Cumberland Commissioners Approve Jail Medical Pay Raise, Sebago Contract, Gray Property Purchase

[0:03] Speaker A (unidentified): This was, I don't know whose idea this was, but because of the angles of the cameras, oh, you're always getting it cut off. Oh, I like that. So you've been promoted to a more visible scene for the last two months of your career. Now we [0:19] Chair/presiding officer: we can collaborate good evening everyone today is October 5th 2026 it is 530 a little past we have a special meeting we'd like the public to know about I'd like to call this meeting to order if we could I guess I'll call the roll Commissioner Caterina? Here. Commissioner Cloutier? Present. Commissioner Gordon? Here. And Commissioner Tyler? Here. And myself, Smith, I am here. So we have a quorum. Everyone is here this evening. Thank you for your attendance. Next, we have a Pledge of Allegiance. If you'd like to join me. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, [1:12] Speaker A (unidentified): one nation, under God, invisible, with liberty and justice for all. [1:19] Chair/presiding officer: Thank you all. Appreciate it. And I'm entertaining a motion to go into executive session. So moved. I have a motion by Commissioner Gordon, a second by Cloutier, and now this is item 26107. It's an executive session to 1MRSA subsection 4056C to discuss two sessions. For those taking notes, I have a motion by Commissioner Tyler, a second by Commissioner Katarina. All those in favor of coming out of executive session show that five zero. We are now out of executive session. Thank you very much. We're going to continue our special meeting this evening, and the next item is under new business, and that next item is 26 109, authorized the county Manager to amend the contract with CFG Health Systems LLC for jail medical services to increase RN pay to $50 an hour and adjust the annual budget for all cost categories, including the management fee by 1.9%. May I have a motion to put on the floor and then I'll move. Thank you. Motion by Commissioner Cloutier and a second by Commissioner Gordon. County Manager, if you would, please. [46:13] Speaker A (unidentified): Thank you. This item, the contract originally came before you, I believe, at the end of July for an extension to the CFG Jail Medical. And at that time, I relayed on to the commissioners that we were still working through a couple of requests that CFG had presented us, but we just did not have enough time to banter it around and see what we wanted to recommend to the commissioners. Well, that time was provided, and we were able to get there through the month of August. And we're bringing forward this evening the amendment to their contract that not only increases the contract year over year by the CPI of 1.8%, but we also considered one aspect of their request, and that was to bump the RN's hourly salary up to $50 an hour. They had made a few other requests associated with our staff that they have, and we have opted not to bring that forward, and they're okay with it. We'll be having further dialogue around that in future months, but this amendment is for the 1.8, 1.8 CPI and costs associated bringing RN salaries up to fifty dollars. That, and I asked Brandon, do you have anything? Did I hit everything? I think you got it all. It's just to clarify, it's 1.9% CPI. I think that's in the motion as well, so. I started off at 1.7 earlier today, and I thought it was 1.8, so I thought I was doing all right, so it's 1.9. [48:00] Chair/presiding officer: Thank you for that introduction. Sheriff, since you're in the room, [48:03] Speaker A (unidentified): do you have anything to add on this? No, I support this as well. All right, thank you. [48:08] Chair/presiding officer: Okay, all right. I need to ask, is there any public comment? I see no hands raising. There is no public comment. That is closed. We have a motion on the floor. Or any questions or comments from the commissioners? None. I just have one quick comment. I think that I just want to say thank you to the group, the CFG. I know that they came in at a really critical time for us last year, and we really appreciate how smooth the transition was and how quickly they got on board. You know, clearly having a stable environment in the jail around medical services isn't, it is super important in terms of for the inmates and for everyone running the jail, so I appreciate the work they did there, and I look forward to future conversations with these contracts. And just to verify, this is contracts go through June 30, 2027. Is that correct? Okay, great. So we'll probably be chatting for the future years to come. So anyway, I just want to put it out there. All those in favor of this contract change, show us that. 5-0, that's the approval of item number 26-109, unanimous. It passes. Next, we have item 26-110. This is to authorize the county manager to sign a three-year contract for general assistance administration between the county and the town of Sebago. Could I have a motion on the floor? So moved. It's a motion by Katerina and a second by Commissioner Cloutier. Jim, any comments? [49:39] Speaker A (unidentified): We're bringing forward a contract to take over the town of Sebago's general assistance program. We have been working with the town for a few months now to learn about what their cases are in terms of type of cases, how much they've been allocating out on an annual basis, and we've finally come to a proposal that we provided them a few weeks AGO. SUBSEQUENTLY RECEIVED THAT PROPOSAL BACK WHICH IS IN YOUR PACKET THIS EVENING AND THIS ITEM IS IN LINE FOR COMMISSIONER REVIEW AND APPROVAL. NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. [50:20] Chair/presiding officer: NEW SPEAKER ANYONE HAVE ANY COMMENTS OKAY ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE TO GO BACK AND I SAID I'M JUST OWNING A MISTAKE THAT I MADE SO I JUST NOTICED THIS BECAUSE IT'S MY SPECIAL MEETING I MAKE A SPECIAL MISTAKE. WE CAME OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WE DO have an item on this special meeting and I jumped the gun so I apologize but the item is 26-108 and if you mind I will read that now that's to authorize the county manager or his designee to sign the appropriate documentation for the purchase of zero collie hill road in gray maine for the amount of 1.6 million through the use of federal arpa funds this motion will be made when the commissioners vote to exit the executive session sorry that wasn't the first thing we did and so that is the motion that should be on the floor right when we came out of executive session I missed it so my apologies that's what I move passage thank you I have a motion for passage from commit Cloutier a second by Katarina yes you correctly I think described the motion but beyond that I think we also had authorized the expense of through APA funds of fees and expenses related to the closing of the property yes 1.6 million and associated fees thank you very much appreciate that really missing the mark tonight on this one thank you for catching me anyone else any comments thoughts they won't want me to read it full does anyone need a clarity there do [51:59] Speaker A (unidentified): Do you need that clarity, Jim? I'm just going to ask you for that piece of paper afterwards. [52:02] Chair/presiding officer: Okay. Yeah, you'll get this. Yeah, okay. All right, if no questions, we're all clear on what just transpired. All those in favor? Aye. I'll show that unanimous, 5-0, 26-108 passes. Okay, we are finished. Can I ask for an adjournment of this special meeting? So moved. I have a motion by Commissioner Cloutier and a second by Commissioner Tyler. All those in favor of closing this special meeting, show that 5-0. This special meeting is now closed. [52:37] Speaker A (unidentified): This is my question. [52:38] Chair/presiding officer: Are we meeting again this month? Yes. And I believe we have just one item on this workshop, so I will toss that over to... We have two items. Two items. [53:09] Speaker A (unidentified): Sorry. The agenda got amended Monday, actually Friday, to include discussions amongst the commissioners and the sheriff on a letter to the congressional delegation. Okay, great.