All right. Good morning. It's uh >> Monday. >> It's Monday. It's May >> 12th, Tuesday morning, 9:00 a.m. >> Let's call this meeting to order. >> Okay. Going to have the pledge.
>> 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. Thank you.
Okay. What we have then next on our agenda is, excuse me, the approval of the [clears throat] April minutes for our meeting. We just met three weeks ago.
So, you received that in your packet um end of last week, >> I think. So, yeah. Friday, Thursday. >> Yeah. Okay, >> it was short and sweet. Right to the point. >> Short and sweet. Yep.
>> The the only question that I had and is the director's report applied for $750,000 grant. >> Um >> 75,000 >> 75 I'm sorry. Yes. From Massachusetts
>> Department of Transportation. >> Transportation. Right. >> Just that that was a question. It was like Oh, yes. That would be Massachusetts. >> I think it's a federal one. So, I think they just call themselves Department of Transportation even though even though it comes through the Department of
Transportation in Massachusetts, but I'm pretty sure it's a federal grant. >> Okay. >> But >> that was the only um observation that I had because it was like where where is because our money is coming from all over. That's something. >> It is. [clears throat] Okay.
I make a motion to accept the minutes of April 21st, 2026. >> Do we have a second? >> I second the motion. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I. >> No opposition. That's unanimous. All
right. Very good. Um, thank you. Treasures report. Muriel about the same. Um, the only thing is I'm going to turn it over to Beverly because she always supersedes me anyway. >> Okay.
>> There any changes that she knows of? >> I don't think so. What we're we're looking at is the year-end spendown to make sure that we have enough and we spend all of the appropriation funds. Um, and I I mean I think we're right on target. Um it was a little different
this year because we had $10,000 that we the town paid for the um kitchen. Um and MIia reimbursed us for that or paid for it, their grant, their risk management grant and we thank them very much. Um
>> and I'm in my 12th year. We've never had money deposited into I mean we've had a few reserve things little bits but nothing like this and nothing that came from someplace outside of asking for reserves. So between that 10,000 and
then um we had um 5700 that came in through reserve funds to pay for our uh van our older van um to to be fixed. there were two things, two major things that needed to be done uh so that we could keep it on the road because we won't get our new van until June or July
of this year. So, um those came in. So, that's and plus now we also have a new accounting system. So, between the new accounting system and adding funds in differently, um trying to figure out how they, you know, where they put it and how they did it, you know, it's not just
add it in and take it out. So it it's just um and it hadn't gotten in we didn't get it until December even though we spent it in September. So um it's just you know catching up with that to make sure we have it all right uh for
the end of the year. So [clears throat] >> the end of the fiscal year >> the end of the fiscal year >> because we have to June 30th >> June 30th June 30th we just want to make sure that we spend the town's funds. we we um you know use them all and I think we're we're pretty close to doing that,
>> right? And our grant we've discussed before that our grants have different >> year annual cycles and of of applying and reporting. >> I have one quick question and Muriel um on the wages I'm looking at the uh
treasures report um $2 expenses $2. Is that to test the system? where under period under total pay two pay periods. >> Two pay periods >> because it may
Oh no. Okay. Okay. It's 2.0 here. So it looks like sometimes Yeah. Sometimes it's um >> three >> part of a week, right? Two at the end of the fiscal year part of a week. So that's why that's >> I understand in in the um it's a placeholder. Yeah. And in May we have
three and and depending on how like Mera said how June falls in July we might have y >> like a week and three days or something like that. So >> but I appreciate that it just it's just the numeral two in the March report and
in the April report it's 2.0 and I thought okay I miss I must be missing something. Thank you. >> I had one thing. Um, >> my reports do not match her reports. >> I know >> her being held.
Okay. >> All right. >> Yes. Because social day appropriation, I'm sorry, social day was charged the longevity and it was not in town. So, they put it in town, but it belonged in social day. So, we did a
journal entry for that. >> That's not where I'm off. >> Okay. And there was also a deposit that my numbers the I I checked the activities and like my deposit money was different than yours.
>> Mine matched the um county. >> It didn't. I pulled [clears throat] the report. >> Okay. >> We'll have to we'll we'll we'll go back and we'll we'll >> off such a I mean >> we got a different balance for u I got less. Right. >> Yes. >> Right. because I had to take the,50 out
of town and put it in social day. >> Okay. I think that that we've said we're looking for trends. >> Because social wasn't it paid to her? >> No, Connie has longevity now. >> You have longevity, too. >> Yes. My longevity comes out of the town.
Conniey's longevity comes out of supportive day >> when it got put in. >> I saw one longevity coming out. >> No, I had two. Anyway, we'll >> I think that this is ladies, this is something we can do offline. I think that this is something that >> Well, I think
>> it it should be offline that we >> otherwise >> Well, I think we're adults. We should be able to communicate. I don't I think what we really want is to see trends. We want to see how close we are this close to the end of the fiscal year that we
are um [snorts] spending all that we are allotted to spend and that we're not missing something. So that is that is our responsibility. Okay. Any other comments or >> I I just have a quick question. >> Sure. >> Um to more to Bev. Bev, any of these
grants you see in the near I know you're retiring, but you see in the near future really going to jeopardize or be jeopardized to disappear and go away and that we need to start really thinking about other financial areas that we're going to need to >> um well, [laughter]
>> what's the projection? And I know you don't have a crystal ball, but just something so that we can get ahead of the curve a little bit. >> Formula, as far as I know, the governor and the the let the previous governor and I'm sure the next governor are going to keep it. They've kept it at $16 per elder. They haven't reduced it. The only thing they did red do is reduce some of
the SIG grant, which is the service incentive grant. And that's just the grants that come out that you apply for. So you apply for 10,000 for transportation or whatever you want to apply for. So those sig grant applications actually I just did a bit of conference yesterday and that came
out but again it's all pending on what the governor and what the you know what this what the state approves but the formula grants good awar um so I'm not worried about that one and then I have a report which tomorrow with
the joint group um Eileen's going to go over because I won't be there tomorrow unfortunately but Eileen's going to go over and it shows all the different grants what has happened over the years and I put a whole form together and then it shows all the little grants that we get. There's probably about 10 or 15 that we get that we've gotten on and
off. We don't get them all the time. Um and then I have some other things when I do my report. So, >> very good. >> But it I don't think we're in we will be in dire straits to lose any. I just think the person whoever takes this position is going to need to be really
vigilant about looking for these small grants to make sure that they get them. That's right. So, >> and we're fortunate our local representatives always give us an ear, but uh that's right. >> I just think that maybe at some point we may have to get to their ear before these decisions are made in Boston. >> Yes.
>> U especially for stuff that impacts us directly. >> Yes. I do know from my other life in the grants world [snorts] um things are tight, >> right? that people um are not giving have not given um at the same rate or
extent that they had been um before the changes in the tax law. The people who would give >> 2550 $200 are not able to do it because it's not they don't get a tax write off for one. >> Um secondly, um people um
>> the funding seems to be going to basic human needs. Yeah. And uh that's something that we have to be sure that people know that that's what we do. We are taking care of people's basic human needs. And >> yeah, we're so dependent on these grants. Um yeah,
>> and as I see or it seems to be that >> they're drying up and not as generous as they used to be, that might be something that impacts us. So just something to keep an eye on and >> you hear a buzz of something, we got to come up with a plan to fill that void, if you will. You know, >> that's right. [clears throat] So the
whole list of grants that did you work with and that you continually either renew or apply for that whole list is pretty much uh it changes a little bit year to year and then your successor will be able to work on that.
>> They have everything from 200 I think 10 or 13 or something like that all the way through till when I leave. So that person's going to have access to all of those numbers, all of those grants, all of the amounts that we received. Um, and I have a full a file folder full I have
two of them actually and one of them has um grants not received so that you know what we applied for, right? Sometimes you can go back and pull one of those because maybe if we haven't applied for it in a few years and we apply again, we might get something. So that's always a good thing to have. >> So there's a next steps part of this.
Yes. Uh package. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> And we'll see that tomorrow. >> Yes. >> We're gonna Yes. share that tomorrow just so that we're all on the same page. >> Okay. Anything else for the treasur's report? >> No. >> Hearing none. Do I have a motion to
accept the treasures report? >> Oh, we I thought >> a motion to accept. >> Oh, that was the minutes. Never mind. >> Okay. [snorts] >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposition? Any abstensions? >> Who seconded?
>> I did. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. Now we're at the director's report. Beverly, you're on. >> So, I have a card here from Marielle and Gomes because she is leaving, so she won't be volunteering anymore. Um, and for those
who don't know, I know everybody here knows, but for those people out there that don't know, Marielleen Gomes was the one of the original directors at the Council on Aging and worked for many, many years. Um, and she retired and there was somebody else that was the
director and then me and she had come back and asked if she could volunteer. So, she's been volunteering in the social day program on Wednesdays um, for quite a while. So, she just put, "Thank you for the beautiful hydr uh uh WCOA board of directors. Thank you for the beautiful hydrangeanger plant. I will
treasure it and all of my wonderful memories of Westport Council on Aging. Thank you for all that you do for the people of Westport and especially for those over the age of 60. Keep on doing what you are doing. It works until we meet again." Mary Ellen Gome. So, she was very appreciative. So, I wanted to
make sure that I recognized that. Um they had a really nice going away um party for her and uh um it was it was interesting too because she said you know Beverly I want to thank you for letting me come back. She said because sometimes she said sometimes you know directors are put off and don't want to
do that and I was like no she had so said you had so much to offer I you know appreciated your time. So but it was a very nice event that they did in supportive day and a few other people came in too some of the friends people came in too. So it was nice. Um, so I
have um I have my report, but I want to go over something with you folks which I called Eileen about last night. It was just very interesting. Um, so I got this letter on Friday, okay, from because you know I applied for the
two AARP $15,000 grants. Um, one was for the fire department with the emergency cuts and the emergency uh stuff and the other the second one was for outreach. It was for $15,000 for uh home improvement stuff like if they have broken windows, broken locks, broken uh
doors, um stair stairs that need to be fixed and everything. So, I put those two together. So, I got this note on Friday, this email. Thank you for your recent application to the 2026 ARP Community Grant Challenge, which is a nationwide one. Okay. This year, we
received 5100 applications from communities across the country. Given this extraordinary level of interest and the limited availability of grant funds, the selection process was especially competitive. Unfortunately, your application number, whatever, was not selected for this time. So, I thought,
okay, well, and then I looked at my two reports and they both had the same application number. So, I thought we were just one application number with two different things. So on uh yesterday I get this second email from AARP
and it says please find attached the draft of the grant agreement between AARP and your organization. We would like to have the agreement finalized and signed within the next two weeks. And I'm thinking, okay, well if I didn't get it, why would I get this? So I emailed
them back and said, you know, um I'm a little confused what happened. And um uh the gentleman emailed me back and he said um oh he said you should you you've got the um you should have gotten the
one that you were approved for. Um we have received your application successfully and um it was approved for the second one but he said you should have received that one on Thursday and you should have received the the other notice that you didn't get it on Friday. And I said well I didn't get that
notice. So he sent me the notice. So, we did get the $15,000 for outreach. I didn't think we got either one of them. So, um that's going to um that's going to come through. And the nice thing about the AP grant is I mean, one out of two isn't bad. So, I'll be happy with that. Absolutely.
>> And out of the 5,100 people, they probably maybe approved maybe a hundred. That's how low it is because when we did the 2022 grant challenge for AP and got the 10,000 for transportation, that one had 3800
applicants and there was only 68 um uh awards. So the the awards aren't there's not a lot of awards, but it's across the whole country. So I I mean I feel pretty good. Plus I thought >> they should be plus I thought because we had already been in there and they knew us, okay, and they knew what we did. So,
um, uh, so I was really happy to see that. I called Eileen. I said, "You're not going to believe what I got the the email that I got." I said, "So, we got one out of the two." So, I was happy with that. And I did send an email off to, um, Dan Baldwin at the fire department just to let them know. And he said, "Thanks for trying." >> They send enough they send enough
mailings out. I'll tell you that. The AP memberships. >> They do. Glad they did that. Yeah. I get them all the time. I get them in my home one. I get them. Yeah. It's constant. AP. >> Oh, all the time. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so we got that $15,000. So that was good. I was happy about that.
>> That's wonderful. >> So, uh, one more one more down. Um, and I, >> you know, we we deal with such large numbers here. And I think we forget $15,000 would be a lot of bake uh baked goods
that we would have to sell in order to come up with this kind of money. >> Sure. to to just to take care of the repairs and and for the little things and and so thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. And what we did was with the the that I the
the outreach department um for that it's uh the funds would be beneficial to many seniors who need repairs on stairs, railings, screens, windows, door locks and handles the and other, you know, other things around the houses. Okay. The maximum benefit um I put down here for the grant would be $2,000 per
project. So, we won't spend more than that because what I don't want to do is I didn't want to leave it at 500 because I thought that was a little low, but I didn't want people to want like a five or $8,000, you know, uh project. So, we limited it to that. Um and then we did receive the final payment for our
formula grant, which was almost $15,000. So, that was for fiscal year 27. Um, we were having a problem with our heating system and um I was waiting for
a um a quote or from Samco and instead of that Wayne said that if we buy thermostats he can install them. So we bought three C thermostats at a cost of 87.94 and I said just put one in to make sure it works and it's okay before we do all of them. And he did the
one and it's been fine. So he's in the process of putting the other ones in. So it's nice having somebody who's mechanical and and you know can can do that. >> Um we've had a slight increase in our supportive day program census. Um the winter was tough. The winter was tough
with the weather with people going into um the hospital or rehab or things like that. Um transportation department is in dire straits. We are down to >> uh longtime drivers from medical issues. Um, and they're going to have some
significant recuperation time. But we did hire a new driver, Joel Valentine, and he was appointed on the 27th of April, and he's already completed all of his training except for the wheelchair securement. Um, Jeff did demonstrate and showed him and had him do the wheelchair
securement, but because we didn't have any trainings close by, but they just put it out last week, uh, Rochester's having a training, so he already signed up for that, so he's going next week for that. So, that's good. Um, so he'll be all fully certified and he's already he's already working. He's But we're not
having him do any wheelchairs just because he doesn't have that certification. So, but he's got the CPR, the the defensive driving, he's got everything. He did the conflict of interest. He did all of that. So, um, so he's good to go. Um, volunteers, we got four or five new
people to do landscaping, I believe, because we put an advertisement out, so they were out there. Um, and I'm going to give a shout out to the highway department. Um, they are wonderful. They they help us anytime we need something. I can call. Um, Chris and the guys are
just great. Um, the landscaping group wanted to put more more of the gravel, the grit down um, uh, where we walked because a lot of the weeds were coming up through and it was making it uneven. So, um, they they got a a load a
truckload of gravel, but they said, I mean, you know, you you're talking about 70 to 80 year old people that are doing this. They said, "We just can't do the wheelbarrow and stuff." So, I asked the highway department if they could do it. We set up a time. They came over on the Friday. They dropped the gravel off on a
Thursday. They came over on Friday with like five or six guys and just went right through it. And it looks great. And it rained right after, so it kind of patted it down a little. So, it's it looks really, really nice. So, it's a it's a darker gray almost like a slate
gray um gravel that's there. And they decided to do red, white, and blue flowers for the 250th. So, it re they're starting to put the flowers in. Looks really, really nice. So, plus we have some new people. So, we're really happy about that. So, thank you for our volunteers and our for our landscaping
crew. Um outreach has been continues to be busy, very busy with SNAP. Um, and last month when we did the when I did the report, I said that we weren't going to apply for SNAP. And Cindy and I did some more research on what she would be
able to get into for DTA and what she wouldn't be able to get into. And it would make it much much harder for her to be able to do her job because she would have to rely on clients to let her know when things were due. And a lot of
times that's the stuff that slips be They take their mail and they put it on the side and then a month later or two months later, oh yeah, by the way, I got they don't even open it. It's like, so it's Cindy. >> So Cindy and I talked about it and I did put in the application for the uh
outreach um partnership even though we're only going to get paid 25%. Um I tried to boost up the the budget a little bit so that maybe we could, you know, get a little bit more, but at for this point um I think city would have to work like so much harder to do the job.
Um and it would just and we don't want to not do the job. We don't want to not do the SNAP applications um or assistance or any anything because it's way too important. There's too many people. Um there were uh 42 service units last month for um SNAP and HIP
assistance and 33 food pantry deliveries. Uh for people who can't drive to get to the food pantry on the Monday when they do it, we have one of our drivers, Nancy. She she delivers. So, I mean, that's a lot of people. Food insecurity is really huge right now. So, um I I think, you know, when, like I
said, when Cindy and I reviewed it, I know for me it's a lot. So, um the new person, I'm just going to have to try to show her what I do and how I do it and and um see if we can't. And they're very they are very helpful. I have to say, uh the people at UMass Medical and the people at DT are very very helpful if
you're having a hard time figuring out how to how to put the the um things forward. So, >> excuse me. What was the 25% that you mentioned right at the beginning? >> That's our reimbursement rate. We used to get 50%. Cindy's salary. So, we get
her salary for the for the quarter. Okay. So, say say she I'm just going to throw a number out there. Say she makes $1,000 and then we take her hours that she worked on SNAP. So, say it was 37% of her hours she worked on SNAP stuff plus she works on other stuff. So, that 37%
that time, okay, we get reimbured. So, we figure out what that time is, how much she made, and then we can put in for a reimbursement, and we usually get 50% of that amount. It's only going to go to 25%. That's why I said we're going to go from five or 6,000 a year to like
about 2500, you know. So, but for for Cindy, it would make it almost impossible for her to do the job efficiently, okay? Because she wouldn't be able to get into the that database, and that's the big thing. So, I knew she could get into DTA, but she wouldn't be
able to get into the the system itself because she wouldn't have access. >> And I think that was crucial to find like because when we decided and and supported you last month on this, um I think our intent or our thought was that
Cindy would have access to the the client's information. And unless you are a participant with um this program in in UMass Medical that that um there'd be no way. Yeah. And so the reliance on her
clients who are [snorts] >> not techsavvy and and a lot of this really requires the individual to um log in to their account. So this was um um >> a good decision for people. We we Cindy
and I reviewed it and Cindy got in touch with them at DTA and UMass Medical and said, "What am I going to have access to and what am I not going to?" And I thought she would still because she could sign a PSA, which is a permission uh to to service. And um but that she
would only be have access to a couple of things. She wouldn't be able to get into the whole database. So that was the thing. I thought the PSA would cover it. So did she. And then when we went back and reviewed it with them, they said, "No, you won't have access to any of that." We were like, "Okay." So, we changed it >> last month. We were pretty adamant that
it would not change her ability to work with >> Yes. the So, once we found out, it seems like that once we found out it would impact that, then obviously that's why we have to change it cuz >> we were adamant last month it wouldn't impact >> and even Yeah. And Cindy's thought the same thing. She said, "No, I got the PSA so I can get into it." And we said,
"Okay." And but I said, "Let's double check. Let's just double check before the date goes by." because I only had one day to do it, but I had all my numbers together already. So, I went through and I put the the budget in. So, >> I'm glad we changed our mind. >> Right. Yeah. >> Because it would have impacted the folks that come in.
>> Yes. And that was >> just ask you a question, a larger question, and that is um when I hear all this >> and I wonder if we had more money from the town, >> yes, >> we wouldn't be needing to do all this. Um I mean I'm I'm just trying to get an
understanding of >> it sounds like in this category it's not the funding it's the access. So if we don't sign this agreement >> No I understand but I'm listening I'm listening to the to the dialogue here. Okay. >> Yeah.
>> And it's a lot to get to 700,000 $750,000 when the state when the town gives you 230 >> to get this extra $500,000. Mhm. >> I'm I'm just trying to figure out how it
works here. Okay. The big picture. >> If the town gave you $750,000, you wouldn't have to be doing all this, would you? >> No, we'd fund We'd fund all of our programs. We would be able to fund all of our programs. Well, I can't say that that we wouldn't need the 750 because
some of them, some of the programs we have um fees. So because we have the fees, we would probably need more like maybe 500 of again um we would be able the outreach department wouldn't the town would have to pay because I don't have fees or act um um anything from
them. Okay. But my supportive day, I do my transportation. I have some um my my exercise classes and everything. Those folks pretty much it's pretty much an even. [clears throat] Yes, it's pretty much an even, you know. >> But I just wonder if other council on agings around the Commonwealth are as as
um nimble and adept at >> getting grants as you. Some of the towns I've there's 351 towns and cities in Massachusetts and every COA is run differently and some of the COAs their town pays for their supportive day.
Their town pays and they contract with their ASAP. Their their town also pays for their outreach but they may not have two and a like you know two outreach staff two full-time outreach staff is what what we have they have. So, but some others maybe they got a fourh hour
person that's a director that works because it's a smaller town. So, each one's a little different. Some towns do support things, others don't. So, you know, we're just >> So, so I I guess my my final thought about this is that going forward with the new director, this is an integral
part of the job description for this >> Oh, yeah. Council on Aging because >> we're going to only get a c a quarter third of the money we need and we even probably need more money but >> but right now
>> you know so the person sitting where you're sitting has to be adept at what you're doing. >> It's very clear. Yeah, these these partnerships can be financial >> or government regulation like to get people these benefits we have to be part
of their program. Yes. or they won't get their program or they got to go through all kinds of bells and whistles to get what they want. Tax, all of those things. It's all partnerships. >> But you're right, funding is a key element of somebody who's going to >> I'm sorry >> take that position over. Funding is very very important.
>> Right. I think that um too around the Commonwealth. Um the t towns are clearly organized in and serviced in very different ways. >> Yes. >> And um >> yeah. Uh some are maybe more medical,
some are um more closely aligned with the veterans. Uh a lot of it has to do with the town's demog demography and the demands of the people. >> They might have public transportation. >> Public transportation. Exactly. But um
we are probably the most diverse that I have seen from my travels within MCOA and the conferences and and um probably the most um comprehensive part of social services. I mean we do not have a town
social worker. Some towns do and that these some of these programs would come under the town social worker. >> It's what your council on aging is doing here in Westport. It's just sort of the evolution of of how departments have been. It's not how all towns work.
>> No, it's not. >> All towns are required to have an MCOA, >> but how much that is supported and and the responsibilities differ dramatically from town to >> like Pittsfield has a supportive day program. Their town pays for it, right?
They're in they're in a um a high-rise building and they have a whole floor for there whatever it was which is which is why they opened up really quickly after CO closed everything and then they were able to reopen um and they had I don't know maybe like 15 people in there but
they could keep they had the space they had the full floor um they had the elevator so they were able to do and the town supported it you know the town and I think they also might contract with their ASAP too. So again, um, and the the only thing that the contract with the ASAP does is it just pays for
low-income people. That's what it pays for. It doesn't pay for anybody who's either well off or can afford it. You know, they might do a sliding scale, but that's all it does. So, um, so yeah, it it's, you know, it's a challenge. It's a challenge to do to keep to keep as many
staff as we have because some of the bigger cities um I know um Marshville, Dubberry, um Orleans Orleans does a regional um they have a regional group because they're um so spread out that
they have a supportive day program in Orleans um uh building in Orleans, but they work with I think four or five other communities in the area and they do transportation and they bring people into Orleans to come in and I think what
the agreement was the regional agreement was to take some of that formula grant money that went to other towns to pay for the supportive day. So there's a lot of different there's a lot of different ways when we did when we did or when I did the um conference maybe four or five years ago we did a best practices with
supportive days and there were [snorts] four or five of us on the panel and we each had a very different type of supportive day program. So we had about 40 people 35 40 people that came in to listen because they wanted to open up supportive days and they wanted to know how you did it and what you did and what
other things you could do. So like you said, each town in each city sort of has its own uh you know way of doing things. So um uh I told you SIG grant was reduced um
by $2 and uh almost $300,000 this year. Um, so there's a um amendment 1023 to restore level funding for MCOA and uh that came
in through MCOA. I sent uh an email out to Senator Rogers, which is what they asked us to do, send it out for people to support it. Um, like I said, the formula grant stayed the same, but the SIG grant was reduced by almost $300,000. So that just means all those extra
things that they have that you wouldn't be able to do. Um, one of the things I would like to do is, um, South Coast Community Foundation, um, we have, uh, because of the grants that,
um, I got for transportation this year. And now this grant that I just got for outreach. Um I think maybe it might be time to do another review of if I can review of uh what's what's approved from
uh uh South we we do it because I don't get anything from Senator Rogers or South Coast. It just it says description and it doesn't have anything. So we had to we had to come up with something for quite from quite a few years ago. So I put five things together. I just want to bring them put them out there. let
people figure out if if that's okay or not. And I want to take the scholarship off of this and put it on our gifts and donations with the friends because the friends said that they could give us some more money. Um so that way because I don't want all of the funds going out
to individual people as much as we wanted to make sure um like if it pays for a supportive day aid that's for the whole supportive day. So when you have you know 20 people in the class that pays so we could do that. Um, that was something that was approved. The outreach client, small home repair
assistance up to $500. Now that I have the $15,000, we don't need to use that. So, we can take that off there if you want to. Um Um, just just because we already have the the 15. I didn't know whether we were going to have it or not. >> Have we ever used that? >> Yeah, we I think only twice. Somebody
repa repaired stairs and I think somebody put in a um a handle in the shower. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't $500. It was up to 500, so it was a little bit less. Somebody fixed their shower. >> Had a sump pump. >> Pardon? >> The sump Oh, the sump pump. Yes.
Somebody Yep. Somebody needed a sump pump >> this year. >> Yes. This year. Yes. Yeah. So, there there are people that have needed it. But that's why I want to do that for the 15,000. I I don't want to be pulling it out of this. I want to pull it out of that. That's what that's for. >> I I guess my question when I hear this,
I'm confounded because I don't know how people know about this. My problem is that we there's all of this >> unbelievable um tangle of information and stuff coming in and going out and accounting and all of this stuff and yet we are the
we are the social service system for this town. >> I don't know if the town >> along with the border health and the nursing but that's you know but they they work with us. I understand but I don't I don't get but we're under that umbrella. I don't get I could be wrong.
I'm new here. I don't get that the town gets this. >> It's it it it's always activated in my experience is when the police or fire department or maybe the town nurse find it because it's at a critical point and that's the problem. We never get to it before that. We never fix the stairs
before somebody falls down the stairs. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> You know what I'm saying? No. I I I've worked in social services my life to be able to get out there. query. My query is how do you change that paradigm? I just don't know. >> Well, there's a couple of things. One is
this meeting so people hear it. Two is making sure that my outreach staff get out there and talk to people about this. So that now I'll be telling them today. So now they'll be able to do that. They can contact people. They know people who might have some needs but haven't had the money. They haven't been able to
find the money. And I had talked to them, my my outreach staff before I put the application in and said, "Do you think there's need out there?" And they have a list already of people. So they'll be, but again, it's just that's how we we do it. And they also go to they'll do the uh whites of Westport,
the celebration of seniors in June. They'll do that. They'll have a table and they'll talk to people about that. And I think what we might do also is put something in the newsletter so that it can notify people that this is what we got and if you are you having any need and you know and we'll go through that.
>> What's nice about it is that it's immediate. >> It doesn't have to go through the town to be invoiced to to go out to bid and and that I mean it's something that that it's much of a prevention um >> which is so important. Yeah.
>> And I and I'm just I guess I'm wondering >> I'm wondering because I'm the advocate here. Okay. That the broadcasting of this is is not broad enough in my just in my mind. Okay.
And I'm wondering a whether or not you or us or someone has these like we were at the meeting last night at the select board has a bigger broader audience >> than
this august group here. Yes. >> Okay. And I think well either you have department meetings where all the people in the in the department heads know what you're doing or you sit there in front of five people and you don't go into
minutia. >> You go into >> the picture. What's the picture? What are we doing? How are we doing it? The connection between the police and the social services. When I was meeting with Rick Mundy when he was running and I
used the police and the fire and my neighbor who was having issues in the fire and the police kept coming to the house four times, five times finally I got him to go get services here >> and he said, "So you didn't have to use the police in the fire?" I said, "Yeah,
we'd like to do it earlier, not later." Mhm. >> Okay. >> That's the kind of thing that um unless we broadcast it in a more efficient way, we're always after, not before. >> Agree. >> That's what I think. >> And and I and I think just just the I
think a lot of times people don't want to have to call somebody and they don't and that's that's one of the issues that we've always had. They don't want to call, you know, sometimes they don't even want to call the police to the fire department, but then you have a spouse or something that says, "I can't pick you up off the floor. you have to [laughter] you have to but then they
don't want to go to the hospital and then they call again and after it's usually after it's a couple of times we'll get a call from the police or the fire department you know because they say no you don't need to call anymore >> I think we catch the emergency ones it's really the preventative ones our problem
I don't know if the mindset is oh if too many people know there won't be any money left I've heard that >> they're going to put me in a home >> Yep and people are afraid to call that's going to trigger something and now everybody knows and Um, >> it's a ch it's a challenge. It's a challenge >> because it would be preventative. It
would be so preventative. >> Well, and people are private, you know, you also think like, okay, that that that handle is broken. I'll get to I'll get to that next month when I have a little more money or I'll get to that later. I'm busy right now. And and I think, you know, we all I think we all
as human beings are procrastinators, but and then it turns into an issue or a problem. And I think that that what I thought was interesting when we looked at the town budget, we come under human services and one of the keyynotes of human services is to be advocates for
prevention. And somehow we we need to um do that so it doesn't turn into as we say emergency service >> and even simple things. I've changed light bulbs. Poor people can't get up and change the light bulbs. Now they're walking in the dark in their house. It's a simple. All they have to do is ask,
you know, we'd get somebody over there to do that. A loose handle. Now, if there's an emergency, that loose handle doesn't work all the time. Now, they can't get out that door. These are such simple little things that we would be more than willing to help them resolve and fix. And we just got to get the word out there.
>> And we partner with Coastal Neighbors and Coastal Neighbors has volunteers and they do that too. So, again, you know, we have other partners, but it's finding the people that have the need before it gets to be a crisis. and my outreach staff go to different places. They go to the different housing um community
buildings and churches and everything and they do a presentation and they let people know this is what this is what we have. This is a new uh program that we have. If you have any needs, so they'll be going out there doing that. They'll do it at the >> hopefully the people watching this will I don't know throw it all over Facebook. Do whatever they can. But this is
something that if somebody knows somebody that needs it, please reach out to us. >> I will and I will post it on our Facebook page. I'll post it on our Facebook page. put it in our newsletter for June. U my outreach staff will be out um you know uh letting people know that this is a new program. So
>> good >> or an enhanced program. >> Yeah. Really? And the article every every week in Shorelines there's a there's an article it's the same article every week about the services that are offered at the Council on Aging. So maybe that can be freshened up and
highlight one thing like >> the rental the rental the u where we give them you know if they need a wheelchair or if they do >> yes the medical equipment >> that's in that all the time that's in there all the time we could add to that even >> that's huge and that's a huge >> I I always complain that we spend we see
the Dow Jones >> we see the Dow Jones every 15 seconds on TV every single day we know exactly how much money the economy is doing. We do not have a Dow Jones for the social condition of our country. >> No, we don't. >> We do not. >> No.
>> And it's equally as important, quite frankly, I think I think >> if I were the town manager or I would be having you make a presentation every month about the state of the condition of this town socially. >> As equal, it's as important as the economics of this town is the social
condition of this town. And that's our job. That's what we're here for. It is to take care of numbers, but it's to take care of people, right? And the only way you're going to do that, >> too many people don't need it, unfortunately, in this town. And >> they don't realize that the ones who do
are in a dire situation. There's a lot of very lonely, poor people who want to stay in this town, >> and we collectively as a community want them to stay in town. >> Uh, but they need services, >> right? >> They need services >> and they're afraid. And there's there's a big fear out there. Even if you give
them the information, there's a lot of fear out there that somebody's going to take me out of my home, somebody's going to make me leave my home, somebody's going to put me in a nursing home or someplace I don't want to go, or they're going to make me move into one of the cities and I want to stay in West. There's I know that that fear is out
there because my outreach staff always, you know, talk to us. When they finally get an outreach, like you said, the person who kept calling the fire department, when they finally got some services in there, they were like, "Wow, I didn't know we could do this. I didn't know that those services were out there to help us. And and again, they're
afraid to ask because a lot of seniors weren't used to asking the government for they're thinking of us as the government. They weren't they're not comfortable asking the government for help because they find that it can be intrusive. So again, that's what they're used to, right? >> Or I think a big one is fearful that if
I do, >> they're going to say I can't stay here. >> Yes. >> Like we're adversary. like we're going in there as a regulatory board where we're really not. We're going in there just to help. >> And I'm thinking from our strategic plan, I'm I'm reminded of this
constantly is the out um the outpouring of the response people want to age in place and stay in Westport. That came through when Marie >> spearheaded that and of just loud and
clear. Oh yeah. And and we also discussed before as before the meeting started um our own aging process. And I think that we're all aging. We every single day all [snorts] of us everywhere are aging. >> I second that. >> That's right. [laughter] And and and
there's subtle changes that you that people all of us don't realize that that oh I'm I'm [snorts] not lifting my feet. I'm tripping or I don't see [laughter] quite as well as I used >> or I'm getting up on a ladder when I shouldn't be up on a ladder, you know.
>> So, I I I think that that that you're right. We we don't know the social condition, but I think we have to keep that in the forefront is that >> the people who responded to our asking want to age in place and so that really is should be our battlecry, if you will.
People want to be >> How do we help so that we can keep you safe in your home? Yes. >> How do we help? So we can keep you safe in your home. We're not trying to take you out. >> Have that be the headline that we're here to help. >> How can How can we keep you safe in your home? How can we help? >> So,
>> okay. I I just was lastly say I had I I remember saying this to Jim Hart before he left in in human services. When the phone call comes, you answer the phone and this is what you say. How can I help you? >> That's what you say. >> How can I help you?
>> Yes. That is not what you get when you call a department in this town. How can I help you? First, >> you got to press one for English. [laughter] >> Okay. So, can we get back to our agenda item of Beverly giving us the five items? I'm sorry, Marielle, you had something.
>> I I made a worksheet of what we paid so everybody would see what it is. >> We paid. >> Oh, what we paid for um at South Coast Community Foundation school year. Pass it along. Okay. Do we have any have copies? Oh, good. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Mariel. That's so you can see
the titles of the what we paid. >> This is helpful. >> And the changes you want to make. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's great. >> Oh, beautiful. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Like I said, I have other places to put some things. So, that's why we took out like the scholarship >> so that we could um put it
>> put it with >> Good, >> Helen. Put it with the um um great gifts and donations. So, [clears throat] >> I mean, this is nice to see. I mean, watching this, but a subp pump. >> Yes. >> Dental work. Yes.
>> We help somebody with a lift recliner. Yep. >> The lift recliner and the dental work were not in the categories we voted for. >> I don't know what that means, but >> Well, we did small home. We did Yeah. Small home repair and assistance.
>> It's not a small home repair. >> That was kind of what I put it over what I thought it would be under. >> No. So, >> and it the a recliner's furniture has nothing to do. >> Well, do you think we should amend it? I mean, is it >> Well, that's she's going to set up a new one. >> That's why that's why I wanted to set up
the new one. >> I'm sure this wasn't whitening strips. >> No, no, no, no, no. It was It was dentures. >> Okay. >> So, >> or dental work. No, no, no, no, no, no. >> Okay. So Beverly, back to to
>> so so the outreach what we can do for the outreach if you want to because the new one that I got for ARP is strictly for repairs. Strictly for repairs. >> When does that grant start? >> July 1st. July 1st until June 30th. And
we have And the nice thing with that grant, thanks for bringing it up. The nice thing about that grant is we get the $15,000 check. So we can draw from it. We don't have to do the reimbursement. So that's what's nice about that, you know, just like the South Coast Community Foundation, too. We get the check. Those are nice without
having to do the reimbursement. They really are. >> So So the check should come in. I know they want to do um a um press release. ARP wants to do a press release sometime in June. So they say don't announce that. I mean, I'm announcing it because I'm happy that we got it, but they say, you know, don't announce it to your
whole community. Um and and we'll do a big one. And then we have to put a little caveat on the bottom that says sponsored by AARP and things like that like we have on our van when they sponsor the the transportation. So So if we want to amend the outreach clients
instead of small home repair assistance um what do you want to call that? We can we can edit it. Um, >> and and I just to let you know the dental work and the lift recliner, the outreach staff always try many other
places to get it. They try ARW, they try Sarah Devans, they there's a bunch of different other small grants that they have that they can do individually. I think there's some churches. So, they try everything else and then if there is nothing else, they, you know, come to to me and say, "I've tried this. I've tried
this." Why don't you have miscellaneous then or something? That's >> Oh, just put any >> Yeah. >> We miscellaneous discretion of staff but any needed >> expenditure >> miscellaneous assistance. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> After exhausting other avenues. [laughter] >> And you still want to limit it to $500? >> Well, the other one's 2,000. So, what would be the difference because of where the funding source is? >> This is a small grant. This is a small This is only a $5,000 grant. I would say
smaller. So leave it at $500. >> And if it's a really small item, we can use that line. A bigger one, we have the other one. >> We don't always use the 500. If you look at the numbers here, we don't always look at the the dental workers 350. Um the sump pump was 239. Um >> who do we have perform these little
jobs? Does a person have to try to find somebody or usually volunteers? No, my outreach staff usually have a couple of different um contractors or people who do the work and they charge much less money and sometimes they just volunteer like sometimes postal neighbors have
somebody that used to be a plumber, retired plumber so he'll come over and help or things like that. So, and sometimes uh but we pay for we pay for the product, we don't pay for the labor. Okay? So, sometimes the person we pay for materials. Sometimes the person will
come up with the $200 for labor and we pay the other. So it's because it's good that the person has some interest. It's some vested interest. >> That might be something I might be interested in looking into getting volunteers because I'll bet you this town has a lot of >> good-hearted people that would be more
than happy to stop by somebody's house and do something quick. >> Absolutely. >> As long as it's not an issue for us liability. >> I think I think that was the issue that why we weren't why we work with >> why we weren't doing right. why we weren't doing um the the the labor is because if something doesn't work then
what happens? Who's liable? Who's supposed to do it? So that >> who does it now? It's another organization that does it. >> Yeah. They have a volunteer organization. >> So we kind of pass the hot potato. >> They have insurance and they're covered insurance. >> Okay. Okay. All right. It's too bad cuz I'm I guarantee you there's
>> Well, go to you can you can join neighbors. >> Yeah. Yeah. So we'll send them there then. >> Yes. Abs. We absolutely do. We have a very um strong relationship with Coastal Neighbors, the founding member. Um >> Auntie Pollock,
>> right? Was was um our friend a long time. Connie McDonald, who is one of the tech teachers, is on their board. Um we have um through a a um relationships. So, I think that that
um and and Muriel is so right like they have the umbrella insurance. They do the >> um background checks, the the Cy to make sure that people can go into people's home and do this, which is um the protection everybody needs. >> Good.
>> Which is which is what we want to do. We want to partner with people that already have that so we don't have to do I was not aware that they had all that insurance and all that. >> Yes. And they're, like I said, ARW um um gives us uh funds every year for our
outreach department, but they also uh work with um Coastal Neighbors, a couple of the other places that we also work with. We do uh the Bedford Food Shed. So, um Okay. So, outreach clients um miscellaneous assistance up to $500. And to leave it at that. Is that okay?
>> Yep. >> Okay. Um I did have website marketing development. And the reason I left that on there and I put Canva monthly cost including surveys. Canva in case you want to do any surveys um in Canva, Canva Pro, our newsletter is no longer
going to be um we won't be able to use Publisher within the next year. So LPI does sponsor the Canva Pro. So we might be able to work right through LPI and do that. So that's what I thought. That's why I put that on there and I left that on there if that's okay because that's
going to be a monthly expense, but I think we can pay for for the year like we do with the hotspots with the library. I think we'll be able to do that. So, um, and LPI might have a lower cost. It might be a lower fee. And the other thing is if we're doing our newsletter and Canva Pro is they're
going to set up a new template for us and they're going to have the tech people that can help us if we can't if we can't do something. So, I figured we might as well work with them, you know. Um um technology equipment for the tech cafe if we need it. We haven't needed any in a while, but I just left that on
there in case we do. >> Um >> we're lending some of the equipment to >> Oh, good. >> people who are needing particularly for things like SNAP and and working with um our outreach workers um to
>> let them borrow tablets and and things. So if people don't have a computer at home or unable um we we partner with them. >> Great. Yeah. >> So that's going on. >> And then I the other one I have is activities. So it's to pay for
instructors, other expenses for like our exercise instructors. I'd like to also maybe pay for lunchons or pay for even entertainment. >> Yep. >> Because when we have the the people come in sometimes we've been taken out at either gifts and donations, but we can also take it. And I like to have the
variety so that when I do my report at the end of the year, I can tell them this is what we used the funds for, this is how many people it helped, this is what we did. And I think, you know, I know that when um I think the lady's name was Lisa when she came over and brought the check and we did a tour, I
think it was on a Wednesday because it was very busy. And when we did the tour um and she was so impressed, she said, "Wow, you guys do a lot of We had the art class going on. We had I think we had an early morning exercise class going on even though it was Wednesday with the social day and um I forget what
was downstairs there was something else going on and she's like um wow you guys are really busy here. I said yeah we you know we keep going and she said well this is exactly what we want with you know so that's good to show that we're doing a lot with the funds. It's not just one thing, you know, it's not just
meals. It's not just, you know, so. Okay. So, I will do this up. Um, I have the same introductory information on the front of this that I did about when we started doing this in 21 so that people know that that's how we got started doing this and with the town
administrator and Nicole Po asking us to put this together. And then, um, I'll put a new date on it and then I'll put the following five uses for South Coast as of May 12th. and I'll put this together and Eileen will sign it and I'll sign it and Oh, yes. Oh, sorry. >> One question. Yeah. Make sure you put
for Westport seniors only. >> Uh for the outreach >> for any of it. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> All because I've got the email that Rodri sent. >> Yes. >> He said you could use it for anything for Westport seniors. Yes. You know, originally when he sent me the stuff, he
said, "Use it at your discretion for whatever you need." And then the newest the newest letter that came out said uh for Westport Westport um services and seniors. So >> well it said Westport on the original newsletter in uh the email in 21
>> 1921 it said Westport residents. Okay. So make sure it's residents. >> Right. >> But it's been primarily people. >> Oh it always has been. There was only one person that we that was in Dartmouth that comes to us and we were >> the last years.
>> Um >> okay. >> So you had five. One, two, three, five. >> Supportive day program aid. >> Oh, supportive day program. Yeah, I forgot that one. >> Okay. >> And the only reason we put supportive day program aid on there is because it
does works with a lot of people, but because we lost the CFC position and we were like, well, maybe we could pull from that, too, you know. So, um and then um let's see. That was to
restore. It's mine. That's mine. Did people get a chance to take a look at the change of occupancy? The thing I don't know if anybody understood this. Um, I kind of got a sense of what we might have to change,
but he said, and I and I think I sent you the little blurb that he said, >> this is the report that we are um on the 10th edition, >> the famous famous code. Famous code 10. >> Yes. Let's just >> thought that was a police code for entry
or something. [laughter] Police code 10. So anyway, um I didn't know if anybody had anything. >> Really? It's Ralph, right? We got to get Ralph to interpret. >> This all this all went to Ralph, too. And I haven't talked to him. >> Explain to us.
>> It's limiting how many people we can have. >> Yeah. Set up. What do you think about that? 49 >> classes. You're going to >> Yeah. >> Three classes. You're going to exceed that. >> Well, we don't have the classes at the same time. That's the thing. I can't And >> per room or per the building? It's for the space.
>> It's for the space that we have. So there's other there's like a separate room and there's a big cafeteria. So if I had 15 have 10 people in the art class or whatever, 10 or 12, which is what I have and then I had 22 in my exercise class, I could hold those at the same time. But again, you're right. It is
limiting to 49. So So that we don't have to change the code. Like we don't have to move into a different level for the code is what he said. >> And I think that this is where It's in engineering language. It's in in
Ralph language. We need to have Ralph um be our Ralph Souza be our interpreter. >> Um and >> see if there's anything that needs to be >> um uh appealed. I'll go to Boston. say when when we had met with him before he
was saying if there are things that are in the the 10th >> a code 10th >> if we do not agree with it or that we're asking for something different that we would ask for >> just apply for variance variance
>> um and it's not that um perhaps that >> difficult >> difficult but we would have to explain why and I think that that 49 is an arbitrary number and >> well I think that came from me because because Bob asked me how many people do
we have so what I did was I and I'll go back and look at it again Mariel I'll look at each hour and how many people we have and see if we can stay under the 49 for for those I think we can because that's what I looked at I said I don't think we have more than 50 people in the building
>> is it 39 or 49 >> 49 >> it is 49 >> there's one yeah one under 50 puts you into another code >> gotcha So, >> and I'm pretty sure that's what we did because we because supportive day would be moving. It would be my exercise class. It might be my tech class. So, again, the tech class and Right. Right.
And but any afternoon, >> the pertinent part here, I mean, don't get me going here on this >> because this is the kind of information we should have had a year and a half ago. with all due respect or two years ago or three years ago whenever
regulation 10 came out there should have been >> from the town. >> Yes. >> If you want to use this building >> and we should get in before number 11 comes out. No kidding. >> You know what I mean? Like get get in. >> No kidding. But but I I think the point here is that um
>> this we're discussing two different concepts here. Use and occupancy. >> Okay. That's the whole object of this whole high school conversation. Yes, >> cuz the building was built to be a school. It was designed with regulations to be a school. Okay. And now we want to
use part of the building as a school and a part of a building to do other things. Okay. So they produce a document written in Chinese or what some language that no one can understand and no one interprets it for years years until we prevailed on
them to say we would like to go in that building >> and not a word about regulation 10 until >> when we met >> in December. >> In December. Okay. And we get the report. We get the report and now it
throws this crazy number 49 in there and well what what does that mean when you get to 50? What are we going to do now? And if the if the what we do now is you have to do ABCD. Maybe we can pay do ABCD and don't worry about 49. I mean we
need to be clear >> or get in there >> with the 49. start this process this >> ball because that's this is an example of getting to know not to Yes. This is how getting to know works. >> You've always said that. It's true. >> Okay. This is how it works. So I think
we we when we get to the point about what we said last night at the meeting >> is the point is that the whole building needs to have this analysis done for whatever idea you have you want to use for that building >> for our our purposes. Right. Perfect.
The next step is meeting with Ralph. >> Yep. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Getting this L. Do we have a date for that? Is I'm sure he's busy, too, but um >> Well, like we all met before. We should do that again. >> That meeting together again. Good >> so that we can all meet. >> Good with the building. >> Get that rolling and >> Right. Right. Good.
>> We had the town manager at the meeting. We had >> McGwigan at the meeting >> six years now. And I've been asking to increase exercise classes this almost this whole time. A woman got up last night who said she's on a waiting list >> and she's so glad that this is finally
starting, >> but I don't want to say I don't trust the process, but keep pushing because >> Yeah. Well, >> keep pushing because if we're this close, >> Yeah. >> You know what I mean? It's just about getting our foot in the door and getting us established and then hopefully some of the grant the other grant money and
the friends money will come in so that we can do the air conditioning so that we can do Lisa told me that the ADA would put in the automatic door on the north side so that we can have an automatic door. She said no we got money to do that. I said that's perfect because that's what we want to do. Yep. So again, you know the bathrooms are
handicapped accessible now and and handicapped accessible I don't know if that means wheelchair accessible or not. I think they are to be honest. >> I think it would be handicapped accessible and right near the auditorium they have the bigger two bathrooms. So that's that would be that should be
okay. You know um again we're not moving sport of day over there. We're moving our exercise class. >> People jump around. They're in great shape. >> They need to stay in great shape. >> They need to stay in good shape. There you go. >> So and I know I kind of went out of order a little bit because we were talking about the um
>> I'm glad you did. But again, because this came up, so I wanted to talk about this with >> if I if I can just one thing on bet. Are you done with your report? Because it was just one thing I'd like to bring up. >> I think so. >> You talked about the uh board the this board has some vacancies. >> Yes. >> Maybe just get the word up. Yeah. Well,
oh, it is because I saw it in her >> the advisory board officers and and we have vacancy. >> All right. Well, it was on her under her condition, too. Just to get it out there to the public. >> Absolutely. >> I think I'm done. >> You think you're done? Thank [laughter]
you quite a bit. Thank you very much, Beverly. Okay, so for old business, update on the uses of the high school code review status. You've given us >> We just did that >> a little bit of that. Um I think that David and I um were at the meeting last
night. Um the select board has um [snorts] made some decisions if you will to to they have taken back the process of of what is going to happen and um acknowledged that and to that they have
a process laid out that each select board member will be in touch with um the town administrator to dis to discuss what their end vision is for this the building and for the part that we
request. [clears throat] >> Um and then they will look at how to get there. Um that was that was one important thing. Um I think two is um um no I just >> I think the big part of that was a
consensus. >> A consensus. >> So the five are going to submit individually their end concept, >> right? But there's going to have to be some discussion between them to get a consensus to lock in what that is going to be.
>> Right? Because I think we are referring to the north end of the building >> and the select board and the charge that the longterm committee was given was for all of the municipal
buildings and they did not address all of the municipal buildings. And so when people are hearing once again about the um old high school, [clears throat] we're not asking for the old high school. I think that that David brought
up and others have brought up um we need to stop calling it the old high school. Give it a name. There's nobody in town that we would recognize the building. That's that's one issue. Um uh that there are functions that we have going
on there right now. We are paying for the electricity and the insurance. It's a cost of the town in its current situation. It is not sitting empty. You have the school administration that is sitting there. You not sitting there. They're working there. You have the
children that are there in the after school programs. 100 children school maintenance department. You have storage for the school that of their some of their larger equipment is there. Um you have
um um >> basketball >> the re w rec wreck department private and and town related um >> in the fields so and pardon me >> and some are using the fields >> fields in the fields sports field so I mean that that it's a very active spot
now if you were to um kind of be aware we are not asking to take over the whole building we will end up having this as our annex and perhaps someday today. But the uh well the the other major discussion is uh and and a different
vision than than had been um made public before as much is to use for housing. And they were talking about low and moderate income housing because there's programs and funding and and so that was explained and maybe that would be the
use for the middle part. That is maybe our issue as as town residents, but it's not our issue here as as um uh [snorts] council on aging board members. We are asking for something very discreet and specific, but al those decisions are
key. >> They are >> to find out how to financially support that. Absolutely. You know, some someone had mentioned that get all the town offices in in that building and then use the old buildings for housing. >> Right. >> Right. But I mean there's a hundred ideas. >> Somebody's got to put their foot down
and say this is the concept >> and try to move from there because >> well I think that that um Dick Brew who is our liaison had said you know we need to have something for the town to vote on at the next town meeting and that's in April of 2027 and so it needs to be
in place >> January February of next year. So, you know, and and they were debating between and among themselves if this was was something that's realistic. But these were good signs. I I think that that we're going to have a decision. So, a year from now, we know what's going on
for the entirety. >> And when that decision is made, we'll be in there doing exercise classes with our people. That's what we want to get them. Let's make that decision. >> And the the the atrium, I mean, there's a beautiful atrium in there. We talk about the gardeners. I mean, wouldn't it
be great to expand this with with with just more people and and just lovely benches around? Anyway, Beverly, >> I have a question. Last night, do the select board members, did they get a copy of the code um that code 10 that
Robert sent me? >> There was discussion about it. >> I think they had it in their packet. >> Okay. I wanted to know if they got it because I know it went to Chris, too. Chris, >> they were well aware of it. They were well aware of the code 10. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'm sorry. >> Yeah, they were well aware. Yeah. And I
made it abundantly clear that >> Okay. Well, I wasn't sure if they had seen it or if they had access to it because they should have access. They're going to make a decision. They're going to need to have access to that. And there is there's there are several notions floating around and I think if you can conceptualize this sort of as a
jigsaw puzzle and pieces because I think there are four pieces to this >> excluding demolition just if you can just take demolition out of the discussion. Okay. >> And I and I think Jake had a good perspective on this. The things that are in that building already if you got rid
of this if just just get rid of this notion of getting rid of this building. Okay. If you did get rid of the building, you'd have to find a place for the administrative offices. You'd have to find a place for the after school program. You'd have to find a place for the storage. You'd have to find a place for the recreation. You'd have to find a place
>> and you'd have to find a place for us. >> Even the fields >> and the fields, >> that's a lot of square footage. >> There's a there's a lot of things that that facility indoors and out is is already providing to the town. And I think Jake was right to say, okay, that
would be a cost if you got rid of all this that you'd have to find a new place for all these things. So that that bodess well for the maintenance. I think I think basically >> I say that the demolishing the building is >> is off the table >> would be off the table,
>> you know. And another thing about demolishing buildings, municipal buildings, you have to do it the right way. It costs millions of dollars, millions of dollars to dispose of the the the um materials and that's that's been consistently left out of the
discussion. >> Somebody brought up that school is newer. >> Yeah. >> Than the town buildings. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Like that didn't click with me. It didn't click with me. But >> so demolish. So I don't I think demolish is out but but but there's a there is several ideas floating around and and I
think if you see it as a piece of pie, one idea is slices of pie. You you have the school >> and and some people have analogized it to three condominium concepts. Three three different condominiums in this building.
Okay. I'm not quite sure I can figure which three or but but the Y is interested. the Y has come to the town administrator and and started talking about looking at the gymnasium. Could we be part of a Y complex? Yes. I I had actually talked to the Y two or three
years ago about maybe we could use this as part of a Y. You can have as many Y's. You can have 500 Y's. Doesn't matter. I said, does it matter? There's one in Dartmouth, one in Plymouth, one here, one there. No, doesn't matter. You can have as many as you want. Okay. So, okay. Let's forget that notion that you
can't have it there. So I don't know if if it's a a housing component, uh a a Y component and a social there pieces. Just think of it as a puzzle and a pie puzzle and trying to
put the pieces together and who would manage A, who would manage B, who would manage C. This is sort of conceptually what people are trying to wrap their head around. And and I think housing got this um elevated status because
there are probably two elements to why housing got because we have a housing need. Of course we do. Okay. And everybody who talks about housing thinks well somebody else will pay for it which that which is is you know music to some people's ears. Well gee let's just do
housing somebody will pay for it and it'll be off our we won't have to worry about it anymore. So, I don't think there's going to be enough. I don't think there's enough there to do a housing project, but you could do a section, >> right, >> in the complex, 15 units, 20 units.
>> Well, for our purpose, right, just to make it clear because we're kind of going all over the place with this. >> Yeah. But but it's but it's all conceptually part of we're in we're in the formula, >> right? That that's the key, I think, for us. We're in the formula to remind everybody that >> if we can get in there sooner, Yes.
>> is important. Um, and obviously we're part of whatever the big picture ends up being cuz we absolutely need that space. >> Oh, they asked if you watched the movie, if you if you watched it, they asked Eileen, I keep hearing people say tomorrow. She said, "Tomorrow, >> move us out of there to to the high
school." I don't think they realize how that building does have where we are now does have a very important function for social day >> and it's set up like perfectly for that. >> Absolutely. >> But not the exercise. So, I would hate to see them close that building. and move everything to the high school.
>> That's not that's not a realistic goal right now. >> I think that building is extremely suited for social day people down social services >> in the high schools. What we need is for these exercise in these classrooms >> and and that's what because that's what needs to be expanded on because we have
weight list on exercise. We have weight list, you know, those are where we have our weight list. So those those are the things I can't put another class in in the afternoon because I have other things going on. So again, >> that building is suited for what we Yes. Other than that, >> yes, >> is suited. I just I think people are getting the buzz that that's not working for us.
>> And it's maintained, correct? Because that's the other >> Thank God to the friends. the friends and and and Beverly has seen, you know, like you've been on using the grants for elevators and and themer and the the the restrooms have been upgraded and and it
just it's not a fall and the kitchen the friends put the the beautiful kitchen in and but it's it's you walk in and it's immaculate. >> It's very well maintained, >> right? And I think that that's something that we can't say about all of our municipal buildings. Well, Rich, just for the public, I just want them to
understand that we're okay in that building for certain programs that we have. It's the expansion of the classes. That's that's what we need. We don't need a half a building. We're fine where we are. It's been wellmaintained. The friends have been good. The staff has been good about taking care of everything. Uh but we just need this expansion is for these exercise or
programs. That's right. >> Not the main building. We're fine there operating right doing. And and last night the question came up like how well if if we said that you could go in how soon could you go in and I got
>> to answer that question and I had said you told us tomorrow we could probably be in there by the end of the month you know with with just the way things >> I'll back my pickup up and bring down >> I will [laughter] that was what I was implying is that we have so many volunteers so many people
that want to have the the exercise programs that are in there. We we would have to move the exercise equipment, you know. Um um there are things that that could easily be done and we could be in there in in a few weeks. And and um
>> uh we we have and I reminded them how many volunteers really run the senior center here in town. We our receptionists are volunteers and >> yeah, >> you know, five days a week. I mean, how many and there are people that we could
recruit specifically for the Absolutely. So, so anyway, it just we're ready. >> They just need to let us know. >> We have been ready for years. Let's go. >> So, we we need our meeting with with Ralph to give us some guidance and translation. >> Okay.
>> I would say when you say the takeaway was in the end, I felt like we were going to get in this building. That's sort of what I felt like at >> Yeah, me too. Sean had me to come. She wants the the code reviewed, >> an attorney, >> insurance, we have the insurance. Yeah. But she
probably wants it just to >> she wants it >> somehow documented that you're right. It is the same insurance actually. So [laughter] it's it's and and I that's what I had. >> No, but she's right. She's right. We should >> absolutely and we wanted to we want for people to be safe and to feel comfortable in that building doing their
activities and exercising. I don't think she believes me because I did reach out to MIA person in Quebec and he said to me any of your town owned buildings you are covered liability is covered. So if you do an exercise class in the COA and then you do it in the gym you're still
covered. It's the same it's the same company. It's the same building you know the same things. If we were doing something different that may change but we're not we're not doing anything different. >> We've had events at different towns. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. >> We were covered. And one of them even looked into a parking lot.
>> Yes. >> That was a privately owned parking lot. And that was different cuz it was not a government owned building. The second it's a government owned building, MIA, I believe, whatever it's called. Didn't transfer. >> We need a ride. Yes. Yes. But we can get that, but we don't need that. It's a
town building. It's a town owned building and we're perfectly covered for that. >> Right. So, code review status continues. >> Yes. [laughter] >> All right. very happy. >> It's It's moving >> moving maybe.
>> All right. Our Westport 250 celebration um we had the Abna Brownell Brownill event um was in Shorelines. Beverly, you want >> That was just last Thursday. >> Sure. Because of the rain, we weren't
able to get the actor and the horse that he was going to ride through. was going to ride through town and I thought we could do that outside but unfortunately because of the rain. So, um Jeff Fitton um uh wore a horse little outfit
>> and they were all dressed up. We >> It's on YouTube by the way. >> Yeah, it is. It is. [clears throat] Um and um um there was a gentleman and I can't think of his name who came in and um he was a >> what? >> Aaron. >> Oh, Aaron. Okay. Thank you. [laughter]
>> Yes. with the musket and everything. And he was very good. He was very in uh people really enjoyed it. I think we had probably about 35 people there, maybe 40 people. We had quite a few people. So, um I did tell the exercise class that was there till 11 that we were going to
be starting and I said if you want to stay, I let them know and a lot of those folks stayed, but a lot of other people came in to the COA and because it was advertised and we had put it on Facebook and everything. Um, so it was very well attended and it was a really, excuse [clears throat] me, a really good event. So, we were really happy with it. So,
um, and and people asked, you know, good questions and things. Um, and, uh, it [clears throat] was it was great. We were really pleased to be able to offer it and to be able to do that. >> So, >> yeah, that and that was it was fun. And it was a cold, rainy,
>> terrible day. It's served coffee and pastries, so people had that. We did a little bit of a break and people had that. Okay, thank you. The next um item on our agenda is the director's job description
uh job um ad placement update and as far as I can tell, it hasn't been placed anywhere. Um it is not on the town's it was approved at the select board's April 27th meeting. It is not on the town's um
website. I checked as recently as this morning um before I came. Uh we have asked that it be sent to MCOA that it be um uh to go to MMA, the the Massachusetts Municipal Association where the professionals look for other
professional jobs. And for the colleges and universities that are in the area, University of Rhode Island, UMass, Dartmouth that that have >> people that are graduating with with degrees either in in in the areas that that it's in the job description. Um I
had um [snorts] last week asked the um town administrator's office um what the status was and it's on our town administrator's desk. Um I had asked um
>> Mr. Brewer >> um if he had any insight to um what the status was and he was going to get back to me. I hadn't heard from him as of this morning. So there's nothing that's happened. other than it's been approved. >> All right.
>> So, it's just waiting to be transferred out to the those places, >> right? But it's >> post being posted somewhere somehow >> and and we have had a number of request I've had personally a number of requests from from um individuals um who are who who I mean the fact that
Bev is retiring is a very public um knowledge. I've been um contacted and and um from some of our our meetings um outside of the center outside of Westport people have been asked. So um
just letting you know that people are very interested who have credentials >> to to be able to >> is there anything we can do to help expediate put that out there? If I knew what the answer was to that, I'd be on it. Give [laughter] it to you because I
do because we do not want a director that can give a two week notice from where he or she is sitting, right? >> We want somebody who is is in a responsible situation that they would have to give >> maybe 30 days at the very least. So, I
mean, these and and the whole process of interviewing takes time. So, >> well, you did say uh Mr. The brewer's been tied up lately and stuff. So maybe maybe another reach reach out to him one more time. I hope so. Put a fire under something. >> Well, we walk across the street here. >> Well, [laughter] ask. Oh, we can ask. He's right there.
>> We can ask where. >> We also um since I started speaking have a select board member >> here [clears throat] in town from town. Um >> good morning Monday the room. Thank you for seeing you here in as our public. Um [laughter]
I'm late. >> No, you're not late. just it's delightful to have people that are here >> to hear us. Um we're discussing the the director's job um placement of the ad and and as far as we can tell there's been no movement since your April 27th
meeting. >> So >> we'll check on that. >> We working on that. All right. New business. Review of the Roberts rules. Um >> be for the open meetings. What we needed to discuss meeting >> it's what
>> you didn't read the thing about the co >> Oh the friends the friends joint meeting. You just missed that one. >> The tomorrow. Just a reminder that the French joint meeting is tomorrow at 10 o'clock. >> Yeah. >> In the tech cafe at the >> Is that open to the public? >> No. Okay.
>> It's No, it's No, it's just a closed meeting. But I just wanted to make sure. >> That's why nobody's showing up for a tuna for sandwich. That's >> not open to the public. [laughter] It's just >> coffee. And we really more or less review the with them and and set out some goals for the >> true so that are jointly. So
>> did everybody get the agenda because I think uh >> I have an old I have the the >> okay no the agenda for the meeting tomorrow. >> Yeah. >> I don't know if it got sent out. >> I don't got >> I don't think so. >> I don't think I got >> I can't go anyways but I >> actually I might be able to go.
>> I I will resend it. >> Yeah. Just to make sure people have the agenda so that they have it. It's a very simple intent and um >> it's only like 3 or 4 and we are scheduled from 10 to >> 11 >> 11:30 >> 30 at the latest we'll have coffee and
>> snacks. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> The Robert's rules I just wanted to review again for open meeting law. If we are all on an email and we correspond back and forth that's considered part of
an open meeting and it's not allowed. So, we want to be really mindful of when we send answers or questions, we just do it individually. So, if Muriel gets the email and she has a question, she can just send it send the question to me or send it to Eileen or whoever rather than
like forwarding it the whole because then it goes to everybody. >> So, other than receiving a group email, >> you should not communicate in that group. >> Yes, the group email is constitutes. answer a person individually in that session of >> so when I send out my report I send a
group email but I shouldn't get anything back unless you have a question about something then it individually ask me you know something about either the meeting minutes or something about my report or whatever just get back to me >> not in that group don't hit reply all >> don't hit reply all
>> yeah so just just a reminder just a reminder for people so >> um >> okay >> next All right next coa a board. We have um been down a board member for close to a year unfortunately through Carol's
passing >> and uh I just uh received early this morning. Tony is not renewing for his um reappoint. So we're going to miss Tony on the board. So we know that we're down at least two um
>> positions, two vacancies. >> Um if somebody Well, it's not public. So until um anybody who's interested on serving on the Council on Aging board, I urge you to send your resume to me or
brief note. We have a few people that we have spoken to or have spoken to us already who have expressed an interest. Um we need to know some background. Um [clears throat] and um we'll be willing to talk to you and and
see. But this is very important work and I know on the town um uh meeting agenda it we've never been listed as having one person down um for the whole whole time. So, we know that
we we have at least two openings and um I urge you it's a it's a fun group to be with. [snorts] You'll have a good time. [laughter] >> And I and I did print this out from Mass Massachusett Councils on Aging. It's called the Elements of an Effective
Council on Aging Board. And I think I did put this together for people. I also had some other things that I gave you. Um yeah, I did. Yeah. So you did see that you had it. >> I kept mine. I kept mine. So for the new people and again depending on when you
started I may not have given it I thought I gave it to everybody but anyway this this came through from EMTT. Um >> I know I gave it because I printed them out >> years ago. Yeah. >> Years ago. >> This is from May of 2024. >> Yes.
>> So we've had had this. You can have that. >> Yeah. So um but it just it talks it talks about you know what your responsibility is um what what the director's responsibility is um onboarding people. It just it just gives
you a lot of different information. Talks about best practices. It talks about you know what your your uh being a volunteer. Um and it talks about different towns and how you know how they um ask for things and everything. And one of the things they did talk
about is what the um uh officers what's what's necessary for officers and and having officers on the board and not having officers on the board. And of course, I can't find it in here, but I'm sure it's in here somewhere. It talks about um having a chair and having a
vice chair and I think having a secretary or something like that required to have >> was there three positions. Yeah. So, um, anyway, I just wanted to make sure that, so anybody that's going to be onboarded that's interested, I'll make sure that they have this. I'll make sure that they
have a list of the acronyms that Tony told me I didn't understand anything when he first >> biggest nightmare. [laughter] >> A L J P I'm like, >> so I will make sure that people have that. I have that folder together and I have the masters. So, I'll make sure
that people have that so that anybody coming on board would have that. So >> yes, it's it's a it's a very um important tool. Yes, I think and a resource. I think it's also a reminder of of MCOA is a very professional
organization and we've discussed our place in that organization. So, anything else here that we have anyone like to topics not reasonably anticipated within the last 48 hours >> next month. Is it okay if we invite a
couple of people who are interested to just come and see and we can kind of meet them with them? >> Yes, >> it's an open meeting. I I I do have one thing though that I would like to say is that um I accompanied Beverly and Andrea to the
ARW annual meeting >> and the AR is very generous with us. It's the association for retired >> for the relief pardon me. >> Association for the relief of aged women, >> right? Association, right? >> Not retired.
>> I'm [laughter] retired. >> Yes, >> I'm retired. You're retired. >> Yeah. >> Um I have Andrea made a presentation and um she did a wonderful job in representing us and and what we do. Um I
was also totally impressed with the how integrated West Council on Aging is and um integrated with a lot of the smaller agencies programs throughout the South Coast. And I think that that's something
that we forget. We sort of think very proincially or only Westport and and we have discussions for some of the funding only Westport that's appropriate. But we are um part of the Buzzards Bay Coalition and um uh Centarian Performing
Arts Center. And so and so many of our people who are part of the Council on Aging benefit from from these other groups. and um we're very very much indebted to the Association for the Relief of Aged Women. It's been around
um since 1866. >> So, it just it's it's um something that um has been very important. Although they they said that they have um they are their primary mission is for women, they've been known to help some men from
time to time. uh their programs, their funding, they're generous, they're very open, and it's not just money. Their their motto is not arms alone, but a friend. And I think that that's um >> I believe that organization started out to help factory workers, right? Wasn't it?
>> No. No. Widows widows widows sailors, right? Widows. That's what it was. That's what it was. It started such good intentions back in the day. And they were anonymous up until maybe what four years ago, maybe five years ago until the new >> Say their name.
>> Yeah. Right. You couldn't really No, >> you couldn't say their name and you couldn't say you got the money. You got the funds from them, but you could not say who you got it from. It's a great organization. It's very it's it's really um >> phenomenal to see how it's integrated,
you know, in little ways with big groups, little groups throughout the whole South Coast. And they they have awarded I think 19 or 20 different organizations including us um >> uh grants this year. Every year they do
every year they do some um and um we've been very very lucky to be a partner with them. And just just a shout out so I'll let them know they've asked me to be on their board when I retire and I said oh yeah I will definitely be on their board. I don't have a problem with that. So, um, just to keep in touch
because they've done so much for, you know, the council and everything. Um, and we, like, um, Eileen said, we do partner with a lot of these other programs. We partner with Coastal Neighbors. We partner with the New Bedford Food Shed. We partner with Ziterian. So, people can go and and, um,
uh, they have tickets so they can go and go to the symphony or go to a show or whatever they want to go to. Um, they just sign up with aw. And, um, sometimes Coastal Neighbors will drive people there. sometimes, you know, we take people there. Um, we've done uh Habitat
for Humanity. We've worked with them, too, and they've so we've got somebody a ramp for our house and uh worked with Habitat for Humanity. So, um you know, it's been really really um very successful. It's it's they've changed a little bit about how they want to be out
there and open, but they also want partnerships. They want us to work together. Um the New Bedford um not Whailing Museum, the the New Bedford Museum. It's not the art museum, it's the other one. Um but the New Bedford Museum is on there too. Um and um we
usually do a lot of the presentations and stuff. >> The museum. Yes. >> I mean the partners are the uh New Bedford fishing heritage. That's the one. That's the one. Yeah. You know, it just it it just a lot of the these um
social programs, if you will, that we have are >> supportive day people have got taken advantage of and and members of of um council on. >> So, it's been it's been really really successful and they changed two years
ago to a um trustbased philanthropy which they say that we'll give you the money, we trust that you'll use it the way you want to. I still prefer to keep it with the outreach because that keeps our outreach program going. So that's what it's always been for and I've always kept it that way because we have
other funds come in for other things. So um but they've been really wonderful with us. So um we were very pleased. It was a really good it was a good we always meet at the warm satada club. Yeah. >> Um and uh it was a it was a good meeting. It was a very very good meeting. I think they have 12 people on their board or 10 people. Quite a few
quite a big board. Um and they do they do quite a bit. I I just want you know every time I we have these conversations I go back to the notion that I don't think enough people I don't think in our society people know enough about social construct of services that are available
to people and especially in this town I think what goes on here prior to us being recorded was just we were in a little corner of the world no one knew anything about what was going on. >> Secret squirrel. Yeah. And and I think I
I keep pursuing or trying to figure out how can we have our voice. My my wife was in advertising and I remember I had a I had a project where I was selling a sweater and I put an ad in the New York Times for $2,000 and I did it once and I
never did it again. And my wife said, "You can't do advertising once. That isn't how advertising works. You have to consistently tell people what you're doing." And so people are aware of you. And and I think having spent all this
time in social services, I realized that that it it doesn't ever talk about itself. System does not talk about itself. Doesn't know how to talk about itself. Doesn't want to talk about itself. >> And there is so much going on here in this community.
Just discussions about all these organizations. Majority of the people whether they don't want to know or not, I don't know. But I think it's incumbent somehow going forward that we have to have either I don't it's not a newsletter. It it's some pamphlet. It's
something that that you can hand out to people and say these are the services that are available a in south coast then shrink it into >> neighborhood to a town to a section of the town >> neighborhood
>> so that people have we're aging populations. We people need help. They don't know or they don't want to know. And it's incumbent on us to not advertise once. If I can take my wife's, you know, we need to keep doing it.
>> And I think that's the challenge for us >> because there's so much good going on here and no one knows about it. Well, out of the 16,4 I think 53 was the last number Josh gave me, residents in Westport, um just over
8,000 are 50 years and older. And so, but if you do the 60 and older, I think we're at uh 5,900 almost 6,000. Okay. Out of those 6,000, we probably have about 2500 to 3,000 who do access the
senior center and know about it. That's great. Sometimes they just access us once a year. They come in to do their taxes. Sometimes they come in for the podiatrist. Sometimes when then they come in and they say, "Oh, I didn't know you did technology. Oh, I didn't know you did this." And and so that's kind of how, you know, but again to reach those
other 3,000 that don't know, that's what happens with the police and the fire. and you know they get to somebody when they have an issue, you know, because they don't go outside of their home and they don't want to, you know, they don't want to ask for help or they don't want to, you know, they don't want to open up this can of worms that something might
happen. So >> that's kind of always been our goal, right, is to get the word out. >> Yes. Yes. >> It you don't walk in there and it smells like a nursing home. There were nobody on beds and stretches anywhere. It's a very vibrant place where people are exercising, talking, hanging around,
educating themselves, learning things. Uh my introduction was literally uh picking up drugs from the the folks there when I was on a police department. Uh and that started my connection with them. Uh it's not what people think and we got to get the word out there. It's kind of our responsibility.
>> You know, I've tried for many years um >> and get to people before it's crisis. Mhm. >> Let's fix the stairs before Mrs. Smith falls down the stairs. >> Um, >> and and we really need to get that message out there. And like you said, your wife's right. Remember, your wife's
always right. [laughter] >> Uh, it's it's it's repetition. Repetition is the mother and father of all learning. And that's what we have to do is just keep swinging that bat. Get the information out there. >> Right. >> The services are here. We just got to connect them to the people who need
>> a great find the funding somehow. >> You guys will keep swinging that bat, I'm sure. Okay. So, we have a meeting tomorrow, our jo our annual joint meeting with the friends. >> And our next board meeting is June 9th at 9:00 a.m. in this room.
>> And the meeting tomorrow's at 10. >> I mean, tomorrow's 10. Yes. At the senior at the senior center. >> I'm going to cancel something so I can go to that. That'll be my >> tomorrow. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> I will cancel something. >> Be very nice. >> My last hoop. >> Unfortunately, I can't cancel my
appointment. And I really apologize. I got too many things on my I got too many calendars and too many things to look at. >> I move you adjourn the meeting. >> Okay. >> I I would second that. >> Okay. >> All in favor? Thank you. >> Thank you everybody.