From: William Carrico <wcarrico@medfield.net>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:12 AM
Subject: FF Matt Reinemann
To:
On Friday Dec 4th, Matt completed the 10 week Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Recruit Class #BW06 which was held in Bridgewater. He was also awarded the Richard N. Bangs Award for outstanding student.
Congradulations Matt!
William C. Carrico II
Fire Chief/EMD
Medfield Fire
112 North Street
Medfield, MA 02052
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Posted in Fire Department
December 05, 2020
The project on the Mt. Nebo Water Tower is complete and the tank is being refilled. This process may disturb some debris, resulting in discolored water in homes…… Read on
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Posted in Water & Sewer
Selectman Office Hours this Friday
I hold regular monthly office hours on the first Friday of every month from 9:00 to 10:00 AM. Residents are welcome to call me at 508-359-9190 to discuss any town matters.
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Posted in Select Board matters
Greg Reibman, President of the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber has been sending a daily e-newsletter since COVID started in March, and this was in his one today –
IRS PPP ruling adds another 2020 hurdle
I hate to spoil your appetite one day before the big event but here’s the latest on the PPP.
Earlier this year, the IRS ruled that expenses (like payroll) that businesses typically deduct from their taxes aren’t tax deductible if they used PPP dollars to pay for them.
Last week, the IRS issued new guidance prohibiting any small business that has a reasonable expectation of eventually receiving PPP loan forgiveness from deducting those expenses in 2020, even if it takes until 2021 or 2022 to be granted forgiveness, or if the business hasn’t submitted a forgiveness application yet, writes Andy Medici for the BBJ.
In other words: The IRS has just made it harder for businesses that are desperately trying to survive this pandemic by eliminating a potential strategy to defer their 2020 tax liabilities for one year while waiting for the economy to rebound.
Or as one expert tells Medici: “Without the PPP, small businesses would have laid off staff, saving on expenses and saving cash. The only reason they kept staffing levels is because of the PPP, and the IRS is effectively punishing that action by pretending it wasn’t a legitimate business expense.”
Interested in a sharp stick in the other eye (related to federal COVID relief support for our businesses)? Try this.
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Email from Kristine Trierweiler –
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FYI. They are reporting to have the remaining 46 customers back on by Noon.
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Good Morning Christine,
No, this was not a planned outage. We had a few phases come down which affected some customers in the area. Currently, we have crews on-site and there are 46 customers that remain out. The remaining customers should be picked up no later than noon today but may be restored sooner.
I’ll send you another update once I have it.
Thank you,
Jared
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Jared M. Blandino
Community Relations & Economic Development Specialist
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What Medfield personage lists his/her occupation on the official annual town census that he/she is a “RODEO CLOWN?”
Maintaining the integrity of the town records requires me to inquire, Sir/Madam, when was your last rodeo?
Noticed while using the town census to send out the Medfield Foundation’ first annual appeal.
The Medfield Foundation hopes to have 100% of the town’s rodeo clowns supporting its first annual appeal.
And in fact 100% of all of our hometown’s residents – together building our shared community – https://www.medfieldfoundation.org/give
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Exciting news! Check your mail for the first ever MFi annual appeal letter! A dozen of our neighbors have already responded. You can also donate on-line here – https://www.medfieldfoundation.org/give
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Posted in Charity, Medfield Foundation
The Division of Local Services (DLS) newsletter had the following article about the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act (CPA) base state matching monies coming in this year at 28.6% for the 3% CPA communities.
Medfield residents continue to pay in to fund the state payments to other towns, because Medfield has not adopted the CPA – i.e Medfield is leaving free state monies on the table. See https://www.communitypreservation.org/ for information.
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The map below shows all the communities that have adopted the Community Preservation Act, including those recently adopted.
FY2021 Community Preservation State Match Distributed
Donnette Benvenuto and Lisa Krzywicki – Data Analytics and Resources Bureau
On November 13th, the Data Analytics and Resources Bureau (DARB) distributed the FY2021 state match of Community Preservation (CPA) funds. The CPA trust fund receives revenues from surcharges on documents filed at the Registry of Deeds. Effective January 1, 2020 the registry of deeds increased fees on most documents from $20 to $50 and on municipal lien certificates from $10 to $25. In FY2021, there are 176 communities eligible for the CPA state match and as of November, the CPA state trust fund recorded revenues totaling $61.1 million.
Of the 176 communities eligible, 76 have adopted the surcharge at the maximum 3% making them eligible for base distribution match of 28.6% of the local CPA surcharge committed. They are also eligible for the 2nd round distribution (equity) and 3rd round distribution (surplus), which can result in an increased percentage match, up to 100%. The remaining 100 communities that did not adopt the CPA at 3% are only eligible for the first-round match of 28.6% of the local CPA surcharge committed.
Number of communities eligible for the FY2021 state match by percentage adopted:
The full distribution breakdown and decile ranking by community can be found here on the DLS website.
On the November 3rd ballot an additional 9 communities voted and approved the CPA and West Stockbridge adopted it earlier in the year. Municipal Clerks in these communities are reminded to send in the Specimen ballot, results and notification of acceptance form to DARB at databank@dor.state.ma.us as soon as possible.
List of additional communities and percentage adopted eligible for the FY2022 CPA state match in November of 2022:
For questions about the distribution or to notify us of local adoption, please email databank@dor.state.ma.us.
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Posted in Affordable housing / 40B, Budgets, Community Preservation Act (CPA), History, Medfield Rail Trail, Peak House Heritage Center, Recreation
November 20, 2020 9:50 AM
Medfield’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard has been updated with case and testing data as of 11/19. Medfield remains in the yellow category and has a case count of 35 cases over the last 14 days.
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Posted in COVID-19
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