Hey guys, this is Alex. This video is actually on trigonometry, so if you're not interested, you know, go ahead and give me a thumbs up anyway and move on to something else. But it's actually about repairing this tool here, this is a sterret pocket scribe. It used to have a much longer finer point on it, which I managed to break within about 15 minutes of having it. I'm a little disappointed about that, but I think it was my fault for using it at the wrong angle. I've re-grounded it to a point just to be able to still use it, but I wanted to figure out what the original point was, what the original angle was, so that I can make it whole again. I had kept the little part that broke off, I found it and hung on to it, and I've lost it now, but that's okay because I've memorialized it. So what I did was I took a photograph of it, and I may show you that there may be an image that comes up, but this is the, got it upside down, this is the image having made it negative and gotten rid of the color and enhanced it a little bit, blown it up. But you can see the point, and it's not as sharp as you might like, but whatever. And so I knew from trigonometry that if I can process this as a triangle, then I can compute what this angle is here, and then when I re-grind it, I can shoot for the correct thing. So I took this piece of paper and I marked with the scribe, actually the three points that I drew from using a rule, and made that a right angle, so now we have a right triangle and we can use our normal rules of trigonometry. And so here is the resulting computations. Here are the resulting computations. Okay, so here's our triangle. I flipped it around, but I want this included angle here, okay? So I measured this with my little, my new metric steric ruler here, or scale, and so all these numbers are in millimeters, and these are the values that I got. So we have a right triangle, and let's just call this A, B, and C, okay, traditionally. The first thing I did was I wanted to make sure that these numbers made sense, that I hadn't measured something wrong. So I used the Pythagorean theorem, A squared plus B squared equals C squared. So some of the squares of the two sides should be equal to the square of the hypotenuse. That gives you this formula, and it turns out that, or this expression, turns out I was within 20 or 30 there, so I considered that close enough for my purposes. So then I want to compute theta. So what I did was I used the three basic trig functions, tan, sine, and cosine. And so these are the ratios that you get. So tan is opposite over adjacent, sine is opposite over hypotenuse, and cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse. So I want to sort of, you know, amortize the error across three different computations to just make sure that, you know, everything made sense. Okay, so you get these results, 14.82, from the tangent, so you take the inverse tangent of this value to solve for theta, 14.82, for the sine I get 14.75, and for the cosine I get 15.79, and so all you need is a scientific calculator, or actually a Windows calculator will do it for you. You put it into scientific mode. So my original guess was 15 degrees, and these three values largely confirm that guess. But just to sort of see what the error was, I computed an average. So that's just the sum of those three numbers divided by three, 15.11 with a standard deviation of .46 degrees. This should say degrees here, but that's okay. And so I conclude that it's close enough to 15 degrees, that I can use that as a target for re-grinding the little tip of this thing. It's currently at about probably 30, 35 degrees, something like that. So anyway, the point was not so much about the scribe, but about that trigonometry is actually useful for something. And if you remember the stuff from high school occasionally, you may be able to do something with it that is helpful. So anyhow, thanks for watching. Have fun. Just keep it legal. And if you have any questions, add them to the comments or send me a note. All right. Cheers.


Hello and welcome to today's webcast. Stand out for the right reasons in the reputation economy. My name is Sarah. I'm from Redback Conferencing, and I will be your facilitator for today's session. Today's webcast is all about taking control of your reputation and building reputational capital. I would like to welcome our host for today, Dr. Narrell East. She's an expert when it comes to reputation and in the media. How are you today, Narrell? I'm very well. Thank you, Sarah. Hello, everybody. Nice to be here. Great to have you here. Now, I really want to kick things off straight away and get into this. Sure. And I think the most simple question to start with is how important is reputation? It's a great question, isn't it? It's what everybody wants to know. And reputation has always been important. I mean, this is nothing new, is it? We've always known that, you know, first impressions count and word of mouth is so important for our organizations and for ourselves as individuals. And nothing's really changed there. What has changed, though, in this digital age we're in, which has just made so many changes to all of our lives, is that now the rest of the world is really controlling the agenda when it comes to our reputation. And they've now got all these tools that they can use to pass on word about us. So that's been the shift. And savvy organizations and savvy businesses are starting to realize this, but it's happening fairly slowly. So I feel really passionate about bringing this to the attention of businesses, of not-for-profit organizations, and of course individuals, because we have personal reputation as well. So that's some of the areas that I'd like to cover when we speak today. Great. So we'll be talking both about organizational reputation and individual reputation? Absolutely, because, you know, they're both critically important. I mean, we're now in what has become known the reputation economy. You might have actually heard this term. If you haven't heard it yet, you probably will really soon. And it's interesting that there's now research. There's an organization called the Reputation Institute, and there are other organizations researching this. And they're finding evidence now what we already suspected, that people are more likely to form and pass on an opinion of you and your organization based on what they've heard from others. And I use heard in the broadest sense, including heard seen on social media, than on what you actually do. So you could be doing the best possible job making fantastic products, delivering great services, doing an amazing performance. But if you're not known for that, and if people aren't talking about that to others, then you're really not being as effective as you need to be now in building your reputation capital. So that's been the interesting shift in this digital age and the reputation economy. But hasn't it always been important, reputation? What's the difference now? It totally has always been important. But now people can see deeply into our organizations in ways that they haven't been able to do that before. So in the past, many organizations and businesses had what I like to call a decide and tell culture. So they made decisions. This might sound familiar to many of you if you work in organizations that things happened behind closed doors and then at a certain point a conscious decision was made that now we're going to tell our stakeholders or our audience about that. And in the past, we could control the channel because there were a lot fewer channels. Maybe we put out a media release or we put out a newsletter or we sent some emails or we had meetings with people and it was a lot more under our control. Well now there's no control but the channels are completely open. Everybody's got access to all these channels. It's kind of like being on a global stage 24 hours a day. We used to talk about our 15 minutes of fame. You might have heard that saying well the 15 minutes now kind of goes on forever because once you're out there in the public eye that reputation is there forever. So a lot of the times I talk to businesses or individuals and they say things have changed because now we've got Facebook and Twitter and I like to remind people that they're just tools. They're just the tools. It's really the deeper changes that those tools have driven that we need to consider. It really is a game changer. So the whole world has changed because the power is now in the hands of the people consuming our messages and that's never really happened before. And it's interesting that as part of all this a lot of business leaders are now saying they recognize that reputation management is critically important but are they necessarily doing what they need to do about that? Well probably not. And we'll talk about some of the steps that we can go through as organizations and as individuals as we go along here. But yeah the key thing is people can see into your business in a way that they couldn't do before and as we know they're not afraid to tell the world what they think and they're doing that every second of the day on all these different channels now. So we know that people as we can see here have access to information about us and our organization on a regular basis whenever they want to. So how can as a business or an organization can we manage our reputation? That's an interesting question isn't it? And the short answer to that is we can't control it. I mean if you just have a look I think we've got a slide here. So this is a model from the Reputation Institute and I love this because it starts to put things in perspective. So can we control our reputation? We actually can't. Because when you think about it what is your reputation?  And so now in this digital age we're in that's the whole world isn't it? Our market, our audience is everybody in the world potentially. So that's that collective perception and it's highly subjective what other people think about us. We can't control that. What we can control is who we are and what our organization really stands for what we stand for as an individual and then how we convey that to the rest of the world. So this model from the Reputation Institute shows the balance between the being what a company is or an organization or a business you can substitute that what they say about themselves and then what they actually do and if those things align then that's going to start to influence what other people say about you. I've got a slightly quirky model can I show you that one? This is kind of the serious model I prefer the the three-legged stool model This is my model of reputation this is really important because Sarah when we say the word reputation a lot of people think we're talking about marketing, PR maybe even a bit of spin doctoring and forms part of it but it's only a part so there are many many other things that influence what people think about us and what they say about us. So I liken it to a three-legged stool or a tripod if you're more of a scientific persuasion but let's stick with the stool for now so if you can imagine the first level of the stool and firstly imagine your precious reputation which might be your company, your organization or your own reputation is balanced precariously on the top of the stool so it's holding up your reputation. One leg of the stool is what you say about yourself so this is all of your marketing it's the color of your uniform color of your logo all those outward facing things so that's a critical part of your reputation but it's only one part so a lot of people stop there and think well that's my reputation but that's only the first part the second leg is how people actually directly experience us so this is all of our customer interactions or as individuals how we actually communicate with people and you know we have a business body language we have a personal body language obviously if you're wanting to communicate effectively what you say and your body movements your gestures need to align with that or you're not going to come across as being very authentic the same is true for a business or organization what you say about yourself and how people actually experience you must line up otherwise you've already got two rickety legs of your stool and your reputation is looking a bit dodgy balancing on top but the third leg of the stool and this is the one people often forget about is the main way our reputation is now forming that's what others say to others and you know do you reckon in this digital age that that's got you know out of proportion and is larger than the other two well yeah I believe it has so we can't control that leg of the stool what it can do is do everything in our power to build up those first two legs so making sure that what we're putting out there is it a true reflection of who we are it's positive it's constant it's deliberate it's proactive it's strategic so this is you know really the best marketing the most consistent messaging that we can have to portray who we are to the world and then making sure that we follow that through by our behaviour it's no good having a great you know window dressing if we're not following that through the way we behave so we talk we look at this now and I'm just liking that a lot to word of mouth so there's a lot of talk lately about employee engagement employee culture what your employees say would that also impact your reputation is that something that we really must consider now in this day and age? Absolutely and this is another one of these game changes that I talk about in the reputation economy I mean you don't have to look very far anywhere online to see incidents where organisations have got into a bit of trouble because information's got out and a lot of the time it's got out because somebody within the organisation has put it out there and so the power has really shifted people within our organisation they've got the tools and they've got the inside knowledge to share a whole lot of information with the outside world sometimes it might be information that we preferred that they didn't share but the reality is this is the culture now isn't it so building up that employee loyalty so that they're not likely to do that is critically important but it goes even further than that I mean you know it doesn't take a lot of your reputation damaged by one disgruntled employee and I see this so many times I do a lot of work managing really difficult issues for organisations by far the majority of times the incident is caused within the organisation itself through a disgruntled employee or through a situation that wasn't managed well it wasn't nipped in the bar it was just allowed to fester you know we just kind of pretended it wasn't there we managed it and then it's escalated and all of a sudden it's gone into the public domain then it might be picked up by mainstream media and who knows where it will end up so this is really fascinating and I guess it highlights the importance of making sure that you nurture your employees and if you work in an organisation realising you are that organisation's number one reputation ambassador 24 hours a day all the time and you know there's research around this as well there's this thing called the Edelman Trust Barometer Edelman it's a global public relations firm they do a major piece of research every year they interview people in about 26 countries a large survey and they ask the same question so that they can get trends and it's all around trust and authenticity and one of the questions they ask in this survey is if you were to hear information about a company or an organisation who would be the most credible source of information from that organisation and this is really interesting in 2011 that question was asked and subject matter experts very highly credible which is probably not surprising but about 50% of respondents said the CEO or the organisation or leader highly credible, highly credible which is what you'd expect absolutely, you'd hope wouldn't you regular employees somebody like me were a little bit credible but certainly weren't up there anywhere near the organisation or leader two years later 2013 very interesting results same question was asked in the same survey who'd be the most credible source of information again subject matter experts highly credible so again subject matter experts out there fantastic, keep up the good work but here's the interesting thing organisation or leader, CEO in 2011 about 50% of people said highly credible had fallen quite a lot so the employees regular employees someone like me down here in 2011 2013 had come up so it actually reversed the trend isn't that interesting this is again highlighted in how influenced we are by our peers now I mean, I'm sure most of us when we book travel, when we book restaurants accommodation, you know we check out TripAdvisor, we look at other websites first we read reviews before we go ahead and book absolutely, I mean I booked some accommodation in New York recently then I read the reviews, should've done it the other way around terrible, terrible reviews about this hotel like under no circumstances do not ever stay at this hotel that bad page after page, I actually cancelled the booking and booked somewhere else now if you told me five years ago that I would be that highly influenced by people I'd never even met, I would've laughed but we're highly influenced so this translates into businesses and organisations our employees have an incredible amount of power in influencing what other people think about organisation by their behaviour not just when they're at work well you never know who knows who especially now do you but organisations I'm finding aren't recognising this fact and they're not putting resources into skilling up their employees helping their employees understand the critical role they play in being reputation ambassadors and they're going to pay the price for that unfortunately because a lot of the times reputational issues come from within because employees get frustrated and then they're on social media and then who knows where it ends and I think a lot of this has to do with the internet and social media which we're talking about before we started today and it's had a huge impact in the way that organisations operate as an expert what changes has it also brought about I could imagine a long time ago before social media it seems like it's always been here to be honest in terms of crisis and any sort of reputational crisis how was it dealt with then what has sort of impact has social media made yeah well you know managing a crisis has never been straight forward or easy it certainly was a whole lot more straight forward before social media because again organisations to an extent could control some of the channels the mainstream media they certainly couldn't control but they could control their response so they could get away to an extent with saying a minimal amount or saying certain things whereas now because the truth is out there people can see into what we're doing everything is exposed and also just the speed of things for example in 2006 I worked for Wollongong City Council large local government authority in New South Wales and one day we were working there and the organisation was raided by ICAC the Independent Commission Against Corruption and it was very dramatic ICAC arrived came in they had a camera crew with camera rolling and they went in and started this investigation they evacuated part of the building and it was quite a dramatic scene and I was the communications manager at the time and I was getting media calls and the media were asking me what's going on at your council building part of the building's been evacuated is it a terrorist attack what's going on and I was under orders from the Independent Commission Against Corruption not to release any information not that I knew a lot but whatever information I had I was under strict instructions not to release anything so for a certain time even though all this was going on it was cloak and data stuff and we didn't release information to the media but that was pre-social media only 2006 but pre-social media I like to think can you imagine if that had happened now you would have had employees hanging over the stairwells with their phones recording as the raid happened they would have been tweeting, sharing, liking before I even knew what was going on so the speed of the way information travels I think that's been the biggest shift and it's out there and often we learn about it when it appears on social media rather than being able to manage the message and it's probably just going to get faster absolutely, yeah so my best advice to any organisation about crisis management is always don't have one so it's about putting steps in place to manage that and part of this building reputation capital is that's a huge element of that so when it comes to building this reputation capital is it something that needs to start from the top or as employees what can we do to assist our organisation to make sure that if a crisis does happen or something like that we can bounce back well I think it's both I think it needs to be driven from the top absolutely but make no mistake regular employees or employees at any level have a critical role to play so it's no good the leadership of an organisation saying one thing and the employees doing something else because the employees have the power at their fingertips to spread conflicting messages so it's got to be commitment at the top followed through with genuine action throughout the organisation so there are some steps that we can go through about you know how to build reputation capital do you want to start going through those let's have a look at that now so I like to use the acronym is so building reputation capital about having big ears that's memorable it is it is it is and you know remember there are some good reasons why we need to be building reputation capital I mean it's those companies I mean there's research now that's shown there's a link between reputation and ROI so you know the companies with the strongest reputations having greater market share attracting the best employees being able to charge higher prices for not for profits all about attracting more government grants more sponsorships and also if there are any problems organisations with the strongest reputation have a much better chance of managing those issues and not being decimated by problems being able to bounce back and then at an individual level obviously people with the best reputations are going to get the best opportunities you know the promotions the great jobs being offered the great projects but also people are going to be drawn to you you'll have people wanting to be on your team we want to do business with people who we've heard about who have strong reputations so that's even more important now so does this is model also apply to us as individuals absolutely it does yep yep so the first part of the is model is e for essence this is the essence of your your brand the essence of who you stand for and I'm sure you've experienced this Sarah to in the many people you talk to that sometimes when we think about about branding and reputation people think it's it's something you can just stick on the outside and you know this is this is very deep within the organization that this is about being really really clear on what you stand for and that goes beyond just what's in the mission statement yeah what is it that we're actually here to do and as an individual what is it that I'm actually here to do not just your job title what does that mean you know I am the such and such manager which means yeah you need to break that down and there's a great analogy I like to use about the US space program in the 1960s that they had this absolutely crystal clear purpose or essence that was to put a man on the moon and I say man because it was at the time I put a man on the moon and it didn't matter if you were the chief space engineer or the cleaner you came to work every day with that absolute mission and that was the essence of that organization and I like to say to businesses to teams and to people what's your man on the moon what is it that you're here to do so I think you know this goes back to being really clear about that because yeah sorry is that something that we should be communicating as businesses and you know you go to a lot of organizations websites and they have mission statements vision statements which are quite long and very wordy at times is it worthwhile just put in a one you know five words or something on there that really does communicate your essence definitely I think it starts with being inside the organization and knowing what you're there to do but then yes exactly finding a way to be known for that finding a way to be known for that and that may not necessarily be the same as what's on your website or what's in your mission statement sometimes they're quite hollow words I'm talking about the authentic real purpose for why we're here the man on the moon so it starts with that so it doesn't matter if it's a large organization a small business or a person I like to go through this exercise of getting people to reflect on what their purpose is I did this actually last week with a group of women leaders and it was amazing these were some heavy hitters amazing women some of them had never actually considered this they knew their job title and they knew the stuff that they did the outputs but they hadn't ever really thought about the outcome what are they trying to do exactly and this was almost a higher purpose some of them were almost embarrassed to think about their higher purpose but I'm thinking well isn't that why you're here if that's not why you're here then why are you doing what you do once you start to connect with that then helps to drive the messages you put to the outside world and it starts to become a lot more authentic than just the color of the logo or the window dressing that you put on the outside so that's our essence so start with that the A stands for awareness now this creature it's a South American fish called an anablep and I like to look at it for a little while it's weird isn't it it's actually got four eyes now I didn't come up with this analogy I heard somebody else use this example in a different way and I thought you know I'm going to take this and apply this to reputation because it works really well so an anablep has four eyes and so two of the eyes are above the water checking out for predators and then the other two are below the water looking out for food which is kind of cool when you think about this is how we need to be when it comes to our reputation we need a set of eyes scanning the horizon to be really really aware of what's being said about us whether we're a business or whether we're a person you need to know what is being said about you by others you can't necessarily control it and you may not necessarily be able to discover everything some of those conversations won't be in an open forum but you need to have a very clear idea otherwise you're just blundering along in the dark and not really knowing what it is you're dealing with and then it's a matter of putting into practice what I call constant weeding when you identify an issue that might impact your reputation it's doing something about it straight away and I guess it applies I know in the past when social media really did become big they get negative posts or something on their social media pages as an organisation and how not responding or deleting is possibly the worst thing you can do isn't it that's right it does become difficult if you're a large organisation and there's a barrage but we can't ignore this because this is our currency it's the reputation economy so we've got to find a way to resource that to respond appropriately so that's the external the eyes above the water but we've also got the other set of eyes and this is the eyes within and this is just as important so for an organisation it's about really knowing what's going on and again the number of crises and issues that I've been called in to help resolve where the problem's actually been caused from within the organisation is amazing you know we are so good at shooting ourselves in the foot I always say never underestimate people's potential to do dumb things and they will but then organisations try to cover it up or they pretend it hasn't happened and don't do anything about it and then as individuals again it's also being really aware inwardly of how are we travelling, how are we performing are we really delivering on our promises how are people actually experiencing us if there are areas where we need to develop then being prepared to do the work and develop those these are the things that are going to help build reputation capital so again far beyond just the pretty stuff on the outside you know it's an inside job it starts from within I take that a step further this is another model that I like to work with and you can see the bottom left you're courting disaster this is you're not aware of what's going on with your reputation and you're not taking any action you're courting disaster it's a matter of time before some major reputation or problem come your way or you could be very aware but you're not actually taking any action I call that burying your head in the sand so you know there's a problem but you're kind of going la la la let's just ignore it and I see plenty of that in businesses and organisations or you could be very active you're running around and you're doing all this social media and you're putting stuff out there but you haven't done any work to actually gauge what your reputation is like to start with and I call that getting the landmines you're running around and you might be missing disaster but only by a little bit sooner or later something's going to go wrong or you could be really aware and really active and strategic and that's truly building reputation capital so it's a matter of having both of those elements so awareness is important needs to be coupled with action as well hope that's making sense to everybody so when it comes to becoming aware is it just you know within your organisation you're taking a step back sometimes and just focusing on what's happening inside as opposed to having this whole external view is that the only thing you can do? It definitely has to be systematic and strategic so difficult as this will be because we're all busy doing our day jobs but you know this is the reputation economy and it's critical the companies that are and the organisations that are succeeding at this and have the strongest reputations and this is research from the Reputation Institute to the use of building reputation so they actually have allocated time and resources to exactly this stuff to making sure that they're keeping on top of what are people saying about us and what's going on inside they have a process whether it's a weekly meeting or some other mechanism where they're talking about what are the potential issues that could crop up in our business or our organisation rather than waiting till it's exploded into some major problem and this proactively they're weaning the garden constantly and they're reaping the rewards because their reputation's growing positively standing out for the right reasons as I say not the wrong ones because they're keeping on top of these things so I think we're up to the R of our years so we'll move on and this is relationships the world now runs on relationships and obviously we're heavily networked I don't know about you Sarah you're in lots of different networks to within an inch of our life but it goes further than that we're actually now in an entire ecosystem of influence so we're interacting and interwoven in our relationships with so many people around the world because we can connect with them through social media and anything that happens in one part of the ecosystem will ripple through and have an impact elsewhere in the ecosystem so another key strategy for building a reputation is to really focus in on your relationships to make sure that you're really thinking about who are the people in my ecosystem who are the ones that I need to nurture the relationships with and just on that we just have a question that's come through from Nat so Nat asks in terms of building reputation how much of a role can LinkedIn play in this? Fantastic question I mean LinkedIn is one of the many tools available to us LinkedIn is fantastic in the business and corporate world I mean it's like the corporate Facebook because now we can see who's who in the zoo you can easily get on there and see who are the key people that you might want to connect with and you've got that great mechanism on LinkedIn I don't know what it's called but you can look at someone's profile and you can see how they're connected with you it's like a tree almost they might be one removed from you but there's somebody a mutual contact so you can contact that person and ask for an introduction I always say to people though let's not you know face to face is still the preferred method of communication I always advise people if possible conversations where you can see people's eyeballs so LinkedIn is a great introduction opportunity but follow up in person make those approaches in person and start to build rapport and relationships and I guess now there's a lot of people who have questions published in posts and insights if you like can that play into wanting to establish yourself or your organisation as a thought leader within the industry? that's a really interesting question this is about being great at what you do and then being known for being great so at an individual level and at a corporate level one of the most effective ways you can do that is to take steps to establish yourself as a thought leader exactly what we've said being clear on who you are and what you stand for and then communicating that to the world through the content you publish through the way you behave with people the way you interact, what you share I mean you see people sharing all kinds of random stuff on LinkedIn but yeah it doesn't really seem LinkedIn appropriate sometimes so I'd really suggest that that's what you're wanting to do sharing content on LinkedIn and I highly recommend that as a way of building your voice make sure it's consistent with what you stand for so really think about the essence and choose content, vet it don't just share any old thing I mean I won't share anything that's a blatant sales pitch you start to read it and then three paragraphs and there's the sales pitch don't share that but really useful valuable content that's linked directly to your essence absolutely that can start to build up a really strong profile and it's starting to build up as a thought leader is a great way to build reputation capital great question so that was the R of our relationship R of our ears relationships so don't neglect the good old fashioned way of connecting with people sometimes we get caught up in this dizzying array of technology and it's fantastic that it's there but sometimes the old school things are great as well sometimes I recommend to CEOs of organizations just have a conversation with that person and they look at me like I'm a genius conversation this is all about people connecting with people we're now fortunate enough we've got great tools to do that but we've still got to connect so connect in an authentic way and that starts with being clear building these relationships shall we move on to S and this is our systems so this is what I was talking about most reputable companies in the world most reputable organizations have systems for doing this they have strategies they have a reputation strategy they have a communication strategy if they're going to deal with media social media they have a strategy for doing that it's not just done randomly or in an ad hoc or reactive manner and a lot of the time I see many businesses just do that randomly have a good idea let's put it out there I encourage you to think about doing this in a strategic way and similarly with individuals if you want to build your profile build your reputation sit down and think about some objectives and set yourself some goals and some time frames and it might be I'm going to share three different types of content I'm linked in every week but it's going to be content that's linked to my essence it might be becoming aware that hang on I need to build my skills as a communicator build my skills in networking so doing something about that going to networking events and practicing or getting some coaching and mentoring or doing a course or a webinar yeah so this is part of this internal awareness and then your systems are actually putting it into action so reputation doesn't happen by accident it's an inside job and it's built in steps that's why I like the Russian dolls having the steps that all fit together hopefully that makes sense to everybody yes so now that we've gone through is hope everyone is familiar with that now what are the risks of not paying attention to your reputation whether you are an organization or an individual what's the worst that could happen I'm a little bit scared to ask that question exactly we don't have to look very far do we to see some of the disasters that can happen if we don't pay attention to our reputation I love this analogy when I was in New York recently there was this Apple store that's set up in Grand Central Station in New York so this beautiful historic building gorgeous lighting and they've set up an Apple store and it's not a store with walls around it they've actually just put the store within the building it's really cool and it's this fantastic kind of morphing of old and new cutting edge technology with the Apple store and this grand beautiful old building that's what we've got to be like agile and we've got to be able to take opportunities and I guess communicate these kind of old style values of relationship building with the latest technology and if we can do that we are going to be fantastic reputation builders for our organization if not we risk becoming dinosaurs and just being extinct or having some sort of major reputation or disaster so you don't have to look very far at the examples of organizations who have got this wrong who haven't managed their relationships well who aren't clear on what they stand for who haven't responded don't have systems in place and they've ended up in social media storms that's going to have long term impacts on their reputation can you bounce back from that that depends depends on your reputation to start with and how well you manage it but it's not easy far better to have a good reputation in the first place and manage things as they crop up so I'm sure nobody wants to be extinct like a dinosaur as a business as a not-for-profit and as an individual you don't want your career to be extinct so the best way to guard against that is to consciously strategically deliberately go through these steps that I've outlined and build reputation capital so it's about prevention isn't it absolutely like most things when I used to market myself as the crunch time communicator because I worked in the media for a long time I was the go-to girl when things went horribly wrong people would call me and it was a bit like calling the paramedics when things were serious and I got to thinking you know this is crazy I want to work at the other end and show businesses and people how to prevent this because 90% of the time it was totally preventable they'd made a mistake or something had happened and they hadn't responded well or they had poor relationships with people already so of course when people got angry if they already had bad relationships it went from bad to worse by putting some of these steps back in the beginning it was preventative you've got to be prepared to do the work but my question is do you want a great reputation and I'm sure you do then this really needs to be a focus and something that you build in to every day building into organisational decision making and also in the way you operate as an individual well that brings us close to the end closing comments from yourself closing comments don't underestimate the power of reputation I work with businesses every day who haven't heeded this advice who've paid the price and then take a long time to get back on top if they ever do so far, far better to take the steps really be aware of what's going on and take action and put strategies in place and don't neglect traditional media is still there make that work in with your social media but don't just focus on the window dressing know who you are but be great and then be known for being great hopefully that's been helpful today I think that's been very very helpful thank you so much Nerole it's been great chatting with you and thank you everyone online for watching great insights out of today for not only yourself but possibly even your organization so thank you once again for joining we hope to see you at future business skills events and enjoy the rest of your day bye for now thank you bye


How's it going everybody? Dato Doi here with another video covering the Dragon Ball Super movie soon to be released this December. In today's video we're going to be taking a look at multiple new pictures of the new Broly and his new design, as well as go over what these changes in his design could mean for plot points in the film, or at least discuss some directions the film could take these designs in. Let's go ahead and start by talking about Broly in his base form. We have a couple of different references for this one, one with the armor and one without. Let's go ahead and start with the armor because it was the first thing that caught my eye because it's not the same color or fashion of the typical Saiyan armor that we see, but it does look a lot more like those new characters that we got in a scan a while back. I don't think we ever got any confirmation on who these characters are related to, whether they be members of the new Frieza Force or if they're just members of a prehistoric Saiyan race of some sort or related to the old Saiyans. This movie is going to deal with the history of the Saiyans so I don't think it's too far of a stretch to think if these people could be related to Saiyans, but I think the far more likely answer is that they are related to the Frieza Force in some way or another. And just because it's the first picture we're taking a look at today, let's also just cover the basics of Broly's design. Visually, I think it looks fantastic. I especially really like the fur pelt that he ties around his waist. It really does remind me of the great ape aspect of the Saiyans, so I think it captures the savage feel of a Saiyan, which is something that you can obviously tell they were really going for with this design as I think it's actually pretty funny because if we look over here at this other one that doesn't show his armor, you can see he's all scarred up and has really long spiky hair. A lot of people were comparing him to Yamcha with the initial poster and I think that's not really too far off. He does look a lot like Yamcha, but I think that's more of just the thing that the Dragon Ball artists really like to shove the fact when somebody's like a savage or they share like animalistic traits, they really just like to scar them up and draw them with really unkempt spiky hair. So I think just by knowing that Broly is a Saiyan and knowing how these Dragon Ball artists like to design characters, it's pretty safe to say Broly is going to be a prehistoric or almost a savage like character. And while we're here, while the other art does depict him with more purple attire and darker gauntlets, this does look lighter blue to me, but that could just be the very poor picture quality or a countless of other things. Maybe I'm just colorblind. Far more interesting to me though is the fact that we get a better look at this thing around Broly's neck and this doesn't really look like an accessory to me. You know, the old Broly could get away with that necklace. You know, he just it just looked like something somebody would want to wear this. I'm not sure anybody would want to wear if they had a choice in the matter. It's just, you know, it really gouges out, looks super uncomfortable. And I think it's something that is going to keep Broly's power in check. This is an age old story plot, even from the first Broly movie. Broly is just so strong that in order to control him, they need to keep his power in check. And I think even though I really wouldn't be too interested in seeing that play out, if that's the option they want to go with, you know, it is a safe tale as old as time. So I could definitely see that being the reason why Broly has this brick around his neck. Another thing that really backs up this image is coming later or this theory is coming later. But as for right now, yeah, I just believe that this is probably going to be the plotline they roll with. Somebody is controlling Broly and they just want to keep his power in check. Now the next picture we have here is just some promotional art and this indicates a whole sort of different things.  They're back. But no, more importantly, this shows Broly with a yellowish tint of hair, more like the classic Super Saiyan design that we are all familiar with. Now, what we're not too familiar with is the fact that his eyes look glazed over white. This is of course a common trait with like kale and rage trunks, you know, when they want to depict rage, they show the character with whiteed out eyes to show that they've lost a sense of control, I guess, is the design thing behind that. Now, this could just be a case of the picture being such low quality. I wish we had better scans, but unfortunately, we just don't have that. So the pupils could be there. His eyes are yellow if we look back at the original model here. And even in the trailer, they depict his eyes yellow. So it could just be a case of just missing this completely. If you see eyes there, let me know. But for now, I'm going to work under the assumption that this is Broly slightly raging out. It definitely doesn't look like the legendary Super Saiyan form, because he still has his armor on and he hasn't completely roided out. I also can't make up my mind if what I'm seeing there around his neck is the device, or if he's lost it at this point. Either way, in the totally roided out legendary Super Saiyan version, Broly, we do see that he has ditched the device for sure. We have two angles of this. We have this picture. And then we have a cardboard cut out of Broly. In both, you can see that his hair has gone to a much more recognizable green tint, a little lighter than usual, but does match more with his fur pelt. Again, eyes completely whiteed out to show that he has lost his control. And again, noticeably, as his eyes white out here, he completely loses the brick. So at this point, I think this is the design of Broly after he's either broken free of whoever's controlling him, whether it be his father who has been confirmed to be in this movie, or just the Frieza Force, which I think, if I was to take a guess, this is completely a guess. I think this movie is going to involve Frieza finding Broly and taking him under his control. It just, I don't know, it makes too much sense not to. I think that would be a good avenue to explore the history of the Saiyans and Frieza, how they relate Frieza's need to control Saiyans for some reason, whatever it may be. But I think those two could relate to each other really well. And that might be how we get a really good story out of this. And just to touch on it design wise, I think it looks fantastic. It's really hard to go wrong with Broly in a raged out sense. This is just something that is really iconic with Dragon Ball and Broly's design. So I think getting rid of it would have been a bad way to go. So I'm super glad they kept this just insane looking Broly. So again, just to recap here, we have Broly in his armor and base with the yellow pupils. That's going to be important because just in case I missed it on that other picture, the Saiyan armor relates more back to these new characters than any of the old, or I say new, these could be historically old, like even older than Goku and Vegeta. We can see in the figure he does have that thing around his neck. That would make sense because he's in his base form if we're keeping my theory in mind. Again, we have him in his base form with these bluish looking pants and more bricks around his neck. As we go along, we have him in this super sanish form, just promotion art fighting Goku blue and Vegeta blue. This picture is kind of the worst set of them all in terms of quality for me. I can't make out a lot of what's going on, but possibly in what I think is happening is that at this point he's raged out. The control thing may or may not be on there still. This could be a case of Kale that this is his more controlled version. And then finally, we have the what I think is going to be Broly's ultimate form of the film, just Broly in his natural legendary super Saiyan state. Let me know down in the comments what you think of Broly's design, whether it be in any theories, how it could relate to the plot, what you think the designers are trying to get across with these designs, or just what you think about them aesthetically. You know, that's something I'm definitely interested in hearing. Whenever you design, whenever you redesign an iconic character, the look of them probably comes first in terms of appeasing fans. So let me know your thoughts on that. I for one, as a pseudo Broly fan, I'm super pleased with this. But again, let me know what you think. While you're down in the comments, if you like these videos and want to see more like this from the channel, make sure to hit the like button and subscribe. I'm Datsudoya. I'll see you in the next video.


the April 18th, 2022 regular select board meeting to order with us is Flo Smith, Joe Stahl, Vince Conti is with us, Vlaia Zoom, kinda, and Diane Isabel. Let's see here. Additions or changes to the agenda? You're muted. I'd like to add the Fisher Road aving on there. We received that from Pike this week, just recently, just four April minutes are in the package. They've been added since the agenda came out. Okay. Any public comment? Anything else? Any public comment? Hearing none. Rainbow Bridge Community Center request for ARPA funding? Greg Forvis was supposed to be joining tonight, but he hasn't. Has not joined. There is a letter that explains it in your package. Community Center. Let the record show that. Join us. Join the meeting. Don't have a good excuse here. I should have just skipped around the golf. I played just before. They're not either or here. No, they're not. We'll skip on to Center Vermont Runners Club permit. There's a copy of it in your package. Please don't forget to sign it if you approve it tonight. It's for the yearly race that they hold on a junction road. Are they going UK to put up their signs beginning and everything? Yeah. It's their 44th annual 10k road race. Have a motion on that? I make the motion to approve the 44th annual road race by Central Vermont Runners and the special event permit that we have in our packet. All the details included and the date of the event is June 11th, 2022. They have an estimated attendance of 100. Time of the event is from 9 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. 10.30 a.m. Here a second. A second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Board reappointments. This is a little bit lengthy, but we've had some, again, that have been expired for some time that we've reached out to. They're still interested in being on these boards and we have some new ones as well. For example, the Economic Development Committee. So in your packet, there is a package of a page and a quarter of all the appointments that are expired or expiring or due to be reappointed, including also the Tree Warden. Mr. Wilcox, Dave Wilcox, has expressed his interest and he is certainly very qualified for that role as well. So you'll see him there on there also. If you have any questions with any of the specifics, please just let me know. Other than that, it's pretty straightforward. To reappoint these folks, I suppose we should do them by board. I make the motion to approve Randy Herring to March 2023 for the Cemetery Commission. A second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Central Vermont Fiber. I make the motion for Jeremy Hansen to continue through March 2023 for Central Vermont Fiber. A second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. And as an alternate, Jerry D'Amatidis to March 2023 also for Central Vermont Fiber. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Before we go on, can I ask a question? Sure. So with the names and the rest of these boards, does that make the boards folder we're not sure anyone? No. Okay. There are still some vacancies and I'll continue to keep those posted and updated on our website as well. For example, the Economic Development Committee is a board of five and we're just restarting that. We have three. So there's two right there. Yeah. Most of the others are, there may be one on the Public Works Board, but most of them, I think with the exception of the Cemetery Commission are within one person of being phoned. Okay. Thank you. And I can, I'll get those details out for you. I make the motion to reappoint Bob Warnick through March 2023, Karla Nuisel through March of 24, John Frederick, March of 2024 and Tour Nelson through March of 2025. You're second. I second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Planning Commission. I make the motion to approve Tony Snow through March of 2025 and Amanda Smith through March of 2024. I second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Public Works Board. I make the motion to approve Rob Allen through March of 2024 and Ted Long through March of 2023. You're second. I second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Recreation and Parks Committee. I make the motion to approve Mike noise through March of 2023, Jeffrey Farrell through March of 2023 and Hannah Connor through March of 2024. Second. I second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Representative to the Transportation Committee at Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission. I hereby recommend Bob Warnick continue through March of 2023 with a representative to oh that's separate or is it also the representative to the Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission for CVRPC Rob Warnick March of 2023. I second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Alternate. And the alternate rep would be Carla Neweasel through March of 2023. Second. Any discussion on that? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Representative to the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District. I make the nomination for Matt Levin through March of 2023 to continue. Second. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Economic Development Committee. I make the motion to have Roberta Matt Paskin through March of 2023, Theron Lay Sleeper through March of 2023, and Wayne Lamberton also through March of 2023. Second. Any further discussion? Yes, I'd actually like to contribute. I'm not sure how active the committee is, but I have spoken with former select board chair Pat McDonald and she's interested in participating or contributing to the Economic Development Committee in some way. So if that's an active board, I don't know if they could contact her or... I'll take care of that. I'll reach out to her and I'll get her on here for an appointment at the... What's the next meeting? What's the membership on that board? Five. Okay. Wonderful. Thank you, Carp. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries and for Tree Warden. I make the motion for Dave Wilcox through March of 2023 as our Tree Warden here in Berlin. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Okay. Audit, RFPs, review and discussion, Diane? Okay. So this is for audit services, right? And I think Diane may want to speak a little bit about this and the need and the urgency to move forward for those auditing services. We've had Father Gil and Sigali now for six years. There's only like two firms in the area that are doing it that I'm aware of right now and since the term is up we need to get somebody immediately because I have to be able to coordinate with that person so they'll have the audit done time. So as soon as we can send it out and I do believe that we will be having a single audit as well which will add to the cost. In this past year, the audit was $18,000 and that's basically, I think we have like maybe 19 in the budget for next year, not exactly so. So you're also to send the RFPs out? Yep. There's copies of the draft. It looks basically, it's almost word for word from the last one that was actually used. So yep, I just need the board's approval to proceed with that and we'll send it out for somewhere between three and five RFPs. We'll send out to get some proposals back. Can I have a motion to put out the RFP for the audit review? I make the motion to move forward with the audit RFP as presented to us this evening for review. Your second second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. In the cleaning RFP. That one's a joyful read if you'd like to. That's pretty extensive. The reason for that is again trying to standardize and make them reasonably professional RFPs that go out. We have someone that has expressed interest in bidding already. So we'll have that person and the current person as well. But I'd like to find a couple more for the cleaning services for here and for the police. You know, in talking with the staff, there's been a fair number of issues that they're not entirely happy with the services that we're currently getting and paid for. And it's due to go out anyway. So again, the one thing I'm waiting on for this RFP because it's so extensive is our attorney's review of it to make sure that it's in line with what we need. But it's very extensive. It even has a list of what they do and how many times a week they do that as part of the service to commit to. So I do expect the cost to go up a little bit because it's a little more extensive. We're asking them to clean a little bit more and, you know, take care of things here. So what you were not happy with the last contract, has that been addressed in this RFP? Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. This one, there wasn't a real contract per se with any detail to it. For the last one, this one is pretty detailed. Okay. Motion on that to put out the RFP for the cleaning services? I make the motion to go forward with putting out the RFP for the cleaning services as presented. After lawyers approval? Yes, after lawyers approval. You are here a second? Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Local emergency management presentation. Hi, Bruce. Good evening, Bruce. Good evening, everyone. It's that time of year again that the state requires that we submit a updated or revised local emergency management plan. It's just our checklist of the people we would contact, where the local shelters are, that sort of thing. Every year we do a review to make sure that the numbers are up to date and have the right contacts in there. And so that's what we've submitted for your approval tonight. So, Bruce, just so you're aware, right? They received a copy of that electronically and flow you have a copy since you're the only one that has gone through the testing that is certified to sign that. There's a copy there for you to sign. And where is the copy to review right now? I don't see it in the packet. There's one copy on the table with a red flag on it for your signature. Okay. Very good. What testing and certification is that that you took? I was just going to ask one question of Vince first is when is the last time that the testing needs to have been done to make sure that I'm valid in signing? That's a great question that I don't know the answer to. I have to look that up. I consistently took it up through, I want to say 2019. But I haven't since maybe in 20, but it would be right in that vicinity. From my perspective, the there's no expiration date for that. There's no requirement for retesting. I think it's a good idea to have it at least every years because some of that information if it's not used regularly, except like an emergencies. But there's nothing in my to my knowledge that anybody's ever said that you have to have that a certain within a certain time period. Excellent because I know I've done three to five of them and I did them consistently and renewed them. But I'm just not certain. So that's good to know. Good to know. They're trainings that you can do online and when I was at the transportation agency, they were required and they were required consecutively every certain amount of years. And then when I moved to a different position, I just continued to do it. But I think it was 19 or 20 the last time I did. So I know the name of the ICS. ICS, yes. So 100, 200, 300. I think I did 501 and a few others. I think I've taken 102. Excellent. Great. That's wonderful. I avoided taking any more after taking those two. But those are those don't really expect it. I think it's good to know. I think it's strongly encouraged to review to review. I know some of them I've done multiple times. It's just remembering whether it was 19 or 20 when I last renewed them. And everybody had a chance to go over the. Merging management plan and your names and contact notes. If so, I entertain a motion on this and make the motion to approve the local emergency management plan as presented to us by Bruce Richardson. And also we have the backup documentation here with us as well. And we'll sign off on that tonight if it's approved. Your second. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I motion carries. Anything else you need, Bruce? No, that's it. Just a thanks to the chief for becoming the emergency management director for the town. Okay. Thank you, Bruce. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. Thank you. The town. What we're pregnant. Okay. So I know we're gonna be sending out an RFP. We haven't already because we feel that we are gonna be needing a reappraisal. The last time we had reappraisal was 2008. So I went back and looked it up to see what the fees were. And then I wanted to just discuss how much money we have when we count. So back in 2008 and in 2009, we spent $133,549.71. That's what we spent for fees to, I think it was the company that we use right now. We want the one that we were using right now anyways. So we spent $133 for them. Then we also at that time had listers on the payroll. And they did a lot of work on it as well. And so I just included their salaries just so that we have a basis. So it looks like $60,495 is what we paid them. So I'm saying all in all that for the 2008, we spent $194,000 basically.  Okay. So that's how much we're looking at. So now we bring it up to the current day. And I don't know how many properties they looked at at that time. And not find that I just found the numbers that we spent. So what I did is looked at the 411 report for last year, which gives us how many properties we have. So I'm showing for commercial industry, we have like 220 properties, mobile homes 199. Now mobile homes, we don't have to do again, because we did that like two years ago. And then residential and others 1,059. So that's many properties we have. And right now, we have in our reappraisal fund and the reserve 225,000. So I think we have a good amount there. Then what I did is I knew that Berrytown had done a reappraisal last year. So I looked at their newsletter to see if I could compare to, you'll see how much they spend to compare to them. They have about 3,500 properties, which obviously is a lot more than us. And as of August of last year, they spent 214,000. So I do feel that the 225,000 we have is adequate. And obviously, before we do have another reappraisal, we will be adding at least another 13,000, maybe $26,000 to that number. And like I said, we've already done the mobile homes and we won't have to do those again for another few years. So just to make you aware, that's money we have. And I'll just keep you updated as time goes along. Great dad. If the board approves going out for RFP tonight, we'll get that out. I would expect somewhere between three to six months to make a selection. And then probably another and correct me if I'm wrong, Diane, probably another 12 to 18 months before they're even going to get us on the schedule for reappraisal. So we're looking at reappraisal, probably actually two years out, based on what's going on around around. I think Barry Towns is actually or Barry City's just scheduled one and it's a year and a half out or something 18 months or two years. So how much how much money is the state paying for law for I don't know how much it is per parcel. But I can tell you that this past year, we received $13,200. And that's right around the amount that we receive each year. So the year before that was 13,269 and the year before that 13,760. So I can't tell you how much it is per parcel just based on this. But that's what we've been getting each year for the last three years. Have you heard anything about them raising the amount per parcel? Nope. No, I get very little information on that. So you're looking for an RFP on this? You have to go out? Yeah. Yeah, I thought you had one. I have a motion. I make the motion to move forward with the townwide reappraisal and all that is needed to move that forward. Here a second. Second. Any further discussion on this? How how much expected to cost after this reappraisal? How much would you expect it to cost how much you think we're going to put into the pot to get our balance backed up? Before we had a surplus and we took in we were putting I think about 10,000 years. We did for others. Yeah, quite a few years that I saw that we had done that. But not every year. You know, I think we stopped doing it actually. 10,000 stopped in 2013. Well, we had we had a surplus. Well, we figured we had enough. Right. Yes. And that's why that is why. So I don't know how much we'll end up spending. I'd like to think it won't be like 250,000. It should be a lot less than that considering what Berrytown spent. And they have a lot more properties in this. I'm not knowing. Obviously, after the RFP, we will know a lot more at that point in time. And then we can really plan ahead. Okay. Because usually, you know, reappraisal, you don't do that more than, you know, once in 10 years or more. Well, does the state put out any guidelines? How often they want it done? No, what they do is they send you information on when they do this post the CLA. They'll tell you where you stand at that point in time. And I know the last year that they have written in their letter that they were recommending we start looking at that. What's our CLA at now? Last time I heard it was like 100 percent or 105 or something like that. I don't have it right here. But they're saying if it's, you know, if it's way over 100%, you should do a reappraisal. If it's like 85% or less, you should do a reappraisal. So since we were over that mark, they're saying we should reappraisal. And just, I think the CLA is going to change tremendously because of the sale of the homes last year have just been so much higher than what we've appraised these homes for. And a lot of them have sold for a lot more than the appraisal that we have. Okay. Thank you, Diane. All those in favor of the motion? Aye. Motion carries. Now is probably a good time to do your additions. Yes, sir. So in your packet, there is a quote for Fisher Road Paving for us. The timing is good. We did reach out to a couple others. Hutchins comes to mind. They didn't bid. So nobody else bid. Pike is prices are going up like everything else. They also have some work from last year that they need to do early spring for us as well. So they can, if we get approval tonight, they can get that on the schedule, probably to pave buyer before the end of May on Fisher Road. The only question that I have is I see on it, it says that the price is valid through March 18th of 22. Yeah, we've talked about that. So what would that change in terms of the pricing if this is only valid? Oh, this is going to stay the same now. That quote will stay the same. We've talked to them about that. Excellent. So this is for just at the Fisher Road. That's just for Fisher Road. The others have already been approved. They just didn't get it scheduled last year. Okay. And they're holding those prices. No increases. So you sent a number of them out and Pike was the only one that answered. Yep. Okay. I make the. When does this have to be, when does this have to be approved as soon as possible to get to get it scheduled for May? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. I make the motion to approve the bid from Pike Industries Incorporated. They were the only company that did bid and they are going to hold the price of $46,780.20 and I make the motion that we move forward with that bid. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? All right. Motion carries because I have one thing that I did forget to add before we get to that and that's the chief is here. He wants to share a few things with the board tonight as well. So to help supplement our training program, we kind of focus on the high liability areas, use of force, driving, motor vehicle stuff in our firearms. So I've been looking out for alternative ways to supplement our program. One of those is to kind of get into technology. There's a lot of digital type of technology, virtual reality, if you will, to supplement people's firearm program. They vary widely in cost. I think one of the last people that I spoke to is close to $100,000 for virtual reality firearms training program. A lot of that type of programming is you have to pay per user. So in that case, they want on us to pay like $100, $200 per officer per month to maintain this program so they could log in on their own and keep track of their own training records. So a lot of this technology is, it's a subscription essentially. You have to pay for month-to-month or year-to-year. I was able to find a program called Dark Technologies that have a mobile projection system that gives us a lot of the opportunities that the other virtual reality programs does like a fraction of the cost. This program allows you to take essentially a laptop and a small projector and bring it anywhere. For instance, I could bring it in here, project it on the back of the wall, and would run officers through firearm simulations. You can include anything from range type of training to work on very basic firearm skills like sight alignment, trigger pull, those type of things, to actual use of force scenarios where you have to use de-escalation skills which is a critical skill that the state is really hammering these days. So it allows us to work anywhere from the basics to the more advanced stuff. It has a lot of benefits in that because it's so mobile, easy to set up, any one of our officers can use it. You can take 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the end of shift, beginning of shift, or run them through a scenario, work on skills. If someone's struggling at the range, for example, a couple times a week, you can come in 15 minutes early shift, literally put something up on the wall and work on basic skills. It is very difficult to get all of us as a department up at the range to do any kind of meaningful training. It can be difficult because of the weather. Basically nine months out of the year, we're not really able to get up to the range because weather ammunition is extremely expensive these days and there's a long wait out for it. We take up to six to nine months for us to get ammunition so it is not feasible or realistic for us to go up to the range and use actual animal every time you want to train or supplement our training. This gives us an opportunity to really give us a bonus and help us out with those areas. It is a little non-pricy side. It runs in just under $10,000. I think they quoted me at about $9,800. They're add-ons that are fairly inexpensive that you can add on after that such as a rifle and other pistols so you can do partner drills and various other technology that we can look at down the road if we're able to buy into this. There's no subscription fee once they give it to us. It's ours, which is a huge plus. We can bring it with us anywhere. We can bring it over to school, practice like after-shooter type of training. We can literally put that to the top of the stairway and practice officers going up the stairway and encountering some kind of threat or situation. Put it out into a garage and have officers run through what it's like to get out of a car and engage someone. So there's a lot of mobility and versatility to the program that would be beneficial to us that we really couldn't get anywhere else. So I sent out a link to events and I'm not sure if anybody got a chance to look at it but it does run you what through what the program does and what the simulator is capable of doing. A lot of small PDs have signed on to it just because it's so versatile and relatively inexpensive when compared to the alternatives. This sounds like something that a lot of departments must use. Is there any potential for a grant for a purchase? We have asked for it in a grant. We have a technology grant right now that we've submitted a bunch of items that the PD needs but it's a shot in the dark. Excuse the pun to whether or not we're going to get that grant. We have some money in our training budget that could that would help offset the cost of it. But the answer is yes there's money out there for grants we have applied for them but one I have no idea when this grant might be accepted even if we were looking probably at a year out and the chances of us getting a small PD like we are are pretty small. Then sir are funds usable for this? Yes they are. What's the total cost to you? About $9,800 just short of $10,000. Per person? That's the whole unit. That will get us up and running for the whole PD. How much would you do? I'm sorry there's no monthly subscription unlike all these other programs once we get that we've got all the software all the equipment we need to be up and running. You have access to software updates? Yeah all that stuff. If we want additional modules for training that does cost us additional money but they do give us a basic like 30-module training program that would get us up and going anything beyond that we'd have to buy whatever the package is. Do you have any network connection with any other force that's using this current this dark technology? There are variations on this technology. Adam used to have a simulator. That's not something that's readily available to us. Other agencies that might have simulators such as this where it's just a scheduling issue getting down there. Well I was more thinking whether or not you know like on Amazon I always read the comments if I'm going to buy a new swimming pool or whatever so I've had several conversations with this salesperson and the others that I've dealt with. There's real low pressure sales pitch, these former law enforcement are the people that train the program or former law enforcement. So I had, they're out of the floor so my experience with them has been good and very professional that's really the only thing I can say about it's pretty basic software. They just happened to kind of tailor it towards law enforcement. They have a lot of military contracts. Would they be willing to give you a demo before you purchased it or like so let to let you or other officers try it or community members or select members because it sounds pretty cool. Yeah I can check but because they're out of Florida I think the logistics of that are probably pretty difficult. It's not uncommon to do training and evaluation, testing and evaluation but I think just because the logistics it would be difficult. But once we had it up here I love that. We would too. What would you consider your savings would be with a program such as this in terms of the ammunition? It's hard to compare because we're not doing the training because we're not going to go out and use real ammo but I probably $50 for a box of ammo these days. The time to get up to the range so we're looking at several $100 at least for just a couple hours of training that we don't do currently. We go up to the fire arms twice fire arms range twice a year and that's the only fire arms training we do just because it's logistically difficult to do anything else. Occasionally we piggyback on the very city they do active shooter training once a year in simunitions and that's always really valuable training but I can only afford to send one or two officers at a time like this year Sergeant Montee was the only one that I could send because of our staff in a program like this Sergeant could stay over 15 minutes we'll be on coming shift and work through some scenarios and it would cost us nothing. How many users were this handle? Two currently and we could buy a bunch of modules fire our modules from here on out to run through different types of scenarios. I mean how many how many officers can use this all of them all of them so it's I thought you meant at the same time currently yeah so unlike other systems that I've looked at there's no like you every officer I've got to pay an initial do a subscription for this is it we can do whatever we want with the program as we get maybe even suggest that you could go to bring it down to very city and let them run through and they don't they don't care if they desire us to do with what we want. I get you. You wouldn't necessarily stop going to the range. No not at all. Right so this is this is just supplementing. In the training council pretty much every other year kind of increases the difficulty of our firearms training and certification which is good we should but it's ever challenging to meet those new certifications when we really don't have an opportunity to train other than here you are here the new certifications good luck we don't have any opportunity to kind of do in-house training before that annual training every year. Do you know if there's any savings through VLTC on this through our insurance? Um not that specifically I don't I don't know that it's going to cost they probably wouldn't be any savings to us insurance wise they do have grants that will cover risk management type of things like body armor and our cameras I don't think it would cover anything like this. In looking at this as far as how much money you have left we had we had budget eight thousand dollars and we spent thirty three hundred dollars so far do you think you'll spend anything else before the end of this year on training? Maybe a couple hundred dollars a year in there but I can't send the officers to training. That right there is like okay if I subtract the thirty three oh nine that's forty six ninety one that we have left over and then you are saying as far as the bullets go I think we spent like two hundred and something dollars on bullets okay we had twenty four twenty five hundred dollars that we budgeted so that looks to me to be you know basically six seven thousand dollars that we have available in our budget for this year. Fiscal year? Yeah fiscal year twenty two and since we're almost done I can't imagine that these numbers will get much larger so that's something to consider. So jeep you feel you can get this purchase this out of your existing budget in the incoming budget? Do you think you could negotiate with them some on the pricing? No I think they gave us their rock bottom starting price. I explained the situation to them working bare bones. They threw in like a extra rifle simulator I think to kind of offset the cost a little bit. Swing the teeth. I see potential for something like this obviously for training it's helpful for preparedness but recruitment and retention because it's something that is you know making the officers better officers and it's interesting. I am trying to think outside the box. Fun to me actually to do. There's a benefit to that to make it not so stressful but someone who's inexperienced on the range for the firearm in their hand it can be a stressful experience but this is a way to get people to be a safe environment there's really no stress involved and get the fundamentals down but you're right it has potential to be a recruiting tool and I'm trying to think outside the box as far as training goes. So what are you looking for from the board here? Just the green light to go ahead and purchase this because it is on the pricier side. So it's over the $5,000 Yeah. Got you. I don't know if we need to put this on the next one and warn it or not it's money that you already have so we'll take a risk here and I have a motion on this. So are we putting it on the next meeting? I'm warning it or just making a motion now? Yeah because I mean the monies are being approved so it's just the it's over $5,000 I think chief needs would like to have us stand behind him on this. And we will be over budget for about $2,000 from everything I'm hearing. I think we'll be over budget by about $2,000 from what he's saying. For this year's funds. Yes. But if you end up having it next year I don't know when you're going to get this do you think it'll be an FY22 or do you think it'll be in July of next year or this year? What time do we actually get to get it? I'm shooting for this year. In June? Before July Before July, correct. So then we would be over budget by at least a couple thousand. But then it would be made up with a new budget. Or some funds really doesn't work that way. There's also some money left over in our equipment budget I think police equipment. Yeah we do. We have a few grand there. Yep PD fund I guess $6,000. And this may not be possible but I'll throw this out for discussion is there any money or any entity through the state that might be willing to assist us given everything you've been doing at Hilltop etc etc etc I was tempted to send the commissioner of children and family services an invoice for a call out we had this weekend but I guess not in good form so I'm afraid from doing that. Understood. So I make the motion to go forward with the presentation by our chief of the police department to go forward with the mobile projection firearms simulation. Most of the money for it is in the budget already FY 22 and if I have it pronounced properly dark realities. Yeah. Yes. At a cost of approximately $9,800 to $10,000. With add-ons and there is a technology grant that has been applied for and some funds could possibly come out of that as well. Here's a second. Any further discussion on this? All those in favor? All right. All right, but motion carries. Thank you for your forward thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's exciting. Should be exciting. Reserves some time on there chief for Carl. Yeah. Is there anything else as far as additions? Vince? No, that's it. Okay. Uh, approval, licenses, permits, vouchers. I would just ask for the paperwork. It's probably at the front of that purple finder at the very top inside. I had a chance to look at it. So I haven't seen it. Thank you. I make the motion to approve payroll warrant 22-21 for payroll from March 27th of this year through April 9th of 2022 paid on April 13th, 2022 in the amount of $49,000 $244.69 payable warrant 22G20 with checks 21 937 to 21 971 in the amount of $48,590.92 and the Vita ACH payment number one for Fisher Road Culvert Project in the amount of $20,518.02 the March trial balance report March budget status report and the March general journal entries. In your second? In your second? Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. The motion carries approval of minutes from 21st of February March 7th, 2022 and March 21st, 2022 and March 24th, 2022 and the add-on for April minutes for April 4th, 2022 Make a motion that we accept the minutes as written Second Any other discussion? If not, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries and round table Yeah, and this is just maybe thinking outside the box and thinking about our departments being taxed with the hilltop and I'm not real familiar with that facility but do they have a conference room? Have any type? They do. They do. You know we're thinking about dealing with that and it is part of our community and they are whether they're placed here or they move here they choose here they're still part of our community. We're thinking about and reacting to that location with law enforcement but maybe there's something the state would be more willing to contribute to than law enforcement after the fact and I was thinking if they have a conference room it would make sense because a lot of what the Chief described to us happening there is because of substance abuse conflict management anger management maybe possible counseling needs that maybe the state would be willing to contribute in a way to have some type of daily or weekly or whatever possible group therapy sessions for anger management substance abuse counseling there as far as you know anything like an alcoholics anonymous or or anything that the state would be willing to contribute to facilitate and I was thinking even I'm sure there are a lot of faith-based churches or or synagogues or or whatever that would be willing to go there and offer up something as a way to preemptively prevent the difficulty for our for our police department so it's just an idea I had and wanted to share it with the rest of the board to to think about you know there's there there are people there and they are our neighbors right now and you know we can either try to help them or we can just look to at them as a problem you know and unfortunately it is a difficulty for our police department but maybe there's a way we can take that burden off without it having to be law enforcement doing it it's a good suggestion I know that the hospital used to do many of those types of training not sure if they still do but I think I think it's definitely worth looking into further you know and I'm thinking you know if the state has pizza and soft drinks to attract people to go to these meetings or or whatever you know sometimes all it takes is a seed planted to to help somebody make good decisions in in a time where they may not otherwise without hearing that bit of wisdom from somebody that cares then can you get a hold I have are you in the chief you get a hold of children family services and see if they be willing to sponsor something like that yeah anything else Cara I'm not sure if it's roundtable but I would like to just throw this out there again we're we're going to be coming upon a situation because of the resignation of our town clerk where we may have the opportunity to because we're appointing a position or two possibly to really structure and I know we don't have dominion over that position but we can structure at least when we're appointing our job description our expectations of the appointed town clerk and if it's a new assistant town clerk it may be an opportunity for us to really structure those job descriptions in a way that we make the town office more of a team and working together to complete all of the missions that that we need completed to have a successful town and I am thinking of Diane's being overwhelmed and doing a great job by the way but I'd love to think that you weren't you know thrown on an island by yourself and if you needed help that maybe it could come from other individuals in that in that area really defining what our dream before we appoint a town clerk and an assistant town clerk if if those two positions or maybe just one of them or become open what we would like them to do if we are to appoint them I think the state's pretty well spelled that out for us yeah because most of the town clerks do their statue yeah yeah well if you look at other towns though their structures are quite different than ours and and and our town clerk and our assistant town clerk typically there's an overlap where the treasurer is the clerk assistant clerk and the clerk is the assistant treasurer in most towns and I looked at quite a few just to see how it worked in other places so just have to make sure they're comfortable to burl in yeah maybe you know with the a large economic base right we can't tell an elected town clerk what we want but if we're going to appoint somebody we can give them a list of expectations what we hope they do when we appoint them so at this one opportunity we have a chance to to move the ball in a good direction anything else go that's it full I would just like to open up for just the conversation that I still would like to go forward with us having a conversation with Rosemary and perhaps even Corrine if if they both would would do so and just have an open discussion you know to foster the communication between both entities in terms of going forward because I really respect as you said at the last meeting everything Rosemary has done for us as well as Corrine Diane does a fabulous job and I know that we respect everything they do and I want them to know that as well and they've got a lot of knowledge that they can bring forward and impart upon us and I welcome that anything else that's it Joe well I guess I would echo the topic you know that's that date is coming coming soon and I guess she Rosemary could could take her resignation letter back probably in time but we should plan for that and I think the conversation between the board and the two or as individuals would be well worth having Vince two questions based on the board's round table one for Carl is that a template position something that you want me to draft something for you guys to review that includes the statutes and and thoughts just to prompt thought on the board's behalf so you can look at it and add and delete as you feel necessary is that something that you're looking for me to do or would you like to initiate it and then share it with Vince and then we all could have input I do it either way I guess you're I'm sure you're more knowledgeable exactly but and I'd be I'd be willing to research it and put more it in where you could do it better all right I'll come up something and I'll work with you directly on it I'll definitely decide from there bring it to the side from there if you want to bring it to the rest of the board or however I want the pro side second question is similar topic based on what the flow brought up is for the conversation with the board with the town clerk is that something that you want me to put on an upcoming agenda and invite her to or down to okay most definitely I'll get that on the agenda thank you in both regards in the executive session expecting Vince oh sir motion to adjourn I haven't seen this in there do we need to discuss that at all it was in the packet to indicate about putting it on the next agenda or was that just for our knowledge swim lesson the swim lessons or the swim lessons this is for to this round table that's right okay yeah because we talked about it earlier I just forgot to talk a little bit about it sorry yeah the swim lessons the town in the past had put like $1500 in for swim lessons on the budget but the last two years we have not done anything for a budget and obviously the last two years especially there were no swim lessons actually it was your wife and myself that used to work on the swim lessons together all the time so now we have a rec board that wants us to consider paying for the swim lessons we don't have any money in the budget right by 22 or by 23 however the rec board does have $5,000 available to at this point in time and I invited the person that asked about the swim lessons to join us tonight but they haven't and it's $25 per student resident reimbursement that's what we've been doing in the past so we we cap it at $25 per student and I think it was normally about $30 or $35 and the parent picked up the rest mm-hmm because we've done the past do you know what the new prices for the swim lessons are going to be? I don't I don't because the information you've given us what information I have and I had invited that person to talk to us tonight and that that person would be from the rec board yeah okay and and so it would be the rec board putting correct and then the money to talk to the rec board okay okay so I think there's probably I'll bring that up in another agenda I guess yeah I've got a note on this one to put it on the agenda for May 2nd excellent the rec board is is in action they're talking to Montpelier about that excuse me as well so hopefully by then we'll have more information and we'll have the someone from the rec committee here as well to speak to it and where they're at with Montpelier okay anything else for the round table then? if not maintain a motion to adjourn I make the motion to adjourn tonight's rec board meeting second all in favor all right all right motion carries we are adjourned


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