Okay, we'll call this meeting to order. Ask Treasurer O'Brien to lead us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast live on YouTube and will be distributed to local community access channels for potential rebroadcasts. First item on the agenda, minutes May 8th. Okay, Mr. Chair, I'd
like to make a motion to accept May 8, 2025 minutes. Motion Commissioner Wright, second, Commissioner Valenol. All in favor? I make a motion to accept and approve CPS forms for Cameron MDO. Promotion to building supervisor
JG-2 and Tammy Carrera retirement as of August 12th, 2025. Second. All in favor? I I uh motion to vote and accept uh approve vendor vouches. Second. All in favor? I. Motion to uh vote and accept
and approve payroll vouchers. Second. All in favor? I. Uh motion to approve the parking contract for the town of Rutland. That uh nope, that's not a right one. Deputy treasurer. Well, you
commissioners wish I bring before you the uh contract for parking services, parking ticket services for the town of Rutland, Massachusetts, Vermont. Um this would be the 43rd member of the parking program. It is the first uh municipality
from Worcester County. Nice. um expected to do about 100 tickets a year. No, not a huge community, but it's actually around the median uh from our members. So, it kind of puts us puts them around the size of Marshfield or Matapo tickets. So, that brings us right now to
20 Plymouth County towns, 20 non Plymouth County municipalities. So, we're out 5050 on that. And then three sting agencies. So, I'm going to ask you guys to just sign this in triplicate. Um, one copy uh for them, one for the commissioner's office, and then one for
the parking office. Thank you. Just a preview of things to come. I did um we do have an agreement in principle with Northshore Community College. Uh so they're just sending over the documents to us uh electronically. They're a state agency, so they do everything sort of,
you know, like docu sign. Um, so you know, I expect to see some emails from them to deploy county.gov at some point in the near future. I imagine with the holidays might be sometime early next week. You folks will uh, you know, we'll just schedule a ratification of it for
the next meeting. One little fun thing here. At least I think it's fun. I love maps. Me, too. Thank you. So, this is what we uh what we look like now. This is our geographical lesson.
County parking. This is fantastic. I love those. I love that we are on the New York border. Yes. Um because I tell everybody when we do uh I do my little marketing meetings is that we go from the New York pillar all
the way from one end of the other from West Stockton to the west to province towns east. If you like the alphabet, we go from Abington to Yarmouth. There is no towns beyond Yarmouth in the alphabet. Well, before Abington. Yes,
correct. Um, so yeah, it's um things are good. So hopefully we'll have some uh again take work for Northro Community College uh at the next meeting give or take and then I got a couple others that uh he got negotiations with and we'll see
where that goes to. Great. Say something of course. I just want to say thank you so very much. I I can't believe that the parking department or the parking information and how it's grown has um excited me so much because you know going back to years before and you know
just not moving and you know thinking about maybe just getting rid of it. Uh so here we are today and now we've got what' you say 43 uh communities now involved it and and just beginning to grow even more. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Thank you. I would be remiss if I didn't
thank uh this board for the resources that we put towards the program and also I did get a phone call from Jan Drew who ran the department for about 20 years and she ran through some of the toughest times financially that the county had and the county couldn't put the resources towards it to get us where we
are and I know she was you know complimentary of what she seen the program do and I reminded her that we would not be here today without the foundation that she laid years ago. Um, I couldn't do any of this um again without that foundation and the resources that you guys are uh providing
us. Well, it just shows that we have a great team. We work together. Thank you. And a and a solid example of the county stepping in when the state voice an unfunded mandate on our communities both in the county and clearly outside the county. So, I echo commissioner
sentiments. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. W. Okay. Okay. So, uh, next is, um, motion, uh, I haven't signed, I'm sorry. Uh, uh, motion vote pricing for 2025, uh,
vehicle addition for GMC Chevrolet for the, uh, commissioner's vehicle bids repay. So, uh, voted to approve the addition of the following vehicles pro, uh, manufactured by the Chevrolet Motor Company to the current Plymouth County Municipal Vehicle Bid Chevrolet number
2023-20, uh, 26 awarded to Gordon Chevrolet, Inc., DBA, Colonial Municipal Group, C uh, MG 11 Pilgrim Hill Road, Plymouth, Mass. Motion Commissioner Wright, second, Commissioner Valen, all in
favor. That's unanimous. ARPA treasure O'Brien. Thank you, Chair and Commissioner Reich. Uh you don't have any votes in front of you today. We're all caught up on that front. Um but two quick things if I could. Just a reminder, you guys have
authorized the preparation of additional allocations to those communities that had submitted uh a request for more resources above and beyond what was originally allocated. Uh we are preparing those diligently and working with the team. As you know that takes
time. It doesn't happen overnight. It is my expectation that those will be ready for you to vote on on June 5th. Pretty good timing because there's an advisory board. Leave it to you to decide uh whether you announce the votes that you'll be taking tonight. I can't 100%
commit, but we're working toward that goal. If not, it would be at a subsequent meeting. That's a good reminder. I am hoping I know you have your schedule and I know there may be discussions of meetings. Um, but I am going to request that you schedule at least temporarily a meeting on June 26, which I think is the last Thursday of
the month, just in case a community needs something before the end of the fiscal year. That would have like you did in December for those communities that were bumping up against the deadlines as an opportunity to try and provide relief to them if necessary. But obviously, that's a request and the
schedule is yours to set. Uh, lastly, I'll just let you know of an upcoming check presentation. We just confirmed it literally about half an hour ago. I can send an email or do you I don't know what your desires are to know about them too far ahead of time. You can announce it. Um so we'll be doing an AR check
presentation on June 23rd at 6 PM and uh you will be the first on the agenda. Good. for and that's what happening to them. Sorry. ARPA. That the only one for now or uh that is
the only one for now. It is a big presentation over $500,000. Wow. Uh and they are excited. You said 6 p.m. Yes, 6 p.m. first on the agenda. I know that's a good place to be on a busy agenda.
Very good. So that's really all I have for ARPA. The program continues to wind through its reporting. We continue to work with the subreients. I will tell you that a couple of the subreients are faced with challenges on the monies they receive directly which we know as NEU
monies or non- entitlement unit monies separate from the county. Um and we try to provide help where we can on that front as well. Great. Any opera questions? No. No. I am all set as well. We just appreciate the work the treasury and his team have done and continue to
do diligently for communities in the county. Uh amazing that it's all over that final end or winding down. I do think it's important and I'm glad you said something commission that people know we still have a lot of audit
reporting. Yeah, I get an email uh twice a week from the US Treasury uh and apparently have been tasked with monitoring more how this money was spent and what's being done. Uh the good news is we are in very good shape in that front, but it's a little more robust
than even I think we had expected. Uh we plan for that. We have CLA ready to go. We have CBiz ready to go. Um and we have some allocations for that. Um, but it it's far from over. Um, and there's a lot of reporting and I I do think the
towns appreciate the fact we're doing that reporting for those monies that we received. Absolutely. I agree. Very good. Okay. Next item, registers report. I do not see Mr. Buckley. We will go to the treasurer's report. Treasurer O'Brien.
Uh, Commissioner Wright has correctly been asking for uh, the monthly updates and I have finally been able to dedicate some some time and effort and
resources. Uh, we've been very busy as you know the entire team with ARPA and catching up on a number of things and we certainly learn a lot through this office with the work we do Mayflower and others. Uh but this is the monthly report that I provide to you folks. Uh
this goes back to October, the last time we had a an update. Uh and this is each month. You can see the number your eyes always want to see is down in the bottom right. You always want that to be a little bit of a positive number. Uh and you can see through October we were
projecting tracking to be uh positive uh to a fairly good number. As we move to November, you can see that number went down uh hence the caution uh that we took and that you folks continue to take uh as to what was going to happen
through the end of the year. Um the good news is that all the departments are are running on schedule. You'll see a bit of a deficit in the maintenance department which is what prompted us in December. for that month uh to reallocate some of
the resources that we had. You'll recall the votes you took in December and the advisory board took in December to allocate more money. That's why if we fall over for November to December, you'll see the projected revenue increasing and projected expenses increasing commensurately to cover some
of anticipated expenses. and you uh judiciously dedicated money to one-time expenses on including a retirement expense in OPE. Um so things looked a little rosier in December as a result of those moves. You move toward January and
you can see that but a little less. So we remained collapsed but still positive. You go to February and you see again a little bit less but remaining positive and coming up to March which is the last full month that we have all the
data for. Um still a little bit less than the month before but we feel good enough now that we can project that we will finish in the positive for fiscal year 25 uh given the resources that have been dedicated to the operations of the county for this fiscal year. Um good pro
management has been helpful. the team works diligently together. We have great partnerships with all the department heads uh and we continue to run the operation the way you would like it run very fiscally responsible and making sure that we don't overspend in the area
and save where we can. What I think is um indicative or great to see is I know we had originally uh put onetime money into the revenue
side and if I'm reading this correctly we are yet to use that onetime money. So actually are we on March 31st is probably easier the one I'm looking at. But you'll see that you dedicated on the revenue side uh money in um well the
money came in on the revenue on the expense side you see dedicated to the county retirement system and we have spent that money we sent that money over the retirement right we also increased the amount going to OPE and that money has been sent to the OPE trust which actually has reduced your liability
significantly right so we have spent the money that you f allocate the um correct. But if we turn this projection, that would generally negate and we'll be able to place this money back
into our stabilization fund uh for the future. If the projection, if I understand correctly, if the projection continues as we're seeing and hits that number in the bottom right hand corner, then yes, that would be additional resources that you could dedicate. And that's what I'm driving at
because one of the things I think we've talked about, or at least I have, and I think I can speak for Commissioner Wright, um, has been trying to make this into a sustainable model that isn't relying on stabilization, our reserve
fund balance to balance our budget. Um certainly in leaner times which I think we're in right now uh in the real estate market I didn't have a problem with it but obviously the very uh stark reality of running out of stabilization money would eventually rear its head. So if we
are able to finish out this year and frankly rededicate that surplus back into our stabilization, I think that's a win considering some of the financial hardships we're seeing our friends in in the uh municipal and state government uh
facing. So I think it's a incredible uh effort and I think you said it at the top treasurer on our part collectively the register's part and every other department head's part that we continue to run a fantastic operation uh providing services as we just heard the
deputy is continuing to expand parking program in your office um doing so while still being able to turn um a profit with again no ability to collect or override property taxes. So, I um do want to thank you and everybody um
because this is something that frankly has I don't say bothered me, but it's something that I've had on my mind pretty much since the day I was sworn in. And I think if we can continue to make this a sustainable model, which has been a sacrifice for everyone, a sacrifice for all of our department
heads. Um but in the long run, it'll ultimately be worth it and and we've been able to do so without having to harm anyone's employment or anything like that. So I thank you for that. Um I don't think I have any other further questions. Just I think those are points
which I'll point out on this. If you look under revenue, you don't see anything from real asset disposition an appropriate unbalanced reserveization. So you know this is the first time we've been able to do that. It's been your goal collectively mine as well. uh and so this that is the point I think one of
many that you're making uh good fiscal management leads to those kind of decisions also I will point out uh that each team is contributing to this effort uh the administrator and and Nancy and Tammy over in that office uh and Nancy
particularly on the municipal procurement uh you can see that's exceeding expectations uh and continues to bring more revenue than we were expecting because of their good effort. So to your point, not only are we sustaining, we're growing within the same budget. We continue to work very
hard and spend long hours. Our team on the federal grants and awards, you know, that doesn't just happen overnight. That's a lot of effort that's being available, that's answering the forms, returning the calls, filling out the paperwork. Um, you know, people think that that happens where we staff, right? That just means more work by the people
that we have generate these results. Um, so, uh, your your two points, one, good fiscal management. Two, continuing to do more with less, I think is reflected in this report. Absolutely. Commissioner, right? Yeah. I just I guess I'm just
looking at the um under total projected revenue the $96,841 uh less the um the expenses of 353 which is in parentheses here uh which was a minus and then we end up with 553,35358. that's going forward with
what we are expected to have um for expenses or is that that's the difference? I guess I'm just confused in that. Yeah. No worries. That is the difference. Y and that is if so the challenge that you give me is to produce this document because it does require
some assumptions and projections and so I'm doing my best as we go along to project where we're going to be at the end of the year. Mhm. So this is my projection based on all the information I can assimilate that this is where we would finish. So if the year ended now, we would finish in the positive. You can
see that those projections have actually been pretty good. The number isn't changing that much, right? So I can sit here and say we'll be in that ballpark is my sense. M now if we have a major catastrophic
uh failure of a piece of machinery and that costs money you know that an impact any unexpected correct things that come up right now we're projecting that we should finish with a positive amount of money and it's been a while since we've been able to say that with a level of
found oh yeah this is I think this is what makes me nervous is we haven't been able to say that in a long time well that's why I was excited to be able to present you with this information which might y appease ease some of those nerves. Good. Very good. Um, thank you so much. I I think that
this is just, you know, fantastic and going forward. Uh, and this is with all the projects and everything that we have going on. Also, that's why it took a bit to assimilate all the information again and you know this Frank is a pleasure to work with. Uh, he
monitors his departments very well. Working with Molly, working with the register of deeds getting this information. They're very helpful to put this together. Awesome. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Okay. Great job. I would be remiss if I didn't also thank
Peter from our office of comfort. I always like to try and give credit above and beyond that recognition of people. You should know the time and effort he puts into this making sure it's accurate. Uh gives me comfort too here and know that I'm giving you this type of good information. Great. Absolutely.
All right. Thank you, Treasure O'Brien. I think nothing else I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion so moved. Motion Commissioner Ray, second Commissioner Alenzola. All in favor? I.