Okay. So, welcome to today's meeting of the Jones Library Board of Trustees as is our custom. I'm going to ask you to signify your presence vocally. Alex? Here. Tara? Here. Tammy? Here. Bob? Here. Lee? Here. And Austin is here. Okay. No changes or additions to the agenda that I know of. Next item of business is the approval of the minutes of September 20th. Is there a motion to approve those minutes? No moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Again. Thank you so much. Okay. Corrections to the minutes. Okay. Voting to approve. Yay or nay. Alex? Yes. Tara? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Bob? Yes. Lee? Yes. And Austin votes yes. Okay. Thank you for that. Next item is a public comment. Looks like there are four attendees. Thank you all for coming. Anybody wish to make a public comment if you would raise your virtual hand? Okay. I see no public comment. Item five, the president's report. I don't know how much I can say thank you that would be adequate to the Friends Development Committee for the John Lithgow event. It was I guess we should say a smash. What a wonderful event to have him come and take a tour of the library and actually see the facility and then come to that event and talk about our library project. It was just phenomenal. And of course his engaging speech was again just warm and wonderful. Did you all have a chance to go? What do you think? He was fabulous. I loved when he did his Churchill voice. And the manatee counting you know in his fingers. When he rhymes that was really fun. It's what all times for manatee. Well it was just a wonderful event and another moment to celebrate the library and its meaning for the town. That's what I felt. I felt we were in a little bit of a love fest and much deserved credit to the Friends for organizing that event and much deserved praise to the library director and the staff for all the love that is directed their way. Could I ask one question? Did people actually write out those questions? Yeah. They did. Okay. I didn't know there was a place to put a question. There was like a basket. I didn't see it but I thought maybe he made up those questions but they were real questions. Great. It's fun. I can attest I can attest to the fact that there were he was reading from the cards. Good. Okay. So that's my that's my report again much much gratitude. Okay committee reports library building committee. So there's I think considerable good news on the library building committee front. The committee hasn't you know we're not meeting as regularly as we met. We meet when we need to meet to approve things. We had a chance to see the flooring material that's going to be used in the library in person in the in the in the Woodbury room. We had a chance to look at the brickwork that's going to be on the outside of the building. The committee was pretty clear in its choice about the brickwork and I think there was much good discussion much helpful discussion about the floor the flooring materials. The final Alexander is just submitted to the MBLC. It's the 75 percent of their progress on their construction documents that will be discussed with MBLC staff. We are in the midst as I think I might have mentioned before of going through various town committees. We've had again productive meetings with the design review committee and with the Historic Commission we'll go back for more conversations with the Historical Commission and be talking to other town committees. Other important news good news we have obtained a plumbing variance which will allow us to go forward with our plans for the restrooms in the renovated expanded library. We are waiting the results of the various reports that are going to be forthcoming about sustainability in the library. We are on the cusp of an RFP for alternative sites which will require again that's going to be run through the town and will require a lot of planning and logistical work which the library director has already begun to do. Alex is there anything that you'd like to add about the building committee? No just super happy that we got the variance and that the library is at the forefront of gender neutral bathrooms so yay. Okay any questions or observations about the building committee? Okay thank you. Next is buildings and facilities Alex. So we haven't met since our last meeting trustee meeting there were two meetings the notes from our last meeting are in this packet but we discussed that during our last meeting. Our next scheduled meeting is on the 17th and so we'll report at the next trustee meeting on that meeting. Great thank you. Any questions for Alex? Okay next Tammy. Yes you have in your packet draft of assurance evaluation which the PPP has approved and I make a motion that we approve the director's evaluation dated October 2023. As I explained it's a little later than usual as I explained in a comment in the in the evaluation. So let's wait wait for a second Tammy and then you go. Okay second. That's okay thank you so much. Okay Tammy do you want to say anything else about the evaluation? No I did make some comments in the report that due to the timing which was delayed this this year I think we had fewer responses because they were in August and so many people are away in August but for those who submitted evaluations as I said Sharon got very high marks and there were a few comments here they are suggestions and I will be discussing them with her at a meeting and she gets copies of all of the evaluations that were submitted which ultimately I think go in your personnel file is that correct? Okay yeah so are there any comments? Questions or comments about the director evaluation? So I have just a question Tammy if it's in the report please forgive me but I don't think I saw it. We have 17 total evaluations can you tell us how that broke down how many from library users how many from library staff how many from okay is that possible? Yeah let me see if I can find it. I think there were five public comments seven staff comments four trustee comments and Paul Bachmann okay right that's as I as I remember it and I will as I said I will be passing copies of those to Sharon yeah Farah Farah I can't remember if I asked this at the last meeting Tammy but have there been more responses in years past? Yes as I well I don't know from Chris I'd have to go back to the some of the the but as I said on this one we had 17 this year and that's six less than last year okay so that's the timing yeah last year I I was able to get everything out in July and Tashi helped me with it in the library but Tashi was on vacation so John filled in they put out boxes and in the past a lot of replies have ended up in the boxes this year none did Matt Barubi puts puts it online for both the staff this sends it out to the staff that form and then sends the public one out and I usually send it to the head of the friends of the public comments I don't know if some of those were friends or publics only one person identified herself in the past the staff usually identify if they're full or part-time and only of the of the staff only less than half identified if they were full-time or part-time so it's harder to judge some of the suggestions or comments a lot of people put unable to judge on things which is understandable um but uh I think if we can get it approved a little we didn't meet in June so that was the the snafu we didn't approve it till July 25th I think and I was able to get it out um do the 18th of August for some but um in the library they really wanted it extended another week which went into my vacation so so that there were a lot of um but uh you know it's still a very positive review from a wide group of um respondents okay other questions about the director's evaluation so I'll just say um in particular to Tammy uh how grateful we are for this work it is uh it is a tremendous amount of work um that goes on for a very long period of time getting the approval of the form getting the forms distributed and digesting the forms producing a report and meeting with the director uh it's a huge it is a huge amount of work and we are incredibly grateful uh to Tammy well it's been interesting to take over from Chris I had didn't work with him and that was the little but I I did get in touch with him and he gave me some good pointers so well again thank you for that um I do want to just add the following note and uh I added um uh I think that the library director has done an extraordinary job for a very long time but uh the extraordinaryness if that's a verb of the work that she does seems to me to kind of multiply year by year and um as we've gotten further into the building project Sharon has had to take on an enormous um set of responsibilities beyond the most important work that she does which is day to day to make sure that the library provides the most excellent service um to the patrons but uh she's done it unfailingly and with incredibly good spirit uh that means being involved in fundraising being involved in providing various reports being involved in countless meetings with the opm the architects mblc and um and others I mean it's it's as if she has a job over here and another job and she's doing them both and she's doing them um I think incredibly well anybody that's that's had the that's dealt with Sharon about anything having to do with the library knows that Sharon has incredibly high standards for herself and her staff and anybody who's had to deal with Sharon knows that Sharon is an optimistic positive can't do person and that optimism and can't do spirit I think serves the library and its users very well so in my view just as one person an extraordinary year of dedicated service and of high quality performance here here okay all right are we ready to vote okay so voting to approve or not approve the library director's annual evaluation summary is uh dated october of 2023 alex yes bob yes tammy absolutely yes uh far yes li yes and austin votes yes okay back to you tammy okay um there are a couple things on the agenda that the um the jedi committee are working on um um the um patron you're muted tammy sorry um the uh jedi committee is looking at um a patron behavior policy and the staff has reviewed reviewed it and it will come to ppp for our consideration at our next meeting um which is early next month i believe and similarly um the jedi committee is working on it looking at the action plan and farah do you want to report on the survey that's gone out i can't really well we're our next meeting is is next week so we have not met since our last trustee meeting but we do have a lot of responses coming in for the survey they're extremely favorable so i'm just going to figure out like i'm i think we have to do a little more outreach and mia was going to get in touch um with the with the school uh to get it out on the school the superintendent's uh weekly blast instead of the individual pgo so she's gonna do that and um i guess we'll discuss some of the results at our meeting next week so i hope to have a little more information next month okay any questions on that farah i think it might be useful just to remind us and uh any of the people who are uh attending the meeting could you just remind us the membership of the jedi committee just who the folks just who the folks are just name the folks oh okay um uh well from the library there's mia cabana um there's from from the community there's rafael rogers who's from clark and does de i work there melissa giro who who runs embrace race with her partner uh andrew grand thomas um jenny hamilton who's on the capital campaign but she's there as a community member walter um sharn i'm blanking on his last name loid right he's a high school student and i'm hoping he'll still be there next next year he is a freshman in college now so all right right i totally forgot that so i'm i'm thinking he'll still stay on right so that's one two three four and uh and that's it and me and sharon well sharon's at all our meetings and in case anyone didn't uh just to give some background the survey is we were trying to kind of craft together a sense of or trying to find out from the community how they if they have feel that they belong in the library so it was a very short um just like four i mean we spent months trying to craft the perfect four questions and we're not a hundred percent sure if they're the most perfect but it was just to get a sense of if people feel like they belong in the library and whether they feel like the collections reflect their interests or their who they are um i don't think we had any questions about race or ethnicity right sharon we we were gonna save that for the we just wanted to see what this first survey what the results were so this was sort of a starting point to to do more outreach in the community right just that yeah sharon could you remind us uh how many different languages are represented in our collection oh gosh uh between eight and ten twelve twelve maybe i think it's more i thought it was more than that but it's so individual languages i want to say i want to say twelve but we have a collection in the kids and a collection in adults so there's like two Spanish collections for example okay and could you say a word about um work that has been done to diversify the staff oh i don't have the numbers in front of me but i want to say so people who identify so so the town can only rely on on people who are self identifying as from being uh a protected class or from uh you know not white um and so we went from when when we started the baseline was we were was it nine percent and now we're up to seventeen percent i i'd have to look but it's over the past five four years uh the the numbers have improved quite a bit and and the numbers that the town are able to the town is able to give me um they also give me the town's figures so we can you know over time see how the library is tracking in comparison to to the town overall town employees so we're on we're definitely on the right track um we work very very closely with the town's HR department um which is very diverse uh they for the past year they've they've been struggling that a couple staff members have left but now they're back on board so i don't want to say effort stalled but they're because we've been hiring some people but um they have a new HR team uh as well as the DEI department uh which has been in existence for a little over a year now and we work very closely with them um so you know we're we're not at the we're not at the beginning um we have not maxed out we're somewhere in the middle so here's an interesting anecdote we the the town has been offering DEI training to each department so the DEI department is going from police fire DPW library rec offering DEI classes kind of to get us all to a the same level and um based on the experience with with the library training it was it was very basic for us like we had we had learned what she was presenting so um which was i felt really great about um um and because we're kind of boom boom i don't know further along than others and and so it continues right so i'm gonna tell me whether this is correct staff diversity is improved from nine percent to seventeen percent in twenty twenty two seventeen roughly seventeen percent of jones library employees self identify as a protected class or two or more races and that compares to fourteen point two percent of amherst employees that identify in the same way is that reasonably accurate it's it sounds like if you're reading from the the figures yes yes i was thank you uh so i just wanted to you know again acknowledge the work that sharon's been doing to try to make sure that our staff is uh diverse in the ways that it can it should be okay anything else tammy from ppp no i think that does it and thank you for proving the evaluation of sharon any other questions for tammy and ppp okay all right next is um development committee thank you you're welcome i just want to echo or reinforce uh everything that austin said oh the one thing that austin didn't say is that he was a fabulous mc he could have a a whole second career or third or fourth whatever thank you and i'm more cheerful one um yeah you were great thank you and the other thing i want to say i'm not again i want to reinforce what a pleasure it was to be there yeah with the library being celebrated it was in a festive mood absolutely and it was just it was just great that's all i want to say about that all right so now all right so don't i have this well i oh no here here all right i thought i had all the figures for the let's go event but your peers i don't but uh we filled the hall we had something like 524 confirmed uh reservations or acceptances or whatever we called them and we you know we deliberately made the event like the library free and open to the public uh and so and i'm told that it's very unusual for an event to fill johnson chapel and you know and we did it um we raised just on that night uh slightly under $15,000 which includes $2,500 from the wonderful new mass five college federal credit union but i think this will be a gift that keeps on giving and that other gifts will come in whether they get attributed to the let's go event or not it scarcely matters uh and we um um we have over 100 new members of the friends which if you've ever worked for a non-profit well is you know to have 100 new members is is excellent so there's that okay so um the annual fund going as of this moment continues as it was the last time i reported to be slightly ahead of where we were this time last year in terms of both the amount of dollars and the number of gifts so we have 14,561 dollars and 61 cents no matter how much bob doesn't like how i report the pennies 71 gifts compared to 13,089 dollars and 44 cents with 63 gifts then again i would say partly in relationship to discussions we've had here and in the budget committee um Sharon undertook yet another one of her labors to investigate what other libraries in our situation which is to say libraries who have an annual campaign annual fund campaign and who also have been building doing a capital campaign but who are a little ahead of us in the project have discovered and what she's discovered is what we have discovered is that you know your annual campaign is less robust than you might have hoped as your capital campaign um takes up a lot of energy and other libraries have in fact suspended their annual fund campaigns which we have not and uh i'm optimistic that you know that we will go forward we will i think we haven't i i think last year's numbers will be achievable maybe we'll continue to do better which would be quite amazing um and so and my assuming as i do that the renovation and expansion project is going to happen there'll be less need for some of the activities that the annual fund has usually gone to support so we can use that to um backstop what i think will be an explosion of activities once the project is complete when the campaign report uh you know for the month we took in forty two thousand six hundred and one dollars there are several larger contributions or pledges but we don't report anything until we get it in writing and so i'm hopeful that by next month we'll have a few more in writing and that's my report for the development committee but we're very you know we're very charged up by the success of the event and we're looking forward to having another splendid event to celebrate both the beginning of the project and the closing of the building so get your glad rags ordered haha farah i love you okay uh i think that's you austin i think that's the first time that the phrase glad rags have been used in a trustee meaning in a long time so that's i thought it might inspire you to sing not not now not not presently so any questions for the development committee okay thank you lii thank you for the work that you're doing you're welcome okay next is um budget mr pam um believe um sharon did you include the september report a um i sent it separately the bit the minutes okay then in case um we met yesterday and had discussions about a variety of things lii has already told you that that the friends raised 14 500 and change for the annual fund through september 30th i am hoping and expecting that by the end of the calendar year there will be a major effort to get more money because we have included in the budget a substantially larger amount than what we have so far and so in general the end of year contribution is what makes the big difference in the annual fund lii you have a question yeah i think i think the let's go money is going to the capital campaign yes and the annual fund is what i'm talking about now i think so yes i'm hoping that there will be a letter or so on uh to raise money oh indeed indeed but i thought you said that the 14 000 was going to the annual fund if i miss her do i'm sorry he did he was referring to the annual fund which has raised about 14 000 he was not referring to the the let's go money sorry there were amounts but different funds okay so anyway we we continue to need to have annual fund funds in order to keep the budget in balance yeah i raised a question at the budget committee meeting about the fact that what we have used is essentially a placekeeper for the second half of the year basically assuming as that that the expenses will be the same this year as they have been in the past but if we end up being in a different building for three months or four months or six months of this year we will need to have a very different kind of budget which will reflect the changes that will occur whether we will have to pay separately for yes and electricity whether you know the cost for for some of the maintenance expenses will disappear and what other things can be then included all of these are things that belong in a budget document that we can look at for the second half of the year Sharon's response has been that until we know what the terms of leases might be during the time that we are away it's hard to project all of those things that is true but we still need to be thinking about it in addition just from a budgetary perspective questions of how to maintain services when we are both setting up and in different locations suggested to me that that might be a good idea to think about renting a van and setting it up as a bookmobile or doing other kinds of things which will allow us to to maintain our visibility when people aren't sure where we are a simple thing like some kind of cart or you know the the dropbox that we currently have in front of the library in some expanded way or maybe in the same way just so that people can go to the location where they've always gone and be able to drop things off or or pick things up at certain hours you know there are a variety of things that we can do which will make this period of transition easier for people to deal with so I'm just thinking about what are the things that we can do which might allow us to maintain services and maintain some continuity while things are somewhat in flux during construction so those are our questions that I had raised at the time obviously there is no clear resolution on any of those and some of those actually are questions for this full board to think about but I don't know how yeah yeah when we are planning to do that so yeah and we'll be working on some of those questions in the Jones Library Building Committee but I think you're right that this will be a conversation that the whole board will have to have okay um so that that is where that is um with respect to the other assignment that that the budget committee has received from the board which is to think about ways to cover any gap between the amount that it must be provided to the town and when that may actually be raised that obviously would require us to be able to borrow and I've been working on one piece of it which is simply what a presentation might look like and we will be going over that in the near future the second piece of that is coordinating that with the capital campaign so that when we go someplace we at least know what the capital campaign people have done in terms of discussions with those same folks the probable lenders for us in any plan where we borrow would be one of the financial institutions that that we currently deal with or which are domiciled or have facilities in Amherst so those are the two pieces that that will determine when we can do this but it is clear that we will need to be doing this very soon because as I understand it the council will be required to vote on the amount that they are essentially guaranteeing to to the mblc that amount is currently set structured at 36 million dollars and so they will need to do that on an updated number but they will be doing that perhaps if they do it in the next two and a half months then it will be based upon an estimate rather than the actual bid number which would not come until probably three months or four months from that well I don't know how that will be played out but one way or another I think we need to have a statement to them in a progress report which they can at least consider as they vote right may I ask a question bob and lee is it possible that one could go to a bank and ask the following I'm going to call it a hypothetical question if we were to borrow now which we're not going to do if we're going to need to borrow now given our assets collateral uh uh how much would a bank be willing to lend at what rate understanding that we're not going to borrow now but it would give if if a bank would do that I don't know that a bank would but it would give us the trustees um uh a sense of what the possibilities are are so I'm just wonder whether or not you and lee can think about that possibility of going to these lending institutions and saying you understand we're not going to be borrowing for a while but if we needed to borrow in dollars maybe given whatever three scenarios what would your reaction be what would the rates be and what would the terms be those are correct part of what we've been thinking about correct so you can get that information pretty quickly right in the sense of that if you're asking them as if we were borrowing now that's information that you could get in the near future we would hope well I wonder if you would try so I know you are trying but I wonder if like you might try and see whether we can get that information let's say over the next three or four weeks that would be really helpful understanding that it's hypothetical it's going to be revised that would be great okay any other questions for the budget committee yep dallas yeah I just I know we're going to be discussing temporary locations and decisions in the building committee the jones the town building committee but I guess um I mean bob you threw out a couple of things and I certainly appreciate the desire to keep services going I don't know whether you and I guess we'll have to discuss this is a I mean a lot of the things that you're saying like I'm thinking about you know if you're keeping a book bin here so that's somebody driving to that book bin multiple times per day like like every suggestion you made is lovely but every suggestion has an exponential cost attached to it and an exponential strain on staff and so I guess um I guess all those things are going to be discussed I mean all those things are going to be discussed and we can decide what we're going to do but I guess I just want to sort of put out there that I appreciate where you're coming from but I also want to since this is the budget piece want to say that all of these ideas are uh come come with come with costs um that would be in addition to you know renting facilities etc as well as increasing staff costs so those are just all things and sort of tuck into our brains as we decide what it looks like that you know when when we have ideas that we're making sure we're attaching the cost with those ideas so we can do some sort of cost to value some some valuation of like where do we get the most bang for our buck depending on what our budget is so yeah I just wanted to throw that out there thank you um power don't like what's second bob yeah far just to go back to the you were talking about the book mobile bob shan question was more to you I know a couple of summers ago I don't know if it was last summer didn't we have like bookmobiles going to um it was part of the outreach piece of the building committee but was it just a van that we have that's or was it another van that went out as a bookmobile so staff have taken uh collections two parks uh for example to the schools uh linda does a traveling cart which goes to town cultural events so um as alex once said you can have a bookmobile without actually having the van um and that's and that's integrated into the whole outreach piece and and um uh yeah so I I agree completely with alex with what you said all of bobs and and those kinds of ideas are awesome um and it's going to start with you know finding out where the locations are staff will have to they'll be spending a lot of time figuring out just the logistics of how to get a book from point A to point B um as well as patrons returning all of the work that's going to have to go into the catalog you know there are items right now that just says on the shelf but some of our items may end up in storage so they all have to be converted it's all just a lot of time and then there's the programming that will have to happen off site because we're not going to be paying for interim space for that and and there is staff have begun those relationships beautifully um but a lot of those spaces are outside and a lot of the year is is not favorable for outsides we're going to have to find some indoor places to do programming so so all of those things are are balls in the air that the staff uh have to think about and they're they're they're nervous about it they're not they're anxious about finding out where the interim spaces are going to be so they can start the planning process because it's going to be a boatload of work but thank you okay and um we're going to spend a lot of time on this interim location question and I'm going to make a suggestion of course we can continue to talk about it now but my suggestion is that we actually not continue to talk about it now that the library director be charged to come up with a plan and make recommendations and uh anybody wants to communicate any ideas should do it to the library director and we'll have a chance to review those recommendations uh ultimately what we do about the interim location is going to be decided by the trustees it's our it's our decision uh I assume that the library director's plan the recommended recommended plan would be vetted first by buildings and facilities since this is a building and facility question um and then brought forward for discussion as to its budgetary implications as personnel implications but I think we're a little way off from this and so Sharon just remind us about when you think you might have a plan to recommend to us gosh uh so if responses to the rfp are due let's say mid-november I don't have that date in front of me um I don't know how long it takes for the town to agree or disagree what happens if there are no responses is another uh thing but let's say something rises to the top beautifully and we're like oh that's great um then the staff well it's going to take a good let's say month uh to to start working out those kinds of just the staffing plan alone you know we have the two branches in play we also are very interested in a center of town location um and right now there's a place at cottage street that we would like and that's separate from the rfp so that people can drop books up uh drop books off uh pick pick up holds and so just all of these intricacies um you know with our van going back and forth between all of these different locations all of that needs to be worked out so I would guess a month to have some kind of you know skeleton of an idea but then it's going to it's going to take a while so at least a month after the date which interim location has been chosen and may be a little longer as you work out okay all right any questions other budget questions bob just one quick comment which is yes I'm aware that there are costs that are involved with all of these things the word exponential is the in in exact description of that that's all okay so how about we talk about investments okay well um the endowment value as of uh september 30th was eight million two hundred and one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven dollars I am rounding pennies I do not deal with that when you're talking in millions the woodbury fund was six hundred sixty three thousand two forty seven these are both lower numbers than the previous month but nonetheless they are still within our normal range it goes up and it goes down and I'm not particularly worried about that at this moment we have normally had vanguard come in report to us on the september 30th report usually not in october because it's not available at that point but in the november meeting we have moved our november meeting to november 28th dan dan voss said that he may be or may not be available since his wife is due to give birth on that date or thereabouts third child so we will have a a substitute come and report to us but it will continue uh as always contain a report which will review where we are and what's going on and any recommendations that he might have but that is where that is so um I have been setting that up and they are aware of the new date right okay any questions for investment okay thank you bob uh I don't I don't see Lou and I'm not sure that we have anything from the friends so the next item would be a report of the library director so um yes so so things are are a bit crazy right now um I I expect that they'll you know start to calm down once we actually have our construction documents done and we're going out to bed but right now um yeah life is crazy and it's so crazy that I didn't even have time to use uh subjects and verbs in my director's report it's like it's just a list of stuff that we've been doing um some of the highlights so the viewpoint filming happened a couple weeks ago it was really lovely the people people were wonderful to work with jenny kept everybody you know this is what this is what we're doing and um and we had so many program participants willing to be in the the recording so I think the the final product is going to be really fabulous and and whatever doesn't end up in the final product we will be able to get um those those shots as well the block party I have to give a shout out to all the staff who go along with the friends and table at the block party the staff do a lot of tabling between Janet and Mia and Cecilia and Linda going to all the town's cultural events any uh bit or chamber events the the colleges the university uh it's we have quite the presence out there and and the friends more and more have they're in it it's really cool how excited they are to raise funds for the annual fund as well as to be a part of of this building project and what they just accomplished with the let's go event was not insignificant that's a boatload of work and they pulled it off spectacularly um it's all that's going on the north amherst library project we are still waiting for a certificate of occupancy until we get that I can't have the staff there um so unfortunately the staff need to know where they're working and and what their schedule is so for the next couple of weeks I'm going to have them working at the jones um and we'll just sit back and wait gilford was hoping to get the um the permit last week and it didn't come through and so just this is all that all of a sudden certainty is very difficult for staff so I will let you know when when things get rolling um the new england library association conference this year is in springfield so that's so great we have seven or eight staff that are going friends are funding that it's awesome library journal is has invited me to Texas um yay uh in november to discuss the library's relationship with the crest department and um this is really exciting it's uh really quite groundbreaking believe it or not not just the crest department but public libraries um working with uh non police organizations whether it's a social work or or something like crest so I'll be on a panel of the crest I don't she may be the interim director her cat cat newman uh who is lovely she'll be going with me and we will be on a panel along with some folks from Illinois um anyways so this november 7th and 8th I'm really excited about that I have to leave here this meeting by 545 because there is a candidate forum tonight for town counselors so I'll be giving a presentation just it's just a quick snapshot about what the jones library does that's tonight the f y 23 audit is going on now library tours weekly um it it's fabulous and it's really fun again to see people who you know okay Sharon this is a library big deal that's that's their you you see their attitude um when you know when they walk in and they shake my hand but by the middle of the tour every single time you see the light bulb go off and they're like oh wow yes no brainer so that's that's very enjoyable and then the building committee uh holy cow so we've met with ever source uh the fire department the dpw shade tree committee was last night they were really lovely um uh side note the fine gold alexander did another rendering for us on their dime from as if you were standing in the cvs lot looking at the building um so to give people a sense of not not only the massing but also the straight line of sight that that will have um so we yeah it's fabulous and when I get it I will share it with you all and the designs we have met with f a a there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that goes on before it gets to the level of the building committee it's almost daily that I meet with them along with George we've met with them over acoustics you know where to put the ceiling tiles uh the ugly ceiling tiles um security uh you know the it and and av and security equipment uh signage that is going to be a big deal uh starting with the staff um and we're talking about so there's you know major signage like the john lithgow children's center a person can dream that you know the children um down to uh you know here are some bookcases that that people have have donated to so the signage everywhere um fire suppression that's really important between the special collections storage space as well as the the civil war tablets room um the artwork we met with the architects today over where to put our art you know we have a certain number of very large pieces that have to be on display because they have been preserved by cpa funds so finding just the right spots um and as a prime example the uh unnamed nobleman um which historically has had a very prominent space in the library no longer does but it has to be in the library because the frame was preserved using cpa funds but so we'll be finding a place for it on on on a load bearing wall because it's a really big heavy thing uh but it's not going to be the first thing people see when they come into the library um lots of discussion about the landscaping we met with the rfid um company uh over you know placement of the the conveyor belt and and tagging and things like that we talked already about the interim spaces and the staff planning that goes into it um and again thank you be be kind is my note to be kind to the staff um because it's going to be it's going to be a lot of work and and I just I appreciate you letting the staff um uh take a lead on it and then and then bring you their plan that all leads up to so my evaluation I just have to thank you all you and the staff and and the friends so every year when it comes time to do this you know I go through I keep a journal of all the things that I've done the the good and the bad um I don't use a lot of verbs in my journal either it's you know a lot of subject headings and so I list all okay this is the stuff we did and because of the building project you all and I we're in this together so like there's nothing that I'm doing that you guys don't know about um our committee our committee uh structure is actually quite brilliant it just works so well it's also fun for me because I'm old and and and because I've been here a long time I just celebrated my 12th anniversary and on the one hand it feels like 12 years on the other hand it really doesn't it has gone by very quickly because of the building project and it's been a lot of a lot of great stuff and again going back to the staff I could not be doing contributing spending this much time on the building project if it weren't for the A number one staff they're run in the place they are providing excellent customer service they are answering the questions they're working with police fire DPW on all sorts of things they're working with the schools and the chamber and rec they are amazing and that's why I am able to do what I do because of them the friends again remember when hey Austin you and I were here 12 years ago and that then the friends in the trustees didn't talk to each other but now they're so great the relationship is fabulous and they are just they're just working so hard and I really enjoy watching them get into it um right and then you guys uh yeah so it makes me very emotional I love you all and um it even with all the hard stuff this is the best job I've ever had and I'm truly blessed and thank you for your time thank you Sharon thanks for that report any questions for the library director Farah did you have a question not a question just a comment I just want to stay Sharon I just love your enthusiasm and and your sense of calm in the face of not so calm moments in the last few years so thank you for the amazing job and to the amazing staff thank you okay any other questions for the library director I don't have a question I just want to reiterate a big thank you to Sharon I love that the public comment person said thank you Sharon and I reiterate that from the bottom of my heart we so appreciate you and your the cheerfulness and the enthusiasm which helps all of us do our work more happily okay other comments or questions okay so um we next uh meet on November 28th at five o'clock on zoom and uh I wish you all well stay well and this meeting is adjourned


inners and get their saved down by five or something yes um and then as well any unit hit by leftovers suffers d3 mortal wounds sorry go ahead Owen I was just saying they're not nighthawnt right no stacking penalties yes absolutely no stacking well this affects nighthawnt because you're not modifying the save you're changing the you're changing the save yeah that's the that's the hope there uh yes I should say this is actually subtracting one from the save characteristic of that unit yes again that means that you're not because there's not a lot of rend for the the halflings themselves so this is like a nice way of getting damage through that you might not have got through because uh someone that starts on a base save of five plus goes to a four if they all out defense they're already they can only ever get to a four they can't get to a three you know this is a quite like it's an important distinction yeah okay now let's return back to the head chef uh so this unit always counts as being hangry instead of the normal ability under it's been a long day as we referenced earlier so this is where that comes back into focus there Tyler you would ask about this right so they're always hangry right effectively getting that round five ability in addition in your hero phase you may select a nomad feast master's unit within three inches of this unit until the start of your next hero phase the selected unit counts as hangry instead of the normal ability under it's been a long day and again could be modified as we talked about before with the previous ability just being able to select uh three units total and turn them all hangry so there we go uh and then finally the they'll uh there'll be some fine dining should you survive this one lads uh you can use this command ability during your hero phase if you do so select a nomad feast master's unit wholly within 12 of a model with this command ability until the start of your next hero phase replace the last meal eaten from the go with your gut trait for the selected unit with another last meal eaten of your choice so if you want to move somebody from dinner to breakfast or breakfast to lunch or whatever you can just scoot them around until your next hero phase so there we go I think it's quite important in quite important little heroes and again if they would just shut off straight away with their five wounds and no save you won't get to do all these fun things right um all right Owen what's our what's our point count on the head chef and the hot pot so head chef is 100 points um Mephistio heart stock will set you back 20 points more at 120 and our hot pot is coming in at 140 and is obviously an artillery piece there you go and the fistio differs um he's got um he's able to add for what for one turn only for one hot pot he can add a meal to that hot pot so you can have two effects on the hot pot for one turn and he's got um that's one spicy meeple as a that's an ability that's hot pots within three inches in a lucky turn do d6 mortal wounds instead of d3 mortal wounds so you just really improved the hot pots very nice is that the right 20 points do you think that's do you think that's right I mean how how are we doing points wise you all feel it all feels quite quite dead on yeah absolutely like you look at that and you say 140 it's it's not you're like wow for six wounds and a five up save but at the same time it's like yes that's a pretty potent debuff that thing is going to throw out right um that's potentially manipulatable and um and that's also just straight doing mortal wounds right if it hits on a three up it feels exactly like where I would put it yeah 100% okay uh so arwen jack's son of the jade forest uh yes I did catch this but I wanted to wait till uh the only thing that could have been better is if it was like the arwen jack's son of the jade forest I would never have committed that to me I did not think of that that's amazing there we go uh you can still get him on it you can still get him on it there and here we go lead just because because you can get him to make this change this this fine that's his name but down here in the description right here in the in the flavor text have it say the arwen jack's son of the jade forest is armed with nature's vengeance and massive impaling talent see I got you covered it's required oh and it's it's critical you forget you forget that whilst I don't have autonomy across the whole tome there is one thing I can control which is how it's designed so that uh how many emails would it take coming into the into the email before we get you to to bow to the will of the people here is the question that's amazing one from one from Kathy and I'll do it okay oh there we go all right uh okay so uh this is obviously our unique uh uh tree character uh tree lord ancient specifically uh and obviously they're a monster and so on and so forth they you know absorb a lot of the silvaneth words we would expect because they are order silvaneth etc I noticed that this named uh this named tree lord ancient Tyler are you ready for this this unit can attempt to cast two spells in your hero phase nothing hard we did it boys we got there I let Owen design um this one I mean I gave him a base I let Owen sort of have the final say on this wall scroll and he was very very determined to have a two casting tree made you made good choices my friends oh I'll let you I'll let you discuss this one Owen yeah take us through he's only got one unbind um but yeah effectively everything else is in line with what you'd expect from a traditional tla um so silent communion we have a um you know a wildwood popping up um obviously if you take him in the nomad trail then that's going to add a guardian counter to that um to that wildwood um he's has the ground shaker the new ground shaker monstrous action so three plus fight last or strike last which is nice um and he can teleport um his teleport is um nine away as opposed to some of the six inch auras um and then he's got a couple of special abilities he's got wrathful protector so he gets plus one attack um to his nature's vengeance which is his hammer um so he has the sort of dirthu-esque uh combat buff um and then um yeah I mean I wanted him to hit reasonably hard so he has three attacks with nature's vengeance which are threes and threes rend two damage four flat damage remember you giggling when you went I'm going to make him damage four because I'd made him in line with the normal tla and Owen was like no I want damage four okay no he's just made sure I mean I haven't allowed myself too many sort of luxuries in this tone so I think um yeah flat damage four um and a bit of rend you know um and then he has the the new impaling talons which are nicer twos and twos rendered damage three um and then he has blood nourishment which is a really nice ability um so if an attack from a melee weapon carried out by a friendly silvaneth unit wholly within range of this ability it starts at 18 inches um slays an enemy hero or monster while that silvaneth unit is wholly on or within a terrain feature you can add a guardian counter so effectively through the act of slaying an enemy monster or hero the the the blood from that fell beast nourishes the land and then you know acts as a stimulant for a new tree lord to uh to to to sort of rise up from the uh yeah from the blood of the enemy so um what makes the grass grow green bright red blood makes the grass grow green that's right okay true story the true story um and that is I've made him 20 points cheaper than a tla because I think the true lord ancient's overpriced so he's 340 points I was going to ask you yeah like out of 10 where are you right now in terms of like obviously the tla you kind of build into him with particular list right like war song tla etc you build into that direction but in general what where are you at it sounds like like out of 10 where are you right now with the tla like tla is like an eight and a half for me in a moment um oh that's pretty high yeah yeah yeah I switched from war song wrong to tit war song rev to tla I think the extra teleport we're going off topic slightly but yeah I think um the shooting attack the stomp um reasonable combat damage maybe gives you an opportunity to get the battle tactic where you kill something with the general um oh yeah that's interesting yeah cool yeah I think he's got some play I would I would encourage people to to play with the tla um in he's not 360 no there you go that's rich that's uh yeah no this is great war school oh very fun all right let's get to our our two littler heroes uh the hedge hermit and my personal favorite the trail thief so the hedge hermit is your wizard uh four wounds and a six up save again his offense is not why you take this guy you're not taking him for his weapons he can throw some rocks or bonky with his little staff um the this model may choose to ignore any effects of scenery rules or abilities on scenery war scrolls which is fun um that might need a designer's notes I suspect uh just because it would let him ignore impassable right now and you probably don't want to let him ignore impassable stuff and start walking on impassable things where where suddenly nobody else could go walk up there and get him yeah he's not a feral no no yeah he doesn't like pass into the rock uh and then uh tree friend friendly tree lords tree lord ancients or spirits of dirthu models may be garrisoned uh by this unit even though it is not a terrain feature um this model cannot join or leave that models garrison if that model has made a move in the same phase yada yada so he can he can ride around on trees and uh uh so and then of course he has um oh boy from the city that's a real word i believe you that's just that i i i there are many words i've like started i like i run up to him and i'm like nope nope hold on but so it has a casting volume of six except if successfully cast friendly nomad feast master's units holy within 12 are treated as being wholly on or within a terrain feature so there you go my more ability for you to to manipulate that who's on a terrain feature okay 120 vince for the for the hermit completely reasonable for this this uh this little also is he missing the wizard text he is he is a yeah he's he's a one-cost wizard that yeah i have picked up on that yes right i figured as much okay trail thief tyler you ready for this guy ready okay all right four wounds and a six up save there are little our little sneaky guy all right sneaky guy uh so uh smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast okay so this dude he's going behind enemy lines so instead of setting up this model on the battlefield you can set it to one side and say it is set up in a concealed position if you do so select one of the following missions and say the number of turns this model will attempt the selected mission i'm so excited so he so how many turns are you taking to do this mission okay you got to say how long you're gonna do it so you got a little you'll gamble here at the beginning okay uh so here right here are your here are your gambles master of wit and repartee your opponent loses a triumph roll and you gain that triumph roll okay uh his command of the realm uh directives is uncanny once for battle when your opponent receives a command point your opponent loses that command point and you gain it instead uh how come he's such a genius don't ask me a randomly selected artifact of power carried by one of your opponent's hero keyword one of your opponent's hero keyword models can no longer be used if it was used to enhance a weapon that weapon reverts back to its normal at the start of the first battle round after determining who has the first turn roll a die and add the number of your turns that this model will attempt the selected mission on a roll of six plus the selected mission is successful okay so that's how many turns you're willing to commit you can shut off an artifact steal a command point or or get rid of their uh switch the triumphs around right and this model cannot be set up on the battlefield until after the number of your turns that this model will attempt its selected mission after which the end of your movement phase you can set this model in the battlefield more than six inches away from enemy units and remember there's the other thing where you can set him up three inches away during the start of your hero phase if this model is still in a concealed position your opponent may roll a dice on a five plus this model loses a wound as it tries to evade capture if this model loses its last wound before entering the battlefield it counts as being slain dun dun dun which is the other thing that the other artifact negates because then he's no longer concealed he's just sneaky deaky so uh there you go and this model always counts as being affected by those lucky scoundrels battle traits because he's a he's a lucky little guy so there you go uh the longer you take to do the mission the more likely you are to get stabbed but they're more likely you are to succeed the mission they i i i love this war scroll i hope i'm glad that you like it vince cuz yeah it's great it's absolutely great uh i love the idea of just stealing all my opponent's artifacts like just just just taking them all baby uh so what is this guy's points cost for your trail theme so for this amazing side quest it will set you back the princely sum of 110 points worth every penny it can never be the general right but he is also not unique so if you want a band of trail thieves all away doing different missions than philly boots there you go i like this because it punishes one drops there's a one drop they're not having an item you know i like i like that tyler what do you think of the trail thief yeah i love it that's really cool uh yeah i wish we had more war scrolls that we're doing things like this in the game we have a few of these very first war scroll i designed for a was back in like 2016 was this update to tyrian had to go along with the model i had had commissions by this amazing artist and it had this kind of side element right but as he got as he did something in the game he got better as the game went on and it's kind of like anyway we had designed an entire i think uh what do we call them schemes yeah schemes around this uh kind of similar idea but no i love this guys yeah i mean it's like these little sort of side quests side game mini game rpg elements whatever they are that show up are always fun it's blood knights powering up when they do stuff right it's the kitty cat playing the guest the dice game uh in slaves to darkness uh you know yeah like that stuff's awesome yeah with the the re-rolls that was a fun mini game i loved that i loved it because i loved getting four re-rolls from my seraphon opponents because everybody always picked four i'm sorry go ahead i'm sorry for talking of you um scar blood wrath i would have to give a shout out to 100 pop up in one he's my favorite war scroll you know you just see the menace yeah absolutely uh all right now we get into the troops themselves sort of more of our our basic troops here we got we got three different sorts of like uh basic troops four different i guess if you count the little the eagle riders but i think they're a little more elite okay so our nomad scouts which are not the basic battle line right the drovers of the battle line yeah yeah okay that's what i thought the scouts become optional battle line somehow i think if i remember right is that true no we've only got one battle line so that might that might change yeah the one thing jumped out of me was like it may need some tinkering with the battle line because right now you're really kind of hemmed into one position uh assuming you're not pulling too hard into like the coalition ogre build or cities build or whatever right i i've had that i've had that suggestion before um i just felt like there were three different options on that war scroll and if you don't make it so the people have to take them they might not and they might not be an army full of little dudes which is essentially what it should be um i was going to create a war scroll based on halfling women if you go back and you look at um previous um previous sort of halfling tomes etc there's always a bunch of women but there are always these crazy frenzied sort of things and i thought well that's that's from a time where the world was a bit more misogynistic um so my way of dealing with ladies being within the trails is it's 50-50 like everyone fights for the trail you know i don't i don't want to go on about it too much but so that was the other battle line that i had and then we sort of run out of time i was gonna maybe maybe some beekeepers now i like it okay here we go all right i like where we're going here beekeepers sounds fun okay so effectively what the scouts are is these are your little sort of infiltrator shooty boys right um they can lay down and go prone in terrain which means they can't shoot or be shot at but they get to like fight first as they pop up out of the train and stab people with their their unimpressive by its nature melee weapons um they can they're one of your reserve units right so they can start off board and then pop up again more than six inches away but they have to be a holy honor within a terrain feature you got to bring them out as as per normal as per the core rules and this unit can ignore any or all modifiers from the it's been a long day so they don't they're there as the scouts i assume they're more used to going a little longer without a meal uh because they have to be out and foraging and so you know they're they're not as susceptible to getting as as hangry as fast as it were although they can still be hangry if you want because it's may so yeah very nice 100 100 points for 10 minutes perfectly reasonable yeah for a little one wound six up shooter guy three up four up 18 inch range great how shooting units should be designed interesting varied like good ability good reserve neat stuff neat interactions um they're obviously barefoot so they're benefiting from all those barefoot abilities earlier remember so like ones and twos attack rolls against them always miss their plus one to their safe characteristic if they're in cover all that kind of stuff so so that's unmodified wound rolls of six that we were talking about at the beginning is that missile and melee yes yes so that's a good point these are these are relatively good at taking out sort of enemy characters which a scout unit should be you know um but then i don't think they're ot t it's not a guarantee it's gonna be on a lucky turn this unit is actually pretty decent with it with its output okay our griff hound hobblars took a swing at that i don't know if i'm right that was it that was it brother got it uh three wounds nine inch move six up save they as well have a little bow uh as well as obviously some some good attacks from their their griff hounds and their little knives um the unit uh gets two attacks uh for their beaks and claws from their little griff hounds uh this is this is an interesting way you phrase or that this is the interesting way this buff turns on add two of the attacks characteristic of this unit's beaks and claws uh attack uh for attacks made with beaks and claws that target a unit previously hit by attacks made by another friendly forager unit in the same turn so when they they want to swarm something right so this is this has the this unit has the forager keyword so the second unit that goes in of any kind of forager then your little beaks and claws are now making four attacks on they all work together to hunt and that's what happens in the the rules hopefully the forages are the scouts the hobblars the eagles and the trail thief just for context there we go perfect thank you very much and then this is a this is a very fun ability that's gonna that will frustrate people but it's quite good on a unit like this each time this unit attacks with its melee weapons it can make a normal move after all of its attacks have been resolved if it does so it must finish the normal move more than three inches from enemy units and then they have the warning cry ability like griff hounds do so they can like bop scream out and then everybody can turn yeah uh yeah darting attack very solid like you see how these guys are meant to play like you want to come in you want to hit and then you want to run and hit and run and stuff like that right yeah absolutely um but you've you've got to risk the swing back there on the second unit or whatever it is because you want somebody else to attack first to open up your bonus but if you do then that person can then say okay well i'm gonna attack the second unit that hasn't gotten to dart away yet but if they do that then you're also deciding deciding the order of their activations so it's lots of play and counter play there which i know darin that's probably i'm sure exactly what was in your mind when you were designing absolutely that's what i love make your make your opponent have to make difficult decisions you know yeah that's that's what and that that fits in with their narrative as well i think you know they'd be all over the place wouldn't they these little dudes you wouldn't know who to hit yep um and they are 120 for five per five right yeah yep right on much with the scouts scouts were 110 10 go yep no bad scouts riding jade eagles so 16 inch move like your speed demons in this army uh three wounds yeah sure yeah you got somebody who can actually move right um again they are foragers uh and they have tandem hunting uh improve the wren characteristic of this unit's beaks and talons by two for attacks made with beaks and talons that target a unit previously hit by attacks made by another friendly forager unit so just like the little dudes on griff hound these guys have the same ability where they want to go in and work together in a pack and then thermal highway if the last meal eaten from the go with your gut battle trait for this unit was lunch then this unit may receive the redeploy command without the command being issued and without a command point being spent in addition instead of making a redeploy a role for this unit you can choose the result of the role the result chosen for a d6 role must be a whole number from one to six so if they benefit from lunch or you make them benefit from lunch in any of the ways we mentioned previously then you can redeploy and redeploy away six if you want to or whatever you need to do well there's part of the day right there's all those thermals out there absolutely uh these guys are super cool what's uh what's that what's our point what are we what are we in for on these guys Owen um a very reasonable 135 yeah very reasonable that is that is that is extremely reasonable maybe yeah yeah yeah i i agree i agree that's one of the one of that's an area of we've had from feedback from before so but again i we'll see we'll see yeah sure it's a yeah you don't have to no you don't have to second guess yourself into into oblivion right you you you test and then you see okay then our actual little battle line boys uh which is the nomad drovers uh these guys have a lot of little different ways they can be armed their little clubs their short spears their pots and spoons they have their drover bows uh and they come in 15 model units or 15 models to a unit right yeah yeah tyler look at this this brutal stat line here here we go four inch move one wound save of dash five bravery okay feel the power now if they have little shields okay if they have uh short spears and they're they're uh they're bracken shields they do get a save characteristic of six plus so that's not i guess you know it's four it's four in cover not too bad okay i was going to ask yeah okay yep that's what i was going down one no it'll be it'll be a six up save ignoring no would it not be a five up ignoring rend one in cover it'd be a well yeah if there was yes if there was no render they'd technically save on a four plus income because they are barefoot right because the shield made it set it to six up and then the cover sets it to five up and then the cover plus one save they get six a unit four so yes they can somehow go from no save to potentially a four up against no rend that can happen that is that is in the cards god forbid you catch them not on these guys really what's the the corn pre-stability that makes you like move right that like pulls you their get over your ability blood find yeah boy do they not like that pulling them off of terrain in any way like i just need one of you little idiots to step off this terrain come here nothing scares a drover more than a great bray shaman with right come over here baby exactly uh and i would point out these guys do have the loudmouth ability as well so they get the three up ward roll in the charge phase um pretty cool so you can you can send them into stuff and not fear the unleash you can ignore deadly and they don't get stomped as easy and all that kind of stuff so very cool these guys are a hundred for fifteen am i right there correct excellent i've got the rabble wolf ability which is um if they've got more than 20 if they score a hit they get another hit and that sounds amazing it's essentially the skink buff where you're doubling the amount of attacks but you don't need to double the amount of attacks you don't need to slow down the game you can just do this don't don't select an extra that many dice just do the the one hit yeah what the it's the same way the uh the storm cast uh like multi-shooty things work their their hurricane this is whatever yeah exactly uh yep okay and then uh yonella lightfoot uh which is our our big giant swan uh writing hero darin tell us about this about this girl here we need a centerpiece a few every faction's got it's you know king or queen or it's big you know we've got the gash we've got larial we've got scar brand we've got kairos so this is their this is their big sort of centerpiece and she's like um the manifestation of all the all the um the hedge hermets and and gyron everything that's pure within the trail she flits about making you know keeping the trails as safe as possible and i really wanted to play some of her rules one of my favorite rules that i um sort of came up with was like the reverse rend so she's got shimmering feathers where her save characteristic will change depending on the strength of the rend that's attacking her she's essentially she's essentially a theory so you can't modify that save in any way so you can't rule out defense it and and you can't the enemy rend won't then affect affect the save so if your rend zero she's got a five up safe if your rend one she's got a four up save rend two a three up save you know and so on so she gets her save gets better the harder she gets hit basically and i just enjoy that it's difficult to get your head round you know in game people aren't going to understand that until they see it you know and i really like interactions like that and again it's something that's different we've not seen it i swear again i'm going back to an earlier point there's not a great deal of design space that's left within age of sigma so i'm just trying to explore of many of those options as as possible so i really i really like i like that um she's got an average she's not particularly feisty um as which is a common theme throughout because i don't again i don't think we have a massive bitey character but she does have a very i think powerful spell um sanguine i can't i can't see it yes she um you'll you basically take a battle shock test at the end of the the combat phase you know and you're not allowed if you've got any abilities that ignore battle shock um they don't they don't count so it's a way of getting round oc up bone reapers or some fire slayers that are nearer and objective i know you don't like fire slayers vince so you'll be pleased i'm always happy to see dwarves run away so it sounds great and battle shocking off more tech guard i think makes three out of the four people in this call very happy no comment well we need i actually actually needed them to um be able to deal deal with you know high armor save so this is this is like my anti this is my anti this is my way of dealing them yeah and she's doing a lot like she's making it so those lucky scoundrels apply to all friendly nomad feast master's units in the first uh battle round she's making it so you can basically get breakfast lunch and dinner applying to like a pretty big sweep of your battlefield all at once if if your opponent chooses to like play against what you said right like they have a choice not to do that they can just not grant that ability if they just don't do the thing you said you wanted right so it's again interesting choice very very visible known information counterplay there yeah i like that it's a sort of thing as well that you you may not understand so when you make a decision and if you've made the wrong one and it becomes apparent later on the turn your your opponent might be if they've done that rather they might be super nicked out about it and you can be like um one side note i would say is that having posted the tome into some of the let's say more competitive and beardy chats that i'm in several top players were like yinela auto include every list yinela one one thing i really like about her scroll as well as that she casts d three spells so um yeah i don't think i've ever seen that before and i think that's cute that is fine what are we paying for this incredible auto include what don't you guess what don't you guess okay sure uh given her abilities as a centralized buff piece uh she's not incredibly tough uh but i think she's probably like she is she can very much turn a lot of the battle so what 300 320 you're very close to 90 okay yeah she could be a bit she could be a bit yeah i think you if if competitive people say auto include that's your first sign that you got to ratchet up the points that's that right there is what that means 100% yeah agreed but we're close right yeah absolutely yeah i mean that's right on to my initial instinct so yeah there you go not too bad and i did not remember her points from earlier at all because i didn't i didn't read hers i i but my first thing i did when i looked at the points was i just went to the like battle line stuff right because that's that's always that's gonna be where you start all right take us through the three endless spells we got it we got a few more minutes here and then we'll close up yeah speed it through so um we've got the the spectral briar hedge i think hedge is like a nice protective sort of theme of the nomads and if your nomads are near the hedge then if they're within three inches of sorry if they're within an inch of the hedge their ranged attacks become three inches and if the enemy are within three inches of the edge the hedge their ranged attacks become an inch so basically the nomads can fight over the hedge and they can't be fought back and then if there's a bubble i think it's six inches if the nomads are within that then they can't be hit on a one two or three which is quite that's quite significant and again though those those attacks can't be re-rolled so um so it's it's a nice defensive buff piece um we've then got the habaker sentry which i i like this this plays around nicely with guardian tokens it's got the stomp it's basically a spirit of a a young a young tree lord basically yeah great use of an extra kernoth i love it just like take a kernoth under you've got your own the spell boom got him and so you can make a unit fight last with a essentially it's stomp and then if it's near a piece of scenery that's got any guardian counters on it you can pick a unit within 12 an enemy unit within 12 inches and you do that many war wounds to it so you don't have to exchange your guardian tokens for a tree lord you can stack them up if you want to and then zap something and then spring out your tree lord um so i quite like that and then the last one is my favorite model uh um within the range so far it was created all the ender spells were created by lee whitley also shout out to benjamin savour and adam kunas who did some of the models i forgot to sort of mention them earlier but we've had a lot of help with those um but lee whitley did the ender spells and this is the detritus detritus i i basically creating this tome i went through the theosaurus so i'm not particularly okay it's um detritus detritus thank you roan detritus detritus denizens which is like all the little grubs they come out of a scenery piece that's anywhere on the table it's a bit like skull tide the enroll six times any fives are a mortal wound and then if you take a mortal wound you can no longer use any any re-rolls for anything so can't use any re-rolls for casting can't use any re-rolls for saving etc the tome itself i'll just i know we're short on time but the tome itself is um it's supposed to attack your opponent's value like yeah it's more than the halfling hotpot in bloodball i don't know if you've played that but that would steal your opponent's re-rolls and it would give you the re-rolls so that's the whole sort of premise of the tome very nice uh what are our points owen for the three endless spells again all very reasonable 40 for the briar hedge and then 50 each for the sentry or the detritus swarm feels very appropriately costed to me that's that's i'm liking where we're living lastly we leave with the gastronome encampment it is a single terrain feature consisting of three gastronome encampment models that all touch they all touch tips like a like a uh like a wildwood and uh the scenery rules for this is after territories have been chosen but before armies are set up you can set up the encampment wholly within six inches of an objective within your territory so very different rules right you're wanting to set it up right around an objective within your territory uh no other restrictions apply when setting up the encampment if this isn't possible because of other things you get to scoot the terrain and so on and so forth uh it is a single terrain feature it is an obstacle uh nomad feastmasters units treat this terrain feature as having the inspiring scenery rule and when determining control of an objective each nomad feastmasters barefoot model wholly on or within a gastronome encampment count as two models instead of one and enemy units may not be set up within three set up within three inches of this terrain feature if there are 10 or more nomad feastmaster models wholly on or within the encampment roll a dice each time an enemy unit uses an ability whose effect involves picking this terrain feature on a three plus that ability has no effect so you can't smash to rubble it or anything like that it's a bit of a game to play absolutely in addition and on on an unmodified six that enemy unit suffers d3 plus three mortal wounds so i love the the terrain feature honestly stood out to me as just being such a great piece of design i love the idea of them rolling up setting up around the objective and being like okay this one's ours this is where we've set up our camp right and then that that proceeds to have benefits to them it's just such a fun uh it's such a fun play that space that we haven't played with yet with any of the terrain you felt like that could have been done but it never got done so it's yeah it's just a great piece of uh of design well they're quite slow aren't they so they're they're a heavily defensive army um so i wanted to try and make it as unique i wanted it to be a unique gaming experience but still feel very age of sigma so how do you sort of achieve what will you do that with the the lucky scoundrel rule and you do that with the this defensive piece of uh piece of scenery um yeah i like that something we did very quickly one little story is darin and i had one very late night a little bit of play testing where i think i threw about jackson about 40 zombies a necromancer and a vampire lord towards 20 brave lads inside the encampment and um they held their own for a long time it was great um all the little buffs and stuff you killed into a man in fifth turn didn't you it was killed into a man it's very thematic having that encampment as you say vince being the uh the heart of the army it's it's great absolutely well that brings us to the end of the book uh oh and i'll have you share out maybe some of the list or something on twitter whatever that you had um so we can because oh and it sent along a couple lists if we had time which sadly we don't uh but that's okay great gentlemen great fun work for all of you out there watching do not forget that you can download this the link is down in the description and if when you read it you've got feedback be it you know things you find or or just your general experience with it uh there is an email down there you can uh you can also send your feedback on the nomad feast masters back uh into uh oh and and darin so gentlemen thank you so much for for joining us for this for doing this review super awesome fun time really loved it thank you uh for all of you out there watching don't forget to give it a like check out the tome this is amazing this project was so many hours of work by so many people in the community uh i really hope more people pick up this torch and maybe also other masochists out there who really love the idea of killing themselves for for something that they truly love and uh and and take up this mantle so thank you both very much for all of you don't forget to hit like subscribe if you haven't already check out the link uh we've got a patreon you can support us down below uh so 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On this surveillance video, there's one male, it's about 10 o'clock at night, on June the 24th. He's there on the property for about 10 minutes. He walks around the property looking into vehicles, etc. He goes to a maintenance van. Once he gets into the maintenance van, he starts loading up all kinds of hand tools and power tools out of the maintenance van. What perpetrators of crimes like these fail to see is the ripple effect that it causes. It affects us financially because obviously we have to go and re-buy all these tools. Yeah, it's $500 worth of stuff, but now we have to go and buy all new stuff. It's probably going to run us probably more than that. And that's taken out of all of our bonuses and everything. So it affects everybody in the dealership. I'm sorry, but get a job. Go out and work like we do.  All right, good job. Anyone with information regarding the thefts can call the Floyd County Sheriff's Department Anonymous Tip Line at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Reporting from Harold for EKB News, I'm Shawn Allen.


Nothing beats being on the trail and trying to train in conditions that are very close or similar to the actual conditions on Mount Kilimanjaro. That means you want to be training at elevation if it's possible and at least understanding how your body reacts at elevation, especially if you never climbed at higher elevation. 8,000 feet, go from mountain that it's 10,000 feet, 12,000 feet and have that initial understanding of how your body reacts at elevation. Try to go for trails with a significant elevation gain.


Hi, everyone. Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Impeccable Football. Three box, random team break number one. Everyone gets a random team, obviously all card ship. A lot of nice stuff in here. Plus the, it's usually silver. Maybe we'll get some gold out of here. A big thing, it's a random team break too. Big thanks to Carl picking up a good chunk of the spot straight up. And thanks everybody for joining those fillers. Thanks to Jeff and Randy for getting full spots as well. Thanks everybody. Congrats again to the people who won spots in the filler. There's all 32 teams. Let's do it. Let's roll it. Randomize it six and a five, 11 times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11 in final time. After 11, we got Carl with a spot that he won. Down to Carl with a spot that he got straight up. Tyler Carr, what's going on, TC? Anyone call you TC? Six and a five, 11 times for the teams. Two, three, four, five, six, 10, and once more, 11 in final time. We got the Patriots down to Jeff. Actually, everyone calls me TC oddly enough. I like it. I don't know, just felt like you would go with TC. I dig it. All right. Now Carl has most of the teams. So it might just be easier just to do it this way. Carl has all the teams except for Stephen. You got the Jets, Ryan with the Dolphins, Daniel with the Ravens, Jeff with the Rams, Ryan with the Colts, Randy with the Bears, Russell with the Giants, and Kevin with the Buccaneers. Now, if Carl has one of your favorite teams, maybe you can ask him nicely for a trade. Let's sort alphabetically by team. And when we come back, we're going to pause the video. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades. And then we'll have the break. Stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back, everybody. No deals were done in this break right here. So that list you saw on the previous screen is now printed out. It's official. Once it's printed out, that's what makes it official. Thanks, everyone. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Here's the case of 2021. Panini Impeccable Football. Let's see what we got. And there's the case hit. Usually silver sometimes could be gold. We're going to do that last. Hey, what's up? Twins and Dodgers. Haven't played since like 2013. As a night owl twins fan, you enjoy the California start times in Minnesota. Yeah, I was on the East Coast for the national. And it was weird watching Dodgers game start at 10 o'clock at East Coast time. All right, we're going to lead off with King Henry, Derek Henry, 31 out of 50. Most of these are going to be for Carl. It's Carl with the Titans. And we've got a Tyson Campbell, 35 out of 49. Jaguars, also for Carl. Nico Collins, dual relic and autograph. 12 out of 75.  Texans, that's going to be for Carl. We got Minka Fitzpatrick, 17 out of 25. Two-color patch and on-card autograph. I love the look of these Impeccable cards. Carl has the Steelers as well. Weird in that top loader, but it's pretty snug in there though. Got Nick Chubb, 5 out of 25. Cleveland. This is for you. Carl with the Cleveland Browns. We've got Jalen Waddle, nice landscape, rookie landscape autograph, 16 out of 35. You might have a really nice season this year. Had a nice season last year. Might have a better season this year. That's Ryan Hines with the Dolphins. You can go Ryan on the board. And the last one here is a Mario Cooper base car, 23 out of 75. That will be for Carl and the Cowboys. It's a Cowboys edition here. Almost a clean sweep for Carl. If it were not for that Jalen Waddle box too. Base card hiding on the bottom here. There's a redemption in the middle somewhere there too. Andre Johnson to 75. 7 out of 50. Dan the Manmarino. That's for Ryan and the Dolphins. 11 out of 35. Keenan Allen, Chargers. Carl with the Volts. 35 out of 49. Joe Tryon Shoinka. Tampa Bay, Kevin with the Buccaneers. We got Ed McCaffer, Christian's dad. 12 out of 25. For my rivals, the Broncos. That's going to go to Carl with a spotty one in the filler. The redemption is Dwayne Eskridge, Elegance rookie helmet nameplate autos. Dwayne Eskridge is a Seahawk, right? Yep, still is a receiver for the Seahawks. And that should be, that's Carl with Seattle. Couple more here. We've got a rookie, Jersey and Otto Najee Harris. 9 out of 25. Carl with the Steelers. And Bookit, Ian Book. Dual Relic and Autograph. 33 out of 35. And that's Carl with the clean sweep of the box. All right. Third and final box, and then we'll see what's inside that case hit there. 62 out of 75. Allen Robinson, Bears. Randy with the Bears. Brandon Iac, 5 out of 50. Niners, Carl with San Francisco. And a one-of-one JJ Watt Cardinals edition. Carl with a car, Earl Denil. All aboard, the Big Head Express. And we've got another Joe Tryon Shoyinka to 49. That'll be for Kevin. Starting that JTS PC, whether you intended to or not. We've got Keeney and Wang Wu. Might be a piece of his helmet on the right side. Two-color Jersey, maybe a piece of the helmet. 41 out of 75. Vikings, Carl with Minnesota. Two more to go. It's Robbie Anderson. 5 out of 25. Remember like week one last year when he was with Carolina and didn't realize what animal Sir Purr was, the panther? That goes to Carolina, Carl with Carolina. And the last one here is going to be Duel Relic and autograph T-Law, Trevor Lawrence. 67 out of 75. Nice finish. Jaguars, that's Carl. Two-color Jersey. Looks like maybe a shiny piece of the helmet or a glove sticker, something like that. An on-card autograph. That's one of the better Trevor Lawrence autographs that I've seen, too. Usually he doesn't give you that extra squiggle. And he's just T-Law. Yeah, Peyton was saying this has got to be a big hit coming. There it is. Congrats, Carl. And now let's see what's in here. Good luck, everyone. I was hoping it was gold. And you can see it's silver already. And it's silver dolphins. 11 out of 20. NFL Shield silver. Some fine silver. Fine, fine silver. And that is for the dolphins. I don't think that's Carl, actually. I think that's Ryan Heintz. There you go, Ryan. And there you go, everybody. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Now we are going to discuss about reasons of root cause analysis. So there are 7 reasons of identifying when there is a gap on the shelf, how you have to identify that gap and what could be the reasons of that gap and who to address when the gap is there. So first of all, so generic root causes and the responsibility who is going to be responsible for that is mentioned here. So now we have for example a situation which is out of shelf product, so the product is not available on the shelf, so there are 7 reasons for it, 7 root causes for it. First of all, if the product is not delivered, second is late delivered. So the product has been planned, that product will be delivered after 3 days and now the product is delivered after let's say 4 days or 5 days, so of course for 2-3 days this particular product would be out of shelf. Third root cause is about the store ordering, for example store was not able to order that particular product on time or maybe there is a delay in ordering of that particular product from store or the store has not ordered that article and that is causing actually out of shelf situation. Then is that one of the another reason, another root cause is about the shelf or stock management, so maybe because of the stock management situation because of the shelf management situation this stock is not available on the shelf, for example the stock is available in the store but not available on the shelf, so ultimately this was the result in out of shelf situation. Then the fifth reason, root cause is article suspended, if article has been suspended it has been blocked by the buyer, so of course that will create out of shelf situation because of any reason either it is maybe the discontinuation of that article maybe because of the personality of the particular product, so that out of shelf situation will be there. Then sixth is head office ordering, for example if the particular article is been ordered through the buyer from the head office ordering and buyer was not able to order that particular product or the buyer has ordered but there was delay in ordering or the buyer has not ordered, so this will result in out of shelf situation. And the last is about the article maintenance, so the seventh reason is the buyer is actually maintaining that article maybe maintaining the delivery conditions or maybe maintaining the ordering conditions or maybe delivering updating the contract of the with the supplier, so article is in maintenance, so ultimately that will also create out of shelf situation. So these are the seven root causes which are actually generating creating the gap of the product or out of shelf situation, so for example who is going to be responsible if there is an out of shelf quickly, so the first part if the products are not delivered or the products are late delivered, immediately you have to consult supply chain department, so supply chain management, supply chain manager is responsible to do to take up immediately this kind of matter and to solve this. If it is about the store ordering, if it is about the shelf management or stock management or if it is about the article suspended then immediately you have to talk to operation, so responsible person in this case would be the floor manager or the department manager into the store who is responsible for this category or for this floor, then if it is about the head office ordering or article maintenance of course this is from the head office, so immediately the responsible person would be the buyer of the category or the buying manager of the category, so you have to talk to that, so now we have the seven root causes and now we have also the persons or departments who are responsible for it in order to quickly take out the retail store from this out of shelf situation, so what are the key KPIs or what is the KPI on the shelf availability, on shelf availability is the shelf availability rate, so the target of the retail store is to increase the shelf availability rate to make it 90%, 95%, 98% and of course 100% that should be the target of the retail store, so in our customer driven organization it is normally the objective of a retail store that shelf availability rate is one of the most important KPIs along with the cost, so for measuring the supply chain performance, for measuring the operations performance, for measuring the buying performance, so for all the key stakeholders the shelf availability rate is the key, so it is monitored on store level, it is monitored at article level, it is monitored on SQ level, it is monitored on category level, it is monitored on department level and of course it is monitored on country level and there are particular targets associated to it, so every retail store will have a target of shelf availability rate, of course that is closer to 100% or 100% but ultimately if the store is at 87% or 88% the target is to increase the improve the shelf availability rate quickly and immediately, so one of the key KPIs of the retail store, of the operations team, of the supply chain team, of the buying team is to improve the shelf availability rate and that is actually the key objective, if the products are available on the shelf of course will bring more business for the retailer.