602 We have any adjustments to the agenda Is there any public comments at this time Okay, we'll move on to the consent agenda She'll prove the minutes of Tuesday October 19th 2020 Entertainment motion Oh, so I can all right any discussion All in favor say hi hi Okay, we've approved minutes of Tuesday October 19th, do we have any board costs? Okay, that brings us to the superintendent report to board A good evening. It's good seeing all of you. I think we lost Peggy the Although I do get a little joyful right here at Peggy in the milking part So brings me back to my childhood so You know To add to my report. I'm really pleased to let folks know that we actually started PCR testing at some of my member our member schools To get students out of quarantine and it's gone thus far exceptionally well which is great and We expect to have our Android antigen test to do tests to stay For next week. And so we're actually a little ahead Above the timeline that I had last put out in the last time the information I had Yesterday was that we already had a hundred and sixty folks signed up In consent so that was good news and so You know, I think that the timing of that us being on the roll that out with as much positivity as we're seeing in the community is significant I'll just add. I'm sure you've heard my messages. I'm really trying to message the folks Especially as we're coming up on the holidays That you know, we were really successful. I think keeping our schools open for in-person learning because the community was really following mitigation efforts and I will say Probably knock on wood somewhere for your district things have sort of slowed down a little bit with positivity But my schools on the 110 quarter last week was pretty busy and so It's definitely in the cobit is definitely pretty present in Baffle Royalton Thomas and Chelsea. I can tell you based on positivity rates of students coming in the building positive And so I will say though We're still seeing that our mitigation efforts within the building are working quite well And we're not seeing any type of significance that spread And so that's good news Um, you know, we still I would say that it's a The Department of Health is still really delayed in getting us information and what I mean by that is that positivity that we've had Where students have tested positive and sometimes Hear that and That's really frustrating And so I've shared that frustration with folks and I know every system's overwhelmed, but I'm really proud of the fact that I you know over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday our team of teachers Came together and contact trace both Saturday and Sunday For member schools of the SU so just a huge shout out to everything that folks are doing I hope that they they know when I say, thank you. I I I've made it from the bottom of my heart And then the only other thing that I would just wanted to highlight is that we've engaged into I think are some pretty like successful collaborative conversations with the Central Vermont Supervisory Union and What we are going to be proposing to the full board as a concept Next Monday is the idea of our alternative programming Supporting some students at CVSU specifically at the middle school level That meet and they may need some more intensive social emotional supports our middle school programs doing quite well And we really love the team that we've built so it's an area of strength. We believe for us and They have a really good program right now for middle and high school level students that are on the spectrum and Or who have more global cognitive delays And so the concept being is that we would We'd have some spots available and they would have some spots available for us so that we could do some training as students and And the concept was also going to be that they were going to support some of the transportation costs And so I'll have more of those details to share with the full board on Monday And it looks like we would be able to what we believe is taking on at a max of five additional students By adding really just another Support staff person is what we're thinking and so based on our current numbers in our SU so The MOU would always indicate that the priority would be our organization But that if we had availability that we could trade out spots and what we are finding in general is that Alternative programs in the state seem to be overflowing currently at the moment we're looking to support our students have the most intensive need and Students are just being waitlisted. So I think the more we can be collaborative Regionally the better and this is actually a model that was in place years ago a regional model that used to support students and the air street school actually were Don McMahon first got his admin job as a principal was to support students regionally who had had intensive needs and At one point those things were taken down with the focus on inclusion Which you know, I think our model trying to do and have these programs within our buildings to still have inclusion But to have some specialty models across SU's that do certain things well or better May serve us well in the long run So just know that I'm continuing to have those types of conversations to look at how do we provide better programming for kids? But do it at a cost that's reasonable and in just to give the board a sense right now the tuition for an out-of-district placement at East Valley Academy is at a hundred and six thousand dollars per pupil right now And so that's a significant increase in cost that's gone up from thirty thousand two years ago to a hundred and six thousand And so it really goes as I think to really look at how can we best support our students here internally and funding around special ed is changing and so What I mean by that is we're moving to a block grant which we're not going to see a lot of revenue go down But I do believe over the next few years. There's a concept of fading out extraordinary cost Which means excessive cost over 60,000 per pupil right now. We're reimbursed 90% on that The Sounds like to me that some of that funding mechanism may change So what I mean is we wouldn't get 90% of every dollar we spend over 60 I think that that's going to change in the future. So I think it behooves us to start building more and more programming And so That's though. That's just I wanted to share that and I will share more about it with our net roads Monday And I gotta say if you didn't watch the video that you one of your students created with faculty and staff here And students at Weber Valley Middle School, please do It's a really huge celebration of learning and I'll take any questions folks have your section about the Memorandum of understanding. So you talked about the space in Chelsea elementary school Well, we thought about using it for one of the programs. We haven't really decided which one yet And part of why we're thinking about that space is that It's going to be vacant next year And so I brought up the concept of having some specialized programming in that school And the first branch unified district board is open to that concept Which is good news and geographically it's close to CVSU orange Washington Williams town are all really The bus so we were thinking about how to be leveraged that and their the concept there too would be cost savings They were willing to pay for some electricity if But the general concept for Walking slots is that we wouldn't exchange tuition money. Exactly. We wouldn't exchange tuition. All right, if there's no other questions for Jamie We'll move on to the principal's report Good evening I Could start here or And just tell you that we're still working on our our concepts of restorative practice In solving problems in school and we're training up the entire faculty and staff and not just the traditional way of training the faculty This will be over the year and a couple years to create the model of Restoring a problem when it happens and repairing harm when it's done. That's one part of this our goal one I know that Andrew and Reid both have something in there, too I just wanted to highlight that we had a handle of a care training and de-escalation training for our whole staff Which I think is key that we were able to offer that to everybody and that's something I don't remember ever doing before So that's gonna help with the Basis of understanding about how to help in a maybe stressful situation and then there was a follow-up train more acute train for like First responders to maybe come in when the de-escalation techniques aren't working. So that was exciting and good Also, just I think it's noted in there, too is our School-based clinicians, which is so wonderful to have here from Clare Martin are hopping and So is our SAP so they can see about 25 to 30 kids each and they are seeing about 25 to 30 kids each So it's wonderful to have them here as a resource and just another layer For our families and kids. I feel like even yesterday. I just got an email from a state trooper was saying Do you have the service for your kids? And yes, we do So it felt good. It's getting out of the community And at the high school two of our big initiatives are despite some staffing challenges our personalized learning classroom is up and off the ground The next two quarters and the culinary Hands-on work-based learning in the afternoons for our students and Our lead them up social emotional program. We're doing it visor every week is off to a good start Kids met this Monday to look over students who've been nominated for a special recognition and celebration next month And they've really taken it seriously to take it at the heart and we're looking forward to our first school-wide assembly and Just a little over 10 days To recognize students and well, we'll be giving them a Wildcat teacher and some other Gifts for their positive contributions to our community so if we go into our second goal that with professional based learning and Specifically literacy we have K-12 introduced a Writing assessment that we're implementing as we speak I said in the other day in the middle school class where they were doing it and it's at different levels But we're going to be able to have writing assessments across grades and agreement in January 14th when we have our early release day Staff and faculty are going to work on that and try to Calibrate how we measure that assess that and it's pretty exciting And I think what I would just add to that is that's connected to the summer work that we had our teachers do this past summer And that that's not actually an SU initiative, but that was really teacher driven from red teachers So it's a cold, right? You're writing about zoos, which is funny for kids in Vermont but So there's some reading that has happened for the kids depending on their age You might be read to or be reading some texts and then they're Responding about their thoughts on zoos So it'd be great to like really sit down as a whole staff and look at proficiencies and see the scope Vertical scope from K all the way up to 12 with that right? But in addition, we're doing all the other things that we've been talking about and And I think this next section I would say we just wrapped up parent-teacher conferences, which were super well attended we're just collecting the Data on how many parents came in but I feel like offering the virtual and in-person We've had a lot more people be able to access Conferences, so that felt nice And I just think again kudos to teachers because I know that parent conference week is hard and it's late nights And they did a great job At the same time in Royalton Galen is I really good for all the credit was the South Brails in PTO But it was Galen Hubert did a snow globe and drive for families so when they came in for conferences if they came in they could Pick up snow gear look at the swap. So that was I thought I thought it was wonderful I don't know. I think it's a tradition and I think that's what I should say forever And then the week before that we had our first book fair in two years and made a lot of money I think just because people haven't got in the book fair for two years. So it was nice to have families in for that and And the superintendent pointed out there was these National conference presentation that a student and teacher did and I got to sit on on that but We also are meeting on a regular basis with our communications coordinator and We're doing more social media engagement and I think Reid could talk about the night at Chelsea school and That the reaps reaching out the families and I know Shannon's on the task force We're planning on December 2nd for the middle school level of it going to Sharon elementary and bringing a few teachers and students and maybe parents and Talking to families there about what their options are here at the middle school for for their students Yeah, since the principal's report was done last week, we actually have another student shadowing with us this week actually tomorrow, maybe looking to School environment back into the back into the fold. We're hopeful about that and I want to make a plug for Friday's In building in-person production of Dracula on Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m It's not our return to live productions because we did two of those last year They just have the outside But it'll be nice to be able to open and close their curtain and have kids work in the lights Work at the sound system and have that stage experience. So we're really really excited about that I think the last thing that's super notable is we just Start vaccinating vaccinations for our elementary And that was you could kind of like feel the excitement among the elementary students Kind of hard to be like this kind of private. You don't have to talk about it But they were like really excited and I'm sure it's just a lot of reflection on people's and families Desire for this to have happened now So I think I think that's it And we're happy to take questions And if you haven't checked out the newsletter, just click on the links and check them out So I have a question and I'm one of those parents who had a very excited Eight-year-old flopping around last night that he had gotten his shot, which never happens, right? So that's So mine actually are for a couple of things that we've talked about for the middle school and So I'm wondering if in the middle school There's going to be any theater this year and also if the DC trip is going to happen The right now there's no plan about around theater. We do have a club a Theater club and that's on Friday afternoons But I'm totally open to that happening, but so more to come on that I guess we can float that idea DC is in works. It's in the plan We we're trying to figure out the best way to do that the safest way to do that and how to make sure we have everything in Order, but that's underway We're excited about Yellowstone is also underway for planning And there's been so much interest in the Yellowstone trip that we're looking at the possibility of two groups Or three groups over the whole summer. It's a great problem That helpful Yes, thank you. Yeah, and I'd like to follow up on the theater thing, but maybe we could do that outside of the meeting Sure. I'm happy to talk about that Other commentary you can also tell us nice things about ourselves just Is The reading assessment that you guys are doing is that like tied into that kind of proficiencies and stuff the writing Yeah, so we're looking at the proficiencies And they're Assessing each one on the rubric and then that's kind of like where we're gonna come together and talk about like What's working with not working and right so this the reading what they read is informational text So we have that built in right away right the reading piece, but it's considered a cold, right? There's no instruction about how to do it. It's just It's pretty significant to give your whole staff participate it's crazy good And built by teachers the point and I'm all about internal competition We could have the board could get a take a shot at it Good evening everyone so you have my report and overviews the deadlines that we have for the month of November So if there's any questions there Otherwise, right if you could put up the FY 22 first quarter projections First quarter we focus on salary and benefits So about halfway down the page potential areas of savings So the salary savings is your budget versus the contracts that were issued right now We have a savings of a hundred and fifty three thousand six hundred and thirty two dollars And then the health insurance is your budget versus currently enrolled and our open enrollment season is in January So depending if staff changes their health plans, there could be an adjustment for this line, but currently at seventy two thousand Five hundred thirty nine dollars in savings your total projected savings of two hundred twenty six thousand seventy one dollars And then Ray if you can move to the second page, please This is the revenue side Current tuition projections. We are down thirty five thousand six hundred dollars Pre-K we are up a hundred and seventy eight dollars Interest income as the months go on that will change but right now we've received five thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars I don't have any miscellaneous revenue. I don't have any rentals and no student activities at this point So that is your local revenue and down below. We are projecting the budgeted amount for Property taxes tech ed funding and transportation aid will no more on the transportation aid later in the year when that gets released from AOE and Then again down below the vocational transportation reimbursement. We just submitted our first Semester for vocational transportation, so I'll have a better projection after that comes back in from the AOE once they assign their reimbursement rates Driver's ed. We haven't received anything in from the state yet But I do project to get what we budgeted for there and then adult learning that still is in your budget But I haven't seen any revenue there. So I don't have any projection for that So with the difference on the expenditure savings and the revenue shortfall we have a projected Sorry surplus of a hundred and sixty one thousand six hundred and sixty four dollars at the end of first quarter and Then down below Summary of financial operations. I've updated that for the FY 19 audited the FY 20 audited and then the FY 21 non-audited financial general fund and Then down below that are your reserve fund balances as of June 30 2020 Do I have the final audit that will obviously be updated for June 30 2021? Any questions on that? I can't hear you Andrew In the summary of financial operation section Those lines are basically the snapshot at that time. So it's not like adding those together Together that was the general fund balance at the end of that fiscal year Okay It could be that and it also could be higher new hires that we could be that replaced retirees Combination I heard your question right. It's hard to hear you. Yeah, sorry My other question was If we turned in the fall census and tuition student census, do we have that data or could we get that data so we can compare it to previous years and stuff I Heard did the fall census gets submitted and I didn't hear the rest Could you provide us with what we submitted? Yeah Right, that's right. Yeah, okay, so I don't I didn't come prepared to answer that off the top. No, that's fine, right? So those the lists of students have gone through the principles The last couple of weeks and the deadline was last Friday, but not for rug But for some of the other schools sending schools in the SU There's still some ADM trickling in so overall the ADM should be down a bit 1920 which was kind of high-level mark recently and I can certainly send you numbers And you guys have probably way too early, but you know, there was the ADM kind of adjustment for last year But we have no idea what they're gonna do this year No, and of course the big thing right now in the books to is the waiting study, right? And so We expect some type of recommendation We're supposed to get figures. We were supposed to give them on the 10th About what the waiting study would have done to our equalized pupils at least their projections that got delayed So we'll you know our equalized pupils. They'll calculate them the same for this year, but moving forward They'll be weighted differently and so stay tuned to that in general I think based on you know, some of the Indicators that they're taking into account for that. I think we're gonna be okay and most of our districts But I'm curious to see what those projections look like and as far as to missions We can definitely give you an update on what our projections are versus But based on your revenue, it seems like it's pretty close And I know we had two more students just start at the middle school this week Any other questions for Tara? Okay Task Force reports guys Really ready to report Yeah, so We are at the place of we sent out the preschool survey our last meeting we get cut together and kind of really tweak to the survey Pushed it out via Facebook Actually, I don't have done a good job pushing it out even further And we have some good information coming in so I think our next meeting is tomorrow to kind of look at the surveys And what we got back and figure out next steps based on that Yeah You want to update that sure we've been meeting I think it's every other Monday and We are talking about this is the task force to for student recruitment From that we have come up with a plan to go to Sharon elementary and we've already Secured that date and the principal is going to join us and we are we're working now with One of our principal interns mini-beth pike He's going to help with that because she has a student parent engagement piece of her program that she would like to use there Oh, great. Yeah, and we're going to highlight the Yellowstone trip and some other trips But we're also going to point out things like our academic programming in our pot program We're going to use that same model learn from that and then redo it at the our sub campuses That's where we're at now and we are going to do a plan do study act cycle of improvement So we know that we'll do really well, but we know that we will also be able to improve that by looking back on it I'll say one of the shout out one of the things that I think has been powerful and Sharon feel free to jump to try them into her own is that we have two member district principles on That task force that are supporting this work, and I think that that's powerful They've given us some good insight. Yeah, but things we're not seeing So Michael Livingston is one of them and he has experience with with recruiting students in his career So he's been very helpful with that The hard example on that is Principal Haley actually sent an email To all the sixth grade parents telling them that we're our plan and that we're going to be inviting them We didn't have a date set and now this week I'm calling each family in the evening and harassing them just kidding and inviting them To this evening and we're gonna have a pizza party and it'll be soft, but it'll also be We want to be there to let answer questions and let people know what we offer here So I'm really excited about some of the things that we're doing this fall in recruiting right now, and then I'm probably most excited about this spring though and Going out and talking to some folks getting some feedback and creating Communications sort of plan around how recruiting can happen and marketing in the future and then also You know using our Our resources on the websites and things to really To the best of our ability and to put some great content on there That I think is already being created. It's just making it super accessible and so I'm really excited about that piece too Where we go from here On to Action items So the policies on it You are Right That feels exciting to me I Make a motion Racism policy All second Hi, Chris Hi Shannon policy is f-27 bids quotations and current policy Everybody aware of what the changes were with this Basically just changing the limits to match what the state is recommending now entertain a motion Also, I could Any discussion Chris Sorry, if you have to me mines and I All right discussion items draft to of the 2223 red budget Ray do you have that to put up on the screen Coming in a second It's in your packets too just so folks down So we did make at the top and you'll see highlighted there in yellow We made some adjustments to that line item in the second draft because there were some changes made to was who was providing Services there, so there's a small adjustment and then we'll move down to the second section the general education So for pre-k that remains at 2.0 FTE Regular education elementary is at 16 FTE and part of that FTE was moved up to the top under intervention for middle school high school This line item covers 1.5 FTE for health EC in ECO an outdoor ed of 1.3 FTE, which is an overall increase of 0.5 The library remains the same at 2.0 FTE music at 3.0 PE is 3.1 art 2.5 Foreign language 2.0 and then down at the English line. It's 5.4, which is an increase of 0.4 Family and consumer science remains at 0.5 Tech ed remains at 1.0 And then under math we have a 5.0 FTE and 0.5 FTE was also moved above to intervention And on the science line, it's the same FTE in the current budget. We just had an adjustment for benefits and Social studies we had a reduction of 1.0 FTE Driver's ed remains the same at 0.4 Work-based learning remains the same at 0.8 and then the community school coordinator as part of the AX67 community schools grant were required to do a match on that funding So that is adding in the 0.5 requirement for that So overall the general education budget is up $66,373 which is a 1.53% increase So I'll just jump in and principles can too. I mean so your budget just in salary and benefits is going to be up close to 168,000 which is not bad when you think about increases in health insurance and we are budgeting accordingly Do the fact that we're in negotiations right now, and so I want you know we're budgeting and planning for that as well in this You know we take into account that some of the hires have been good, right? And that's part of why you're projecting a surplus this year Which is keeping this a little lower than we might see typically And we're trying to leverage of course as many title funds as we can for you guys and you'll see that up above around grant funding remaining The same on currently funded positions What I would say to you is is that One of the things we're going to do between now and December is to just sit down again and Go through and make certain everybody's coded at the appropriate places You can see we continue to adjust that based on where folks are actually assigned This year and so these numbers may change a little bit not your FTE's But Jesse could change a little bit from general ed To student support where intervention is And then what I would say to you too is if you look one of the things I think that we're really excited about is that this budget does support two pathways full-time pathways coordinators and Still community-based learning as we look to try to expand our pathways programming across both campuses and I would say to you We've had some real successes this year where some students have been able to Because we've been down a pathways coordinator actually our high school students that work with Tony snow Who's our middle school pathways coordinator and Tony's been able to work with them to build plans so that they could demonstrate proficiency and Then be awarded appropriate credit and so I think that that's exciting And I would say that you know, we have a student in the supervised room in office Just this evening at 430 working on a pathway with Alicia Rominger who does some contracting service for us for students who? You know may need a real alternative looking pathway toward graduation and so She's got a lot of experience in that role And so I want folks to know that there are starting to be some real examples. I think of us actually serving students and it looks very Untraditional and looks really personalized and I think that that's really good news I think it's good news when we think about drop-out prevention. I think it's good news for students who you know may be taken college courses virtual courses and You know and or just studying out in the community and being able to demonstrate p-credit for example, that's one of the pathways that happens so You know, I would say this budget is as far as at least salary and benefits and the principal can correct me if I'm wrong I feel 90% there Just so you guys know I feel like in December you're gonna get everything Which will be all the budget lines including salary and benefits And what I've said to the principal is at this point because we you haven't given us really a direction yet Around where you're hoping to come in at worse. We're sort of looking around that 3% target To not make certain that we're not going over is what I'm saying So we're looking at how can we build the program when we want without getting over a 3% area? Unless you guys, you know, tell us differently last year. We actually cut the budget And so I don't think we're in a place where we're gonna be able to do that again And not hurt programming. So that's that's sort of where we're at That's what we're looking at right now, I mean, that's each district is different and so for this district I felt what I said, let's that be our goal and Let's try to hit that mark without we're really trying to continue to expand programming. It's certainly not her program And so that's sort of the the compass we're using I think to guide our decisions at this point On the FDA changes for like a map and social studies in English What does that look like as far as You know where we Taking partial person from social studies and shifting them to English just because of class demand Yeah, I would say that these FTEs line up to how we're currently staffing and So based on licensure and things and so based on how we're currently staffed and in supporting kids this is how the FTEs are coming And It's coding changes in but it's also changes in just licensure and how we're utilizing staff When we think about pathways programming trying to provide more electives What licensures we hire? Those things would change that fair Any other questions on Can I just is that 3% are you guys you didn't say anything so I'm taking that that's good Is that at least a good like work? And so we know we have a goal right so when we're talking and we're thinking outside the box and trying to Prevent you a budget. We feel like you're gonna support but feel good about is that an okay place for us to be working from Yeah, no, I think that that's a good Good thing to do now Yeah, no, right, exactly. There's a lot to still come in All right, so we'll keep working on this. I mean you'll get the whole thing Thank you So this is article 17 of the master agreement Article 17 says that you need to act to either decline offering this or to offer it I'm gonna recommend that you decline it you did last year as well and Just so folks know what your declining is is actually if you were to offer this teachers could apply If they've been in your district longer than 15 years, it then results in they would receive 80% of their salary plus Health insurance for a year For a single plan and certainly it's not something we've budgeted for But just when you think about that 3% rate in fact that we haven't budgeted for it if a couple people did Opt into that that would that be a significant impact to your budget. So that's hence why I'm Act on this Everybody have any thoughts I make a motion that we find the career assistance of change program for this year All in favor say aye So we put out the RFQ which was exciting we had one person Put in To do the work and that was II services who did the presentation The action tonight is to allow them to do the free audit and to come to us proposals. That's how the RFQ was written It's not binding past that They're ready to come in next week, which is exciting So I just need a motion and approval to enter into that agreement and that agreement is for them to provide a free audit and So you guys know what I've talked to them about is really having a proposal for us about doing the work that we absolutely have to do and And no extras I want a couple proposals is what I'm saying So I said to them with each district do what we absolutely have to do and Get us the best performance we can and Have it, you know be as cost-neutral as possible across the performance and then I said Give us an option where you say well, here's all the things you we recommend you should do, right? And so I'm actually asking them to do two to three proposals But one definitely we know we have things in each district. We have to do please make certain that that's part of the proposal And so that we hopefully will see that in January Are you providing them with a list of must-haves? They're gonna they're gonna determine those on their own they're supposed to yeah They but Lyle is gonna be touring the buildings with them, which I feel good about And he's kind of got his pulse now. He's been working with your custodians for a while now and The other SU custodian, so I feel like he's got a pretty good sense of what they are half-twos specifically with our our HVAC systems Motion to Anybody having discussion on So we received one bid for the No plowing and salting for the winter it is from Green Mountain the same contractor that we had last year We got the approval from the state for the bid waiver as we only had the one response and His proposal this year is 59,740 dollars which is an increase of $1,000 over what he provided us last year at 58,740 dollars Do we budget for any kind of increase just out of care you open that up and you I can let you know Tara's working on that. Does anybody have a Discussion on this Yeah, I think we're pretty happy with This Combined at both locations Andrew we had 119,000 in the budget Okay Hi No plowing bid is accepted Okay performing arts lab potential projects Yeah modified our timeline a little bit because our original request for Instruction manager bid is only produced to construction managers The construction managers would come in and estimate the cost and do a lot of the leg work in Setting up what the project would look like Which means we we'd ask to come into the board in December and kind of lay out the cost But by having pushed back our timeline a little bit We won't be prepared to do that Although I'd still like to be able to bring the committee in there provide the rationale behind this project And begin to engage the board in the discussion about whether it's something the board is interested in continuing to prove pursue and what what strings might be attached with that We've just pushed it back two weeks, but by doing so we're hoping to get a few more construction managers We've been doing walkthroughs around the building with some of those folks and answering a lot of questions for them We hope on Monday To review applications And then we're going to be interviewing two folk two or three finalists the the Monday after Thanksgiving So hopefully we'll have some quality candidates to help us figure out what this is going to cost then once we have that Be looking to go out and take that around Some private funders and see what we can raise out there to make this happen It's a little bit vague at this point, but hopefully we'll we'll come to you at the next meeting with with more specifics and Set aside a little bit of time to answer questions Does that mean anything more questions for read all right then thanks We've already taken action on them These two items Possible action items so we're on to reservations new hires We didn't have one resignation Erin Green who was our nighttime custodian Resigned and so we're in the hunt for a nighttime custodian And so Right now we're we're trying to piecemeal it together I gotta say it's south rilton building still looks incredible a huge shout-out to glory angle. I mean in her staff They do amazing. I was in there today touring buildings around because we are creating a comprehensive PD program I'm where our custodians may need to Strengthen things in their cleaning protocols And so I've got some folks coming in to help me Develop that PD program and so that's one of the buildings we toured in They were so complimentary and they work with schools all over New England I'm just gonna say Lori's incredible so but we are looking at maneuvering some subs around to get further coverage at the nighttime Location at Roylton We have a couple sub custodian subs that are supporting schools in the SU and we may maneuver them and jockey them to ensure We have full-time coverage. They are after Thanksgiving. So when we are hunting Well, and I dad and it's starting yesterday We hired one of our seniors who has been doing in a custodial work on the weekends and was looking for a change in his job and As of yesterday, he came on board four hours a day. So he's gonna be taking half of what was air and ship 20-hour a week employee And really excited. I think it's gonna be a great opportunity for him So, yeah, just wanted to update you We did also interview to flexible pathway coordinator candidates yesterday We'll be talking to Jamie about What that looked like and how they might want to well Whether or not either of them would be a good fit for what we're looking for. Okay, I Would say I just so the board knows It's not Education this business is transforming I feel like in front of our eyes where folks are jockeying around more in the year than I've ever seen before And it's not just here. I'm hearing that from other districts as well And so I think it is something I started talking to my superintendent colleagues about In regards to wrapping our heads around this because in the past it's really been folks come and they stayed in place Mostly I'm thinking about our support staff in general and I'm finding that that's just not the case And it's not just here. It's it's it seems to be Across schools, but also of course across job markets in general is what I'm hearing And so it's just something for us to I think as we try to be forward-thinking Wrap our heads around how do we how do we try to navigate that that's all all right? Do we have any public comments? We don't have any other so future agenda items would be more about the warming arts Any other future agenda items the next meeting is Tuesday December 21st at 6 p.m And we're all done


Gicho and Mina at the museum. Spring. In this park, every season has its charm. But spring is especially magical. Flowers of all colors grow among the wild grasses. The whole park is covered in flowers, which fill the air with a wonderful scent. It's no surprise that this is Gicho's favorite season. Gicho is a brown bird. We call birds like Gicho flycatchers. They belong to the large family of sparrows. He's been living in the trees of this park since he was very young. But this park isn't like any other park. It surrounds a strange, tall building. Gicho doesn't know what goes on in this building. He's a bird. And nobody's told him what it's good for. But our brown-wicked friends is very curious. Every day, he flies over the building. He flies round and rounded, having fun in the moat down below. And sometimes, he lands on the roof and looks through windows. One morning, as the sun is rising, Gicho finds a door, a jar. Wow! A chance not to be missed. Our sparrow seizes the moment and flies in. Now that he's inside, how will Gicho find his way around? He's surrounded by boxes, cards, and huge shelves. Suddenly, he hears a noise. He stops and listens. Hey! Who's there? Who is it? Who's hurt our friend Gicho? The whistling is coming from an enormous box. Gicho gives three little taps with his beak. And from inside comes a reply. Three little taps.  Gicho can't believe his eyes. On the inside is an enormous cage, and it's filled with teeny tiny birds. These birds are the same size as Gicho, but they're a different color. And they're asleep. All of them, except for one. The bird's name is Mina, and she's a canary. All she wants is to explore the world. Mina squeezes through the hole to join her new friend, and off they fly. Where will they go? Now that they have left the box behind. The mysterious building and everything in it lies before them. Gicho and Mina dart along the corridors, whirl around the spiral staircases, fly close to the windows and zig-zag between the walls. They hop up and down on crazy stairs that lead in every direction.  They play hide-and-seek in the holes of a cave and produce a medley of clinging sound as they then submit a tower of green bottles. At the end of the corridor, Mina and Gicho make their best discovery. How beautiful, says Gicho. Hmm, I could go for a quick dip, replies Mina. She winks at Gicho and soaks her feet in the ink.  I want to draw too, says Gicho. He winks at Mina and puts his feet on the wall. And then, as the sun's rays start to turn red through the massive windows, the two friends settle on a pile of earth, which seems to be back in them. Mina and Gicho are thrilled about their contribution to this place, but their curiosity isn't quite satisfied yet. There are still so many works of art to explore. Our two friends are sometimes amused, sometimes astonished, or disgusted. And then, all of a sudden, completely mesmerized.  And for a moment, it seems like they can't move. As if they were hypnotized, Gicho and Mina just stand still for a while, looking at the beauty. And then, gently, very, very gently, Gicho raises a wing. He tries to touch the photo ever so lightly. But it's weird. Wait, what's happening? Instead of touching paper, cardboard, canvas, glass, Gicho's feathers caress the dump of grass on her cheeks. Mina can feel a cool breeze that smells like fresh flowers. But it's impossible. And yet, the two friends dredge their wings, fluttering in the air with three little flaps, and fly away into the white sky. But do you remember the box where Gicho found Mina? There are many more boxes like that one. And do you know what's inside them? Lots more hidden works of art. Now and then, someone takes them out of their boxes and puts them in the corridors in the vast rooms of the building. And you? Are you guessed by now what the building is for?


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As you can see I didn't do it, also for a limited time you could just buy it for gems which I also missed so I had to buy this with hard cash.  Anyway so I think you gotta save all baby sharks to discover Gaia, find and rescue the caged baby sharks alongside the coast of Pacific islands which is interesting because that's a place that I very rarely go to but it's also a place that everyone has unlocked. Score them through dangerous enemy encounters, bring them to safety and stay close and watch out for baby shark stress levels. So this is going to be interesting, I mean we could put our own little Babers, oh look blocks, blocks damage, capable of creating a recharging shield that recharge faster above water. Wow okay, yeah we're heck yeah we're gonna have that, smiles it's hazard, got lots of hazard. Yeah, heel shock, that's good. Oh look I shot him, yeah, we can get us a 20% health, I don't know what we're gonna need. I mean we'll take all of this stuff, lasers, recycled cannon, jetpack, all the works, unfortunately there's no skin at the moment, we are taking some, I don't even know what we are taking. We're taking apparently the gold magnet because I got 20 of them, the points score because we got that and I want mega rush, we'll take that heck yeah. No I don't want free, we've got six of them, we'll equip that and let's not waste any time and see if we can save any baby sharks in the Pacific Islands, ooh. Looking forward to this, so this is the new shark in the rust. Oh my, oh my god there's so many things going on, I'm, wait I'm already on mega rush? Why am I tiny? Whoa, is it normally this zoomed out, is it just me if I not play this in so long? Right well a mega rush is quite good to get, we're already like on a million, that's sweet, I'm trying to get to my own baby, I'm going to use this, I don't even know what this is, oh okay, we're vines, was that the baby?  Oh here we go, there's the rechargeable shield, oh that's interesting, don't look, don't look back, don't look back, oh bless it, oh it's a baby, it acts a lot all, do I need, I think it's very stressed, although it's definitely going somewhere, I don't know where, I'm just going to follow it, four enemies, oh okay okay so this is it, this is like the challenge you need to take over, okay we've got to reduce its stress, take on these guys, there we go, oh hold on let me just eat the whale, yum yum, so we don't want the bar to fill up, we'll just destroy that mine, okay, so slow no, so you have to do this like a hundred times, oh god, oh god, well the baby shark can go through this, thank you for saving me, oh you're welcome, that is a huge whale, I'll eat that, there we go we've earned it, I don't know what we did, but I think that's one of the babies, yeah there we go, so I'm assuming those tentacles just saw a sport, oh my god, this game just came all the same, like there was always a million and one things going on, but that really feels like there's even more this time, seven million years, I like that, okay so we can't eat those, I really feel zoomed out, I know there's something you can get in a hunger shark evolution that allows you to zoom out, but I didn't think you, oh god, oh yep that's force field shield helping me there, maybe if we slow down, oh my god that's a lot of tuna, that's a lot of tuna, that's a big whale, I'll take it, you're about to blow up, I don't even know, I think my recyclers should have, yeah it must be, I was like why is that taking damage, oh wow, oh they've made this amazing now, oh this is gorgeous, okay so it needs a rechargeable shield and it apparently goes quicker, it charges faster when we're out of the water, I don't know how we get more of this though, more of the guaya plants, maybe, oh it's just by eating things, oh, oh my god the jump fish, do you even know what's going on, I don't even think you do, yeah so when you slow down the camera zooms in but when you speed the camera zooms out, oh that's quite nice, also at the same time I understand why they've done it because you get a seamole, but I kind of like just seeing my shark be bigger in the screen, ah, oh yes boom, don't even know what that did, and we do have, don't we have the time's point bonus going on and did I switch that out for the mega rush, I think I might have switched that out for the mega rush, oh there we go, we don't seem to get bigger when we do the mega rush, but for some reason we're getting a decently high score which is not what I'm used to when it comes to this thing, oh let's go in here, the haunted galleon thing, oh yeah we just eat everything through, the floors, brilliant, I don't even remember this, if I'm going to be honest, I think we can come out the bottom if I remember though, yeah there it is from the basement, ok well there we go, we've only got two letters so far, what is going on, is there anything else down here, is this like its own private area, it won't be, this must lead somewhere else, I just very rarely come down here, more, yes, oh there's another baby, there's another baby, we've got to go find it, we've got to go, wait, we've got to help the baby, raise the baby, oh look a show of sardines, and squids, oh my god, I think that was the equivalent of an atomic bomb right there, there it is, hi, ok we broke out, thanks for getting me out of the cage, you're welcome, you are a near shock, ok, well now we'll just slowly go, defeat all enemies, ok so maybe they've got the highlight, it's like these divers, yeah ok, yep so there's a diver, there's a diver, and we're done, phew that was close, oh we should do like a voice for it, oh my god there's more, oh god, oh we destroyed the submarine pretty quick, there we go, I like how the flowers just appear, one thing about Hungry Shark though is it is so satisfying, look at that last video we got such a high school and then the game just decided to crash, which is like the worst thing you know that can happen in Hungry Shark, oh my god, oh we're going here, we're going to Super Secrets, we're going to like Campybuses Cave, come on in, you're a hero, sorry, you're a hero please save my friend, thank you, oh you're welcome, alright now we want to go up don't we, we should get like a Gaia Rush or something for saving them, so there you go, we've saved two but there isn't another one, somewhere else, wait is it, is it the same place, oh is it a baby Mako Shark, I think he's a baby Mako, ok let's go, so interesting to note that when you have one of these baby sharks to protect, enemies spawn in, no, leave it alone, I love the little crying baby shark basically, yeah we'll just put some of those, the submarines seem a lot smaller but again it could just be the fact that I'm like the camera's really zoomed out, bomb, bomb, bomb, I don't know what happens when the bar fills up, I'm assuming the baby just like disappears or dies I don't know, probably the latter, alright, oh look straight through the mines, yep, yep, yep, look at you go, oh see that's a proper submarine, so maybe there's like Baba submarines, there you go, I think everybody's dead, sweep, just click the plant button and everything dies, are we almost there, oh and my recycle hasn't got anything, yeah there we go, sweep, three Babas rescued, seven left to go, oh that was skillful, whoa look at that rod go, can I shoot the seeds out here, oh I can, more seeds, now do it with jetpack as well, oh yes, the symphony, another baby shark, oh it's another shark, maybe you could just keep on doing this, I've got one, there we go, yeah I really don't feel like I have to worry about much here, I'm like an amazing shark, I'm the best mama shark to ever seen, yes, so if anything comes into contact with those seeds, they just die, naughty, no, I think that's all of them, yep, go on beautiful, beautiful, big whale, yes, gotta eat the whale for times 90 odd, bam, bam, bam, bam oh no, no you don't, come on, it's okay, I'll take you, oh we're in mega rush, we can't really do much, oh maybe we can, there you go, done, sorted, kind of a race of a mega rush, but hey ho, oh you're going to the basement, there you go, sweet, are you done, yes, I think you're done, yes, and no gems, oh so there isn't a limit to how many sharks, for some reason I had a 10, 10 was in my head, oh god, okay we just need the R, just need the R and we're good to go, let's eat all of you, nom nom nom nom nom, wow, what was that, something dropped in there, I don't even know what that was, I know baby shark, I know what it looks like on a, on a, like a phone screen, because there's so much stuff going on on my screen, and the phone screen's a lot smaller, so how do I go, Jesus, bam, bam oh my god, oh it's so satisfying, oh the 96 for the whale, we just give you too much it doesn't feel like it gives you too much oh yes, more whales, oh my god, we got 15 gems, I feel like we should be on like 20 or something, maybe even 50, yeah, maybe a hundred, oh maybe a thousand, yeah that'll do give you a thousand game, thank you oh, ooh, that's a dead end, ah I didn't realise that, more plants oh it's always interesting to see the different powers they come up with, so anyway we're going to go the other way, because that's just going to take us back away before we begin, and why not fly, I want to be where the planes are and they were never seen again, you'll end up on those YouTube channels that documents plane crashes, how did what happen to this plane, shark attacked it you'll never believe, this is brilliant, for the first time I feel like I could actually sort of be down here, I'm literally a plane, I'm dropping bombs, this is brilliant oh this is the volcano, oh we should keep going, bomb bombs oh that's gorgeous, I love how they just play the same sound of a gomeroom and that is going from one side of the map, to the other, without a single problem oh yes, and then we have, are there collectibles to collect here, I completely forgot oh yes, here's more, more, more, more kind of a waste, I haven't been in here, may as well give it a shot need a, oh god, oooh, oooh, lots of things want to eat me in here right, saying there's a current this way, so we may as well go whoo remember when the atomic shark first came out, uh, then with a good old days eh oh right, this was Kempie Bass's grave, right so where is this so you've got, right, you need to look for the end, aha ok so it's kind of in the middle, swimming pool, straight down to the bottom of the swimming pool gotcha, gotcha, ok let's go, I think I know what that is it's definitely not that way, also I'm leaving like, buds I'm leaving a, I think when I boost I must leave those, or is it just when I swim it's always, boom, oh that was a giant squid whoo, oh thank you recycling, that was gorgeous alright ok, we're getting close, I feel like we're almost there oh the gold rush, oh the gold magnet is like so satisfying look at the mini submarines and everything, whoo may as well use those, just so I can get more right where is this swimming pool, dammit ok we're close, we're close, I think here it is here's the swimming pool, splum I think I've actually got a kind of splum I think Avgol gave it to me, it's basically just spammed they put like another lid on it no I'm joking, no it's real, hehe oh my god we should eat it, eat it for the general years alright, trying not to die though I think stuff like that will last for a while oh I could just take the label off it, that could work put on a new one right hungry, yes yeah now we're big, but not really because we're still zoomed out, but now we're like normal size whoo I wonder what the high score is with this, this shark you could definitely get a high score 100%, ok so now what we're going to do we're going to go down this way leave the bombs another bomb please, thank you we'll go down the bottom, this should have all spawned oh it's so good oh I wanted to go down that way oh take this squid no that's a jelly, we don't like the jelly oh look at being healed by the new shark as well is this the right way, or is this the current oh no, there's the giant squid look at it go, oh my god it was so quick so quick to eat yeah there is one, and now you did and what did saying it help no, no one came to your aid, you should shout fire if you're an emergency not shark, you fool no one's going to come if you shout shark oh yeah we should probably go down oh there's nothing here, I think I'll be in the whole ocean clean no, let's fight it ok that's good, my recycle got it come on, keep going you know what, I'm not losing health I'll admit I thought I would be, like we've been playing for what 30 minutes and yeah and that's the thing, the longer I play the more I'm like oh no please kind of kill me because if you do then at least it'll save my skull, as opposed to the other times when I play and the game crashes and then it doesn't save anything yes I'll eat all of those, put a few of those up left, right so good, so good, yep 73 million we'll see how far we can get actually, or see if we can get 100 million whichever comes first, 100 million or death feel slower, this is without any upgrades as well so this shark could be a lot better, a lot quicker have a bigger bite radius although you don't really need that as long as you've got the what like a vacuum, sorry headphone users I mean I will have lowered the volume for you guys however me, no I have to deal with it, there's no music as well we've destroyed it, destroyed the speakers or you know we should probably go save a shark yeah, that's our mission, that's our quest, that's our purpose we've got a charged force field shield I don't know where it is, I feel like this is the swimming pool I probably shouldn't come here, look at that the health is barely, I'm guessing, is it because I'm being healed I'm being hailed, right, go on then oh you're right, oh you're right underneath oh, I don't know where that helicopter went went towards the camera apparently defeat any of the divers to break the cage oh, I thought I'd just break the cage they hold zikis, go on then you're going to spawn any there we go, one, two just fire some of those at those guys and done look at that thresher shark, what does he think he's doing he's dead is what he thinks he's doing so there's at least three, you have the first oh four technically, you need to kill the divers to break the first cage, then there's like one not too long after and then there's a second one and it's alright, don't worry just getting torpedoed and then oh, okay, nearly there and finally just to kill the rest of them soid that sound about the same one just looped over there we go, we did it oh no, we didn't do it, never mind I left his circle sweet risk, you completed you know it's nice to just work towards a shark of course you really shouldn't be saving sharks as the guy a shark because that's what you need, oh that's your reward but I'm assuming you know it should be the best at doing it at least I'm so sorry mister wee oh look at all the dirt yes we'll see, oh so good so good, oh break that cage free him free you from your metal bond ah brilliant and dive on eat the clownfish, eat all of these fish oh those jellyfish do die by that okay because I normally can't eat those so if I'm super clever then we can just fire those at things we can't eat boom oh another whale well then, time to die almost done it guys come on yes, keep boosting keep boosting, eat all the stuff, fire alright we've ever been in the surface in a while so if this gave us loads of points last time let's try that oh the boats are what cured some of the ship flowers, flowers did otherwise please, boom I love how they just crashed right down oh there is a mega rush this is the best place to go for it maybe the swimming pool, definitely for gold definitely for gold this is good, oh yeah swim a little bit, just scoop all of this up go down to here a lot of things down here to eat fire a couple more of those oh my god we've always done it oh we got another letter almost at 100 million and there it is coming at it 100 million, complete a rude alright 18 minutes now if I was just to stop eating how quickly do I die I mean of course I'm shooting sardines down there with the laser oh maybe I should just eat those times five but yeah I really don't seem to be dying this is kind of crazy oh of course we can level up oh my god, oh well we can't just leave you now can we treasure chest no I want to save the babies don't burn the babies wow that is a huge quail yes that's all so cool yay I don't even know what is it junk or is it just eating stuff that gives us the seeds I wish it was kind of in the bottom right instead of just so central in the middle of the screen I get it, oh no oh look at that I don't know like I'm not eating anything I'm being attacked by a great white normally in like normal circumstances I thought I would have been able to or I would have lost a lot of health there but I'm, look at that nothing being jumped on there and seriously nothing alright alright we're gonna see what happens to a baby shark when we just let it cry let's see I'm so sorry look at it it's got little cry eyes go on then and what happens protect the baby oh is it gonna revive or can I get to it oh ok so does the baby just die oh poor baby but then it doesn't really make much of a difference because we can just go to like the next baby it's a cool concept oh helicopter now you will fall to the ground sploosh I kinda like that but it just I can't tune it it's like all of a sudden they made out of 100 tons of anything I guess it's 100 tons in it that's another baby and I don't need the baby I just need human beings and helicopters oh they know what they're doing they're having fun with it and I like that oh I should just drop 9 of them right away already they even know what that does hopefully it gives me a gazillion points off screen we got 33 diamonds or crystals that's not bad and the fact that I can like turn away and leave them and then maybe they'll go kill something while I can go a different direction is great it's such a big radius I don't know whether they actually go towards things or if there's something that's like quite hard to take on ooh the crab boss would be interesting I mean to get 100 million on pacific islands is quite a feat I'm assuming this would be amazing in the south china sea because there's so much there that like can kill you is that how we do it is that how we get like world record we'll have to have an iPad charging and everything because it's gonna take a while yeah come on oh my god I need my speed increase hey well if I'm gonna go anyway mega rush is probably the best way to get here because oh there's the you yeah come on you right now the boost oh god now the boost uh turtle please yep oh the clownfish go for it yes okay ooh no run out of boost just at the front but there you go look I'm that OP I can pretty much go the wrong way around that bait and not even die oh my god you really could play this there's a part of me that wants to just keep on going forever and ever but at the same time just you know all the progress we got everything I don't want to lose it okay we'll do this last gold rush millions and so I think the couple last couple of minutes oh yes okay okay we'll end it there but Jesus that was crazy we'll quit please tell me it keeps all the score yes and not only you know we're leveling up all the time which also increases overall health so that was all a new high score oh hold on oh whoa record yeah now it's a high score on Pacific Island it must just be for that but a hundred million oh my god the shark's amazing I feel like what we need to try this I don't know whether they'll patch it or something but if we have the opportunity the opportunity to get a super world record score we may as well right so if you've enjoyed this video leave a like until next time I'll see you cuties later oh bye bye


Holly asks, is there any way to use multiple templates inside one email in Outlook? I often have repetitive content in emails but not always the same parts. For example, I may have several different intros or sign-offs that I use given different circumstances and same with content, but I often need to mix these up. I can't see how to do this using templates, so not sure if I can. I would like to use something simple like the magical Chrome extension, but sadly it doesn't work in Outlook. If it can't be done using templates, does anyone have any other ideas? There's a magical Chrome extension? I'm not going to go into that. Does it actually do magic? I know how to go search for that for the phrase magical Chrome extension. It's not bringing up what you think. No, but to answer this one, you would maybe start with one template. What is the core that you actually need? Then you move over and do quick parts or don't even use a template. Just start building quick parts. If you actually open up a new email, for example, and on the Insert tab, you've actually got what's called quick parts. In the back end of all of Office is quick parts. When we put in a header or a footer or a cover page or anything along those lines, it's all built off the back end, which is quick parts. There's a file that sits in the back end of Office. What you can do is you can choose your content. Whatever your content is, you can choose your content, and then go to your quick parts and then say that selection to a quick parts gallery. Now, you can either keep it in quick parts or you could be dropping it into anything else, like maybe you're dropping it into a table because you can do tables or all kind of quick parts and you can go, which gallery do you want it to actually drop from? If you've got just some raw content that you need to add in again and again, save it into just your standard quick part gallery. With the names, it'll go in alphabetical order. You can give it a name. There's keyboard shortcuts to type in the name and then just press Enter and it will actually just drop it in. I've built a lot of documents off the back of quick parts. You've got your auto text, which is there, but I would say build off the back of quick parts. That will actually support you dropping in a multitude of different content really quickly and easily, and that's just the out-of-the-box solution. I mean, you can get a course or other parties that go on top to be able to do, but I think if you're trying to stick to standards, then either build your template and then quick parts to drop in or just build all of the little parts in quick parts and don't even bother with the templates. The only thing I was going to add to this is I know that a lot of the CRM platforms and I've used both Dynamics and Salesforce, you have the ability to go and do something similar to that depending on, but it's been so long since I've built and used those over 10 years, a little bit longer for Dynamics. Sorry, Dynamics folks, it's been a while since I've used Dynamics, but we did something very similar for sales and marketing purposes. We had the standardized templates, but then you would mix and match those things. So I mean, quick parts haven't used that in a while either, but that is a great solution for this. I'm going to say thank you, Christie, because you just solved a problem for me because I didn't even think about that. Thank you. You're welcome. Sometimes the simple things can have the most effect. I've actually built for an organization they wanted to be able to build a cookbooks of all the different types and people could custom order all these cookbooks. So we actually off the back in with Word built it where you had each of the recipes and then all of the other tools that you might need and the picture that goes with it and the table of contents and the cover page, all the different cover page and they could custom make all these different types of cookbooks, all of the back at Quick Parts. And we had this one master document and it was like, what are all the codes for them all to just drop in and they could literally build a custom cookbook in the space of two or three minutes to go out to the printer.  I had some fun building that for a client.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today it's time to talk about swamp bogglers or as they're more commonly known cruel boys but I do love swamp bogglers as a name. So we've got this guy here from the new Dominion box set which GW was nice enough to send me one of completely unexpectedly so I figured hey might as well do a tutorial for this guy and we're gonna start obviously I just primed in black but now we're putting some of that red primer over in the rotten brawn primer. We're starting with a red because red is a great undertone for green skin because it's a complimentary color. We're then proceeding back to a more standard zenithal this is actually using steinor as ivory primer and basically I'm just shooting this from above making sure to create all the nice volumes really just giving myself a leg up for the painting but the shadows are gonna stay in that red color and that's gonna be really important later when we add the green of the skin because green plus red becomes a more neutral brown and that will make for very natural shadows. I'm gonna try to keep my palette in view here for most of the work so you can actually see what's going on but I'm beginning with the lejo olive green and we're just applying a relatively thin base coat over the whole area nothing too exciting everything skin now I'm not getting it in the deepest deepest areas you notice how my brush is moving kind of quickly and I'm avoiding the deepest areas I want those to stay somewhat red once that's done I'm then gonna take some whole red from AK interactive but any brand to work mix it with my olive green and create more of a desaturated green color this is going to be my shadow color so it's going to have these very naturalistic tones the other advantage to this is because that red is worked in there it's going to feel like blood like life now I don't want to get into an argument of do works have red blood I don't really care the point is that when you mix red into something the human perception of that thing is that it's alive subtracting red from things makes it feel dead so by adding the red in it makes this green skin feel like it's more alive whether or not the blood is actually there now this time we've just mixed a darker version of it slightly deeper more whole red into it and this is going only in the deepest shadows so up against other surfaces up under his head in those deep scars he has on his face basically wherever the shadow would naturally fall now we begin the highlighting process and this is olive green plus the war color spear staff brown which is really just a yellow ochre any yellow ochre will work I just happened to quite like this one and I'm using yellow because it's going to produce that more natural swampy feeling when I think of works that live in a swamp they should have this natural tone to them and when we use yellows as our highlight color it just has a much more natural feel to it and so it's not going to feel crisp or clean it's going to instead feel swampy and kind of dirty now as I highlight here we're going to focus in a lot on the face and we're going to focus on those top areas from this point on what I'm doing is I'm integrating my highlight as 5050 spear staff brown the yellow ochre and ice yellow which is basically just the cloudy sky from Camara that's just really an ice yellow color plus the olive green so I'm taking equal parts of the yellow and the ice yellow and mixing them into the green but increasing the amount every time so I'm never getting that pure ice yellow but that ice yellow is always being warmed up some by the yellow tone and a lot of this highlight action I'm focusing very much in my paint time on the face and on the upper areas because that's where most of the lights going to fall but also the face is where we want to have the most detail these guys have a lot of really wonderful expressions in their face the scars their nose their the little ridges as they furrow their brow we want to make sure we bring all of those out I'm using relatively thin paint here it's a thin layer consistency it's certainly not a glaze I'm still wicking my brush every time but just again you can see I'm trying to create that light that brightness on the face now this is meant to be a tabletop job but overall this is pretty fast work this guy did not take me a long time to do and you could easily replicate this across a whole army but I'm using a traditional layering method just bringing the light up and up and up and in fact when I highlight with these highest highlight colors I wasn't actually working past the lower top of the body so those final highlights were only on the face the upper arms etc now I've mixed the whole red into a very thin glaze and I'm just gonna go around and I'm gonna retouch all of these deep scars and shadow areas but softly with this glaze work it into places like the lips the lower cheeks now I take some of that whole red I'm gonna mix in some of that ice yellow which will give me a wonderful pink color and we're gonna use that to create a little bit of pinky pink highlights on the orcs face which really just has a great way of selling again that this is a living creature so the lips the nose maybe a little bit in the ears wherever there would be blood quote unquote near the surface maybe right under the cheek the elbows the knuckles the knees basically those kinds of areas when you integrate just that little bit of pink tone into that green yellow it really makes the rest of the green yellow pop because we're playing here in complementary colors reds and greens you can see how much more that face stands out once just that little bit of pink is added now for my final steps here I'm just gonna show you through the whole process of me cleaning it up I'm just taking the previous layer so this is some of the not quite highest highlight and I'm working my way around the miniature smoothing everything out making sure that all my highlights are popped up where they should be like the chin maybe taking a mid-step and smoothing a blend that didn't come out quite great that sort of thing but you can see how much brighter the face is than anything else especially the lower part of the body which I want to be more in shadow especially as they're probably standing around in swamps or knee-high grass all day now I'm just gonna slowly take those mid-tones and smooth it out one of the advantages of working with yellow as your highlight is yellow is quite naturally transparent in miniature paints which means that yes it doesn't cover as much but when we're talking about blending it gets a lot easier my last step is to take some pure olive green and work it into a glaze and you can see just how thin that is basically a filter there and now what I'm going to do is just do a nice little quick glaze not over the highlights but starting in about the mid-tone area up into the shadows you notice that my brush is pushing into the shadows okay and I'm just doing this to get a nice filter of color on there some of that is a little too red so a green filter over top brings it back in to clarity so there we go there's our finished swamp boggler I painted the rest of him obviously this is just for the skin the rest is pretty standard techniques if you want to know about the leather you can see that up in the top right as I just did a leather video recently so that's where you can find information on that so I hope this lets you get your cruel boys on the table if you liked this give it a like subscribe for more hobby cheating in the future if you've got questions drop them down below always happy to help but I do hope you enjoyed this one and as always we'll see you next time


First on the scene crime photographer got it look for it in the morning express BBS radio brings back crime photographer another adventure of Casey ace cameraman of the morning Express who covers the crime news of a great city with the original cast author and director crime photographer played by Stott's Cotsworth and written by Alonzo Dean Cole tonight presents Road Angel Morning an infrequently traveled side road at the far northern limits of our wide sprawling city police cars are there and a grim looking enclosed truck which bears the legend city mortuary Another car appears draws to a halt and discharges Casey and and William Our captain Logan and the tech man are back among those trees Casey. Yeah, I see a manny. Hi, Logan Morning, miss Williams. Oh, hi Captain Logan. Hi Charlie Pete Frank Well, who's been killing who today that I don't know yet this guy was bumped off sometime last night He was a big man.  Yeah, okay for pictures Logan. I go ahead my tech guys They got their stuff. Thank you pal Any identification on the body captain plenty miss Williams His name was Edward Pierce and he was a farm machinery salesman in Ardmore about 200 miles upstate a killer took all his Dough and his car, but didn't bother with his jewelry or personal papers including car registration and driver's license Robbery more than looks like it's like a job Logan.  Yeah Less than a half a mile and cops in the next county would have had the headache. Mm-hmm. Why does everything happen to me? Blue note cafe at the Burt the bartender speaking You want Doyle and Kirschbaum's dry good store? I'm sorry lady, but this is one of the wrongest numbers you could get Dry good store Oh Hello, Casey. Hi Edward. You got any coffee in the kitchen, huh? Sure, Casey Walter bring out a cup of coffee and and bring out some more olives You just come in to work Casey. No, I've been out on assignment already this morning and way out to anything interesting Kitchhiker robbery and murder apparently Where's miss Williams across the street in the city room banging out her story? Here Casey, thanks Walter Tell me about this hitchhiker murder was a very gory No, just run of the mill as it stands now It'll rate no more than a few sticks on page four and maybe one of the pictures I shot into column square. Oh, that's too bad Here's miss William. Oh Annie didn't take you long to finish your job Well, I didn't know how little it was to write but now we got to do some follow-up stuff Burke wants us to stick around homicide and get any inside dope that comes in. Okay, Burke's the editor So Burke's the boss But you ought to know by this time that any on the record inside dope we get from Logan is also whatever the other paper gets Well, Burke says to feed the captain truth serum. Well, let's go. Yeah. I'll see you later. So long pal. Goodbye I've heard of truth serum No, I wonder As I've just informed several of your competitors miss Williams the state police found Pierce's car Undamaged and containing some very interesting exhibits. Well, how nice for our competitors captain What are the exhibits? A fully loaded nine millimeter Italian Beretta pistol it was wedged out of sight between the cushions of the front seat and Some beautiful fingerprints on the car door of a hood named Carl Flagler who was paroled about a month ago Oh, well, it looks like you're pretty close to your killer then seems so there's an eight-state alarm out for Flagler Yeah, it'll be a relief to have an easy one for change I'm a side captain Logan speaking put them on the state police again kissing. Yeah Hello Colonel You have That's just swell Say that really doesn't What did the punk say? Sure sure. They're all innocent. Oh, you better all come up and see you this afternoon Colonel and thanks a million They've got Flagler at headquarters barracks in Clinton County And when he was picked up he had cartridges for that nine millimeter Beretta pistol in his pockets Well, it looks like everything's over, but the execution Hmm You know, it's a nice day for a drive up to Clinton County and he we'd be getting away from some humdrum work Maybe the boss. Oh, I'll call Burke right away and ask you.  I've been trying not to think of that What are you trying to do spoil a beautiful day? Listen flagler be good to yourself and come clean you finally admitted to the state police that Pierce gave you a lift in his car Sure, I did what else could I do after they told me what they had on me? Now look Papa, I did throw him a ride from that big lug You called Pierce and I did have that foreign getter my pocket and I did try to pull a stick up on Pierce with it That's where the big difference comes in between what you think happened and what really happened. That's here the big difference flagler I've been trying to tell you Look, I pulled my rod and told this guy to stop his car and get out He did like I said and I got out after him then I make a mistake and come too close to him He grabs my gun and gives me a sock on a jaw that almost laid me out All I could do was run and that's what I did.  He gave you yeah, and look at these ladies loose teeth Huh, hey prove. I'm telling the truth.   Couldn't say I didn't I swear I didn't I'm through with them for the time being Colonel all right Take him away sergeant. Come on Casey. Okay. What do you think Colonel? Well about the same as you do I imagine Captain. Maybe yes, maybe no Casey Well, if he did shoot him Why didn't he wipe his fingerprints off the car?  Who can tell Casey you can tell Colonel you sure your tech man didn't fight even a trace of any prints on that car accepting those of flagler and Pierce himself Only a few smudges that couldn't be developed Pierce had washed and polished the car himself just before he left his home Only a few hours ago Casey this looked like a beautiful day like a beautiful day Anything new on that hitchhiker murder miss Williams. Well, plenty Apple bird haven't you seen the morning Express yet? No Fella left a morning globe on the bar here. So instead of buying your paper I you know just imagine this fella. He'd rather snickle and read fresh news any I gotta be safe and Casey when a certain friend of mine has owed me $16.50 for two weeks Look, I told you you'll get it out of my paycheck this Saturday accidentally. It's 1560 not 1650 Casey I distinctly remember. Oh, so do I 1560 I What's plenty new on that case miss Williams? Well another robbery and murder a penny buy a hitchhiker on the same highway between here and Artmore yeah, yeah guys body was found last night. He was shot by the same 38 That killed Piers and Carl Flagler was in jail when it happened that proves that proves that Flagler didn't pull the second job Yeah Is this new killing up the Captain Logan?  Well, maybe didn't maybe picked up somebody he knew well either that Hmm You know most guys a couple woman Annie and under any circumstances, especially if she's Reasonably young good-looking. Oh the voice of experience. Well, I've never seen you turn your back on a handsome guy Unless there was a handsome one just behind you That's because the wise females that the predatory male must be carefully watched Listen Few guys will squawk to the cops when a dame put something over Often they got good reason to keep the mouse shut. No doubt. Look Annie if the book would give me a go ahead plus expenses I'm gonna give this idea play. How? By burning up some gas along the highway between here and Artmore Legally on look out and alone and it's a company.  Well, you can admit the flowers pal, you know ordinarily you'd spend at least 1560 on my bro 1650 1560 I'm on my way to proposition burq right now. I'm gonna see you later ever bird 1650 1560 But if he gets Say he can't do that to me. We'll return to crime photographer in just a moment Kathy and Elliott was on stage formerly heard at this time on CBS radio have left on a brief vacation They'll be back at an early date at a somewhat later Wednesday night hour over most of these same stations If you've enjoyed the original dramatizations and fine performances of outstanding Hollywood acting family Be listening for the early return of Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage at the Starz address Back to Casey crime photographer Add any news from Sherlock Casey at Miss Williams. I haven't been notified that he's caught up with any murderous lady hitchhiker Neither of I captain Logan last night after the first day He phoned me from upstate and said two gals had thumb rides with him One turned out to be a lady librarian and the other tried to sell him a magazine subscription Casey expected sympathy and I didn't give The guy's young misreaders like Jack Benny let him live and learn Seriously Logan Think he has a real idea Seriously, and I think yes, we're up, sir Yeah, please The oil in the water is okay. Yeah, you look tired. Mr. I'm away. Mm-hmm four days pal My way out west or way down south now just up and down Hmm one lady librarian three discontented wives and more sales ladies what say oh I'm just talking to myself If you hear me answer myself call the white coats. I don't understand you, sir Ignore it pal Say do you ever hear of a gal hitchhiker along this highway who puts the big B young guys who pick her up Now yeah, but they all tell me your cop.  That's right address morning it Say you ain't the fellow takes all those crime pictures.  Oh Like put that's nice Like mr. Pierce to nice fella, but you know no no no no not not well just as a customer.  No, I don't believe that Flagler bumped off pierce either neither do I Mr. Casey, I have heard something about a girl hitchhiker. You have yeah look if anything I can use you'll get a hundred bucks in the morning express power and your name will be kept dark if you want it that way No, I don't want any money, but I do want my name and business kept confidential though. All right, that's how it'll be All right, I'm not gonna stall or beat around a bush. I didn't just hear about a hitchhiker One was in my car and she took me out. You're the break I've been praying for that goes double I felt like a skunk for not going to cause is what I got to tell you, but I'm a family man Mr. Casey I got kids I live in all town and if I told the police about me picking up a girl hitchhiker I know go ahead Well, it's a since this girl's pulled her stuff and a lot of other fellas besides me So I was hoping one of them would speak up. Tell me about girl. Here's the words Just three weeks ago come Tuesday. I was driving alone to the big town when Stand beside the highway. I saw a young woman. She had one of those little overnight bags in one hand And she wasn't someone like some do Just standing there looking wasteful. Oh, yeah, I've fallen for that approach Wind was blowing pulling her dress kind of tight against her figure and She had a swell figure you know what I thought myself maybe you better not tell me huh? Well anyway, it sounds crazy and it was crazy, but I said to myself Dan Reynolds that girl with a dress flapping like wings Looks like an angel of the road Road angel, huh? Oh like I remarked a while back. I Portrait yeah, I see Well, I stopped the girl got in and before we driven together a dozen miles She'd give me a reason to believe she wasn't any angel She suggested I turn off into a sub road and park all She made this suggestion with a gun poked against my ribs. Oh, see it was one of those snub-nosed revolvers 38 I think 38 killed Pearson. Yeah. Yeah, so I read in the papers if this girl been a man I could try to take it away from him as it was I just learn take my money Pearson that other fellow she killed must have acted different the cops found my car the next day I Simple reported stolen. Well, look tell me everything you can remember about this gal. Mr. Well, I'm not too good at remembering faces the details that is She had sort of a medium-colored hair I think blue eyes or brown She wasn't exactly tall Shorten either I've got a figure. Mm-hmm. I look for a road angel. That's her mr.   It doesn't take up much room I'll keep it beside me. Oh, okay How far are you going Cainesville a few miles this side of it real you going that far sure father right through Oh, that's fine Beginning to think so too My name is Casey. You can't give me yours. Why not? I'm Doris Chapman Doris Okay Or do you want to be miss Chapman?  Mm-hmm You know a husband never knows what his wife permits strangers to do when he's not around that's a very cynical statement Oh, yeah, I'm a real cynical husband You were married. No engaged Divorced no Oh, I I'm 21 mr. Casey, but I was rather personal questions I'm beginning to wonder about what Angels angels Mm-hmm, maybe the wrong angel Delete college several months ago and take a full-time job Luckily, I found a nice one with a lovely family the job pays well, but supporting my younger brother I must economize. Oh sure sure. Well, that's why I try to save bus fare as I've done with you. I Didn't mean to tell you all this but you've been nice Not like a lot of men. I've met so I owed you an explanation.  What this is a gun you're feeling your side step like I see it is it's a 38 snub-nosed turn right You're calling the turns. I always do You really fool me with that act of yours. I've got different acts for different men. You know your men I've had reason to know them. They're all lousy now. Stop your car Now get out. Okay Give me a dough Here's my wallet help yourself. Thanks That's like a nice long walk.  Oh, why not go right ahead? Only had to walk about five miles for the thumb ride The bad publicity you newspaper people have given hitchhikers must make the racket pretty tough. Oh Calm down Casey.  No, neither am I Well, thanks You know, I've taken a chance on getting that 30 you made away from her if I I Don't know.  Oh, I haven't been photographing people these years without looking at him I can even tell you the shade of lipstick and nail polish. She uses you didn't have that sort of description to go by Miss Williams will have it. Oh, Annie or me Casey from what you told us this road angel the very and time Which has given me a kind of a sort of a idea On and on up and down no road angel here.   I gave it up a couple years ago for a better racket the road small time kit It's too much risk for too little income. Come on hop in. Let's get acquainted Okay Toss your bag in the back on top of my luggage Silicon suitcases you've got back there. Yeah, a lot of them filled with swell clothes.  Well, I got the graduation papers from the hatchet ball myself That's the woman's prison in California. Mm-hmm. Are you a reformator again?  They don't put kids in there. I'm over 21 say that for guys who are afraid of minor trouble You're San Quentin quail under 18 You're really pretty smart. Yeah my background. I ought to be What's your racket now?  I've used it Hey, I read about you in the papers a guy named Tears maybe and another named hodge kiss.   Do you Doris except when you're alone with a friend like me? Oh, I don't figure you for a friend. No, I never had a friend and never expect to have one My father used to slug me and even my mother beat me up until I ran away from home I don't trust anybody.  We come to You're gonna take me huh for all you've got with a prison record like you've got you're not going to call copper any more than a married man would I won't make any squawk Doris Because I'm not My Here's angels gun casey and you can take the rest of her cap These guys surely you remember me miss Chapman and you'll get to know Captain Logan here very well He's boss of the homicide and if you'd been as small as you thought you were Doris You'd have noticed that a car was following us It's followed me for almost four days just waiting for you to take a ride and talk She said what you hoped you'd say case. I didn't say anything. You can't prove I did but I can my pet under all those suitcases is a tape recorder that I started when you got into this car It's taken down your every sweet word and I'm pretty sure the bullets that killed Pearson Hotchkiss will match the rifling of this 38 revolver if that isn't enough evidence Here's one guy you may get out and walk who'll talk loud and long in court.  I'm meaning all male jury Oh, and ours is just a little over 18 So she won't go before a juvenile court. She gets the works Any girl as bad as heard deserves the works I suppose Well, the people who made her bad deserve it at the bird too Kids like her don't just just happen, you know, no, no, they don't But no matter what it is that makes mad dogs. They can't be allowed to run loose Yeah, let's let's talk about something else. I know what that money you owe me case Oh, never mind while you was out of town. I couldn't expect to collect it But now I haven't forgotten it pal. Yeah Hey, you're 1650 1650 well, that's right, isn't it sure. It's right, but 15 1650 Miss Williams, did you feed Casey some of that truth serum you were getting for Captain Logan? You have been listening to crime photographer played by Stott's Cotsworth and based on the original character created by George Harman Cox Is written for radio by Alonzo Dean Cole with Jan Miner as Anne John Gibson as Ethel Burt Bernard Lenro as Captain Logan Lou White's original music and Teddy Wilson as the Blue Note pianist crime photographer is produced and directed by John Deets Join us again next Wednesday night at the same time for another fast-moving adventure with Casey crime photographer For our men in uniform overseas or anywhere away from home home is male call Through the letters you send to those you know you brighten life and make home close Right off all the items you know about the place. 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