a moment of silence we'll have Mary lead us in a pledge how's that sound pledge Al to the FL of the United States it's like to ask folks to please remain standing for a moment of silence for state representative Susan Williams gford elected in 2002 she represented
the second Plymouth district with honor and dignity for 22 years the people of caror WAM and middlebar and she was a staunch supporter and friend of Plymouth County as well as her constituents and colleagues thank
you okay okay first item on the agenda we have Beckie Keta and Mary Waldren from Old Colony plan Council welcome you can use the podium if you'd like yeah do we have a little stool for you
I need that platform to were given same way fine that is I just want to say thank you to Frank um communication with me and I I know that this has been something we've been talking I started this job as executive director in December of 2019 so it'll be
five years um and it just seems like yesterday for me um but I know we had some conversation along with the treasur um and just ways that we can just have conversations and work with our community so we have as under Old Colony planning Council we have 17 communities
obviously the the Plymouth County has more but many of the similarities in terms of of um of needs and you know recently between the regional water study um that the Commissioners and from count has been a very integral part um and then most recently um at the
announcement of receiving funding from um MVP program Municipal vulnerability program um that again it's another beautiful partnership between um Old Colony planning Council and the county and many of the communities and partners um we the the
the um opep trust Committee of Old Colony planning Council just voted last week um that we move forward to join P count that's time is coming um certainly the information and and the openness and the customer service that we know that we be
coming um is again another way that we're partnering um the Council next week still needs to approve it um the finance and council meeting but we're there um and then you know sort of the discussion that happened today um we are invited to attend the One-Stop um
funding um out in Worcester and um our our office old County Planning C Council office is right situated right in downtown Brockton so um one of my other non-paying freebie volun jobs is the downtown Brockton Association and we
received 100,000 but here's a piece I was really great about that we saw the other communities from across the Commonwealth there was something like 750 applications um 41 knew the DBA was one of the new who were receiving funding for the first time um and that's
where I think that we together can be working with our community and the needs um Frank was mentioning to me that um the town manager meet on a quarterly basis quarterly basis three times we well biannual getting biannual um with the town managers and town
administrators you know when we're we're working with them and we're usually on a technical assistance whether it's transportation and road safety audits or open space plans or economic development but I think that if we come together certainly to save um their time their
valuable time but to work with um the county and maybe piggy back and sit in on conversation um we're a staff of 26 um our board we have 19 members on on Old Colony planning Council um but that is again
representatives from each of the communities and then we have an net larged member um I think that there's much more that we can do um I certainly know that our willingness and I speak for not just only the staff and I'll that Beck you speak for the council members as a president but um there's
you know the air and streets and um um just things just don't stop at Borders right we can't stop that piece and I think that's all the more reason for us to be thinking in a much more Regional County U Manner and um I don't come with
a list of things that I think I I just know that as we move forward um having the conversation certainly with Frank and all of you about some other potentials and um and further funding down the road yeah so I sort of look at this as you
know we all know each other we all cross paths in a lot of different ways but what what I find having been a select board member and a council member is that sometimes there are efficiencies that can happen regionally so that there's
always that balance rate how do you keep it local decision-making but Regional efficiencies and I think both the county and uh ocpc are really good at that they're really good organizations and there couple years ago Tom uh O'Brien
our our treasur treasur O'Brien came to one of our um what was it our Sumit and um we needed a speaker at the last minute because someone wasn't able to show up and we said Tom come tell us what the Count's doing because for me
Tom Tom I remember that turned into breast but but um maybe next time one of the Commissioners can talk happy too and um so but but the reason I saw
that as as ideal was because you guys are doing some things that help the region be more efficient and we're doing some things that help the region be more efficient and my question is can we efficiently work together to be even more efficient um I look at things like
um Mary started a program called granty we've been calling she brought over paano from City of Brockton to help people figure out Grant applications and get some technical advice on Grant applications and identifying gr applications how do we grow that because
I think we all know and we all get calls from our towns saying that they could use some help in that area and most of our towns don't have the money to hire someone to do grants so they're scrambling to call one of us for advice on that and the question is how do how
can we maybe ramp that up a little bit is one of one of the things I'm hoping for the water study was one where by working together with the name I can never say CPC WDC oh yeah what he
said County Water District committee there's just way too many anyway um the plmouth County Water Commission that's dealing with things like Silver Lake and shared water res
and so my question is so that's been that's been great I mean that brought in Eda money because we had the money from Central plmouth so that brought in Eda money from the legislators earmark from Senator Brady and other legislators and
so that brought us the ability to do a regional water study that most places in the country aren't doing you know water is one of those things that doesn't stop at the boundary and so my question is always what can we do better you guys last last year I knew from being up at the State House worked in the cyber
security work right how do you get this procurement in a way that it doesn't cost $100,000 to do the procurement application forget about the actual procurement services so there are things that you guys are doing things we're doing I just want to make sure that we have those conversations more and I
think meeting with you guys was a way to maybe bring it to the next step absolutely um before I open up I do want to say it's been great collaborating and to your point um Miss K Miss walr and when we were approached with the MVP right I know the MVP feasibility Grant I
know what I know and I know what I don't know and and we work together to bring to bear so many other resources that are going to expand that scope even right again to your point so many of the issues that face the county and face the communities that we live in and work in
uh they don't know boundaries water doesn't care if it's in Handover or Rockland or Plymouth right water is going to do what water does and we need to prepare for it your point about a gr Rider is a great one when I first was sworn in uh as treasur Orban may recall that was that was a goal and we had some money in the budget for it sadly we had
to cut it um but if we can work with you folks and I know Frank has worked with Joanne on the MVP right uh Grant as extremely well I think there are ways to to do everything you just talked about and and I'm excited to uh to work with
you folks to do that I think it's um there's so many issues that are facing our towns in the city that they're not unique and they've been going it alone so long and so often it's kind of interesting if you look at the history of at least the county we used to do almost everything then the state
took it or the towns took it and now the towns and the state might be looking again at the county and with ocpc how can we start to execute those savings and and that regionalization so I'm I'm excited um to open up any semblance a partnership and keep a dialogue going and in figuring out the things that
again I mean it worked perfect with MV right you were approached on something you came to us and then we brought how many people together the sheriff Maran Institute souw Community Action Council the town of Plymouth which will then expand to expand to more 4 of course yeah I you get
4 she sitting behind right right because it's the first time in history Mary blocks something um I know I know by the way I forgot to mention we are being recorded live this meeting is being recorded for potential rebroadcast if you witness the
uh attempt at going on YouTube live was foiled but we'll hopefully upload it to YouTube after and we'll be on YouTube live going forward forgot to mention that anyhow um did you have anything to say before I open up to the rest of the board all right uh commissioner right we go seniority yeah my terms of service years of
service yes that's true that's true years of service we'll go with commissioner right first well I can say that you know working both as a Plymouth County Commissioner also being a member on uh your board uh I knew I saw the value on both and I you know was happy to bring you into Tom and we discussed a lot of things and I think that started
to you know open up a lot of different Avenues and I'm you know really proud and happy of what you've done uh uh I should what we've done we've all been a part of and um always felt that there was a conflict on my part so I was had
to always be very careful on that but um you know I think that there is a a purpose and a reason for you know the two uh of us to you know jointly regionalize or do something so we'll always keep that conversation and very proud you're my two favorite people I know so uh and I appreciate
working with you there been as you have served in many capacities for us um but also representing the needs of bridgew um then you've open doors for us um particularly for someone you know as myself where I was new in the position even though I'm kind of old person
around but still was able to open doors so appreciate that thank you commissioner Hanley well first of all thank you thank for coming um I think when we talk about these Partnerships it's really about you as the regional planning Authority and we as the
regional administrative Authority working together and collaboratively uh I work with mcog you know northern middle sex County of government are no longer a county but they rely heavily on the planning Council up there and when you look at
serving our constituents if you the planning model and you can provide the um support of information on programs that we can all entertain because you have a stockable source of money and resources it helps out member communities you know housing production
plans um open space and Recreation plans are big you know there's tons of money out there but what it is is facilitating the administrative end the planning end and then we administer the federal money why can't we administer the state money so thank you for the collaborative effort I mean it takes leadership back
and you're at the top of the Ring and the thing is it's not something you put on your campaign literature you've always been that person you know you've always worked collaboratively you crossed the Y to work with people I mean aren't we all serving the same constituency at the end of the day it's
about trying to help people I think this is a great great start and dynamic leadership at the top not afraid to break down barriers in in past practices and create new Pathways because we're all sa serving the sa same Community the MVP Grant perfect example of
collaboration you know hopefully as we move forward things can can work collaboratively like the regional money for the for the water I mean just I know I didn't want to talk about Ireland but you know we talked about pasas okay and the needs of this community when we were
over there we talked about desalinization and that is a a big thing over there because they have the same ecological situations and agricultural grounds where you know posos is everywhere so you know maybe something like that could be something that gets
us start here who knows but I want to just thank you for opening up the opportunity I stand on the shoulders of my staff um some like someone like Charlie Kilmer from Transportation youve been there for 20 s
years but still like an amazing experience but then again with Joanne and I start to name to your point it's also the transparency that has occurred and I know Rhonda is here as well is that the transparency and there's no question
like remember Sandy was like I don't want to ask another question like and I text him like ask that question now um and you did and because that part that piece is important you know one of the other things besides bology um some of the um P fast in terms of water sewer um
septic um but then there's also the administrative piece and I think this is where talking with Town managers and town administrators we even as a regional planning agent it took us 9 10 months to find an employee with the right credentials so last you mean for
Grants I'm talking about for position planners but even municipal government getting a town accountant getting you know clerks getting people and getting young people to be engaged in public service we do not have enough planners we're not going to have those Master
plans there it's it just like a trickle D so two weeks ago as a regional planning the regional conference out in Worcester and um and I did I raised a question to the to Lieutenant Governor I said we really need to have a system working with our state universities and
our community colleges and having that theater system and having you know Apprentice apprenticeship about so showing at young people um that it's a it's a you can have a nice really career and get back to your community so um
we've we've been lucky we've had about five or six um interns from Bridgewater State University um we've hired four of them um they've moved on to else place but um we have a we have a great relationship with with the organ with Bridgewater and we're now um really
forming that with massao as well great but but those are pieces that you know sometimes it's like not really talked about town manager because you're worrying about the next fiscal budget and you're working you know how do you balance and we know the town of um Hansen had you know no you know their hours on Fridays were cut back because
they need to save the money right we know the arpa funds are not going to be around for very long what is the next step and how do we then we as planners how do we help our communities prepare and that's where we cannot do it alone and we need us Commissioners as well treasurers and others to really have
that conversation so and I think a big thing we can bring to bear is at least being a vehicle for things I mean I always say we're we're a lean But Mighty group here I mean are are the best paying for your buck right but if we can't necessarily you know if it's
something that might benefit certain communities let Plymouth County be the vehicle again like we were with the MVP Grant with ocpc let Plymouth County be the vehicle the application or whatever may be necessary um again to serve as commissioner Hanley pointed out the people we we were elected to serve and
that's I think that's really where the value can can come in at least on the on the Forefront of these of these conversations is that if we identify something we can be that vehicle we can be that vessel to get from one end to the other and to start to execute these
things and and I think um it's a great great pilot with the MVP and I I'm confident we're going to find other ways because these issues to your point these are issues that every Community is facing right some may not have it but multiple communities are and and it's and it's starting to become a bigger
issue especially when it relates to planners and things like that so uh so it's important to have the dialogue and keep it going and I'm excited for it because I think that there's a lot we can do I know there's a lot you're already doing and I think there's a lot that we can do um as a county to to fold in and
collaborate on that work I was thinking about the planner issue you know some of our communities are having a hard time finding planners oh yeah um Mary's always out there recruiting one time we were at some event at Bridgewater State College and we're taking the bus back to our car I forget what it was and Mary's
sitting there recruiting the bus driver and the other kids you you never know right right right recruiting it's so it's so wonderful um and I can tell you I started on Old County Planning Council
as an alternate right before Mary came on board and um the ocpc saw it its um Mission as a little more limited then I think and I think what's happened over the last five years Mary has really tried to open that
up and I think you guys similarly with car's act and arpa money have really opened up you've done OPB and other things for so long so well but you really opened up with and showed people the value of the county and I think by working together as two sort of dynamic
organizations that can show value and that's what everyone wants right to spend a little less money and get a lot more results and I think that's where we can pull it together I agree and I guess my last thing would be I'm always leaving a meeting what's the action
steps I'm not leaving here saying hey this is nice the action steps are going to be that I will formulate with staff some ideas that we have send that to Frank um about you know projects and or topics that we've heard bring that to
you and then not just once a year but maybe a couple times a year we can come back um we had a legislative breits for the first time um and that was held the wrong time the legislators told us move it up sooner but what i' would like to do is make sure that when we do that to invite you to that legislative breakfast
um so when we're talking about the topics and understanding it's our s but those ISS you know issues in Duxbury are not very you know un very similar to Marshfield and or Carver and to weham or to somebody others Li right so we will
that's my action item will be to follow up with a communication about some of our ideas that we have follow it to you Frank and to the Commissioners and then um then come back again and really try to think about you know what next steps and where do we find some resources that three that's great yes quick comment um
I just got an email today from Senator mak's office on aox and the one thing I recognize now you being MC who has a direct line to the Comm we a Fally recognize as you know between K's oper and burn green Grant so if there's a way
for us to join forces sorry um on the federal end those aach brownfields recycling all of that available and exactly and if we get collectively to together as an partnership and apply on
Comm weals in the federal and gez can be open a lot of doors so years ago um I worked in New Orleans on bringing our our company had brought in a lot of federal money to redo the drainage system in New Orleans and D some Parish
but down there it's everything is done sort of at the county level of course yeah but by working together between the two parishes count they were able to bring in an enormous amount of federal money it's just really
hard to attract that Federal money as a town right dealing with a local issue because it's seen as a local issue and when you when you're fighting for federal attention it's really like okay why are we going to give it to tuxbury and not wear hand you know you get into
all those issues about equities and things like that but if you go in as a region and say know as a region we know that this is what's going make our Bay cleaner this is you know what's going to make plmouth Bay cleaner which includes the subsidiary Bays we're gonna have a
lot more success so that's a good point there only three well no I was only just gonna say to to your point Becky and you're absolutely right I mean we I mean we did a little Coast resiliency through Community rating system credits but the ocean doesn't care if it's if it's eroding Plymouth Shore Duxbury
Marshfield or Marian right the ocean doesn't care about our our government lines or boundaries but to your point and I remember remember when I worked for then Senator hin years ago when they first had bigot Waters and they first did the update to the maps they were hammering situ in Marshfield and how difficult it was I mean and God bless
situ in Marshfield because they really fought that fight incredibly well and they won it but it was so hard to make that point because the federal government said it's just two towns right they're not they're just two towns with you know combined population of about 50,000 right um and it was very
difficult to get the f I mean obviously our federal delegation care but beyond that it was really hard to get that Federal attention to that issue in those two towns in particular because it was looked at as just a simple local issue so you're absolutely correct especially on things like H resiliency they're
going to look at counties and want to make that bigger impact sorry you were going to say commissioner right that's pretty much on the same line as what you were saying but you know it's it's unfortunate there's only uh three three states that aren't run countywide and that's Massachusetts I think it's
Connecticut in Rhode Island and um you know unfortunately we lose the benefits of all of it so but I think this is the opportunity ex changing the narrative right about how we function I'm telling you I again I meet with the regional
planning um um agencies once a month no one is doing that really they're not doing it some of them the you know fcog and some of you know enog because they become the county reg right but in this case we're being respectful for this organization and we're know what we need
to do in the end we're putting those communities at the center of our work staying zeroed in on that and um and that's um I will tell you doesn't happen that often so there's there's opportunities I think we just need to kind of like formulate that need to do
an Mo MOA whatever it's gonna take um but and and I do want to say thing commissioner right yeah we are kind of unique I will say having lived in the other system and in this system there's some wonderful things about this system because the local rool in the local
voices people trust that so much more than they do when it's really big counties they kind of lose sense that they have any control over the decision- making so what I think is really good about our bodies and what I really like about Massachusetts that we can build on
instead of replace is that sense of the local communities coming to us and being able to opt in or opt out of some of the opportunities we can put together right absolutely takes leadership thank you all right uh FR chair if I could just
want to give a quick shout out for the uh ocpc annual Summit on Wednesday December 4th at the uh miraval Ballroom in East Bridgewater so I know I'm I already got it on my calendar so um it
is no cost it is a um it's open thank you very much Frank it's awesome yeah I think I went last year forward toing a couple of things yeah okay well have you back soon but I love the idea Miss walr just yeah come together things that pop up and candidly if stuff comes
our way too there's certain things that we get approach on we'll just have an open flow of ideas and information thank you thank you in the middle of it you're free to say'll be able to watch it on YouTube
tomorrow morning yes yes thank you okay next item on the agenda minutes for October 10th a motion to accept second motion commission right second commissioner Hanley all in favor I vot to accept I make motion to accept
uh and approve CPS forms Mary dundis retirement effect effective I'm gonna be like you couple weeks ago when you couldn't talk November 1st Peter Burke promotion to County uh County accountant 26-1 Katherine Oakley anniversary step
increased to 13-4 and Susan McDonald retirement effective uh November 30th second M all in favor motion just real quick uh yes would it be possible to send a letter of congratulation and thanks to Mary dundis and Susan McDon on
a happy retirement and faithful service I think that's a very nice idea yes we can do that we usually do that don't we I don't know call sign anything we haven't had too many retirees nobody want to stay yeah uh but yes I without objection I
think that's fine commissioner Hanley so all in favor on CPS forms all okay motion to vote and accept and approve V of vouches second all in favor I I motion to accept and approve payroll vouches second all in favor I I motion
to vote in uh Liberty Chevrolet proposed pricing for 2025 model air express uh van and accessories um yeah fun yeah Mr chairman at a regular meeting in the County Commission so Plymouth on the 24th day of October 2024 voted to
approve the pricing of the following Vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet motor company to the current Plymouth County Municipal vehicle bid Chevrolet number 2023-2024 uh gave us a sneak Freeview or a spoiler alert he
did a spoiler alert yes a great spoiler alert that's for you that's been a long time worked on first have to again have to owe me dinner if I
get oh rights thank you this one is just for you you'll see why you get one of these you get this one this one minut I get I get two here y I give you
next one that's okay it so commissioner Handley and commissioner right will remember that inary January 15 2015 to be exact we presented the concept and the
idea of the P County OPEC trust it was new it was novel it was the first time and was something that we weren't sure how it would succeed we anticipated maybe in five or 10 years we'd have 10 member
units maybe 20 million in assets under management um and they voted to create P open trust uh I presented a request that Baro County Bristol County and nor County be able to join which they accepted and then we
were very glad when commissioner Valena came on board and immediately recognized the of the P count op trust became one of its ENT supporters and Advocates helping us to spread the good word and the news I'm pleased to report tonight a
number of bits of information first of all uh closing in on pen which will be in January we have more than $57 million in assets under management which has driven down the uh C the lowest east of
the Mississippi which is great and uh we have more than 35 member units some of the Thunder was stolen because one of those new units is ocpc which voted to join us there are still a few more boxes to check in E to cross and eyes to dot
but we expect that will happen uh and then the uh brocken Area Transit Authority has voted to join the trust and so we continue to grow we get requests regularly and I think with the next bit of news that I'm about to share with you those calls will continue and
increase one of the challenges we have is that we don't advertise ourselves we don't spend money doing that we have no bricks of mortar we have essentially your hard work and my Blood Sweat and here is to be the purview of getting this information out to folks letting
them know what we're doing if you look at the sheet with the Plymouth County results through 930 2024 I wanted to point your attention to the onee return for p County and you'll see that in one year by the way these
are net of fees the P County opep TR return 26.3% now think about that that means if you had an investment of a million dollars in that short period of time you returned a quarter of a million dollars
uh in fact as we're going around and people are hearing this um many communities that debated joining pth County elep trust uh had struggles with those decisions are regretting not having joined because they are missing out on some significant
opportunities I understand why those decisions sometimes get made but it really is a shame because this is a program that is intended to serve our communities to their benefit uh we have a structure set up that is simply to
make sure that they are the recipients that we try to drive down fees and then we had service with bars and now we have continued exemp your performance so we're thrilled to announce that I gave you each a sheet of whether it's your home Community or a community that you
might like to see how they're doing the returns you can share with Bridgewater or twiy college or you can put my home community on there can you because they did not Jo yeah much to I'll work on them just have a story if I may I've got
get oh I apolog well not well not I just noticed who was in the corner of that yeah um so that's the good news for the pouth county opep trust uh we're trying to get that news out we had our meeting this morning uh which they meet here our
investment committee it was great news uh and just really uh exemplary performance so with put County open trust not only do you get low fees excellent service but per which leads me to the LA Fe that
I handed out which is just an analysis and this is only through August the fact these numbers got even better of our performance versus print one of the comments we get is that you know prit is a better known bigger safer Stronger
Faster uh option and while we certainly recognize their skill set and recognize that they are a very very good option we have suggested to folks as they contemplate their choices that peot is a better option for a couple reasons one we're local so if you need something we
will come and make a presentation to you in fact we brought the team to a cushion that earlier this week and they were thrilled and the comment they made was they had been with Brit we asked Brit has come and they never will come so we brought everybody to that and they were thrill uh the other challenge is they're
big and sometimes they're not as focused but what I always try to say is in addition to the service that we provide driving down the fees our performance is better uh and this just goes to show you and it's not just on one year where we returned as of August 23.5 n to their
12.38 and 12.38 is great but look at the threeyear number and the five so we continue to outperform over long periods of time uh and just are exactly what you would need to to have as a repository for your op customers so you folks
should be very proud of what you created proud of your continued advocacy this doesn't happen without you taking that vote and I certainly encourage you to to let people know of this success to take credit for it sometimes we are very reluctant to do that but the three
of you have been stall worked on this from inception through to this day I've appreciated that I get to see it dayto day and I get to report you occasionally um but just couldn't be prder of of what we've accomplished here through the TR
so I wanted to share some of that good news with you thank you great there any questions for Treasure O'Brien um is peock going to have a booth at MMA this year uh so pars as our administrative agency always sets up a Gro yeah and so they will be there one
of the challenges we have is still a reluctance to recognize uh anything other than a state operation which is always frustrating I was looking at the state DLS just put out a notice to towns about funding the rap trust didn't mention anything other
than the state as an option uh our communities that are eligible to join beon are really missing out uh and we've done our best to spread the word we hold meetings we try but sometimes people just get stuck in their in their silence um so we'll be there we'll let people know we've been there every year
since 2016 um and and spreading the good word that is the P County open trust and our geography is contiguous to the county and our sister counties it is and it's only those I get I get regularly in fact interesting more calls outside of pouth
County to join or outside of personal bond in northwalk I had three calls today because there was a report about this performance numbers asking if they can join them I have to say no if you're not in those four counties so it's an added value an added benefit does it take legislation to change that
geography so you folks are the legislative body um you would have a reluctant Treasurer um because covering that territory is is challenging um I would not recommend that until we grow a little bit more in each of these there
is just plenty of fertile territory in these four counties just in Plymouth counter the whole the four counties the four count we have representatives and you recall it my last presentation we have representatives in each of those four counties of the 27 communities in
Plymouth County you know we don't have all of them right of the however many 17 in barall County we don't have all of them and so there's there's a lot of work to be done I would suggest unless you're a significantly larger community I can only think of one that has theirs
tied in Plymouth it's tied into their retirement there's no reason not to be in the P count you quite candidly doing a disservice not to be with us and if you're not with us or prit you're really missing out on some opportunities yeah I mean our competition also is like companies like
bartholomy and in the in the they have full expense accounts they go in and speak to treasures and competing against that you know is something that even in the town of Holberg for example they rejected it because I had an elected Treasurer you know and then you show them the performance curve and then
they say oh well that's too bad you know like okay well and unfortunately it means a lot and it's going to mean more as we get fully funded the towns are going to need to use these resources to fund their retire medical costs so the only losers when they make those
decisions are the employees at retirees and the town residents um listen there are a lot of very good private companies they do a great great job my suggestion is we just do a little bit of a better job um and it is somewhat frustrating because we don't spend money in
advertisements or we we are a totally governmental run operation and this is to completely in service to our members there's no extra value or benefit other than more work for treas uh when it
comes to you know doing this right okay I'm very happy to hear that um PC finally came in after a year and a half of two and a half years two and a half years has it been yeah I I know that they went back and forth back and forth
but I think they made the better choice uh do you send Bridgewater uh a copy of this yes they do so they do have it I sometimes worry we're obligated to send it to the treasurer because the treasurer is the financial person we try to send it to the administrator we often wonder how often it get started with a
counselor with a board of Selectmen um that's unfortunately we don't do that um it's not where we're supposed to send it so uh often times it's stck at the town where that they share that information right well right now we don't have anybody in that
position so I hope it's get to the treasurer we'll definitely get to the treasur yeah okay also um why do you think that so many what is the resistance in the towns do you see or hear of why they're not
joining yeah I think people get very comfortable with where they are um and if their performance is good why take a risk smaller I think it's harder to make the case not to join us now when we were first starting out it was probably H
what is this group who are they we certainly the risks so it's harder case to we also don't advertise you know and so it does rely a lot on word on mouth we're that so there are any number of reasons our challenge is that we really
need to let people know and and we're going to continue to put a full court press on we're already talking about an anniversary event that we'll be hosting with your uh approval and and attendance sometime in the spring it'll be our 10 year anniversary and hopefully that'll be something that people will come to to
a lunch and and talk about that but I think it's a nerfing is lovely the answer yeah um everybody is so busy you know if you're Town Treasurer you're going eight ways from Sunday um many of them are new to their positions know this is not immediately on the radar screen it's not an immediate pressing
issue you folks were so pressy in back in 2014 without the 10-year budget plan and then stick to it it's put you light years ahead of many Municipal levels of government right all right very good thank you Treasurer O'Brien and I
understand the next two agenda items we are going to table for our future meeting yeah it would be to fut we can do that uh next item American Recovery plan act update and distribution
votes it's all right I would you just vote to table them uh yes so there's a motion to table gby 7475 FY 23 and FY 24 report do them separately no because they're just agenda items so we have a motion and a
second all in favor okay arpa uh so we continue today is the deadline yes I am pleased to report that every single town but one and I'm not going to tell you which town that is because they do have till the end of the day today
and we're on the phone with them as we speed has submitted their plan to use all of their purp funding uh so that is very good news uh people were very responsive toward the end it has been a flurry of activity I can tell you how crazy busy it has been uh I thank our
team it's a team effort uh and certainly uh want to recognize Frank's efforts on behalf of the county because we've been throwing a lot at him um but also our team you know my staff and others have been working long hard to make this
successful right people people are shocked when they find out that the county has three people working on this they just think it has to be a team of people and we have support with CLA and others but uh excited to report that so we'll process that through today is a
big day right I look forward to the Commissioners later about uh how this this goes on but as after your votes today you will have put out 78 m791 144
46 78 million what 78,79 y44 40 wow right commissioner Hanley M chairman so to the terms and conditions of the American me plan Act and the grant agreement between Plymouth County and
the municipality referenc below the Plymouth County Commission is Grant dispersment of funds held and administered to the Plymouth County Opera program as follows awarded to the town of Rochester $79,500 second all in favor I suing to the terms and conditions of the American
Rescue plan Act and the grant agreement between Plymouth County and municipality reference below the Plymouth County commissions Grant dispersement of funds held in administered to the Plymouth County Opera program as follows awarded to the town of Rockland 37,2 152
s second all in favor I I pursuing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan Act and the grand agreement between Plymouth County and municipality reference below the Plymouth County Commissioners Grant dispersement of funds held and administered to the Plymouth County oper program as follows awarded to the town of weam
18684 53 second all in favor I pursuing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan Act and the grant agreement between clouth County and municipality reference below the Plymouth County Commissioners Grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the p County Opera program as follows awarded to the town of climton
$1,688 7.50 is the small gonna say it cost you more to produce this than they're getting so uh all in favor I I purum to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan Act and the grant agreement between Plymouth County and the missal
referenced below the Plymouth County Commissioners Grant disparagement of funds held and administ through the Plymouth County Appo program as follows awarded to the town of middle are1 million second all in favor I pursuing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan Act and the grant agreement
between Plymouth County and municipality to reference below the Plymouth County commissions Grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the Plymouth County Opera program as follows town of Caba $3,700 second all in favor pursuing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan act and a grant agreement
between Plymouth County and the municipality reference below the Plymouth County commissions Grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the Plymouth County Opera program as follows awarded to the town of Cava $ 47,800 funds held and administered to the Plymouth County Opera program as
follows town of Hansen $ 74,2 18218 second all in favor suing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan act and a grant agreement between Plymouth County and the municipality referen below the Plymouth County commission's Grant dis immersement of funds held in
administered to the Plymouth County Opera program as follows awarded to the town of Hingham 57,8 18827 all in favor pursuing to the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan act and a grant agreement between Plymouth County and the municipality R
below Plymouth County Commission is Grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the Plymouth County Opa program as follows awarded to the town of Kingston $993 6276 second all in favor I pursuing to
the terms and conditions of the American Rescue plan Act and the grant agreement between Plymouth County and the municipal reference below the Plymouth County Commissioners Grant dispersement of funds held administered through the Plymouth County Opa program as follows awarded to the town of cabba in the amount of $336,000
373 second all in favor I suing to the terms and conditions of American plan act and a grant agreement between Plymouth County and the municipal referenc below the Plymouth County commission's Grant dispersement of funds held and administered through the Plymouth County Opera program as follows
awarded to the town of Caba $34,900 in favor okay they had all L of alphabetical OT they did I was watching Tom's head explode we also have on arpa update from the administrator pouth County Fire
Chiefs communication system it I think a vote been put in front of I have it commissioner Hanley a vote for Mutual Aid radio system communication project a motion to authorize the administrator to apply the Plymouth County Opa program for up to
500,000 uh from the Plymouth County Regional Opera allocation to support the fire chiefs Association of clth county in the repair Improvement of their Mutual Aid radio system communication projects motion by commissioner Wright second second commissioner Hanley all in
favor on the motion M chairman just clarification so can you just tell me what this money goes towards I know it's for the communication system project what does that include so right now this is a placeholder because today is the deadline um ultimately this would be a
discussion about the radio towers but that's a discussion that will happen we have to get this in to be the deadline so this authorization is just to okay perfect this doesn't have anything to do the whole Brook communication or anything to do with
that this is separate but I do think that's a conversation that you and commissioner Hy and others want to engage in you so excited to do yeah thank you talk to my friend Mr hook all right you did no did you not yet there's
a motion and a second all in favor I that's unanimous okay and CH just so I don't have to come back up I don't have anything else my I did just want a moment of indulgence also my to the family of Susan Williams G as you know I served
with her in the legislature a fine lady not only a very good peer but a close friend and so she so thank you for allowing me that of course we'll note it in the minutes as well thank you Treasurer okay extension
Molly hello it has been a busy weekending extension office we had the pleasure and privilege to spend almost an entire day with the chancellor of umat ammer which is an unprecedented move uh we were part of a group that met
with him at Bristol agie uh on Tuesday and we were able to our for a program um things here in P County that we do and also just connected the Statewide forage programs my other colleagues in extension in the leadership team work talk that he spent as much time with us
as we did and we've had a lot of communication back and forth since already so that was really great uh and Meg Riley is attending the Massachusetts state forage grain convention which is happening um today through the weekend we have a foror who's doing the um speech at their dinner on Saturday nice
awesome very good Jo you miss chairman I was up in Topsfield and I was looking at the Grange exhibit we have a Norwell Grange too yes and we're related to that through forage with that they've been trying to rehab it um they've gone through several phases But ultimately we're hoping it can be a hub for 4 kind
of the E clubhouse right may I ask maybe through you to the treasurer is that a op eligible project for the town of Norwell if it's in conjunction with R4 or would we be the requesting party so
the short answer is it but I make a motion to uh include that in the remaining Opa funds and just as a play saer um Mr so you could make a motion to
authorize uh the administrator to I don't know I would say I would say um I mean it's not right no it is it's not it's not noticed but I would say that not to sound Flip about it we we do make the rules too so in theory we could
submit another placeholder but I'm I'm willing I'm willing to entertain it if we want to revisit American Recovery plan act and add that as well um I just don't know we have how much we're talking or what we have do you allow me to work with Molly
and get a better sense of this yes we can present something can can we authorize it so we meet the deadline now so you're allowed to do that well I think what I'm trying to say is I think our deadline as the county is December 31st this year so we would be requesting under as a a county I mean we can still
allocate as a county because we are the end user I respect the treasurer's point about us keeping this deadline because it's the deadline that we also imp on the communities and others who are participating but much like with cares I think we are the end users it is our
money so I I'm happy to do it but I think I think it could also wait two weeks or in theory if something were to come up we have the authority to authorize play by our own rules which no I I agree uh and I do too and um I just don't I mean it could be 100 thousand it
could be a million it's a great idea though I think it's something that could that would fit and could be something we could pivot quickly if it looks like there's going to be some money so the authorization to work with Marley I think he can do that and we can have it on the agenda for two weeks give yeah
make a motion to authorize the treasurer to work with Molly for the uh the gr project and Frank if you could note the agenda item that commissioner Hanley but again I think we have till the end of the year as a county so we have a motion in a second all in favor I I that's
unanimous Meg and I are the um Department Farm Advisory Board meeting invitation to us so we'll both be excellent and November 8th is your award meeting yes okay I will be on the eth I'll be in California on the
15th all right uh the treasurer has seated his time the register also is absent uh Doug was here and left but we appreciate I know he starts work at 6 am so appreciate when Doug can be here uh administrators report Mr Basler uh no
report look at that wow and with that that's a first will entertain a motion tojn motion I'll give commissioner Hanley second commissioner right all in favor I is unanimous right right