Hi, this is Meenu and helping you to solve the following problem. It says, prove the following. We have to prove that tan 4x is equal to 4 tan x into 1 minus tan square x upon 1 minus 6 tan square x plus 10 to the power 4x. So let us first understand the formula which we will be using to solve the problem. It is tan 2y is equal to 2 tan y upon 1 minus tan square y. So this is the key idea to solve the following problem. Let us now proceed on to the solution and we first find out LHS which is tan 4x. Now tan 4x can be written as tan 2 into 2x. Now we apply the formula of tan 2x to this.  Now again we can see that we can apply the formula of tan 2x here.  Now let us simplify 2 into 2 tan x is 4 tan x upon 1 minus tan square x upon taking the LCM. LCM would be 1 minus tan square x whole square.  Again this is equal to 4 tan x upon 1 minus tan square x into taking the reciprocal of this 1 minus tan square x whole square upon 1 minus tan square x whole square minus 2 tan x whole square. Now we can see that 1 minus tan square x gets cancelled with 1 of the 1 minus tan square x because there is part 2. So we are left with 4 tan x into 1 minus tan square x upon 1 minus tan square x whole square minus 2 tan x whole square. Now again this is equal to 4 tan x into 1 minus tan square x upon. Opening the formula for a minus b whole square we get 1 plus 10 to the power 4 x minus 2 tan square x minus 4 tan square x 2 tan square whole tan x whole square is 4 tan square x and now this is equal to 4 tan x into 1 minus tan square x upon 1 minus 6 tan square x plus 10 to the power 4 x and which is our RHS. This is what we had to prove. Hence the result is proved. So this completes the question. Bye for now. Take care. Hope you enjoyed this session.


Ladies and gentlemen, we're back here at Fenway Park. Dante Luna and the Bell Time Club present. New England All Stars are wrestling. We're here with the chaotic wrestling showcase match. The chaotic wrestling heavyweight champion squares off in a non-title matchup against the New England champion Christian Casanova of Killa Nova Inc. I'm joined at this time by Slick Wagner Brown. What's up, what's up? What's going on, Slick? Good, I'm good. You gotta be here. Wrestling Sunday Festival, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Cubans, Americans. It's a good day. It is a great day. Oh. They're asking. Whoa, strong words from the grief freak. It's a family show. Leave the swearing to me. That's right, that is Slick's job. Listen up, this man's a vet. This man once trained, was the head trainer. He took over from Walter Killa Kowalski once upon a time. Yeah. One of the most, what would you say? You were one of the most decorated veterans in this area. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, I mean you were part of that big Jersey crew that took off. Yeah. I mean you're definitely one of the most influential guys around here. I'm very happy to have you in the booth with me today. Thank you, brother. It's good to be on a booth. This may be a future gig for me. I love commentary. Look at that. Well, two of these young guns are taking into each other right now. You're going to be in our main event fighting for the El Mundo Grand Championship. The alien eats a guardrail. Yeah. He got a sock in the mouth. Got red socks right there. No, Christian used to be one of the nicest dudes I think I've ever met in my life. But in the last few months, something's really changed in him. And now he's got this whole bitter attitude. He's taking cheap shots like this. And I think it has something to do with Rich Bass. Yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it.  He's taking his career into his own hands and that's a good thing. Oh, no. Oh, no. What's he doing? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Smack his face. Smack his... Oh! That's it. That little girl has heavy hands. She gets it. Uh-oh. Was he trained by Pacquiao? That was good money. That was good money. Oh, my God. He's taking him around the ring. He is. Casanova's taking a beating from the crowd. Enough of that. Enough of that. We're looking here at our high-tech monitor. I can see the action. Looks like Christian has... You can see the action. I can see the action. It looks like Christian's turned things around on the Great Freak. Oh, no. I think he just caught him with a nice, tight elbow to the jaw. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Uh-oh. Oh, boy. Oh, he's got Bass by the short hairs. Don't ask him, brother. Don't ask him. Just do it. Just do it. Where's Christian? Oh, no. Oh, man. There he is. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Looks like he missed the dropcare coming out of the ring. He got him. He got him. But Ilia is so freaking jacked. He didn't even feel it. He's freaking jacked. So freaking jacked. He didn't even feel it. Oh, man. Look. I think someone just tried to steal his belt. What's he doing now? What's he doing now? I don't know. He just stole a replica belt out of the crowd, though. Oh, that's not how you win. That's definitely not how you win. Look at him. He's showboating. Look at him. He should be pinning him. Oh, Ilia's back to his feet. Met him with a nice punch to the gut. Sends him off the ropes. Reversal. Uh-oh. There you go. Oh, kick to the mush. Ooh. You know, Ilia told me he was doing a lot of bicep curls this week in preparation for this match. So you know that had a hurt. Yeah. Ilia is huge. I mean, I met him for the first time maybe seven years ago. Tag. Hey. It ain't hot. It ain't hot, brother. No. What are you doing? I'm staying right here. You got this. You got this. Rich Bass consoling his client. Hey, ref. Slow it down. Slow it down, ref. Listen up, Quinn. We got all day. Listen up, Quinn. Uh-oh. Oh. Oh. What are you doing, Ilia? It's only match 11. Oh. It's a carry. That's my favorite. That's my favorite. It's a good move. Normally, you follow it up with that springboard lion salt that you do out of the corner. Yeah. I don't think we're going to see that today. These ropes. I don't know, brother. They're a little rough. Oh. What's that? What's going to do? Here we go. Oh. Referee. So this is the type of stuff that Christian would not have done previously in his career than now he's doing every match. So what you're telling me is that he's smartened up. Apparently. Look at Rich Bass. Someone punch him in the face. See? This is what I'm talking about. The influence of Rich Bass that he has on his clients. Oh. The hot sauce. That's about all that tie is good for you. You've seen that thing.  Oh, that's a nice tie. Come on. The man who dresses nice all the time. What are you, Rachel? That's a nice tie. You can't see the tie? It's horrific. Let's say horror nights. Oh, you're right. Now that he's close. Ugh. Paint up Christian. You want to win or you want to go home? What's he doing? I think Christian is trying to make a point that he is better than Earliam Acropolis. So what better way to make that point than to beat the guy? Yeah, but there's a difference between winning a match and embarrassing a man. Yeah, that's true. You can save the embarrassment for after the match. How about that? Oh, he's on the mic. What's he talking about? I don't know. Listen here, man.  If this a K.I. wrestling. If it's here. No matter where it is. What do you mean here? We're at Fat Wave Park, Christian. What's wrong with this guy? So if I was you.  How about this? I was just singing. Opie. Green flag. And I was just getting out of here, man. Because killing all men. Tell them to take a hike. You know, nothing to do with it. I think he just told Earliam that he's getting the chance to give the match up and leave. That ain't going to happen. Oh, not the Greek Green. What is he doing? You want to see it? That's why they're here. Punch them in the face. Oh, man. Christian Breel back in the corner. Shot him off. Oh, big clothesline. Reminiscent of Taker now. You know, how? Oh, big mafia kick. I don't know how Christians able to get thrown off the ropes that many times after that clothesline. I mean, what do you think? Ilya's got about what? Working with what? 15, 16-inch guns right now. What's he working with? Yeah. I mean, he's got a lot. What's he working with? Yeah. I mean, he's definitely getting up there. Like I was saying, when I met him a while ago, this was a different dude. And right, he's just in incredible shape. He puts the work in and it shows. His hand was under the ropes. Referee, what's wrong with this guy? Kevin Quinn. What are you doing? Hey, rich bass. Give Quinn your glasses, brother. He needs them. Christian's starting to show some frustration here. Think he may be at Ilya down for the count. Looks like he's measured them up for something right now. Look at the hair on Christian. He's ready for a shampoo commercial. Don't wash his locks. Oh, stone coast on a rollout, brother, rollout. Oh, man. He doesn't know where he is right now. Hey, this ref is blind as a bat, bro. Rich bass is on the ropes. Hey, turn around. Ilya the great. Turn around. I don't know what's going on. That could have been three. Why is he asking the people he's a puncher? Oh, right in the marsh. Now he's going to lose. Quick roll up. One, two, three. He got him. He got him. Good guy off the ball. I can't believe Christian Casanova has pinned a Greek freak. Ilya Markopoulos here at Fenway Park.


You've seen how the A, K, and J scopes work. But remember we said there was still need for another type of scope. For instance, here's a newly established beachhead on a Pacific Island. Because of its advanced position, enemy bombers can attack the island from any point on the compass. Radar coverage is being handled by this SCR 545. Here it is, searching through a full 360 degrees. And there's a target. See it there on the search scope at the right. To find the target's range, you have to stop the antenna and bring it back onto the target. Then crank the pip into the notch on the range scope. To get the azimuth, the pip must be split and balanced on the azimuth scope. Only after you've made these adjustments can you report the range and azimuth of the target. But while you're doing all this with every target you pick up, what about planes in other sectors? As long as the set is looking in one direction, it's blind to everything else around it. So you can see that there was need for a new type of scope. A more versatile one. A scope that would measure both range and azimuth at the same time. One that would enable you to view the whole area at once and thus follow several targets simultaneously. Out of this need came the PPI, Plan Position Indicator. With this scope, no matter how many planes there are in the sky around you or from what direction they approach, your beam is continually searching and will pick up each one of them. The PPI paints a map for you of the surrounding area. Each target appears as a glowing blob of light at a point on your scope corresponding to its position in the sky. Each time the antenna beam passes over the target, the baseline, which is synchronized with the antenna, repaints the target blips on your scope. Thus, you can watch the movement of any number of targets at the same time without trouble or delay. Here's a sample of a PPI scope. And to show you how accurate a picture it presents of the surrounding area, here's the actual map. In developing this PPI scope, a new type of cathode ray tube had to be worked out. In order to project both range and azimuth at the same time, the deflecting plates inside the tube were replaced by a pair of coils around the neck of the tube on the outside. This is the other type of tube we mentioned earlier, the electromagnetic cathode ray tube. Let's look at the tube and coils from the front. When current is sent through the coils, it sets up a magnetic field between them. That deflects the electron beam away from center. As more current flows through the coils, the magnetic field between them gets stronger and the farther off center the beam is deflected. As the current decreases, the electron beam returns to its normal center position. The deflection of the beam from center is always proportional to the amount of current flowing through the coils. And of course, just as on the ascope, the deflection of the beam is synchronized with each transmitted pulse. When you apply current in the form of sawtooth voltage, you get the familiar trace and snapback movement of the electron beam. When it is speeded up, there's your PPI baseline, composed as it was on the ascope, of an electron beam sweeping back and forth so rapidly, it creates the illusion of a solid line. When a target signal reaches the indicator circuits, it causes a greater number of electrons to be fired through the tube. The increased flow lasts for only an instant. Then the stream returns to normal, but the result on the scope is an intense glow of light at that point on the baseline, which represents the range of the target. Since each time the antenna is pointing at the target, there are several thousand pulses sent out, and several thousand echoes return, the increase in electron flow at that point happens so fast that it forms a steady glow of light on the baseline at the range of the target. Range is measured out from the center of the scope, just as though a range scale were placed beneath the baseline. That blob of light in the center is the same as the main bang on an ascope. The second blip is the target signal, and range is the distance between them. By the way, the process that makes the signals appear as blobs of light instead of pips is called intensity modulation. Okay, you know how the target signal is formed and how to measure range on this PPI. But how about azimuth? Well, those coils that cause the electron beam to sweep back and forth to form the baseline are designed to rotate freely around the neck of the tube. Since it was the current flowing through the coils that produced the baseline, when the coils rotate, the baseline sweeps around the scope. The rotation of the coils, and hence the sweep of the baseline, is synchronized with the antenna so that the baseline is always pointing in the same direction as the antenna. So by calibrating the edge of the scope, you can read the azimuth of the target at a glance. For instance, if a target shows up here, it's no trick at all to report its azimuth as 40 degrees. Notice too that since the glow of the target signal persists for some time after the baseline is painted it, you can make very accurate reports. For ease in operation, some sets have range markers as an integral part of the scope presentation, like this PPI on the AN-NPG-1. Some sets, like this AN-CPS-1, a microwave early warning radar, employ both range and azimuth markers on the PPI presentation, like this. If you want to examine a particular sector closer, it's possible to expand the picture by moving the sweep off-center in any direction. Now one quadrant is blown up to fill the whole scope. This presentation is called the EPI, or Expanded Position Indicator. On other sets, like this searchlight radar, the AN-TPL-1, the pattern of geographical grids is placed over the PPI scope so you can locate the target in terms of grid coordinates. Another method of PPI operation employs two sets of deflecting coils which do not rotate as the antenna turns. Instead, the flow of current through the coils is regulated so that the resulting electromagnetic force causes the baseline to rotate. For instance, if current flows through these two coils with this polarity, the electron beam or baseline is deflected to one side, so. But if the polarity on the coils is reversed, the baseline is deflected to the other side, like this. Same thing is true of the other set of coils. Current flowing through them one way will deflect the baseline upwards, and a change in polarity will deflect the beam downwards. By synchronizing the flow of current through these coils with the antenna, the baseline will always point in the same direction as the antenna. Thus, by altering the flow of current through the four coils, like this, we can rotate the baseline without rotating the coils, which means we can forget about movable parts, bearings, and the added weight that goes with them. The lightness of this type of PPI makes it very useful for airborne sets. Echoes picked up on an airborne set enable the PPI to project a bird's-eye view of the ground. The scope will indicate shorelines, rivers, railroads, ships in a harbor, boys, even the projecting periscopes of a submerged sub. So the PPI is unusually valuable on bombing missions. In fact, all of the overcast and night bombing raids on both Germany and Japan were made possible by radar. But what about the night fighters that protect the bombers, or that go out to clear the sky of enemy bombers or night raiders? A night fighter pilot is after enemy planes rather than ground targets, and since long-range radar is pretty bulky, a radar-equipped night fighter usually operates with an early warning ground set. This MEW usually operates as a GCI set, Ground Control Interception, and often uses this ANCPS-4, known as Beaver Tail, or Big Adner, to supply accurate height data. When a new target is picked up, challenged, and doesn't identify itself as friendly, the ground station vectors the night fighter to it. The controller watches the blip of the night fighter, guides him toward the target signal by radio. When the controller sees that the night fighter is close enough to the enemy plane so that its own shorter range, highly accurate radar can take over, he tips off the pilot.


Hello, everybody. Andrew Myeski here with Dental L. So let's go behind the scenes of this whitening toothpaste. So you have probably seen this over social media by now. If you haven't seen it yet, you probably will soon. So it's this, you know, whitening toothpaste that has pretty much gone all over social media. I would say within the past six or seven months or so. And I am going to be talking about what this is, what happens behind the scenes, why is everybody selling it, is it a pyramid scheme, you know, all of that. So I'm not here to sell you anything. I'm not here to toot your horn, however you want to say it, but I'm just here to tell you exactly what it's like and pretty much everything. Now I do sell for this company, okay?  I'm going to talk to you guys about the good the bad why I'm selling it, why at first I was a little bit hesitant to even look into it, and why the company, well, I shouldn't say the company, but people who sell for the company, why some of them are giving the company a bad name, and that's why I had my doubts at first. So let me just kind of start from the beginning here. So I had my doubts at first because I was seeing this all over social media, and it's your typical direct sales company. So people make a commission from what they sell. So this toothpaste, as an example, whoever sells it makes about ten dollars commission per tube. If they have people on their team, so if they're training people, they get a commission from everything that their team sells to. But to really talk about that, think of any dental sales rep company. It works the same way you guys. So it's just, unfortunately, these direct sales companies get a bad name because we all know at this point, and if you didn't know, I'm about to tell you. But the more you sell, the more you make, there are always challenges at the beginning of the month to sell, sell, sell more. If you sell a certain amount, you get some free stuff. So it's in everybody's best interest to push themselves and to sell, sell, sell. But that's where things can get a bad name quickly because you'll have people selling for the company, you'll have good people, and you'll have bad people. I mean, not bad people, but you know what I mean. Their intentions aren't pure. You know, you'll have somebody selling for the company who's like literally posting every single day, twice a day. Here's this new amazing toothpaste. You just have to have it. But then if you have questions, well, they might not have time to answer your questions. They might just simply say to you, well, here, just purchase the toothpaste if you don't like it too bad, you know, so we all have those different sales people, people we've all seen them, where there's good ones, there's bad ones. There's annoying ones. So it's all kind of the same thing here. Okay. And that's where initially I got a bad, I guess, inkling about this whole company was because I was seeing it all over social media, even any time somebody, even in a dental hygiene page on Facebook, on a dental assisting page, you know, somebody would just ask, oh, hey, what whitening system do you guys use in the office? And like 10 people would comment this copy and pasted message of, hey, you have got to try this amazing whitening toothpaste. It will take you eight shades lighter in three days. But everybody had that same copy and pasted message. You know how annoying that is? It's very annoying. So it gives the company a bad name. And in the group, we didn't ask about a toothpaste. Okay, this toothpaste does not whiten the teeth like a hydrogen peroxide solution does, but it does make the teeth lighter by taking away the surface stains, but more about that leader. But it gives the company a bad name, right? When you're just asking about something totally different, and then five, 10 people copy and paste the same message, you're kind of like, okay, leave us alone. We're not going to buy it.  So it gives the company a bad name. But a friend of mine was actually selling it. And before I kind of knew about the whole, you know, team thing and the copy and pasting messages that now I'm seeing all over Facebook, which I think is so annoying still, even though I do sell for the company, I, you know, just the way she had posted, I was like, oh, well, so she uses this toothpaste. Okay, now I have to try it. Right. So that's how it happened. But then somebody sent me a free tube to talk about it on YouTube.   And the person who gave it to me said, Hey, that's okay. I was like, Oh, okay, perfect. And I tried it. And I truly did love it. I'm that person where I drink coffee and tea. My teeth stain very, very quickly. Okay, it is pretty sad. Like my lower anteriors, my lower teeth stain quickly. And I have used crest strips in the past, but my teeth were way too sensitive. This toothpaste did get rid of those stains to the point where I would be cleaning my own teeth at home. Every two weeks or so, like that's how much I would get stain on the inside and the outside of my lower anteriors. But after using this toothpaste, and that was kind of the true test for me to just see how it would handle that stain. And with this toothpaste, I didn't have to clean my own teeth after two weeks. I did not have stain there. Literally. So I was very impressed. I thought, okay, wow, I did take before pictures and I did take after pictures after three days a week and two weeks. After three days, no, I didn't notice a difference with my teeth being wider. But I did notice that I didn't get as much stain as usual. After two weeks, I did notice a big, big difference. But it was because my stain that I would normally have wasn't there anymore. So am I claiming that it's like a hydrogen peroxide on the teeth? No, because it's not. But it does do what a whitening toothpaste, in my opinion, should do. And that's taking away stain and then allowing for no new stain to come back. There's no other toothpaste out there that actually does that without being coarse. This toothpaste is not coarse. This is less, less abrasive than the Crest 3D White than Sensinine. Okay, this is actually a less abrasive type of toothpaste. So then a lot of people say to me, well, how does it work then? So pretty much behind the scenes here. And I do have a full ingredient list. If you want to see it, I did my own research. So anytime I review a product, I try it first. And then I do my own research. It took a couple weeks. So I do have everything there if you would like to see it. But how it works is there's patented molecules. So I'm not very scientific, right? So I'll just say that it does have those patented molecules that get deep into the cracks of your teeth to take out all of that stain. And then it does apply a thin surfactant coating over the teeth to make the teeth feel as smooth as possible, but more importantly to not allow new stain to come through. And that's why they say to use this toothpaste twice a day, obviously, so that that way you are keeping that thin coating over the teeth to pretty much to protect the teeth too, right? And to not allow new stain to come back. So that's how this works without the hydrogen peroxide. And I would much rather prefer that on my teeth than the coarse toothpaste out there. Because if it's coarse, if it claims to whiten, typically there's baking soda in there, but there's usually too much. And it makes the teeth too coarse. It could make the teeth sensitive. And it just takes away a little bit of the enamel too. But this toothpaste does not do that. But if you're curious on behind the scenes more, keep on listening. So this is what when you sell for the company, you're pretty much told to do. Okay. So as I said, I do sell for this company, but I don't kind of follow the sales tactics that they suggest or train us on. Okay. So basically, we have a list of posts per month that we are told or we are, I mean, we don't have to, we don't have to obviously, but we're told to copy and paste these posts per month. So depending on the day, you might have a post talking about this amazing toothpaste on Monday. On Tuesday, you'll have a post about, Hey, I'm placing my order about this toothpaste.  So you get the idea. We're pretty much told what to post per day. You don't have to. But it just kind of helps us for those people who do want to make some money, but don't really know what to post. And that is so, so helpful. But I don't follow that because I don't agree with selling every day.  You can tell when we're trying to sell you something, right? Now, in my opinion, though, yes, I do love this toothpaste. So I want you to know why I like it. And yes, I do sell it. So if you want to try it, let me know. But I don't believe in pushing sales tactics, sales tactics down anybody's throat. So me posting every day, I feel that you will get annoyed being like, Okay, we totally understand you sell the toothpaste, you know, move on. I tend to post twice a month, maybe even sometimes once a week depending. If I'm getting a lot of questions about it, then I might say, Okay, people are still asking me questions. So I'm going to post again, because clearly they want those questions answered, right? But so we do, we are told sort of what to sell or what to post. We also have training also online. So you can be a part of groups on Facebook that do help train you on like how you make money, how not to sell, how to sell. It trains you on if you have people on your team, how much money you make from those toothpaste. It teaches you how to do taxes based on because if you're making a commission, right, you do have to claim that income. But what they don't tell you is you don't have to claim it unless you make a good chunk of change. So if you're making $3,000 in income, then okay, you might have to start claiming it, right? But is it the end of the world if you don't claim it? No. And I'm being honest, I claim it because I do own my own tutoring business. I do own my own dental hygiene business also. So I make enough income with my own businesses that I do have to claim this because if I don't because this is still considered self employment income for me, right? Because I do have my own businesses. So I do have to claim it. I did not make that much in commission last year, but I still claimed it because I have to put everything together. But I can help you with the taxes, okay, here in Canada anyway, I can't really help you in the states, but they do have training on that. So you will be totally fine. Trust me. And the training kind of teaches you guys how to be organized, so how to keep track of your income and help to keep track of your orders. You do not have to have stock. No. I have stock because that's just easier for me to settle because I see patients often and truthfully, if somebody's asking me for a toothpaste that will not hurt their teeth and that will wait at the same time, then I will say, well, actually I do have something for you here, you know, but I don't just push it and sell it, you know, if they ask me that I am more than happy to help. I have stock because that's just easier for me, but you do not have to. You can always tell your customers to go to your site. They order from you and then it gets shipped to their house easily for one tube of toothpaste, depending on where you live. It's $25 plus stacks and $5 shipping for two tubes. You get free shipping and it's only $50 for the two. So that's it. But again, it depends on where you live. I'm talking in Canada here. So it might be a little bit less as an example if you live in the States, but we kind of teach you guys all of that. Plus I have my own training as well on my page because I train differently. I train based on your questions. I'm not here to tell you to sell, sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. But honestly, you guys, I wish I had this opportunity when I was in college if you're a student because it would have been so easy to just post and people would know that I'm in college to be a dental hygienist. So they would probably ask me about a toothpaste that I'm selling because they might go, oh, well, you would clearly know because that's your profession. So I kind of want to try this. You know, it's such, I don't mean to say it, but it's true. It's such easy money. Honestly, if you sell a tube, you make $10. It adds up, you guys. It adds up. Sell five tubes and that's a good chunk of change, right? And if the customer doesn't like it, they can take it back, which is the nice thing. They can take it back. They just have to pay shipping, I believe. Truthfully, I haven't had a customer return one yet. I don't think, no, I don't think so. So I believe they probably just have to pay shipping, but that's it. But they get all of their money back. No questions asked. But this is an amazing toothpaste. Honestly, it's not expensive. It can't hurt. So why not try it? But that's just behind the scenes. So that's how things work. I should mention, too, and you do not have to pay anything to sign up. So let's say you do sign up to be a seller. You sell to your sister and brother and mother, father, and you sell maybe 10 tubes and then you don't sell anything else. That's okay. You are not out anything. You've just made some extra money. That's it. If you decide to take it further and sell, you can make some good money. Like I typically make, and I do sell this on the side. So I typically make about $300 a week. Yes, that's not a full-time income, but that's pretty good. That's over $1,000 a month, you guys. If I add that all in, then hello, that's pretty good. But I've only been selling since October of last year. So I'm excited to see where this is going to go because it's toothpaste. People need more toothpaste, right? So I will probably sell to the same customers every six months. So you're like constantly making that money and your customers love it. They start telling other people how much they love it and then they might start to sell it, too. Or they take people, or they bring people to you so then you sell more, you make more money, so you get the idea. So yeah, so I feel, yeah, so I've kind of talked about, you know, the good, the bad. You do not have to sell, sell, sell as some people are. You can probably see it. It gets very annoying and it gives the company a bad name in my opinion. But honestly, this is amazing toothpaste. If you guys have questions though, just feel free to comment, ask me anytime, and I will tell you how it is. I do have a page on Facebook. If you might be interested in selling, I'll leave the link for you guys on the bottom to have a look. No pressure because I do all of my sales online. So I'm not going to tell you to go door to door or something to sell the toothpaste, right? But you can make some money. I have people on my team from the US. I have people on my team from Europe, from England, like I have people everywhere. So you do not have to be from Canada to be on my team because I sell everywhere. Even the Philippines, I have two people on my team. So it doesn't matter where you guys live. I'm happy to help. Okay. I am happy to help you make some money. Why not? As you guys have heard, I have two businesses, plus I work at a dental office still, and I'm doing this. So do I need the money? Not necessarily. But hey, it's kind of nice to make an extra let's just say $1,000 a month. That's a big chunk of change that can go towards eating out a new couch and new stove, I don't know, whatever. So let me know if you guys have questions. I am very, very happy to help. And have a good weekend. I will talk to you guys very, very soon.


They have Kiki Rice, who is believed to be amongst the best players in the class of 2023. They scored five of the last seven points in the game after Mid-Atlantic started out with a seven-nothing lead. Now to the basket in the game off the bench. I just haven't. My mental wellness has decreased every time. I'm around. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. She's missed a couple before that, Sarah, and she doesn't look comfortable. Johnson, meanwhile, with a layup at the other end, it's a one-point game. It's not going to be a pretty game, but it's going to be a grind it out, limit your mistake type game. Henderson-Artis for three, and it's the first lead of the game for Central. First three-point shot made by Donnie. Probably the best-ranked 2022 player in the state of Kansas as Henderson-Artis hits a three-pointer. The Central girls in this final against Mid-Atlantic have a three-point lead looking to answer, and they do Mid-Atlantic thanks to Gabrielle Scott right back at her. Tiki Rice picks up the loose ball and heads to the other end, and ties the game. Defense and offense, getting it done both ends. Tiki Rice. Well, now that's her tenth board to go with 11 points. Four-three, and in and out and back in off the glass. Maya Nichols just hit a three to cut the five-point game down to two. Nichols has it again. Nichols working inside, outside to Gabrielle. Henderson-Artis with a rainbow three. They have the lead. They have the lead by one with 48 to go. Henderson-Artis has hit some big threes already throughout the course of this game. It wasn't the prettiest of games in the first half, but this Central team stayed with it. Really what got them back in this game was their pressure, and that's what wanted them to perform in the end.


Let's go, let's do it. Alright, go ahead and drop it on your top, it's going to go on your left one.


Rather than the drip, drip, drip. That means it's time. It's time. Yeah. Let's be just there. Yeah, 330 on my block. Okay. Well, mine is still at the middle of two behind, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll call our meeting to order. We will all stand. And we're bringing the Pledge of Allegiance at Pledge of Allegiance in compliance with the United States of America and to the Republic to which it stands. Foundation, nation, God, they're going to be feasible to this injustice in the law.  All right. So we will call our meeting to order. First item on the agenda after the Pledge is approval of the minutes from our January 18 meeting. So the motion to approve. So moved. I second it. Chair votes aye. All in favor? I guess all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. All right. Next on the agenda, financial reports. But remind the board members that as Lisa's closing out the year end, we have limited financials available. But we do have sort of billing for January 2021. And you can see the quarterly metered billing is up as well as the monthly billings that are shown on the report. Most of that is due to the change in rates. Cash reserve figures you can see that's about where expected to be at the end of 2020 heading into January 2021. We don't have any additional comments there. A good portion of that though is set up in reserves. Yes. In restricted funds. Okay. We need a motion to approve the vouchers. We've already done that with our signatures, correct? Yeah. I would request a motion on that, Sherry. I would so move. Second that. In moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right. Moving on. Go ahead, Joe. Well, for the yeah, no further report on financial for the superintendent's report. I'll start with construction maintenance and distribution. We had a total of six water main breaks in January. Mostly on six inch water mains older mains. One was on a four inch 18 here on avenue. That would be a very old main four inch substandard size. So the crew is very active in January and that's continued in February. They were out over the weekend several times as well. Some hybrid work associated with one of those main breaks. We did the aid in installing the second wholesale water meter on the new Aurora hospital site. The water utility owns the water meter, the meter pit and associated controls are owned by the village of Kohler, a wholesale customer. We did have a staff member who was inspecting the water main installed in the stone broke subdivision on the far south end of the town east of highway OK. We actually have a large main going in there for an east west transmission and also all our main serving the subdivision itself. Otherwise, I would report in operation we'll go through the monthly January report. We pumped a little less water than we did a year ago no real explanation 4% less this January compared to last January. Water temperatures in the lake water were a little warmer than usual, I wouldn't say warm, but warmer we did not have to go into the winter operational mode in January because the water temperatures were normally above 33 degrees. That's our cutoff when we see a temperature below that we go into what we call winter ops mode and that helps reduce the chance of fragile ice build up. But we did not have to do that in January, which is a little bit unusual. Otherwise, unusual to report for January do have the detail maintenance maintenance list to review the typical variety of different work to keep the plant up and running. One small element that pops up we've been installing a lot of new LED lights as we can. Those I think we're all aware of those have become very efficient but also very effective lighting we're using a lot of those in the plants now as well. And I think you also have the annual operation report for 2020 versus 2019. There's a lot of information there. Basically, 2020 we pumped less water than in 2019 and that affects most of the extent numbers and other numbers of course our use of raw materials like electricity, natural gas, chemicals was all down because we pumped a little less water. One interesting there's a pie chart showing that for our production expenses electricity is about half of our expenses including natural gas and chemicals. Otherwise on the annual report I won't go into too many more details but you can review that as you would want to. And then customer relations and fiscal CR and and we have not we did go into winter ops mode but we have not seen any icing. We are aware that at least two of our neighbors have had some icing events but we have not. Looking at the CRF report for January we did reopen the pay window but there's much less activity there not as many people out and about. More people using Dropbox more people using electronic payments. You can see we mailed out about 3,600 paper bills and about 1,900 e-mail bills of course we're in a suspended disconnection program so we do have larger outstanding bills than we would normally see so at the end of January we're outstanding about $78,000 and that would be sewer water, garbage and recycling fees altogether. Otherwise we did have one water service line leak that developed that was an old leaded service that was replaced and we were able to enter that into our lead service line replacement program and get one more lead service line out of the system which is good. Website activity visitors to our web page mostly on the payer bill location we did have a lot of Facebook people reached on one of the photos used in the Raw Water Improvements presentation I don't know if it's an aerial it's a Google Earth photo showing the location of the plant site and where future intake might be located I think otherwise those are the highlights for CRR and F for January. Any questions for Joe? None for me. No, I'm okay. Moving on to items previously held over for discussion or possible action. Raw Water Improvements project Joe? Yeah, a few things on RWI I did make a presentation of the committee of the whole in January appreciated the opportunity to do that did post the PowerPoint online and distributed in various ways Sporgan Press picked it up and ran an article on the project as well I didn't receive many contacts after those public outreaches I think people are aware that that's a critical project to replace aging critical infrastructure to provide water for the community I did present our updated cost estimates we realized it's a costly project we're trying to make every effort to right size so that we do not end up with stranded assets we spend any more money than we need to we have to trim the project in several ways to really get the essence and no more out of the project in terms of rate impact that's a hard thing to predict going years or decades in the future I would say a few things project impacts are caused in several ways the first and largest way is debt service so there's no way to build a project like that without incurring debt public utilities pay for projects we would use a small portion of our cash in that project as well but mostly we're paying for it with debt and we then have new debt service going for 30 years if not more that's the largest cost item and really the size of the project and the marketplace dictates the terms of what that debt is going to look like right now the marketplace is pretty attractive we're all aware interest rates are low and that means we're going to get a fairly low interest rate on that debt for 30 years size of the project I mentioned we are right sizing it we are trimming it and have done that we're hopeful of a good bidding environment there aren't there aren't handfuls and handfuls of contractors that do that type of work but I'm told there are enough that we should get a good competitive bidding environment the project also results in additional electrical expenses we would be running a new pump station it should be more efficient than our current pump station but we're going to maintain existing systems so we're going to have some additional maintenance costs and maintaining both systems those shouldn't be huge but they will be part of what we'll see another big aspect is the municipal payment in lieu of taxes the pilot payment whenever the utility adds plant structure the pilot payment goes up and that would be true for this project as well and that's a new cost that we have limited ability to have any control over I think the board members are aware that the utility accountant and I have looked at these costs and projected them into the future and we can certainly see that rates and revenues will need to go up to pay these new costs we're hopeful that the utility and our customer base will grow with that kind of growth we have revenue growth without a need for rate increases hopeful seeing businesses come into the south of park enterprise campus that's not the name of it I can't try it like that yeah excuse me and hopefully some of those customers will be water users of significance in terms of water usage that will help revenue growth rate increases themselves we know over the coming 10 years we will see a pattern similar to what I would propose a pattern similar to what forward has set forth in the past which is looking at rates every 2 to 3 years and approaching the public service mission with a rate increase it's important to recall that neither the board or the common council or utility staff set water rates those are set by the Wisconsin public service commission based on our actual expenses and revenues they have a very complicated financial model that they use for public utilities public utilities are allowed a very moderate rate of return on their operation so there is not something like much adjustment in that rate of return either things like wholesale water rates are also set by the state we do not set those locally public utilities are a monopoly in operation the state takes jurisdiction and sets those rates in a fair equal manner through all public water utilities so what I would suggest is that K for the RWI project we are going to see rate increases at that interval and I know the board has been committed to keeping those rate increases either single digit or lower double digit figures and we expect that would be the case as well going forward there certainly will need to be some lower double digit increased figures I would estimate unless we see just a lot of water usage coming into the community and water revenue going up in that way otherwise we are continuing in the detailed design phase we are having meetings every two to three weeks with CDM Smith and our consultants one of our next big steps is to submit a construction authorization to the public service commission here again as a public utility the state has to approve an expenditure of this size the local entity can't make that decision on its own the state has to authorize that expenditure they are aware of our project they have given us feedback on our project to help right size it and they told us to expect a nine month review process so we are planning to go in for that authorization in the next month or so and get that process started I would just reiterate that in January we did submit for a FEMA BRIC grant on the shoreline protection system that's part of the RWI project that system at the end of the day has a construction estimate of about 1.6 million dollars the state helped us with the preparation of that application through the department of emergency management and they felt that it's got a it met all their thresholds to move on so to speak in terms of benefit to cost analysis they don't know whether we're going to be funded or not it was a competitive application so that now has been submitted and I remind the board FEMA BRIC is a 75 percent grant so we could see if we're fortunate a 1.2 million dollar grant towards the project that would be very nice to have we did also submit a request for endorsement to senator Baldwin's office during 30 days they're allowed to offer endorsements on projects as well so that is under way and finally I would say we had a lot of discussion about a FEMA BRIC grant for the entire project and although that sounds like a wonderful thing and would be there's some real caveats there that we're still exploring FEMA BRIC grants are intended to mitigate the impact of natural hazards so the shoreline protection aspect is clearly related to the hazard of shoreline flooding in lake Michigan areas which is the known natural hazard especially as lake levels go up and wave action increases however the entire RWI project has a lot of elements that really have nothing to do with hazard mitigation such as pipeline in the lake for water intake so after more detail discussions with our contact at Wisconsin emergency management getting a little bit of a mixed message on whether RWI its entirety would even have the first threshold which is called the benefit analysis so we're hoping in the next few weeks to go through that analysis with emergency management and see what the outcome is if the outcome shows that there's not a high enough ratio of benefit then there's no point in pursuing an application because you're not going to make the threshold and she had many projects in the state that simply didn't meet that threshold and weren't unable to move on that's one reason she worked with us to kind of tailor the shoreline protection project but I believe in the coming weeks we'll go through that analysis on the larger project and see what the outcome is if it doesn't meet the threshold then we're pretty much done we can't do anything to change the project if it does then we'll have more consideration you know what really is our likelihood of success how would it impact the project timeline and what resources would we have to expand to make a full application so I'm hopeful that in the next weeks we'll be able to answer more of those questions meanwhile I've also been working with our financial consultants Wisconsin finance professionals Ms. Carol Worth on updating possible funding mechanisms with the latest information latest marketplace data and safe drinking water information and that has all been updated as well I think just in summary we've been through part of our public outreach portion of the project I think a lot of people now are aware of the project and excited about it it's a very exciting project for the community and we're moving in a lot of into a lot of details and continuing forward towards completion of detailed design in June of this year any questions or comments from the board for Joel on the roll out improvement project not for me not at this time do we have any timeline as far as when we're here I know you just mentioned a month, month and a half when we hear from FEMA on that I believe the timeframe for the shoreline protection application is roughly July, August of this year okay thank you alright, no more further questions moving on to the agenda number 4.2 revealed policy on renewed disconnection program last month we had a discussion and the board took action to resume the disconnection program when allowed to do so by the public service commission in April April 15th moratorium is ending so the key elements of what we would be resuming are shown here and were what we discussed last month we'd be changing the threshold for disconnection from $150 up to $300 we'd be reducing the down payment on a deferred payment agreement to 25% down from 50% the other issues are pretty much what we had in place before with the disconnection program and just as an example an average customer using 15 cubic feet of water per quarter that's a fairly small usage has a total bill from the water utility of $152 of course that includes very garbage and recycling and water is about 40-45% of that normally we would be phasing the program in based on districts we have four districts I'm sorry we have monthly we have the three districts that are shown we would be phasing in first district number three with a disconnection date in April and you can see the subsequent dates there as well and none of that is really changing as per the Public Service Commission the notification to customers is mandated and we do that either by phone calls disconnection notices on door hangers or combinations of both we do refer customers from St. Vincent and the Salvation Army if they meet the threshold they are funded by those entities sometimes we're aware that another payment option might be coming with a new program to help people avoid eviction and I'm sorry avoid foreclosure and utility payments are included in that new program as well but we don't have details yet on that and finally as of February 4 we had 184 customers passed to over that $300 threshold we did send all past dues prior to November we were out on tax roll last year but in some are missed in that process or come after that process so currently we have 184 so that would be in that category so I think in response to what the board had requested or directed last month that is the written policy and how we would plan a new program I have one question if we don't have a phone number associated do we actually roll three times to hang door hangers or just once we are required to make multiple attempts so we do go out there multiple times with door hangers I can see we're with one time the wind might blow out away at least giving people multiple chances we really try not to rely on the door tags they're subject a lot of issues we get email addresses for our customers we do try to collect those we're not always successful but we are able to collect those and we normally are doing that any other questions not for me not for me moving on to section 5 of our agenda 5.1 request approval for the fourth quarter reports from 2020 the RO to the council yeah I don't have much to add just a summary of what we saw in the last quarter of 2020 do we need our physical signatures show no we have scanned versions okay we need a motion to approve the RO oh yes so moved second it moving second all in favor say aye aye moving on approval proposal for the doubly boosted engineering evaluation consulting agreement with the EECOM a little background the doubly catch we refer to it as in-ground manhole pump station very small located at the intersection of highway doubly and Barron's Parkway and the station pumps water from the non-boosted zone into the boosted industrial park zone the vast majority of water in that zone is coming out of the Georgia Avenue pump station and by vast majority I mean probably 98 percent the doubly pit pump was put in very early when the industrial park was not yet very large it's just put in as kind of a very small supplemental pumping point has value for a couple reasons one it is apart from the major pump station the separate asset and something were to happen in the other major station we would have some capability left although very small it also is located really just down the street from one of our largest water users and is a kind of an efficient way of pumping water directly to them with very little loss and the third function it serves it takes water from a location in the south side zone where we don't have a lot of water usage but by pushing water into the boosted zone we're able to draw fresher newer water to that area behind the pit pump is drawing from so we refer to that as it kind of freshens water in the whole area there when we utilize it you know water if it's not used can lose chlorine and stagnate so that's one area where we like to use the pit pump to kind of freshen an area that does not have high demand but the pit pump is aging it's been there at least 30 years I'm sorry to check exactly when it was put in but it's about 30 years old it's very small physically it has one pump in it and there's not really much room to do a whole lot more so what we would like to do is we requested a proposal from AECOM and they've been working on some of our pump stations projects in recent years they helped us evaluate locations for the new water tower they helped us upgrade pumps at Georgia booster station and they've also worked on our hydraulic model in the industrial park so they're very well experienced to do booster pump projects for the utility and we asked them to give us a proposal which you see before you and it's really an evaluation of the pit pump should it be expanded at that location what are the ultimate constraints we would like to have more flow capability currently it can produce maybe 400 gallons a minute 350-400 we'd like to really have it up to 1,000 gallons a minute capability we would like an evaluation can the site support that in terms of drawing from where it does in the distribution system we'd also like them to do a little bit of an evaluation is there a better place to locate the elementary pump station there are a few options we don't really know without looking in the details maybe there's a better location to invest in so basically we asked them to do a technical evaluation for us which might lead into a design project in detail down the road so we have a proposal from AEcom for a fee not to exceed 22,980 the operation supervisor and I have reviewed this proposal and we feel it's comprehensive and responsive again AEcom is very experienced with our system so we could probably find someone to do this for cheaper but I wouldn't make that recommendation we did budget for this project including design phases so we had budgeted well above what this proposal entails in terms of cost questions or comments from the board I have a ton of questions but it's probably not appropriate to ask them at this point because they'd be designed and function questions that would be answered later on as the design comes in once the report comes in I guess one thing I could ask is this on the 20 inch line that's on the E-MAC now? No it pumps from the end of business drive I might have misstated that before business drive and it pumps from the east into the old portion of the business park on Gateway Drive I'm sorry I'm barren's parkway okay I'm sorry it's pumping out of a 12 inch name a few years ago connected where that viaduct is there so in other words there's plenty of capacity to increase the size of the pumping we believe so yeah it's not like you're on a 4 inch line or something like that any other comments or questions? nope I'm good so there was a you budgeted for this and you said it's looking very favorable right now financially yeah we budgeted including detailed design you know for a biddable project so this is just the first phase and because we haven't really settled on the project we didn't want them to give us any further proposal okay we need a motion to approve acceptance of the proposal from Edie Tom I say yes let's go ahead and move it we do so I will second that all in favor say aye aye the chair votes aye carry moving on approval of the rate case proposal from Baker Tilly um Baker Tilly has prepared most of the rate cases in recent history for the utility for the board um they're a very large reputable firm they've always done a very strong job and they're very familiar with our financials going back to Andre who worked several decades on the utilities rate cases and now excuse me under Jody Dobson and her team because of the upcoming RWI and really in anticipation of it and also because of our new lead service line program which we're incurring costs of up to $400,000 a year we want to go back into the public service commission and take a look at rates and request a rate increase here effective by the beginning of 2022 um from past experience we know that the PSE is just quite backlogged and we don't want to wait too long because um we're already spending money on the LSL program without having rates to cover that specifically and we know we've got new costs coming from RWI so we want to get in in time to have a rate increase in 2022 uh that would be setting the stage for RWI project um the public service commission does not approve rates for anticipated costs you know they don't do that that's not part of their rate modeling they only include current expenses and actual revenues um but we have enough uh going on now that we're uh confident that we uh would meet the requirements for a modest rate increase in early 2022 it's too early to tell what that would be um I would only be guessing until they really start digging into the numbers but we would like to get that process started because we know it can drag out many many months um the utility accountant and I did did review the proposal most of it is boilerplate which is typical and and the cost is the same as for the last last rate case that they did for us we felt that that was uh reasonable cost is buried on page six in the middle of the page a fee of $18,520,000 for the uh rate study and application if I may comment they have done an excellent job for quite a long time that they've been involved with uh Richard Boykin water utility and as Joe said they're a very reputable firm um they have always been very very cognizant of what we need and very much willing to um take our input and put that into what they what they end up with their own product so I would move we accept the proposal from David Tilley the second I'll second that alright for discussion any discussion I'm good doing none all in favor say aye the other side next request approval proposal from Antec for IT services um actually I just wanted to give the board some background information here um the utility has uh who does not employ a single IT professional staff we utilize outside vendors both for software in terms of our financial program software program which is quite large and extensive and also for our more commonplace IT needs you know system setups and ether nets and and all that kind of stuff um we've been served well by a local firm for a number of years uh and have been happy with them for the most part um but we had a recent incident that caused us to take a second look and maybe a fresh look at our IT consultants and I just wanted to give kind of a report on that um we had a situation where we could have a security breach and the overall response to it through our IT firm I felt was uh was lacking uh in terms of responding to the initial breach and um also kind of providing follow up and this this wasn't a highly significant breach breach is probably even an excessive term but because we deal with a lot of financial information a lot of billing activity account activity um any kind of issue for us is pretty serious um so after this particular incident and kind of a lack of follow up from our ongoing provider uh we did reach out to a firm uh out of Milwaukee area that has worked a lot with the group county village mutual insurance company um this uh outside the firm had also done a cyber security analysis for us several years ago so we had some familiarity with them um they did a very thorough analysis but we didn't hire them for follow up we did most of that through our local firm um the uh the uh outside firm is larger they have more staff on in their operation um we did some reference checks and found a high level of satisfaction uh we did have them mobilize to our site after this incident and they began a response that our ongoing firm hadn't you know been concerned about doing for us and this involved a number of like two factor authentication process and that is just you know a username and a password you have username, password and then the system texts you or emails you for an additional contact point um so we were pretty impressed with and did following this incident um one thing the facility account as well was expressing just that um we really need to be confident that we have a high level of cybersecurity defenses and and kind of an ongoing review that's something that you just can't do once and think you're okay and you know six months down the road or even two months down the road um so we did find that this new firm has more of a proactive where they're coming on a schedule basis not just reacting to all of a sudden we have a problem and we call in um they do work for a number of other municipalities which again is reassuring and they have some familiarity of the level of what we're doing and our need for security so I think I just wanted to indicate to the board that um we are following up uh and doing some review of IP and our consultancy and we may want to move direction in the near future and try a new relationship um going forward have we put together a request for proposal at all uh we do have information a proposal yes okay and I think you know sort of the board's the correction IP is more of an ongoing administrative service I don't know that we need a board approval on a decision like that unless the board would prefer to do that this is pretty much um you're talking about protecting your business and office processes right not the industrial processes yeah that's correct this is solely business oriented Mark not not skating nothing plant oriented because as I understand all of the industrial processes are completely separated from the internet that's correct that was the article that I sent out this morning that came from last weekend's wall street journal was talking about a water utility that had their industrial processes breached which would be a whole another can of worms I mean we need to be very very concerned we all appreciate how concerned we need to be about customer information and the financials that certainly is important I don't want to downplay that either yeah and I think the Florida incident did you know again awaken our needs it's kind of not recent and be more proactive um and that's why we're leaning towards a change I don't feel like we've been as proactive as we could have been and that's where we lie on the consultants really to guide that process and I feel like we're just ready for a change could I ask what does the city do for IT support they have an IT department don't they they do yes they have a separate department so we're going to be looking at trying to do something with the industrial side at the same time or well the industrial side um I guess I would say a few things it's a you know basically hardened software at the level of these PLCs which are kind of the base level of plant control systems there's really a hardened software built into those units that's programmed by our vendor um it's not accessible to the internet or phone lines or anything like that um it's very hard to to hack those units unless there's some encoded code within the software embedded that they come in the door with and that that has happened at the level of international attacks you know we've heard these whatever something in Iran where you know a governmental entity embedded something into their base code and at a certain time point is activated and started creating mechanical havoc and systems and it wasn't being controlled from afar it was built into the base code of these units so in theory that could happen in these kind of SCADA TLC base units I say we have very little control over that aspect um one strength we always have is that our planted staff are on the clock in some areas of the country they're not, they go automated and you know there isn't a person checking and listening and identifying things directly um and that's actually you know I think most cyber attacks like that are ultimately detected by a person we realize something's wrong so at the end of the day we have that kind of protection as well um but things like keeping that system separate from our plant online systems is part of what the consultant does help us with but really the hardened TLC and the SCADA equipment comes from a different vendor who's more responsible for that security and you know long ago the operations supervisor and I wholeheartedly agreed with them took the viewpoint that um radio systems are hard to breach you know they sound old fashioned but they're actually pretty secure in terms of you know you can't breach a radio system from across the seas so to speak and a number of our systems communicate with secure radio systems in the electric utility side of the business one of the big concerns is vendors coming in with thumb drives with some malicious software on them so just to throw that out there yeah and one of the policies uh you know some organizations we haven't fully implemented that is to not you know to disable those kind of means of um you can't put a thumb drive into a laptop or a computer sitting on a workstation physically so are you expecting to present a proposal at a future meeting on this or I think what I'm requesting is authorization to accept the proposal you know it's a little difficult if the board wants to see charging or chargeable rates and such I can certainly provide that it's a little hard to give a you know anticipated cost breakdown other than chargeable rates and some planned activities but I can certainly do that if the board wants to see those numbers well I'm certainly in favor of of increased attention to cyber security so you would have my support for that this is I don't have a problem with that either this is a big deal these days it's very very important it's not something you really want to take two, three, four, five months to look at things and that type of thing as you say it's more of an administrative type thing you're making those calls to make sure that everything that's going on at the utility is smooth and guided so so we need a motion for Tom do you have any comments? No so I just I understand this is not any kind of contract for these people we're just saying we're going to use them as our provider and it's going to be billed on as an as needed basis is that correct? It would be a yearly service contract Tom just a one-year term and a certain rate okay got you and with that we need a motion to approve a proposal for Montana so moved I'll second it and we can second it all in favor say aye aye chair votes aye series next the proposal for replacement of GPS survey units and our distribution as supervisors provided a summary the engineering department does quite a bit of surveying of both a new project going in and then after the project is in the ground we shoot in its locations we do this now with the GPS survey unit our current unit is aging and does not operate off the latest satellite configurations it's not as accurate as modern units and we also have some file compatibility issues with it it's at least 12 years old I believe it's not a little older so they tried out two units after focus 35 and the tremble at 5 there's quite a cost difference between the two but they felt the spectra focus 35 meets our needs and would be very adequate and a big improvement over what we have now and they requested purchase of that unit which was budgeted for and that would be used mostly by the utility engineer, the engineer tech and also the SAM crew at times what's the budget for that Joe? 40 and we've dealt with silo in the past correct? we have yes I would move to approve I have one question just to and this reflects my ignorance but I'm curious about one thing the present unit does not operate off the most current satellite configurations used in Wisconsin I thought that we it was a global positioning system so I'm confused can you help my ignorant sir Joe? I'm afraid I can't Mark I don't know the detailed answer to that I could follow up and get that info to you probably not that big of a thing but I hate being ignorant but one thing I'm afraid I can't give you a precise answer on that well I like the fact that the equipment would provide the needed accuracy and functionality for a price less than budgeted so I would second that it's also less than the other way good that we got the other piece of equipment correct? All in favor say aye aye all right on to personnel I don't have any personnel updates for today I'll ask one personnel question he reminded me when you mentioned the GPS survey equipment our engineering tech would be using it he was interested in pursuing a degree is he still able to do that wondering how he's doing he's doing great he's on track to complete a four year degree at UW Green Bay at Sheboygan in May awesome he will have a degree in civil and environmental engineering technology from UW Green Bay awesome could you pass along my congratulations to him because from someone who who pursued education while working full time I know that's a challenge I will do that he's done an awesome job cool thank you all right our next meeting could be on the 15th of March the third Monday of March any problems with that anybody's calendar not mine he'll be on my calendar here he'll be on my calendar here shortly okay it's already on mine so that's good for you as well yes all right and we need a motion to adjourn our meeting so moved I'll second it all in favor say aye aye thank you Joel Morgan all things going at home Joel going okay still on recovery but making progress thank you that's okay