then I I know [Music] okayest not I washed my walls my BB I'm just going through curtains I do I have to say I do like the break right now just do things that I never have time to do I do have an interview th I do have an interview on THS [Music] [Music] good afternoon good afternoon everyone welcome to yeah Welcome to our January June 3rd meeting 26 in the afternoon as everybody gone over and read the minutes there's one error that was noted uh by one of the board members Perry that the um under gift fund there's a comment that we've asked for additional money for the generator expenses that last line should really be um referring to the general fund so with that change in mind um if you are ready and able we'll entertain a motion to just move that accept the minutes and move that item into accept the minutes as [Music] modifi i c says very good thank you so first on Terry and second by Paul any discussion all in favor any oppos okay still [Music] go okay next item on the list is the treasury board treasury board okay uh the general fund is your page one page 106 these are the figures excuse me and me I report as of May 31 2024 um as you know we're on the last PLS of this budget and um we're getting ready to close everything out and Mike is doing a very good job of moving things as needed around and he he can only um the payroll which is up at the top only adjustments can be made within that P go and the other items down below can only be made U within the uh within the account but uh let me see uh let's see there was a short fall a up about the very top on the clerk a short fall and that was because of of a contract in increase um and the Outreach coordinator of course the city only gave us 6,000 but we spent we have spent more than that for the Outreach coordinators and U we are able to transfer money from the grant into that account so Mike will be sure that that's all balanced out by the end of fiscal year which is June 30th the um repairs oh oh anyway on the U on the Outreach coordinator that 35937 that is the money that we owe to the city for the payroll for the Outreach coordinator and that's part of the fund that will be transferred this coming month probably some more in addition to that to finish out the time but he will take care of it and he will be sure that it's balanced out correctly and um repairs repairs oh yeah he's looking for an additional appropri $5,000 for U the generator and he will ask for that additional money and um uh and he has listed uh any incumber uh no no incumber on that one okay and uh I think that's about it on the general and Mike would like to add some more you will just so that um so we're clear the clerk's uh absolutely projected deficit so we were able to do a budget allocation transfer from the custodian line item which had a huge Surplus into the clerk's line item to cover that uh expected deficit at the end of the year we'll have a few dollars left in the cl's account department head account in the custom won't have a l what we're literally right right where we should be in ter of salaries um tyry mentioned incumbered for the purposes of knowing and understanding what our commitments are you'll see encumbered notice notes on your general fund budget sheet um that means those are contract amounts that we have to pay Beyond you know May so we expect to fully draw down although we haven't paid those monies um that's not true we actually paid them the person so our balance in manager is just about at zero right now we paid all the expenses um but we will encumber some there will literally be some incumbrances at the end of the year the true technical term of incumbrances being that there are expenses anticipated for FY 24 that should be um that should be recognized in of the Year 24 that won't be paid until 25 so the money from 24 is captured and then paid out later so those incen see at the year end report um you will actually won't see the June 30th year end report until September but just soon that time talk about um and then the $5,000 was received just you know we put that request and the city council approved it um for the unexpected I anticipating generator repairs so that was P any any questions on the general fund any any all even if you think it's silly yes we will we will we will do that after we get through this okay okay okay and nothing going once going twice on the general fund no okay onto the gift fund there is a little discrepancy there on the gift fund um the balance should be um 7617 $ 7792 um somehow an extra $108 And1 that in there we don't know where that 10801 P from so the the actual balance and thank you for catching that Terry the uh beginning balance was 65 43624 not 53624 that what that on my part which means that the balance plus the 10 C 4959 should bring us to 761 16593 so beginning balance is 655 3624 year-to dat Revenue was $1,749 59 and the ending balance is 76 28593 that makes sense there was $120 that we had put into the gift fund that wasn't gift fund money it had going throughing that transferred to place Terry found it and said hey what the heck is that about I was able to track it down so just again some your balances the beginning balance was 65 43624 Revenue 10 74959 and our ending balance is 76 6593 okay and so when we ask for approval of the financial report uh we can ask that it be made subject to these minor changes on the gift fund as amended as amended in the gift fund any other question on the gift fund it's in good shape okay on to the uh revolving fund uh not too much a difference there we're down to a balance of 46,000 55104 and um Mike is going to try to keep that balance um down around the 40,000 Mark uh we do have some incumbrances in that account of M is 6,000 that is for uh catering services and uh all the other expenses are about in order and you didn't have too many in may we something for Amazon Dollar Tree travel uh supplies and professional development pza and trips and excursions and the catering is um encumbered and um Walmart and and and missan oh totally for expenses for the month were only 1, 6837 and um 6,000 and of course but Mike is going to keep we're allowed the city council has to vote on this every every year and we don't have to keep the balance at around 40,000 otherwise we have to give it to the city there are a lot of moving Parts on the revolving fund just you know this is as of May 31st A lot's going to change between now and then our actual M incumbered amount or amount we expect is probably going to be closer to 2700 and not 6,000 which mean that we uh $3,300 kind of have more than than what we expected we're going to take $4,400 um from the state Grant 24 and moving into this uh from for the tables that expans was reallocated earlier we're going to reallocate back at 4471 which will leave us uh $7,750 in expenses I anticipate about another 1,500 in Revenue but at the end of the day um at the end of the day we should net out around 55 7150 which should bring us below the 40,000 that's our our goal is to be below 40,000 bucks if we're right at or around uh $440,000 it won't be a Major Impact because we know in short term they're emping flows so the state house and we are here generally um a little bit more uh what's the right word comfortable allowing us to float a little bit more than 40,000 if we were significantly over 40,000 they would um they would capture that so trying to keep it at the $40,000 Mark and right now if we do these adjustments we should be any question on that revolving F any any other questions questions questions okay on to the FY 23 Grant and that's practically gone $578 it won't even buy you a order from McDonald's a m mcal from McDonald's but um so my that will be closed out and after next month we will not see ny23 page maybe so so understand our balance right now is $588 we anticipate about $587 and10 in expenses for the month of May um that's really going to depend on our instructor so what we've done is just we've done some projections on what our instructors going cost those are all the numbers in red with the gold or yellow uh numbering the coordinator payable we're guessing what that is the hours fluctuate so it's not a static number of hours it's not 18 hours that we can absolutely budget it has to be under 19 but the you know a major event that comes up we may be bringing people in and having them uh allocate more time which would increase expense or if there isn't those situations so somebody takes a day off are our uh expense could go down similarly with our instructors we're basing our $250 on a certain number of people that attend a class well those people don't attend if they're only eight or there're seven it's going to free up some some of that cash so um it's a little bit fluid I wouldn't say a lot fluid it's a little bit fluid that may go up or down a couple hundred bucks but we'll adjust that out my plan is for June 30th to uh zero out the FY 23 that's our plan but right now I'm just letting you know um based on our Pro ections and we're right on Target but I I see some of those projections changing this month so we'll have to reallocate some of those expenses back to the 24 for that's good I I would like to see get rid of this too any question yes is there any question about the FY 23 State Grant any questions at all okay see them on FY 24 State Grant and um we to use some of that money you can see the M was spent in May the biggest item was the rats and tables I that was a transfer right reallocation into that but they paid from here [Music] 44750 and um um and the other items day is that for the upcoming barbecue for last year's Barbe and catering and basically um things that have gone by all of these expenses May 24 and the fiscal year 24 Grant account were re classes they were General Leisure adjusting entries taking it from uh some of the other expense allocations but you should know the 44715 for RX and tables that's going to be shifted again we going to put that into the revolving account because we're not hitting a $6,000 expense for MCN we have to build that expense in somewhere so we'll move the 4471 um again allowing us to um to keep our balances correct I can bring over an infinite amount of money from fy4 but I can't in the rol fund so I want to allocate as many of the expenses that we've incurred this year to those two accounts revolving account and the FY 23 Grand account but otherwise there are no new expenses all of these expenses have been reflected in previous Financial reports under other accounts just adjust it out and I want would like to point out that mik does work closely with the auditor so everything he's telling you uh goes through and so it's in you know eventually if the auditor audits our books and then has an A M in the with the auditor so we know we're okay is there any question on the fy4 a gr any yeah so technically all the bookkeeping is done by the au's office we get the reports so I'm able to come back and give you the financials but they do we're not able to make an adjusment entry we can ask for that and then the a does so moving it expenses and they are as Adam as Terry is about closing up the oldest uh safe Branch first get go out of the way the other thing is all of this ties to mun which is the record Pap system so you know if anybody came back and said oh GE you have 105 we tie out we do a paper trail tie out so we reconcile all of if you ever really interested in seeing that which I can't imagine you would be but if you are um we're happy to show you everything okay no question on FY 24 on FY 25 we haven't spent anything on that yet and it's good at 83 565 even and um once uh we get into the next fiscal year uh we'll be starting to see things in there and at the bottom of page five it's just a Consolidated report of the uh of the grants you can see the FY 4 beginning balance year to dat ending uh fy2 FY 25 increase the total revenue so that little section at the bottom is just a recap of the pages that we just gone over super important to know I did not carry the year-to DAT or balances from fiscal year 25 and Consolidated report overa because it has it has not been voted on that's anticipated it's in the governor's budget it's in the house budget it's in the Senate budget so the conference is report in favorably on that but until the budget is actually approved in s um we don't really count this so I don't include it as part of our our year-to dat Revenue availability uh for purchases I question just I'm looking at the numbers for the 23 uh budget and [Music] uh is there any reason just a few $100 you transfer that into the the 24 close up 23 no no um so the answer is if we have a balance that exceeds zero we have a cplus in the FY 23 gr can we just um transfer that balance on the answer is no but what we can do is reallocate the expenses from the 24 gr to the 23 gr to zero ad so the at the end of the year the 22 bran will be zeroed out um it just not may not be exact according to these projections so you know on in September when you look at and say J fight on May 30th we had I don't know supplies from home Home Depot at $184 but in September you showed a a june30 report of only $20 it's probably because that amount was reallocated to 24 and we'll be to explain that just know um the expense will still be reflected it just be reflected under another Revenue source and you know as I said before Mike Works totally with the auditor and to make sure that all any transfers or any reallocations are good because big a comes with the city we don't want to be called up and the last page is that technology Grant and they have bought some Chrome books 8,685 8 worth of Chromebooks and I guess that's about it for now or you have you bought the Chromebook um so our expenses to date on that were 10,852 8,685 180 for the Chromebooks the remaining $2,000 of two owls two meeting owls we've also purchased the laptop but it doesn't show I I put it over on the side just so you saw the laptops have been purchased the expense didn't hit the books till after June 1st but just so you know there's another $3,500 that's that's gone out um I just wanted you to be aware that if you look at the May 31st balance on munice you're only going to see the $1,862 in so that's the in report I also wanted to say that that run the Meda and I met with the with the welfare commission the W because they're the ones that monitor us and R Mike couldn't go that day but we went and everything went favorably they said that they like everything we're doing and the one thing that they want us to do uh is and not right this minute but prepare have a wish list can suggested some items to them and they they but that's what they want to have is a wish and so everything went well it was very short they were very pleasant and we were in and out I guess this is going to be this is the budget that's going to go before the city council of this weed July 1 there's a couple of items down there let's do the financial first oh okay that's okay all right sure okay is everybody all set with the financial report as it was modified earlier any questions not motion that okay entertain a motion I entertain a motion Kathy and second by call leomi all right any any all in favor any oppose okay now we go to the next business is that I just wanted to mention um about the meeting we had with the welfare committee round and I and everything seemed to go okay there's only you know one uh thing that I notic um the department had salary and wages they reduced it by little over $1,800 and um I don't know what we can do but I think we should at least get it back up to $65,000 but I guess we can't at this point but other than that um might talk about any changes just want to add one thing that Terry mentioned about when her and I went to coun ma Judy ma made suggestion that we could look for some sponsorships anything ever need see about sponsorships help us out financially through all this little extra help yeah um so let me just let you know what this budget means um if you look at the first line of of uh dollar amounts 62 760 for example the FY 24 budget is what the budget was coming into this this year with amendments and remember we've changed some line items we can do a transfer of appropriation between salary line items to salary line items and we can do a request for change of appropriation between operating line items and operating line items where we can't mix them so we've done that department head salary um what we projected is you know kind of Johnny other the spot we have a circus of about $120 at the end of the year I put in a request so you know just you know the Callum in Peach is my wish list um so you know I asked for a 30% raise and when the mayor was onlapping no I mean it just it was fine this guy people don't ask um the actual request was just to come in at the existing salary plus the anticipated 3% which is what we typically get so the by 25 mayor requests was 65,000 the actual amount that was voted on in compromised by city council was 24520 which is about $2,000 or $1,800 more than last year um in the actual FY um 24 allocation that can be adjusted we can do um you know some some additional requests additional Appropriations later on during the year something changes but right now the 64 520 is predicated on the 3% 2 to 3% increase in the salary similarly with the clerks and dispatchers we were way under this year on clerks and dispatchers our actual budget uh to start the year was 38,000 40,000 but certain wasn't 42 so we had to move money from the custodian salary budget line item to the clerks in this Factor so the custodian salary line item was reduced the the clerks was increased as a result result our actual expenditures this year is going to be about 42,000 for the clerk we asked for 50,000 so give her a bumpy uh her salary the mayor put in a request of 41,000 the council approved 4,462 which at current rate if we go with the same number of pay periods and the same rate of pay would be 2% increase we'll have a $1,200 deficit now before you freak out that's okay because we're anticipating in 188 $0000 Surplus in the in the department head salary and we're anticipating a $3,600 Surplus in the custodian so we should have like a $5,400 surplus um minus the 12200 right so 4,200 salaries are adjusted during the year that's one of the things that happens well after the FY you know budget is approved the salary contracts are negotiated and so there are changes I see those as being fluid the aage coordinator 6,000 bucks is what we got last year this year they've increased it to 9,000 which is great um that's still right that 9,000 is about 50% of what we actually pay so the city is have always kind of given us a commitment for 6,000 bucks but we generally pay about three times that um so we pay about 18800 so this year they're giving us U 9,000 although I did ask for 2/3 of it in the budget they only approved um the half overtime you know I I requested additional overtime money this year we've been pretty pretty slim and mean on overtime so we're in good really good shape um we haven't touched the on call standby money at all so uh that's not going to you know that that's another partt of money we have to pay for over the time that we need it the clothing uniform allowance is contracted so if the contract amount goes up this year so two will that amount in the budget it'll be a separate appropriation by a supplemental appropriation of the city council The Mail Manager um were were lower than what we had hoped to be our contract about this year is $10,250 um we asked for $10,250 um we weren't given2 uh $10,250 I'm sorry 10,500 so got to be a little bit short we're going to be about $500 short but thankfully I can pay those kind of expenses out of grant money so we'll be able to make up that deficit um pretty easily repairs and maintenance for the last two years has been a wild card here at the Council on Aging and it will be again next year as we seek to move into new quarters there'll be some additional uh money but that'll come out of the Waterford Street School Capital expense account not out of our repairs maintenance so I think we're going to be okay on repairs maintenance for FY 25 for 294 pledge stream Plus have a little bit of that money to put towards um the building at 62 uh info te we're we're already behind the aall infot te our cost per month is about uh $250 $260 bucks um we overspent this year by $85 we're able to reallocate some money into that account um from other operating expenses so we're going to be the same boat next year they level funded us for that if we have the same cost as we have this year with no increases from Comcast we'll be at $85 deficit and that's okay because we can make up some of that from other sources energy utilities pment way low this year none of us can't really figure out why um while the cost of energy went up our total cost went down last year we were at 15,000 bucks we're over 15,000 bucks this year we have uh we' hit half of that 8,000 so I'm not quite sure why we save 50% on our energy but we did um that being said I always try to project worst case not best case um so I asked for the 15,000 they um the mayor put in 145 they approved 145 which is um pretty much what we've had in the previous year so this year was 13 times so the increase 500,000 telecommunications is uh reimbursement for cell phone that's not changing professional development we' did a lot more professional development this year because we had more board participation in outside events we've never done that before other boards do to and I'm very pleased that members of the board took time out of their personal time to represent the Council on Aging at other events um we had a great showing recently at our Chamber of Commerce event um we were there in full force and it really it really made me proud and certainly appreciating that folks were there to support um the couns on as in that regard our um off supplies we we've reallocated $750 from energy and utilities into office supplies to we way over we're going to be pretty much at break even on offer supplies in 24 we asked for that again this year instead we got a $50 decrease um to% reduction so our cost our expens was $2700 next year our budget is 1900 um so those ultimately this reflects about a 3% cut in the budget which um you know will impact us and certainly will impact us but I think that that the board has been so conservative and lean and mean and really worked hard to ensure that we have the other resources we'll be able to um will be able to go through and measure the response those cuts um if they start cutting the salaries that's a whole different um P but I think you know now that you know that's the budget it's a budget that went in um there was no Fan Fair and the welfare committee they recommended it out to the full Council I think the full council is voting on it tonight so um you know light the candles say I don't see it going wrong I will say again I've said it to this board before U you are much more engaged than I think we've ever been as a board our programs have been enhanced because of the input participation that you provide and I think that generally there's a very good feeling about what's going on at the C Center in our community because of the work that you do so thank you very much for that um I don't see I don't see there being any problems getting through budget if so back they'll either defer or um you'll bring it back for supplemental if there are other changes made tonight yes the did around and I very pleased going on what's going on here yeah I know any questions about the [Music] budget all right that's our budget as of 71 so in uh 30 days that's our new a of money for this city I'm just going to quickly go on age friendly designation our copies in chats um the Housing Authority has not scheduled those with us but they will ran and I have talked five times about getting a date um so there's no issues there Waterford Street there's no update on Waterford tree right now other than and this is an important one the engineers report is in it's been submitted um the copy has been given to the mayor for the May to this 782 whoever he needs to 782 uh they'll pour through that report it was a little bit of sticker shock I knew it would be um only in the sense that they came back with a lot of recommendations but not requirements and so uh thankfully I was able to meet with the engineers first and get you know really the flavor of the report from and then we lay that back to Mar don't have S shot because the amount that they said we should do we don't have to do it's not a health or safety hazard there some things we have to do and that price tag on the things we have to do is somewhere around you know 900,000 2 million bucks which is exactly what we're looking at um I I want to say this because every chance I get to say it I think it's important to say that this is a 70,000 foot building uh recently a local city of town built a 1,700 ft facility at a cost of $1.4 million it's a sord check it it doesn't have the functionality that this go do so we're going to have to put some money into it the reality is we put it in now we put it in later and the mayor in the city council and most folks that I talked to the Comm know that appreciate that and embrace that message they're not worried there's no stick to chock they're not worried about um the fact that some money has to be put in this building it wasn't me tury it was built as an elementary school we're putting in now for you know five different uses yeah we're going to have to do some repairs what that looks like and how much of it we're going to be able to or within housee labor or out of House labor remain to be seen um but there's there was absolutely zero surprises none in this report so they didn't come back to tell us that there was something that had to be done that we weren't expecting um the fire chief the building inspector have already had a chance to review it have weighed in uh and are in totally in line with the recommendation to of the engineer so where do we go from here from the engineers report you know we kind of meet we discussed what they said we go forward with contract documents we'll engage the same firm to create those contract documents go up to bid and get some of this work down ASAP I figure it's going to take us a couple weeks to digest the report uh a couple weeks for them to put the bidding specs together maybe a July 1 date for bidding um and an August 1st 8 first for stting construction if we do only the things we have to do um to get in there I I think it's very reasonable to think October 1 you know Could Happen um I think the biggest the biggest construction part of the job is redoing the bathrooms um and that's that's really not significant hanging um you know univ ventilated split heat splits like the ones we have here in the rooms not a huge challenge because they came up with a really creative way to do that using roof louns instead of surface louns and um that way we can do multiple heads from the s unit and save some money as well just a lot of really good recommendations that but for the engineer support we may not have seen or known um so that's what I have for Waterford Street update um any questions about Waterford Street everybody has questions about everywhere I go people right down at the bottom there's a gray button gray button at the bottom what turn it on there's a gray button at the bottom oh okay thank um who's coordinated all theing all theurn all that stuff how's that coordinated and um contract all right so two different questions first question is who's coordinating the moving the second question is who have pay we don't I'm going to answer the second question first we don't have a p in contract with because the specs haven't been made right so as part of the engineers architect's work they made the recommendations they're saying what needs to and what can be and should be painted and how it's going to be painted and how that's going to be applied um no one understand that we have new light fixures Dr building so we have to protect and save those um there say and buildings whatever work we do we want to minimize the impact on theas um so they'll spec it that'll be part of the fitting will be the uh painting side of the work um as it relates to moving if you're talking about the and all I can talk about is the C on AG I can't talk about any of the other very separate independent organizations that exist in this uh Community they are responsible for their own moving and stuff like that but I responsible for coordinating the work of all of the garage Senior Center facility from 294 Pleasant to 62 watch stream and a year ago just so that we had some budget amounts I had six moving companies come in Walk the entire building take an inventory of what's years and how much they have and do their estimates so we already have the cost estimates on um moving the stuff from the any other questions next now we'll go to the directive report of the new business well I have a little bit of bad news um I have a we just had a wonderful relationship with the former uh vso and Garder Lynette gabella who just was very responsive engaging with issues that we had with any of our veteran seniors Lynette I had a wonderful opportunity to presented to her she's G on to work with com in Massachusetts directly under the Secretary of Ed upair so she has a really nice job but the beautiful thing about that is we have a relationship with the that so we'll still get that level of service we need at the state um the second beautiful thing is that Corey is house is likely going to be appointed as the new director May vs Garden Cory does a great job as well it's very engaging it's super invested here at the Garden senior center um but it's bittersweet uh for me to wish Lynette the very best in her new Endeavor and let her know that she will certainly be uh bondly remembered here at the gar Senor Center and hopefully be re-engaged in her new role uh as the Director of Outreach and um I don't know it's a 14 word Kind part of it it's her job will be overseeing the sa so say saying no the sa that's a pretty important service um want to thank the department heads have been so engaging and supportive one from DPW and Gary down there are are good friends at lies and assigns led by the absolutely amazing Doug and gr um to Folks at City Hall from the purchasing department Josh and Amy who by the way were able to do a road trip with uh Amy last week to picked up all the flowers to the flower boxes um so I broke the truck down and Trail and loaded it up and try to figure out ways to get more flat in our trailer than we ever could possibly hold but we did it and uh just had a wonderful time and it's nice to be engaged with people at different in different ways in different relationships in different contexts so that you you really understand their strengths and their personality and I'm so appreciative of the time and the invitation to be part of that uh with purchasing and councelor mat who uh really spearheaded this year's flower box campaign um and so appreciative of what they do make our city beautiful every day big events coming up next uh in two weeks we have the AARP installation of officers Rona he installed this new president of a um thank you our picnic Barbecue on July 3th first at the temple fishing Gun Club it's going to be awesome we're going to the wocks again on July 12th um a lot of great programs by our partners and vendors like the highlands and uh Care Central DNA Integrity Medicare uh Blue Cross Blue Shield we're doing a turning over turning 65 program for folks that are approaching 65 they're questions about Medicare we do that as an eating program we'll do two of those during the summer and early fall for folks to get AC committ to what they need to do lots of craft classes a lot of people have stepped up I want to thank you know people like Paul and Jan pz uh Jane from DD's crafts who are U Karen Oliver who did just they're all doing so much more than you could ever hope or expect from people I'm so appreciate the time and effort they take um we have a new yoga instructor and that's uh Shantel Shantel is actually taking over where Nina left off Nina has asked for a sabatical so um thankfully we have someone step right in ch doing a great job and very well liked our volunteers are through the roof folks like book with that run book with friends and our Quil quilting and and um our caregiver support group are just busing at the scenes and I'm so appreciative on June 14th Diane cobber from Lifeline is coming to the gar Center she's going to spend a couple hours here to talk to people about that emergency call service of whichpond help I Vol get up there it's a local service um that supported originally by appal hospital and the appal r Club that's kind of how started locally the appal orange R Club still supports Lifeline tremendously with huge financial support it makes it available for folks in our community we have a bunch of concerts coming up um everything from Elvis Presley to the Circ of uh uh PR G and Sean Fon Dan caroak joining together um T Jazz F coming just a lot of really cool uh programs it keeps us it really keeps us busy now that being said you need to know and understand I am so excited about the possibility of going to Waterford Street um because the more programs we bring in the shorter the timeline we have to flip rooms so we flip a room here and as we're done here there's a program winding up downstairs and you have to flip that room when that one done we come back up I put this one it's constant I feel like I to go um the nice thing water is we'll be able to keep some static rooms the last thing I want to just say and this is really important and I need your help spreading the word uh you're going to see some social media posts in the garden senior center um you're going to get a you will receive everyone on this board will receive a constant contact email notice frauds and scams um they haven't slowed down in fact they have increased I I told the story last month about a couple um affiliate with the senior center who was convinced that your grandson had got an accident killed somebody and handed over $5,000 in cash to the window um but as importantly most recently very recently as soon as contact me and you know what I just got this notice and I responded but now feeling a little sketch done I looked at it it was clearly a fraud now here's what happened I've SE here who's very active here has a million Facebook friends from the senior center her account un hacked the hacker got all of these people's contact info from her Facebook account and sent them all Facebook Messenger under the GU of being that person so they trusted him said oh it's my they I trust them they're telling me that they have this engagement with this Federal uh official who gave them $50,000 and they said said very clearly that money is in their account this isn't a PL I believe them and as a result more than one several of our seniors sent them identifying information names birth dates uh driving license numbers and it sadly happened to a number of people um well they didn't get into the accounts the problem is they can they have they have all of the information they need to steal somebody Bing birday b name first name last name middle name they have a license um so the DMV got a lot of business in the Gard Center last week we s five people down there to change their licenses um get that doctum taken care of change pin numbers move accounts if they have to uh but the message here is clear that anyone is vulnerable un vulnerable I got I'm a tech person I got hacked 3 years ago I've never been hacked in my life ever and they got my information and sent out disturb uh things under the hospices El um so just know like be attentive of Beware if in doubt um you know we need to make sure people know that we're a resource for them to come and check out that information and we'll help you go through the process of of police reports or changing you know any of the documentation that needs to be changed and to that end in July we'll have a couple of our huge poers and they have been loud and vocal and active Partners as it relates to frauds and scams in central Massachusetts including the district attorney Joe bur's office who comes up here frequently just for the one goal of reminding people brought through SCS exist and they're all vulnerable um we also have the police department and I just want to give a huge shout out to John chowski and his whole Community Police Department that are here by the way once a month they meet with our sen once a month in a uh casual environment and talk to them about things like frauds and scans or answer questions they may have related to that John thank you so much all that you do and in July we'll have uh da early and the dep of Homeland Security so it's to the point you know where we have National agencies like the FBI and Department of Homeland Security contacting us to come to the center to talk about how prevalent these frauds and SCS are in our community it's a big problem it's it's a big problem we talk about big problem I told you about $5,000 in cash but I can tell you in the last 3 years there are more than half a dozen people that have lost over $70,000 $80,000 and equal that who've lost between $25 and $70,000 and an equal number of that by the way those only the ones that contact us you think there are folks out there that this is impacted that don't contact us because they're embarrassed or Pride or fearful afraid of what their you know what their families might say that they'll be accused of losing their mind um I I'm I'm susceptible to this like a 20 years it doesn't matter how old you are it doesn't matter what you do what you don't do um these these people are very Sav in Social Engineering they know what they're doing they know how to manipulate you um I just implore you to please ask and I'm going to ask all the board members every chance you get if you're out in front of somebody talk to them about the fact that frauds and stes exist um there are a lot of our seniors that don't think that they're vulnerable that P me to my face that's never going to happen to me and then it happened to them true story so um let's let's get the word out all right that's all I have that's all I want I get off my Soap Box about that I do have a question to ask you um theater at the mount has been a great partner with us they've come and done programs we did a tour of theater at the mount in M Community College they're asking folks to help support their upcoming theater season by placing an ad in their ad book um the government Senior Center has that we're government right so you don't see the city auditor putting an ad out to to you know to check people's buds cuz most City functions don't really need to advertise we're different um I think it's a great opportunity it's Loki and it supports a partner that supports us um it's not a lot of money a full page ad throughout the season is 400 bucks a half page ad is 200 bucks um and if you want a full page ad plus the lobby projection which is like what we have all through the center we put the monitors up uh it's an extra $100 so it's $500 i' like to do it um I didn't want to do it without talking to you though to see how you feel about it um and you know I won't lose sleep if we don't but every chance we get to let people know that there are Services here I think it's a good opportunity for us there are a lot of seniors who are still not connected with the I I think it's um good idea can we pay how can we pay for out of a grant well then I'm in favor of it I just somebody else could suggest an amount but I I propose that we take out an ad I go to the Mount myself and I think it's good to have a little either a little or big or big but I'll leave it to somebody else to make the amount but I make the motion that we uh support the mount and take out an end I I just just say I agree also with the uh donation to we ad because I've been a uh season pick over for the last 10 years at the m and they do terrific shows and stuff so which is sp great way to sponsor support the Fe come out and we had de Ste here not that long ago so she supports us for a lot of things also so I would go along with that also what the r what are you thinking uh 500 for a a uh well sorry 400 for full page 500 for full page plus projection which is the monitors in the lobby and then $200 for a half page I I would I would great okay I will make my motion to support with a full page ad costing $400 plus plus the projection okay the projection make the motion second Absol thank you thank you Terry any formal discussion on the auction on the motion okay uh all right uh all in favor any anybody oppose all right we're going to have ourselves will advertisement in the uh at the shows every time they have a show it'll be in the booklet all right the first show is coming up in August so Ron and I will least be there the rest of you can come too the prom is it the prom Magnolia into the woods Sound of [Music] Music 15th of AUST yeah no no no 15th of June something at night it's a special program okay okay okay and Michael will take care of the details very good all right uh now now we're up to open discussion anybody have anything you want to bring upe Mary I have a question I have a question about the um automated message I got on Transportation by for senior citizens to get to the B so can you update on that it's a great question I'm going to first tell you a little story because right after that um rooc call went out said hey look today's Bingo day you'd like to come to bingo don't get this bingo at 1:00 and if you're interested in the future let us know if you need Transportation if you if we find there's a need we're going to um we're going to subscribe and get a um shuttle service 15 minutes later I got a voice message and said hey mik I'm wicked interested in this highway would love to come to b00 my address is 624 Parkway Drive Tampa Florida whereever um obviously from a snowbird so uh so that's it's it's kind of a mixed message part of it is we still have a lot of folks that aren't here all year that're in our system um who may have moved permanently or temporarily so um getting that cleaned up is a hard it's an arous task my active member list which anything people who signed in in the last 2 years is 2600 um that doesn't include people who came before Co and haven't come back that's Clos to 8,000 um so we try to limit to the people we've been here the last few years that's our sub rate and then the good part about that is somebody from Florida decided they still wanted to be so connected to send me a voicemail was hey nice here from the garden Senor Center um and now I'll I'll give you a little bit of of um you know Buster chops a little bit but that was so it's a mixed blessing for sure um so the answer is we are going to have a shuttle service on Thursdays starting at 12:00 picking up at the all of the senior um residents housing facilities so that' be the Housing Authority the Bol house Blanchet Street and Haywood W we're just going to do a circuit for a half an hour pick up anybody is interested drop them off here 3:15 we'll be doing return service so they'll pick them up here and bring them home um in the summertime that's not well sometime it's not as big a need however I and Ron and I have shared this so many times in our discussions I've heard from so many seniors that are coming to an event and when they got here couldn't find a parking space and last um so parking is an issue if we can find new and creative ways to alleviate or reduce that impact um I think that's a good thing so it's spending a few dollars and it remarkably is is going to be very very small money um to get people to come to a program especially in the Summer where it tends to be a little bit lower know in the winter time I think the the sh service will be invaluable service for folks that just don't want to drive on ncky days or out the cold um don't want to get their cars so I think that'll be a great sy so our plan is on Thursday days start the shuttle service at 12:00 run it for a half an hour um 45 minutes however long it takes to get people in we really need people to call us and let us know because God forbid somebody want to do the service at Hayward Wayfield and they drive by don't s right there and off they off they go one huge part of this is lines and Sciences agreed to do all of our signage for that so we'll be putting up signs and all of those places say um you know Bingo transportation here Thursday 12:00 to the garden senior center return trip 3:30 um so I think that'll that'll really help us I'm so appreciative of his offer to support us in this ende so uh did that answer your question but thank you Mary thank you for asking because it is absolutely something I want to talk [Music] about thing was going to ask was are we going to take that going we get the water stre because I know we going to be on the scho bus I mean on the regular busad yeah all the places um so the the answer is probably not we're going to be on a legit on the legit bu right so it's really two bus and gers per um that just operate in in opposite direction so we'll be on the mark regular Mark service we will be a stop they're adding wer Street as a stop between um between Parker Street and the housing authority and then coming other way from marad Street to the housing so we're going to be the next stop after the housing authority on that and first stop for the house uh on the revers so um but they've been they haven't put us on the room yet because they're not open but once we open uh their plan was actually to start in October I think they relieved that they didn't have to do that so um so we'll put it off and this o and it's the beautiful thing about this it's an easy Edition not we don't have to really change the rout because they take the they take the turn up waterer Street go you 500 ft and bang left on Church Street now they're just going to continue up the water to another 500 ft make a loop through our driveway then go back on Church Street so it's a deviation of maybe a th000 ft from their um from their roofe and likewise when they leave Church Street they going to turn up water of that turn down so it's just it it just has worked out really well okay any other discussions all right and I have a a motion second okay all in favor anyos okay our next meeting will be on uh September the 9th at 2: p.m. Monday after Labor Day and we also have a special board meeting for orientation August the 5th at 1:00 in the afternoon so keep a notation of that for guys you know orientation is pretty important we'll have food slow key but really talks about the didy gritty of what we do here so available town thank you have a great day okay I have an announcement um mark your calendar September 21st bitburg art museum 6 to8 opening reception for the for the regional Art and Crafts People exib