In Plymouth, Massachusetts General Law requires the County to declare land that is available for lease and on a 2 to 1 vote, at their meeting on the 6th, County Commissioners vote to declare the County Farm available to the Sheriff’s Department.
WATD’s Bobbi Clark has more…
County Commission Chair Jared Valanzola:
“The County needs to declare land that it owns available for lease. We have entered in to conversations with extending the Sheriff Department’s lease on the Plymouth County Farm, so Commissioner Wright and I voted in the affirmative to declare the asset available for lease to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which of course, would be the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department.”
Commissioner Greg Hanley who voted no, says his objection stems from the process:
“Specifically, there’s a chapter 34, section 14 that speaks to County Commissioners and their role and responsibility when it comes to the disposition of land. I have sought legal advice from our counsel in executive session when a lease was proposed without following the process.”
Hanley says further…
“I have asked for an opinion of the Inspector General, The Inspector General has engaged our legal counsel, has asked for information and the information is due tomorrow, but yet we voted tonight on a 30B processing. I thought we were in agreement that we were going to wait to hear from the Inspector General to offer an opinion.”
This meeting of the Commissioners was followed by the annual meeting of the County Advisory Executive Committee. That group includes representatives from the 27 communities that comprise Plymouth County. They voted Plymouth Selectman Chair Dick Quintal to the Executive Board.
In Plymouth, Bobbi Clark, WATD News.
