How's it going everybody? DottoDoi here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighter's Ranked Matches and yes, you did read that title correctly. This video is going to be super expensive. Jokes aside though, for every dropped combo in this video I'm going to be donating $100 aka 100 Trees to TeamTrees.org, an organization that wants to plant 20 million trees around the globe by January 1st. This is a movement that I believe was started by a group of YouTubers and since then there have been so many people donating to try and help them reach their goal, people I watch, people I look up to, people I know. I just wanted to help out even if it was just a small little bit. And this video seemed like the perfect way to do it. It gets the channel involved, combines fighters and my love for dropping combos and now you guys can tag every dropped combo in the video for good. Oh man, this is going to be great. As a bonus to every dropped combo I'm also going to be donating $250 for every time I lose during this 1st to 3 set and I'll also throw in a bonus 50 every time I get hit by a Dragon Rush that I say I should If I can't be good at a fighting game I might as well do good while being bad. And remember if you want to help TeamTrees.org consider going down below in the description or probably the pinned comment might even have it as well, the link. I'd share this video with a friend, share that link with a friend probably more importantly, and consider donating a dollar, every dollar is a tree. Alright, I've kept you guys waiting long enough, let's get into the ranked set and see just exactly how many combos I'm going to drop today. Oh no, it's a Vegito icon as well. That, that does not mean good things for me. Okay, it's time Bardock. Game one for the trees. Ironically we are not on earth. Okay, pressure. Pressure, I'm putting on the pressure. Oh no, oh we got, we got a Rami. I'm, I was going to back up. That's fine. That's fine. I paid it. I don't want to. There we go. Alright, we're starting our first combo of the match here. Oh no. Not already. Not already do we drop a combo. Oh the shave. Oh no, I'm out. I'm out of the corner at least. 6M. Oh dude, the 6M didn't even work. I got to get my act together otherwise. Oh no, we're heading straight towards a loss. V continues this. Is that any? No, I don't think he can.  Dice straggler. I thought I might have messed that up by not going for a combo there, but it turned out alright. Now it's time for the real show though. Can we pull off this standard Yamcha B&B? If we get the 2M, I'm feeling good. If he wakes up with a level 5, not so much. Alright, we can't even go for the B&B. We just got to keep it natural. Alright, down. Looks like we're gonna start off with a win. If we can start off with a win, that'd be nice. We already dropped the conva, so that's a hundred bucks. That's a hundred bucks to the trees right there. Oh we missed. Wow, how did that hit me that way? Oh, oh that counts. I'm gonna count it because I definitely clicked another button there. Don't know what happened. Oh no. Now we got a block of mix. What's the mix? Oh no. What's the mix? What's the mix? He didn't even try to mix me. My man slammed my head in. Oh, down heavy. I can't believe it. Yamcha's down. Yamcha is down. I repeat, we've lost our main assist. Still fine. Still fine. Count him in. Beam assist, that's the wave. Okay, I'll block. I'll block. I'll block. I don't mind blocking. I don't mind blocking. I do mind blocking. Clearly I do. I did not want to block right there. Don't die, Bardock.  Drop it. Hi, okay. Is he gonna try to... He wants to use the 2 bar. He didn't do it, correct? Uh-oh, I smell a sweet loss approaching. I smell a sweet loss approaching. Dude, dude, dude, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, level three. All right, Super Saiyan 3. I'm gonna try to go for a low. No, do I go for an overhead? I don't know, dude. Oh, back it up. What are you doing? Try to get up. I'm popping it. I'm popping it. That scared me. Nicely done, Goku. Some Goku on Goku action right now. Not much else I can do there, unfortunately. All right, we're good. And then... Whoa! Man, Goku did not want to give another hundred dollars to the trees. I thought I could down heavy that. Guard cancel. Beam assist to punished. Let's hear it. Oh, wow, we actually got it as well. And this game is all of a sudden in our favor. I mean, Kaio Ken Goku can do some... He could do some crazy stuff to me.  You grabbed me. Oh, Goku, please. Goku, stop. Goku, what are you doing? Okay, I didn't... What happened? What? How did that hit me? How did that hit me? That's wild, dude. Took me out. And 4,000 ranked points also gone to the wind. Okay, hold on. I ain't done fighting just yet. I'm a Bardock player, actually. So that's crazy how that happened, huh? I definitely did not mean to do that. Okay, 2 for 1. Oh, reflected. I did not expect him to go for the reflect right there. Big lag, but we still hit the combo. Yo, that was all... Yo, I'm gonna need you to stop fighters because there's only so much I can take. Oh, am I going for it? Am I going for the big boy combo? Let's hear it. Of course I hit that while I'm doing something for like donation. Of course I land that when I'm going for like... Oh, darn it. Goku, why? Contek? Oh, hell yeah, I'm out of there. Oh my god. Oh, delayed it. That could have been so bad. All right, level 3 Bardock. Level 3. Show me that Saiyan spirit we like to talk about. Okay, so what am I... Am I going for low again? Oh, darn it. Oh, bad moves by me. Block all that and mash. Let's be real. We all knew he was gonna go for the grab again. Does he air level 3? Block it. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, held on to that one going down. That's another knockout on Bardock. Man, this game has just been cleaning up. Oh, darn it. Am I... Okay, I was like, I've never done it that early before. Does it still work? Luckily the beam stays there for a while. Didn't have much to worry about. Wow, air to air. Didn't not want to see me touch the ground. Get up, get up though. Oh, maybe I should take my time. Take your time. It's gonna be all right. Oh, we gave that a lot of slack. Not the quarter. No. Mash, Bardock, mash. 1, 2, 3. Level 3, that is.  I ain't losing another set. You got me messed up. Bardock! Not the 6M. Oh, keep last count to me first. I tried to clash it with another one of mine, but face Goku is kind of fast, bro. All right, level 2 Kaio-ken will take us out here. Actually, this is level 3 Kaio-ken. This is gonna take us out for sure. Goodbye. Two bars down though. I'm not panicking just about yet. I ain't panicking.  Ask me how I feel in a little bit. No, I ain't panicking. In fact, let's get fancy with it. Okay, that hurt the wallet. That one hurt the wallet. That would hurt the old wallet. One or two. Okay, but we take a win. So it's not like we get another loss. That's good. At least we're good on that front. Tingo Han up front. I am worried he's gonna start with lightning legs. Yeah, that was lightning legs. Oh, he usually blocks the Yamcha system. I'm surprised I hit him. Maximum damage as far as I'm aware. And I put myself right back in the corner.  He really tried it. Two bars won't kill here. So I got to keep the mix up. No. All right, we're good. We're good. We're good. We're good. We're good.  That was so bad for us. Okay, Bardock. I'm just gonna be a Bardock player. Oh, he clashed with me. I can't believe that just happened, dude.  Don't let me down. I just he's understandable. I guess I was wondering why he saved the bar, but I guess we all just can't have a happy endings. Two to two. It's actually even right now. Try me. Try me, dude. I just ran into an onslaught of punches. It was not going my way. Oh, so that's how we, that's how we are right now. Level three. What's the mix? There is no mix. Let's go. Oh, Yamcha's sister sick. Again. Full damage. Full damage. Get him to that corner, Yamcha. We need the corner. We try to read the spark. I think we do, right? That's just sick. And again. What happened that way? Is it time to block after that? The cross-up is always there for you, dude. You don't want to, you don't want to sleep on the cross-up. If we can go up two games, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling great actually. Oh no. Okay, that worked out fine. No, I super dashed at him. I should have mashed. I should have mashed. Get down, Goku. Oh, he's dead. He's dead. Live it. If you can. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if you died, but if you could live it, that'd be great. I didn't mean to jump. I don't know why I did that. I just wanted to hold back. Oh, and all of a sudden it's not looking so great. Okay, get a standard combo. He jumped too far. Three bars. Barely. Let's go, though. What, what could he possibly do to mix us? What could he possibly do to avoid this mix? Yeah, here it goes. Here it goes. The time is now, boys. It's, it's schmick season. Oh no. No, no. No, bounce over his head.  That's, that can't kill from there. That can't kill. Double two high again. It definitely can. It definitely can't kill. Don't do it though. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. How much of a shame would that be? Did he drop it? Oh, please? Please? No. Oh, it shouldn't have gone like that. It shouldn't have gone like that, dude. Absolutely mad lad. I can't believe he tried the grab again. To be fair, I haven't been punishing it and that is only fair to say that. What did I get hit by? Welcome down to the down tech zone. I don't, I'll count it. I'll count it. I should have gone for like a drag rush or something. Oh, this is, I dropped it again. I got to stop. I need to be stopped. I need to be stopped. Nobody, nobody should drop this many combos in a row. Oh no. I wanted the blue health. I got a bit too addicted to the blue health. We got to stop guard canceling. I'm just getting nervous. Hold them off. Hold them off. Defense, defense. We should early spark. We should consider early sparking. We should consider early sparking. I never do it high enough as my issue. Uh-oh. Does this work? I've never seen Team Gohan's work. It, it do, it do work actually. I hate this man.  Can I tell you about that? Can I, can I please let you in on the fact that I despise this man for doing that to me? All right, let's go. Come on, Deco. Oh, it counts, but it shouldn't, dude. The lag, enough. I can't believe you're going to do this to me. The Ethernet cord. Plug it back in. I demand to see my friend the Ethernet. I've had enough. I've had enough. It's super saiyan time.  You're the one who's going to let me go to it. No, please let me live. Don't faint it. And that's, that was what I was afraid of. All right, Yamcha, I need you to hold that hope. Kamehame, Kamehameha, huh? Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. This is so bad. This is so bad. I'm mashed. I'm mashed. I should have down teched against Team Gohan. I know that. I know that. I know that more than anybody. My right points. I can't afford to lose my right points. Oh, we're still in it. I, I deserved it.  Oh, the lag killed me right there. That's three, right? Yep. That's three. Oh, man. Thank you guys so much for watching this video, though. And I sincerely hope you enjoyed it. And remember, if you watch this video and like, you know what? I feel bad for this man. I kind of want to chip in some trees as well. The link to teamtrees.org will be down below in the comments. I'm pretty much just all over this video. And please consider donating at least a dollar to plan at least one tree. And of course, if you like the videos and the content here on this channel, you can go down below and leave a like and subscribe. 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I'm literally now in someone else's garden. Hello, thank you for joining me. You can see where I am. I'm at Twyford. Today we're going to do another episode of Branch Line Britain. We're going to do the Henley branch as the sign shows. That way is looking towards Reading and West Country, and that way is looking towards London. The Henley branch platform is down the other end of the platform, so we're going to have a look at that in a minute. We're starting down here because this, believe it or not, this station used to be the western terminus of the Great Western mainline. Back in 1839, then 1840, the line was extended to Reading. In Twyford, the village of Twyford was the nearest railway station to Henley-on-Tems. Well, the Henley-on-Tems is on the other side of the River Thames, as we'll find out later. So the town of Henley-on-Tems seemed a very obvious place to build a branch line to. Quite a fashionable town, and the people of Henley-on-Tems, you know, wanted to be put onto the railway map. So what happened was the Great Western Railway obviously wanted to build the railway, and in 1846 they put forward a bill to Parliament, but Parliament rejected the bill. So they tried again a year later in 1847. This time the bill was accepted, but nothing happened with the construction of the railway. The Great Western Railway didn't have a lot of spare funds. This was due to railway mania building, so many other lines. They just sort of didn't have the spare funds really to build this little line, even though it was something they wanted to do. So what happened was that people of Henley began to get a bit skeptical as to whether they would ever get this railway. So they held a meeting in 1852, and they agreed that they would put forward £15,000 towards the building of the railway. Eventually construction started, and the line opened in 1857. So we're going to walk up there now, walk through the station and have a look at the branch platform. Obviously this would have all been broad gauge once. You can see when you look at the bridges back there how they are slightly wider than they really need to be. It was an XC2C unit passing through. There was a Great Western unit behind there, class 387s. So yeah, this would have all been broad gauge, and the Henley branch would have been broad gauge. It was one of the last railways built to broad gauge, but it did run for a number of years as a broad gauge service. A little 242 tank engine would have worked the first train to Henley. We'll talk about some of the intermediate stations on the way because they weren't there from the opening day. I think it is a really rather pleasant station. The footbridge, although it looks and blends in quite nicely, it's not the original. I remember when they took down the original one and replaced the current one to provide lift access. It's a nice station in that there's no ticket barriers. You can just walk in and out. Quite a lot of people use the footbridge to get to that part of Twyford over there. I remember there used to be an HST that used to stop here some evening, so I used to sometimes come and see that. That's platform four, Elizabeth line. Elizabeth line. And this is the Henley branch on platform five. So, yeah, the Elizabeth line now serves here, although they only get to London Paddington and they don't yet run through the tunnels to Abbey Wood. If you want to see the lines for Abbey Wood, have a look at link on screen now. That's me riding the Elizabeth line on the first day. Interesting, each side of the cafe. The signs. They're still in the first Great Western delivery, which is now known as Great Western Railway. So there we are, Twyford, Wargrave, Ship Lake, Henley on Thames and the Thames Path. Although this isn't specifically a video on Thames Path, we will be doing some of the Thames Path today. So the way Branch Line Britons works, if you haven't watched the two previous episodes of Branch Line Britain, well, there's an Elizabeth line train pulling in. 3-4-5-008, that's going to ready. If you haven't seen a Branch Line Britain video before, I mean, it is only episode three. The way it works is I walk the branch line as in I follow the line where I can go as near as I can come back on the train. It's not going to be so easy today due to the fact that there's very few public rights of way on this side of the Thames. This side of the Thames is Berkshire. The other side of the Thames is Oxfordshire. So the line's half in Berkshire, half in Oxfordshire. So crossing the Thames, I cannot do on foot unless I walk the way to Henley on Thames. So we'll get on to that bit. We'll get there's another way under Tarsing Street. An unusual thing about Twyford Station is you can actually exit off the end of the platform. So this is the, it's obviously the Henley branch. Then there's the connecting line between the main line and you can actually walk down here and cross this Parrow Crossing. It's one of very few places that, you know, you can cross a running line. But so few trains actually come on and off here. The line is worked by class 165s, which we also saw on the last Branch Line Britain video, which was quite a while ago when we did the Greenfield branch. The 165s, they've lost their work on the main line to these trains and the 387s, but they do still work the branch lines. So after the branch line going off towards Henley, let's go and explore some more of it, all the minutes of the 387 passing call. So the branch trains arrived. I'm out at the front station now. I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna walk into the Village Centre and we'll have a quick look because I do like to point out some of the few things there is in these villages. So the train's sitting there. Only sits there for about three minutes. I'm gonna follow that sign there to the Village Centre. I'm just gonna see what is in the centre of Twyford. I'm gonna just come down Station Road and we're just coming into the centre of Twyford. Parrish Church is just down now and the Village Centre is up here. So it's a fairly pleasant little village. I've been here a few times over the years. Usually if I'm watching trains, it's somewhere quite pleasant to stop and go for a walk afterwards, get a cup of tea. You know, it's a weight trove, it's a costar, all those usually sort of things. The only problem is you can be a bit, driving through it is always traffic, these lights. So usually if I'm just passing through, I try and avoid driving through the Village Centre because there's various other routes you can take. But other than that, it's quite pleasant. But it's even got a model shop I noticed which is always nice to see. Wait in there, there's a few model trains to sail. Although I really do not really modelling anymore, but you know, those of you who do, good to know it's here. So we're just coming into the main crossroads now of the Village Centre. What I'm going to do, I'm going to continue up this road here, Wargrave Road, up towards Wargrave, which is the next station on line. So I'm going to walk quite away from the railways. They can't really follow the railway to Wargrave and we'll have a look around there and then we'll continue north towards Henry. Just crossed the A4, the London to Barth Road. Looking towards Barth, looking towards London. A few miles up that way is the Village of Noel Hill where there's a very interesting abandoned narrow-gauge railway. If you want to know about that, have a look at link on screen now. I'm going to follow this public right away, past all what appears to be a load of polytunnels growing strawberries and I'll follow this way towards Wargrave. So I'm just now making my way into Wargrave Finish Centre. Had quite a pleasant walk across the Strawberry Farm. I probably could have just come straight along this road because it looks like there probably was a path all the way, but I hadn't been this way before. I do like a good long walk. So we're just coming in a bit like twice, but there's traffic lights, but the village here, the streets are really narrow, so they do really need them. It's a very pleasant village. It's quite nice with the travel, I should get every now and then gap from the cars. You can see all the flags have been up recently for the Queens Platinum Jubilee. So it's a very pleasant little village. The Station Road is actually just down there, but I'm probably going to make my way that way down past the church and I'll find my way to the station down there. So I've made my way down Station Road from the village of Wargrave towards Wargrave Station. Now, interestingly, when the line opened, the only intermediate station provided was Ship Plate, which we'll see fairly soon. The Great Western Railway decided that the pleasant village which we just saw of Wargrave didn't need a railway station, but the villagers didn't agree. So after a bit of lobbying in 1900, the railway station opened. Here we are, here's Wargrave Station. So we're going to go and have a look. It's got quite a lot of nice flowers and everything. Looks nicely decorated, but it's not going to be as it would have originally been, because, well, the line was originally broad gauge. By the time this station opened, the broad gauge had come and gone. So you could never get on a broad gauge train here. In 1896, the line was doubled. Still no railway station here. When they eventually did open a railway station, it would have looked a bit different than it is today. It's a little ticket machine here in the waiting shelter. There would have been a full station building about here somewhere. You can probably, that might even just about mark out the footprint, that line in the tarmac. There's that bit of concrete below it seems to sit slightly higher. So we go on to the station, and there's not a lot here now. It's looking up towards Henley. She says trains to Henley. No, it says trains to Reading, Twyford, and London. So that's looking that way, back to Twyford. So somewhere, there'd have been a footbridge here, and the second platform would have been along there, but that, the line was singled in 1961, and it was reduced just to what it is now. Now, the interesting thing here is, I said I was going to walk the line. It's a bit complicated here. It's just up there. Here's the River Thames. If they run a replacement bus service on this line, they can't serve the stations in order. So a bus could say start at Henley, it could go to Ship Lake, but then it's got to cross the river to get to Wargrave, or to get, and then to get on to Twyford, or if it started at Twyford, it could come here, then it'd have to go to Henley before it gets to Wargrave. That also means I can't just walk to Wargrave without going to Henley. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to get on the train and go to Ship Lake, and then at Ship Lake, I'll walk down to the Thames River Bridge, which is just there. So we're on a slight bit of gradient here, getting the line up to go over the Thames River. It's about the only gradient. When I get to Ship Lake, we'll walk down and we'll have a look at the bridge. It's not the original, and then we'll follow the Thames up towards Henley. So the train just passed through heading towards Twyford. I've just found this information board here, showing some heritage of the railway station. So you can have a look there. You can see what the station would have looked like when it had two platforms. That's how it looks in latter years, for DMU and just one platform. You can see the station builders for us demolished. There's the bridge or the original bridge, which we're going to cross soon, but we're going to cross to replacement. That'd be the original wooden bridge. And down here, get a nice view of the station with its footbridge. There's also a plan there, showing how it would have been. So there'd have been a siding with the double tracks. If we go back out into the car park, I'll explain. So saying, as I said earlier, this is the site of the old station, ticket office and everything. There'd have been a waiting room just there. And I'm fairly sure this area here is the footprint of the station building. And there'd have been a siding up there. And there'd have been a siding coming down here to unload goods facilities on and off the goods trains. But then when the line was singled, the goods trains would have been withdrawn as well. Steam did work up and down, obviously for quite a while. So into the sixties, it'd have been a pannier tank with possibly one or two carriages, but then it became dieselised and they ran DMUs. Although there were up until about mid sixties, there'd still been some steam haul trains through to London, usually hauled by maybe a haul or a castle class. So that had been quite exciting. Then even fairly recently, there was always through a few through trains a day to London with 165s and 166s. But when the Great Western Main Line was electrified, that effectively put a stop to that. This line currently isn't electrified. There is talk of electrifying it, but whether that will happen, I don't know, it's effectively paused, but it probably will happen. It's just a case of when rather than if. The other interesting thing I would think would be, if they could run one or two through trains to London, run an 800 or an 802, because it could run on diesel and then run through to London. But as far as I'm aware, I don't think any of the Hitachi trains have ever come up this branch. So I'm just gonna wait here at this pleasant quiet station for my class 165 to take me over the river to Ship Lake. So here we are, just boarded the train at Wargrave. I'll be able to show you the crossing the river tents. It's interesting that I was looking on the map just how close Wargrave and Ship Lake are. Although, well, the villages are actually a mile or so apart, but the tents is in the middle, and this is the only way you can cross. So what we'll do, when we come back down to the bridge, the bridge is basically in Wargrave. And as I said earlier, we are currently in Markshire. Very soon we'll be in Oxfordshire. And it's a former double track bridge, even though it's not the original. So we are currently on the, yes, the bridge starts now, we're actually on the tent. We're on the current, what would have been the up line? The down line would have been just over there. So yeah, here's the tents. Have a look over here. You should just be able to see, as we cross the tent itself, you can just see the post from the original bridge. But my plan is, I don't know how much we'll be able to see, but we'll come down and walk underneath this bridge. So here we are. We have crossed the tents, we're now in Oxfordshire. So I'm going to walk down there. We'll have a look. We're going to, very soon, come into Ship Lake Station, which is a station that I've been to, or have been to Wargrave Station in the past. I can just feel the rest slowly going down. This is, as I said, the only gradants on this line really are to cross the river. We are now approaching Ship Lake. So we're coming into Ship Lake. It's nice and cool on these one, six times, the air conditioning. There's a nice view out over there. The tent runs, and when you can see it, when there's no bushes in the way, runs along there, but we'll see all of that when we go for a walk. But yeah, the air conditioning does make these trains quite nice to come and sit on a whole day, just the way of cooling down. Another interesting thing is this train has first-class accommodation options. My plan was to sit there, but there was already people sat there. But according to real-time trains, this train doesn't have first-class accommodation, so it basically means if you buy a standard-class ticket, you could sit in first-class, because they don't do first-class on this line, although when I went to buy the ticket, there was the option to buy a first-class, and it cost 10 pounds. So I don't know if anyone actually has performed a first-class ticket from Allred to Ship Lake to 10 pounds, but personally, I think it'd be a bit of a waste of money. I think I've put on this window, they've put sort of a medicine card to you out, but not on that one. I don't know why that is. If anyone does know, please do comment and tell me. So we'll get out here. It's my first time at this station. We'll have a little watch-trained depart, and then we'll continue to set back down to the region and towards Henley, so let's get out. It's on the train. Here we are. This is a nice old station, so I'm going to have a look at it in a minute once the watch-trained go. So when this was double-line, I believe it had, well, it did. It's fairly obvious it had an island platform. You can see that clearly. I've heard how we wouldn't have been there. So there's our train that we've just come on. The gates have gone down, so if the train can now depart, you can hear the noise of the gates. So we'll watch the train go, and then we'll go back and have a look at the station.  That'll be cool, anyway. There goes our train, the three-car unit. Sometimes it'll be a two-car unit. There's another one of those cameras there. When the Henley Regatta's on, they usually run two together, so they'd run six-car units, because it's, well, especially when it's a two-car train, you look a little bit lost on these long platforms. The platforms can accommodate up to six carriages. There was a station building here. I understand it burned down, well, a long time ago in the late 1800s, which was a bit of a shame. So there's a ticket machine, not a ticket office. Nice old station sign there, same, Ship Lake. All the stations on this line, unless you count Twyford, none of them have bridges, because basically they don't need to. It's a flat place. There's not really much of an embankment, apart from what we saw. It's across the Thames. This is really nice. All these sort of flower beds, and that's an old station sign. So yeah, it's very easily accessible. Look at that, it's really nice. Four more stations will like this. The only thing with this is you don't get a very interesting variety of trains passing through. This reminds me of how Taplos used to be. I go to Taplos station quite a lot when charter trains come through, because it's a good station. It's not as good as it used to be. It now has ticket barriers, although to be fair to staff, I've always been very pleasant and let me on. But it's not quite how it used to be. It used to be such a pleasant station. Didn't have any trees quite as big on it. They always had nice flower beds. I think it has got some now, but it just used to be a really nice country station. Now it's kind of become, you know, well, it's a little bit like a station. This is interesting. DMU 30 miles an hour, but there's a 10-side. So it basically doesn't fall out like a multiple trains coming up here, although I should think it's very rare. It has happened. There've been one or two overnight charters, buffer-puffer charters. They had trains that got them down for infuse just up and down all the lines. They've been done at night. That's interesting. There's a exit to the station there. It also appears to be a footpath running along there, beside the line under it. It looks like it crosses the line up here. I wonder if that's an exit up there. So it's quite a pleasant station, this bit different. If they ever wanted to run more trains, they potentially could reinstate the passing loop. That would mean demolishing that house. I doubt they ever would, but, or maybe it'd be easier to put a passing loop in at Wargrave. I don't know if that demand would ever come. I'm intrigued to know whether they would electrify the line ever. Oh, now this is interesting. That footpath crosses there. So there's nothing to say don't exit the station here. So I'm fairly certain this is class doesn't exit to the station, so I wouldn't normally do this. Walk off the end of the track, but here you clearly can. And that's the platform down there. So the footpath goes that way. So I'm gonna have to go that way to find the bridge. I'm just gonna go this way. Now I want to check. So basically, no one should walk down there. But if you come along, you can enter the station here. We'll check both ways, nothing's coming. I know nothing is coming because the train went that way, but still good practice to check.  It'd be a little fun to have time today, but to see the train depart from here, especially if it was like an interesting train, it'd be quite nice. Nice to run like an old, at least run class one, two ones. I used to travel on a one, two, one on the Prince of the World branch. It'd be quite nice if they could run one of them up and down here. Talking of running specials, I think they did run steam up here in the 90s, a two MT top and tail with I think class 37. I certainly wasn't around to see it, but I know it has been done. But I think that was when there wasn't a Sunday service on the branch. So they could do that. I shouldn't think that'd ever happen now, so it's not like they can put an easy replacement bus service on. This footpath here must go out into a road. So I think I'm going to, yeah, what I'm going to do is I'm basically going to leave this section of the video here. I'm going to follow the road around and get one last view off the station platform. There's other exit there. So it's got three entrances and exits for a very small station. Come out into this road here. I'm going to walk back to the front of the station and then we'll walk down and find the bridge over the Thames. So now about half a mile away from Ship Lake Station, I'm going down the strangest footpath ever. I'm literally walking through someone's garden. I just went across the patio, but it did say public footpath. I must be getting near the Thames. Yeah, so look, footpath. So what was here then?  So look, it says footpath here. I think I've got to go through into somebody else's garden. I'm literally now in someone else's garden. We found the river, all right, but I'm in someone's garden. Bit strange. And then there's another sign here. It says, please shut the gate, but it says public footpath. So I go through here. I'm in someone else's garden. This is the weirdest foot I've ever been down. There must be some distance from the railway because I can't see it. I'm not sure where I should and shouldn't go. I'm not going to go out there because that possibly is private. I think I have the right to walk through these gardens, but I don't think I have the right to just go wandering around. There's actually a garden over there. Someone's got a lot of money, lives here. Got all this money, and yet I'm allowed to just walk through their garden, as I please. Okay, so, and then through into what I suppose we can assume is going to be somebody else's garden. Hopefully there's no dogs running around.  So, yeah, we are now in someone else's garden. This is just weird. Anyway, we're supposed to be looking for a railway bridge. I came this way. Interestingly, despite being next to the Thames, this isn't the Thames path. The Thames path, perhaps more sensibly, runs along in front of those houses, but I saw this path on the OS map and thought I'd go this way, so I must go through here. And I'd say this looks more like a footpath. So that way we'll go join the road and this way is, yeah, a bit narrow. More people's gardens, maybe. Yeah, I just thought I wasn't gonna go through anyone else's garden, here we are. I don't normally just go walking through people's gardens, but when footpath actually takes you that way, oh, there's the railway bridge. Through another gate, what's this, the sixth or seventh person's garden I've just randomly walked through. There's the railway bridge. That's what we've come to look for. And as I go into yet somebody else's garden by the Thames, we can see, well, back there is Ship Lake Lock. And so Wargrave Station really isn't far away now. Probably, you know, these houses live, their closest railway station, as the crow flies, is Wargrave. We're going into somebody else's garden. No, the gate will open, oh, it opens this way. Yeah, so these people's whose gardens I'm just walking through, their nearest railway station is Wargrave. But they, unless they wanna go, they'd have to swim or get a boat because there isn't any way to get there. They have to go to Ship Lake, like I've done. Yeah, I'm going to someone else's garden. This gate looks like it's about to fall apart. Right, and this house is in the process of being either built or rebuilt or renovated. Not questionable. And say that, as I go into somebody else's garden, I have never seen such a weird footpath stop and have a swing, but I won't because I don't think my right to, don't think I have the right to just use the facilities in people's gardens, but I do have the right to walk through them. Now where? Okay, I mean, some really expensive houses being built and they've got the railway bridge. Now, while I was thinking, I don't know if the people here would agree with me, but you can clearly see now how the bridge would have been double track. I'm glad this path exists because I wouldn't have been able to bought you here. Show you this. How pretty expensive those houses. Anyway, yeah, so it'd be quite cool if they could put the second span back and put a public footpath on it and make crossing the river easier. But I don't know if they will at the moment. Basically, if you want to cross the river, you need to go by train, but tomorrow is not ferry service. This gate going to take me to someone else's garden. I wonder if I'm bumped into anyone else's. Anyway, with the main objective to be achieved while coming this way, we found the bridge and see the spans which would have carried the second track. So actually, the abutments are still there, but the bridge itself isn't all. Look at that, that's quite cool. So the bridge extends quite a long way above the flood plain as well as just underneath the Thames or over the Thames rather. And then, oh, at this point, the Thames path rejoins. So that path going that way, that's the Thames path. And then the Thames path goes this way. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to follow the Thames path around and then we're actually going to end up back crossing the railway line and end up at Ship Lake again before we can continue any further on the Thames path. Incidentally, one day, my intention is, I don't know when I say this every year, I want to walk the whole of the Thames path and make a video. Oh, just to prove my point, look, over there, well, the camera's probably not picking up, but just there is the Tower of Wargrave Paris Church. So basically, we're much, much here at the Wargrave than we are at Ship Lake. I can see boats right over there around that field.  I'm now walking along a rather pleasant section of the Thames path. I'm in Oxfordshire, over there is in Berkshire. Now, I don't want to talk too much about the Thames itself because that is for when I do the Thames path, but because one of the main subjects of today's video has been crossing the Thames. There's something rather interesting here. The Thames path comes to a bit of an abrupt end or at least running beside the Thames it does and it heads in land back towards the railway. They used to be a ferry here called the Lashbrook Ferry. I think that cottage over there is built on the site of the ferry cottage. It ran until about 1953 because landowners, just as they are today, wouldn't let people cross their lands. So there was no towpath. So you'd go across on a ferry and then continue on that side for about a mile or so and then you'd get to Bowlney Ferry. There's an old map here. So we've basically just come along here. You could have crossed there, continued on that side and then gone back onto this side. It doesn't look as though there's a path. There's just more expensive houses. I'm now going to continue inland. I can just see another railway bridge here. So we'll go and have a look at that when we get a bit closer. I've now come away from the Thames on the Thames path. This is that bridge I could see in the distance. It's a rather low bridge to walk under. I'm going to have to duck to go under. I think the reason the railway is on this bridge here is to carry it by the flood plain. You can see there's watercourse just there. So yeah, it's a low bridge. It's not the lowest bridge I've ever been under. If you want to see that bridge, have a look at the link on screen now. Oh, and the abutments again clearly show how it was once a double track bridge. But yeah, quite a low bridge to walk under. And the Thames path now seems to be going in the wrong direction. You can just see through the hedge into a private garden. I can't just go walking through a watercourse. So expect if I was to come down here after a lot of heavy rain, I might need waders. So I'm quite glad it's a nice summer sunny day. This path now will take me back around someway. It seems to be a very literally round the houses route back to Ship Lake, but that's the way it's gonna go. And have a look here to see the end abutment for that bridge. And again, you can clearly see it was built for double track. So I'm gonna follow the path around back to Ship Lake. Just stopped for a pint in Lake Savile Arms, which was very pleasant after walking in the hot sunshine along the Thames path. It's now cooled down a bit as we get into the evening. We're just passing Ship Lake station again. I've still got a few more miles to walk though, because I've got to walk all the way to Henley. This is actually the Thames path, although we are a quarter of a mile or so away from the Thames, as we've mentioned before, the Thames path comes inland. Back to the idea of they have to reinstate the passing loop. This car would have to move, this part of the car part would go. That house would have to be demolished, and then you'd have a pass loop again. I don't think that'll ever happen. So I expect when the line was singled, British Rail would have sold off that bit of land and that house was built. It doesn't appear to be a train coming, so we'll cross the line, giving us a view of Ship Lake station. And that was looking towards Henley. As we get to here, there's a sign saying Thames path, so Thames path down there. So we're gonna go down here and look for the Thames and continue towards Henley. As I walk along the Thames path now, I've come to a rather unexpected surprise, railway line, miniature railway line. It's clearly in someone's garden, but seeing as I can see it from the footpath, I thought I'd show it. I wonder if they have any open days. I mean, if they don't, that's fine, but look, there's a junction going off there through the roses. It feels very exciting. So, you know, I'm not tempted to hang around and see if the train comes along, but I somehow don't think they would. But yeah, you don't always expect to find these things. And there's a lot of private miniature railways hidden away that you'd never know. But seeing as this one, you can literally see it. I just had a train, but I think I was on the Henley branch over the fence. I thought I'd show it. I'm gonna continue now. The railway line disappears away down there. Yeah, I can hear a train that's clearly on the main line. But yeah, I'd love to ride it, but I don't know if they ever do any public garden days because off disappears off down there into the gardens. I'm going to continue this way and find River Thames. I'm now rejoining the River Thames. River Thames is just here. So I'm following the Thames path that way toward Henley. So I'm gonna look at the Thames. That's interesting. What's on the other side? There's like a fairly modern, thin wall. When it looks like a tunnel just going into the hill. I'm intrigued to know what that's about. But anyway, this is the River Thames. I'm gonna continue following it downstream towards Henley. So here we are. We have now reached Henley on Thames. Very pleasant affluent town, which this branch line serves. It's interesting to note that the line there was talk of extending it beyond Henley on Thames to Marlow. And that was no doubt provided the station at Hurley and then collected up with the Marlow branch. But quite how it would have worked, I'm not sure because it'd be easier to build rowing on the other side of the Thames. But the Marlow branch is also, or Marlow station, I should say, is on this side of the Thames. The Marlow branch does also cross the Thames, but Marlow branch is a video for another day. And of course, the Marlow branch is not fully intact. The line as far as Born End is the stub of a through route. There's a petrol station for boats there, or maybe diesel, a big pleasure boat there. So that's one of those, what might have been the line being extended from here to Marlow. The main reason it didn't happen is that the Leander rowing club, not Leander, the steam locomotive, but the Leander rowing club, depending on Thames, vehemently opposed the idea of the line. It's a nice boat there, running through to Marlow. So if you want to go to Marlow, best way now is to get a bus or follow the Thames path, or maybe get a boat. There is one that runs between the two. This is Station Road here. In fact, I think the railway station is just around here. So while we're here, nice old porch there, not really my formal classic car, but nice to see a classic car. And yeah, so we are close to the railway station, but I say closest. It's just up here. We have a little look at Henley on Thames. I'm probably going to go and find a pub and have dinner, I think, and before I get the train back to Twyford, which is going along here. And station, the station. So the line basically survives to its full length. I think Henley on Thames station has been slightly altered over the years. It would have once had one of Brunel's wooden train sheds, which not many survived. There's one at Froome and an episode, future episode of Branch Line, which perhaps will do the Chorzing Wallingford Railway. They've got the old train shed from Maidenhead, which again links us back to the Marlow branch. As I said, Marlow branch is a video for another day. I think we're very close to the station. Now it's been a while since the last came here. I came to the Royal Regatta a few years ago. I came on the train. The train was very busy. And a friend of mine was running a stall there. So we camped here. It was quite fun. And the next day I got the bus to Highwick and went home that way. Yeah, railway station. It's just around here. So I think the railway station would have been here or at least the buffers would have been here. You can see the modern station building and ticket office, which dates from about 1985. There is something left to see of the original station. Here, where the modern office stroke flats are, would have been the original wooden train shed, which I just mentioned. And then, as I said, the line was cut back. So I can't recall it, it's just slightly pruned a little bit by, yeah, not even 100 yards. That's Henry on Thames station ticket office. So we're going to go and have a look. I just see the end of the awnings about every minute. We walk through ticket office, always it closed. It looks closed, yeah. So we'll go around here and have a look at the station. It must be the way in here. This may have probably been a good yard. Or at least part of this would have been a good yard once. Oh yeah, we accessed the station here. So as you can see, part of the original awnings survived. Probably the only overhead structure left on the whole branch. But the track itself ends there. We walk down here, walk, have a look. So I think there'd have been two platforms. So there'd have been another platform there. And as I said, the station was further back that way. So we're effectively standing on what was once a bay platform. But the inevitable car park has taken over the other platform and the good yard. So it's quite a long platform. But it's probably only really during regatta days that you get anything longer than three cars come up here. Interesting to see what happens once the 165s gradually disappear. There's talk of battery powered D stock trains or D trains on the Greenford branch, possibly the Marlowe branch, and whether it will be electrified in the future, only time will tell. We'll have to wait and see. The Marlowe branch, I'll keep going back to the Marlowe branch. We'll do a video on the Marlowe branch. The Marlowe branch won't be electrified or at least not in full for the time being due to the fact that you can only run a two car train to Marlowe, but that is for when we do Marlowe branch. I wanna walk you into the platform, just so I've been there. It's a zone six. So if there is a, that would be probably about the length of two 165s. You probably could run more than, pretty could run three 165s to create a nine car train. But they wouldn't fit in the platforms the other stations. Another interesting that might happen is the, what were class 319s now, what are they, their electric and diesel. I cannot think what class some of it's coming on stream now. They potentially could run up here. The reason why we walked to the end is because this, I think must have been an old station sign, saying Henley on Thames, which seems to have lost its station signage. And yeah, not much better on that side. Someone needs to come along and paint Henley on Thames. Another interesting thing about this station is when it was first opened, it was just plain Henley. The reason they needed to add the on Thames suffix was when Henley and Arden up in Warwickshire opened. And then, you know, say if you were in London, then you said, could I have a ticket to Henley please? They might not know which Henley you meant. So they had to, you had to be more specific whether you wanted Henley on Thames or Henley and Arden. Anyway, I'm gonna wait for the train to come to take me back to Swyford now. I'm just departing ship plate now. I'm sitting in declassified first class. It's quite pleasant. Don't get any perked or anything, but you know, just slightly more comfortable seat. And seeing as I can do it on a standard gauge ticket. Oh look, that's that low bridge we went under four miles as well. It's quite fun now when you ride back when you've walked to line, you sort of look out and think, oh yeah, I was there earlier, I remember seeing that. And then soon we come up to that really rather amusing footpath that went through everyone's garden. And then over there, you might be able to see there's the field we walked along. It's good by trees now, and the river is over there. We're gonna shortly cross the river. So again, we are now with, I suppose what's an up train on the up line. You can clearly see the formation where the down line would have been. It'd be interesting if they ever had extended it through tomorrow, if it ever had, you know, survived to this day, but we'll never know. There's the bridge, we're on the bridge now, but as I said, it crosses a few, it's a land first. And then, yeah, down there, there's the gardens, which we walked through, there's the river. Now we're back in the market. I'm gonna continue enjoying the journey back to Twyford, where the video will finish. So here we are back at Twyford. I've had a good time exploring the Henley branch and riding on this class 165. If you wanna ride the Henley branch yourself, it's very easy to get to. Elizabeth Line now serves Twyford. Well, the station's still managed by Great Western Railway, but you can clearly get here easily from London or Reading for that matter on an Elizabeth Line train. So why not come on the train to Twyford, catch the little branch line train up to Henley, maybe get out of Wargrave or Ship Lake and explore those stations or walk along the Thames Path. It's a very pleasant, obviously it's a very flat walk, so it's not too strenuous. So I hope you enjoyed this video from the Bay Platform at Twyford Station. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Goodbye.


A federal jury has found an Ironton man guilty of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography. Fifty-three-year-old Roger Eric Splutstoser was charged in a six-count indictment on June 22nd of 2017 and he was found guilty yesterday on all counts by a federal jury in Minneapolis. Splutstoser was convicted on four counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. As proven at trial from at least April through September 2015, Splutstoser, who owned and operated a computer repair business called Deep Systems in Aiken, used the internet to search for, receive and distribute images and videos of child pornography.


Okay, I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors. Certification of compliance with the open meeting law. The agenda was posted on the 17th of January at 12.15 p.m. Thank you, John. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. This is to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. There are 23 supervisors present. Thank you. Approval of the December 17th, 2019 Journal. Supervisor Glavin. Move to approve. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Supervisor Zigabar. I'll second that. Thank you, Supervisor Zigabar. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, please push your aye or nay button. That motion is approved unanimously. Thank you. Consideration of appointments by the County Administrator. Communications Council, Todd Stenging, and Emergency Medical Services Council, Michael Lubbert. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move to concur with the appointments. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Is there... Supervisor Obler. I'll support that motion. Thank you, Supervisor Obler. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, please push your aye or nay button. Those appointments are approved unanimously. Presentations. We have none. Public addresses. There are none. Letters and communications and announcements. We have a few resolutions. Two resolutions. One from Audigame and Washera County Board Supervisors in support of revising and amending statutes related to court fees and costs in probate and juvenile court. We'll receive that for information as we received it two other times. I have a resolution from Audigame Board regarding Medicaid coverage in an institute for mental disease. We'll refer that to the Health and Human Services Committee. Next, I have another resolution from Audigame County Board regarding supporting pending legislation on sexual misconduct with elderlies. We'll refer that to the law committee. And finally, resolutions from St. Croy and Tremplow County regarding nonpartisan procedure drawing redistricting maps. We'll receive that for information as we've already dealt with that. That is all. Thank you very much, John. County Administrators Report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. Good evening. You know, if we didn't have the County Administrators Report this evening, this could have been probably wound up in about 10 minutes. And who among you would like that other than Emmett Feldner? Tonight, it's my pleasure to give a brief synopsis of the state of the county. And as I was sitting here and looking out amongst all of you, 21 of you this evening are wearing glasses. And I wish I had my cheaters with me this evening. I prepare, as you know, each year a high end. Thank you, Al. I may use that. I prepare a high end state of the county each year. It is a high end synopsis. Because you think about all the things that we're a part of here, all the things that we do, all the activities, programs and services in Sheboygan County. There are so many remarkable achievements going on day after day. Many of us may not even be aware of it. Whether it's law enforcement, health and human services, you name it. A lot of good work done. Briefly, provide an overview. And hopefully, you're going to hear a few things this evening that perhaps you haven't heard in a while. And if I'm speaking too quickly or skip over something, you all have this in your packet. I believe Cheryl sent this out so you all have available to you. So, Dawn, how many employees do we have in Sheboygan County? No, that's not the kind of approach we're going to take. We have 850 employees working in over 200 programs, services, 19 departments. 850 employees. 19 departments administering over 200 programs and services from A to Z. Health and Human Services, the Sheriff's Department, Transportation, and Rocky Knoll are the big four. So when you're out there and about and folks ask you, well, what does county government do? They generally know about the Sheriff's Department. They generally know about Health and Human Services Department, Transportation, but after that it can fall off. Really, you own Rocky Knoll? Yes, we do. The other departments include Building Services, Clerk of Courts, Corporation Council, County Clerk, Court Commissioner, District Attorney, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Medical Examiner, Planning and Conservation, Register of Dees, Treasurer Real Property Listing, University of Wisconsin Extension, and Veteran Services. I think one of the reasons why board members run for county board and stay is because there is just so much going on here and so many opportunities to learn and to help make good things happen. The most important policy document that you prepare is obviously the annual budget. Most important policy document. Of the $158 million operating budget, $51 million is property tax levy. The rest of that budget is comprised of state and federal dollars as well as private pay. So as you reflect on the last year, and as we know there are key initiatives ahead, but predominantly as we look at the last year, we look at our fiscal situation in particular, our fiscal track record. I think it's one that every one of us in this room are proud of. We have a fiscal track record second to none. We have an impressive track record, healthy reserves and excellent bond rating. And although the county board approved a 2.4% increase in the property tax levy for 2020, a little higher than the norm, the tax rate went down. It went down 1.4%, but big picture, if you look at the last dozen years, the average levy increase has been 1%. So if anyone is questioning, well, do we have a fiscally conservative county board? Are we thoughtful? Are we mindful of how we're spending property taxes? You bet we are. And we have the track record to prove it. Wendy and her team in the finance department do an excellent job preparing our budget, working with all the departments, providing support staff. And I'm particularly proud of Wendy and her team for five consecutive years of getting the achievement and excellence in financial reporting, which is an example of the transparency of our financial system, our approach and the work that we do here. I'm also very proud of Rocky Knoll. I'm very proud of the fact that it's a five-star facility, one of only two in the county to have five stars. It's earned because of our good employees there, the good work that they do, the quality care that they provide. But like most nursing homes, Rocky Knoll is struggling to recruit and retain staff. As it stands today, we have about 23 to 25 open C&A positions alone. Difficult to provide quality care if you don't have the staff there to provide it. We've done some creative things through our HR department, through our healthcare centers at Rocky Knoll, but one that we're doing through your support and the year ahead is adding childcare. And this is just fantastic. We're going to be the only nursing home in the area that provides childcare. So think of a young C&A who has young children. And where am I going to take my children? Am I going to take that long drive to Rocky Knoll or into the city of Sheboygan? It can be a real answer, I think, to help us recruit and retain staff. So very excited about that. That's a compliment to the county board taking a risk and trying something new. The other thing the county board just did is you just approved up to $2 million in enhancements at Rocky Knoll. Facility improvements. 1.6 million of that is through a state grant and a citizen's participation committee that we're convening, as I speak, but overall $2 million in enhancements to that facility to make sure it continues to be a very effectively run facility and one that is attractive to people in the community to go to. Right now is above budget standards. We're right at about, well, 133 and we budgeted 131. Good things happening there. We broke ground at the airport, U.S. customs facility. That was a tremendous amount of work. Tremendous amount of work in that 5 million project. We secured a $2.5 million state grant to get it done and we secured a memorandum of understanding or an agreement with the Kohler company to cover the operational costs to run that facility. Crystal Fieber, our corporation council, was tremendously successful in helping prepare the documents, help with the negotiations, really appreciated her work, Greg Schnell and others. The county continues to meet our commitment to do 30 miles of overlay of road. We did that again and what we also accomplished is our continuing beating the drum and putting pressure on the state to finally break ground on highway 23. Chairman Tom Wagner, the board as a whole was all over that and that is a tremendous enhancement for our community and certainly a major safety improvement. We're improving in behavioral health, use justice and child welfare services and programs. You recall when we started the year our number one initiative in lobbying the state was to strive for more funds for child welfare services and ultimately because of our work and the work of counties across the state we garnered almost $2 million more of financial resources to do more in the area of child welfare. I see Matt Strip monitor here tonight. He was a key champion in that regard. Good things happening in those areas. We're also transitioning child welfare work from the district attorney's office to the corporation council so we can get more transparency for children. Another positive step in the right direction so again good work happening there. Alternatives to incarceration was a major initiative in the last year. You supported building into the five-year capital plan a $21 million addition to a detention center and my bet is every one of you that voted for that really didn't want to. I don't think there's a lot of desire to put $21 million of taxpayer money into bricks and mortar to a detention center and even if we accomplish that which we could state law allows us to do so how are we going to operate it? If we have to staff it that's going to cost us nearly $2 million and that will exceed our state imposed caps and property tax levy so the alternatives to incarceration are going to be part of that. We're going to be looking at the board members in the room that participate on that. Elaine Bosman is our project manager. We've been looking at other counties and their best practices and what's our goal? Our goal ultimately is to look at alternatives to incarceration to help people get on the right path to reduce recidivism so they can they need and not spend $21 million plus $2 million annually to staff a new addition to the detention center. I'm passionate about it and I trust the people on the ad hoc committee are passionate about it. The past year we slowed the bus down and we gathered a lot of good information in the year ahead. We need to bring it to stronger recommendations and work with the sheriff and others to make some things happen. Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation has just celebrated its 10-year milestone. We Sheboygan County were one of the founding members of the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation. You provide $100,000 a year as does the city of Sheboygan to support the Economic Development Corporation and the private sector actually provides more funding now than the public sector does, which is good, which is how it was envisioned. We wanted to see less public dollars and more private dollars and that's the direction it's going. We, Sheboygan County, provide the office space on the second floor of the County Administration Building and when this fledgling organization started, there wasn't much going on in Sheboygan County with the recession, Economic Development, we were losing jobs to other communities and states. It's one of the reasons why we created it. And in just the last few years it has been remarkable what's been happening in Sheboygan County in part thanks to the support of this organization and all the good people in it. Sheboygan County through our Planning and Conservation Department applies for grants, brownfield grants through the US EPA. We've acquired in the last three, four years nearly a million dollars of federal brownfield grants that allow entrepreneurs or businesses to go to a site and identify how contaminated is it? Is this worth taking a risk? A site that they might otherwise just dismiss because they don't want to take their risk. Because of our efforts, because of one of our department's efforts, that million dollars has contributed to over 100 million dollars of Economic Development in Sheboygan County and just the last few years alone. That is remarkable. Projects like 1,200 new apartments and condos, new subdivisions have started that certainly weren't starting years ago. We weren't directly involved but speaking of Economic Development a $324 million new hospital $130 million extension to the Acuity Building $64 million to Millipore Sigma $30 million to Master Gallery $60 million to Johnsonville Headquarters $40 million. Tom Wagner and I were just at Rotary yesterday and we were learning about the John Michael Koehler Art Preserve a preserve for preserving art $40 million investment in our community. That's remarkable. Sheboygan County's tourism between 17 and 18 was the fastest growing tourism in the state. I don't know what it is through 19 but I've got to believe we're one of the leaders in the state. Good things happening here. Bus ridership, we see our friend supervisor Ed Procek right in front. Bus ridership in Sheboygan County is up 15% in the last five years. If you look at the state as a whole over the last five years, it's down 22%. Good things happening in Sheboygan County. Veteran services they relocated to the Aging and Disability Resource Center. I don't know how many of you have had a chance to go out there.  What a nice move that was for our veterans organization, the collaboration with Aging and Disability Resource Center. I've yet to hear anyone from the veterans community, veterans organizations who haven't been pleased with that change. You supported that change. You helped make that happen. So on closing, those are just 10 initiatives accomplishments, activities going on in Sheboygan County. Just a dozen or so. Out of 19 departments 850 employees administering over 200 programs and services. We have a lot to be proud of. I'm grateful to work for this organization. The good people I get to interact with each and every day. The thoughtful leadership of the County Board. We are helping make good things happen. And if you didn't get a chance to look at that, I included for the first time a few accolades because in 2019 Sheboygan County received the Wisconsin Policy Form Salute to Local Government Award. It's a statewide award for our approach to problem-solving. An achievement of excellence in financial reporting, as I mentioned earlier. The Lake Michigan Champion of Conservation Award for the good work we've done with cleaning up the Sheboygan River and protecting one of our most beautiful assets, Lake Michigan. And the National Association of Counties Achievement Award for the Amsterdam Dunes Association Area. Some of these things we've done in the past but folks are taking notice that you that we that this community is helping make good things happen. The state of the county is strong and the primary reason for its strength is the people that work here and live here and the county boards and local community organizations town boards we make it happen. So congratulations. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Thank you Adam and thank you for all that you do along with your team along with this County Board. Thank you. Okay, consideration of committee reports Executive Committee, ordinance number nine. Reducing airport advisory committee membership supervisor to Strudy. Thank you Mr. Chairman, I move to enact. Thank you supervisor to Strudy. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you Mr. Chairman, I will second that motion. Thank you supervisor Gehring. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, please push your aye or nay bun. Sometimes they don't click right away. That motion is to be unanimously. Thank you. Consideration of committee reports Finance Committee, ordinance number eight. Regarding amending section 4703 of the Sheboyin County Code Recommendation to enact. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you Mr. Chairman, I move for adoption. Supervisor Dampe. Thank you, Supervisor Dampe. Any questions or comments? Seeing no lights, please push your aye or nay bun. That motion is also approved unanimously. Thank you. I'll turn the gavel over to the vice chair. Resolution is introduced. Resolution number 20 from the finance committee. I'll carry over of unexpected 2019 appropriations to 2020. Resolution number 20 will be sent to the executive committee. Resolution number 21 from the finance committee. Regarding authorizing indefeasible right of use agreement for use of ring and fiber infrastructure. Resolution number 21 will be sent to the executive committee. Ordinance is introduced. Ordinance number 10 from the transportation committee. Regarding establishing speed zone KK Tana Wilson. Ordinance number 10 will be sent to the law committee. Final order of business is adjournment. Supervisors Tistroti. Thank you Mr. Vice Chair. I move to adjourn. Thank you Supervisor Tistroti. Supervisor Glavin. Second. Thank you Supervisor Glavin. Please vote. We are adjourned.