Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can search whether a particular character is present or not in a string by passing string into function using pointer. Before starting, you can note my information. You can connect with me by following these details which are available in front of you. You can search my YouTube channel by typing my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube search bar. My channel will be available there. You can open it and here you will be finding out various programming related playlist which are based on C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, etc. So various programming related videos are available in these playlist. So you can watch these videos to improve your programming skills. You can subscribe my YouTube channel by clicking on this red button so that you can follow my YouTube channel. Now I am going to implement solution of this problem. So here first I am including a header file that is stdio.h. Now I am declaring a function search whose return type is int. It will receive two arguments. First is character pointer and second one is character variable. So this statement is function declaration. Now inside main function I have to declare a character array and a character variable and integer variable f. Now with the help of printf I am going to display the message enter string on console. That function will receive the content which is provided by the user and all the contents will be stored inside str. Now again I am using printf statement so that I can print the message enter the character you want to search. So to receive that character I am writing scanf statement and the entered character will be stored inside ch. Now I have to call search function. So for that purpose I am writing this statement. Here search is a name of function. It will be passing two arguments str and ch. So str is character array and ch is character variable and the result will be received inside f variable. So this statement is function call. The result will be received inside f variable. So I have to check the value of f. So if f will be 1 then the message character is present will be displayed on console. Otherwise character is not present will be displayed on console and at last I am writing return 0. So this way I have implemented main function. Now I have to implement search function. So this block will be known as function definition. Here you can see I have used a pointer p which will receive base address of str character array and the ch will be receiving the value which is available in ch variable which is present in main function. So through p pointer I can access all the locations of str which will be compared with ch variable. Now I am implementing first time declaring a variable and I have initialized it with the 0. Now I am going to implement while loop. Its condition is strp not equals to null. So if this condition is true then loop will be repeated otherwise it will be terminated. So p is containing base address of str. It will be dereferenced with the help of str sign. So if its value is not equals to null then the condition is true otherwise it will be false. So inside while loop I have to compare strp with ch. So strp will provide value and ch is the character which I want to search. So if this condition is true then I can assign 1 into f variable and I can break the loop. So this way I have implemented f condition which is checking whether ch is available in character array or not. So after checking this condition if it is false then I have to increase p so that p can move to the next location of str array. So this way I have implemented the while loop which will check whether the character is available in the string or not. After completion of this while loop I have to return the value of f. So f will be containing 1 if character is present otherwise f will be containing 0. So the returned value of f will be received inside f which is available in main function at line number 13. Then it is checked if f is 1 then character is present otherwise character is not present. So this way I have implemented the complete solution in front of you. Now I am going to execute this program. I am entering sanjay as the string and I am entering a as character which I want to search. So you can see the output character is present is displayed. So this way I have checked whether the character is available. Now I have to check whether the character is not available. So this time again I have entered sanjay. Now I am going to search the character m. You can see the output character is not present is displayed on console. So this way the program is working properly in both the ways whether the character is present or not. So here in this program I have passed string into a function and in a search function definition that string is persist with the help of a pointer. So I hope you have understood how we can pass string into function using pointer to search whether a character is present or not in a string. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app Techimage which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.


My name is Dr. Sanjeev Sanyal, Professor of Department Chair. I'm going to demonstrate the contents of the Extravagatic Portal Trial and a few words about each of them including their clinical correlations. My finger has encircled the structures of the Extravagatic Portal Trial. These are the structures of the Extravagatic Portal Trial. This space that we see here under the Extravagatic Portal Trial, this is the epiploid for a man of wind slow. We have removed the structures and we are seeing only the three structures of the Extravagatic Portal Trial. So let's quickly name them. Anteriorly, we have the Common Bioduct. The right, then we have the upper hepatic artery to the left and posteriorly, we have the portal wing. So these are the three structures which constitute the Extravagatic Portal Trial. So let's say a few quick words about each of them. Let's start with the Common Bioduct. The Common Bioduct starts from the Portiopadis as the right and left hepatic ducts which we cannot see and the right and left hepatic ducts then unite. To form the Common Hepatic Duct. And the Common Hepatic Duct then receives the Cystic Duct which is this structure here. And once it meets with the Cystic Duct, then it becomes the Common Bioduct. And the Common Bioduct then runs behind the first part of the Diode Lump and it enters the pancreas. We have seen the pancreas from behind and it runs within the pancreas and inside the pancreas it meets with the main pancreatic duct of Virsoom and forms a Common Hepatopancreatic Ampula which then opens in the Major Diodenal Papilla which we see here in the second part of the Diode Lump. So this is the Major Diodenal Papilla. This is the opening. Let's mention a few clinical correlations put into the biliary duct. At the junction where the right and the left hepatic ducts meet, we can get a special type of Polyangiocarcinoma which is the carcinoma of the Bioduct and that is called the Clatskin Tumor. The Common Bioduct is a very common site of stone dislodged from the gallbladder and then it produces gallstone colic. We can also get interpreted attacks of the infection in the Common Bioduct and that is known as Colangiitis. And in a classical example of Colangiitis ascending up from the Diodenum that is known as ascending Colangiitis, we can get what is known as Sharpo's Triad. The patient has got the three symptoms namely fluctuating jaundice, recurrent biliary pain and intermittent fever with rigors. Mental status and sepsis have been added by rainouts. In some Asian countries, a particular Helminth can also produce infection and that is known as Asiatic Colangiohepiditis and that is caused by Clonarchis sinensis. Common Bioduct stone is not very uncommon and then it can produce gallstone colic as I mentioned earlier. In which case, when we do surgery, we have to explore the Common Bioduct, remove the stone and then after we have to put in what is known as a T-tube which comes out through the abdomen. And 14 days later, we do a T-tube Colangiogram to see if the passage is patented and if it is patented then we remove the T-tube. Yet there is another investigation that we can do and that is done usually before surgery. We cannulate through by means of a diodenoscope, we cannulate the Hepatopancreatic duct, the main pancreatic duct of Virso and we inject the dye so that it outlines the pancreatic duct which is here and it also outlines the Common Bioduct and that procedure is known as Endoscopic Retrograde Colangiopancrotogram. So a common rule of thumb to be remembered is ERCP is to be done before surgery and T-tube Colangiogram is done after Common Bioduct exploration. Now let's take the next component of the Extrapathic Portal Trial that is the Hepatic Artery Proper. The Hepatic Artery Proper, it starts as the Common Hepatic Artery from the C-Electrum. Initially, it runs to the right horizontally and then it becomes vertical. At the place where it changes direction, it gives off a major branch and this is the Gastrodial Artery and after that it runs up as the Hepatic Artery Proper. From the Hepatic Artery Proper, we can see one branch coming out and this is the right Gastric Artery which runs on the lesser curvature of the stomach in the lesser momentum from right to left. This is the lesser momentum which has been removed. So this is the branch of the Hepatic Artery Proper. The Hepatic Artery, once it reaches the Porta Hepatis, it divides into a right branch and a left branch and we can see the right branch of the Hepatic Artery. Normally, the classical textbook description is that the right Hepatic Artery runs behind the Common Hepatic Duct but in front of the Portal Bay. But there are lots of variations and in this case we notice that the right Hepatic Artery is running in front of the Common Hepatic Duct. The right Hepatic Artery gives rise to the Cystic Artery to the gallbladder. The Cystic Artery is located in the Callot Strangle which is bounded by the Cystic Duct, the Common Hepatic Duct and the Liver. When we are operating in the gallbladder, accidentally we endure the Cystic Artery and produce hemorrhage. Or in any other surgery, if the Hepatic Artery gets injured and there is profuse bleeding, then it becomes very difficult to see the site of bleeding and control it. Then we do what is known as the Pringles Velover. My finger is in the Epipyroic Foremen of Winslow. So in front of my finger are these three structures of the Extrapathic Porta Triad which by the way were enclosed in the Hepatodeodontal ligament which has been removed. And my thumb is in the anterior margin of the Epipyroic Foremen of Winslow. And I compress like this. I am effectively compressing the proper Hepatic Artery. And therefore once we compress it, the bleeding stops and then we can locate the source of bleeding and we can ligate it. This procedure is known as Hogarth Pringle Manoeuvre. This is for stopping bleeding after Hepatic Artery is injured. Now let's take a look at the third component of the Extrapathic Porta Triad and that is the Portal Veil. The Portal Veil is formed by the union of the Sprenic Veil and the Superior Vicentric Veil. This is the Sprenic Veil which is coming from the spleen and this is the Superior Vicentric Veil. This union takes place behind the neck of the pancreas. The pancreas has been lifted up here and this is the head of the pancreas and this constricted portion is the neck of the pancreas. And thereafter it becomes known as the Portal Veil. And the Portal Veil then runs up in the posterior aspect of the Extrapathic Porta Triad within the Hepatitudinal Legament and enters the liver through the Porta Hepatitis and there it divides into a right and a left branch. The left branch of the Portal Veil receives the Parambilical Veils which come from the Ambilicus and which constitutes for the site of Porta Systemic Anastomosis. The Portal Veil also receives the Inferior Vicentric Veil via the Sprenic Veil. But in this case the Inferior Vicentric Veil is opening a little more immediately. In the earlier days the way to visualize the Portal Veil was by injecting a dye through the spleen and that procedure was known as the Splenoportovenogram, SPV. But that used to be a traumatic procedure and it was an invasive procedure. Nowadays a much more effective method is what is known as MR Portal Venogram. And by that means we can visualize the Portal Veil we can visualize the Sprenic Veil the Sprenic Vicentric Veil and Inferior Vicentric Veil and locate whether any abnormalities. This is especially done in suspected cases of Portal Hypertension when we have to do any surgical procedure and Portal Hypertension is usually a sequel of alcoholic cirrhosis. So let's say a patient has come to us with reading isoplegial viruses or other complications of Portal Hypertension we may have to do what is known as Shunt surgery to decompress the Portal Veil. This as I mentioned is a Sprenic Veil which is running exactly behind the pancreas. And just below that we have the left renal vein and we can see anatomically they are not very far away. So one procedure which is performed is what is known as the Splenorenal Shunt and that way we can decompress the Portal Hypertension. There are two subcomponents of the Splenorenal Shunt. In one we remove the spleen and we attach this portion to the renal vein that is known as the proximal or the central Splenorenal Shunt. The other one we retain this spleen we separate it here and we attach this end to the renal vein that is known as the Distal Splenorenal Shunt or Warren Shunt. This DSRS Distal Splenorenal Shunt is also referred to as what is known as the Selective Shunt that it is it selectively decompresses the Portal Veil and these vagal varices but it also allows some blood to pass through the liver. So these are some clinical aspects about the structures in the Estrapiotic Portal triad. Thank you very much for watching. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any questions or comments put them in the comment section below. Have a nice day. Dr. Sanjay Sanyal signing out.


I'm Dr. Nitin Sobel and I'm going to talk on peripheral arterial disease. So typically, there are two broad indications for peripheral arterial disease. One is you get patients who are suspected to have arterial disease and you need to answer questions like, is it an arterial problem? If it is, then where is it? How much is it? What is the nature of disease? What is the status of co-laterals? How is the distilled runoff? So when you do the test at the back of your mind, we need to keep, we need to plan therapeutic options so that your test is more relevant as far as the clinical situation is concerned. There is another group of patients who typically bear an intervention has been done and you are asked to evaluate. This is becoming more common like post-operative, post-tentative or post-bypass grafts. We'll see some example. And then there is another group like, for example, evaluating sugar aneurysms, aneurysms, etc. We won't go into that today. Now, in a peripheral artery is always take a history, diabetes, smoking, very, very important, chlorocation, then pulpit all the pulses. And most importantly, at least an ankle to brachial index is very simple. You don't need such sophisticated tests. You need to do a pressure at a level of the ankle and at a level of the upper arm. So typically the ankle brachial index is more than one. Lower the ankle brachial index more is the severity of the ischemia. And this gives us a clue that, okay, something is definitely wrong and we need to look at it properly. We can also take segmental pressures in the upper thigh, lower thigh, upper calf, lower calf. And this also, it is a fall in the segmental pressure. This again gives us a clue as to where the disease is. Typically, as we know that if there's a fall at one point, the disease is likely to be proximal to that. So with this clues, we go ahead. Now, why is this important? This is important because a treatment of peripheral arterial disease is basically symptom-based and not anatomically based. That means at times anatomically, you can have a large lesions. Patient may not be symptomatic and then we don't treat them aggressively. Whereas sometimes anatomically lesion is small, but the symptoms are more and we need to treat them aggressively, especially when the patient is young. So remember, the anatomically again, we have, of course, we start with the aorta, the nileax and the femorrhoidinus. Some areas are difficult. For example, the aileax bifurcation can be difficult. The adacta canal can be difficult. The trafication of the pulmonary artery can be difficult. But we will see how to overcome these difficult areas. Always begin with the aorta in a longitudinal plane and in a transverse plane. Now transverse plane is again very important because sometimes the aorta becomes ecstatic or you might have focal aneurysm and you might miss on a part of the aorta. In fact, if you do it only longitudinally. So this again gives us a good idea about the walls of the aorta. The longitudinal again is very, very important because you can pick up atherosclerosis. You can look at pulsatory of the aorta, which can be a clue to several diseases. Then we can trace go right up to the bifurcation of aorta. The bifurcation of aorta is very important because that's a common site of atherosclerosis. It's a common site of aneurysms. That's where aneurysms start. So that is very, very important. For the aileax, I like to tilt the patient typically right side up for the right side, left side up for the left. This because usually I have a lot of gasses in this area and once you tilt the patient, then you can overcome this and you can actually look at the vessels in a much, much better way. And it's easy to interrogate this way also. For the femoralis, we like to externally rotate the leg and go medially. And it's very important to expose the entire leg, right? Expose the one in the area because looking at common femoral artery, the bifurcation of common femoral artery is again very, very important. So expose the patient properly. Do a good grayscale because very often you have plaques which will be missed if you directly switch on color Doppler. There is oversaturation of color. So I always prefer to do a grayscale whether it's peripheral artery carotid or of course whether it's veins. Typically, when we switch on color, when you are in the proximal portion of the SCFA or the proximal SCFA, we like to tilt the probe on this side until the beam on this side. Once we go to sleep, we like to tilt the beam on the other side. That's the normal color. We see red, blue, red, blue. This blue in the center of the red is because of aliasing, because of high velocities as we know. And the blue coming up intermittently is because of the reversal of flow. So peripheral arteries have a triphysic flow forward, one reversal of diastolic and then a forward diastolic flow. That's a classical of a peripheral artery disease. It's very often referred to as a multi-physic waveform. When we go to the adducta canal, sometimes it is difficult to see the adducta canal with a linear probe and therefore we might use a convex probe which has a lower frequency. Popliteal, we can ask the patient to lie down prone. Sometimes the patient has a bandage or is not able to lie down prone. We can just tilt them on one side and look at the popliteary artery from the sides. The bifurcation of the popliteary artery is very, very important to evaluate. So for the posterior artery, we can place it right from origin. We go medially of course. And usually the posterior artery will be accompanied by two veins on either side and it becomes very easy. And then once you spot it, you can go down right up to the medial malleolus or at the ankle joint.  So whatever very you want you can do. This is important, the tibia peroneal trunk. That is the anterior tibial artery which comes straight onto the probe. You do not have to do angle correction for that. And the peroneal artery which is deeper. These are both very, very important arteries. So here we are tracing the peroneal artery which as I said is relatively deeper and you can go right down. Fortunately, all three arteries have accompanying veins and that makes them easy to identify. We can look at dorsal spades again, which is again a continuation of anterior tibial artery. Again, typically a high resistance waveform. And then we can look at planters also. Nowadays, it is easy to look at planters. Typically, but it is difficult to look at toes as compared to the fingers in the abdomen. But we can go right up to the veins of the toes. Now, why is it important to look at aorta? Because very often the clue is in the aorta. You can have atrosclerosis, you can have thrombosis, you can have aneurysms, you can have dissections, anything. So if you miss this, then your examination goes haywire. There is an example of a patient who has got an iliac artery occlusion. There are a lot of collaterals. And again, is distal external iliac or the common femoral is filling through collaterals. So if someone is very new and sees this waveform and may feel oh, this looks like normal and can miss on an iliac operation. This is happening in practice. So the normal waveform in a peripheral artery is a triphysic waveform. We have a quick systolic upslope, one downward flow, one forward and then absent diastolic flow. And this is because of course, the limbs do not require blood flow throughout the kidney exactly. So that's when the blood is normal, of course, that's the basics. Then we have a laminar flow with a clear window. Moment there is a plaque, there is turbulence. We have the entire window filling up with multiple dots that tells us that there is something wrong here. But the velocities will not increase if the stenosis is not significant. Moment the stenosis becomes significant, associated with all filling of the window. We have increase in velocity, which is directly proportional to the degree of stenosis. So typically, if the velocity increase 100%, then we know that we are dealing with more than 50% stenosis. If the velocity is increased by 4 times the proximal segment, then we know it is 75%. So what is very important in all Dopplers is comparison with proximal segment. So because typically upstream 2 cm above the site of evaluation if the velocity is say 100 and then it becomes 200, we know it is 50% stenosis. So there are no shortcuts, we have to take multiple readings at multiple points. And you'll see why we do it in practice. So here's a classical day-to-day example. This patient has a gangrene and as we go down from into the femoral artery, as we go to the mid-portional femoral artery, we can see this aliasing and narrowing there on color Doppler and on pulse Doppler. Approximately we can see this monophysic waveform instead of a triphysic. This again tells us that something is going to go wrong, I think has gone wrong approximately. And rightly so at the site of stenosis, we can see that the velocities have increased to 400 cm per second from 70s or 80s, telling us it's more than 50%, almost like 75%, almost like 475% stenosis. So there again on color Doppler, you can see aliasing, you can see perivascular tissue vibration, telling us that this is a very, very significant stenosis. So further down in the same patient, we look at a popliteal, we look at the posterior tibial. We can see that there are severe atherosclerotic changes. There is hardly any flow on color Doppler there happening. And we traced right, and you can see that the flow is monophysic. It is classically tired as power Sicily, telling us that this blood has come through severely atherosclerotic stenosis. And that's what we saw approximately. And we traced it right up to the end. The anterior tibial arteries was partly part of the anterior tibial arteries are occluded. There are some collaterals happening there. And we can trace it right up to the foot. And when we look at it, our cell speed is again, we can see some flow, but the flow is dampened, monophysic or tired as powers. And that's the patient who had gangrene. We could see this flow right up to the base of the tooth. So that's a very important information which you can give to the clinician. Usually they want to know how the flow is, whether the plant planter arches are patent and whether this flow right up to the base of the tooth. That's another example against stenosis of the SFA with aliasing with very high velocities, almost 75% stenosis. So normally we have a dry phasic waveform. If it becomes biphasic instead of multiphasic, that means there is an arterial vessel of constriction or an obstruction distilled to the sampling site. If it becomes monophysic, then we again know that there is an arterial occlusion distilled to the sampling site. Or sometimes this can happen in a combined proximal and severe arterial disease. And if it is monophysic, tired as powers with increased time taken to reach a peak system, we know that there has been a proximal stenosis or occlusion. So that's a classical example of a tired as powers waveform seen in the distilled T-bellatory in a patient who had a poly-bellatory occlusion. Sometimes in ischemia, the traficity of course is lost because now the tissues want more blood to come before there is distilled vasotylation. And you can see a high diastolic flow in the peripheral arteries. Sometimes the waveform in the peripheral arteries become almost like a vein. That is because the arteries lose their tone, they no longer often in resistance. They become like a vein and you can see a continuous flow like this telling us that there is a distilled vasodilatation in ischemia. Then of course you can have thrombus. This video is not running. But typically when you have a thrombus, you see perivascular tissue vibration or the tissues around the thrombus vibrate. Because the blood comes with a lot of kinetic energy hits against the dead wall and the energy basically spreads to the surrounding tissue. And that's a classical way for which you get prior and distilled to the occlusion. Look out for colatils. That's a profunda artery which is dilated because the SFA is blocked. And that's an SFA which is totally occluded, but there's a very good colatils. And I was saying that if you have such good colatils and the patient is old and does not have much of symptoms. And if the physiological tests are fairly good, then one may not be very aggressive about such long-sablon occlusions also. Look at the extent of disease here. You can see a line of demarcation of ischemia and rightly so on. Now, colorably we can see that the profunda is quite okay, but the SFA is totally blocked. And that explains why this part of the thigh shows a good color. Cause of the disease are common, of course, is atherosclerosis, diabetic atherosclerosis, typically with lot of calcification in the wall. Burgers are not very common in the lower limb, but occasionally, of course, we see typically the arteries are markedly thick walled. And they look like an almost like an umbilical arteries. Off-lead, we have been seeing COVID-19 presenting as lower limb ischemia atherosclerosis because of the multiple factors which are active in a COVID situation. Here's an example of a young person who came with from Rajesh's clinic, who came with ischemia in the leg. And he had symptoms which were there only for few hours. He had a total occlusion of the SFA and most subsequently a COVID positive case. So normally, there are a lot of interventions which are done, angioplasty is done, STEN support. We can have thrombolytic therapy, which is again becoming popular. We can have grafts. So let's see just some examples. That's a patient who's got an autofumeral graft and you can see that on the right side it is blocked. And it's very important whenever a patient has come to you after intervention to look at the history to find out what sort of a graft or scent has been put because otherwise examination can be difficult. Venus grafts are very difficult to evaluate because they're very thin and very often if they're normal, they collapse when you put pressure on your probe. Venus grafts have valves. There are two types as we know one is in situ and one is reverse vein graft. But it's very important to monitor Venus grafts. Then that's a stent and you can see that there is a stent stenosis. That's a perivascular tissue vibration, mosaic color telling us that there is a segment of stenosis. We can have patients after trauma coming with edema and this is a classical compartment syndrome. What we see here is a pan reversal of flow in the femoral artery and the proximal portion of the posterior artery. This is very diagnostic of a compartment syndrome, telling us that there's a very high resistance. That's another example of a compartment syndrome. On the left side, on the right side, we can see a normal trapezoid waveform in the femoral artery. On the left side, we can see a pan reversal of flow, telling us that there is soft tissue removal. You can see some fluid there and you need to do face shot on me and release the pressure. Sometimes after orthopedic surgery, the patients lose their pulse. The clinician wants to know is it compartment syndrome or is it a block here? For example, we have a tibia peroneal block and the patient had to be opened up again. Sometimes after trauma, patients may have vasospasm, particularly which may last for quite some time. There's a young girl who had a trauma of the actually of her fingers and there was a vasospasm which lasted for quite some time. But after some time, when we looked at the radial artery, it opened up and we see a good taste of the flow. So at the end of it, give a chart and answer the fundamental questions that is it an arterial problem? Where is it? How much is it? What is the length of the legion? What is the status of colateral? What is the sort of disease? And what is the status of distiller? So all these points are very, very important for the clinician to make a decision. Thank you so much for your attention.


So good evening everybody, thank you very, very much for coming. This is a, we usually have our select board meetings on Tuesdays and at the town hall. And this is a Monday meeting and it is obviously not in the town hall. We only have one issue to discuss. So we've been saying that this is a special meeting of the select board, but I think they're all very special. When we talk about sewer allocation and budgets, it's even more exciting than this. But in any event, thank you very much for coming. This is an important community issue that we are working our way through. And we are here tonight for an informational session where it's presented by the Steering Committee for the Community Center Scoping and Library Assessment. I'm going to turn it almost immediately over to our town manager Eric Wells, who will give an outline for tonight's presentation. I just want to say that the committee and the town staff and the engineers of every county work very hard to gather as much data as possible to listen to as many people as they possibly can. And to also say that this is a presentation that we are ourselves on the select board hearing for the first time tonight as well. This is not a town meeting, although this is where we have one there. It might be a little disconcerting because there's not going to be a vote anytime soon. There's not going to be a decision that's made anytime soon. In any way, you can talk about whether or not we go forward at all. But this is going to be a good opportunity to get more information. So again, thank you very much for being here. And I'm going to turn it over to our town manager Eric Wells. Good evening everyone. Usually on the floor at town meetings this feels a little different. It's not much about the floor or the place or anything. So I appreciate you all being here this evening. This has been a great project that the Steering Committee has been working on for the last time of the year. I was thinking about the last time we gathered in this room at town meeting. And the Steering Committee is kicking off their public outreach outside as people walk into town meeting. So seven months later we are again to follow up and share the work for this evening. So the committee has prepared its draft report as directed in the committee charge that was adopted by the select board July of 2022. The committee was tasked with undertaking a comprehensive union engagement process and working with our architectural consultant Black River Design to evaluate different space configurations for community center, recreation, and library spaces in town. As Chairman Tenney mentioned, this evening the select board received a presentation on the findings of the committee and a discussion on the next steps to consider enhancing this project further. Again, this report is a scoring and feasibility study. It serves as a starting point for a project that is potential scope. You can read the report of the committee on the town website. Sixty-seven pages in the text and a number of other independent appendices that we're all aware of as well to look at. We also have a couple of hard copies that will be available at town hall and then in the library to look at. This report provides guidance to select board to help answer some critical questions when considering future space needs for the library and the concept of a community center for recreation facilities. The intent on this stage of the project was to define the needs for these spaces and what the community would like to see in these spaces and how to consider different possible space implications based on these needs to form an initial draft project scope. For the discussion and decision point for the select board to come to meetings, we did decide whether to advance this project and allocate funding for its next stage, whether to accomplish site analysis and selection for a community center facility and schematic design for the community center and library edition that will be presented tonight. The diagrams and preliminary cost figures included in the report are meant to be a reference, a starting point for the project, with undergo much refinement moving forward. The overall question of project funding and financing is a critical component in our discussion and will dictate the final scope, determination, and the select board decides to advance the project further. I'm pleased to report to the select board this evening that this has been a very extensive process with a high degree of community engagement. Special thanks goes to the steering committee members for their dedication, this process, engaging discussions throughout. It's been a pleasure to provide staff support to this work. I'd also like to welcome this evening our library trustees and Recreation of Park Committee members who are in attendance. And I'll pause now and I'd like to introduce Carla Parsons, a member of the library board of trustees who served as committee chair to say a few words. Hello everyone. As Eric mentioned, this is going to come along with a really interesting process that we've been through almost a whole year. And I want to thank everyone, especially who participated in the in-person interviews and also filled out the online surveys. All of your data was compiled and read and discussed and it helped bring us to where we are right now, today. I'd like to introduce the other members of the committee and if they could please stand. So, Greta DeCustino is our select board rep. Bob Metz is the rep committee rep. Mary Claire McGovern is a community member rep. John Butterfield, another community member rep. And then McClintock, another community member rep. I'd also like to thank the library director, Jean Kern and the recreation parks director, Todd Goodwin for their guidance and expertise and attendance at literally almost every one of the meetings. Our committee met 14 times between November 2022 and October 2023. And it was really interesting how we all kind of ended up becoming a cohesive group in the end. It was a great process and I'm very happy and proud of all the work that we've done. I also want to thank, oh, okay. So I want to thank Moise Cain of Iceberg Consulting who had the task of getting this started at the very beginning when it was such a big project. I don't think anyone who was on the committee really knew where we were going to go. And somehow we were able to do that. Also to, oh, and to Marisol for her work at the Library of the Celtic, thank you very much. And you can see, oh, so, I'm nervous here too. I feel like there's a script here. So also to Black River Design for leading the project and focusing all of the committee's energy into a well thought out process to arrive and tonight to report. And I do want to mention again for those of you that participated that we started with phase one with the in-person interviews and then phase two for the online interviews. And then all of that data was compiled. Many, many, many discussions, really interesting ones. And now we're where we act. Now with this wonderful report. And so I'm going to introduce, actually thank all the people at Black River Design and introduce John Halper from Black River Design to take it next. Thank you, Carla. Hello, everyone. I'm used to projecting my voice, so if this is too loud, I'll put your hands over your ears or something. I'll try to modulate on my volume a little bit. So thank you all for coming. 14 times on Carla. She was counting. I will kind of reiterate what Carla said. We had a fantastic group to work with. We've got really good feedback from them. They kind of work through and talk through all the issues as we went along. And I think we came to a really nice consensus in the end. And we'll get into that a little more specifically here in a moment. So again, as Eric said, the charge is to gauge the demand for the community outreach process and both the programming facilities for both the recreation department and for the Dorothea Alumni Memorial Library. Then we were asked to determine the specific space needs and finally to recommend a configuration to a joint meeting of the select board and a library trustees. And I know that they're both well represented here tonight. So mentioned, we went through a fairly rigorous process that we really didn't think about beforehand. We took this one step at a time. We went through the data gathering. You can see there's five yellow squares there. We gathered a lot of data from a lot of resources. Secondly, then after that, we went through a period of processing that information where we were doing some diagrams and you'll see some of those here tonight. And finally, then, there was the analysis, the discussion and called for these recommendations. And we really were very rigorous about going through in that order because if you try to jump ahead to the conclusions without gathering all the data, you are in danger of coming in wrong. So we went through a young, with Melissa Cain and Iceberg Consulting, who helped really design a process here that was intended to reach as many people in our community as possible. I'm sorry, I had to use the word hour because I live here. So in the Williston community, as you can see here, the committee did 184 interviews representing 270 respondents. They did the online survey in which 757 completed surveys were turned in and that represented over 2,000 people. Now, you have those together, that's about 2,400. Williston only has 10,000 residents, plus or minus. So that's well over 20% response rate. That is an amazing number for a process like this. So again, we did the interviews. We used these answers and the data we received here to formulate questions for phase two. So you can see here that we grouped spaces into five categories. We grouped activities into six and then really set about seeking information on those pieces. As you can see here, the results indicated that people wanted an expanded library and an intergenerational community meeting gathering space that includes the following program areas. A large gym, kitchen, classroom space, meeting rooms, fitness space, senior center, rental space, community rooms, technology, computer access, maker space, and pool. So what did we learn? We learned a couple of things. We learned that the Dorothy Allen Memorial Library is a highly valued town institution, both a physical and emotional cornerstone of our community. We learned there's a strong demand for accessible multi-generational community spaces, especially among families and seniors. This was the number one request from seniors. We also learned that there's an amazing number of things that people will soon are interested in doing. And I will just leave it at that. Finally, I do need to mention up front here real quick that the swimming pool facility is clearly the most off-mentioned amenity with strong opinions, both pro and con. And now I'll draw your attention to the word cloud here because I think this actually is pretty accurate representation of what was heard. You can see pool is a very big word here, but the biggest word right here is thank you. It was amazing how many people in this process said thank you for asking. Thank you for asking for my opinion. Thank you for asking what I think. And they really responded. You really responded. So you can see there, the thank you is big. Pool is big. You're community, senior space. Right here, expand library. And then transportation is another big word out there. And remember that as we move forward to this presentation. So why does Wilson need an expanded library? The population is growing. The library space has stayed the same since 1998. The population here has increased by 50%. The door of the Alling Memorial Library serves the 13th largest population of Vermont while ranking 22nd for library square footage. The library ranked first for program attendance across all Vermont libraries. Physical circulation ranked fourth among Vermont library. And that is all while the current collections and accessibility of those spaces are limited by an undersized facility. And if you've been in there, you'll know. So as we looked at this, we also did a little benchmarking working with Barbara and Jane. And I know that this is probably pretty small to see, but this is a list of some of the other libraries in the area and in the state. A couple of things that I can just note from there, the Brownell Library in Essex serves approximately the same population. It has 50% more space in the building. The Pearson Library in Shelburne, I'd say a peer community of ours, has a smaller population, but 75% more space. They do have a relatively new league in the Irish library. And then lastly, and we're going to not spend a lot of time on this, but we did spend a lot of time on this in the community work, which is we actually went through and identified individual spaces of all the different individual spaces that would be needed or desired in the library. We added them up, we went back and forth about how big does it need to be and whatnot. At the bottom, we came up with something that was just over 17,000 square feet. The existing building is around 9,500. So similarly, we asked the question, why does this belong to your community center? Well, the first thing that everyone had to do when I got hired to do this was you should read the 2006 task force report. Well, guess what? That one said the same thing. But it's only about 17 years later and we still are hearing loud and strong that we need a senior center or a community center. We have limited space available in the community for programming. Space is used in the Old Brook Church, other churches, the fire department, the police department, et cetera, and most frequently in the schools. But all of those have scheduling restrictions and some have accessibility issues that make it really difficult to couple programs there on a consistent basis. The local school district, the Champlain Valley school district, there is the recreation department for space used after school and on weekends and I think probably in the summer too. So, finally, if there was a proprietary space that the town controlled that would allow the recreation department to offer to run a much broader range of community programs in a central location. So, and then the last thing is some of you are probably aware there's the new rec zone that's open up actually during our committee process. And while that has demonstrated the value of community center space managed by the town, the problem is that many programs are offered by the rec department but only one program can run at the rec center at any given time. It's just a single space. A new community center would have a number of different spaces that could run many programs at the same time. So, and here was just a little example of some of those activities that we identified. The top five being adult fitness, art classes, cooking classes, that's what you'll see in the kitchen engineer, educational classes, adult sports and pickup programs. And then if you go further into the top 10 you'll see that both youth sports programs and senior fitness programs are included. So, and then here we had the same program of space needs that we put together a list of. The number at the bottom here you can see right there is approximately 34,000 square feet. That was what we've been calling the base facility. Those are the things that we felt were needed at the outset regardless of what ultimately happens here. We also identified a couple of other functions that would be very good to have that we felt that the public outreach process identified but perhaps were more than we wanted to take on immediately. And we'll talk about that a little bit more as we go forward. But that's another additional 18,500 square feet that includes an additional gym space perhaps with a turf surface and also the pool that we've been talking about. So I think this committee has been made sure to take that pool into consideration as we move forward because it was such a strong response there. So, from the outset Black River Design was asked to look at four different configurations of how this project might play out in the community or be housed in the community. The first was a new community center paired with a renovation in addition to the existing library. The second was a new community center and a separate but new library. Thirdly, a new community center would include a branch library that the existing library would stay in play as well. And then lastly, it was a new joint community center that included a new library all in a single facility. So the first option was adding on to or renovating the existing library. What we learned, we spent some time walking through the attic looking at the ventilation equipment and examining the lovely basement down there and seeing where the bats lived. But what we found in general is that the building is structurally sound. As you can imagine, the systems that are in there that are at least 20 to 25 years old when the last addition happened are getting old and tired. Out of date, we can do a lot better than that now on the energy efficiency, mechanical systems, ventilation, lighting and whatnot. So all that, regardless of what happens here is equipment and systems in the building that are getting older fast. We learned that the school district actually owns the land, the library sits. But we have had very preliminary conversations that indicated that this is not going to be an obstacle necessarily to proceeding in this direction. We learned that the traffic and parking are things that can be problematic on the site and that there would be some improvements in those areas that we strongly desired should we move ahead with a renovation project. So in the end, and we'll show you a little more in the end, we felt that if you were to expand on the site, the best way to do that would be a two-story addition at the rear of the library that connected both the adult and children wings of the building. And that's for several reasons. One, it minimized that visual impact from the road. It consumed the least amount of space on the town green where we all know that this library sits. So we felt that that was really the best way and the best place to put an addition here. The other piece that we've got going here was the idea that if we're going to try to provide additional parking for this library, the best least intrusive space to put it would be up here on the corner of the site here in front of the old school building. We recognize this is a sensitive area to be putting parking. And I think everyone knows going ahead if we were to do this, we've got the extremely sensitive to how this happened. But there are opportunities here for landscaping and perhaps that's a function with some type of proper kind of behavior in there that this would actually enhance the green. That would certainly be part of the design process if we were to continue on this project. So I think this is a really good diagram that shows how that might sit on the site. So there's the old brick portion of the building here. This is a section through the old brick portion with the basement underneath. The new offices decided in the courtyard in here and that's looking at the children's wing beyond. And then this would be the new two-story piece to have this fit on the site. The site actually is no slopes away behind there. And so this would drop down about half a level. So as you come in the front door and go through the library, you either go up a half level or down a half level to get to this library. So you don't really have the sense that you're kind of above yourself at any point in the library. And not only that, but then the top of the roof is actually not very much taller than the building that's there right now. So we really felt that an option like this would be the least intrusive above the site. So the second option that we were asked to look at was a new library to go along the community center. And again, these might look like floor plans that we were really trying to call these diagrams. As you move forward with any kind of design, we would actually put walls and doors and whatnot in here. But these are the right-sized spaces for things like the meeting space for the adult collections. There are the adult computer area. But what we learned is that with the new library you get the expanded collection areas. You get the meeting space enhanced. There was a strong feeling in the start of society once it stayed with the library, regardless of where it's located. And finally, there was this, what we're calling an agent here, this big round circle. But there's a space in the library that would be extremely useful that was kind of a gathering space, a social space. Right now it's the front entryway where everyone's rubbing shoulders and trying to check out books all at the same time. So that's another function that we then felt was important. The third option that we were asked or tasked to look at was the idea of a branch library in a community center. And we didn't do any diagrams here because before we even got there I think we realized there were some real impediments to making that work. First off, it would require staffing for two buildings. It would require a collection for both buildings. So that becomes a redundant collection at each site. Or each site has half the books that they really wanted. Or you had a particular book that you wanted and you could only get it at one place and you had to go to the other one to get it. So without a huge increase in staffing, you would be there for, then you'd be starting to reduce the hours of one branch and the other was open. And it really doesn't address the accessibility issues that are in the existing library nor does it address the outdated and aging systems that are in there. And then, oops, wasn't there one more one? We must have decided not to mention that. I'll just add a little bit then. There were some real logistics issues that are involved with, I guess that was up here, the complex logistical process that you're trying to move books from one room, one building to the other to get it where they needed to be on a kind of a snap basis. So now we looked at the community center. What might a new community center look like? In the end, we said it's a large gem. It can be divided into two pieces for multiple activities at the same time. It has a cardio and weightlifting area, a fitness studio down here near the front door for classes. It has some community spaces here, including a larger space with a kitchen in there for a lot of different things, birthday parties, anything that you would have or you might not have a dinner for your club or your group, as well as meeting spaces and classroom spaces. And then the other thing we noticed, it's obviously with athletic facilities in locker rooms. So those are here, but they were put in place in a spot where they could be expanded if we wanted to go to our full build-out at a pool on there. We also then had room here for the second gem. And that's what we're calling this, the expanded community in our creation center. As we go further in, you'll see that. So that's what we're talking about when we say expanded as opposed to the base. The base is if we go back there, that's the smaller version versus the expanded. So then the last option that we were asked to look at was the joint facility. So what are the benefits of joint facility? There's potential for greater intergenerational engagement. The idea that this is a one-stop shop for programs and for access to public transportation or whatever. And in addition, one of the advantages is that there are some spaces that might be shared between the library and the community center. So there might be a little bit of cost savings. And I know it says in many dollars, and I say that was a little, it doesn't feel like a little, but it is. So here's the other question that the group spent a fair amount of time on. I wanted to say here, before we start throwing the numbers up there on the screen, these are all based on the idea that a square foot of new space, like a library, costs $500 a square foot.  We also have no idea when this would actually be built. So I can tell you that this is exactly the right amount for the exact date that this is going to be constructed. The other thing, yeah. The other thing to remember is that that was for a library space, for example. But there are some things that cost a lot more per square foot, a swimming pool, for example. There are other things that might cost less. A classroom wing of a building is actually fairly inexpensive because it's a bunch of big spaces without a lot of plumbing and whatnot in it. So we adjusted different pieces of each of these options, multiplied it by the square foot as you came up with the number. They also include what we call soft costs, which are things like permitting fees, design fees, contingencies to make sure that you stay within your budget one lot. So these would be projected as project costs, not just construction costs. But anyway, let's get on with this, huh? So here we go. The expanded joint facility, this is all in. This is the community center with the pool, with the second gym, with the library connected to it. This is what, 50, 60,000 square feet or more. $48.5 million. Plus the land acquisition and site development. So this doesn't include purchasing any land because we have no way of projecting what that might be because we don't know what you're buying. So if you wanted to separate that and do a recreation community center and a new library, and in this case, we've taken the phase components off. And you can see there that it drops from $48.5 to $32.25. That's about a 33% reduction per savings to phase the project. So that's why we're looking very seriously at that phase and that's just to try to cut those initial costs. The next option was a joint facility with the library included but without the pool and the additional gym. That saves another million dollars. And that was $10 million I mentioned before where you're starting to save or share spaces. The construction is happening at the same time on the same building. So you can save a little bit of money there. And then lastly, there was the idea of the base community center along with the library renovation. And that drops down about $29.75 million. Which is about actually $2.5 million less than the new library. So renovating the library saves about $2.5 million over building an all-new one. That's as low as I can. So how do we decide? This is where I got a lot of fun, right guys? So what we did is we came up with this matrix here where we listed across the top the different configurations for the building. So here you have joint complex outside the village, joint complex in the village. And as you can see, what started to happen here is as hard as we tried, we totally divorced ourselves from the concept of where is this building going to be. So while this matrix was being developed, it became apparent that in addition to the facility configuration, the general location made a difference in how it ranked many of these different criteria we listed over here on the side. So we did do it so that we had options that are both outside the village and in the village. And when we say outside the village, it really became apparent that that was either in the growth center or very close nearby. So we've got the joint complex here. We've got just the recreation and community center in the village and outside of the village and then the library and three, either outside the village in the village four on the existing building as a renovation. And this is just a small piece of the number of criteria that we looked at. That was probably about three times that long, I think. And we asked everyone to think about which of these options were best given to those criteria. And those criteria are things like potential future public transportation access, which actually turned out to be a really important factor as we were looking at all these things. You know, other things were, you know, potential for greater intergenerational use and engagement. So we really tried to think of anything and everything that we could that might make a difference to say this is served better by a building in the village or out in the village or as a joint complex. So once we got that, we said, okay, that was a main piece of what we used to identify. And you know, actually, if you look at that, you can see the colors on here. We actually put numerical values to each of these things, like the one through five and add them up. And the ones that got the higher scores got green. The ones that got the lower scores got red. So nobody was very interested in a new library outside of the village. So, you know, you can see that the existing expanded use of some libraries was good. So, but in addition to that, we looked at the cost comparisons that were there, the planning and zoning input. We talked about presentations from the senior planner, Emily Heyman. We talked to the energy committee and also the library and recreation department staff, I think, through their respective leaders have a fair amount to say about this. All of that was kind of mixed into the pot, stirred around for quite a while. And I would say that the committee's deliberations identified a number of siting criteria should the project move forward, and that's the select board's decision, that those siting criteria would inform the site selection process. And we want to go over a couple of those here. So, when searching for a site, these are important. The capacity for future growth, universal accessibility, access to public transportation, walkability for residential neighborhoods. We're trying very hard to make our town a walkable place. Intergenerational use and finally cost. We did identify a couple of additional factors involved here, basically through our talks with the town committees. The review of the town plan shows that it supports growth of recreational library services in general, supports development of recreation in the growth center in particular, and in discussing the Project Energy Committee, one of the most important things from their perspective was that reuse of existing buildings is important from a sustainability standpoint. So ultimately, a strong, very strong consensus formed around two recommendations. One, expand the existing library in the village, and two, build a phased community recreation center in the growth center. That's pretty much where I want to end this, to open this up to questions. You can see here is a site I'm putting the next steps that anybody is interested, but essentially it has to do with the funding that Eric mentioned earlier. It's really to come up with some strategies on how best to fund the project. We would have to select a site, we would have to go through the schematic design process to get a little more detail on all this, any of these options, estimate that cost, and then at some point, probably, request voter approval. Those are all pieces down the road and in that order, just like we did our other process in this order. We're going to do it in this order this way as well. So there we have it. We're going to expand the existing library in the village, and build a phased community recreation center in the growth center. That's the word from the committee. And the forward port is also on the TAP website. Next is just open community Q&A and questions from the board as well. I can help kind of moderate here, but we have a lot of folks in the room who can weigh in and help answer questions. We've got Serra committee members, members from library trustees, staff members, so the recreation parks committee as well. Serra's going to continue moderating the evening from here on out, but I would ask if people do have a question, if you can raise your hand, give her a call and you can tell us your name and state your question, and hopefully somebody in the room will know the answer and we'll receive that way. We scheduled this for about a half hour of questions, if there aren't that many. If there's a couple more, then it would take 30 minutes. We'll go a little bit next year. But anyway, please absolutely feel free to ask questions or make comments or whatever is on your mind. Thank you. A microphone in the aisle here now, that could be helpful. We're also recording this so you can share it with folks to view afterwards. I think that will open up for any questions, folks. I know you're a figure like senior in the community. How much money is available for this so far? Good question. That's what the town has to look at here. There will certainly be some public bonding and the debt that would be taken on. We're working with another consultant right now to look at some funding strategies to recommend. Those could include, what's the viable for some grant funding, different financing options out there with different interest rate programs. The town has allocated ARPA funds so far to use with Scoping Study. The board could decide to use ARPA funds to continue this in the next phase. But from a capitalist standpoint, there's no capitalist savings for this project at this point. Those are the big questions at the end. I know that you're talking about expanding the library that's already here. But you didn't really mention any particular locations where the new community of our creation center might go. Was that part of the study? Was there any kind of consideration of where that idea of what I should be? Sure. That was a piece of this project that was really an element that the committee was looking at. What is the community looking for in this space? So trying to decide what's that square footage amount. To answer some of those critical questions first before trying to decide what might be the site. The thinking was, okay, for a building, what's kind of the ideal footprint, the potential for expansion? To try to get a consensus around that before searching for a site. Because once you have an idea of what type of size of building you're looking for, that would help answer questions for parking on the site and additional aspects of acquiring a site. So where the group ended was that looking at the growth center and outside the growth center, just from a general standpoint, for the Select More Advances project, that would be the next part of the exercise. Looking at those criteria, certainly constraints on sites and seeing what's available. Showing time off by the property as well so there would be an acquisition to see what is available. So there's that base standpoint that the committee's recommended. That's a starting point. Certainly that number, that square footage could end up being smaller. That's going to tie back to the cost. I would just say that as an architect having this information available to me as we started the site selection processes would be incredibly useful. It keeps you from kind of going down the path that you don't need to go because you found a perfect site and guess what, it's half the size that it needs to be.  And I think it's really important to know about kind of where the feelings were that that community center really wants to be in the growth center. That's where the vast majority of new housing is going. If you want to talk about being walkable to that facility, it's also the most likely space where public transportation is going to be available. So for the seniors to access that would be really important to have it there. So I think it really starts to make that site selection a lot simpler because there's a lot of good ideas in here that we can make sure that that site meets. When you talk about the growth center, can you just explain what the growth center is so people have a general idea of where town that is? Sure, thanks Greta. Essentially, the greater tapforms area from a sedentary about the fire station to the east just before that about to the SEC Bank to the north to the south around the highway to the west down Harvest Lane a rough outline of the red area but any site potentially at this point but I think that would certainly present some challenges with taking that park space to another facility in the front. Good question. So we're thinking about that right now too. Certainly deciding how large the facility is going to be is one component of it but then operationally how do you want to have that center staff? Do you want to have it open X number of hours per day on the weekends? So that's all going to play into that operating discussion as well and it might be something where it has to phase into it but those are all things we need for the townies to think about and consider. How many people in general in the community center that size of staff that you know? Todd, I think I'm looking for a video outside. The recreation parks staff would change most likely have a full-time facility manager who's managing the facility. A lot of the programs that would go on are currently what we have right now are contracted instructors. So you've got a lot of instructors coming in and then your front desk is your other area that you're covering now with probably a full-time person and then it's a character which kind of people covering that. Right now we're a department of two so I wouldn't say any more than probably a full-time part-time staff that basically no one does and people less maybe and then all your programming like I said going on is contracted then that's around X. Certainly the amount of part-time staffers would cover through that front desk area so all important things I think. Jason. How aren't the home anyway in that program? We have a small piece of land that we've been able to replace but out of the exact but it wouldn't be large enough to cover some of this with actual scope. Jason. Let's watch your stuff. I watched a presentation like this and had a lot of aha moments and the thought process was really good and really well represented. I wanted to make a couple of comments. The first is that we do need recreation facilities because we're adding population and right now we have no recreational facilities except for the new workspace and so I feel like it's really good to anticipate that need. Along with that it actually increases the value of the surrounding land for developers because of that as a draw and I hope that we do something like a TIF district where we can raise funds for something like this on future tax revenue that we can anticipate from the increased value that gets to the area. On a smaller scale back here in the village it's always hard to work with an older building but you've done a good job and I like the idea of keeping the library here as part of the Civic Center as a band member this plan takes away about a good chunk of the existing space that's used weekly in the summer or every other week for concerts and then the 4th of July festivities and some of us remember losing the amount we lost from the last library edition because we liked the space the way it was previously and one possibility for dealing with that is to move the casino or perhaps have it be a band shell further away from the library so that the space between that and the library was expanded but I would like if it goes ahead like this the plan is made to make the green work for concerts and 4th of July festivities. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. That came on multiple times at the committee thinking about the use of the bandstand and the physical layout of the green potential for those amenities as well on the outside. It was mentioned that there were some cons for the pool and obviously as far as the pool goes it was not a surprise that there was very strong opinion about the pool and the committee spent many many hours and many meetings talking about the pool and it's I think that ultimately the decision that was made is the fact that the pool is one aspect but there are a lot of other needs and at this point it's the priority would be to get the many other needs set up and with the option to add a pool at a time that it seems to be feasible. So that's kind of the pool. I was just curious to this the cons that people have brought up in the service. A lot of people have mentioned that strong views from the cons so I was curious what the communities cons are. I think generally it was the price in that kind of trade off and so I think that we ended up trading off with putting the potential for a pool to be there but not necessarily at this first round and again I don't have all that data right in front of me but pools are not only expensive to build but they're very expensive to operate as well it requires some very specific construction it's actually a really harsh environment so I think that and it requires a fair amount staffing as well and we talked about staffing for all those other programs but the pools are probably just as much again just because there's a tremendous availability of pools that don't exist in other facilities so I think there's a lot of the word cloud we had it was much smaller but there was one that said no pools so that was said often enough that it actually got on the real cloud. There weren't so much cons as just people who weren't interested at all being a pool and didn't want to spend that much money on something they were interested in. The committee was looking at primarily indoor pool concept but I was from the committee so I figured to jump in here too. One of the things that came up from the committee was looking to add a pool whether it's attached to this facility or an outdoor stand-alone pool is really going to require a lot of just specific focus and it's probably at a separate committee charge just to look at that. We talked a little bit about how other municipalities operate indoor outdoor pools over in the winter as well. We've got a couple of comparators from other England states that's where the committee landed today or that's should the pool concept be advanced further into that kind of outdoor consideration. On the pool as well an outdoor pool you're only going to get in two months and you're trying to hire staff and right now lifeguarding staff seasonal lifeguarding staff seasonal staff anywhere it's very difficult to get if you have a full-time if you have an indoor pool you can hire a full-time staff but as I said that's going to be three or four people just lifeguarding and the other thing too is if you build a rectangular type pool that you see around the area and you have lab swimmers you've got two people per lab that's eight people but if you put in a playground, a spray ground that type of thing lazy river or resistant walking can be done now you can serve a hundred people so it's four people or eight people still the age you've got the lab ladies but you also have this other aspect that will drop people in as well. Pools typically lose money as John said they're expensive to build they're expensive to staff but if you have that other component more of a I don't want to say a water part but that kind of component of things that you can pick up on people will come and just use that and you can serve more people doing that so the pool is definitely hopefully an option but it's phase one where I use this to start bringing in money and then save to build that second phase serious consideration given to having a dog park a lot of people have dogs particularly quite popular I don't really know but not a lot to maintain sure, we definitely heard that the focus primarily was an indoor facility but it came up with the citing question too if you have a site that has ample room outdoor spaces thinking about a dog park component there too and it's been brought up a number of times but also thinking about the right location for a dog park if it's in the growth center and it's close to a lot of residential areas is that the right fit so it's not something that's been ruled out but it's going to probably depend on the site that's a facility to think about at the same time Yes, Junicron it is getting closer to their and I want to make sure that all of us here recognize our sled board and our town manager for bringing the Black River design project forward in the budget from last year making this happen this community as needed both of these spaces since we're ever and I personally want to stand now as I am and thank all of you for that work for many of us and thank trustees, chair I'm going to speak and say those of us who serve in the library board love our library so much and there's always a little moment that we have to talk about the books that we're reading and so I just want to thank especially Carla who helped represent us in this process we're so excited to think about a library that's more functional for our community that meets our community's needs and it honestly just brings a tear in my eye to see the perception that our library is the heart of our community I just love that so much but also the amazing opportunities of a community and recreation center as well and knowing that our library doesn't meet the needs of the community when it comes to our need for space for connecting and I think the pandemic kind of showed us how we long for that and our library is just such an amazing place but there's so much more potential so this is making me feel very hopeful for the next phase of figuring out how do we pay for something like this and help meet our growing and changing community so thanks to everyone involved in this Charlie other than Miguel is it possible to go ahead with a library expansion without waiting for the community center and all the work? No, certainly that would all be part of the discussion moving forward there's going to be anticipated need to borrow money here and the select board wants to advance this project to find out how to approach that question The question about transportation and knowing that the recommendation is to keep the library in the village Is there any hope for a return and a public transportation to the village or any anything else other than you know, a rebound or something like microtrans there are other options that would make this, you know, what is potentially expanded and an even more incredible library accessible to even more people A good question, that came up with the committee as well We got some grant money last year for a microtransit pilot study that our planning department is wrapping up the planning commission is going to be looking at that and the select board will be sharing that report as well You know, the I've read it in kind of the synopsis is the microtransit is viable and it would be a good application of Wilson Probably no surprise it's expensive to operate for the scope So as the town's I've made some recommendations with the select board to think about what might be a microtransit pilot study allocating some funds maybe using that to over a month or six weeks to see what the real ridership and interest of the community is and for folks who aren't familiar microtransits kind of a smaller scale on demand rideshare like a public entity would operate So think about kind of an Uber bus that the town would facilitate with maybe an app to hail a ride from the village to touch more with a more on demand frequency Shiby's not on his head so I know it's our ground transit ultimate So that's certainly it's a very important piece of this and I've been hearing a lot of transportation for folks in town to get from one place to another with more frequency I realize I didn't say my name before either I'm Jayden Keiger and for the last ten years I've been the commissioner for Green Mountain Transit and I'm Williston is very forward looking to be looking at microtransit there is a demonstration microtransit project that's a year old in Montpelier and we at Green Mountain Transit are operating it and learning from that and one of the key things is it does not replace fixer service it adds to it solves a last minor problem for a lot of people who otherwise couldn't use fixer service because they can't get two of bus stop and you could also think of it a lot like a Uber service with SSTA buses and it's a great thing for equity that really transportation is an equity issue and where we locate things have equity implications and so I appreciate the question because I think Williston is doing a good job of looking at trying to expand transportation services and that's one important way We had one of those 2050 round table sessions on Saturday and at my table I would say that across the different topics that they were discussing that many transportation pieces really bridge people are saying I should get older everybody loves like alignment but they said what happens if we can't drive anymore so we still want to be able to go and so rather than 2050 after a roundtables is further right in our new town plan and the apartments is offering those and it's a couple more coming up and I think one's over soon and a couple other physical locations to visit as well it's my plug you should go on the town website would like expansion to the library bring more traffic to the school in that area question I need to hear the question would expansion to the library bring more traffic to the school there then I'm sure any expansion would hopefully you would want to bring more patrons in as far as the traffic at the school dismissal time you know I don't think that change people that tend to avoid the library for those 30 minutes and if you you know have never visited the library during those 30 minutes you learn quickly so in that respect the rest of the day I would think traffic would be spread out and the additional parking would definitely help well yeah because it was said that much traffic and like managing the traffic flow was a concern I'm sure managing the traffic flow yeah thanks for the question as a committee member we've talked a lot about parking and traffic and all of that that was a major consideration for us I think we probably talked about it in nearly every conversation we had about the library being in its existing site and we expanded obviously that conversation I don't know probably continue as the the next phase continue so we actually just did a comparison of our hours to area libraries and adding hours is something we do gradually obviously impacts staffing if you were to build a better facility you'd probably people would expect to have had more hours so that's a you know something to look at long term for that I'm not sure I mentioned it much during the presentation but one of the other things about the proposed library expansion would be it would be important to locate that meeting room in such a way for the larger programs for community use after hours and we would do it in such a way that you could have people use that space have the library closed while they're in there and they would leave by a separate exit and not have to go to the library we've done that in two or three other libraries in the area and it's been extremely successful I'm sorry with the library and the parking and the traffic and whatnot design is a series of compromises and we're really trying to weigh the pluses and minuses there and I think that ultimately the decision making process was such that the advantage of having a library in the village adjacent to the school is part of that civic center of Willisville outweighed some of those naggy little inconveniences of the traffic just one quick comment on the other side of the green which means people would have to park there and then walk through the green to get to the library and I think the traffic is a big issue and I'm wondering if the idea of putting the library in a new library near the community center would alleviate all of that problem and we're talking about a difference of one or two million dollars from correct looking at their estimates so we're talking about a small amount of chain difference in costs and I can see the traffic around the library those are all things that are discussed at length we're really trying to weigh those items I do know that even two or three million dollars may not sound like a lot and I've tried it down but perceptually that's a real issue and if people think that that line is available for savings then it's worthwhile I think we talk about a lot of things in the library this one was better and it's already an area of agreement it's not completely developed it's also that you can get from it to the library without having to cross any driveways and I thought we thought that was a real plus right now if you park like I am over beside the behind the old brick church you have to cross that driveway which is exactly the driveway where all the parents are driving I just also want to add from where my trustee had now too the trustee felt very strongly about staying here and having an expansion and part of that is to keep the town center viable there's a lot that goes on in our town center and the library is a big part of that the school and the library and the recreation fields those are like the three of the trial line I guess and if the library were to leave that would be a big emotional and physical gap even if we went to the grow center and I think that the trustees also would echo this the way that this is going to be done is going to be something that's going to ultimately be value added to the town center and the preliminary drawings that we have make me feel really confident about that yes there are the issues about the parking I like what you said about doing something about the bandstand and that you would be open about maybe moving it that was great to hear because that's something that we were also considering and I think that that's good so I think ultimately this is going to be a value added change for the town group so great to see so many people with interest in this really important topic if you leave tonight and think of a question I wish I'd ask that just give me a call or an email and make sure maybe your question answered so if you want to read the four of our we've got some physical copies I want to use up the library in town hall I think and you can also just download it onto the select board and this will be a topic for discussion but please do go to the website to answer more your questions that might reach out to us reach out to anyone so that concludes the community question to answer the rest of the meetings tonight is a standard select board meeting so you're aware of the next item is public business all this is so 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Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny, welcome back to FNAF News. In today's video we got details on the FNAF movie soundtrack releasing on physical, YouTube's upcoming FNAF movie Wave of Figures is missing a major character and a lot of people are very upset and it seems like Steel Wool is already beginning work on DLC for Help One and Two, that and so much more we're gonna be talking about in today's video. If you're excited, scroll down, tickle that subscribe button but let's hop right into the news. Starting off, do you remember that Five Nights at Freddy's Ticket to Fun ephemera kit, which I still don't even know if I'm pronouncing correctly? This kit seemingly will have a whole bunch of in-universe items from merchandise and books and it's gonna have a whole bunch of puzzles for FNAF fans to solve, kind of similar to the Five Nights at Freddy's Survival logbook. Originally the kit was set for an October 2023 release date but then got delayed to August of this year, but once again the kit has been delayed from August of 2024 all the way to October 8th of 2024. So after an entire year of delays I'm very curious what the heck is inside of this kit because all we have is that description. We don't have any cover, any first looks at what exactly is inside of the kit. Moving on now to merchandise, Pillowpets revealed a bit more about their upcoming Foxy Pillowpet plush, showing off the final version of the plush saying coming soon Foxy will be here in March. Right down here we have the original Freddy Fazbear Pillowpet, seems like pretty soon Foxy is gonna be joining that collection. I'm very curious what character would you like to see Pillowpet make a plushie of next and speaking of plushies moving on now to Funko they just revealed a brand new plushie of Toy Bonnie and jump scare warning this is what he looks like. He's just a very strange design looks a bit creepy I'm not sure what's up with Funko and all of their Toy Bonnie plushies but this one fans were definitely kind of creeped out with and also interestingly enough a lot of people would notice that that plushie design is very similar to Toy Bonnie snap figure. I have no clue why Funko wanted to make a plushie based on a snap figure and of all the snap figures Toy Bonnie but I guess that's just the world we live in. This 16 inch Toy Bonnie plush is going to be exclusive to GameStop. And speaking of GameStop exclusive Funko just released one of their FNAF movie plushies and that's this bad boy the jumbo Mr. Cupcake plush once again based on his appearance from the Blumhouse FNAF movie. Here's a look at his tag as well. Definitely one of Funko's better products as of late and I'm very intrigued to see who else is going to be receiving a plushie from the FNAF movie. Moving on now to U2's they just released a brand new teaser for their upcoming MatPat figure. In the teaser of course we're going to look at the upcoming figure but there's also plenty of FNAF references. You can see the puppet back there, the crying child, purple guy, spring trap, DJ Music Man. But based on that it seems like the figure is going to be MatPat on that white board compiling together the ultimate final FNAF timeline. And you've also got psychic friend Fredbear up at the top of the white board. U2's also revealed that a pin set based on MatPat's going to be coming out also alongside this figure.  I wish I could say it as good as he does. But all these MatPat products are going to be releasing on the 10th of February and sticking with U2's they just revealed their next wave of FNAF plushies. As you can see the brand new plushies releasing on February 6th. Those are going to be spring trap, anim dude. And then a whopping six shoulder riders, two of Toy Freddy, Chibi Sun, Chibi Moon, the wet floor bot, and Glamrock Freddy. Now for upcoming FNAF U2's merchandise they showed off a teaser for Into the Pit Spring Bonnie. I've seen a lot of people mistake this as a teaser for the yellow rabbit from the FNAF movie but this is not him. So this is Into the Pit Spring Bonnie. Now this image was released as a response to the Into the Pit game leak. It's currently unclear whether or not that plush is going to be based on that interpretation of Into the Pit Spring Bonnie or the book interpretation of him. They're both pretty much the same thing anyways but I say that because U2's in the past has said while they do have the license to make book merchandise they didn't have any plans of doing so at that moment in time. So again I'm curious if this is going to be based off the book, based off the upcoming game but either way he originated as a book character so I'd love to know what other book characters would you like to see U2's make Into figures or plushies. And now moving on to U2's upcoming FNAF movie wave. They released this teaser showing off the art for the upcoming Sparky the Dog plushie which is absolutely insane. I was not at all expecting Sparky to get merchandise but this is a warm warm welcome. The art looks absolutely fantastic. I can only hope that the actual plushie turns out just as good. U2's also teased their upcoming Yellow Rabbit figure from the film. Few things to point out. Number one he's standing on a base of checkered board patterns. You can also notice that Spring Bonnie is missing his head. That's because for the first time in U2's history this figure has a removable head likely so you can swap it out with a Spring Bonnie mask and William Afton's actual human face. But you may also notice that the bow tie is black but in the actual film it's purple. Thankfully U2's realized that was a mistake. They later released a new teaser showing off the purple bow tie and the jaw of Spring Bonnie's mask. So we've got a William Afton Yellow Rabbit figure, a Mike figure on the way as well. Doug's also getting a figure, a Sparky plushie. I mean it seems like the FNAF movie wave's going to be pretty good.  Because Austin from U2's revealed that Vanessa won't be getting a figure in this upcoming FNAF movie wave. He says if wave one is well received then yes in wave two Vanessa gets a figure but she won't be in wave one. And I saw a lot of outrage on Twitter a lot of people complaining that despite being a pretty major character in the film basically a main character she's not getting a figure. But someone like Doug gets a figure what's going on with that U2's. I guess the best thing we can do is support the crap out of this first wave so that when the second wave eventually does roll around Vanessa gets included. But talking about the actual FNAF movie now because we've got brand new deleted scenes revealed to us. Lucas Grant who plays Garrett in the film released on TikTok some footage of a deleted scene. In this night five scene it would have featured Mike being lured to the pizzeria's entrance by Garrett. Where then the yellow rabbit would emerge from the shadows. But I'm sure as we're all well aware that's not how the scene plays out on night five. Now I've seen a lot of mixed reactions on the scene being removed from the final film. I've seen a lot of people say it would have been a nice emotional scene for Mike. Other people saying it would have ruined the entrance that William Afton has. But I want to pass the question off to you what are your thoughts on this scene being deleted? Would you like to see Garrett in that scene on night five? Or do you think it's fine just the way it was? But I think something that everyone can agree was amazing in the film was its soundtrack. And thankfully it's releasing on physical media. That means a CD, cassette, and vinyls for the soundtrack. These releases are being handled by IM8bit and they're doing something pretty interesting with the release of the vinyls. Because as I'm sure you saw there's four different covers for the vinyl. One of Freddy, one of Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy. So for all those FNAF collectors out there including myself that's going to be about $130 to get all four of the vinyls. Price I'm willing to pay for a banger soundtrack. Lastly for the FNAF movie it's finally coming out pretty soon in Japan on February the 9th. And over the weekend we had Jason Blum and Blumhouse flying out to Japan to celebrate the release of the film. They had an entire event for an early screening and it looks fantastic. And next up we got to talk about FNAF's survival crew which if you remember was that leaked multiplayer game on Roblox. Because while the last update we got on the game was the devs basically saying they're starting over from scratch. And that the game would only be released if they met a certain quality standard. Well last month we had a 3D artist for a metaverse team the devs behind the project released a whole bunch of skins. These skins both for the player and animatronics were all designed, modeled, and posted to that person's portfolio. They included a police uniform, a chef uniform, a clown, carnival outfit. They even had character specific outfits like this Mike Laftin police uniform. There's a uniform based on Kim's outfit from the FNAF movie. And then there was a whole bunch of animatronic skins like Berlap Bonnie. Plague Doctor Chica, Electric Freddy, Candyman Freddy, Gravedigger Foxy. And interestingly enough they even had skins from FNAF AR made by Illumix. Such as Aeronaut Toy Freddy, Liberty Chica, Easter Bonnie, Blacklight Bonnie, Black Eyes Frostbear. Eventually all these skin models were removed from this person's portfolio once the public found them. But honestly in my opinion some of these skins look absolutely fantastic. So if this is our first look at what the brand new version of survival crew is going to be looking like I have high hopes. But now moving on to the Popcos series starting off with Popcos Arcade. We had Kane Carter on Twitter saying Popcos Arcade's mobile porting process has officially begun. Though we're already running into some major issues I'll share more updates over time. In the same tweet he also provided an update on the spinoff game My Popcos. Simply saying Big My Popcos news soon as well. There's not too much to go off of in regards to these two Popcos titles for the fanverse. But I guess in brighter news Kane did say that the beach set YouTube's pins have fully been designed. And even that they might include glitter, that sounds pretty awesome. Moving on to our final news topic for today let's talk about Help Wanted 2 which released not too long ago but there's already been some pretty major developments with it. First up we got Trends International releasing a few posters pretty soon based on the game. They got what you'd expect you know the key art for the title even some steam screenshots. The 1970 fall fest poster you get in the game is also being released physically by Trends. And then they also released an updated group poster this time featuring all the animatronic characters inside of Help Wanted 2. But a lot of pushback on this poster specifically and I can kind of agree the proportions are all over the place. But as for actual game news based on Help Wanted 2 we got Steel Wall Studio seemingly already working on DLC for the game which again only released last month. Because people have been able to find the DLC Depot for the title has been receiving some updates. I've seen a lot of people assume that at first glance this is simply the flat mode version of the game that Steel Wall set is coming in the spring. But flat mode actually has its own separate branch from the DLC branches. So I'd say this is definitely something we should keep our eyes open for. Usually it takes a few months for Steel Wall to officially announce DLC for their projects but all their other FNAF projects have had DLC. Help Wanted 1 had the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, Security Breach had Ruin, and it seems like pretty soon Help Wanted 2 is going to be following that trend of each game receiving DLC. So I'd love to know your thoughts and theories on this topic. What kind of DLC would you like to see for Help Wanted 2? And that's gonna do it for this FNAF news video. Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


So, no matter where you paint, your model just never seems to have the perfect shape. Not a problem. To make a shape key, pose your model in an area that you are not happy with. Go to object mode, click your mesh, and in the modifier tab, under weight paint, make sure that cage and edit are on. Then under object data, and shape keys, press the plus button twice, name the key after the area you're fixing, drag value all the way up to one, and from here if you are a sculptor, you can go to sculpt mode and do your thing. But if you're doing low poly game design like me, it's much faster and easier to do things in edit mode. Once in edit mode, move the points into the shape that you want them to be during this pose. When you're done, you will notice that you can control when the key activates by dragging this from zero to one. And of course, we want to automate this with a driver, so that it triggers when the pose happens naturally. In my case, I want the key to activate when the leg bends backwards. And if we look here, seems like that is controlled by the hit bones X rotation. And now that we have a trigger identified, you know the drill. Right click the shape key, add driver, set object to armature, set bone to hip, type to X rotation, mode to quaternion, space to local, and type this, you're done. Now if you do that and this number is not equal to one, that means you need to go back here and change this part of the equation until the output is one or close to it. Now you can see that as the hip rotates back, the shape key kicks in and we get the beautiful form we need. This right here is just my basic exponential formula. Which means that it's weak in the beginning, but gets stronger as we approach the target pose. Hope that helps. If you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to like, subscribe, and ring that bell. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.