Hi everyone, happy new release day. I'm Joe for jasperjasecasewrakes.com with a little 2021 Bowman Chrome Baseball 12 box hobby edition pick your team number one all-card ship And I think two autographs. Yeah two autographs per master box And it's Bowman folks. We're prospect hunting. I don't know what's gonna happen with any of these players right but We collect them and we wait to see if they become perennial all-stars if they become superstars That's why we love that's why we love Bowman It's a great opportunity to hunt for prospects big. Thanks everybody here for getting in on the action Ar last spot mojo. Good luck to him. Good luck to everybody To pick your team one. We also have this is the hobby edition We also have the choice edition as well Which is only three autos a box. It's only autos a Superfractor in the first case TJ. I would love that. That would be a great way to start the day. All right, here we go There's the box two autographs per master box plus Parallel hunting. There's Cabrion Hayes. There's Austin Martin. Let's see what we got. Good luck everyone Hey Machata had a huge night last night, but Not win Giants one Dodgers lost bummer No, actually sorry Dodgers won by a run last night. That's right. Vessia had to save Padres couldn't hang on to win Machado actually almost had a third home run last night Padres killing me. Well now let's see if we can do it again. Dodgers Walker Bueller on the mound In Colorado, they can take care of business against the Rockies And the Padres who am I? I'm relying on Vince Velazquez for the Padres to Three and seven Vince of Alaska's with a 609 ERA. Oh, we'll see. We'll see what happens anything can happen in baseball There's Nolan Gorman summer camp insert Robert Hassel and our first autograph is a cub yo, Hendrick Penango nice Bowman first autograph For Chris and the Cubs And you go left to you right here number 25 cubs prospect cubs actually have a lot of autos in this We've got a pretty big checklist if you take a look at cardboard connection.com or Or Group rate checklist calm. There's blaze Jordan 80 out of 99 Boston Red Sox Burt there you go Burt Some little color for blaze Jordan and all hardship ladies and gentlemen, so In case there's like I don't think I'll be missing any parallels, but In case I do in case I miss one. Don't worry. There's Victor Acosta Shimmer for the Padres that'll be for Chris and our second autograph is Pablo Abreu for Timoia and the brew crew that is Number 33 prospect in the brewer system corn to fan graphs pretty young kid right there So look a lot of growth there This is the fun thing about Bowman is he gets to start familiarizing yourself with some of the some of these prospects and we'll see See what they be what they can become there's Miguel Amaya to 499 We'll do a quick autograph recap at the end of the sprake to see what's happening with any I thought there was an Early game today. Oh, I think White Sox Tigers were rained out looks like pirates at Reds are rained out So a little bit of rainouts happening around the league Sean Edwards have you pulling monsters yet? No, I Mean, I don't know. Yes Sean Edwards Future Hall of Famers right here No, we just we're just in our this is the second Are we just only completed our first box? So nothing monstrous yet? But again, this is Bowman, so it's prospect hunting We won't really know if they're monsters until Until they start their careers. I guess there's there's only in the miners at this point Yeah, I saw a ton of hotani home run last night. Oh, that was a monster Well the MVP is obviously Ohtani, right? How many? How many strikeouts has Vladimir Guerrero Jr. thrown this year? How many how many wins as you have as a pitcher? Yeah, how many steals does Vlad Jr. Have? How many innings has Vlad Jr. pitched how many wins how many strikeouts has he thrown? Christian Hernandez. I think it's also one of the bigger names for the Cubs as well There's 40 man futures. Jeremy de la Rosa atomic to 150 That's for Arthur Sears and the Nationals and there's Baron Radcliffe Bowman first autograph for Austin and the Phillies There's Joey Bart Bowman ascensions. I think this is a short We were researching this last night. Let me just pull up cardboard connection calm really quick Going back to Ohtani. I think this is the best year for him to win the MVP He probably will win the MV. I think he's odds on favorite to win the MVP But he should he and he's one of those players where it's gonna be like Yeah, those Bowman ascensions are one per hobby case according to cardboard connection calm There you go. Joey Bart for my rivals the Giants David With the Giants there you go Dave But Ohtani might be one of those players It's like it's like guys like LeBron or Cole Bryant back and they they could win the MVP every year But you know the reality is is that they don't they should they could but They don't but I think Ohtani might be that kind of player simply because He can hit and he can pitch But I you know baseball riders aren't gonna give it to him every year though Because eventually a different storyline like trout could win it every year, but he doesn't right There's Christian Robinson purple shimmer to 250 so I Think it's gonna I think but this might be a special year for Ohtani just for him to get the MVP There's a Duarte Garcia for the Brewers That's gonna be to Moa Joey way better than Will Smith He's rated. He was rated higher than Will Smith But at the moment Will Smith is one of the better-hitting catchers in Major League Baseball So Joey Bart is a long way to go before before he's lucky enough to be a Will Smith There's Heston Kirtstad to 299 speckle Giants would be that's for the Orioles by the way. That's for Donald Giants would would love it If Joey Bart was even half of Will Smith You know his cards will skyrocket if what Vlad who if who gets the MVP? I don't think the MVP is gonna. I don't think it's gonna do too much Value-wise Because I think both both Vlad junior and Ohtani having having such great season their cards have been steadily Going up. I think people have assumed that those those are gonna be the MVP Those two are gonna be one of those two are gonna be MVP So I think the market is already accounted for that. I think officially winning it is not gonna make too much of a difference It'll help though. I mean to have that hardware Alice thinking you don't know how much higher That they can go just early in their MLB career. Yeah, I mean Ohtani is actually kind of young Remember most most of those Asian players are Arriving in the majors in their like late 20s because they have to I think they make more money that way because they have to stay in In their Korean or Japanese leagues for X amount of time Before they can post to the majors and there's a big bidding war and blah blah blah blah and Then you could be eligible for all this money and the teams are eligible that the Asian teams are eligible for money, too There's a chance that Ohtani could get scary as it might sound to get even better health permitting but in the offseason the whole the big story for him in the offseason was Was he had reconstructed his his body pretty much To to battle the rigors of the of the longer MLB season There's Pedro Leone for the Astros and it's shown and there's Chi Jung Lu Bowman first for Burt and the Red Sox Yeah, I didn't think it was gonna You know if you asked me at the beginning of the season Neptune If you said that if you said the dodge would be a game back of the Giants I wouldn't have believed you but here we are. There's Francisco Alvarez purple chrome to 250 Look with Ohtani and trout staying healthy and then the angels would be a championship contender No They won't because my trout also does not pitch Their offenses is is is fine Their pitching is a is a is a mess John Edwards There's CJ Abrams to 50 that'll be for the Padres that's for Chris If they get their pitching together Yeah, they I mean they could do some damage in the postseason, but it's not about Ohtani and trout staying healthy It's about their pitching staff being able to To be effective 26 out of 150. There's Tanner Hawke blue parallel for Burke and the Red Sox First-rounder Luis Rodriguez, I think for my Dodgers another one of the bigger names that you're gonna see Hopefully for the Dodgers one of their up-and-coming prospects. They got a lot Ryan Mountcast is having a great season Bryce Harper. Could he make a Could he make a Make a late run for NL MVP There he is 158 out of 250 Bryce Harper Phillies Austin Yeah, so far so good for the Red Sox we still have We're only three boxes in but so far so good. We still have a lot more to go Tetease has it on lock maybe but but if you at least according to Vegas The market has has moved towards The market has moved towards Bryce Harper For whatever that's worth and I think baseball riders off also like a narrative, right? So So You know if one of those If I don't know I mean do the Phillies have a chance at the playoffs Yeah, what if Bryce Harper hits his way into Into a wild card spot. That's gonna be tough.  They can make some pretty bad pretty bad decisions voting wise There's George Phillies Bowman first autograph for the M's Mark Basette with the Mariners What's that Okay, nice, I'll move it Move my car All right. Hey, Sue Sanchez pink To 299 that's for the fish That will be for Joe Parisi an all-cards ship so We'll be getting everything you see here There's Alexander Ramirez shimmer You know that Hawk start your men Mercedes had and there's Oslevis Bassave Bowman first blue for the Rangers. That's gonna go to Patrick Davis Number 19 Rangers prospect went 49 for 151 in the Arizona fall league second on the team of triples Rangers have a lot of youngsters coming up the ranks. It could be interesting to see What they'll look like in a few seasons There is to 75 to I 75 Jefferson Cuero I think I read somewhere that because of the printing Because of a due to a printing issue That the orange and the yellow parallels look very similar. I don't most looks orange to you, right? But obviously the oranges are out of 25 and the yellows I believe are out of 75 Shailin Polak we's another pirate prospect Chad number eight prospecting the international class Signed earlier this year January 2021 All right Third of the way through the break We got more in the store folks jaskies case breaks calm and we also have the HTA choice edition Which is only autographs each box has three autos And I think there's five teams left in the next in the next hobby break If you want to run this back nothing sold out after this and there is now seven left in HTA choice. That's a full case break as well How do I feel about tops losing base? Well, it's a bummer That's for sure. They've been around for so long but I think the industry speculation is that is that fanatics will probably end up buying tops and then And then let them keep doing bowman chrome so like my guess is it'd be like be like bowman chrome and it'd be like a fanatics company or something like that on the box and There's a Braden shoemake to 150 and there's Aldo Ramirez For the Red Sox Burt. I Mean, I'm not I'm not super concerned. I mean the only concern is just It's just how the the actual mechanics of it the specifics of it will work out Who are we buying from what kind of product are we getting blah blah blah? There's Manuel Beltray to 199 for the blue jays That'll be for Toronto Nick But fanatics, you know Even in the sports industry for a minute or two, they feel I feel like they know what they're doing The hobby is exploded. I don't think they want to they don't want to kill the golden goose so 41 out of 250 purple shimmer Nice willman Diaz another good prospect for the Dodgers mark. So if they do what's best for them Right, which is be a for-profit company will probably be means that it will be good quality stuff for us And for the collector Everybody wins There's Tyler Keenan bowman first autograph Mariners mark was set Christian Javier 49 out of 250 Andrew with the Astros this could be a future top of the rotation guy All right next box David's having audio is anyone having audio trouble. It's my mic work. No, okay Do I have a second microphone on?  Check one check to Mike check Mike check Yeah, but the The broad You know the broad speculation is that finax will end up buying out some companies and like tops or maybe even upper-decks Dave's good There's a relic Bradley what's up? Who's the top player he's yelling here? Who's the top player we are looking for? Lot of players that we that we can look for here Astros Have a couple great prospects Carlos's brother JC Correa Pedro Leone A's have Pedro Panada Cubs have a ton of ton of players Christian Hernandez is one of those guys you want to look for Luis Rodriguez and Willem Diaz for the Dodgers So on and so forth It's hard to really identify top players and but in Bowman right now because Bowman is such a prospect heavy product This is just we're future star hunting here This is for this is for future value Rather than what's more about future value rather than current value. There's Alexander Mojica 49 out of 99 green shimmer But yeah, that's always that's always the challenge with with with Bowman products from year to year There's Jose Baez to 100 but for the people that are The people that are that really know their their baseball prospects. This is a really popular product Every year. I mean pre look at the pre-orders pre-orders went fast Jose Baez is gonna be for the tribe that's for Alan People pick up this stuff really fast 97 out of 150 summer camp Max Meyer Jose Parisi Joe Parisi that Think about Jose Baez and all hardship in this ladies and just a reminder all hardship. So if there's any Significant Bowman firsts or maybe even parallels that I might have accidentally missed. Don't worry Everything will be shipping to you Okay, David Rodriguez is good reset the computer audio is fine. There's Luis Rodriguez and The relic is tiara strata flashbacks relic. It's a pretty thick car stock right here 180 There it is Yankees relic Going to Donald picked up the Bronx bombers. There's Jorge Soler and an autograph Or a solar refractor to 499 Royals Brandon and the auto is Malphrene Sosa for the twins Think him along with Micell Urbina guys to look out for for the twins Raise Blue Jays game. Is this a live game here has to be Yeah, it is All right Next box Blue Jays playing some good baseball. They've won seven out of their last ten They're a half game ahead of the Yankees for a wild card spot behind them A's and Mariners Three both three games back of a wild card spot. They're gonna have to leapfrog a team or two Which is always a challenge, but They're in the hunt they're still in it out in the NL Cardinals on a ten game winning streak. There are four games ahead of the Reds Who have only won three in their last ten so so st. Louis has taken the edge there Over the the Reds their four games ahead of the Reds four and a half ahead of the Phillies five ahead of the Padres Who have lost four in a row? There's still mathematically in it, but they'd have to go on a run. There's only like 12 days left in the season Dodgers are a single game back behind the Giants Dodgers don't want to play that one game playoff there nobody wants to play that one game playoff I guess but Let's see if the Dodgers can overtake him in the last week or so of the season There's Wander Franco 006 out of 250 purple shimmer for the Rays Burke Burke Thomas with the Rays Wander Franco playing some solid baseball. It's only to get better. You might see is he playing today? We might see in a bat from him while we're There's Luis Miesus White Sox Bowman first autograph Joe Christian with the South Siders. I don't think Franco is playing today No, he's not we got Tristan houses to 499 Tristan Casas for Burke Thomas and the Red Sox nice refractor There's Wander again. Oh is Wander on the IL Well, he was hitting well before that he was on a really Hefty bases reached streak wasn't he Ben? 271 out of 299. Hey, Sue Sanchez for the fish Joe Parisi in the Marlins Matt Sheffler Bowman first autograph for the Mariners marked with the M's Tampa better start winning Red Sox three game series sweep could make it interesting How many games back are I thought I thought the Rays were cruising. Oh No, they're they're six games Yeah, I guess a sweep would make it interesting. There's six games ahead of the Red Sox There's Carlos Colman eras to 125 Right, so a three game series would be interesting. They sweep. Yeah, that's right Ben Wander Wander was on like a 35 game bases reached streak. It's pretty incredible Teams like the White Sox are cruising. They're 10 and a half games ahead of Cleveland. I wonder Astros are eight games ahead of the the Oakland A's Is that a good thing or a bad thing if teams are Are that comfortably ahead? I suppose they could set the rotation. They can rest some guys, but do you lose a little bit of edge? Do you get a little soft?  What do you think does that help or hurt a team like the White Sox who are 10 and a half games ahead of Cleveland? Does that help Milwaukee? They're nine and a half games ahead of st. Louis Sub Oliver happy bowman chrome day We're like we're like the 49ers in the mid-1800s in California. We're prospecting here We're buying plots of land We're getting our Getting we're panning for gold getting our sleuces ready. There's Armando Cruz Shimmer. Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter me. I mean the Dodgers have had comfortable Division wins, too. They still seem pretty sharp for the playoffs Who's hurt Steve Virch? There's Gabriel mice My CL and go with my CL to 499 refractor autograph For the twins big bold autograph for Coppola and the twins The other there was another twin back there to Coppola We've got Jesus Sanchez to 250 that'll be for Joe and The Marlins or redemption coming up and he guesses on that redemption and there's a Shailen, Polanco Speckle parallel to 299. Oh Oh, I'm Steve saying big leads do hurt team teams. I got you. I got you if there's a little in here there'd be There'd be a lot of explaining to do all right Bowman chrome prospect refractor parallels. That's to 499 We'll have the team name here to S San Diego San Francisco St. Louis St. Louis Cardinals Malcolm Nunez That's gonna be for Joe M got a couple different three different Joe's here. We got a Joe C a Joe P and a Joe M and a Joe Jaspy right here This one's going to Joe M bought the St. Louis Cardinals straight up. Thank you, Joe All right, four more boxes to go boys and girls Another 15-20 minutes in this break So I think with the with the Dodgers example Oliver Maybe the Dodgers have been winning the division for so long by so much that they're They're mentally prepared for it You know have teams, I mean, I don't know White socks when's the last time they led the division by ten and a half games going to playoffs a little little inexperience there But I guess Lou Russo would have them should have them sharp. I guess I'll eventually they're there at 85 wins They'll probably have about you think they'd have about 90 by the time all said and done Probably win a handful more games get to 90 It's a pretty solid season. I remember whenever when Tony LaRusso was hired everyone was like Tony LaRusso What's this old guy doing with a young team, how's he gonna get through to him? I think I even said that too I was like just didn't seem like a Seem like an inch like a weird fit But Results turned out okay For now, let's see what happens in the pressure under the pressure of the playoffs There's Luis Garcia for Arthur Sears pink to 299 It's kind of weird the the parallels are turned around but the autographs are not and there's a Vian Del Peña 48 out of 99 There you go Arthur Sears nationals Bowman first now Arthur was like I bought the Nats. I was just prospecting I bought the Nats without even really even knowing What what to look for but here is your number 20 prospect in the Gulf Coast League Won the circuits batting title So you go multi-tool player helps the team in multiple ways Quick strokes mark base runner experienced at three infield positions signed at 16 grew up in the same hometown as January mahiya and Jose Mesa So nice green parallel There's Yachty 499 he's got one more season last year next year will be his farewell tour Willam and Diaz. There's one of this. Let's see if we can find parallels here But there's a bowman first right there big Dodgers prospect Nicoladolo shimmer and there's Christian Santana. I think that's just one of the bigger names here Yeah for the Tigers bowman first Detroit Tigers That's gonna be mark beset with Detroit Number six prospect in the international class according to baseball America Checks at number seven top rated shortstop number 14 overall on the mlb.com prospect list Nice Tigers definitely have some some youngsters coming up the ranks that could make that team really good in a few years There's Shane beaver blue to 150 For Cleveland that's gonna be for Allen Next box. Yeah, they're all over saying he's like I don't see how it hurts having too much of a lead You get healthy still getting your abes and set the rotation Yeah, I guess I was just speculating on like if there was any I Guess I guess it's maybe depends on team team chemistry Leadership, but like if you maybe lose a little bit of competitive juice Q-Rome any more six walks off to basketball? No Not at the moment, but keep checking back on jasky's case breaks.com We'll probably get some more. All right, just Those two boxes in this box right here. Good luck everybody. We're almost there Yeah, so these hobby breaks are a little bit longer But those HTA choice breaks are only three autos a box That break is actually quite quick. Yeah, all we're saying if you got a vet club manager should be fine The White Sox don't though They got a vet manager. They got a couple vet players got a lot of youngsters on that team, too Mostly youngsters I would say Right. Yeah hot wild car club like the Cardinals I don't know if the Dodgers want to play the Cardinals in a one-game playoff There's one then Bowman first autograph for Mark and the Mariners Steve saying it I think it hurts resting players too much I'm all for setting up the rotation though. There's Christian Santana Bowman first and an Andrew Vaughan 36 out of 99 another White Sox youngster that a lot of people are really high on White Sox Joe see with Chicago Fran Yell you got to work on that auto buddy. You got to send him to Jaspy's autograph camp Fran Yell by as Bowman first autograph for the Diamondbacks TJ with snakes Could make his professional debut this year. There's a prospect of note by a fan grass Dangerous switcher dangerous hitter from both sides of the plate 63 Yeah, one of Sean's favorites Andrew Vaughan There's wander Franco shimmer Yeah, I guess there could be a Scherzer Wainwright potential in that one game wild card I'm not looking forward to that. I think Wainwright had a really nice game against the Dodgers Last time they met There's Julio Carreras 141 out of 299 for the Rocks nice speckle autograph for Giuseppe and the Rockies and a Louise Robert purple To 250 That's for the white. I guess if the parallel is upside down that makes it interesting because we won't see a superfactor coming up It'd be it'd be a surprise as soon as I flip that card around Alright two more boxes to go almost there This is hobby break number one pick your team number one brand new release bowman chrome baseball just dropped today We've got more opportunities. We should be a pretty big bowman chrome day today So we've got more opportunities if you want to get into it. We got five teams left in bowman chrome hobby pick your team two So if you want to grab some teams we could run this back pretty quickly If you want to go with the hta choice edition, which is a considerably shorter break seven teams left on that I think there's a lot of teams if you just kind of want to Mess around a little bit and have fun prospecting. There are some inexpensive teams still remaining too. I think the in hobby case two Diamondbacks are only 39.99 Indians are only 49.99 Royals are only 59.99 I think for the royals you might have a chance at stumbling into some acelacies As well for bowman chrome hta choice pick your team number one Diamondbacks and an hta choice is just all autograph.  Sorry, I gotta fix that right now before someone accidentally purchases those braves and hta is an all auto product And braves do not have autographs in In hta So we accidentally sold them. We refunded them And I don't know why they were restocked. Let me take Take the braves out before someone accidentally buys them Thanks tj again. All right. So good news hta choice number one down to six Diamondbacks 42.99 The tribe the Mets the Phillies are all 54.99 Rangers are 62.99 And the nationals 104.99. That's not bad. It's kind of more more of a mid-range team right there Rangers and nationals for the medium rollers Lower rollers can can go for the diamondback 42.99 Indians Mets Phillies 54.99 each and let me uh Drop the checklist into the chat if you want to do your own research On what players and prospects you want to chase this is all prospect hunting ladies and gentlemen So a lot of potential future value for a lot of these players. That's what we're chasing And Pedro Leone is one of those astros that could have a lot of future value pink shimmer to 199 Rated as the number one prospect in the international class by baseball america number seven overall on mlb.com so That's one of the reasons why the astros are an interesting team to pick up. There he is again And there's malphrene sosa 424 out of 4.99 refractor autograph for the twinkies. That's going to be for capola and the twins One of the top power hitters And there's jaren duran duran to 250 purple chrome Burke with the red socks Jaren duran tristan casas bobby dalbeck, that's a that's an interesting trio For the for the red socks There's tristan casas right there And you got taylor tremel to 4.99 90 out of 4.99 refractor for mark beset and the m's And there's on hell ron don't For joe m and the redbirds We got a refractor of alexander viscaino To 4.99 for donald and the yankees And the final box coming up Thanks everyone for getting in on the action. I appreciate it. Like I said, plenty more in the store jaspyscasebrake.com and we'd be breaking All afternoon all evening and into the late night So buy your teams early and often because we will have plenty of time For group breaks all day long at jaspys brakes On uh on Instagram live as well personal boxes at jaspys brakes on twitter if you want to follow us there You may as well subscribe to the youtube channel I think we're at I think we could hit 13 000 subscribers on youtube fairly soon I know that helps the algorithm if you want to help us out Otherwise, hey just place orders jaspyscasebrake.com. That's a good metric as well. So thank you everybody final box jaspyscasebrake.com No train whistle yet. I think the out of fives and under are going to be a little bit harder in sets like this, but Let's keep selling out breaks. Let's keep searching for our first train whistle. It could be in this box There's heston kerkside shimmer For the o's that's going to be for donald And we got rafael morel Chris with the cubbies and we've got Ooh a bowman ascensions orange eight out of 25 Now according to cardboard connection.com. These are only supposed to be one per case. We already found one earlier But here's a second one and a parallel Joe with the cardinals Dylan carlson could be Could be a future star logan gilbert to 199 mark with the mariners And kyle hurt is our final autograph Joe p with the fish Got a parallel here. You're on alvarez to 250 131 add 250 for the straws Andrew what else do we have here? I think that is it And there's pager leon at the end all-card ship ladies and gentlemen So get into it on jaspyscasebrakes.com. Here's a quick uh, let's do a quick recap autograph recap Any like it's low number parallels that we may have found like like that dylan carlson Which is pretty nice A lot of nice color here as well in the autographs, which is always It's always nice to see Atomic Got some blue here more blue There's the other ascensions insert And there you have it that was 2021 brand new 2021 just dropped today bowman chrome baseball 12 box hobby case picker team number one We've got plenty more in the store on jaspyscasebrakes.com Go and get it and i'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


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And now with Good Night, Mrs. Russell, starring Miss Betty Davis with Elliot Reed, Autolight hopes once again to keep you in suspense. There's no escaping now. He hasn't said a word for 10 minutes. I know he's turning over in his mind how he's going to kill me. Argument and reasoning are useless. It's almost dawn now. In a little while, the milkman and the paper boys will be making their rounds. I'll be dead. The cafe was just half a block away from where I worked.  And there was always a beautiful-looking roast turkey and a juicy baked ham in the window. And you could watch Henry carve off succulent pieces of meat and arrange them into neat sandwiches with an olive and a dab of potato salad on the plate. Every noon, all of us who worked in the Hilmar building would go there for lunch. We crowded in on the high stools and jabbered, as women do, while Henry patiently served us and put up with our female chatter. He was always the only one there. How are you today, ma'am? Fine, thank you, Henry. How about some of your nice baked ham? Yes, ma'am. Coming up. Always especially nice to me. I suppose that was because I'm well a little older than the others. Other girls are all very young, very cute. Henry always seemed uncomfortable a little with them. Yes, ma'am. Coffee? Please, and I believe I'll have some of your cherry pie. You're an excellent cook, Henry. Thank you, ma'am. I'm glad you think so. 20 and 15s, 35, and... and... Henry had been right in the middle of adding up my check and he stopped and stood very still and looked out of the corner of his eye with his head cocked on one side as though he were listening to something. His expression was a little horrified. I thought maybe he'd heard a sound that meant something to him, you know, like the refrigerator out of water or something. Then all of a sudden, he shook his head and brushed away whatever it was he'd heard. 20 and 15s, 35, and 45. You should try one of my dinners sometime, ma'am. Yeah, Henry. Henry, how about some service? Oh, excuse me, ma'am. That was Henry. Oh, one other thing, funny, but Henry never smiled. Perhaps I should have realized about him because of that. But I didn't. He was so nice and clean and polite. I rather liked him. As a rule, I make my own dinner in the apartment. For one night, I had to work quite late at the office and I decided to stop by Henry's and get a little bite before catching the streetcar home. Ever since my husband's death, I felt just a little uneasy on the streets alone at night. I was glad to see the bright light in Henry's little cafe down the block. Henry's alone inside, and I could see him fussing around cleaning up the place. He didn't hear me approaching. What's that? Oh, you're frightening me, ma'am. I didn't hear you coming. I just thought I'd try one of your dinners tonight, Henry. You mentioned it. Yes, I know.  You weren't closing or anything? No, no, not at all. What would you like? Oh, I'll try your number four dinner. Number four? Yes, ma'am. You seemed frightened about something or suspicious. Yes, that was it. You seemed suspicious about something I thought. I wanted to help him somehow, but I didn't want to butt in. This is the first time you've ever been by here at night, ma'am. Yes, I had to work late tonight, Henry. Didn't want to go home without dinner, you know. I see. Is something wrong, Henry? No, no. I'll get the rest of your dinner. Delicious soup. Thank you, ma'am. You don't often work late, do you? No, I don't. This is the first time, in fact, my boss asked me to stay late to type some letters. I know. You work in the Hilmar building. Yes, I do. I know lots of things, ma'am. Good dinner, Henry. I guess I'm not as hungry as I thought I was. I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave some of it. I thought you liked my cooking. You said so just the other day. I do. I think you're a fine cook, Henry. I'm just not hungry tonight. I waited too long to eat, I guess. You don't have to make excuses, ma'am. If you didn't like it, just say so. Oh, no, I mean it. Your food is wonderful, Henry. If it weren't, I wouldn't have come here. Wouldn't you? No. Now, could I have my check, please? 85 cents, ma'am. All right. There you are, Henry. You may keep the change. I'd rather not, ma'am. Here. Very well. Good night, Henry. Good night. Yes. Next time you come, I'll have something you like. But I did like it. Oh, good night, Henry. Good night, Mrs. Russell. It was good food, but I felt ill at ease in there for some reason. That's why I couldn't eat. I decided not to go back there alone. Rather hard to talk to Henry. And I didn't go back alone. That is not for three weeks. Had to work late. Again, and for the last time, I went to Henry's. Hello, Henry.  Why, Henry, I've been eating here every day. Not at night. What's the difference? Well, in the daytime, you're always with your friends. I like to eat with my friends.  How about one of your wonderful dinners, Henry? I promise to eat all of it tonight. All right, ma'am. Which one? I'll try the number four again, please. I think that way I can convince you I really like it. Why? Why? Well, because I think four is lucky, don't you? All right, ma'am. It's all ready. You don't have many customers at night, do you, Henry? No, ma'am. Not many. I'm surprised you say open. Are you? There you are. I hope you. I hope. Henry, what is it? You seem to be listening for something. Is there?  I hate to sound like I'm prying. I know it isn't my business at all, but I do think something's bothering you. Do you? Yes, isn't there some way I can help you? Nothing's bothering me, ma'am. Yes.  Did you? He was in the army, killed in the war. He was very much like you. I see. That left me all alone in the world. My husband, Leonard, died four years ago. Yes. He was a wonderful man. Everyone admired him. A contractor, you know. I see. You've noticed as I talked away about my family and everything, he became very quiet. He sat down on the cooler back of the counter and just watched me, his face absolutely blank. Couldn't tell what he was thinking. When I'd ask him a question, he'd just answer with, I see, or yes, or no. Sometimes he wouldn't answer at all. Just stare at me. I was getting uneasy again. Just about decided to make up an excuse to pay my bill and leave. It was getting quite late when my head began to feel heavy. And I began to feel sick. Henry. Henry, I feel ill. Henry, I'm awfully dizzy. I don't think I can. Henry, can't you hear me? I believe I'm going to faint. Perhaps you'd better help. Did you do something? Good night. This is Rassau. Good night. This is Rassau. The fight is bringing you, Miss Betty Davis, in Good Night, Mrs. Russell, tonight's production and radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense. Hey, Harlow, how'd you stain your tie? Oh, that's from the alphabet soup we had at dinner. 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And now Auto Light brings back to a Hollywood sound stage our star Betty Davis with Elliot Reed in Good Night, Mrs. Russell. A tale well calculated to keep you in... Suspense. I don't know how long I was unconscious. It seemed just for a moment and a moment crowded with horrible nightmares and dreadful sounds. I remember hearing a woman screaming. Screaming and crying horribly. It was gas, Leah. I must have been unconscious several hours. And when I opened my eyes it was dark. Pitch dark. A clock was ticking somewhere and I realized that the screaming woman had been me. Is... Is anyone here? Where at? I'm tied up. Who's there? Can anyone hear me? Help! Henry, where was he? The room was black as night. I could see nothing. What was I doing here? Why was I tied up? How did I get here? I remembered nothing after... After feeling... Deserty at least. So that was it. You put something in my food, didn't you, Henry? Yes, I did, Mrs. Russell.  Kill me? Kill you? Dead. Why, Henry? Why? Because you're my enemy. You and all the others. Your enemy?  I've always liked you. Don't lie, Mrs. Russell. You thought I didn't know, didn't you? You thought I didn't know what you were up to. What I was up to?  Night after night, I've heard you. All of you. Outside my window. Whispering. Whispering. Kill me. Didn't you know I could hear you? I'm saying... Oh, no, I'm smart, Mrs. Russell. And you know it.  Get rid of me. Oh, it's just lucky I found out you were one of them. You'll be the first to die, Mrs. Russell.  How do you like that, Mrs. Russell? Be quiet, Mrs. Russell.  I tried to make myself think. I remember you're supposed to humor people that are like Henry. I tried to control myself. No one can hear you. No one even knows you're here. And I'm not going to untie you either. Not until you're dead. Henry. Henry, I'm just... I'm only an ordinary... You'll lie here in the dark and listen to the clock for half an hour. Just half an hour, Mrs. Russell.   Henry, I'm just an ordinary woman. Oh, I'm smart enough to see through those remarks you made. Remarks? Always talking about what a good cook I was. As if you felt I wasn't a man. I know what you were thinking. Henry, I didn't mean anything of the sort. I really... And then rubbing it in about your precious son in the army. Rubbing it in torturing... Henry, that's wrong. And always ordering number four dinner. Oh, I'm smart. You see, Mrs. Russell, I can figure things out. Number four is lucky, you said. Four for four F you meant. Henry, Henry, all those things they were your imagination. I didn't mean them that way at all. I didn't know about the army. Weak excuses, Mrs. Russell. You're like all the rest. I'm too smart for you and you know it.  I'm a dangerous enemy, Mrs. Russell. How long have I got to live, Henry? Oh, a half hour. I don't know. The alarm will ring.  I was resigned to it then. Seem so hopeless. But then I thought if I could just get him to turn on the light, I might see a way out. It was a forlorn hope, but I tried it. Henry? Henry? How do you know you set the clock right? Henry! I heard you. No, you didn't. And so I thought... You thought you could get me to turn on the light. Sorry, Mrs. Russell. Henry, you're torturing yourself more than you are me, Henry. Do you know that? What do you mean? Well, you don't know when the alarm's going to ring either. You must be sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to hear it. Aren't you?   It's murder, Henry.  It is true, then, isn't it, your... You can't trick me into turning on the light. I'm too smart for that. You're going to suffer in the dark. As I have. I decided to turn on the light, Mrs. Russell. At first I was blinded at being in the dark so long. Then I saw his hands, they were long and slim and brown. Blue veins stood out on the backs of him. But here he was glaring at me from beneath his butt. Then he picked up the alarm clock and looked at it. Henry, I see it's ten minutes to three. Yes, Mrs. Russell. You have ten minutes to live. Can you wait? It was a tiny, neat living room. I was on a couch. The shades were down. There was no foam. Well, the front door might be unlocked, isn't it? I can wait, Henry. Ten minutes now. Somehow with the lights on, I felt more optimistic, though. The hands were racing each other around the face of the clock. If I could just get untied now, there'd be a chance. I'd have to be careful, but quick, quick. Five minutes, Mrs. Russell. Henry, what? Are those things strapped to that board over there on the wall? Huh? Oh, that's my collection. A collection? Match folders. Oh, do you collect match folders? Oh, yes. I'll show them to you.  If that clock would only stand still for five minutes. Here. See? I have folders from all the famous night spots. Here's Siro's and the Stork Club and 21. I bet you didn't think I'd been to all those places, did you? Well, I know. Have you hidden them? Oh, sure. Lots of times. People would never believe me. That's why I have these. They're lovely, Henry. Henry, my arms and legs are numb from being tied up like this. Could you...? No! I warned you not to get tricky, Mrs. Russell. I just wanted you to loosen my hand so... so I could look at your collection. Well, just your hands. I've forgotten about everything. His collection for the moment. That alarm would go any second and I would remind him. As he untied my hands, my eyes fell on a large jade bookend beside the couch. There. Now, be careful, Mrs. Russell. You just wanted to see my collection, remember? Yes, Henry, show it to me. Now, oh, see this one? That's from the Coconut Grove. Yes, yes, Henry. I let my hands steal along the couch toward the bookend. Your... isn't that beautiful? Yes, yes, it is, Henry. I had it in my hands. You're not paying attention. Oh, yes, I am, Henry! When I got to Samoa, I'd gotten the bindings off my feet and I was outside in the night. He'd been telling the truth. His house was completely isolated on one block. I ran down the block as hard as I could. I didn't even think about direction, just ran. I knew he'd come to in a minute and I had to get out of sight. I'm not used to such exercise and my... my heart was pounding so hard it ached. In the middle of the next block I stopped for a moment and leaned against a tree to breathe and I looked back and I saw him. I could see him beneath the street lamp. He'd stopped not knowing which way I'd gone. He was wild, his mouth was hanging open loosely. I shrank back further in the shadows and prayed he'd go the other way. He... he didn't. He started walking rapidly again in my direction.  It was after 3 a.m. and the people would be asleep but I knew I could run no further. Help! And then I... I saw the note pinned to the door. It said no milk for ten days. I could hear Henry's footsteps down the street and I knew he must have heard me. I felt as though it would burst. My street was deserted. And then I heard a car approaching. He was a block away. I ran out of the street and weighed my arms. Help! Help me! Stop, please! Home again, Mrs. Russell? I'm escaping now. He hasn't said a word for ten minutes. I know he's turning over in his mind how he's going to kill me. It's almost dawn now in a little while the milkman and paper boys will be making their rounds. I'll be dead. You shouldn't have tried to get away, Mrs. Russell. You made me very mad. I know. You shouldn't have hit me either. Hmph. Hmph. You were even smarter than I thought, Mrs. Russell. You almost made it. But you weren't smart enough. Were you? If you're going to kill me, Henry, please do it. Haven't you tortured me enough? You see, it just didn't do you any good to be my enemy, did it? I don't like to kill you, but I have to. It's the only way I can protect myself. Don't you see you're not well, Henry? Please try to listen to me. Well, I have to kill all the others, too.  The others? Oh, don't pretend you don't know, Mrs. Russell. Oh, I've heard them whispering about me. You must have heard them, too. The voices. The voices? All the time, just like I told you. When I'm at work and even here at home, I hear them plotting. They don't know I know. Henry, there's no one. It's all an illusion. Don't you see? Just like you are. They're afraid of me because they know I can outsmart them. I'm too clever for them, and they know it. That's why they want to kill me. That's why you want to kill me, isn't it, Mrs. Russell?  Oh, I sort of got to like you, Mrs. Russell. If you weren't dangerous to me, I might let you live. I'm not dangerous to you, Henry. Oh, yes, you are. I've decided to choke you. If you close your eyes, it will happen very quickly. You'll hardly know it. Are you ready, Mrs. Russell? Please don't struggle. It'll be much easier for both of us. Aren't you going to close your eyes? No. What's that? What? Listen, you can hear them. Don't you hear them? The voices. The voices. The voices. Don't you hear them? Yes, I hear them, Henry. See? No, you believe me, don't you? You hear what they're saying? Yes. Yes, it's just as you said, Henry. They must be right near. Yes, right near. Oh, there are a lot of them. Too many. You'd better hide, Henry. Yes. Yes, but where? They sound louder all the time. They're getting closer. Have you a closet? Yes, that's it. The closet. Over here. Shall I help you, Henry? Yes, yes. But be quick. This closet. I'll hide in here. All right, Henry. I'll protect you. There. A good place to hide. What if they find me here? I'll lock the door, Henry. They're getting closer, Henry. Tonight's star, Miss Betty Davis with Elliott Reed. You know, Harlow, it's really marvelous how safely and courteously American truckmen drive. You said it happened. 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As public comment about anything not on the agenda, nothing will move to approve the agenda. I motion to approve the agenda. I will second. Those in favor? Aye. Next up is consent calendar. Move that we approve the consent calendar. I'll second. Those in favor? Aye. Next up is the business. The 22 audit presentation. I think that's you. Sorry we lost you. There's no kicked out. But we're back. Oh, hold on. Hang on. We're meeting. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Bonnie. We're working through the text up, but we're up to the 22 audit here. If you're ready. So while we're presenting. Can you hear me okay? I think so. Is the June 30th. I don't know if you have specific questions. But I completed that. Early in 23. This week. Could be heard. Can you hear? It's a little choppy Bonnie. We're trying to figure out. Yeah. I mean, we're on the ether. So. I don't know if you have specific questions. Completed that. Early in 23. This. We were there. We're 23. This week. Could be heard. Can you hear? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The ether. So. Ethernet. Oh yeah.  Maybe that'll help. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is that better? Yeah. It feels some to me, but it's still a little bit. Yeah. Okay. All right. So. We finished up the. You know, it was a long road. Because of the absence. You know, did a great job getting us. It was a long process. But we screw. And like I said, we started the 23 audit, which is great. We ended up. Making a positive fund balance and the general fund and highway fund. Funds. Which is great. So we don't have a negative fund balances. It can tend with. No major. We did put comments in the management letter areas for improvement, but I do realize that that was largely because of not having a positive fund balance. So. You have Zoe now, which is great. So I don't know if there's any specific questions to you. Of the audit. But all in all the town is in a healthy position. Positive fund balances. No major issues. And. I guess I would. To field specific questions. There's several pages to go through. And I know. I have some just. Figuration questions. Just in case anybody wants to view it. Who's watching at home or picks it up later. There's an audits tab on the website. It's under. It's in the same spot that you can find the annual reports. So we've got a column that's, I think it's announcements. If you go in there, you can find it. You can search by audit in the search bar too. So that's where we post all of the independent audits. Okay. So. As Bonnie said, they were in house doing fiscal 23. Yesterday in the day before working with both Zoe and. And Kayla and our finance department and Cynthia from NEMREC. Who's been helping us out. Years. What's the timeline? What's the anticipated timeline for that? For 23. I don't know. Bonnie, is there sort of a best guess knowing. It's hard to predict. On 23. Yeah. It's hard to predict because it really depends when we get the remainder of the information that, you know, we still have. We've done most of the control testing. We still have some work to do on the utilities and fixed asset and debt are probably the biggest that we have left to that where we have the debt schedule. We're still waiting for information on the fixed assets and still waiting for some information on the utility building and just some other outstanding items. I would say best guess. You probably will have a draft by the end of October, if not earlier. And then you can review it and, you know, hopefully we can present it at the December board meeting and it'll be much time later. Hopefully then it was like. We don't like doing June 30 thoughts in any. So it was to get it done as soon as we had, but it really depends on the remainder of the information or calls and, you know, what we're working on waiting for this information. That puts us on the time that we want to be on on a more regular one. If you go back the year before I think Bonnie came and talked to you in early January. We're meeting when we were doing 21. So that's a fairly normal schedule for us which is nice. And you'll have all this information for the budget process itself too, which is so nice. If there's anything that's germane to that of course. And I think this year is going to be just, because number one, we were on number two, we'd have both Cynthia and Zoe working and just, I think this year we'll be smoother, quicker and we'll be able to get it wrapped up more time. It's amazing what having bodies can do for us. Yeah, exactly. Any questions for Bonnie? Thank you, Bonnie. Hey, to here. See ya. Bye, Bonnie. Bye. The requested action here is that we move to accept the FY22 audit. I'll move that we accept as submitted the fiscal year 2022 audit. A second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next up is interviews for the vacancy of the select board. Here are two candidates. She's the publicist on the line. We're going to sit here and Matthew in the room. We'll take them all one at a time and run through the questions. Well, I was going to suggest that we go through the questions we've worked out, but alternate rather than doing one and then the other. So ask the questions almost as if it were a debate format, just ask the question. So ask Matt first, Alyssa second, or whatever, and then ask Alyssa the second one. And alternate, who goes first? Well, no, seriously. I'm just getting professional here. I mean, we could flip a coin. Alyssa, can you hear us okay? I can, yep. All right, so we'll ask the first question. I know I wrote and I was going to hurry, but I made some time, so I'm okay with whatever you all figure out. Okay. Thanks, Alyssa. Alyssa, can we see you? Hi there. Nice to meet you. Hi. Sorry I couldn't be there in person. So you want to ask the question, have Matt answer it, then have Alyssa answer it? That's the next question, have Alyssa answer it, then have Matt answer it? Right. That just seems like a fairer way than a more adequate way than going through each all at once. Okay. Yeah, the question is who goes first? Well, it doesn't matter because we're going to flip it around anyway, right? Yeah. All right, let's get going. So the first question is why do you want to be on the select board? What qualities, skill sets, and experiences will you bring to the board, and how will those benefit the town? And we'll have Matt answer first. I'm going to ask you to repeat the question because it was a triple barrel question. Why do you be on one? Should we have Matt come up? Yeah, when you're answering it because the recording, this doesn't pick up. Sit here? Yeah, that's okay, sorry. I'm noticing that when I look at the meetings. So why do you want to be on the select board? Yeah. What qualities, skill sets, and experiences will you bring to the board, and how will those benefit the town? All right, well, I want to start off by thanking you all for inviting me for a conversation this evening. I appreciate that. I have been a resident of Randolph now for a little over a year. I have been serving on the Planning Commission and very recently was asked to chair the Planning Commission.  We moved around quite a bit. We lived in New York, we lived in Rhode Island, we lived in Michigan, and now here. I put my name in for the select board because I was encouraged by a few people in town to think about doing so. It took me a while to decide whether or not I wanted to offer to serve. And that's what it is for me. It's service. I see this as an opportunity to serve my community and to give back as I did when I took the role with the Planning Commission. My career has been mostly in higher education at the intersection between higher education institutions and communities doing community development, community economic development, as well as community social development. And I'm in a position right now where I have time to give to my community. I have a business where I do executive coaching and consulting work. I do a little bit of teaching, but I'm not in a situation where I have a nine to five job that takes me away from, or small children, that takes me away from the ability to volunteer and to give back and to serve. So that's sort of the why. In terms of qualities, as I said, my career has been in community economic and social development. I'm fairly good at strategic planning. That's probably why the Planning Commission appealed to me as a start. I've been an executive in higher education, including a college president. I would want the board to know my background in that respect, so I'll take just a smidge more time with this answer to give you that. I was a tenured faculty member at two other institutions before assuming a presidency in Michigan just before the pandemic. At the height of the pandemic, I was asked to take on addressing a very racist set of issues at an institution, which I did, because it was consistent with my anti-racist values, and ran square into a modern-day version of the KKK. So if you Google me, you will find online some not positive things that were posted by the crowd that ran me out of town at this college. And I want to be transparent about that, so that you know about that. But I'm happy to give you more detail on that at some point, if you would like. But the thumbnail sketch of it is that I was fighting for the rights of the black community and against the control of a small group of white folks who were killing the college and resisting diversity. So that's what my answer is. Thank you. All this, so would you like to answer the question or would you like me to read it to you again? I think I got at least the first two thirds of it. So I have my husband and I purchased a house in Randolph Center about six over six years ago. And I have a close friend that works in my background is in planning.  And I saw this opportunity come about and it felt like I had already been thinking about getting involved in planning in the Upper Valley and it seemed like a perfect fit to get involved even more locally in the town I live in. I currently work at the Public Service Department at the state of Vermont for the Vermont Community Broadband Board. We're managing a statewide effort to expand equitable broadband access across the whole state and previous to that I've been there for a year and a half previous to that I've worked at the agency of agriculture doing agriculture, rural development efforts. I grew up and I'm from Pennsylvania from a small rural agricultural town so it felt like a natural fit when I moved to Randolph Center and the Randolph Greater Randolph area. And my husband and I are really enjoying watching the way that Randolph is growing and progressing over the six years that we've been here. As I mentioned, my background is in planning. I have extensive experience as a program manager working on budgets and both on the grantee and the grantor side of things and doing project and program evaluation. And I think there was one third part of so that's interest and experience. Benefits you found? Yeah, I think I just in general I've been working at the statewide level even when I was in Pennsylvania I worked for a statewide nonprofit and then I worked for the state for over six years now and I think I can use those skills of managing programs and setting up systems and evaluating situations in an unbiased way to be able to contribute to our local community. Nice. Thank you. The next question, how do you ensure that a level of respect and civility remains between board members? And this one goes to Alyssa first. So I currently am a staff member of a very small staff within a board department within the state of Vermont. So we have three and then we're federally funded. So we have three levels of complicated governance in the work that we're doing. And I feel like one of the skills and the one of the skills I bring to our team is being able to kind of like look at the big picture, take time to make sure I'm listening to all of the voices that are being heard, that are being said and think about what maybe is the underlying issue of like what the point everybody is trying to get to. It's definitely helped us as a small team be able to figure out how to make meetings run smoother and how to improve board relations between the board members and between the board and the staff. So I bring that experience and hope that it would translate well on this board. Great, thank you. Would you like me to read the question? No, I'm good. So every place that I've worked, every board that I've served on, I have enjoyed doing so and I think others have enjoyed my service. Just as a point of reflection of that when I resigned my position as college president almost all my cabinet resigned and half of the board of trustees resigned as well with me. I have across my career been able to recruit and bring with me people from one organization to another as part of a team and I have been brought myself into collaboration with people who previously collaborated with me. People who are at a new institution or a new community and want to work together. I take all of those as indicators that I'm a pretty good person to work with. By way of understanding how I work in my role as an executive coach I do strength finders training for folks which is a personality inventory run by the Gallup organization and I can share with you that my strengths, types, there are 34 that you can end up in your top five. My top five are strategic, futuristic, activator, relator and self-assured and as pertains to this question I think in terms of relating to people the relator skill or personality type is someone who builds very strong one-to-one relationships so I would commit the time and effort to build individual relationships with each of you and the self-assured characteristic it means I don't take things personally. I trust my gut and I also don't invest my ego in ways that make me reactive because I trust my gut so I'm happy to talk about ideas and not take it personally which I think is a strong attribute to bring to the table. So the next question describe a time when you were in a leadership position an extremely difficult situation came up what was your role in bringing the issue to a mutual resolution among all the parties? Well I've already mentioned one and I failed at that one so let's see while I was at Brown I was at the time the director of an institute at Brown focused on public service and there was a student organization that had built a large presence on campus doing what they thought was good service community service for refugees in the community my staff and I understood that what they were doing was rather exploitative in the refugee community sort of white man savior type of approach to their work and it was inconsistent with both the values and mission of the university so we had to address it and I think the single biggest thing I learned in that conflict with that student organization was the power of vulnerability and humility that one of my assistant directors made a very strong decision to give the group an ultimatum around their funding and that was the wrong decision to do and the buck stops with me even though it wasn't my decision I had to go and sit with that group and hear their anger and hear their frustration and hear their hurt and be vulnerable as the director of the institute that an incorrect decision was made and I had to take a moment to exhibit humility in that there was a piece of the decision that was made that was made based on an incorrect set of assumptions or pieces of information about the student group my supervisors didn't think that the situation was reconcilable but the power of being vulnerable and humble in that moment I think was the bridge that needed to be offered for the students to cross and meet us on the other side in a place where the university was comfortable with them continuing their program and the students understood some of the university's concerns and were able to modify their approach in the community so would you like me to read the question again yes that would be great describe a time when you were in a leadership position and an extremely difficult situation came up what was your role in bringing the issue to a resolution among all parties so I would go back to something I mentioned in my last response but I really value that I put a lot of effort into being a good listener and I think one of the key aspects of being a good listener is taking the time to find that connection point with people to build the relationship to have a starting point that the conversation can grow upon I've so often my leadership role was with dozens if not hundreds of farmers either in Pennsylvania or in Vermont through a few different very difficult times so in Pennsylvania I was working for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and in Pennsylvania there's a large fracking industry that has been taking over a lot of the economy across the state and there were people pro and against it and even within our organizations board different people participating in activities and others loving 100% against what was going on similarly when in Vermont during when COVID started I was at the agency of agriculture and I was in a statewide leadership role working with all of the farmers markets and had to figure out how to listen to hundreds of businesses that were trying to figure out how they're going to survive through all of the different mandates that were coming down on them from the administration and having to like walk that line of being a public servant and answering to the administration but also I had already strong relationships with a lot of the farmers across the state and the farmers market managers and put a lot of time and energy into figuring out how we could find something that would work for them but would keep everyone safe so yeah I think again similar to what Matt said I don't know if it was 100% successful it was a very difficult time but I still maintain those relationships and we were able to push through and get farmers markets some exemptions that were going on and I still feel like that was a success if you're at first what would be your budget priorities for the town in the next fiscal year it just feels a little bit hard I'm not going to tell you what the budget is I'm not going to tell you what the budget is I'm not going to tell you what the budget is there's no question by the way what is your answer now would stock provided us with that question yes that's a very different community probably a very different budget I will hold on for that cool I guess I have to admit I looked at Randolph's budget yet, but I look at statewide budgets, multi-million, multi-hundred million dollar budgets on a daily basis, running multiple programs for this broadband work that we're doing across the state. And that is honestly one of the parts of my job that I really enjoy that is not even one of my main responsibilities, but keeping an eye on how everything is balancing out and making sure I definitely have a math brain. So it's easier for me to look at numbers versus reading really long documents. I mean, to stay in the black. Those for the budget. Like, I guess I would be interested in aligning some of the different development, economic development and community development groups and some of their goals and seeing how there might be some real alignment between some of our local organization schools and the town schools. I think that's the best I can do. Not really a fair question. I'm sorry. It's just thinking. No, I'm good. Well, if I was Woodstock, I think my priority would be Windex to make sure the snow globe is nice and sparkly. Very well said. People's priorities. But we're not Woodstock, we're Randolph. So I would have three priorities actually. First and foremost and well above the other two would be adequate staff. The town struggles with its staffing. I'm glad to hear there may be a finance director being hired. I think there are other staffing needs that hinder the town's development. So that would be top priority. Second would be I think that Randolph has a really good story to tell. Both historical and more recent about what a town it is. There used to be some marketing investment around telling that story. You know, it would be great if in every business you walked in Randolph, there was one of those hand-drawn maps that shows all the other businesses around town. I'm familiar with a community in another place called Birchwood and they have this whole campaign. It's about the same size and they have this whole campaign called Choose Birchwood. That marketing campaign has led to businesses moving to that town and new resources for the town. So a way of thinking about and telling the story of Randolph in terms of a foundation for economic development. I know there's some work around the web page happening that may be a place to start doing something about it. And the third thing I would say is that I'm working on a project for GMEDC right now which used to be called the Innovation Hub that kind of got off to a really bad start and we're going back to square one and part of my role is to talk to as many people in town as I can to develop a community study for GMEDC around how they might stand up a new organization in town that occupies the space between private business in the town and helps foster... Alyssa, would you like the question read again? No, I think I'm okay. Thank you. Okay. So I think in general, it's... My partner and I have really loved living in Randolph. It felt like home. We've made it our parents' home. We moved here and loved it so much we had them move in with us. I think being able to really feel committed to the town would just take that even a step further. Kind of tying back into the budget question, but also... So a lot of my skills revolve around program development and grant management. And one thing that I have always been really good at is working with small businesses and towns and different types of organizations and entities to seek out grants. And I feel like I would find a lot of pride to be able to think about how I can not only do that for a job more generally, but also use those skills locally to help the town and the select board think about strategic development through resources that are maybe untapped. And yeah, it would be really great to be able to figure out how to bring that into a different part of my life instead of just my nine to five job. All right, this question is yours first, Melissa. What are some examples of ways you've been involved in a community, either Randolph or another community, that has had a positive impact on that community? Similarly, when I was living in Pittsburgh, I worked with one of the local neighborhood development corporations to apply for funding to help develop their downtown and develop their local food system and do a marketing campaign for their farmers markets and some new businesses that were popping up. It was in a bigger city of Pittsburgh, but it was a very small neighborhood of Pittsburgh. And so while a lot of the work that I do has been statewide and it's hard to kind of track where the progress is made, that example in particular stands out in my mind as just being kind of on the ground and being able to physically see change and participation in the community throughout that it was a two-year project. And yeah, it would be able to start with nothing and then be able to measure kind of all the increase in participation and see visibly some change through the marketing campaign in the community was really rewarding. No, I think I'm all set. Ironically, I would say I think I had significant major impact in the town in which the college resided where I failed at the college. I feel like I can say that with confidence because the Black community and I have stayed very close together and I have helped provide guidance and partnership and solidarity in their political organizing to people, their own city council for the first time with members of the Black community and to take control and exercise voice of the Black community and other apparatuses of the city in that community. But the other example I would offer is that for 10 years I lived in Albany, New York and taught as a faculty member at Siena College and while there I built the largest AmeriCorps program housed at a college or university in the country and that took a lot of work because all of those AmeriCorps placements were in non-profits throughout the Capital Region. That meant that we had a network of over 50 non-profits all of whom were collaborating with the college and with each other in that AmeriCorps program. That program still exists today. It's clearly run by someone else now but it attracted funding from places like the Kresge Foundation, the Arthur Ryan Davis Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the U.S. Department of Justice. So those are two communities where I feel like I had a very positive impact. Great. And the last question is yours first. You started in your land. That's what happens when you have a number of questions. The town of Randolph has been supporting investments in the community through multiple programs to expand our housing options, recreation opportunities, support services and quality of life experiences. What's your view on economic development within the town and how would you work to implement those views? So I think that Randolph has the potential to focus around the culture economy, creative culture economy, the food economy, light manufacturing. And there may be a couple of other sectors but I think a strategic approach to supporting defined sub-sectors of economic development combined with, as I said before, a marketing plan around the quality of life here in Randolph I think could really move Randolph to the next level. That needs to be done thoughtfully because we don't want to become wood stock. But I do think there's space for economic development here to lift all votes. I also think that there is opportunity in the tech school and with some of the existing trades folks and farmers, take Justin Pullin for example. I've had a conversation with him about his desire to figure out how to direct market some of his production so that he's not captured by always having to sell supermarkets. And I think there's opportunity to support that kind of creative thinking for more blue collar folks as well as the town moves ahead. That's why I'm excited about the GMEDC project and hope that that brings something to fruition. I guess the last thing I would say is that I am not of Randolph or Vermont. So if you're looking for somebody who is of Randolph or of Vermont, that's not me. But if you're looking for somebody who chose Randolph and chose Vermont because of what I think Randolph and Vermont are, that's me. I chose to come here because I wanted to live in a community like this. I'm choosing to serve this community because I want to give back to this community. My experience is of communities all over the world and they're all very different. And they all have different ideas. And some of that experience may be useful and it may not be useful in this context. But that's what I think about economic development and the focus for Randolph. Great. Alyssa, do you want me to reread the question? I think I'm okay. It was a long question, but I got it. So I really have been encouraged by the number of businesses that have been starting up, especially in the last few years. And there seems to be this momentum of especially younger families, younger business owners coming into town. And I think that's something that we can as a town embrace and figure out how to support to make sure that those businesses, you know, they've gotten off the ground, but find ways for them to flourish, find ways for them to expand. I think there's a natural collaborative effort that I've been seeing across town, especially with the recreational community and the downtown businesses. And I think that is something that will continue to help bring in younger families and provide opportunities. I, sorry, can you repeat the housing? I know there is a housing part and I feel like I had something I wanted to mention. The town of Randolph has been supporting investments in the community through multiple programs to expand our housing options, recreation opportunities, support services and quality of life experiences. What's your view on economic development within the town and how would you work to implement those views? So I think I know there's opportunities in, so the person that I mentioned at the beginning that got me kind of intrigued when I read that there is an opening in the Herald and she's actually working on housing in the whole Upper Valley on housing initiatives and figuring out a plan and working with a bunch of the towns. And so I've been following along with, it's a difficult dilemma. As I mentioned, I bought a house six years ago and my parents moved in with us last year and we're still trying to figure out, you know, a place that works for this kind of multi-generational living situation and construction prices have not come down yet. So I know there's some things the town has been planning and wanting to do and the timeline is out there. It's still rather long, especially when people are needing housing today. I think there are a few programs that are happening where I would want to be able to be that kind of listening ear to be able to be the voice to those bigger programs that are happening to make sure that the programs that are evolving relatively quickly at the state level are being able to capture what is actually happening on the ground in our towns. Yeah, in the last few years working for the state government has been a very different, it's been a very different role than what it was previous to COVID with the funding opportunities that are available and I feel like it's an opportunity we haven't fully we haven't fully capitalized on the fact that there are new programs being developed with people actually listening and wanting to try and figure out a solution. So I think just being that like connecting the dots between the on the ground what is needed versus the programs that are quickly being developed at a regional and statewide level would be something that I would hope to be able to bring and discuss and talk about opportunities with this team. That's the end of the formal questions that we wrote. At this point if there's any questions that folks have that are outside of the script or follow-on questions. That was pretty thorough. Tom and I tried. You threw something. There's back here like you can't blame me. I am retired but I am working as a journalist in my retirement years and working more hours than I did when I was not retired and I cover Woodstock for the local weekly newspaper like all the Vermont standards. And you are absolutely right Matt is completely a very different community from Randall and it's a very different community from anything I've ever written about. But they just replaced a select board member and some of these questions flowed from their screening. Can I add to one of my answers? Is that possible? Sure. I think you know I was thinking about this housing piece in particular and my experience in communities that are facing housing crunches has been that one of the successful strategies has been for a community to come together and build a plan. A community wide plan of all investment opportunities whether they're private investment opportunities or public investment opportunities. So it could be land that the town owns, it could be land that private landowners own but sort of developed a community wide plan. If we had all the housing we needed what would that look like? Where would it be? What kind of housing would it be? That's a really important first step because the way development traditionally has happened is developers have to figure out for themselves where is there an available piece of land? What's the market going to bear for me to develop some property? And they're doing it in this sort of atomistic way one development at a time. And so they're slow at doing it. Communities that have put together a community wide plan and can make that plan public are essentially advertising to developers that this is what we think is important and if you choose to do development in the way we've laid out we've already done the thinking about it and you're not going to run into roadblocks, right? You're not going to run into zoning problems, you're not going to run into town problems because the town's already thought it out and has a plan so just plug into our plan and you can do development there. And so that development happens easier. So having that sort of town-wide plan for housing into the future I think is really important. Can I ask a follow-up question? Is that actually of both of you? I hear what you're saying about having a local plan however as far as economic development and rural development goes in this state we have something called Act 250 which many developers and people who are coming from an entrepreneurial business development are critical of because of the multiple layers of bureaucracy and the permitting process is exhausting for a lot of developers. Sure. I'm just wondering how each of you feel about that in terms of how we as a community can interact with our state regulators to try and smooth that process a bit. I'm happy to let you know what I was saying. That's our church name. That's our church name. That's our church name. That is Act 250. That's what we're saying about this. That's our church name. That's our church name. That's our church name. I'm just curious to read. I think they've been talking about re-doing Act 250. Haven't they for years now? So I used to work in the agency of AG and AG development. And so one of my colleagues was one of the people that actually reviewed some of the permits and did some of the mapping side of things. My understanding of it is I think there's opportunities in the Randolph area because of the size of our community and the needs of our community versus a larger scale need that there's a smaller way that we can deal with it that won't actually cause a lot of Act 250 issues. I mean, those are Act 250 really comes into play when you're really talking about building larger developments. And the accessory dwelling unit initiative that is happening now, I think is a great opportunity that can play a good role. And there's opportunities right now for that to be a little bit more affordable with state subsidies. Yeah, I mean, I think the other thought I've always had about it is it seems like one of the biggest concerns of Act 250 is the additional cost of the permits. If there is a disruption in agricultural land and I feel like, I mean, even going back to what Matt was saying, if Randolph has a good plan of figuring out where our assets are, where our opportunities are, there's a strategic way that we could look at where it would be the most cost effective way to make sure we could add additional housing units at the lowest cost. And even if we would have to tap into Act 250 permitting, think about it as like a community effort. I think back to the whole effort that was made in between Randolph and Randolph Center to stop development to keep the agricultural land. I think if we can get the community around like that whole idea of where the needs are and have them and have us all as a community realize like, okay, we're not doing it this way. We are thinking about it. We're not just doing it for this person or the small groups benefit. We're doing it, you know, as a whole thinking about what our strategic goals are as a full community that we're actually pretty lucky to be where we are in the state. But it all takes time. I mean, planning takes time, let alone everything else. So I'm not an expert on Act 250 or the housing board at all. But my understanding, a loose understanding of it is that when a community, if a community puts together a plan for housing, there are steps that the community can take relative to that plan that can make permitting around Act 250 for projects that are in the plan easier for the developers to move through. But I also think we have an opportunity here with the Opportunity Zone. Randolph sits in an Economic Opportunity Zone. The large banks like Barclays, when the Opportunity Zone legislation passed at the federal level told their large account, private account holders that they had set up accounts for those large account holders to put capital gains and escrow them and wait for opportunities to invest. Does everyone understand what the Opportunity Zone is? So the banks still have those funds. There haven't been enough projects around the country for those investments to take place, largely because smaller communities haven't put together portfolio investments. It's all individual investments. The banks don't want to invest in a million-dollar project or even a two-million-dollar project. They want to invest in a 15-million-dollar project. Well, how does a town like Randolph get to a 15-million-dollar project? Well, it's not one project. It's the hotel, and it's the smokestack property, and it's the five other empty properties around town that need to be redeveloped. And it's an addition on the hospital, and it's, you know, it's five things like that. And you roll that all together, and even though there are different owners of each project, they're rolled up into an Opportunity Zone fund. And now the bank is interested in investing in that fund, and that gets you access to low-cost capital, particularly in high-interest times like this, for all of those individual project holders to pursue their projects and get their projects done. So that's another way to think about how to attract the resources to do the housing development and other development that needs to be done in town. That financing side is more of a GMEDC role, and a RACEC role. The town's not going to go out and take the lead on financing a project like that. We may be able to help with zoning, and we may be able to help with some type of plan for it or a layout option, but we're not going to go chase the revenue for somebody to do it or do the permitting side of it. Where you get your savings on active 50 is doing some level of pre-permitting, and the town won't do that either. GMEDC can do it. RACDC can do it. Somebody like that can do it. The way you're going to get your savings to a developer is for somebody else to do it. You're not going to get away with not doing it. Somebody's got to do it. It's who wants the headache. The town has a role in the planning part, in pulling together the different private owners and the town owns property too into a single plan. That plan then can be taken by GMEDC or RACDC or someone else to that next level in the permitting or in the soliciting for funding. Do we have any more questions? On the other side. We will close the interview. Thank you both. Thank you for having us. Thanks for having us. We will move on to the manager's report. Just two quick check-ins that have come up. I was trying to count the weeks. We don't see again if we stay on a regular schedule for close to four weeks. One is we're still holding the 4th of July check. Do you want us to keep hanging on to that until we have a conversation? Just to both send it and have a conversation? We can send it and then we're going to get back as payment for the law enforcement services because the amounts are suspiciously similar. So at a minimum we end up back at zero. And then we can have the conversation. But we're not supposed to be paying for the law enforcement services. So I got to believe if we send it for the full amount we're not going to get a refund. No, they'll use it to pay the bill. Did they give us anything of any level of detail of what we were paying or just to pay this amount? Thank you for your continued support of the White River Valley Chamber of Commerce Town Appropriation 4th of July 1, unit at $2,500. I think they need to submit to us a little more detail of what we're paying for. Especially given the amount of staff time and lining up our own volunteers that we had to do. And then the second one is from Mark. And it's for RACDC. I think it was the hopeless to include it in last week's conversation. There was a lot going on that night. So what there is, and I can pass around before you're doing it, it's just a letter, I mean it's set up like a resolution, but it's essentially a letter of attestation. So meaning that we know that RACDC wants to pursue $25,000 in state funds through the downtown vibrancy fund program to complete some projects that fit within its overall downtown organization mission. No match, no admin. This isn't a pass through. It's a straight grant for them or a straight payment to them. So there's nothing we have to do other than you as a legislative body has to say, yep, we understand that they're going for the money and we understand that if they get this money it's not to supplant any local contributions to that. So we make about $28,000 a year and each year for downtown organization services. And or... It's an interesting thing. If it's for downtown organization services, we're okay. If it's for general support of the organization, both arguments have been made as I understand recent years. But this is more of a refunctory task that only requires signature if you're amenable to it and pass it around before you sign it, it's pretty quick. It doesn't require anything from us other than this task. That was all I had. I just have a quick follow-up question on the animal case that we heard recently and we concluded that hearing has a formal letter gone out to Mr. Spill He and I spoke about the decision on Monday or Tuesday and the formal letter has to follow and we generally try to do them in about a week, a week and a half timeframe. And that's the one where we go through and we do the whole here's the process, here's what happened to the hearing and we've testified, there were the findings of the board, here's the order. So it has that. It looks a lot like a DRB decision in long ways in terms of a quasi-judicial structure to it. He is aware of what you ordered. So the only concern I have with that, what I called you on was that Milo doesn't agree at all with what he told us that night. She claims that the growth is not liquid. It's solid. She believes that the vet told her he was 99% sure it's cancer, that the cancer is throughout the dog's body and that they can't operate on it and he couldn't do anything more because he's not sure that there isn't an organ involved that's causing it to push out. So what I don't like is we made that decision based on his statements that were false. Can we reopen the hearing based on false testimony, allegedly false testimony? I'd want to ask our legal advisors that one. I wouldn't think so as a matter of due process. However, given that there's a change in circumstance, maybe that does change something in the equation. I don't know. That's not it. 20 years. The dog's cancer is that one. We can't throw in a match. I don't like that he sat right here and lied to us. If that's the case, I was trying to reach him. Somebody should interview the vet and get the facts right straight from him. There's only one reporter in the group. And one from animal welfare. Animal welfare organization manager. Who would that be? Doctor, what would be your budget priorities for the coming year? Let's have a conversation. Trina, I know you reached out to me. I can't find the email, but I'm willing to speak with him. I think we got to first find out if it's even valid, if we can. But given the fact that we acted on false information that was given to us, I don't know what we would change. I think our first priority still is to have him surrender the dog. Is that considered sworn testimony? You could. You're in a quasi-judicial proceeding, so it's as close as you get to it. Yeah. And I don't know, I don't know if there's a hip-up for the vet in arrogance, but how much he may be willing to say to underscore what Milo has said. Maybe we need Milo to report back to us on what she's learned. She was on vacation the day that we had that hearing, so she wasn't able to participate. And it's devolving once again into almost a more of an animal cruelty. I want to choose my words. But I think the state has said pretty much they're getting the care, and that's kind of met our criteria. Yeah, but is the state basing that on... I don't know. He said she said, or is it... I think she's got a relationship with the vet. Yeah, that's how I'd understood it. And their pieces, as long as there's some sort of care management plan going forward, regardless of the condition the dog is in, that meets their criteria. So the dog that's released has to come with some sort of care management plan, but then is assumed to be worked out. The state has a lot of work to do on its animal cruelty and animal welfare policies. So there's a lot of this stuff gets swept under the rug. And I'm tired of it personally. Mr. Legislator. We have a lot of work to do at the state level on these issues because we're caught in a rock and hard place here. And it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. So it'd be nice to have tools even. We can recommend that somebody surrender the dog, strongly encourage it, say it over and over. We don't have that as a tool set though in our dog toolkit in stature by ordinance. So even some of those smaller tools being enabled helps us maybe figure out more creative solutions. If indeed what's been alleged is true and the dog is riddled with cancer and organs might be operating. Compromise then, then euthanasia is the most humane thing that can be done. Case closed. I hear what everybody's saying.  I'm just wondering how much time we'll spend on this. This is really a good use of staff time, board time, to do really spending more time on this. Yeah, I hear you. Well, I'm happy to reach out to the veterinary clinic and see how much he may be willing to save, but I don't know how, I mean our hands are kind of, it's kind of been proscribed by it. I mean deciding when to put down your dog is traditionally a pretty personal decision. Absolutely, absolutely. Having been there and done that. Is moving into executive session? This is a statutory one motion. You need the finding, it's outside of that list of six, so it's just the motion to enter. I would like to move that we go into executive session to pursue into one VSA, 313, A3. Second. That wasn't there. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.