[0:04] We're sat, we're just going to go in. And we've had a slight change in the agenda and we're going to give correction to doing this to side out with.

[0:16] Okay, go over here, since it will go out and then that way.

[0:19] I think I just wanted to give a quick introduction to that.

[0:24] Well, that is our use of all of our case management, so it kind of hits ground running.

[0:30] It's already come off a lot of ideas, ways to build the rest of the numbers up, provide a little bit more structure.

[0:39] Keep it installing, it will be all clear, it can insert this stuff like that.

[0:44] You're so mad that you got to Mr. Austin.

[0:47] Do you know what I'm saying?

[0:48] You've heard a ton of benefit there for one.

[0:51] It's good to meet you all.

[0:52] Thank you.

[0:53] Pleasure to be working with all the county.

[0:55] Well, I'm sorry.

[0:56] Okay.

[0:56] We'll have to be part of the transition.

[0:58] You know, there are...

[1:01] Oh, I see up the name now.

[1:03] Here it's three years.

[1:05] The 3.1 pro.

[1:06] 3.1.

[1:07] Yeah.

[1:07] You'd be in trouble with that too.

[1:09] I found a little research on that so far.

[1:12] and looking forward to being involved in them.

[1:15] And then, contributed my art through the programming there,

[1:21] the, what I can do, I know the art of it

[1:23] has to be laid-ac supervised, but I can certainly provide

[1:30] other programming that would provide

[1:31] actually a fact on the education,

[1:33] it would be definitely developed in very robust

[1:37] recovery program, if someone else.

[1:39] I'm worried about them.

[1:42] Well, I bounced back and forth.

[1:44] I've played on the weekends.

[1:45] I'm in no for caring for my old early father.

[1:48] And then during the weekend,

[1:49] I resided 19 sold in the street.

[1:52] Do you like one?

[1:53] Yeah, that's perhaps part of the time.

[1:55] I'm below the limit.

[1:56] Yeah, that's really good.

[1:57] Yeah, so it's over.

[1:58] It takes us extra hours and years.

[2:00] Yeah, I'll show you.

[2:01] Yeah, I'll show you.

[2:02] Perfect.

[2:02] Yes, and it's perfect for me too.

[2:04] It's a very generous thing that you provided.

[2:07] and I appreciate it very much.

[2:10] You're very comfortable there.

[2:12] We can board you, they can have some money.

[2:14] Yeah, I don't know how do we get it, yes.

[2:17] And I had Jordan the Marsh, who was just recently

[2:19] promoted the Corcorrel, then all the Russians,

[2:22] the Russians, the Americans, the Series,

[2:24] Stoff's team for quite a while, which

[2:26] just started training on the supervision of other

[2:29] Corpals and Sardines, some of them.

[2:31] Excited Corm, the view of the sport,

[2:34] That was a great for Brown, actually.

[2:36] I don't know about your shit.

[2:43] It was a good fight.

[2:45] Did you guys know I was nervous?

[2:45] Yeah.

[2:46] You don't want to guide me like two years now?

[2:49] Definitely what I'm doing.

[2:51] I love the guys that I work with.

[2:52] That's okay.

[2:53] Definitely a good brotherhood over there.

[2:56] Not from the mainstream.

[2:57] from having a wife.

[3:00] No, completely.

[3:01] It's not that.

[3:05] Cause that thing that I do give people here.

[3:08] Okay, DJ instructor and all that so I'm just, you know, I can't wait to keep on, you know, grow and then just keep out, you know, give them back to community. So I mean, we're going to call them pretty awesome too. So I mean, can't go and he can't go wrong there. So,

[3:25] Well, the only thing we'll look at how you is to save us from one.

[3:30] Well, I found out out the four year, but he clocked in at three this morning. So that's what it was starting our way.

[3:34] I'll give you guys the idea.

[3:39] Thank you.

[3:41] I think that.

[3:45] Okay.

[3:46] So, you know, that's quite all right.

[3:49] So, Michelle, I was good.

[3:50] You already kind of just opted on making money.

[3:52] So, I am super excited to say we are almost $13,000, which if you recall the last month we were down because of construction and everything.

[4:04] So we have definitely hit the ground running once the cups were off and we're able to fill the building.

[4:12] We've opened up the second floor. We've opened up the third floor.

[4:16] Next month's report is actually going to be fantastic. We're super excited.

[4:21] But again, it took us, or I should say,

[4:23] us, Kelly, one month to kind of get the groove of all the July loss and so we're making a very

[4:30] very good dent in that we're going to be at our budget gold and in fact the six month budget gold

[4:37] very much earlier. This is too obvious. This is too long. This is an average sense of 111.

[4:47] I don't know

[4:53] goal for the next six months and once we get to the second half of the year. So we're

[4:59] well ahead of that. Almost going to achieve that goal any day now. So.

[5:03] Last night, I saw a little bit of a politician that you would out of our time was doing

[5:09] a good hit. Well, a bunch of new patients. Yeah. Yeah. You want to put that up.

[5:15] So don't remember if you see your Matt had a chaos movie for all the time. I told all the time.

[5:20] You know, our first day here, I said, you know, all the days that ran out of kale smoothies

[5:25] and as a four years, I told her that's what I had every day.

[5:28] China believed to be either.

[5:30] Our variant, either.

[5:31] Come outside to get some air?

[5:35] Our variants report in the next page.

[5:38] Again, that surprised 504 line.

[5:40] That was the extra payment.

[5:41] We received an August for the surplus and the Medicaid from the state.

[5:46] So right now, we are above water by $64,000, and that number will grow as our census numbers come in as our mquips get paid out and then obviously get the end of the year or pro share numbers.

[6:00] So financially, even though we're only a couple of months in to the budget, we're actually looking really, really, really good.

[6:08] So, we're nothing really for the census thing. Again, you just heard the numbers today.

[6:14] So again, some updates, we've opened the third floor, as I mentioned, our Medicaid snapshot

[6:20] date was at the end of August, and I've talked about this, Medicaid takes two random days

[6:27] of the year, one in February, one in August, and that is how they calculate the six-month

[6:32] aim it.

[6:33] So the goal is to have as many people in the house as possible on snapshot day, and our

[6:39] Snapchat was 127, which again, it's two above what we had budgeted for the first and

[6:44] half of the year. So that is just outstanding. We'll talk about this exciting news a little

[6:51] more detail on the next page, but we are now under a million dollars in agent. If you recall,

[6:57] it was four million at one point. Not long ago. So that has been not way, way, way down.

[7:06] Um, Medicaid pending again remains the same. I know we had like one day we were zero. I've never seen that in 30 years. So, um, you know, that was kind of abuse, but it's manageable where we are right now. And we're actually seeing some good communication with Department of Health and Human Services.

[7:24] Uh, so as I mentioned on the last page here for the, uh, aging.

[7:30] We are down to $900,000. So pretty impressive. Pretty impressive. So we look back. You can kind of see where we are. Now again, you'll notice July is higher because the more people we bring in and blending and things take, you know, 30 some odd days to cycle through billing. So

[7:50] Let's just a lot of good news.

[7:51] We have a July, you drop 100,000 are receivables

[7:54] right from last month this month.

[7:57] So we are doing all good news.

[7:58] It's all good news.

[7:59] Yeah, it's amazing news.

[8:01] In our year and over, we got almost 100,000 off of that.

[8:05] So we've wrapped up our bad debt right off.

[8:09] And we'll talk about that during budget.

[8:10] That's the heart of the solution,

[8:11] but the bigger part is going after those colder.

[8:14] Yes.

[8:16] That's and collecting them.

[8:18] And I think more importantly,

[8:19] we now have solid systems in place so that prevents any future type of time.

[8:27] So last page, I'm sorry, I was getting this backwards.

[8:30] So Medicaid pending, seven cases, that's nothing that I loosely

[8:34] bolder.

[8:37] So overall, exciting report, I can't wait to share next month's report,

[8:40] we guys because it'll even be better.

[8:43] So any questions for me?

[8:46] Okay.

[8:47] Good.

[8:47] Thank you very much.

[8:48] By the way, I spent a couple of days off on a very recent one that got a friend out there.

[8:55] Well, it's good.

[8:56] Good.

[8:56] Yeah.

[8:56] People seem to be happy up there.

[8:59] I do too.

[9:02] At least at one of the, was it the temporary air conditioners?

[9:07] So we've had to do some air balancing.

[9:10] Yeah.

[9:11] And so those big black boxes that have like these big hoses.

[9:15] So those were brought in when we first moved and opened the units it was the dead as summer and it was pretty warm in there because not all of the air flow was working

[9:24] So we had to install those and as the building comes to all of the tests that Mary can do when they think it's working good and the air was perfectly balanced those get everyone's

[9:36] In fact, I don't remember seeing one in the dining room to day, but I don't remember what that was I think. Okay

[9:44] And again, I called manager, I wasn't complainin', I just said, hey, you know, one of my big things when we got to this building, where it's the air, it's going to be the best quality for this generation.

[9:58] And I'm looking out for that.

[10:00] Yeah, the air quality is definitely good.

[10:02] It's just, again, until we get every connector hooked up.

[10:07] And so, as you go to the new nurse's station, still behind the drywall and still instructions on.

[10:12] Yeah, those still have to be hooked into the HVAT system.

[10:16] I'll do.

[10:17] Working progress.

[10:18] Working progress.

[10:19] Working progress with that.

[10:20] So Max being a bit too modest, too, on how much work behind the scenes has gone

[10:24] and to getting that census up and everything with taking acceptance of the new spaces

[10:29] that have been renovated.

[10:31] And you have all the processes from the admissions side, business office side, the part that

[10:35] Kelly's team touches to the clinical side and the nursing team.

[10:39] Yes.

[10:39] And housekeeping and laundry and everyone's getting used to the space which is the figure that was before right and it's not something

[10:45] We've had to deal with and how many years probably three years. Yeah, and so there's just a lot of I would say growing pains, but it's an adjustment. Yeah, and

[10:53] Through maps positive attitude and leadership of keeping everybody upbeat working with facilities working with the project team

[11:01] These things are seamless, and you don't ever hear about all this stuff that goes in now the sausages made

[11:06] But I always see glimpses of it, and he doesn't talk about it just because that's not the way he is

[11:12] But it's amazing and it's been something worth celebrating because we we achieved these milestones and it goes off

[11:21] Pretty much seamlessly and we just kind of transitioned to the next milestone

[11:24] And we don't spend much time looking back to say wow

[11:26] We really go for a comment quite a bit as a team. I think it's spectacular. I've been I'm very grateful for the team that we do have because

[11:34] because we've been out for so long now, it's all become noise level, like these daily

[11:38] challenges, these monthly challenges, these milestones, we're projecting it, we're just

[11:42] keep cranking them out, and you only do that if you have an amazing team, and it's

[11:46] one of the least, take a minute to say that, because it's been really, really awesome.

[11:50] It's been my experience with the help of the earth, all of it as well.

[11:53] Good.

[11:55] Thank you very much.

[11:59] Good.

[12:00] Finance department.

[12:01] Where was?

[12:03] You may be at one.

[12:06] Good.

[12:07] Good afternoon.

[12:09] So yes, I'm going to write on the co-tails of

[12:11] Matt's introduction of all the good things that are going on.

[12:15] I'm going to start by saying as you look at this report,

[12:18] there is two months of entries for meals that are not included.

[12:23] in this report that would have taken all these slightly red values and put them to the good.

[12:32] Now, keep in mind, this is when the nursing home provides meals for the VOC.

[12:39] So it would have changed that the revenue would have gone out of the red and into the green,

[12:44] but it would have, in the same dollar amount, reduced the amount of

[12:50] positive bearings in the expenses. But in any case, these numbers actually will slightly

[12:55] better than what they look like by about 67,000. So let's get into a little bit of detail.

[13:01] So I got a couple of these highlighted the ones that jumped out, good and bad. The interest

[13:08] income is a little softer than what we budgeted. We had a feeling that was probably going

[13:13] to be the case because of our cash flows, especially in the first half of the year. We

[13:19] have a strong red serve deeds piece up by 42,000.6 over the budget. The male of refund is down

[13:30] a little bit. That one does have a direct expense that would have kind of matched. So that

[13:35] one's probably not as big of an outlier. The Sullivan House rent is down by about 32.9,000 of the

[13:50] more than offset that so far. Then in the nursing home, all the good great things that you just

[14:00] heard about, a little more detail, let me see here the Medicaid is high by about 39.7% compared to

[14:11] budget. And so is the skilled Medicare part A, which is a big piece of the puzzle that wasn't

[14:19] budgeted because we weren't sure the capacity to be able to handle those type of residents.

[14:24] You can see that we've far exceeded what that budget was and it makes a big difference

[14:30] on the bottom line.

[14:31] So definitely in good position coming out of the end of that second month.

[14:36] So I'll just go figure out what we did through the page.

[14:38] So one other note on the Solving House round, we'll note that the budget amount is much higher

[14:44] that normally, because we were anticipating that transition to the 3.1 level of care, and

[14:50] we thought that we had to, you know, take a stab at what we, what our Crystal Ball telling

[14:54] us, I think we had it in the 120,000 additional remaining, that number, because that number

[14:58] is usually like 170.

[15:00] So that is artificially high because it baked in for the second half of the fiscal year, revenue coming as result is a 3.1 transition, which is going to be delayed because it will happen with trails, and so the people that we thought were going to have to start this plan, we haven't started the plan yet. So we're almost three months behind schedule with that.

[15:20] That will impact our revenue.

[15:23] The good news is we won't have the expenses either, so it's going to probably balance out on the ledger.

[15:28] And whenever we've operating deficits, just as a plug, we have the opioid reserve fund that comes from the lawsuit money.

[15:37] So just like we did this year, we balanced the books, money comes out of the reserve fund.

[15:41] So even if there's a ton of paper deficit, there's no taxpayer subsidy because we still have the money in the reserve fund, I'll set it.

[15:49] And I'll take a look at maybe worth changing the waiting on the Sullivan House rent because of that strategy.

[15:56] I totally forgot about building that into the intelligence, but that might give us a better view of what we really are.

[16:04] So at the end of the day for the whole county, this says that we were under revenue by 1.4.

[16:10] but if you add that 67,000 that I mentioned with the Meals Entry, we're actually over budget on revenue by about 65.9.

[16:22] Now, more good news, the expenses.

[16:25] You'll see a ton of green on this.

[16:28] This is color coded.

[16:29] The highlight anything over a certain threshold.

[16:33] So you can see across the board,

[16:35] Most say everything is under budget at this point. The only one that's a little bit high is the cooperative extension, and I believe that's just a timing of the billing issue.

[16:45] But overall, fund 10, so all departments other than nursing is strong by 663.7,000, and then if we flip over, this will be fun to say on the healthcare side of things, we're also 721.3,000 to the good on under expenses in the nursing home.

[17:10] breaking that down a little bit more detailed. You can see agency so far here to date is under budget by

[17:19] 100,000. I'm sorry, 100.8,000.

[17:25] And overall nursing is under budget by 332.5,000.

[17:31] So that's some good news, especially with census coming up like it is right now.

[17:37] So that was the regular and they're saying not not agency under my sense. So this this does cover all it not just personnel.

[17:44] This is everything I didn't do the detailed

[17:48] I can certainly share that. Yeah, look if we want to break it off. We have to carry some of our agency buildings.

[17:54] Always a little bit behind right now. Yeah, I mean, we now will break names in

[18:00] separately, 542.

[18:02] Well, which we can talk later.

[18:03] This is the one I talked to.

[18:05] The four senses are wrapped up too, right?

[18:09] Yeah, it's, you know, a little bit of a carryover,

[18:12] but, you know, our L.A. program has, again, succeeded.

[18:16] You know, on the lead.

[18:18] We've got a bunch of L.A.

[18:21] There, and that takes place.

[18:22] We've even some of our other agency numbers.

[18:25] That's good news.

[18:27] Yes.

[18:27] So overall for the whole county,

[18:28] We are under expense budget by 1.3 and yet to subtract that 67,000 from the rest year.

[18:39] But still looking really strong in both revenue and expenses.

[18:45] The next thing in your packet is the consolidate cash flow.

[18:51] So we're hovering right around $2 million at the end of the month.

[18:57] Casuals are a little tougher to track right now because they are so dynamic and so sensitive.

[19:02] So the next sheet that you have here is the projected casuals for the sake of monitoring the tan.

[19:11] I struggled with this one because I wanted to give you up to the minute information and realize that I'll be chasing my tail if I do that because the next minute is going to change.

[19:19] So I had to stick with the snapshot at the end of the month.

[19:23] So this gives you a pretty good idea of where we are.

[19:27] You'll see in the tan line that I've added in shaded in gray the 750,000 plugged into a September

[19:35] inflow that actually happened today.

[19:38] So that's in this projection and you'll see the overall projection is an additional 4.4 million

[19:47] is what we're looking like we are probably going to need in overall tan

[19:52] income.

[19:55] Let's see where do I have the I guess I just have it on the

[19:58] updates. So so far we took 750,000 in July, another 750,000 today from the

[20:08] tan. For the ban we we have taken an advance for $1 million in July and another

[20:14] $1 million today. So $2 million on the ban $1.5 on the tan year to date.

[20:22] What's your new phone customer hand?

[20:25] So I think it's going to end up being somewhere around 6 million.

[20:29] Okay, that's what you originally thought.

[20:30] Yeah, around 6.5 issues, the original look it.

[20:34] So it hasn't fluctuated a lot, but the daily flow is,

[20:38] but what to fluctuate a lot.

[20:40] We started getting the investments from HUD again.

[20:43] It's got 87,000.

[20:46] That's not true.

[20:47] It was up over 400.

[20:48] So now we're just like three, 20, 3, 30 that I still have, but we're expecting those to come

[20:55] fast and curious, instead of the waiting race.

[20:59] So the updates starting back the beginning for the band and the bond, like I said on

[21:05] like David the totals and what we've done so far and we'll keep monitoring it, we don't want to

[21:10] be so tight that anybody's pulling their hair out and getting nervous, but at the same time we

[21:15] want to use the benefit of the draw system to minimize the interest, so we'll continue to do that.

[21:22] The audit status. So it's going really well on as you guys already knew they came in and spent their time here on site.

[21:30] They've been working cross sites since they left. We have a couple of minor outstanding things to work with them on for the final financials.

[21:40] the MS-45 was completed in Commissioner Nelson who signed that today. So that is all set. So all of our

[21:49] findings with the DRA are done. And then I was here when they were here, Doty and they all

[21:56] seemed a lot less stressful last year. Absolutely. It was a much smoother process for sure.

[22:02] That'll have an hour or two. Yeah. So it can go in really well. And whether they're here in person

[22:09] whether we're working remotely using the app portal and talking on the phone, the communication

[22:14] has been really good. And this week was the first week we reached out to Matt Hunt, who is going

[22:21] to put the final seal on everything. So he gave me some information I wanted to share with you

[22:26] today and again this is early

[22:30] The preliminary estimates subject to change based on the final quality review that all the financials will go through before we get the finalized version, which he's predicting will be by the end of October, potentially earlier that we'll have the finalized financials, but we have an estimated 4.2 million in the unsigned fund balance is what it's shaping up to be.

[22:56] Now just to remind you that does include health standing aging, so that $500,000 that we did the

[23:05] right off on early in fiscal year 27. You kind of have to take that off the top when you're thinking

[23:11] of availability of funds and then the rest of it that are still on the books based on what Kelly and

[23:19] her team and a little participation from LTC have been able to do a lot of that will be written

[23:26] covered. So we are in a really good shape with it. The auditor was extremely happy to hear

[23:33] our strategy by the way. So when I explained that we when I had utilized the full right

[23:39] off budget in the first month of the fiscal year instead of waiting and potentially putting

[23:46] ourselves in a scenario of double dipping with the process and inviting the bullet acknowledging

[23:52] that we had some bad debt and getting rid of it, they were very happy with it. The quote was,

[23:58] at the time, and he said, don't hold me to this, he said, but based on the progress with overall

[24:04] aging, that strategy, he was believing that might not even have to be a notation during this audit

[24:12] or aging reasons. So that felt really good to hear that. That we were on the same page and that

[24:19] strategy work to make sense for everybody. Let's see. I wrote down the Medicaid

[24:27] cost report is underway. That is due the end of this month and everything's on

[24:33] track for that to be on time with no extension still. So we're looking good. Last thing

[24:39] I have for you here is just revisiting some information. So the top of this table on

[24:45] on has the taxes to be raised by county for every county in New Hampshire.

[24:50] Three of these entries were fiscal year 27 because that's the data that was readily available

[24:55] for the rest of the counties. We had to look at 26 because that's what was available.

[25:01] So you've seen that data before. Down below was the answer to how does this relate

[25:07] in as a percentage of the overall budget. So using the same years as you see in the top table,

[25:15] Meaning Hillsboro graphed in us, you're looking at 2027 data. Everybody else, it's the 2026, so I just wanted to point that out.

[25:26] But the bottom graph is arranged by percentage.

[25:31] So your far left is the highest percentage of the budget is covered by taxes.

[25:36] the far right, the lowest percentage of the budget is covered by taxes.

[25:42] You'll see that we are in the fourth position or range to buy that standard.

[25:49] So 47.6 of our budget is covered by the taxes.

[25:55] Everybody the left, the tire, anybody the right, managed to come in a little lower.

[26:05] Any questions about that, David?

[26:06] is that I'll make sense, I mean, so again, just to recap up on the top, it's done by overall

[26:15] amount of taxes, so we are second lowest in the state and then on the bottom one, that

[26:21] one's done by percentage of taxes to overall budget and worth worth, worth lowest.

[26:27] And with the bottom one, show is really not a huge supply that is roughly half of our revenues

[26:32] I'll probably be taxed as the other half of the nursing home, then there are really other revenue

[26:38] streams that are all that significant that we are also need to compare them to those two major

[26:42] revenue streams and we are pretty much like everybody else. So it's hard to argue when it

[26:47] we're better or worse. I mean the numbers going to indicate that we're a little bit better, I guess

[26:52] depending on how you look at it, but you know I think I was really remarkable about this is why

[26:57] cost is only at 25 percent. I'm assuming they must get something that's timber tax related

[27:02] because of all the land that's tied up and logged. The county must get something. I don't

[27:09] know what the details are, but they have two nursing homes. So if anybody's going to have

[27:12] a higher percentage, they're going to be cost. Some reason it's a lot lower. I think timber

[27:17] tax goes straight to the parents for them. But they also have responsibility for logging.

[27:21] I don't know.

[27:22] Yes.

[27:23] Yeah.

[27:23] I think there's something more different up there because it's because yeah, it's very

[27:28] running.

[27:29] Yeah, it's very out of the town for, yeah, it could be thousands of adventures, no

[27:34] it's unincorporated.

[27:36] Whatever.

[27:37] But everybody else is right around 50% will evolve a little below, we're a little

[27:42] below.

[27:42] That's good.

[27:43] The service talk was a commission on this, I can't think of his name as

[27:46] also in there.

[27:47] We're a little bit of a big thing.

[27:50] It was sunny.

[27:50] There's like 14 or 13 of us. I'm going to incorporate you. I don't have to call them, but areas.

[27:58] So it could be lots of land. But then real worried about it getting locked up in this kind of sequestration and stuff.

[28:07] Yes. And then it's the only thing is where we just go into this innovation and we don't have to speak.

[28:13] So we can expect to see that.

[28:15] Well, but the bond payments are baked into this and if you take our bond payments out, we'd be neck and neck with co-oss, you know, the really low

[28:22] Over-attacks bill. So we get I think we're they were doing all right by different measures. These aren't perfect by any means but it's a pretty indication that

[28:31] When I spend a money like Trump and sailors

[28:33] are from it

[28:36] I think

[28:39] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[28:43] The facilities and operations. Mary had a memo for you. She's on vacation this morning.

[28:49] I just said, oh, I should be

[28:54] the should be slash better be something in your mind.

[28:57] I didn't see you.

[28:59] This is Sharon and I did not get one from Mary. She said she would double up on the next meeting.

[29:07] Oh, okay. Okay. Sorry. I've misunderstood that.

[29:14] Okay, so we're down to natural resources.

[29:19] All right.

[29:20] Well, you know, Admiral and Emily.

[29:23] I can talk to you, please.

[29:25] I'd like to introduce Emily Emerson, our new sustainability educator.

[29:32] So, thank you, guys.

[29:34] I think I've seen you a couple of times.

[29:36] Yes, yes, absolutely.

[29:37] Yeah, welcome board.

[29:39] Thank you.

[29:40] Yeah.

[29:40] I grew up here in Claremont, and then I received my education at Franklin Mayor's University and to Hampshire.

[29:48] So, will Hampshire born and raised and planning to say?

[29:50] Oh, good.

[29:52] There are some differences.

[29:53] Do you guys have something to call them apparently?

[29:55] Yes.

[29:57] So, you're both in same church and...

[30:02] Okay, okay, and we're listening to the Anderson's formula of Newportown.

[30:09] I'll, and she was, I can't make sure to send you a message or a child's staff for all I have to go and go.

[30:16] I don't believe that now, now we're kind of in the, you're right.

[30:21] Yeah, pretty much.

[30:23] that we have something else in common, because I'm pretty

[30:25] and I don't know if that's what we're in.

[30:28] There's some other family know that you know.

[30:31] Yeah, my other side is Aaron.

[30:34] Oh, that's a maiden name.

[30:36] That's also been around in this area for a long time.

[30:39] A lot of strong things here, I'm sure.

[30:42] Well, welcome.

[30:43] Thank you. I appreciate it.

[30:44] I'm excited to be here.

[30:46] So we're just going to go through a couple of things real fast.

[30:49] The sky is still open.

[30:50] it'll be running at least through this week and weekend, possibly into the next week a little bit,

[30:56] and then we're going to shut it down. It's been going well though. All our regulars have come back

[31:01] for presence.

[31:04] The hub is moving forward in good ways. The last of our equipment came today. We've

[31:11] got our commercial dehydrators and our silicone trays that are going to go in the dehydrator.

[31:17] That's going to allow us to make fruit leather, where you take berries and curate it, and then you pour it into the tray and dehydrate that, and then it's like a dried, and then you had as a kid, apricots, they used to do a lot.

[31:34] So, yeah, it's so precious.

[31:36] Yeah, it's so precious.

[31:38] And maybe we can do vegetables.

[31:40] I don't know, they're looking to it.

[31:43] We also got a few more tables,

[31:46] so things are shaping up there.

[31:48] We're positioned ourselves to apply

[31:50] for our food establishment permit.

[31:52] We just have to go through our punch list

[31:54] and get all our little pieces taken care of.

[31:57] So that when they come to inspect,

[31:59] which they will, we'll be ready for them.

[32:02] And right now we're focused on harvesting the Himpory nuts, that's the big, the big thing, these days, they just started falling last week, a little bit early, and they'll be falling for the next three to four weeks, our goal is to bring in about 525 gallons and that'll give us about 35 gallons of oil.

[32:27] So, this is a learning year for us, where we're going to be getting it down so that we really know how to make that oil

[32:35] Boblet the whole thing

[32:37] So, the next year and farmers can take it up, and they might do a cooperative, or they might want to just

[32:45] have one farmer put the label on, but somehow we're going to have

[32:49] Hickory oil for sale here

[32:53] The hub manager position, as we've been going along with that, and we're in our second

[32:58] interviews this week, we've got four very strong candidates where we're looking at.

[33:03] So hopefully we'll actually hire somebody to get into this week and bring them on, and

[33:08] that'll be really good for us to have somebody over there holding some of this stuff,

[33:19] your

[33:19] on that cracker for Texas, $8,000 piece of machinery.

[33:25] I was a little nervous about it, but we poured a whole bunch of last years,

[33:30] while that's into it, and black wallet shells are notoriously hard.

[33:34] And if you age them for a year, they get even harder,

[33:38] but we threw them in there and it's no problem.

[33:41] And they sent like a bunch of guns going off, but those nuts were breaking open,

[33:45] and it's a game changer.

[33:48] It's a game changer.

[33:49] It's the game changer.

[33:50] It's the game changer.

[33:51] Yeah, you know, if you've got a lot of meat stuck in the nut,

[33:57] it called that a clinkard.

[33:58] If you bring it through and it's still as if really where you wanted to be.

[34:02] So at that point, you either just chuck it and keep the nut meat or

[34:08] run it through a second time and then you've got smaller nut meat,

[34:12] which you've also got a bunch of small shells as well.

[34:14] So it's a trade off.

[34:15] I've done a bunch of butterflies with a hammer before, so I know that's yeah, and we can throw

[34:19] butterflies through it as well. So if you have any. So yeah, so we're focused on that for the next

[34:26] couple months. And our land is the land assessment, I'm sorry. When did I heard you want to

[34:34] read you with Steve Smith and it was great, like Vanderbent, fourth is good, but I'm telling

[34:39] about how it's going on in the food life. I was just yelling at the read you saying,

[34:42] eventually it's all grandfathered that the tax cut taxes aren't paying for all the

[34:48] dehydrated or in the grocery and then all that stuff. I didn't say that. I didn't hear it.

[34:53] Okay. All right. But yeah, I don't want people to get the impression that the property

[34:59] taxes paying for all the whole stuff. Yeah, it's all grandfathered and federal money.

[35:04] Yeah, I started and I mentioned that. But yes, that's the thing. We'll try to get our

[35:10] one that was listened to after the show because he has podcast. Oh, he doesn't say that

[35:16] almost I just want you know that really a lot of people heard that yeah, okay. So yeah,

[35:21] she guys were doing the job and the answer was good but it's just taking a lot of people now

[35:26] that it's time they're probably going to check. Yeah, gotta say that. You're right,

[35:29] I'm sure all of you might say, people are going nuts, but like that, I mean, yeah, just, you know, so yeah, so we're picking, we're picking Hickory Ness and Charlestown and Clairemont, they have a lot of these trees, so it's, it's good partnership with folks on that, the land assessment RSP, you know, we, we, we put it out for another month because we didn't have, we don't have a one, we didn't do.

[35:59] bit, we're expecting two more.

[36:02] So that's going to close next week.

[36:04] So the next time we see each other,

[36:06] we should have something for you there.

[36:10] And the RFQ for the RTP, the recreational trails program,

[36:17] the parking lot, that's going to go out to this week online

[36:22] and then we'll get our vendor lined up

[36:25] and we've got our GIA set up.

[36:28] So fingers crossed it all comes together and we'll have our parking lot before the snow flies.

[36:35] I don't expect a lot of snow for a while, this fall, because the El Niño, if you

[36:44] ever want to update on that, I'm really up to speed on that.

[36:48] It's already break breaking records, we're now at NEC and NEC with the highest anomaly we've

[36:55] known in 150 years were expected to go above that by 25 percent. So we're coming into a time of

[37:02] uncharted territory when it comes to flooding droughts, heat waves, it destabilizes the global

[37:12] climates. The good news is that in New England, historically it has not had a dramatic effect

[37:19] other than reducing snow, so it's wetter of a warmer, right?

[37:24] It's going to be wetter further south, then once you get down south it's going to be

[37:28] a lot of rain, Florida, might be.

[37:32] If it's anything like the ones before, but New England should be pretty much okay, except we might get a lawless snow.

[37:41] And so what they're saying now is probably warmer temperatures until late December January, and then maybe it'll start to feel normal again. So we still might get a nice season, but if what they're thinking is right, it's going to be a little later on.

[37:57] So anyway, that's good for me because if the parking lot project goes on, into November, hopefully I won't get stopped by the snow.

[38:06] So was that clearing that to have that parking lot right now?

[38:09] That's basically the size of the parking lot.

[38:12] Yeah, that's the footprint of buffer between the road and the parking lot.

[38:16] That's right.

[38:17] They'll have a small wetland that we left alone over on that side.

[38:21] It's 0.1 to 0.41 acres, the parking lot footprint.

[38:27] So it's less than alteration terrain and we don't have wetlands, so I think we're good to go,

[38:34] but I'm double checking with transportation or a bit of the state's going to be too open here.

[38:38] So they're not made of road, apart from our mayor road. Yeah, they would be good at it, it's for it.

[38:44] So there's that and then just finally our schedule coming up, got a few things happening.

[38:49] And this Saturday is the Sullivan County Farm Day.

[38:53] This is the third or fourth year that Gail McWilliam Jellies put it together, third.

[38:59] She does a great job with it and if you haven't checked it out, it's a great opportunity

[39:06] to see to visit real farms in Sullivan County and see what they do meet the summer.

[39:12] I'm not going to clear it for Saturday.

[39:14] I don't know.

[39:15] I don't know.

[39:16] We're going to be, Emily and I are going to be at Beaver Pond.

[39:20] We're going to have a table set up just letting people know about how the things we do.

[39:26] But yeah, we're hoping we're not going to get rained out.

[39:28] Right now it's right on the edge.

[39:29] Sharon is this here. They're talking for Friday and Clearing Saturday.

[39:32] It's not starting to hurt.

[39:33] They're saying 0.4 inches of rain on Saturday, but if you look at the probabilities,

[39:38] we're still hovering over 50%. So it could really go even the way.

[39:42] Yeah, it's going to seem to look a couple of days out and pretty much guessing much.

[39:45] the farms that are on that dock at our basket road blueberry farm in Duport, beaver pond,

[39:52] edgewater farm, five sisters in playfield, hall abearies, hilltop farm in Claremont,

[40:00] cave in gardens in Newport, King Blossom, little orchard up in Grantham,

[40:07] long view farm in Charlestown, Max Mabel, in playfield, Smith's Hidden Acres in Goshen,

[40:15] which I do not know. Do you guys know that form? I don't know where it is. I guess it's

[40:19] in your one or something. It's probably no. And Winner Street Farm in Claremont. So you can

[40:25] go to any one of those anytime between 10 and 4 o'clock and you can stop right there or you can

[40:32] start to go around and visit some other farms. And I think if you visit them all, you get some big

[40:37] price. So I think they grow off from people who are completely impacted you are growing. Yeah,

[40:44] That's right, and then you get a big basket of local products so that's not sure if you have to do a model or what if I put it

[40:51] They put everybody into a lot of them in a draw

[40:55] Yeah, it's very popular. I think you said you had maybe a thousand people well the first year was

[41:01] Game mustard last year not so much and then they're not sure whether it was competing things or the fact there was two days

[41:08] But that's one of the reasons they go back to one day. So I see it dropped off as the first year

[41:13] So this kind of week, see what the she is going to be.

[41:17] All right.

[41:17] Well, look, Laughman's event was very well attended.

[41:21] It is a very good next year.

[41:22] I'm sure.

[41:23] That's a great event.

[41:26] Emily's taking kids from Steven's high school to the environmental

[41:33] soil judging day out on the sea coast.

[41:37] Is that October 1st?

[41:38] Yes.

[41:39] That's what the class.

[41:40] And then that plastic cement is that.

[41:43] That's tomorrow night. Yeah, that's tomorrow night. Yep. It's through the

[41:46] Charles Town Conservation Commission's and the Charles Town Solid Waste

[41:50] Organizations for their official title, but they are hosting an event on

[41:56] just kind of educating the public on plastic usage in Charles Town and where that

[41:59] actually goes in Charles Town. So I'm just going to be attending that event and kind of meeting some

[42:03] people and get to know more of the people involved in the conservation that is important for

[42:08] Where did it go now?

[42:10] It's on the Charleston Senior Center.

[42:12] Well, and then we've got, we've started convening the Conservation District now in being

[42:19] all of the conservation of commissions for the county.

[42:24] And we get everybody in one room and do a roundtable.

[42:28] And we had one about six months ago.

[42:29] They'd really liked it.

[42:30] So we're doing another one that'll be October 5th.

[42:35] But you have to be, you have to be a member of a conservation commission to go

[42:38] that one. And then on the seventh, I think, in King, is a radically rural, it's a national

[42:47] event that's hosted by different communities across the country. I'll be attending that

[42:54] talking about sustainable agriculture. And finally, we're just excited to do an air-loom

[43:01] Apple Tasting, the Claremont Growers Collective,

[43:05] the partnership with the Well-Collabreded,

[43:08] at the out-of-the-convigational church down in Claremont,

[43:13] we'll put together an heirloom of Apple Tasting,

[43:15] we'll have 12 to 15 different antique apples

[43:20] on the writing of narratives on them,

[43:22] so people can appreciate the history,

[43:25] as well as give them a tasting sheet

[43:27] and they can write down their impressions

[43:29] because the very ability and flavor in apples is really quite astounding. And a lot of people

[43:36] don't realize that. A lot of these old varieties are amazing. I mean they'll taste like vanilla,

[43:42] or lemons, or grapefruit, or cinnamon. You wouldn't believe that they were apples. Anyway,

[43:49] that's what we have. But weren't viable as antique. What's that? It weren't viable as

[43:56] Well that's some of them great. I'm a big fan. You know we've got some of them. What you've got

[44:02] tough we've got a couple of out there. You do? Well blue grains. Oh do you have blue

[44:08] parameters? Yes. That's a nice apple. Yeah. We actually planted a couple of this. It was one of

[44:14] my mother and I was stable. There's one I'm so well it's been almost dead and it's making

[44:19] automatic, automatic. Do you know what kind is?

[44:23] Just a book ready, man. Oh, it's a book ready.

[44:26] Yeah. That's one. All right. That's a good. That's a good pie apple.

[44:32] Raha. So Mike had a family situation pop up today and then required him to go do it.

[44:40] So no HR. There's a couple of candidates in the assembly right now. I've got things on.

[44:44] And he will also double up maybe next time I'm going to call it, okay?

[44:51] So, both of the equipment and corrections for the second time, still I'm going to

[44:58] order it to that place.

[45:01] All right, please.

[45:06] On a company called new seasons, reached out to us. It's a mobile method, don't connect. They're looking to set up a shop in Seoul and county somewhere. They reached out to various places in Claremont and Newport. They're not really getting anyone who would interest on allowing them to come use their property for this purpose. So they reached out to us to see if we would be interested in allowing them to come out.

[45:33] on county property, two to three days per week, so that the anyone prescribed nothing

[45:42] don't install in county could come up here rather than travel for either keying or

[45:47] very loving ends.

[45:50] I know people don't want to manage this for any interest or to, it would help us not significantly,

[45:56] but approximately 3,300 a year, it would save us the transportation cost between staff,

[46:02] time and gas prices. So, don't think you have to go every hour and do it three years a week.

[46:09] You know, this is the ones I know, that's the good day of the year. I mean, you know, in the

[46:13] beginning, you know, there's a different prescription. So, some people have to actually report

[46:18] to a metronome clinic on a daily basis. Some might get it for a whole week. Some might get

[46:23] it for a few days to advance. So, we had, where they have for vehicle, it's mobile. So,

[46:32] It's kind of like a coach bus, I don't know how long approximately it is, but we got space for it.

[46:47] Yeah.

[46:47] It would increase some traffic, maybe 30 or 40 people throughout the time period, 30 days would come up.

[46:57] Well, they're not a lot of traffic on it.

[46:59] What?

[47:00] What do we have for my preferred locations?

[47:02] Are there just one?

[47:03] What do you think about that?

[47:05] I would say for murder probably be in the...

[47:07] ...correction center parking lot.

[47:09] They could just pour it in...

[47:12] ...leave life.

[47:13] Like, why is it in the parking spaces?

[47:15] Especially with not having trails right now.

[47:18] So we don't have as much parking up there.

[47:21] Another alternative could be the jail parking lot as well.

[47:26] I would just ask the time I had both of that one rather than falling off the market and I'd say this money.

[47:33] Yep, in a long safety and security to infrastructure as well.

[47:38] Yeah.

[47:39] Well, I know a panic.

[47:42] Quite often it's just, it's just, it's grown, it's down the bench, it's just so it's, it will be a more,

[47:48] and I understand communities not wanting downtown.

[47:52] Yeah.

[47:56] So just as track of Fogos, sounds like the preferred location is the lower parking lot.

[48:03] Not up on the street level.

[48:04] Is that what I'm hearing?

[48:05] No, I think so.

[48:06] And if you're employees, we need to make it.

[48:08] Seems up for elders.

[48:10] Grails are not used so much.

[48:13] And maybe they could even go over here.

[48:15] On the backside of this building for that particular day.

[48:19] A staff?

[48:20] All staff to park out on this side.

[48:22] Well, they could. Oh, okay. In the parking lot. Oh, okay. So you're sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll listen to what yeah. All right.

[48:30] In fact, the backside is pretty full. Usually with Matt's team. Okay. That's the main entrance for the music.

[48:36] So shot a few were in that whole lot with that disrupt.

[48:41] Because there's not a much laundry coming in and out. Yeah, that's the truth.

[48:45] We're going to have to actually park right in control. Right in front of the communications center where the laundry used the park.

[48:50] There'd be out of the way.

[48:55] Well, we'll let you handle a parking, if we don't like it, we'll let you know about it.

[48:59] That was good.

[49:01] First of all, does that be in a minute?

[49:02] That we did approve it, or is this just...

[49:06] I don't know what it's anything worth.

[49:07] I think it's more of an awareness.

[49:09] We're just concerned about, you know,

[49:10] I didn't really have to think about it.

[49:11] Do you have any questions, comments, concerns?

[49:13] Well, if it's going to save us money,

[49:15] and I know it'll be...

[49:17] It's...

[49:17] No clients.

[49:19] It's a good...

[49:19] Consensual.

[49:20] It's a trap.

[49:21] So...

[49:21] yeah. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Okay. I guess we can monitor it, right? And then up here. Anything

[49:30] untoward or a result. And obviously we can tell them, sorry, it's not working anymore. Right.

[49:35] It's not going to be bound by a contractor. Yeah. Yeah. I'll make sure we had some text at home.

[49:40] Did you know that out? Yeah. I think that even then. Yeah. We had 72 and

[49:46] reports and 17 disciplinary reports during this reporting period, September 6th, and it

[49:51] was discovered in their cell, the news tied around their neck. They take taken a good

[49:56] sheet and made a pre-elaborate news, tied it around their neck, and one of the officers doing

[50:04] their rounds observed it within a few minutes. The news had it been tightened yet, so they

[50:10] prevented kind of the worst case scenario on the snap on ship responded.

[50:15] When somebody was in relatively new office or something,

[50:19] yeah, you'd only been off training for three or four weeks.

[50:22] I was hoping to get up here tonight, but it couldn't make it.

[50:25] So in a future commissioner's meeting, I'd like to bring him

[50:28] and give him a commendation letter.

[50:30] Okay.

[50:32] Yeah.

[50:33] We have a lot of big,

[50:34] correctional officer positions.

[50:37] I already said that we hired Matthew,

[50:38] Well, as a case manager and the majority of the marsh is promoted but purple we also hired Kyle that's Robinson as a full fine

[50:46] Prefecture officer

[50:47] He started training with staff already

[50:49] Our average daily at house population was 45 in our entire highest daily population was 48

[50:57] We have eight males and one female patrol services

[51:01] Currently eight residents the wing at the salt house and three applications to the process the accepted

[51:06] We had two males complete the 90-day programming and our last day of programming of

[51:13] for trails was August 28. Apparently we were working on 14 individuals who were

[51:19] made an aftercare, so we still have commitments to them for a whole year as of August 28.

[51:27] One currently active IEA petition for public events meetings, I attended the NHAC meeting

[51:34] on September 11th, I also attended with a superkite.

[51:38] Hello, we're the acronym IEA physician.

[51:41] What's the acronym IEA?

[51:44] IEA?

[51:44] In volunteering emergency in this office,

[51:46] it was state hospital.

[51:50] Well, I'm training sergeant,

[51:51] slacking, forkled, you know,

[51:52] the kind of training at Primax.

[51:56] Corporal Carpino is currently attending the

[51:59] time and time and time correctional academy

[52:00] is expected to graduate on October 2nd.

[52:04] It starts with slacks, loads of dolls, and they look like they don't want to talk in classes

[52:07] that they can't be on various topics.

[52:12] Solid training, classification, manager, chat, parent, taught around the classification training

[52:16] for staff, and we had one hospital in detail where staff had to provide 24 hours coverage

[52:23] at DHFC.

[52:30] The question, any question? Okay, thank you

[52:39] for the man in there.

[52:43] All right,

[52:47] for the HGSC updates, we

[52:49] resume executive committee meetings. It's the first Friday of the month, so the last Friday was not too

[52:58] It's a girl, right?

[53:00] Two times.

[53:00] I think they brought it.

[53:01] Yeah, they did.

[53:03] Yeah.

[53:04] And we had our inaugural county manager, administrator, quasi affiliate group.

[53:11] So we've ever had an official affiliate group.

[53:13] The way you hear that talk about the nursing homes and the straighters or the

[53:16] Sean talk about the superintendent and the affiliate group.

[53:20] And I really hope we continue it.

[53:23] It was a super valuable gift together.

[53:26] There were five of us in the room and two more on Zoom,

[53:31] which is really, really good participation.

[53:34] So we've been brainstorming sort of a random list of topics.

[53:42] And we just pick like four and kind of know through them in an hour.

[53:46] And so really good stuff we talked about, for example,

[53:49] how each county approaches its IT contracts,

[53:52] or if they have in-house personnel, most have in-house team, four or five people, so right off

[54:00] the bat, they're probably spending a half million bucks just on staffing. And then that's

[54:04] before you get to all your licensing that we all pay. So just kind of re-affirmates it's an expensive

[54:11] undertaking to have in-house IT staff. I did ask some follow-up questions on email afterwards asking

[54:20] how hard it is for them to recruit and retain IT staff, because presumably those are folks

[54:25] that could work anywhere, especially since a lot of that work, if you're on a help desk,

[54:28] you can do remotely technically. So just waiting to hear just in case we ever want to consider

[54:34] bringing that function or some sort of capability in-house, because what we have found with CCI

[54:41] when they have a technician on site, which is one or two days a week, it's two days a week, right?

[54:47] It's just, it makes all the difference in the world.

[54:50] Staff feel like they're the response times of quicker, you know, you need to meet the

[54:55] somebody in person.

[54:56] The staff member that CCI sends to us primarily is like very personal.

[55:00] So it's made at world of difference as far as the service delivery and how we perceive that

[55:06] service.

[55:07] So when they're like, what do they do?

[55:09] We answer questions.

[55:10] And they're just, yeah, they go through the ticket queue.

[55:12] So some of them puts in a trouble ticket and they just call and say, hey, is Christian there today, can they come do this for me and he's this usually, you know, in motion for the whole time that he's here goes down to the jail helps that with with computer stuff.

[55:27] So we can still access, you know, the remote support on the outside supports great anyway, I just was curious, if anybody else doesn't like we do answer is pretty much no.

[55:37] So I think the way we do it is cost effective, it does have its trade-offs, the response

[55:43] of this sometimes is always as good as we do not, but anyway, I think it's a pretty good

[55:49] way to go as far as a value proposition. We also talked about health insurance, talked about

[55:54] that a lot. We're one of the few ones that are still on health trust. Most everybody has kind of

[56:00] gone their own way. Hillsboro County was on the interlocal trust. We were about to transfer to them

[56:06] and they went under, so Hillsborough has had a jump and do their own thing and what most counties

[56:12] are doing, and I really think we should absolutely pursue this because it takes about six

[56:16] months. If you recall, a couple years ago, we kicked the tires on going with a broker to

[56:24] have them go out and find us coverage. So basically, we go into the market ourselves, not as

[56:29] part of a pooled pool, that sounds a bit like a lot of myself twitched here's myself.

[56:36] So we wouldn't be pooled though we are now, it would just be us going out and the downside

[56:41] of that is you kind of ride your plane's history.

[56:44] If you've got to hear what would be planes, you're going to pay for it the next year.

[56:47] If your planes aren't so bad then you can probably get, you know, not a huge uptick in your

[56:53] premiums.

[56:53] I think we should go through that process though and just see what's out there.

[56:57] My fear is enough people have left health trust that they're going to be in the same boat that NHIT was potentially

[57:06] I don't have anything else to base that off of. I've not heard anything. It's just stands to reason that when your customer base shrinks

[57:13] It's going to be hard for that organization to remain viable.

[57:21] So I don't know

[57:28] to make her a little help trust. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. I don't know but I don't

[57:34] know anything in the K.C. or Nico will be able to help us with. I'm trying to kick around

[57:38] and it'll make it. If there's zero point five counties going out individually. Yeah, those

[57:44] types counties pulled. Yeah, that's worth asking the question, I guess. I'll talk to Mike about that.

[57:50] But anyway, but I do think if it takes about six months and a word of trust to be ready for next

[57:54] budget season. We're going to need to start that now. I don't remember if it requires us to put

[57:59] any money down. That's the part I'm going to get refreshed on. And if it does require money now,

[58:05] we'll have to find out how we would get around that. But I think in order for us to have another

[58:11] bid to look at, which would be, I think, pretty smart. The way things have been going. So anyway,

[58:18] we talked more about that as the mall funds. I'm going to talk to Mike when we get back. We also

[58:23] hurt from one of the counties that recently suffered from a cyber breach and there was some

[58:28] great lessons learned. We're actually going to have a more in-depth review of what happened at the

[58:33] next meeting but it came down to multi-factor authentication was the weak link in this county's

[58:41] armor and so basically this account was the the bad actors did a brute force password thing

[58:48] they just, you know, they run programs with random numbers until they, they find the right random set of characters to unlock that account.

[58:56] And they got in.

[58:59] They were in for about four and a half hours before they were detected, and they had a cyber response plan.

[59:06] They followed it.

[59:07] So they limited the damage.

[59:09] And because a lot of their stuff was already on the cloud, they didn't have to worry about servers and other devices

[59:16] that then have to be like sanitized. So their recovery was pretty quick. Our recovery,

[59:24] I think, would also be pretty quick because the way we've got things set up with our backups

[59:27] and stuff, but it's, anyway, we'll find out what else we can learn about my points meeting from them,

[59:32] but it was another one of those eye-opening things where it's just little things like that. Now,

[59:38] our multifactor authentication is pretty robust. We just have to stay on it, which was those

[59:43] of emails that I sent to you, but I can share that your county account was activated.

[59:50] And then we also talked about staff recruitment, so Merrimack added money in their budget

[59:56] for a dedicated staff recruiter rocking.

[1:00:00] PM added money to their budget for a cultural engagement coordinator, or some kind of a high

[1:00:08] pollutant kind of, but the point is that somebody who can go out and really focus on some of those

[1:00:13] soft things that impact organizational culture and climate to make it more likely that people don't

[1:00:18] want to leave at for some hours. Maybe, I mean, I don't know if I'm going to be a prepared name, right?

[1:00:23] We've asked for that. We've asked for a presentation for both rocking him and Mayor Mack to kind of weigh the two,

[1:00:28] the way rocking hymns approach is and what Merrimack's approach is and how well it's paid off.

[1:00:34] Apparently, the sounds like what in rocking hymns say the meeting, they were accused of having

[1:00:38] 75% agency, then a nursing administrator spoke of and said, it's not 75, it's down to something.

[1:00:45] And she attributed this cultural engagement coordinator as one of the main reasons why

[1:00:52] Ross cutting him, the Merrimack County administrator said that their recruiter has really helped them tackle

[1:00:59] a lot of their staff they can see. So maybe there's some things we can learn. Maybe there's a business case.

[1:01:05] You know, yes, it requires more money in our budget. But if a payoff is in savings of agency staff,

[1:01:11] even though we've made great progress, it's the OPNs that are killing us. So I should say we made great progress to the LNAs.

[1:01:18] Currently, our OPN agency is what's killing us. But anyway, more to come on that.

[1:01:23] And the last thing I thought was really interesting, we also teed this up for the next meeting,

[1:01:28] which is how each county has approached its un-signed fund balance.

[1:01:33] And I was shocked to hear that Hillsborough, it must have been a couple of budget cycles ago,

[1:01:39] had a 22% budget increase, because we were always told, oh my god, they've got millions of dollars

[1:01:44] in their reserve funds. And they did, once upon a time, until they started using those reserve funds

[1:01:49] to prop up their budget. And when that money ran out, and all the COVID money ran out, guess what

[1:01:56] they had to do to fix the structural deficit, they had 22% tax increase. And so we'll see.

[1:02:04] In the sheet that Lewis presented, grafting was just under 10%, care levels that 15% and a fairly

[1:02:10] little bit grafting, it's the same thing. So a few years ago, they had close to 20 million in the

[1:02:16] for fun balance, and then they were using two and three over four million at a time until there wasn't 20 million.

[1:02:24] That's, you know, that story should sound familiar because it's exactly what we did.

[1:02:28] You know, things we haven't really done has had that 20% tax increase to kind of end that's all right.

[1:02:34] That also we did it with the delegation.

[1:02:37] Well, the oil.

[1:02:38] So anyway, it's just interesting to hear that we're not alone, right?

[1:02:41] This is a situation where it's a trap.

[1:02:43] And we're not doing that a fall into it and it's painful getting out a bit, but anyway,

[1:02:49] hopefully this year we can, you know, we can take the sting out of that with here on

[1:02:54] Matt's early good news on the, yeah, I don't remember news. I mean that's, I don't know how about

[1:02:59] anyone. Just nice to hear from the other counties that we sometimes face the same families.

[1:03:05] So that was it for NTC. Item B, there's a memo in your, it's a printout just to

[1:03:12] confirmation from the state, local fiscal recovery funds that they've acknowledged our

[1:03:18] close-out report. So, you know, this stuff's important. And if you don't believe me, look

[1:03:23] no further than SAUSIFS. This is how we do apply for your reimbursements and do your paperwork properly.

[1:03:30] You can be on the hook for a lot of money. So, for the 8.3 million that we've got in our

[1:03:35] money we are now officially close the books on that.

[1:03:44] The next item is all on. This is a draft

[1:03:48] MOU for the Boys and Girls Club. It's just for your information only. It's going back and forth.

[1:03:55] In fact, I don't know if this is the latest version. Just to outline the responsibilities. I think

[1:04:02] at the closer we get to getting this project. The Boys and Girls Club wants to know that we're

[1:04:07] they're committed, and so this document will signify that commitment. It's not contractually binding,

[1:04:14] but it's a good faith. It's a way to convey good faith, which I think is important.

[1:04:20] And so far, we've done it's been horrible, so this just kind of takes it to that next level of

[1:04:24] getting something in writing, and also helping manage expectations. Both in terms of what they're

[1:04:31] operationally and then what we're going to do as the host what we're going to provide so right now

[1:04:38] it's set up for us to build it and thankfully we've got the 1.6 million from the congressional

[1:04:44] earmark that we think should cover all the costs of construction and then there's just the ongoing

[1:04:54] operational factors like utilities, snowpiling things like that the expectation is that the

[1:05:00] would cover those things. So is it still in the other thing? Yeah, so it won't be 100% cost-free,

[1:05:10] but you know, one facing the fact that we get a million and a half bucks build it. It's a pretty

[1:05:15] good deal, I think. And if this helps us with recruitment and retention, we'll then certainly

[1:05:19] there'll be some cost savings on the back end by having this facility on our campus. So that's obviously

[1:05:25] what we're anticipating for, the value proposition is, this helps us reduce staffing costs

[1:05:31] and so those will more than offset whatever minimal costs I would say for electricity, water,

[1:05:38] plowing, etc.

[1:05:42] They did bring up the, what's the phrase they use, like the startup costs

[1:05:52] And just having some sort of reserve fund to help them in the first several months and this may or may not happen every facility is different in terms of how long it takes to get up to steady state.

[1:06:05] They've just, they've learned from past projects that it's best to set and manage the expectations for the client.

[1:06:12] that if they've got greater staff in cost and then you revenue from the kids and the child care facility

[1:06:19] that they are looking for help for that because they're a non-profit they don't have a big war chest

[1:06:24] and they can't absorb those startup costs so that'd be something for us to figure out as well.

[1:06:31] But anyway, just want to share that with you. I don't want to continue to refine it

[1:06:36] with their director. He was in Scotland for a couple weeks so this was an early draft.

[1:06:41] So, much more to come, okay, and I'm going to add any questions on that, or issues.

[1:06:53] So, next couple of things, ribbon cutting update.

[1:07:01] Okay, here we are now recommending the number 14th.

[1:07:04] Instead of number 7th, number 7th of the day before,

[1:07:09] the start of the NHAC conference and we just thought it's also the first Saturday after the election.

[1:07:17] So moving at a week felt okay that's why I call the CFU to be around. So that's what we're

[1:07:22] that's what we're targeting now. I think the recommendation is we just set it

[1:07:26] and if the elected distinguished visitors can make it right.

[1:07:31] That's just too bad. I think we've got to just pick a date, nine-year-old. No, no. I was going to follow up and say, it's not a firm of 14th and just tell them that, and if they can accommodate it, then great. Well, we did have an initial committee meeting.

[1:07:45] We outlined a few tasks like invitations, the program, the room set up, and so working with Matt, Mary, Lewis, and Mike.

[1:07:54] We're going to start to really dig into some of that.

[1:07:58] So, but the premise is another good reason for having on Saturdays, making the open house

[1:08:03] part of it, if members of the public either can't or don't want to come to the ceremony

[1:08:07] of the park, but they want to come later in the day in the tour, that's great.

[1:08:11] Well, you know, the idea would be we start this around 12 or 1, I think 1, and then it goes

[1:08:16] till whatever 4 or 5 o'clock, someone that.

[1:08:19] So, much more to come on that as well.

[1:08:22] In other updates, we've got our Daniel report, I've reached out to Mr. Param.

[1:08:29] Yes.

[1:08:30] Okay.

[1:08:31] Yeah.

[1:08:32] I'll give you a minute.

[1:08:33] Thank you.

[1:08:33] We're very honored and touched.

[1:08:36] And we've learned paper part.

[1:08:38] I don't know if I'll walk on these specific names.

[1:08:41] This was a conversation.

[1:08:43] I was thinking of generating a rope or something.

[1:08:46] Yes.

[1:08:46] So we'll be idea that was proposed to murder.

[1:08:51] In our report is in progress, I had given everybody's deadline at the end of the September.

[1:08:58] I think with the status of audit, that's going to be a pretty good initial timeline

[1:09:04] to have the draft reports done, and I think by October, we wrapped in that up, which is great.

[1:09:09] I was going to ask if we have any thoughts on the dedication decision.

[1:09:13] Did we talk about that?

[1:09:14] I don't feel bad for that.

[1:09:17] You know, we did think for the community partner of the year that we would, how we do

[1:09:23] Harvey and Warren Street, and then we could roll that into the, um, really nice ceremony.

[1:09:31] Okay.

[1:09:31] So if that was, if that's okay, we'll probably get started in a lot, because it takes a little bit

[1:09:36] to get those granite, um, mark it, you know, the, you know, trophies, the statue, yeah, something,

[1:09:44] And keep safe, I can't think of any way for it.

[1:09:49] But the dedication to the annual report has a separate thing.

[1:09:52] And I don't know.

[1:09:53] Usually we do like significant retirements,

[1:09:58] or someone passes away or whatever.

[1:10:00] That's what we're going to have passed, but we're asking about it.

[1:10:03] And it's just been found that there were any suggestions.

[1:10:07] Yeah, we got a little bit of time.

[1:10:08] But I just wanted to throw it out there.

[1:10:11] Did you want to talk about the COVID rules?

[1:10:13] Oh, yeah, so we finally, since 2019, we were COVID rules, so now when a healthcare worker

[1:10:21] contracts go in, they no longer have to be able for 11 days.

[1:10:25] It is now four days, which is right in line with the flu.

[1:10:30] So that was a major, major thing.

[1:10:32] Again, we've been dealing with COVID rules since the first rule, so this was a massive shift

[1:10:38] because again, keeping somebody out in a nursing home and only in a nursing home.

[1:10:43] doctors, hospitals, they can come back to work whenever they see fit in a nursing home though

[1:10:49] it's four days down from 11 and so that was pretty significant. So we are going to be sent

[1:10:54] now the temporary policy or we were still helping people with keeping them whole and not penalizing

[1:11:01] them just because of because the last two years we haven't had that many people out with COVID but

[1:11:06] whenever they did it would have sucked up all their vacation time. It just kind of felt like a

[1:11:10] kind of thing to do to our staff, but we will now rescind that, there's no need to keep that in just like that said fallen fools, which is nice.

[1:11:21] Like we have many cases that have been seen in very many years.

[1:11:24] COVID now, but we do have one case of staff flu in one case of resident.

[1:11:31] And I don't have to report those to anybody unless we're in help rate mode, but one case of COVID, I have to tell everybody in your next little neighbor and their next look at that.

[1:11:40] and one hospital whose model is can't test positive if you don't get tested.

[1:11:47] We are still required though, and we're just playing symptoms.

[1:11:50] We are still required.

[1:11:51] So let's see how the official hospital model.

[1:11:54] Another routine tomorrow night, and then all day Wednesday,

[1:11:59] there's a recreational economy for rural communities, workshop in Newport.

[1:12:04] There was one in Permanente for five years ago, I want to say.

[1:12:08] But I attended and this was not for Newport so the town manager asked if I would participate

[1:12:15] So I said sure, so I'll be there tomorrow evening at start at six at the community center and then again all day Wednesday off the duck in and out

[1:12:26] but

[1:12:27] So that's going to be all main type

[1:12:30] Wednesday it is yeah, it's like it's been to be an evening and then a full day

[1:12:36] And then the other bit of news is the folks from the state court lease sent me a draft of a opposed to your lease.

[1:12:48] So it looked pretty good.

[1:12:50] I think it was a 1.5% increase each year for the next two years.

[1:12:55] I think that's not too far off.

[1:12:56] I think the old added that pigs get fed and hogs get slaughtered.

[1:13:00] I don't know what I know.

[1:13:05] We did some pretty aggressive adjustments, the last negotiation, and I think it got us to

[1:13:10] write where we're fairly competitive in where we shouldn't be for, are we paying the heating

[1:13:13] of that building? Oh yeah, we pay for electricity, heating, and that's propane.

[1:13:22] A lot of its heat pumps,

[1:13:28] a duck and fuel will be crazy. Yeah, it's mostly heat pumps.

[1:13:32] Well, it's appropriate, there's a problem with the propane boiler there is in the UNH building.

[1:13:36] Okay, and I hope that there's a propane boiler in the basement.

[1:13:40] That's what the tanks are building.

[1:13:42] So the tanks by the sheriff so far.

[1:13:44] Yeah, okay, yep, you're right.

[1:13:47] Yeah.

[1:13:47] Okay, that's supposed to be as ridiculous as oil, so.

[1:13:52] The oil is more insane when you say one and a half percent.

[1:13:56] It wouldn't take long when you have that one and a half percent.

[1:13:59] Yeah.

[1:13:59] to Gallup for fuel.

[1:14:04] It's slightly under the drill, also a concrete path.

[1:14:09] The total lease, it's, remember the exact offering, it's around 250,000 a year, which

[1:14:16] more than covers all the utilities costs and everything.

[1:14:20] So it's pretty good.

[1:14:22] We're going to, we're going to feel it when the court ever leaves.

[1:14:26] I'll put it that way.

[1:14:27] is the revenue right now, it does exceed our expenses.

[1:14:29] It's pretty, pretty reasonable.

[1:14:30] I don't know, that's the Uber call.

[1:14:33] It's a time when the trouble, so then it was

[1:14:35] where we did the worst seat, I am out for a niport.

[1:14:42] So more to come out and probably get that.

[1:14:44] I think I've got to look through it all

[1:14:45] and bring it at the next meeting.

[1:14:49] When that's it, for this meeting, it's on the head.

[1:14:54] OK.

[1:14:54] Thank you.

[1:14:56] The mission is to just, uh...

[1:15:02] Lead your mediation home, our guest needs a motion. Yeah, this is for some marketing. Okay, yeah, for the hydroprogram. So, they still have to follow accounting procurement rules. Okay, so this is a limited competition waiver because the dollar amount was greater than 5,000, but less than 10.

[1:15:28] and I don't believe we're able to get three full quotes.

[1:15:31] There's just a 12-century, there's only a few companies in this area that do this work.

[1:15:38] So we have what we have, we got any of them out yet, or we're just trying to get into it now.

[1:15:45] That's what this is, this is probably, once we make you a war, then the company will create some more videos.

[1:15:50] There's tons of it all hot, yeah.

[1:15:52] And it's kosher, we're going to do the advertising.

[1:15:55] Oh yeah, yeah,

[1:16:00] yeah, yeah, if we were following the federal rules, we would have to bid this because it's such a small dollar around see if they're

[1:16:04] Follow the federal procurement or your procurement whichever a scripter and since ours is scripter

[1:16:10] That's why we're doing this otherwise it would be below the simplified acquisition threshold, which is like 300,000 bucks

[1:16:17] It's been in the grant line, which is which is 100% grant fund. Yes, there probably shouldn't have led with that

[1:16:22] that thing.

[1:16:36] The situation we only got two responses we tried reaching out to a abolish button.

[1:16:41] We got two, so it was competitive.

[1:16:45] However, the financial policies with given an amendment, it also took two or one, two

[1:16:50] limited-time dates and they were able to accept the code from four-time meet, fourth-time

[1:16:55] gift.

[1:16:57] As presented today was found in the point of 5, 7, 25, around 3, 0, 3, 6, so from here on 5, 8, 3, hard, near the hipster, LH, BO, 8, 0, 6, 2, 4, where to have the truck and then healthy homes, grant or deposit.

[1:17:17] on the bearer.

[1:17:19] Hi.

[1:17:27] We also have new business.

[1:17:30] I'm coming to events Monday,

[1:17:33] 6th of October 3 PM.

[1:17:35] Board of Commission is meeting in Newport.

[1:17:39] Tuesday, 6th of October.

[1:17:42] So we're coming to conservation district meeting for new meetings.

[1:17:49] Friday, the second delegation meeting in Newport, 9 a.m.,

[1:17:57] we're locked over,

[1:18:00] 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

[1:18:02] play them off all festival and chilly kickoff. Anybody going to the ash?

[1:18:06] We're going to win it again.

[1:18:14] I'll look at our distribution. Anybody looking to get in?

[1:18:18] I don't see any hands or any of these time.

[1:18:20] No, get,

[1:18:25] grab me in a minute, be in minutes.

[1:18:32] Do you know what I'm going to do with you, okay?

[1:18:36] And I, he had a minute,

[1:18:40] he had a bit of a fight.

[1:18:52] I think

[1:18:56] it's just before the blue page.

[1:19:00] So now, 10, 10 is mine.

[1:19:03] A bit of number two is being tagged.

[1:19:05] So can I go?

[1:19:06] Yes.

[1:19:06] Okay, let's do that up and I think it's like the bottom of the book.

[1:19:12] Okay, that's it.

[1:19:13] I didn't know that.

[1:19:25] That's it.

[1:19:25] I don't know.

[1:19:26] I don't know what to

[1:19:49] do.

[1:19:51] Oh, there.

[1:19:52] Hi.

[1:19:53] Hi.

[1:20:24] That's what we need now, so it's time to move the base.

[1:20:30] See you until after the meeting.

[1:20:33] I haven't been.

[1:20:34] After graduation meeting.

[1:20:35] Yeah.

[1:20:36] That's the way they were originally, the actual set, and then

[1:20:42] stack it on the paper, all right, and five.

[1:20:52] And boys, so hey,

[1:21:03] do we vote to approve those?

[1:21:09] No, all right.

[1:21:13] Yeah, we could vote in a problem.

[1:21:15] I'm assuming then all right.

[1:21:23] Yeah.

[1:21:23] You can say motion.

[1:21:24] Yes.

[1:21:25] All right.

[1:21:26] All right.

[1:21:27] All right.

[1:21:57] All

[1:22:00] right.

[1:22:05] and so there's no problem and move for a non-tobled session in the 90s.

[1:22:12] We are saying that anyone A32A, that's a special question, a question, a publisher or a public employee.

[1:22:19] It's not good, but I know.

[1:22:23] Have a good night.

[1:22:24] That's all, say you're welcome to me.

Sullivan County Commissioners - 9/21/26

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