you all again for inviting 4-H to speak at the recent county
advisory board meeting. It was a great night. I think everybody in the room um appreciated it and I hope that the three of you did have a good you did. And uh it was great to have the girls out and hopefully we'll be doing some more of that. Um two quick updates. We got a delivery of our 60 chicks, 20 chickens
for our uh summer program that we do that the name is escaping me at the immediate moment. Our careers in agriculture over at the farm. So, those students uh as soon as school gets out we'll be having 4-Hers and those teams joining us. Uh but the chicks are already here and ready to
grow. And then um just something of interest uh at one of Blake Denius's recent walks, um he does several pollinator walks with a lot of different community groups around the county and he is the first in Plymouth County to identify this particular beetle, which is a
maculated scarab. Um, and he was the first one in to document its sighting in Plymouth County. So, uh, this is the second time Blake has found an insect that hadn't been documented in our region. So, just something exciting to share. A unique feature.
>> Is this uh, that insect that's going around and killing the trees? >> I don't think I I From what I got from Blake, that's nothing that's um, invasive or destructive. >> Okay. In other words, something going on down the Cape and
>> There are a couple of different things he watches out for and they were, you know, in the loop on here, there's a spotted lantern fly. Um, there was a pine boar. Uh, again, there's different ones that we watch out for different times of year. >> Okay.
>> That one is harmless. >> Okay. Any questions? >> Looks like it's fun. Looks like a I mean, I think ladybugs are beetles anyway. Cuz it looks quite a bit like a ladybug. >> Picture might be, you know, the the color might not be exact, but
>> Oh, it's interesting. Thank you. >> All right, thanks. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. We have the Marshfield Fair coming up. Molly? Marshfield Fair, any update on that? >> Uh, actually have a Marshfield Fair meeting tonight. We're looking at having more animals than we've had in a very,
very long time. We're actually looking at bringing in an additional tent and uh, the Marshfield Fair purchased additional panels so that we can properly keep all of the livestock that's coming. Uh, and fingers crossed, first time in many years we will have live chickens back there.
>> Oh, nice. >> And that's August what? >> Uh, August 21st through the 30th. It's uh, late >> I'd say that feels late. >> Yeah, it's late. >> Yeah, Labor Day is very late. It's on September 7th. So, the fair is that >> No. >> The week before >> The last week of August. >> Right?
>> So, do the chickens have a chicken coop right now built to house? >> Yes. >> They do. So, picking up on the retirement of uh Mr. Palotta and the greenhouse was named after him. There's another gentleman that is retiring from the county and I
might want to put his name forward. Is there a name taken for the chicken coop right now? >> Not at this [clears throat] time. >> Okay. Just >> I'll keep that in mind, though. >> Yeah, it's a service, you know. You got to memorialize it, you know. Maybe maybe bronze. >> As long as I get to clean it.
>> That means you'll have to clean from the bowl. >> That that will work. >> [laughter] >> Very good. Thank you. >> No problem. >> Okay. Mr. Snow here. No updates with him. And he's usually hiding behind the podium here. Uh and anything more from Mr.
Lally for the treasurer? >> Just one more. I passed out to everybody and uh the the park report for um last month.
Um the treasurer uh again apologizes he was unable to be here, but he's actually down at Faith meeting with another group to try and get them to join P-Funk. Um but wanted to highlight the recent successes of P-Funk and the uh
the immediate success of the county um in uh raising $5 million. That's balanced. So, that's an an accomplishment for the county. Um the treasurer is very proud of the expresses his gratitude for the uh for the commissioners and for the
organization. >> Well, we're sorry he's down at Faith, but he's doing his job and what we need, so. >> Trying to build it up. >> Yep, exactly. Uh how many towns are there now? What's you say? 34, 35? >> 35, but I'm not sure if I can I can get
you the membership list if you'd like. >> That's okay. Very good. Always good news. >> That's right. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you for stepping in. Okay. Uh Mr. Bazinet. >> Great. Uh thank you, Madam Chair. Uh
maintenance superintendent's report. Uh the teams have been working on spring cleanups and uh land landscaping upgrades. Uh in addition, they've been focused on renovation to the Wareham District Court basement floors uh that
were damaged in the flood of 2 years ago. And also oil tank old oil tank uh removal in uh Hingham District. Uh we are moving ahead with a couple of large projects uh you'll hear more about in the upcoming meetings uh which is a
complete renovation and uh upgrade of lighting for the Registry of Deeds both inside and outside. The register and his team are very excited about that. Saving electricity with upgrades to uh LED lights. And uh likewise, we'll be
doing uh an additional uh ceiling upgrade and lighting upgrade project in Wareham District. Uh as you recall, we started the project and did about a third of the ceilings last year. Uh we are scheduled uh to work on that uh
beginning uh in the fall of uh next uh this upcoming fall in Wareham. Uh so, the team's doing a phenomenal job on that. For administrative uh report, in your packet, uh there is a slide deck of the resilient food system action plan
for the Plymouth County area. Uh as you recall, this is a huge project multi-year project uh that we worked in coordination with Old Colony Planning Council, the Marion Institute, and our consultants were the Barrett Group. Uh,
the project has been received exceptionally well in the district. Uh, we had a uh, uh, a project project report of the draft report on June 9th. Uh, that was very well attended. Uh,
I have the this slide deck and I've forwarded you other information as it's become available. We do have live public meetings on Monday, June 22nd. Uh, that's this coming Monday at the Plymouth Town Hall
at 5:30 p.m. And then on Tuesdays, we're in Brockton at the public library branch, the main lab branch at 5:30 on the 23rd. Uh, so uh, this is a huge project for uh, that the commissioners approved funding for and these groups
have worked very uh, closely on and uh, the report is filled with analytics and information uh, about uh, future actions and uh, this is the way we it's not the public outreach and um, initiation of
the of the uh, next steps. Any questions? >> Uh, what time are they at? Um, >> 5:30 p.m. on both. >> Okay. >> So, Monday at the uh, Plymouth Great Hall uh, great room in Town Hall and
Tuesday at the Brockton Public Main Branch on Main Street. >> Very good. Thank you. >> The next uh, update >> jump on this real quick. Um, I say it every time, but I just appreciate your efforts, uh, Mr. Basler, as well as I think uh, Teresa Van Zandt, who I think is off
this week, but again, this is uh, we were approached about 2 years ago about something to this effect and um, to see this taking off the way it has after just that meeting that I think you and I had with the Sheriff and uh, Karen Barry um, to see all these resources
brought to bear brought together for what has been a real minimal investment financially from the county. Obviously, we've invested a considerable amount of time, which is obviously money as well, but to see something like this to see the county in a position after bringing so many of these different groups together to address something
that I don't think would ordinarily have ever come our way, but I think is an issue that people aren't fully cognizant of that there are foods that are to implement that there are people who suffer food insecurity in Plymouth County and for what has really
been a minimal investment on our end, we've been able to help collaborate and bring resources to bear and I want to thank you and and Teresa for your effort in that from us, but obviously Barrett, the Marion Institute and the other groups old colony planning council as well
being involved it really is a true testament to the stuff we can do as a county and I I appreciate it. >> Yes, and as a regional work group and team, we were able to secure $250,000 from the MVP resiliency grant. So, we
were able to invest our money as as you stated commissioner and seek multi-fold returns on it and this will set us up for it's a 20-year plan with initial steps and forward steps
that have that are going to be worked on in the conversations that have been held between farmers, fisher people and municipal governments is critical in setting that that stage. >> Absolutely. >> Right.
Anything else? >> On the next update Madam Chair is just on the county administrator search. So, the search committee has asked me to update the commissioners on the current progress. There were 38 resume packages that were submitted at the deadline on June 15th
at 4:00 p.m. The search committee met and reviewed the submissions and would like to move three finalists forward to the commissioners for interviewing at your earliest opportunity. The three finalists listed alphabetically are Mr. Troy Clarkson, Mr. Christopher
Heffernan, and Ms. Darlene Sullivan. I have placed the resume packages in your folder for your review uh at uh when you get an opportunity. Uh once the interviews are completed, uh the committee uh then suggested to move forward with a job offer at the
commissioners' meeting on July 1. Um I I think uh we all want to thank uh the search committee of Commissioner Hanley, Register John Buckley, and Deputy Treasurer Jeffrey Welch for their great work and efforts. And uh chair, uh if
you uh can um settle on a date that work for the interview process, uh and uh and then uh I would like a um a motion to inform and schedule the finalists of the interviews for that meeting. >> I'll make that motion, Madam Chair.
To authorize the to County Administrator to uh contact the individuals and set up that uh timing of with your approbation um for the date that we all can attend. >> Uh I'll second that.
>> [clears throat] >> I'm in favor. >> On the motion, just a question. Um did the search committee interview these folks or are we >> No. Uh we had discussed that as a group and we felt that uh a public process
that would be necessary and consulted counsel. So, these will be conducted um we pre-screen by qualifications. Um Register Buckley had put together a 1 to 10 ranking system in six categories and we reviewed that per uh how it uh
basically set the job description with preferences and we ranked them. So, um there were five people who were ranked and the top three were the ones that uh went through. So. That answers your question. >> Okay.
>> It does. >> Okay. >> Uh do we want to come up with a date now? Uh I think we want to uh we were looking to do it before July 1st, right? And cuz our next meeting is July 2nd. Am I correct? >> Yeah, uh July 1st. It's Wednesday, July 1st is the next commissioner's scheduled
meeting. The search committee thought maybe uh giving the uh the finalists a week's notice uh would would be uh sufficient and appropriate. So, uh the suggestion was uh maybe next Wednesday. I'm not sure of your schedules.
Um or we could do uh any any of the other dates uh that that whatever would work for the commissioners. >> Mhm. I know Wednesday is okay. I know it's a tough for uh Commissioner Valenzuela, but uh we could probably get in. I don't
know how long it would take to interview them. Um I think the sooner the better. Uh um >> Do you have a conflict on ending on Wednesday? >> Uh yes. >> Is Thursday available for you, ma'am, to >> I don't I don't have Thursdays
available. >> Thursday commitment next Thursday. >> We could do Monday Monday the Well, that would be uh the next option would be Monday the 29th. >> 29th, [clears throat] yeah. The week after. >> I am wide open that that
So, a certain early afternoon on it should be wide open. >> And then we then we'd be able to come back on 1st, which is Wednesday. And then the with the deliberation, this is all an open open meeting. Um open
session >> Mhm. and then extended offer based off the commissioner's vote of July 1st. If you so inclined. >> Okay, so about the planning office. Does that sound okay with everybody?
>> I I would prefer sooner rather than later, but if it accommodates everyone's schedule, then that's fine. >> a daytime? >> I would be up to the candidates, I would imagine. I think you know, if Jared has conflicts after a certain time on Wednesdays, I don't think folks who are employed, with the exception of one of
our candidates, you know, I think we have to be here as a group. I don't think we should I think we should accommodate the commissioner's schedule so that we can be here. So that June 29th would give them greater runway if they are currently employed to
And I I mean, I'm I don't have my work phone in front of me, but I off the top of my head can confidently say 1:00 p.m. on on the 29th, I'm wide open. >> So Monday would be the 29th? >> Yes, sir. >> I'm
I'm fine with that anytime of the day that the commission is going to meet. >> That gives them sufficient time to get here. >> I can I can call reach out to each of the three candidates. Um two of them are employed outside of the county. One is employed in the county.
So we could start with the in in county employee during those hours if the other two are not eligible. Or if you want, I can just um we could start at 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 and see if that works and pull from the hat for
um I don't know, is there a suggestion? >> Any order is fine. You can schedule You can do a 1:00 meeting at your It was like a 3:00. It doesn't need to be It's a scheduled open meeting. Um you can figure that out with the the notice. >> Mhm.
>> And you also too, open meeting does allow you to confer about scheduling. So, if you pick the 29th, you can um have emails with the commissioners to to finalize times based off of the responses of the um uh three people to be interviewed.
>> So, was my motion sufficient to cover the last amendment? Right, so there's a motion on the floor. >> Okay. So, just before we do that, should we have maybe a couple of dates in in case they can't make the 29th if that's not a good time for them? >> Well, >> or a couple of >> dates. >> I know like it's
>> I Well, I think on the flip side if they are sincerely interested in the position and we're giving them what will be 11 days notice tomorrow, I would imagine they would make the time if if it's something Speaking personally myself, when I've gone for other jobs and I've done so
while always being employed, you make the time. Obviously, it's less public than this, but now obviously it's out in the public where the applicants are um Could we do 5:00 on? >> I was going to say, if you do it post Well, that's not a problem at all. >> It's going to be
>> three, four, five, six. >> Yeah, fine by me. I just know sometimes the afternoon works a lot better for folks. So, I just I'm fine. But, 5:00 on is always going to be better for me. So, >> I'll amend my motion to include um the times on the 29th at the four 4:00 p.m.,
5:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. as the administrator um What's the other? >> Okay, so that's the motion on the floor? >> Yeah. The motion was amended, so I I guess uh we didn't vote. So,
>> Second the amended motion. >> Aye. >> Aye. Now, on the main motion, call the roll. >> Commissioner Valenzuela? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Henry? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Wright? Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Commissioners,
I'd like to thank you Frank for doing the whole process. You know, it wasn't easy collecting all those resumes and then going through them and I appreciate your support of the committee's work. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Is that all that you have, Mr. Doug, Mr. Fasola? >> Uh, yes, ma'am, chair. That's the uh end
of my report today. >> Okay. Then I just uh hear a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Vote all. >> Oh, Mr. Valenzuela. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hanley. >> Yes. >> Mr. White, yes.
Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Nancy.