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If you're ready, I think there's Ronald Oaks.
I think 518, I'll call Ms. Stella County Commission's Win that Wood.
Commissioner Waring, would you kindly
need this in Pledge of Allegiance?
The President of the United States of the Army.
The United States of America and do the Republic of which it stands.
One Nation and a God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for our role.
Sure.
Okay. We were all here for the last meeting.
So discussion and your approval of the previous meetings,
minutes.
Is that a very?
Oh, they were, I, I know, motion here.
On to the calendar.
I will, have, you had something?
Yes.
As we previously discussed, I am out of town the week of August 3rd, and I believe, Peter, you were out of town the week of the August 17th.
Oh, yeah, it would be late August 17th.
So I was suggesting that we hold the meeting because there's five Mondays in August.
We could hold it on the second.
and the fourth Monday, which would be August 10th and 24th,
or we could pick a toll another day.
For me.
Okay.
I'm good with that.
As of mine.
Thank you, great.
No problem.
And then the following Monday after that is Labor Day,
but we could probably make that as it gets a little bit closer to getting on everybody's schedule.
Very good.
Okay.
Great.
Works.
Nice and easy.
Any further discussion on the calendar?
We'll move on to previously signed documents, discussion, and indoor approval.
The motion.
All in favor.
All right.
All right, when did you get us?
Next up, we have Department of Update with Shadow White.
All right.
I'll give you these.
Just with them a lot of reps and so, yeah.
All right, but it's just a Saturday.
I was her job.
Well, with the control.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, not really.
It's actually pretty simple.
AI very,
when it comes to they're generating that stuff.
Although I did use a real picture, so, but I'll, I'll be able.
to get to that point.
All right.
Good evening.
So for an update, I'll go over a few topics here and then open it up to you.
And then open it up, of course, the questions if you have them.
Staffing.
Right now, we're fully staffed at the Sharks office with the exception to one position,
which is our civil clerk position.
Back on the 21st, our civil clerk had decided to move to Florida,
and that was her last day was, was on the 21st.
Since then, we've gone through a series of hiring process.
We have made a conditional offer of employment,
and we have an employee starting the week of August 2nd,
so the third will actually be your first day.
And again, it's not qualified person.
So we think that that's going to be a very smooth transition.
Right now, our current roster has 55 employees.
That's eight full-time sworn deputies.
17 part-time sworn deputies, 15 per damn sworn bailiffs,
eight full-time dispatchers, four part-time dispatchers, one administrative assistant,
one civil clerk that will be coming on board within the next couple weeks.
And then, of course, myself.
For our projects, we have the IMC data merge is still ongoing.
A Barnstead merge actually is tomorrow in the last department,
which will be Tilton is scheduled for the first week in August,
if we can't get them in even sooner.
But right now, it looks like the first week of August.
The expected completion date was pushed from June to the end of July,
now to the second week of August.
So we're trying to move things along, but again, it's all about the data and availability of people.
I know unfortunately there's only one person from IMC or Central Square that can actually do this job.
And that person, you know, again, would hold that when they take vacations and so on and so forth.
But we're working on it.
The Congressional direct spending, which is the grant for the fencing, was not approved.
Jim and I were just notified at an event on Friday that it was turned down because it didn't beat the criteria of even the secondary part of the grant that they tried to do it with the role.
The project just didn't meet it.
But Senator Shaheen's office is really eager to try to get us some form of funding, so they'll be in contact with us about maybe other opportunities.
But I did want to put that out to you, folks.
And at this point, there was no additional funding sought based on the direct congressional spending.
The small role in tribal body one camera grant, that's still pending.
The chief deputy had reached out to them last week, and we were told that we should hear something soon.
Now, previous awards have been done in July and August, so we're anticipating that there'll be announcements soon.
And again, it's kind of like a reoccurring grant that happens every year, so and a lot of departments do get it.
So I'm hopeful, but we'll have to wait for that.
We did go in with a Burns-Jad grant this year with Laconia PDD, as Mr. Hodges and I spoke last year.
The LPD submitted the application.
We put in a request as well to be part of that, as the requirement is that we sign off anyways because it's a separate a grant.
So as a relation of that, we're looking at about $4,000 in funding for body armor is what we would get out of that.
grant. So we're just waiting to hear back from the laconia on that.
We've completed our bailiff supervisor office in locker room progress that we did. So basically,
I moved the port security supervisor out of the little closet on the second floor of the,
or it could be considered the third floor of the port house, which was basically a whole closet.
I don't know the closet. I can tell you what John turned it into is a supply closet. So it's a
it's that small and that, you know, no climate control is really bad. So now they actually
have a physical office that's right behind where the MAG is on the second floor or primary floor
of the courthouse. And it's a, you know, it's got a window and it's got good air movement. And it's a
private place where, again, the supervisor can meet with those personnel and have conversations.
We go down and address things. Plus, it's got the camera system and everything all all accessible
there. And then on the backside of that office, so you walk through his office, there's another
the door that goes into another office that's been converted into a locker room.
And the personnel down there absolutely love it because they didn't have a locker room before
and they get a get changed in like the holding cells down there and stuff, which are always
under video camp. So anyways, it was a bad setup. And that was a bad setup. That was for a time of
the commissioner's office. Oh, nice. And they used to meet the office in the back office where they had
meetings. And then it was the county attorney's office when I had Fitzgerald and those guys were
county attorney. They used to be the county attorney's office.
And it wasn't in a courtroom at one time, too, right?
I just remember.
Yeah.
And commissioners.
So U&H, I think it's you, you and H right now where they're at.
I think that used to be in whole court room out there.
So back by day, yeah.
So that's, yeah, it's kind of a unique place.
But we were utilized the space.
John was able to free up some money for like new carpeting and stuff similar in here.
They painted the walls and fixed a few tiles.
It looks phenomenal.
He ended up.
And again, it compliments our staff.
It sucks.
It sucks.
It's a great, yeah.
So the supervisor can, you know, again, have plenty of room to do his work and all that stuff.
Plus, it gives our personnel another place to go in the event that they need to decompress or what have you.
I mean, we even have it set up now to where that locker room has like a bench top work station in there where they got draws and stuff where they can put evidence bags and things.
So if they do get evidence that's at the bag, they can just bring it through the office into that room,
be able to seal it, lock it all up and everything.
out of the light of personnel or people coming and going and just with that whole better
setup all around.
So we're very happy with that.
For our statistical data, which I gave you this, the Belmont County Sheriff's Office Monthly
Activity Report, this activity report was actually generated for our social media account,
which is predominantly Facebook.
And it was done because the public actually came to me and said, hey, you know, it would be nice
to seeing some of your data put out there as to what you guys.
are doing. So I took some top categories from our call for service list and our records management
and just came up with the activities that we're doing monthly. Now, we're always a couple weeks
behind. So like this is June's, I won't do July until like the second week of August because we have
to seal the logs in order for us to extract that data. And once we do that, then I can extract the data
and put it out there. But it just kind of gives a snapshot of what we're doing. Now it doesn't incorporate,
you know, again, when we talk about extraditions is only two. What doesn't say in here is those two.
One was out to California and one was out to Nebraska. So there are lengthy extraditions. And there's a lot of
people associated things. But again, it just gives a quick snapshot. And listen, I'm not in competition
with anybody when it comes to statistical data. So the way I see it is if I can bring my data to zero,
then it shows that we're doing our law enforcement functions out there. The more data that's reported means
that there's more crime, more things happening. And we most certainly want to show that we're
actually affected at what we're doing. So either way, that's, you know, we're putting that out
there. We're always trying to be public facing. And it generates, you know, again, conversation as to
what we're actually doing. As for the budget, the 2026 budget is right now we're on target with what we
have. We don't have any requests at this point for any supplemental funding requests. But there are a
couple areas that, again, I'm still watching. Line 51-24, which is wages part-time security.
We're running two and sometimes three courts out of Superior Court. And sometimes this five-court running in
the district court. It's never been this. I've been here 21 years and we've never had this. But we're one of
the courts that's running full throttle. Right now, we're 7% higher in the expense than what is anticipated at this time of
year. So I want to point out to about $32,900. But I'm unable to actually determine whether or not
the court's going to slow down or not. So I feel like we're in full throttle right now. But at some
point, there's going to be a time where we're not going to be working quite as hard. So I do anticipate
that there's going to be a slowdown. But at this point, Stratford County, no, I take that back.
Sullivan County and Carroll County, or two ports that are not running ports.
all the time. So as a matter of fact, I believe that there hasn't been any jury trials in
Sullivan County and there's been very few in Carroll County. So what's happening is the judges are
actually being taken from there in our courthouse and we're running through cases because we have so
many of them. So we do have that going on. But again, there is a revenue associated with that. So
even if we're spending more, there's still a revenue that's coming to offset that. So I just want
to point that out to you that that I'm aware of it. We are watching it. We are watching it.
it. And the reality is it doesn't matter. You've got to do what you've got to do.
Correct. But what it could do is, you know, again, for the money management portion of it,
you know, there might be some things that I had intended on purchasing this year that maybe I don't.
Maybe there was some trainings I thought we were going to go to and maybe we won't. And again,
then there's some natural savings that we have through attrition and things that I might be able to,
you know, compensate for that. But again, right now, I'm not sounding the siren saying, you know, we're going to need a, you know,
request for transfer or anything. That's not what I'm asking for, but I'm just letting you know.
It's there. And, of course, line 56-132, extraditions. We are, we are both brought on extraditions.
And again, it's sometimes by chance. Now, that's that second paper that I gave to you. And that just
shows you what I currently, what we've done for extraditions and what we have currently pending.
So again, we have Connecticut, which, again, it's a day trip, not a big deal. That's more fuel.
you know, lunch and then tolls or whatever when we're coming back. But we do have Michigan,
West Virginia, two out Virginia, Illinois, Georgia, two out Georgia, one in Hollywood, Florida,
two in New York, one in Nebraska, and one in Connecticut, another one in Connecticut. So again,
just giving you ideas that I just filed paperwork before I came over here to solidify an extradition
out of Illinois that just came in. So now that luckily that's already recorded.
on here. So it's not a new one. It's one that we anticipated, but now, now it's done and we're
pulling the trigger on it. We are using an extradition company to help us do this as well. So again,
myself, the chief, and in my warrant staff, we've all sat down to try to figure out how to mitigate,
you know, how much money we're spending and how we're doing it. Because, you know, again, I lose,
I lose the personnel for a couple days. And we're paying for it. We're paying for the hotels and things,
and the risk associated. So we have, um,
I'll say, I won't say contract, because each signing of it is a contract just for that,
that issue. But I do have a company that we're now dealing with. They charge us about a dollar
and a quarter a mile. And they extradited the people back for us with no problems. We basically
make them our surrogates and that they're our agents. So, so far we've done one with that company,
and it's worked out perfect. So we're probably going to utilize that company for longer distance,
longer time frame extraditions, as long as the competition.
comparison is on our benefit, right? So if it's cheaper for us to send our personnel out,
then we most certainly will. Right now, playing tickets, we just can't touch it. You know,
it's, it's, it's not fed flying out or flying back with two people, but we have one-way ticket
coming back. So you add the third person, and again, we're held hostage to what airline
companies we can fly with. So, so we are watching that. Again, we, the projections that will be
given. I'm sure Lori will give the projections. We understand, like, how you're projecting.
that we're going to overspend. I put that in there, built it into my budget. So what I'm looking at is
a deficit right now does have that into consideration. We are planning the 27 budget now. It seems like
every time we get a budget, we're starting to plan another one. So it's not just me. It's all of us
in this room. So we are starting to plan that now. We're starting to come up with ideas on
CIP projects and things and anything else that we might think, you know, for looking.
you know, I don't, you know, as I get checked with my staff, I don't see anything humongous
coming out of the next budget cycle, but, you know, again, I'll keep you updated as soon as I get
some numbers and so on and so forth. So that's looking pretty good. Our vehicle fleet, we're still
waiting on the two builds for the Ford Explorers, but we're told that we'll be receiving them
early this morning, I was told by the end of August. But by the end of the day today, I was told
that my sergeant had put some pressure on, and we should be receiving them before the end of July.
So these things have been pushed out from May to June to July, and, you know, they were going into
August, and there was some pushback. So they went over some finalization this afternoon, and it sounds
like they'll be able to get it all done. Cars are pot. They're sitting at the shop. They're just
waiting to scheduling to install. So, but they're telling us that it looks like it will be by the end of
this month. That's a good thing for us. Also, we,
received the VIN on the van, so that had to be ordered and they built. So once we get the VIN,
that's a good thing. But we're still waiting on Ford to actually deliver it to MHQ, and then the
bill will begin from there. They haven't slated for an August bill and end August delivery. But again,
until they get the van, they don't know, but they have parts. So they have, you know, the sirens and all that stuff
all set up. So we're hopeful that as long as we stay on the calendar, we don't get bumped, everything will be good
on that. So I'm expecting, which is good because the van continues to nickel and dime us. We had
an exhaust leak last week. We had to fix it. You know, luckily, my chief deputy here was able to
finagle, you know, hey, listen, sheriff's only going to pay $100 for this. And that's what happened.
So it worked. But again, we just keep having these nickel and dimes. So things getting ready to get
to get hired. Other than that, that's what I have right now for for information that I prepared. I'm prepared to
answer any questions that you might have or address any concerns. How's the outside detail
fund? Actually, I don't, I don't, I don't know what the revenue is because I haven't seen the revenue
on that, but I can tell you that the deputies are working details all over the state. A lot of them are
Barnstead and so we've been doing a lot of Barnstead Patrol because right now I believe we have the
chief that's working there. We've also been doing a lot of patrols up in New Hantanton, which
They have two officers of two, two officers. Two officers. Yeah. So they have a sergeant and patrolman that's working up there. So we've been doing a lot of those details. But we're getting requests for details on a daily basis. The sergeant's consistently putting out, anybody want to work this. Line paintings, like there's a detail going 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. tonight, you know, and they're like, hey, anybody want to do this, but they're all over the place. They're, you know, starting in Keene and starting in Keene and ending in Dover.
And I'm like, yeah, okay.
Listen, they're willing to pay, you know,
am people willing to do the work? That's fine.
But I, yeah, so we're doing a lot of details as it relates to those type of things.
A lot of driving details, a lot of Aspland details.
They're just nonstop.
And then we have our regular ones that we do.
So we always do the MS Mount Washington detail.
Jim, are we doing Lake Shore Park?
We are.
Okay, so Lake Shore Park is another one that we've, we've,
They did cut the money a bit.
Yeah.
So we're still work in some of those details.
So there's a view that are like regular people that come in,
gunstocked on occasional call with, you know, like events that might happen,
senior proms, things like that.
Hill climb, of course, we already worked.
So that's already been settled.
So, but the fund is looking healthy.
More you didn't know the value of the fun?
I don't know the exact.
I know what I'm doing.
and I know the collections are really good.
Like, we've done some work a year or so ago,
and it took us some time and effort to collect on some of them,
but everything's going really well.
I could run and get a number very quickly if you like it.
I don't need it today, but we still have something we should be
anything about because there's a revenue piece of funded that is tied to that,
so we get to know, we're on track, or we're going to be over that,
or that'd be helpful.
I believe that we're going to, once again,
have, um, or unanticipated revenue out of that line.
I just feel like these things aren't slowing down.
Yeah, that's really kind of find out the facts to it.
We believe it's right.
Right.
Trust for verified.
It's good.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Anything else?
Well, um, have you spoken with Senator of Shane about this funding directly or who's your contact?
No.
So Chris Scott.
which is her, like, right-hand person, and he makes sure that he shows up.
And he saw us out.
So he actually saw the chief.
I was too busy talking and he saw the chief out of letting him know.
So, but they're really direct and they're right on spot.
So, Jim, they're on this 100%.
For that particular grant,
he applied in a category that it didn't,
that project, they tried to get us into a different category,
the agricultural category.
code category and it didn't fit there as well. So we essentially just were
denied for the grant. But that did you.
Senator Sheen's office has been very responsive.
That's as far. Yeah, no. Then when I'm called, they responded, but they tried to work the
grant and make it fit. So they have a fallback position for you that they're working on?
Do they have a fallback position?
They don't, are they continue to try and find you money elsewhere?
They're looking at our agency when we apply for grants to, they want to be, they want to be
they want to be service our request, but the grant projects have to fit the criteria
that's special weakness. So if we find other areas of grants that might fit, then they're
advocates for us. So they've been very forward about saying, hey, listen, if we can get you
into another grant, we will certainly do that. But you haven't identified anything today.
That will work. Okay. No.
So Bill, you outsource the net.
execution procedure. It's $1.25 a mile. Yep. What was, where was the destination? What was the
total fee you made? So like the, well, the one that I just priced today is $1,500, and it's like
1,200 miles. So that's, that's how that works. Now, our personnel just did extradition to that
similar location. It's what we call, Michigan, I think it was in Michigan, but it was on the
The Illinois, Missouri, in the Illinois location area, like that whole triangular area that's
right there. And, you know, it costs us all over $3,000.
What would you have paid that service for?
Would they charge you for that same extradition?
It's $1,500. Yeah. So we would save on that.
So this is a good way of doing this that's going forward. It is.
And it frees up your manpower for local issues.
Sure does.
And you get out of the overtime issue with the deputies.
Yeah. So that's the thing.
Right. So we've got to look at, you know, overtime. So we look at getting to the airport, like, it takes
a full day to get the Illinois. And you wouldn't think so with a three-hour flush. But,
but you have the drive from here to Boston or you can, you know, maybe get it out of Manchester
and you're going to look at the layovers because there's always a jump somewhere. If you go into Boston,
a lot of times we can get a straight flight. So you got to remember, we got to go there first, right?
So we drive an hour and a half to Boston. And then once we're there, we're there, we're two hours
early. And then we have guns and stuff. So in our whole process is.
different. So, you know, we've got to make sure everything's clear and everything's good and
cold that there's no problems. And then they get on the airplane. They fly there. They get off.
They got to get a rental car. You know, we got to pick the band it up somehow. So they got to get a rental
car. Once they get that, then they have to go to their hotel room. And then, of course, you know,
scuttle where the jail is. And then once that's done, then they have to, the next day, they do the same
thing. They got to go to the jail. Hope they get there early enough, right? Because we don't
know how long it'll take them to get into the jail and get out of the jail. And half the time,
you know, it's surprised to everyone that they're there that no matter how many people
he'd call. And I know the chief here, he's only pretty good to have a contact person that he can call
and go, yeah, your guys aren't, you know, ready and they have that conversation. But,
but then they get their person, then they're going to drive to the airport, drop off the car,
where they drop off, you know, our deputy in the, in the band of the door, they then, you know, the other one
drops the car somewhere, and they need back up.
Then they've got to go through TSA in a different line and go through that whole process.
They got to overlook our paperwork and all that.
So there's all those processes that they do in reverse and then they come back.
And normally we try to get a straight flight through because we start running to our problems
when we have a person with us, you know, that's in custody.
If we have to go somewhere, they've got to use the bathroom and they've got to do this.
Like, we're in a secured airport, we have firearms.
Like, we want to try to eliminate all the movement as we can, get them on a straight flight through.
So, again, it all costs.
And we try to get the early flight.
So when things do happen, we have time to, because remember if they have a cancellation of a flight
or if I got to birded for whatever reason, we have to have our dispatch here.
We have to call in and they have to reissue our Nick numbers and NCIC numbers to change everything
and make sure that the airports get that.
We get on the manifest the appropriate way because it's a whole different flight.
So there's a whole separate process for those.
And then, of course, from there, you know, you're looking at it all the time.
and, you know, our people away, and next thing, you know what?
There's a lot to go wrong with that.
It almost always does.
You know, sometimes just calling its company, and again, they have vans,
and sometimes they'll fly them depending on the timeframes.
You know, if they were being released at a location,
they had to be here by a certain date, then they'll make sure that happens,
and they'll fly them.
But mostly, they'll, they drive around in a bus,
and they pick people up as they go, and they...
Drive them off as in itself.
That's how it works.
But, again, it's cheaper for them because they're picking up multiple people along the way
and they're living them all along the way.
And, again, it's an art.
They have it.
And I think it's save us money, then that's where I'd have.
I think it's going to give in the sense.
I think so, too.
Again, flying to Florida, different story, right?
So you can fly to Orlando right now.
You get a cheap flight down, staying in a hotel pretty cheap, and then fly back pretty cheap.
Okay, then if we can do it better than paying the 1,200 mile, you know, 1,200 miles.
In Manchester, right?
I don't know that.
Right.
Yeah.
So if we can do that, but remember, if we only have certain airlines, we can fly.
So we can only fly U.S. Air and American.
No other airlines.
I mean, I'd love to get on a JetBlue flight for, you know, $89 and be able to do that.
That's not.
They won't do it.
They won't do it.
They can't do it.
Yeah, it's the prisoner part.
So that's the other thing, too, right?
So remember this.
Also, my staff are, like, spending their time trying to find flights and trying to do all this stuff,
while they're, you know, during their day.
So not only at the flight part and they're going there, it's the pre-stuff, you know,
and then our cards are always maxed out.
Anyway, that always tends to mess.
We're always like, just, it's a mess.
So it's, this isn't a bad idea.
And again, we used to do this.
So, so back, you know, looking back 21 years ago, my first started here,
we had a mixture of contract that would do the stuff.
We used to use the U.S. Marshals back when it was like a flat fee of $500.
Now, that that,
that's changed because, you know, they have a cost, too.
So, but we used to do that back then, but then we got priced out.
So it got to a point where it's cheaper for us to do the flights and spend the extra time.
But now we're back to opposite.
So, so again, it's a balance.
Our people need to go to Connecticut or, you know, again, we'll drive down to Manhattan and back in the day.
That's not a huge problem.
But that's kind of a line.
After that, we really start talking about hotels and staying overnight.
Again, it's not undoable.
But we just have to make that plan if we're driving, that's probably cheaper.
But again, you go across the, you go to 95, that's costing a hundred bucks and tolls, you know, to and from.
So we factor that in the fuel.
You know, what do we ban for fuel right now?
So we try to factor everything in.
And right now, we're at $1.25 a mile, we're winning.
So, you know, we have to do it.
That's a win.
Bill, with respect to Lakeshore Park, that's in Guilford.
Guilford PD is unwilling and able to service their events.
Yeah, so I think what's happened in the past is that, because again, when we're doing these things,
we always ask, you ask your local PD, and a lot of the conversation with them is
Guilford has no interest in working that detail.
They have metafrook, palmer, lucrative, and whatever.
So they sign up for those, they do those, because a lot of them are going on at the same time,
we're doing the vet dog, doing the Latro Park.
So we traditionally do that, and again, we don't really have any problems.
They ask for one.
one deputy, sometimes two, depending on the events that they have down there at the beach
or what have you, but it's a lot of kid stuff, you know, a lot of things that are involving
juveniles.
So, again, things that can be easily handled and rectified right there, just kids creating mischief
and things.
On occasion, you get the person that comes up from another state that feels that they need to share
their opinion on everything, you know, after a couple of drinks.
And again, those are people that we have to quell to, but it works all pretty well.
We have a good relationship with them.
They keep calling us, and we have people that are willing to work up.
So it's a wing for everybody.
All right.
You don't think gave that up all the time of them.
They gave that up when I was sheriff.
Yeah.
Yeah, we started doing it.
I was sure.
And again, we're too busy.
Yeah.
They had a job in his island, too.
Right.
I don't know if they still do that.
No.
No, at least I don't think they do.
I haven't heard them doing that a while.
But metalwork really takes up a lot of their time.
That's it.
That's kind of their gig.
So, and again, they're like, hey, listen, we have this big pie here.
You guys don't have the piece of this pie.
over here and that's, you know, that's where it's at.
Again, it's good for us.
We get our personal out there and, again, they get to do a little bit of that patrol function
and they make a little extra money.
Yeah, the county's being reimbursed.
So it's a win for everybody.
Yeah.
So as long as we have staff that are willing to work it, that's a benefit.
So, you know, anything else.
Thank you very much, Rebecca.
Excellent.
Thank you.
And Lori told me I had to hurry up so I could.
Are you blown, Lord?
Sorry, you have five minutes.
I don't know.
The shark is here.
Lori, how was bike weak in your neck of the woods?
Were you around that weekend?
It was home.
Did you have any trouble getting around?
No.
No.
I mean, if you turn right out of there, it's fine.
So Roller Coast wasn't that, but you'd never turn left and went up, obviously.
Or down to America.
We don't want to go to the province pole.
No.
No, it was a bit crazy.
I think we need more police patrol on
roller coaster road.
Really?
Anybody's listening.
A lot of speeders on that, I think.
There are.
Yeah. It was loud.
It was loud. I did spend a
couple of evenings visiting
my parents, so just to get
away. Oh, really? Yeah.
All right. We're going to jump right in.
So we're 54%
through 2026,
and the year is
just going pretty quick.
With revenue, we're
projecting a surplus of
$255,429.
So that's considerably higher
than when I was here last month talking
about this because we received
the assheated funds
from the state of New Hampshire.
And it varies.
It kind of comes and goes each year.
We were looking at it today.
We got $172,230.
So that was a nice gift.
And then also,
I made some updates to the
Dean's revenue.
They're current.
We're currently expecting a surplus of about 93,000, 690.
And that's pretty common.
They start off slow really every year,
and then around July it sees an increase.
And so we should finish pretty good.
And things continue to go the way they are.
We're still waiting for the credit from DHS,
along with that new monthly billing.
We get that every year for their fiscal.
It's like, so we'll get our new billing for July.
usually get it in July, like any time I was happening about it today.
Apparently there is a bit of a delay, and so we should be getting that information in August.
So that's something I'm watching because last year, you know, that credit amount was great.
And so I'm hoping for at least something maybe not great, but not bad.
So we're just waiting on that.
And then, of course, the other thing we're waiting on with revenue is the gunstock.
and historically, that's been received in October.
So we've got a minute to find out about that.
Then on the expense side, we're projecting a surplus of 472,184.
It's relatively unchanged from last month.
There's a small deficit that are projected in the county attorney's office,
in IT, in maintenance, and in the sheriff's department.
Although they are small, it's early in the year.
And I am expecting some savings in IT on the computers, and then in the Sheriff's Department,
I believe we're going to expect some savings in the health insurance line, potentially.
And so if that all falls in place, it should turn around some of that, although there may be some added expense.
So it's just, it's a tough time in the middle of the year.
There's still a lot of year left.
So we know we have these things that are expected, and we'll just keep it.
keeping an eye on it. And then the nursing home, we're projecting a surplus of 156,176 in the expense side.
So for the revenue and expense, there's a surplus currently projected of 727,613 to the fund balance at the end of 2006.
And so that would have us ending the year with a fund balance of $4,710,178.
And let's see, the other thing, which I made a note of, of source, is that outside detail that could play a factor as well.
We'll see where that is an actual time.
I know that it is going very strong.
So we'll get a number in there until maybe that will increase a little bit also.
The cash flow report, it's showing our cash balance at the end of June at 5, $5.698, and we do continue to earn an interest.
at a rate of 3.69%. That is really good also. The other thing we did recently was some of our accounts were in money market accounts. There used to be restrictions on money market accounts where you could only do six transactions a month. They removed that. And so now our other deeds and a nursing home, there's accounts that were earning like 0.10,000.
anything. And now they're also earning the 3.69. So, so that's really good.
They were getting some extra money on that. And I anticipate that we're going to need to borrow
around mid-September right now is what the cash flow is showing. That's going to be here right around
the corner. So I'm going to have to start working on that pretty quickly. I haven't reached out
to Varns Council yet. So I'm not sure where the rates are falling in. But
We know that when we borrow at the end of the year, they're usually higher than where we borrowed at the beginning of the year because it's a shorter term.
If we could get something around 4%, that would be pretty favorable.
Lower would be even better, but I'm not going to get crazy.
The financial audit is actually complete. It is in their quality department for review.
Apparently, they put it through for proofreading now. They're quite literally.
checking their periods and punctuation. So I'm going to speak with them. I think
tomorrow, just to give it a double check, see where they're at with that. And then typically we would
have them come in and present and speak with you. I presume we still would like to do that.
Yeah. Okay. So I'll set that up also. And so when you don't have an AR because I was having a
computer glitch with my spreadsheet, but it's, it's no different. It's still on track.
And we were at 96% as far as collection.
My question I add is I thought we had talked. Maybe it was the last month when we presented
the pro share amount was reduced that that was going to affect the med tax.
Yeah. However, we're anticipating that we're going to be bringing in more with private pay and
skilled. The other thing that I'm seeing is based on the budgeted amount, 5.5% is what we
have to pay in bed tax. So based on that amount, that's roughly 620 or 30,000. I believe the
budgeted amount is showing that it was 600,000. So we were already a little bit low on that.
It's one of those numbers that's a moving target, though, so obviously depending on revenue.
But so right now I'm not projecting a savings in there because we do expect a higher private pay and skill.
So when did the regulations change on these money markets like that's moving more in.
I'm honestly not sure. I think that it was within the last year. I met with Bank of New Hampshire. They came in.
And we went over our accounts and they informed me of it.
We're in regular contact with them.
So I'm exactly sure exactly what I can find out.
Well, I'm just wondering, so going forward, when we have a bundle of money.
Money markets now loosening these restrictions may be a better way to build than traditional CDs.
Are they paying a higher rate or at the same rate?
I would have to double check on the CD rate.
They're a little higher.
We have one CD. We have the anniversary CD still.
You know what that's saying?
They were moving it around for us at one point so that if there was a special, they would move it into the special, which was like 5% at one time.
Because right now we're on the money market, it's 3.6.
It is.
All right.
That's not terrible.
No, no, it's better than 0.10.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
They're usually very good as far as they'll be in touch with us.
They have, you know, they check in.
But if we see that there's a CD, because we can only, you know, change the CD yearly.
But if they're just special at that time, then that's what they'll put it in front.
Fair enough. No penalty. Okay.
Is the New Hampshire Republic of Mesquipool is still viable?
One rate, I think they're, so they are at also 3.6.9.
They are in Bank of Bank of Bank of.
We'll sit America.
Bank of New Hampshire is matching what they do.
Great.
Lori, thank you very. Thank you, Laura. Thank you, Laura.
Thank you.
Okay, commissioners, on to other business.
Karina, do we have anything?
I have a couple things, yes.
So, market calendars.
We have set the date for Employee Day.
It's September 30th.
We're having some of our health insurance providers come in,
CGI is coming in.
We're going to do a little table.
We're meeting with kids.
later this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, later this week to discuss food options and whatnot.
So that planning has started and the phone line along.
I also have, we have signed a new MOU with an online with an online school out of California.
They are called SISU.
It's a L&A certificate program.
Shelly and I and Amanda
set down on a call with them.
Essentially, they're an online licensing certificate program.
They will do their own recruitment and, you know, advertising for positions in the area.
All the clinical work is done online, and then they'll be here for 60 hours.
It's similar to what we do with the high school or Lakes region.
And so we feel like any sort of, I guess, any sort of, I guess, any sort of, you know, any sort of,
of visibility is good visibility for the nursing home.
So we're hoping to start that program.
We're not the only county in New Hampshire who signed on, Cheshire also did.
And then I can't remember exactly the name, but it was another one on the sea coast did as well.
So they'll have three training spots in New Hampshire and will be one of them.
They were credited.
They were credited, yes.
And so we're hoping that we get a little, you know, like I said, a little traction, a little attention
to Belknap and maybe we'll be able to retain.
you know, I know, we do get, you know, first offer on them once they graduate.
So trying our best.
And then the last thing I have is we're going to start sending out the manifest with an option for an electronic signature as well.
So when you're looking at it at home, if you're okay with it, you can just sign it electronically from your mobile phone or from your laptop.
And then attempt to get some of those signatures filed away.
way.
Okay.
Good.
We got it.
We're looking into what the best option is right now, whether it's just like Adobe sent for signature.
We don't really want to pay for a service because, you know, it's not really worth it for the once-a-week scenario.
But I would hope to see that in the next coming weeks.
So we'll send you, when we send out the manifest, we'll make a little note if it's ready for electronic signature.
You got it.
Thank you.
Um.
Rish news.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
On to public comments.
Do we have any public comments?
We have a few members here or are a part of the public?
Going well.
Going no comic.