might be my favorite feature in that entire car. Not the automatic windshield wiper, rain sensing. We are We are live. The cigarette light of the Just because it cracks me up. Cigarette lighter international. Oh, chair. Yes. What time is it? Why is
this not 5:30? Yeah. 5:30. 5:29 according to the official clock. That's not even 5:30. No. Close enough. True. Close enough. Almost. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
I know. Oh, it's always the longest. I know. You're waiting. This is going to order. 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 be advised this meeting is being live broadcast on YouTube and also recorded for distribution to local access channels for potential rebroadcast. First item on
the agenda, minutes March 13. Make a motion to accept March 13, 2025. Second motion and second. All in favor. Make a motion to vote and accept and approve vendor vouchers. Second. All in favor? I. Uh motion to vote and accept uh
payroll vouchers. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Next item on the agenda, Plymouth County Energy Plymouth County Energy Aggregation Program. Mr. Basler. Uh thank you, chair. I uh put together these slides uh and uh the treasurer and
I met with uh Derek Randeszy, the town manager of Plymouth uh in uh and u Mike uh Cahill uh the uh natural resource energy officer of the town. Uh we I've been working with Mike uh and some
consultants on learning about uh energy aggregation. Uh as you recall a couple of meetings ago, Dick Quintel, the chair of the Plymouth County Board of Selectment, came to us uh as an advisory member and executive board member, asked us if there was something that the
county could do to assist uh the town and the inhabitants of Clint County uh on uh making their energy bills a little more palatable. Uh I've been uh researching an aggregation program and uh put these slides together. Currently
uh 21 of the 27 uh communities have an aggregation program uh and three of the municipalities have their own power power and light uh company within their municipality. So they're not eligible. Uh so there only works out to be about
three municipalities that do not have plans. Uh but the price that the plans offer varies significantly. Uh including ours. We're not on an aggregation plan, but we do procure our energy. We're at
12.195 cents and the high in the county right now uh is listed at 17.7 uh 23 cents per kilowatt hour. Uh and then the there are several plans going that range from 100% renewable uh energy
to the what they call the standard uh program which is a mix of renewable and traditional energy. manufacturing or generation. Um, and one of the sticking points uh that we're going to be looking at is right now all these communities
have different windows of uh contracts anywhere from 6 months out to three plus years. So, uh we did talk to Colonial Power Group which is the consultant uh recommended by the Department of Public Utilities uh and works with Plymouth the
town. uh and uh they did think that a aggregation program would make sense. Uh there are some challenges to uh in between us and getting to a program. Number one, uh the 27 communities would
have to give up autonomy and act as one unit similar to the Cape Cod Light Compact uh that uh takes care of all of Bonstable County, um Dukes County, and 21 communities on the Cape. uh that would lead uh their compact serves about
205,000 electric customers. Our program would serve uh about 250 to 270 or so thousand customers. So there there is no precedent for a program as large as ours. Uh Boston right now is in a unique
RFP process where they're usually aggregation programs work with energy retailers. Uh and the the municipality would go out to bid to these energy retailers and create a bidding war for their price. uh because we would bring
such a large group, it would eliminate a lot of these traditional retailers because they're not technical or financially astute enough to be able to uh deliver the product for such a large group. Um Boston is working on an RFP where they are going directly to the
wholesalers who supply the retailers who would supply the municipalities. So they're in essence cutting out the middleman. This is a very unique look at this. uh they are in the middle of their RFP. It won't come to fruition with pricing until mid to end of May. Um and
that will come into play in a couple minutes. Um just out of curiosity, you said there are three communities that have um their own power plants. Yes. So I don't think they would they be eligible. they are not eligible for for a program like
Taton Middlebar, Hull and Engel are the three in our county that are not. Um, an interesting point is more customers does not always translate into low rates because I had mentioned that only one or two large retailers could bid for us. um
because they would be bidding against a host of others, they don't tend to shop in their pencils and the biggest of the towns don't end up getting the best of the pricing. So that's an interesting component. Uh we also would need to sync all 27 or how many communities we have
into the buying program. So for next steps uh we're going to uh work with Colonial Power Group as as that aggregation consultant um to look at the footprint of Plymouth County and where this makes sense. Uh we're going to work with the the Colonial Motor Group,
Colonial Power Group to see about that Boston model and where the pricing comes in. If there's not a significant enough reason for going joining forces and savings, a lot of the towns will say why do we even jump through these hoops.
So we have to quantify the size of the prize of the savings uh using the Boston model that we could then translate into our backyard. Um we're going to continue uh working on uh the procurement process with DPU uh and continue to gather
information. Right now, SERPED and OCPC both have uh aggregation programs. They're not very active in it. And I have a call um uh uh tomorrow with OCPC to find out about how uh we can learn
from what they did and and uh to gather more uh momentum. Uh and then these slides are going to update the leadership and uh executive council at the April meetings to gauge the interest in the groups. Um both the treasurer and
I and uh Derek and Mike think this is going to be a pretty heavy load to to try to get across the goal line uh if at all it's possible. But um it would start with their interest uh in the in the program and really
the biggest deadline would be seeing what the pricing is for uh fostic enough uh uh savings then we could figure out a way to get this program together. So, um, and once we do
find out that there's interest, then we'll start asking and I'll work with the town procurement officers and the energy procurement teams to, uh, try to align steps uh, along the way. And basically, we'd be looking at maybe a kickoff in 27 or 28 because it would
take a significant amount of time to pull all those program uh, dead uh, timelines together. I wonder would it make sense um given your point about the size figure out what that sweet spot
number would be by bunching towns together. So if we were to divide it into a thirds or a half, whatever that number would be, like like what's the highest amount of customers we can reach where we stay under the threshold that
we're not crossing into that threshold of there only being one or two companies that can do it, right? Like figure out what that threshold is and then combining whatever towns and that might also help with timelines because to your point, towns, they're all going to be expiring at different times. um
throughout the calendar years or whatever arrangement they have. So yeah, I I think that's a great idea. I think the key is the amount of savings that can be delivered, right? And if we get the biggest bang for the buck going with a program like the RFP to the
wholesalers, then we won't know that until we see what their pricing is compared to the existing pricing. Then we can work with our our aggregation consultant in modeling a few different ways. And I think that's a very good idea as to look for that break point. Uh
if Boston doesn't if the Boston model doesn't offer significant enough savings to go through the the steps, right? That's a great idea. Thank you. So I I have a question. Sure. Um what does this actually cover? Because I know like um most of the companies own the lines that come into
the facilities. Is this just the usage? So that that's a great point. uh bills are broken into service charges uh and delivery charges. The service is the actual energy and that's what is out through the the lines that come into the
building. The delivery charges are the lines, right? And also um I went uh um Rep. Badger and Replan had a a program uh because quite a few people are very upset about their bills. Yeah. and they had a program across the street uh last
week and I went to it uh and actually met uh a couple of senior people at uh Eversource so we have some good contacts now um and they explained there's buckets and I actually did some analysis on which buckets went up the most the primary driver of the huge delivery
costs right now increases is the mass save programs right uh in those conversion programs uh the governor has aligned initially five billion ion dollar over three years to that program. She downplayed downscaled that a little
to 4.5 billion, but that is split up among the rateayers based on the kilowatt hours used. And then it goes into interest free loans to improve your um uh insulation or upgrade to energy
efficiency equipment. Um, so there's people that are doing the upgrades are getting the benefit of the money that everybody's investing and being charged, but it's pretty significant. Uh, you know, right now the delivery charges, so the people that are putting up the polls
and whatnot are actually um that is higher than what the actual energy costs, right? But the explanation was that the long-term goal of getting rid of carbon and and gas and coal and all that for the for the environment and
going to electricity is causing all the electric existing electric lines and um trans uh transformers to be outdated. They're anticipating a 50 to 100% increase per household uh increase in
demand of power. So your old 200 amp service won't be efficient anymore and it works all the way back to the lines at the power. Yeah. Interesting have a question? Sure. With
respect to the consultant, Frank, um is there a cost associated with the consultant? Not not to us. uh all the aggregation consultants which there's three of them approved by DPU to do these programs uh make a fraction of a hundth of a cent uh per kilowatt hour
assessed to each of the owners. That's for the administration and the execution of the programs. That's the only charge that's uh paid for. So, I had attended a um Massachusetts chief procurement offices event for the association and
they had DOER there and I would say if you could call them because they have technical assistance grants uh that may help you in this process with no fee especially um towns like Carver Clinton um they they call it electrifying the
last mile. Yeah. and in improving grades. Uh so there's quite a few to grants and actually DPU reported to do so. So I have already spoken to the office. Yeah, the woman there is actually going to speak at our uh climate alliance conference. Great. Yeah. So which if you give me an
opportunity I can give you an update on that. When is that? I don't want to get in trouble. Yeah. That's there's no other questions. Share. Yeah. No other question. Yeah. Appreciate it. All right.
Next item on the agenda, uh, pricing for 2020 vehicle editions for Colonial Motor Group Ford for the commissioner's vehicle bid. You don't have to read. That's okay. Uh, Mr. Uh, at a regular meeting, the county commission is holding at Plymouth on the
27th day of March, 2025 AD, voted to approve the pricing of the following vehicles and equipment manufactured by the Ford Motor Company to the current Plymouth County Municipal Vehicle Bid number 2023-206 awarded to Colonial Ford, Inc.,
DBA CMG Colonial Municipal Group 11 Pilgrim Hill Road Plymouth Mass as presented. Could you read the rest of it a little Hanley? She's funny. The girl that has Triple A coming out.
Okay. Funny girl. Very ironic. Yeah. Motion Commissioner Hanley. Second. Second. Commissioner Wright. All in favor? Next item. Fiscal year 2026 budget department guidelines and process. Please order because a couple questions. There's no objection. We'll have the
extension director. Okay. All right. Very good. You're good. Were you anticipating this being a long presentation? Not necessarily, but sometimes inquisitive nature of commissioners makes it go a little longer than I had estimated it would.
Um, as you know, we're feverously putting together our FY26 budget. Uh, I was tasked to meet with the register of deeds uh over the last few weeks. Uh, I can report that those meetings have been successful. And so what I'm hoping to have the
commissioners do today is I don't know whether it's a vote or just consensus that all departments will produce a budget to the treasur's office by next Wednesday. uh so I can assemble the budget and put it together for your subsequent meeting uh would then be on the pen. We're bumping up against some
timelines. So all I'm really looking forward to in terms of the budget uh is a uh is a consensus or a vote to do that. I'm also hoping uh as you know that those conversations with the register have been successful. this
would need a vote to authorize me to sign a memorandum of understanding documenting the agreement that we have which then gives both sides the comfort and can move forward with the proposal. So I probably did that out of order and I apologize. I think first it would be a vote to authorize the treasurer to enter
into an agreement with the register documenting the agreement and then secondly a vote to uh ask all department heads to deliver uh their budget request to the treasur so we can assemble that for meeting of the commissioners. So move
uh motion second and a second before we vote. If you take them as two separate votes. So my only thinking on this is the appropriateness of the treasurer signing something when the commissioners are the ones who author the budget. So I I I have we know if we
could authorize that right through this proxy, right? So it's not the budget, it's just anou about the budget. So there's a motion in a second. Yeah, there is. That's fine. My again that was just my only comment is that the
treasurer doesn't we are the ones who want the budget. So it could be argued that a memorandum between the treasurer and the register while nice um may not hold any water. I personally would like to see that memorandum before the treasur signed it to make sure uh the
concerns uh that we've that I believe have been satisfied and I know the treasur has grieved all three of us. I still want to see that memorandum and that's why while I have no problem delegating the treasurer to the treasurer to sign it. Um I would like to see it to confirm to that provision.
I'll make that as an amendment. Okay. Yeah. just that we see it before. Well, what I'm hoping I think I've had a chance to talk to you each individually and discuss it. I think we're all set on the terms. If it's okay with you, vote to authorize me to sign on behalf of the county, but have the chair review it
before I sign. I'm fine with that. Commissioner Hley, we were we going to do it for the next meeting or No, this this is this is we'll have more discussion talks. Okay. I I'm fine with that. Okay. The motion's amended. Okay. The mo on the
amended motion and second. All in favor? I. And then the second motion may be that department has the report. So moved. Second. Commissioner Right. Second. Commissioner Hanley. All in favor? I. That's it on that. That's it. ARPA. ARPA.
Um not surprisingly, we received a message earlier this week from the US Treasury. um been aggressive notifying all recipients and subreients that they intend to re-examine uh the concept of obligation and the expenditure of money
determine if any money should be either returned to the US Treasury because it has been spent or because it was not obligated appropriately. Um, you will be not surprised, I hope, to learn that should have no impact on us. Uh, that we dotted our eyes to. It may not be of any
surprise that unfortunately some communities around the Commonwealth uh, with their own monies that were delivered are finding themselves in a bit of a jam perhaps because they didn't complete the reports in a timely fashion up until now. um some of them have
reached out to us to see what we can do in terms of providing support uh to them and as much as I would like to do that I think my answer needs to be no absolutely because we need to have a bright line between our program and the individual programs. So I've made that
decision. I just want you to be aware of that in case you have any complaints about us simply that it's not our program and we can't assume any responsibility. So, I wanted to fill you in on that. Um, any questions about that? We're just not responsible for
when it leaves us to where it goes. So, we are we're only responsible for that our program, right? No, for our program, but once it gets into their hands, they're ultimately responsible. We are. Oh, remember they got their own money. That's what they're responsible
for. And to the treasurer's point, we want to make sure it's well aware. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, the big issue that we always had was if we were always the end user and end recipient. So if a town made an error, it would ultimately
be our liability. Um. Yeah. Okay. And I think that's just another advantage that people don't fully appreciate of us running this program is we haven't received that responsibility. I love it. Yeah. Some nights I don't sleep at night because you can't always control what
people do once you give them the resources. So in order to do that, we have regular monitoring. We go above and beyond with our partners and communicate with our towns on a very regular basis to make sure they're administering our portion of the program. We're also
required to do reporting. So we do reporting for us and for them on our portion of the money. As the chair said, most people don't realize they receive their own set of monies, right? It's that set of monies and I I understand they're overwhelmed. You know, they're understaffed. these rules are very
arcane. They didn't do some of that earlier reporting that they required to do. That puts them in jeopardy in terms of maybe being found to not have done the the obligation properly and having to return money even it's already been spent. So, um I'm hoping that's not the
case. I'm hoping the Treasury is forgiving of those folks that find themselves in that situation. But we're free and clear. So, um that's good news and our towns are appreciative of at least that portion. Mhm. But they're reaching out for additional help protect
don't think we can provide. Right. Okay. Any other questions on our part? No. So lastly, uh just to get consensus from the commissioners, you know that there's an amount that we've obligated that needs to be disseminated. I want to do that sooner rather than later. We've
discussed that we have a portion of that money coming back to the county, $2,413,18062. And then the remainder would go out to those 10 communities that have a pre-obligated application uh and they would get approximately and I need some
flexibility 50% of their application amount. If I have consensus I can go forward with that and uh obligate the remainder of the monies that we have under our any comments. we want to do that on a case-byase basis or do you would just
want that? I I think I'd rather have it overarching. Uh it would be the fairest way to do it. I don't think you want to get entangled in deciding one player over another. If you just do it as a percentage across the board, the reason I ask a little flexibility is it doesn't work out exactly. There's about $5,000
differential that I'll have to apply somewhere. When we're talking about 4.372 million, it's negligible really. And we're getting two something out of that. 2,413, $186
out of that 4 million. Yes. Y. Can you just repeat that? Yes. Sorry. Which number do you need? All of them. Good. Yes. So, the money that will be coming to the county is 2,4113,18062. Okay. We have a remainder of sum that can only
go to those communities and there are 10 of them that have submitted a pre-application. What I'm looking for is consensus from the commissioners to do about 50% of that application which will spend the rest of the money of the application. So, we'd still make motions to approve, right? I mean, yes. Oh,
yeah. Absolutely. you know, everyone will come in front of me. I just need the guidance so that I'm heading in the right direction and can get those back. Dollar with the towns on the NIH. Now, um that yeah, may have been a
conversation you guys have. I don't recall that. I um just questioned uh the fact that I thought we were going to go dollar for dollar to match uh a program and what we were going to present.
Yeah. So there have been a number of iterations and different discussions. The challenge with some of that is that analyzing each of the applications individually or on a dollar for dollar basis creates winners and losers. And I don't think we want to be
in that position. And so giving it some thought having that's why we're having this discussion. The fairest equitable way seems to say listen the total submitted by these 10 communities is too much. Yeah. They can get some portion of that. It comes to roughly 50%. So allow
me to do those calculations as close as possible and then present them to the towns and then they'll come to you. But they'll get roughly 50% of what they send as a pre-obligation amount. I can certainly tell you the 10
times if you curious as to who they are. I'm curious about the check and the balance. We are still going to have authority even if you do put it forward to reject the program. Correct. Are we giving you the authorization to approve
those as you see fit equitably between the 10 communities? You're giving me the authorization to proceed equitably. The final approval will come to you. But you are giving me the permission to go out to these communities. I'll give you an example. What what are the towns? Yep.
Abington, Bridgewwater, Rockton, Ingam, Matapois, Norwell, Rochester, Rockland, Situit, and those are the only ones that can get any of this money. They're the only ones that have applications that met all the rules and
obligations. That totals close to $4 million. For argument sake, we have about two million left after we take the monies that we've applied. So I would assign roughly 50% to each of these of their requests. Yes, it it will be very
close. So with respect to the completion of the if they put in the budget requests and you're supplying 50% of that through the program are they from available funds within their communities having to you know either raise and
appropriate or take from uh rainy day fund how are they going to complete their projects where we don't get a a situation where we're liable for that distribution But if they don't have
the matching funds, how do they complete it? So that we're in compliance. Well, I think it depends on the type. I think each project, not to jump in, I think it depends. I'm sure I well I think all of us are very well aware one of those communities that would go all into one project. But I wonder if some of those
communities that 50% could be a cobbling like we could be covering the full cost for some of those communities depending on what they've applied for. Yeah. again in not knowing what the projects are. If they put in a total request for 100% funding through OPER and because of um
whatever reason we can only obligate 50% of the request where does the balance of the remaining monies that were requested come from? Do they come from the individual communities? Another question. Keep going. Yeah. Don't forget you have
distributed 100% of the municipal allocation. All 27 communities were expected. Yeah. They're not expecting a single dollar, nor should they, right? This is all what we would call gravy. These are all projects that they said they had pre-qualified. I got it. And they obligated their own monies. So, they've already obligated the money to
do this. We will be coming in and deferring that cost. Okay. Right. By whatever amount we give them. So, it's a reimbursement program is what they're doing. But you're going to give them half the money requested because that's fair and equitable. Is that what you're saying? because that's what's available
and fair will give it to each of them. Yeah. As opposed to and I think it depends too on what the town submitted. You know, let let's say for argument sake community X submitted for $100,000. But within the $100,000,
there's 10 projects for $10,000. Right? I now some towns all 100,000 might go to one project. 100,000 might be going towards half of a project. So I think but Commissioner Hanley is triggering me to ask a follow-up question. What
if there were to be a situation where again I won't say the town but the town that well Situate we know Situate's got the massive water project and we know that their application has been for that if for some reason uh they are unable to utilize these funds they would iner
back to the county in which we could continue to use the back stops that we voted on in December to get those funds out. Correct. Okay. Absolutely correct. So, and situate wasn't the best example because well, I didn't think so, but it was the only one in the back of my mind.
But you're correct and that's the reason we did what we did, right? And this has put us ahead of everybody else because other people ended with money and nowhere to go. We pre-obligated programs. No, I get that. So, if by funding only 50%. If somebody can't spend that portion of it, it comes back
and there were nine communities left that only had 50% of their funding available. We would reortion it to those nine. I do believe there may be one or two that won't spend this money to come back. I also know of a town that's going to be returning some money. We have
places for it to go. That's why it's actually a good idea not to aortion it all to them now anyway because then we eat up our available space. This will this will leave us with about 2 million in space for money to come back that we
could reallocate. If we get two million in1 then I have to give it back to the US. But I planned and figured two million was enough of a question that there's no way the towns could return this around. I'm a little leery now seeing some of
the challenges the towns are facing but we've done the best we could. Yeah. I just again checking the balance and I I'm especially because you gave the preamble as as far as clawback and you got other communities who are not in compliance. At least with us, we have a
process and that as long as we're able to comply, that's all I'm worried about. Yeah. Yeah. Now, who were the communities that did not spend to their full allocation? [Music] Um, you want the names of those
communities? Yeah. Publicly, public record in a public meeting? Yes. Uh, that would be the town of Dutbury, the town of Lakeville, the town of Handover.
Sorry, I've got a very small chart here and I have to Do you need glasses? No, better without my glasses on. I don't have the four list. So, there's four of them. There are four
small. Okay. What is um what is the pleasure of the board? I'll make a motion to authorize the treasurer to do the 5050 uh plan as approximately 50/50 plan as
he so laid out motion by Commissioner Hanley. Yeah. Um we can keep discussing if you have other ideas. I really I I'm open to ideas. I'm trying to create the fairest equitable system possible. So, I guess the only maybe the only question I'll
follow up, I'm not opposed to the 50-50 idea. Where um where do we stand? MIH is a pilot program, right? Um where do we where does that stand beyond this current fiscal year and these
funds of the 2.4 millionkeeping? I I'm recalling where we've obligated that to, but is there a means of obligating that further to NIH beyond this fiscal year? Yes. Okay. But only those funds you're receiving in this discussion. Got it. So that will
have nothing to do with the ones that have the applications in. Right. Can't do anything with that money because we've maxed our allocation. So we once once I allocate that 2.37 million to us, there's no more
upper money we can get. That was 2413180.62. Correct. Okay, that will be our tool. Now, that money, however, could be used certainly to help the public health and I would suggest mobile integrated health
would be a very good resource if you so choose, but that would be your choice. So, of the 10 that we're authorizing, if within those 10 there's money returned, you then can reallocate for other uses only to those nine remain. Okay. We
cannot take any more money. So, but how do you get to the answer on mobile integrated health? It would come out of the 2.4. Okay. On our on our I see. Yep. That's what I was questioning. It's a program you ran anyway. So, that makes sense, right? You wouldn't want to take
it from a portion that would go to another, right? It was a regional program you guys authorized. Perfect. And we were going to match whatever we could with MIH. Is that correct? It's a
discussion that we've had. That's a decision that you folks will make collectively. Now, we're not there yet. Now, if a town isn't willing or able to go into the NIH, then uh they wouldn't
obtain any of the the funding. No. Right. They wouldn't. And they also wouldn't have service right there. Right. So the real the real dis disadvantage of not participating is the mobile integrated health units or units
wouldn't come to your town. So if Beth Israel had a patient in town X town X was not a participant they wouldn't go seen in their home. Right. What's been challenging about this is you know commissioner right because you've been part of this and it's a great program.
It is. And the real beneficiaries are the patients in their homes. And everybody can see the benefit, but nobody wants to pay for it, right? Yeah. It all sounds good, but they don't want to Yeah. put any uh skin in the game. Yeah. But if we get enough people to put a little bit in, we're hoping we get But
the county could could contribute a portion of it and I and add an incentive to the towns, right? But that's up to you. But I guess what is your concern because I really want to address them about the allocation to the communities challenges. We can only do these. Right.
Right. Can't do anybody else. Right. We can't they already have the applications in. Correct. And so we're honoring that those applications if they can um meet the obligation that they have. Right. Correct. We would love to do
more. Right. But we can't, right? So, we'll obligate what we can, which would be approximately 50%. 50%. And then, as Commissioner Hanley mentioned that, I think Commissioner Dono too, if a town gives money back, right? We can still go back. I mean, it's it's not surprisingly
these 10 towns call once a week to see if we're going to get any additional allocation. We say the commissioners are exploring all their options. That's why we kind of leave the decision. But I believe there will be more money coming back. So even if we give them 50%
some of the communities have a chance to get more depending on what communities give back. Now what's fascinating and again this is just kind of to promote our program and what we did a little different than the other counties. Most people don't have the wiggle room to give that money to anybody else. So if
they get money returned they give it to the US trader. Right? Nine times out of 90% of the people that get money back is going back to the trader. What we did that was innovative and creative is pre-obligate these amounts above and beyond our total obligation.
Right. Because you complied with the law meet that deadline December 31st. So they are OPA eligible if necessary. Correct. Correct. Perfect. Yeah. It was a early morning epiphany in October.
Okay. So I have a motion motion on the floor. I second it. I'll second it and a motion and a second. All in favor. Thank you very much. Thank you, treasurer. Extension Molly, don't have a big update for you all
tonight. We did have a successful um next agriculture day at the state house. We gained some supporters on our for absenteeism bill. The 4ers still have some work to do pushing those. Um and we've had a couple of foreers um specifically from Plymouth County who
attend Bristol Aggie work on the uh lottery bill for those agricultural schools and tech schools that uh new legislation being push pushed on to you know limit participation from out of town or out of county residents. So that's been really great for our 4ers
that they're getting out there and doing some of this um you know citizenship work on behalf of their school and and the programs that they hope to pursue as a career. Other than that, I just want to remind everyone that it is tick season and Blake uh is doing some extra
scouting. He has partnered with UMass Amharst um to do their weekly landscape report um which goes out to a lot of municipalities and um marine industry folks who you know are prepping various things across the the state, but you
know looking for things to be coming out both pests and you know just vegetation and where they're at for predicting different things. But ticks are everywhere. Um, so deer ticks of course the most dangerous, but also lone star tick and some others are out there. So please
now that lonear tick is one if you get bit you can't eat red meat. Right. That is one of I remember that. That's right. Commissioner Hley has to be very careful of that. I think um I think it's interesting that bill that you mentioned limiting outofcount students with the lottery. Do we think that there would be
an opportunity where the legislature would then move with a record amount of uh speed to allow say Plymouth County to establish and I to address the limiting of our inhabitants um taking advantage of those um educ I'm asking that
obviously somewhat facitiously and rhetorically but um certainly be in some ways a welcome thing although you know still a ways away from students who are looking for those opportunities right now But yeah is
um I haven't been following that one as closely because you know it doesn't pertain directly to to a lot of the stuff that I'm doing here but they are getting you know a lot of momentum behind it I think on both sides so great any questions I hate ticks me too
hate them I as well we have consensus on that think you need a vote no I don't think we need a vote I think we all have consensus all All right. Thanks, Molly. Thank you. Uh, register's report. Uh, the register is absent. Uh, treasures
report. Mr. O'Brien, I think the word you were looking for was that the legislature would move with There's the Georgetown word of the day for everyone at home. Mr. Yes. Um, I just wanted to again, if you folks haven't, and I don't want to
steal, uh, the extension director's fun, but there's a fundraiser that they're doing in Massachusetts for age dog council. They're collecting uh, clothes and household textiles and small household goods as a fundraiser, and I mentioned it because we were cleaning some things out and I've brought in a
couple bags and it's a great program. So, when is it? I'm sorry. When is it? I'm sorry. It's running from uh the drop off date ends April 8th. Yeah. Another And when do you drop them off? Here. Right downstairs. Oh, good.
Go downstairs. It looks different. Oh, good. Temporarily. They'll take like anything. What are they looking for? Mostly like clothes or clothes are small household applianed books, toys.
I had a truck closed. Thank for reminding me of that. No worries. I actually was doing spring cleaning. Yes, I not yesterday. What a great idea. Also want to let folks know, you probably do, but House Bill 62 was passed by both. It extends remote
meeting through June 30th, 2027 as awaiting the governor's. Certainly expect that she will sign on. Um wanted to hand this out to you. This is our OPED report
through February and you would probably be saying by February. February was a horrible month. Why would you be participating our performance up in a whole of the months? As you know, most investment portfolios
were significantly down uh in the month of February. Uh most are underwater for the year to date. Uh but PEL remains uh above that standard. Uh for the month we made 48%. Not a lot, but we didn't lose
money. And uh for the three months we're still at a positive 0.15%. Uh so again um we continue to perform well in good times and in challenging times. Uh and so while that doesn't seem that impressive, the
one-year return of 12.10 puts us in the top 1% of investment portfolios. So I just thought we would in good times and in bad mention our hope. Great. Um
finally that things are going well with the make health group. I reported in that three communities have joined that is going well. In fact one of them has indicated that they will be able to pay the buy in up front because it's saving those. Excellent.
Very good. Any questions about anything else in the treasur's office? No. No. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Treasure O'Brien. Maintenance and administrator, Mr. Basler. Thank you, Chair. Um, I hand out a a grid on some projects that I've
been talking about. Uh, it shows actually that we've invested almost $600,000 in this fiscal year. I was working with the uh treasurer on some uh financial planning and uh looking at this year and next year uh we had a mix
of oper and state subsidized programs uh projects through courthouse rent. So you can see the investments that are going back into our buildings uh uh are pretty significant and uh we're really in
getting uh in solid ground right now on uh for the team uh with both uh cosmetically and structurally. So um just wanted to hand that out. Uh all these projects are uh either completed or in process for 25 and the 26 projects
I'll kick off July 1. uh and uh move move ahead. Um the 32 Belmont Street project is uh moving ahead quickly and uh doing well. Uh the team did an amazing job in keeping the roof secure
after a very difficult start to the uh to the the renovation and uh we are working uh for end of work date around May 31st. So, uh, we'll be looking to
put that on the market sometime in June. We'll have a bunch of pictures and schematics and I'll be able to, uh, put an RFP out and work. I'll come to you to ask for approval of a, uh, real estate agent, put that
out. Uh, for uh, the administrator's report, I just want to highlight uh, we do have our leadership executive in the legislator's dinner. Um, one small twist, uh, Tuesday night, April 8th, the legislator's dinner is going to be at
Fireside Grilled in Middleboro at the 44 and 28 Rotary, not at um, Ask Flagen. So um I do want to just talk about last time we we started the dinners in the
meetings um with some portion of like a presentation or two then broke for food and then came back. Uh that's what we did on the during the day meeting. the nighttime meeting. We started with food
to give people a chance to get there and we served the food shop at six o'clock and then um we went into the presentations at 6:30 after everybody had had a chance to eat. I just wanted to make sure that was the plan uh that
you like that uh flow. Uh and the legislators I just wanted to make sure if you wanted to start at five or six uh we have flexibility as to that. Um and then the same question do you want to start with food and then go into the
presentations or do you want to do some presentations and then break the food and then finish up with Q&A um like we did at um the leadership meeting last year. I mean, I think I think starting with
food, I think if you make people wait for food, you you're gonna they're not gonna they're not gonna want to pay attention. Oh, they're going to come in late later, right? They'll come in later. Um, I think if you tell them food is served promptly at set time and
I obviously it's going to be a buffet so you know so people are running late but I think if people are able to eat um ahead of time or at least before we start the presentation um that way then you're not interrupting it and it's just one cohesive thing, you
know, and they can kind of eat during the beginning portion of it anyway. So that way we're not taking up too much of their too much of their time. Yeah. It gives them a little socialization time too, right? Exactly. People they haven't seen in a little while. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so the question was on the legislative dinner, did we want to
start at 5 or 6 on Tuesday, April 8th? Well, they won't be coming out of Boston. Not on Tuesday night. Is it usually Wednesday, isn't it? House is Wednesday, Senate is Thursday. You never know. Some of them very well may be coming out of Boston. So, I mean, I think six makes sense. I think six.
Yeah, I agree. cuz um some may be coming out of Boston um and you know depending on where they're traveling from thinking of some of the reps you know I mean some come from Hull and Norwell and you know those aren't you know middleb bar is not
close great and then on the lunch and we originally called out 11:30 start thinking that we would start with some presentations and then break for 12:00 lunch does that still make sense or would you rather move the meeting to 12 and have lunch at 12 and you know, the same format as the other
two. I think a little later than later than 11:30. Yeah, I think keep the same format. You know, just feed everyone first. Yeah. But do you want to still do 11:30? I think 12:00 is Well, no. I think that's what he's saying. If we're feeding, we'll start at 12 at 12. All
three will start with food and then we'll go into the programs. Uh, yeah. About 20 25 minutes later. If I might share, I agree with that and I think that makes a lot of sense. The one thing I think we need to be cognizant of as the host of this is you don't want to wait too long to start the program while
people are eating because they really have about an hour. So I think we need to be cognizant of right maybe 20 minutes in even though people are eating and chatting start the program. Oh yeah. Um because well as I know and we know people get talking and trying to do this
before you know it it's 12:40 and then you start the program and feel like you're rushing. I don't mind if people are eating and then you can step out to get whatever dessert or whatever. So, we'll eat at 12 and then um start probably at 12 12 to 12:30 or 12:20.
Great. You start the presentation about 10 or 15 minutes. Great. Excellent. And then the uh last thing is uh for handouts uh we are going to have the grid and we are going to have a marketing um program uh pamphlet and didn't know if there was anything
else that uh that you thought that we'd uh need. I'd like to present on the uh the climate alliance conference during that five 10 minute session form because the invitations will be going out to the member communities to participate in the
conference which I'll speak to if the chair allows. Great. We had uh just to remind we did have the three concepts of starting with uh pond management going to MIH uh and then um the aggregation update that'll be short so that'll give
a chance to finish up with that. Actually the aggregation thing could actually be very germanine to the conference. Great. Would you want to go before the aggregation or right after? No, it doesn't matter. Okay. So we could do right after. Gonna be there anyway if that's that pleases everyone. Excellent.
Okay. Very good. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Mr. Chairman, if you don't mind, could I give the board an update and I save the date? Wanted to give you the progress that we've made so far. Um, I can tell you that uh the dates that
the Irish delegation are coming and will be the 21st of May to the Shia town of Brockton. There'll be a flag raising ceremony at noon time, tour of the city hall, and then a visit to two city businesses that uh match the mission
statement of economic development. Uh from there, we'll return the delegation to their hotels and we'll be having a welcoming dinner uh at Dorny Lee that evening. Ambassador Claire Cronin will be presenting the first uh inaugural um
Ambassador Clare Cronin award similar to that of the Thomas Tip O'Neal award that we were a part of when the delegation went over in Dunagal last year. Um we will have um some recognitions. We have some entertainment, some dancers. Uh the
next day will be the conference. It'll be at Bridgewater State University beginning uh registration begins at 8:30. We have three presenters. The uh county of Dennigal will be speaking to anorobic digesttors with using
manure. Um I know crazy topics u but best practices uh Portugal is being involved. We have senator um former senator Mark um help me out losing my mind. Peto uh
will has Portugal coming to speak about [Music] um tied um thermodynamic um uses and best practices in the city of Brockton will be presenting an innovation center uh
incubator site similar to the one that was just uh uh christened up in Cambridge. So that'll be the the subject matter as well as representatives from the department of energy resources from the Commonwealth will be presenting after the conference will end at two and
we are have Irish night at the Brockton Rocks and the mayor of Denny will be throwing out the first pitch and so just letting you know that that's the framework. If you could save the date, 21st and the 22nd of those are the two days that we'll be doing that. We'll be
doing sales and marketing on it and get you more details, but I just want to let you know that's where we are right now. Very good. Okay, I will a motion to adjourn. So move Commissioner Hley, second Commissioner Valenola. All in favor? I
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