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This is stock number 92898. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used truck headquarters. Today we're checking out this super clean 2013 Toyota Tundra Double cab short box. This truck has the 5.7 liter V8 motor from this HD video. You'll be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. Factory fog lights, no dents or dings on the front bumper. It has Bridgestone dualer tires on it LT28565R18s and you can see that these rims are in excellent shape. These are the factory alloys and that the tires have about half the tread left on them. Framing on the body is really nice on this truck. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. You can see just how clean that hood is, how nice and clear those headlights are. Passenger side rim is in excellent shape as well. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on that. And as we go down this side of the truck, you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and glass-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. We want to make sure you get the most accurate representation so that when you get here, there's absolutely no surprises. You can see that the back rim is very clean back here as well. No scuffs or scrapes and I didn't see any dents or dings down this side of the truck. Very clean as well. Has the plastic wheel guards and you can see that the frame and underbody on this truck is very clean all the way underneath. Lower rockers and lower lips look really good on this truck as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. You can see it as the Bilstein shocks and that's part of the TRD off-road package. Very clean down this side of the truck. Rear bumper is in pretty nice condition. It does have a towing package which includes receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. There's one tiny little ding above the receiver hitch there, but that's what happens when you have a truck and it's used. It has a locking tailgate, backup camera, and it has a very nice access soft tonneau cover. No rips or tears on that tonneau, very nice condition. It has a spree and bed liner that's in nice condition as well. And the bed itself is in really good condition. No major dents or dings. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. Everything looks really nice on that tailgate and down this side of the truck just as clean as the passenger side. For good measures here, this last rim. Excellent shape as well. I didn't see any scuffs. I didn't see any corrosion on those rims. Really nice condition.   There are no rips. 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Good morning everyone and welcome. Welcome to the play review for Target TGT. This is Target Corporation had a bullish gap up today. And the reason I want to do this video today is I called this, I called the two late trades in this today actually. This is exploding right now is that this really defines everything that I know about gaps and what is happening here at Target today. So I think this is a really, really good learning example for a lot of people who are new to gaps or don't understand gaps. And so I want to go over it. I did not watch this out of the gate at all. I like to do my shorts in the morning. That's just what I like to do. But you can do golden gaps for a bullish as well. And I can read them extremely good just as well as the shorts. So anyways, Target was doing this today this morning. And I said, Oh, this is a good long and I call this in here. And it actually held perfectly where I said to put the stop. Look at that. So I call this in here. It was a little bit big of a stop but not really considering the actual price of this stock. It's over $70 repeat sakes. So the stop was at 4070 40 and that held and that's tight to put this on along. But with Target, I felt that really it needed to hold that level. So I called it in here, called it again right in here. I said, This is going to go. And then it retested in here and held and look at how it took off. I mean, you actually had several chances to do ads in this as well today. Beautiful move to Target. I said 72 and then I did say dream Target. This is 75. I said dream Target. This is 75. This could get to 75 today. It's only 1130. It is 1130 in the morning. And this could actually this is $2 away from the dream target. 7308. I'm not saying it gets there this morning, right the second, but the minutes are out today at two o'clock and it's a good idea to be flat editing. But I did say if you're going to be in something long today, if you're going to hold something long into the lunchtime period today, if you're going to, if I said, if you're going to be in a trade today into the lunchtime period, the trade to be in is long. And so I think the people that were in this decided to hold this then because I did say that that was good advice because it took off then after 11 o'clock is when it really exploded and here's all the profit. So once again, risk reward is there despite the fact that had a big stop. Why look at the move it made. This is power money. This is power money buying the stock. It's so, so clear. So the funny thing is somebody asked me about this the other night on Monday night after the webinar, they asked me what I thought about target. I says it's a great chart. It's a long, it's a long and here's the next target $70 a stock gap up to $70 today in the gap. And then I said 75 but you know, you just don't know if it's going to necessarily get to that dream target dimming. That's a dream target. It's a dream target. This is a beautiful chart. And that's all I have to say basically. So let's go back and look at this. One of the reasons I think this is a really good example of the power of gaps to use to trade and why I have 100% conviction that there is no other correct strategy to consistently make profit in the market as a day trader other than the gaps is because gaps are something that have momentum and they move. And you can make good profits with good risk to reward in stocks that are quality gaps. The problem isn't many people don't know how to trade gaps like for example target today. I'm sure people looked at this to fade today to come in today or short today because the stock closed last night at 6751 and open today at 6995 and open actually right at the next target that I told that lady on Monday night or it was a guy I don't remember who it was somebody asked me and somebody asked me and I that's amazing to me someone asked me on Monday night about this as the next target $70 it opened to that target today in the gap. I'm just so good at reading these numbers. You know the thing I was realizing today. I was really this today after the short. I have my entries perfect my gap rating system perfect to pick the gaps. I know the targets perfectly. The thing is just to know when they're going to get to that target. Because it's like sometimes things get to the dream target on the actual day. Okay. Sometimes they go to it on the second day and then sometimes they take longer so and this is because trading really should be looked at as an overall bigger picture thing. I think this is where you could combine the worlds of day trading and swing trading to be a very profitable trader because you would day trade the stock. You would have that target which I know what the targets are. Then if it doesn't get to that dream target or whatever on that day of the intraday you hold a portion of that into the larger move to get it to the dream target because I know that they're going to get there then even when I see them like the market like this like many of my shorts. But anyways that's how I think really to put everything together to be very very successful. I think it's a lot of people swing trade and they really have no idea how to take an entry position in a stock for a swing trade. They tend to be take it take it at the wrong entry then be down before they're up or up right a ways and then they're down and give it back and it's over and they take it too late. If you understand how to day trade gaps you'll do better swing trading. This is the thing this is what people have to understand. That's why learning gaps and learning my 26 point rating system makes a sense for any type of trading you do day trading swing trading or core trading and target is a great example of this beautiful day trades in here to the upside and beautiful move in here for the follow through continuation if you help us for a swing trade and just a nice chart as I pointed out Monday night but I'm sure a lot of people were day trading didn't know what to do with this today because the market was running red this morning and today target gapped up overnight $3 plus people want to fake gaps or play gaps for gap bells. This is not what this was this was a beautiful beautiful beautiful bullish gap to go long in. Look how many gaps the stock has had here actually in the last month and this is this is what I'm talking about a power the gap this this here today this is I love this stuff. I love this stuff. So my golden gap rating system I like I prefer to short because I think a lot of people don't short and I think it gives me an edge to short the market and I'm really good at shorting. However you can use the rating system to go long as well. So that's how I'm able to see something like target and know that it's going to make a move like this before it even explodes and does what it did show beautiful beautiful long and golden gap and target today and there were people in the room that got this even with the size of the stop it was a good risk to reward trade that often happens and again the price point is over $70 you have to expect a large stop and something like this and actually 60 cents wasn't half bad for this this could have been more. So this will make a new hide before the end of the year. Market is going to continue a rally before the end of the year and that will help lift target up to the 75 and the next number $80 is even possible and target now before the end of this calendar year 2014 with this gap today. So really really nice look to the target chart and a beautiful example of number one bullish gaps which I rarely talk about. And the power of the gap itself if you have a high quality gap you cannot just play gaps willy-nilly they're so powerful that if you don't try them in the right direction you can lose big time but if you try them in the right direction you can make money big time look this is carrying through. Look at how nice this is. So important to learn how to trade. I think as I've talked to more and more and more people people actually that don't know how to trade think that they know how to trade and they don't. I'm realizing that talking a lot of people but what can you do.  You can really see that playing out now in the market. So the TGT is a beautiful bullish gap and if you're interested in learning how to trade gaps and rate gaps you can email me at Melissa at the stockswush.com the Golden Gap class is this week in November 22nd and 23rd and I'm only doing one more class this year. I'm running a special to the end of this week it's been very popular so I continued it if anyone is interested in signing up for the special with the special you get the room free for the rest of the year and a bunch of other good things to the swing trade letter the trends class the wealth manifestation class and the total price for everything is $34.99. It saves you almost $1,600 so it's a really good deal and you take you get the trends class which teaches you how to reach read longer-term trends which is very important if you do overnights as well and it's important if you date trade. So nice bullish move here in the TGT. Good job everybody that did this today.  Anyways they work just the same have a great day everyone email me and Melissa at thestockswitch.com if you want to sign up for the class this weekend deadline is Friday if you want to sign up today is Wednesday have a great day everyone see you


Welcome to Toffee TV, it's the Everton News Daily. The fallout from Saturday's defeat at Bournemouth is raging on social media and obviously in the media as well today with obviously lots of fans unhappy ever and being linked with managers, new managers and Frank Lampard being touted as being the next Premier League manager to be sacked. It just seems like it's business as usual today as Everton prepare to jet out to Australia ahead of a two friendly start with Celtic this weekend. Obviously that anger was shown in the Everton end on Saturday where basically fans confronted the players and vice versa at the end of the game. Frank Lampard had his say on what happened after the game, let's hear what he had to say. Firstly the fans have a right to be disappointed, they've come down here twice this week and seen poor performances and before that we've been going okay and then they see performances that they don't like. So when we're pleased that they're happy after Palace, when we're pleased that they give us a welcome we have to understand that they can voice their opinion and their opinions are right today. So I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding Alex had some friends that he was concerned about that were sort of at the front of the fans. There's nothing in that and the players just have to accept that the fans have a right to voice their opinions and again they were right today. Yeah so Frank being quite diplomatic there about the situation and the fans voicing their anger at the team. Many of those fans will have gone through Bournemouth twice between Tuesday and Saturday to see Everton conceding. Seven goals is a farce really on two defeats but it was an awful performance on Saturday and with this break obviously Evertonians there are a lot of them are voicing their opinion on what should happen next and we'll have to wait and see it. As I said it seems like it's business as usual but Frank Lampard once again how do you say on that display on Saturday? Well the performance was poor it was below par and in the Premier League you get beaten for that. A mistake for the first goal the referee should disallow the second one it shouldn't stand you've got to stop the game we've got to hold this against Palace a few weeks ago a defender goes down with a head injury the game stops whilst the ball is in the box so the referee got that one wrong but it's not one to hang on because our reaction after that wasn't right but it is difficult coming back in a way again maternal down it gives the fans and your position a lot of impetus but on our part it wasn't enough. We've obviously seen Conacody and Jordan Pickford arrive for England duty as well today all smiles as they prepare for the Whale Cup getting out to Qatar they face Iran next Monday their first game. We'll be doing a watch along here on toffy TV if you would like to join us for that game but Frank Lampard had his say on Jordan Pickford who obviously made a massive harlot for Bournemouth's first goal. Jordan's an amazing goalkeeper and he's made incredible saves for us since I've been here before and he's the reason why I trust him so much and why Gareth trusts him so much. I'll put no focus on that today it was part of the game today yeah for sure but it has no bearing on me on anything going forward. So yeah there you go obviously back in the goalkeeper and to be fair Jordan Pickford has been in good form all season and has kept us in quite a lot of games if you look at the stats and the amount of shots we can see. Jordan Pickford saves have kept us in many games this season so the event manager has nothing but good things to say about the player. More positive news Ben Godfrey played an hour yesterday for Everton under 21s at Walton North Park. Everton were winning 1-0 till late on. They then had two men sent off and lost the game 2-1 to Southampton but good for Ben to get an hour in his legs I'm sure he'll take some part in the games in Australia. I'm sure the warm weather train will do him well as they jet out because obviously there will be no con of code going to that game. Nathan Patterson won't be going I imagine he is pulled out of Scotland's squad for their friendly against Tachey this week as well so I imagine he won't be involved in the Australia team. He might want to be involved in that as he gets more time under his belt after being out for so long as he started the game on Saturday as well and did okay to be fair to be pulled out of that game as well. There you go, very very disappointing weekend. We've got 6 weeks now to 11 and play again unless you're going to watch them in Sydney at the weekend. So yeah we have to just get on with it and hope that comes the world's game. We're in good shape and hopefully we're ready to buy some players in January. There you go. Give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos join us over on Toffy TV Premiere where you will want to be subscribed because there are some big videos hitting Toffy TV Premiere in the next week or so. So if you are not subscribed to us on there the link is in the description and it will be on the screen in a moment. Thank you for watching. See you later.


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It's time. It's time. It's time. For what? For love. Curious to watch shows. Sit back and relax on. We'll sing champion. Welcome back everybody. And we have some new friends. And I have a new song for Who's Who on the Curious Crew. So we're going to give it a try. Okay? Here we go. Who's Who on the Curious Crew. I am Dorothy with a show for you. This is Danette. Hi. And this is George. Now who else? Hi Emily. Hi Carla. Dorothy. Hi Dorothy. Hi. And I am so glad to meet new friends and see Greek old friends. And let's see what question the giraffes were wondering about today. We're going to start with a verse we've done before. Giraffe looked over at Eagle and said and asked their question. And then we'll get the new verse about today's show. Here we go. Giraffes looked over at Eagle and said Why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? Eagle just run and gave a high five. Hey, we all share one big sky. Oh yeah. Here we go. Share one big sky. Share one big sky.  We're different and we know and fight. We all get along because we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Nice. Here's the new question. Giraffe looked over at the mountain and said I wonder what it's like to see the world from way up there. The mountain called come exercise. Explore the fresh, the clean air. Underneath this one big sky. Oh yeah. Share one big sky. Share one big sky.  We're different and we know and fight. We all get along because we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Very nice. Now I got the words a little mixed up, but did you figure out what the question is about and what the topic is today? Earth and exercise. Earth and exercise. Yes. And exploring. E. We're up to letter E and those are our special words. Good. Is it uppercase and lowercase? Yes. You can use them. Some words need the capital at the beginning of a line in a song. Sometimes you see the lowercase. So definitely we use both uppercase and lowercase. All right. So they started, giraffes looked over at the mountain because they live in the grassland. Have any of you ever climbed a mountain or explored part of a mountain? Yes. I do rock climbing. You do rock climbing. I get all the way at the top. Do you really? Mm-hmm. That's what I think of as fun exercise when you're outside exploring. And I ring the bell at the top of it. Oh, there's a top on the rock climbing wall. Is that what you're talking about? Oh, wow. It's a rock climbing gym. Okay. So you do that indoors, right? Mm-hmm. And that's the help you get strong. And that's my favorite one. Great. Now, have any of you ever climbed outside a mountain? Yeah. A real mountain? Yeah. I love the trails where I live. Mm-hmm. And there's these big boulders. And one of them has a tree sticking out of it. And I climbed that one. That is so cool. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Yes. This is my classmate hiked the Seven Sisters. That's a really long hike. Yes, the Seven Sisters are part of our Holy Oak Range here. That's a big hike. Anybody else climbed outdoors? We've gotten hiking at Mount Tom before. Great. Mount Tom is a great place to go hiking. Right? All right. So did you go by yourself? No. You went with hiking buddies? Yeah. That's a great idea for outdoor exercise. And did you wear flip flops for hiking? What did you wear? Sneakers. Sneakers. Why are sneakers better than flip flops or mountain climbing? Because you can get hurt. How? Because they're not like some crocs have holes in like a rock stick on them. Like if they're open or flip flops are not like closed. So like you could fall between them. Yeah. They had like these flip flops. Yeah. Things could fall off. Yeah. They could fall off. They could get poked like if you step on a sling thing. Exactly. Like a thorn or something. Yeah. Or a nail. Yeah. So it's really great. So I was thinking about what kind of outdoor exercise are tivas or crocs? These are good because they hug your foot. But like you said, you could get scrapes. What kind of outdoor exercise are these good for? Running. Maybe running a bicycle. Maybe biking. Maybe running. How about I bet you all aren't even thinking. Maybe walking. That's what I was going to say. Walking. A simple outdoor exercise is walking. I do agree. Why are sneakers so good for climbing or walking or biking? Yes. They have a grip underneath them. Many sneakers have bumps underneath that grip. They grip all kinds of different surfaces better. Yes. I think they're safer than other loose ones because then you get like hurt. They cover your foot and they tie on there. Okay. Great. Let's move on to another song about other ways to explore our earth.  To muscle and bone. And the first part of this song is about exploring a river. So here we go. There's a great big river and the water is wide. How you're going to get to the other side. Think about it first and find the boats. Grab a wooden paddle and roll to the right. Roll, roll, roll with all your might. Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. With a little bit of sweat they'll get strong. Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. Oh, everybody's body made of muscle and bone. There's a great big mountain and a solid rock. How you're going to get to the very top. Think about it first and take your time. Start at the bottom and climb. Climb, climb, climb with all your might. Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. With a little bit of sweat they'll get strong. Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. Rock in the road when it's such a heavy load. Think about it first and don't give up. Give it all you got and shove, shove, shove. Shove to the right, shove to the right.  Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. With a little bit of sweat they'll get strong. Muscle and bone, muscle and bone. Oh, everybody's body made of muscle and bone. The song was written by my friend, Tathryn, too. Why do you like it? Today, listen to that song. Okay, so that's how you can sing along so well. That's wonderful. And I hope children that listen to our show can sing along too. Soon as they get to know it. So the first thing they talk about is rowing on a river. So what kind of boats can you use to row on a river? A boat. A canoe. A kayak. Is a specific kind. A kayak is another kind. A rowboat. And a rowboat's another kind. A swim across. A swim across. But when it's a big body of water a boat helps, right? So I wrote a song. Or a floaty. A floaty when you're swimming. That's true. I wrote a song about when I was out on a river near here, the Swift River. And I want you each to think about. If you're riding a canoe, you're riding in canoe, you have one paddle, right? With one blade. So those of you who want to paddle in a canoe can do that. If you want to paddle a kayak, what's that paddle like? It has two paddles and you got a paddle like this. Exactly. You can stroke on one side and then the other because it has two blades. Or you can jump over it. Be more effective. Or you can jump over it. No, we're going to paddle. This time we're paddling. So imagine being in a boat. It can be a canoe. And you can be with other people. You could be in a kayak by yourself or a rowboat. You lean forward and you have two separate paddles, but you pull them together. And they move your boat through the water. So we're going to sing this song, the Swift River paddling song. And you choose if you're in a canoe, a kayak, or a rowboat. And let's sing this song. I was, when I made up this song, I was in a kayak. But I've also been in a canoe. I love both of those boats. Both fun for me. Fun way to explore. Yeah, let's go on and get this on. Okay. Worlds above and worlds below.  And because you're in these small boats that you're paddling, you can look and see into the water. Here we go. Pick up your paddles. Choose what kind of boat you're going to do. Here we go. Worlds above and worlds below. Paddling down the Swift River, I go. Worlds above and worlds below. Floating with the flow. Okay, sing with me next verse. Here we go. Same thing. Worlds above and worlds below. Paddling down the Swift River, I go. Worlds above and worlds below. Keep going. The river's long. Worlds above and the Swift River. The world seems too slow. You feel like flying. Okay. Okay. Worlds above and worlds below. Paddling down the Swift River, I go. Worlds above and the show. Okay, let's turn toward home, going back the other way. Worlds above and worlds below. Paddling down the Swift River, I go. I just love it. Does anyone else want to walk in it? That's very nice of it. Okay, Lauren? Or Wave? Okay. We can take turns. Maybe another turn. Okay. Thank you for offering and thank you for speaking up. So, but when you're sitting in a boat, your body might get restless. Now I think I want to do our second song. I'm going to move our body and let's stand up. Okay. Carefully where you are. Okay. Now, I'm thinking of exercises that are safe for us on this small space. So our first exercise, I'll say a line, you say it back. Exercise your body. Oh, you say it with me. Exercise your mind. Learn about the world around and exercise kind. Exercise your body. Exercise your heart. Keep moving and keep grooving so you can be body smart. All right. Now let's move our legs finally. Okay. Exercise your body. Exercise your mind. Learn about the world around and exercise kind. Exercise your body. Exercise your heart. Keep moving and keep grooving so you can be body smart. Yeah. All right. So that's a song you could do more or less, whatever you want. But my friend wrote another fun exercise song that I think we'll use our whole bodies for. This is another friend named Kate Carpenter. Okay. So here, when you exercise or do the things in the song, just do them in the space that you have and have fun. I'm going to sing it slowly the first time. If you catch on singing with me, otherwise just do what it sings about. And then we'll try it through another time a little faster. First time slowly, second time faster. You want to share it? Do you want to use it during the exercise song, Lauren? Okay. Okay. So Jeanette will do the exercises with you. You ready? You got to run a little. Can you run in place?  Get your body moving like a bumblebee. Kick up your heels and reach for the sky. Make the extra effort. Try, try, try. Be swift like the cheetah runs. Yeah. That's hard to do in place. Good. Hee hee hee hee. Having monkey. Hee hee hee. Oh. Everybody. Really smart for her to toss that into such a busy song. Freeze. Everybody freeze. Close my eyes and count to four. And you move however you want. And we'll do it again. One, two, three, four. Freeze. And then count to three. One, two, three. Freeze. Three, two, one, two. Freeze. Awesome. Very good. Have a seat, everybody. You did wonderfully. Okay. So one thing we talked about to be safe when we're exercising and exploring is to wear things on your feet that fit what you're doing. So when I go kayaking, I might wear these crocs, but I'll use, when I'm just slipping them on like slippers at home, I use the strap this way. But if I'm kayaking and stepping in and over the sand and rocks with my boat, I make sure that heel strap grabs my heel. And what's another safety thing if you're going boating? And life jacket. And what were you thinking? Water shoes. Water shoes are very good too. You can have rubber soles that can be wet. Waterproof shoes? Waterproof or water shoes, yeah, that are made specifically for water. And I did bring an example of a nice, nice life jacket. And life jackets are designed to hold adults or children. And they say right on the label, I noticed when I got this one out, this one is if you weigh 50 to 90 pounds, this would fit you.  And if you go biking to explore the world biking, what's a safety thing? A helmet? Is that what you were thinking? Yeah. So I brought a helmet from my house. Biking is another thing I love to do outdoors. Yes? Biking shoes. And biking shoes. What would you wear on your bike? Sneakers. Safety ones? Sneakers. Sneakers. Yes, something that stays on your foot and that you can put your foot down to stop without scraping your toes. That's why I probably wouldn't wear these for biking. Because I could scrape my toes. It's good to think about what you want to do outside and what you want to bring. But not sandals. Okay, now I have something that I want you to guess that's in my mystery box. You see this mystery box? I don't know if Carla can see, but this is my mystery box. And sometimes I bring just something to keep our curiosity. It's the curious giraffe show, right? So something in here, whether you're exercising indoors or outdoors, it's a really good idea to bring. So start asking me yes or no questions and we'll see if we can guess what else. The exercise equipment? Sort of. Is it something that you wear to exercise? No, you don't wear it. Is it a piece of clothing? No. Did I make it really hard? Is it an eating elephant? Is it a what? Eating elephant. An eating elephant. I wish it was an eating elephant. Maybe a tiny miniature elephant. A little miniature elephant in my box. Do you want an elephant with you when you're exercising? Would that be a good exercise friend? Giraffes. Little giraffes in here, that would be fun. It's when you get really hot, really tired, and you're bingo, bingo, bingo. Okay, so Emily, why don't you and Carla help open these two latches. And I brought you, I don't have one favorite kind. But I have many different kinds of water bottles. Hold them up and pass them around. Let everybody notice what's the same or different. Okay, what's your water bottle like? It's soft to your hand, it feels really nice. What's yours like, Emily? How are they alike? Part. The part you drink from? Yeah. Okay. That kind of the same shape. They're cylinders, aren't they? All of them fit in your hand nicely.  You know what, yours is scratched a lot, but you know why? Because I put it in my bike a lot. And the holder for it would scrape the paint off, but it held my water very well. It didn't spill. How about you Aurora? What's yours like? It's like this blue bubble and you press the middle and the sides come up and then you can drink from it. And to close it you push the sides down and it closes and it makes into a bubble again. Fun. I want to see yours sometime. Yes, you want to tell me about yours?  Okay. Yours is made of plastic and let's go on, you want to tell us about yours? Mine kind of looks like a T-Mug. Sort of looks like a T-Mug. Very cool. And I noticed some of them have little bumps that you drink from. Some are flat, but they all carry your water. Okay, we're going to sing one last song and then our closing because we're running out of time. This one just is a song that celebrates Earth's and it's to the tune of Bingo. If you know that song you'll catch on really quickly, okay? I love that song. That song is so nice. Good. Here we go. Think about bringing the things that keep you safe. It's time for us to set everything in the middle and line up across the front and sing our goodbye song. Yeah, that's a nice thing. Use this for a table. Great idea. Reach nice. Okay, so we're going to come around front. Make room for Carla. Okay, either way. All right. And we join hands. I have two new friends. Teach them how to do this. And here we go. And we'll remind our listeners at home to keep singing, keep looking up. Keep asking questions and never give up. Here we go. Keep singing, keep looking up. Keep asking questions and never give up. Keep singing, keep looking up. Keep asking questions and never give up. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye.


Good morning, everyone. This is the April 14th meeting of the elementary school building committee and I'm really delighted to see you all again. It feels like a long time since we were last together on screen. Once in a while I get to see people in person, which is also really nice. I'm going to call the meeting to order seeing that we have a quorum and do a go across the screen to make sure everyone can hear and be heard in just the order I see them on my screen Sean. Yes. Paul. Doesn't. Mike. Present. Jonathan. Good morning. Ben. I'm here. Phoebe. Hello. And Alicia. Here. As others join, I will just try to make sure I recognize that they're here. We've we've got, as you know, we're, we're nearing the date of the vote.  That'll be just a discussion today. So, Morgan, if you want to pull up the agenda, it's, it's pretty simple on what we hope to accomplish today. Okay. Can everybody see that? I can. So I think that means your screen is showing a mind. Yeah. Okay. So as Kathy said, it's pretty brief. I think we're going to get Kathy's going to give an update on outreach and opportunities to be involved. We're going to have a bit of a conversation about the subcommittee discussion that was started before our last vote. And then we have, as often happens at the, the stage of the project is slew of invoices to catch up on. So there are five.  So that is it. Okay, so I am the first item on the agenda. And I was just going to do a really quick report on the activities since we last met and I shared with everyone we were trying to set up a series of presentations. To the community that I pulled together a chart set and the goal of this was really to get information out and be able to hear questions and get answers. And in the course of that, we have a good morning, Rupert, let's make sure Rupert, can you, you Rupert just joined, can you hear us and we hear you. I can hear you. Great. Good morning. So in the course of those we've been enhancing the website, so that Amherst school, Amherst dash school dash project.com website has a very much expanded, frequently asked questions and answers and actually most of them have been frequently asked, including we've been expanding and I work with Margaret and she has a terrific person working with her to make it easy to it's quite long at this point but you can click around and find the topic so if you are all asked questions. You don't have to just delve into your memory bank to remember when we talked about that but there's an expanded set. So at this point I've, we've done. The rough count is about 14 presentations. And a couple of them are, you know they sometimes been small groups. Yesterday, there was a group called the Amherst neighbors which is a volunteer organization that does a lot of work with seniors and others that are living at home, but need support systems you know, sometimes just people to talk to and we had about 20 people because the league was the League of Women Voters has come out in favor of the project which they basically never do. And so this was them explaining why they think this school meets the educational needs of kids and is an asset to the community. And I did the amazing video that Dinesco produced for us that excites everyone because you can talk through the aspects of what the school has and is offering to kids and the community. And a lot of the questions needless to say have been about how much is going to cost me. And Sean has done a lot of work on this so if you get that question there is a and we'll make sure you all have it. There's a website on the town side on the, the debt exclusion that all a person needs to do is plug their address in, and you get the assessed value of your property. So, one of the things we've discovered is because of the newspaper headline of $500 or almost 500 everyone thinks they have a $500 increase, and even though their property is at half that value, so it's trying to say no. And then when, when am I going to see it so Sean is done. It's made it really easy to answer those questions that people have it. The council, I gave you that update the council voted to move forward with the debt organs authorization and to take $5 million of the capital stabilization fund and put it into this which lowers the tax impact and Paul has pledged to talk about other ways to mitigate the impact, particularly focused on income, and that he will be coming back with up to $5 million of different kinds of ideas and methods not all at once, but by the end of November I think it was your target date Paul, if I'm correct. So there, so that has gotten a lot of positive news the climate action people are out talking about the school in terms of the net zero features of it. There have been a actually a fair number of opinion pieces of viewpoints articles submitted to the Gazette people are copying me, and I haven't seen any of them so we may or may not think is that in the bulletin so, you know, we may or may not see them but our enthusiasm and support. The two that are coming up and Phoebe I just, I'm about to end but the two that are coming up. They're only two more public, you know this information where we said, you know, we'll go anywhere if you want to hear more about the school. And these are really not a vote for the school but here's information, you know what's, what's the climate side, the two that are coming up as we're going to be at Applewood tomorrow morning and the we as Lynn grease more has come to virtually all of these we did a radio show on Thursday. Yeah, so we did tried to do some media to my radio piece, but Lynn has been coming to a lot of them and Mindy Dom is going to come she came to a one we did at the bank center. I'm doing an undercount now that I think of it but and Mindy is out at the state level talking about what she can do for this project but strongly in support of it so it's really nice to see our legislative reps. So tomorrow morning we're at Applewood and then UMass has agreed to host us at the old chapel, and that's late breaking news that just came last week, and it's at April 20 on at six o'clock, and they're putting out the word to the faculty to graduate students with the educational design and the climate climate benefits so if you know people on the UMass campus who may or may not have come to this it's a terrific opportunity to reach a different group. And these are all open to all of us I know Ben has participated in a couple of the community activities just a visibility around the school. So anyone who wants to be more involved just get in touch with me because there's a lot of you know just one on one kinds of activities that are going on. You should know the mail ballots are out people have called me to say they got their mail ballots. If you're asked early so early voting starts on the 24th is that right Paul. Yeah. Yeah. The last day to register is April 21. So if you happen to find someone who wants to vote who's not registered they can still register. I'm finished. So TV, just any questions comments. Be glad to hear. Yeah, so I was just going to ask do we have a general sense of how many like unique people have been at all of these. You know, not the sort of diehards that come to every single everything we do but do we have an idea of how many community members we've reached with these. The answer is I could go back some of them are been very small in terms of the number of people. But what's been interesting is they've been mainly unique people, you know I haven't seen the same person coming to all of them, and a few. So, so PB, I will try to tally that you know I have a rough sense okay there were 13 at this one there were 20 at that there were a few of them were as small as five. The district meetings, and we got snowed out but in a few of them. There were people who came who asked for the chart set. So I think they are also going out and wanting to be able to talk about it so it's not just people as you know residents trying to figure out how to vote but also people who like the league. They're asking me for my charts, because they want to do a piece on it so it's it's a mixture of the kinds of people who are coming also. None of them have been very large and we went, we did one, we had, we had to at the bank center anyway, we did at the bank center specifically for seniors, and then it was not a good day for a lot of them to come because of the and we got asked to come over to green leaves which is a retirement center, and we had 20 and then another five. We had two different sessions so some of it is, they couldn't come to one and they asked us to come to another. So we're trying to do this, where that we could at least gather more than it's not just one on one, but groups. Jonathan. I mostly just wanted to point out that I think a couple more people have joined us. Thank you. Thank you. So, Angelica. Can you hear and let us make sure you can. Yes, thank you. And Simone. Yes. Well, I just want to make sure we stay don't get into strategizing that we stay with the this is a building committee. It's not an advocacy committee and that we shouldn't be strategizing talking about how to reach more people and stuff like that that's not our role in this capacity so that's why I say, stay on the straight and narrow that we can. I am done. I am completely done on this and it's just, you know, I, the advocacy things I think have mainly Dinesco has given us such a wealth of information that people are able to take it and run with it. And that has always been there. So as I said, if any of the next event and Allison has joined us, Kathy Allison, welcome. Hello, thank you. Great. Thank you all. So I'm going to get now turn it over to Dinesco. And as I said, contact me if you want to be involved or if you even want to think of, you know, having committee members show up at some of these has been great. Several people have. And if it's, if it's nothing else just to show support for the project it's been really appreciated. Thank you. Donna, the floor Donna and Tim the floor is yours. We're going to just stop a little bit briefly about some of the process as we get into more detail design after the vote. A lot of the, you know, we've gotten into detail before and but we've been talking about things in general and as we move forward into design development. Can I share my screen. Sorry. Do we have to make Tim a co host I think. Let me see. What I was going to share was just a list of a few. You're now a co host so you should be able to. Thank you. So here's just a list of a few potential subcommittees there will be a lot more work that will have to be done, probably with a smaller groups of people however those groups are formed just so that we can get input in a more efficient way for more people and more aspects of the project. Hopefully the sustainability net zero committee, which was started early on will continue to operate and we'll look at more things. The big decisions have been made but there's definitely a lot more that has to happen. One of the sub points under this committee is integration, we've talked about monitors in the building that can act as a teaching device but you know that this is just a sort of a preliminary outline and maybe that has to do with educators and the sustainability committee but these are discussions that we have to have. Obviously there is a lot of input that we need to gather on site design, because the community at large will be using most of the site. So we just have to figure out the best way to get input from all of the stakeholders, and then some very specific working groups on playground equipment and things like that. There's specific needs, some communities really like swings some don't for safety reasons so there's some nitty gritty that we have to get into that we can't really parse at the level of the entire committee and then certainly design the exterior of the building we have started, but we'll probably break it up to an interior group and an exterior group. So we have selections on the exterior talk about detailing and composition. And then on the interior will talk about colors that look and feel of spaces how that affects way finding how it affects what can happen in those spaces and learning. And then rounding it out. There's been a robust conversation about including art in the project and there's even the requirement so you know what the best. The best is itself where it exists in the building or on the site. All of these different aspects of the project are going to need different voices different people and we want to, you know, as soon as we hit the ground running after May 2nd, start organizing these groups and I asked everyone here to think about who would the best voices be to contribute to all of these conversations. I wanted to give an overview and get you thinking that that's what we have on that. You know, so I just wanted to, Tim had run this list quickly by me, you know, some of these could be official subcommittees of the committee and the way we set up the sustainability committee. So I'm, I'm, you know, we can hear more from you after May, you know, I'm thinking that it's the school and Mike helping organize teachers, parents around these, you know, so it's not so much driven by the an official subcommittee, but and includes more than our membership is a different group so we can just think through this. And, and Paul you had early on saying if we're going to officially set up a subcommittee we should have some sort of charge to it you know what you know parameters around it. We tend to staff them particularly if it's not just a subcommittee of our 13, but if we expand the group at all. So this is just a list to be thinking about. When we come back together that we will work with the nisco to figure out the best ways of organizing that so Paul do you want to speak at all to that because I know you, you didn't want to reach get to a decision point today it was more just a thinking about where the, what kinds of groups we're setting up. Yeah, thank you Kathy. So, I think that it's when we when this committee sets up a subcommittee it means that they it's publicly posted meetings and all that kind of stuff so in minutes and, and 48 hours notice and things like that. I think that we, we definitely want to divide up the work with this group and have some committees like that. And, but if we have a whole like, if we have six or seven different subcommittees that's going to be a really onerous task to do all that. So I think there might be some other ways to involve the community in some of these decision making processes, which is I think the goal of this is to get input from the community, ultimately to bring to here. Yeah, I appreciate you sharing this list I think they're all really, I mean, I think a lot of us would be like one of you on a lot of them so they're all interesting and I think they're, but we can limit the number of subcommittees we actually create and then figure out other ways for the community to be involved in these because I think we have a lot of talented people in our community who will have really great ideas on things so yes, I want to make sure we get a copy of this. Yeah, we can, we'll put it in the packet and Tim you can just send it out to everyone. And I don't know whether anyone, once you get it since you're seeing it on the screen right now. If there's another group that you want to ask about what we're going to come back to be talking about this. I'm not saying she's coming soon. Sorry. The, the art piece we have in the percent for art bylaw we actually have specified a process so all I need to talk to you about that separately. If we're doing any kind of commissioning, you know, as opposed to the teachers and students getting into putting artwork on the wall. So there is there's a process to that and and that would be done over the beef. It would be normally be done, along with starting to get through the dd like where's it going to go what is it. Is it a pick a mural on a wall is it a is it some nice kind of thing to sit on outside in the playground that's that's attractive so so that we can at the I'll make sure everyone sees a copy of the bylaws probably what what I should do I'll just send it and put it in the packet for the next time but we don't have to do that right away. I see Alicia's hand is up. Alicia, Alicia, if you're talking we can't hear you. So Tim why don't you take it down for now. I'll be on the screen. I think Alicia, maybe she's probably coming back. She had this issue before and when she rejoined we were able to hear there she is back. Can you all hear me now. Yes. Okay, great. I was just saying I think having the subcommittees is actually a really good idea, but I do hear Paul and not having a lot might make it hard to manage. And so I'm wondering, and I know we said we were going to talk about this a little bit more later but I'm wondering if we can just combine some of the issues because I mean people who are looking at interior and exterior and even art I feel like all of those things could be together in one committee. And I feel like the site plans and the playground could also be one committee or something like that combining the issues might be helpful. It's definitely flexible to the process that works best for the town we just know that there are a lot of ideas and a lot of students to be making we want to, you know, structure it as the best that works but if combining them is going to be the best process then certainly and there might be committees that we didn't list there so you think designing this is going to be the first step. Jonathan, if you hit your space bar you'll learn. The danger of too many screens is your mouse can get lost on on a far screen. My comment was going to be that that some of these, you know, our issues that will have some longevity, you know the sustainability. There may be one that will go on for some length of time. Others may be may have shorter duration. You know, perhaps some of the choices around the outdoor equipment and the outdoor layout may, may be a shorter term thing or maybe some of the ones the, you know, kind of colors and materials are selected. There may be again a relatively short tenured group whether it's a full subcommittee or not. Thank you that. Angelica. And I just had a question about disability accessibility I know that before when I mentioned some issues about just keeping in mind what all of these various issues of not just sustainability but design of the playground interior. I'm not so active of students with disabilities that you mentioned that the building would be ADA compliant, but I guess I wanted to ask, would there be a consultant here that can assist with design choices, so that it incorporates sort of the latest and best practices in terms of accessibility but design choices that are like best. I know for instance with playground so much has come along in terms of choices for students that are not just about accessibility but say having AC communication devices like we have at Wildwood, or, you know, movement, things that are not just for like what the what the PT teachers might choose but just sort of like so that we could have the best that there is out there, since we're investing so much here. Yeah, I thank you. I just kind of a comment response to you Angelica and then Alicia. Some of the items seem like, you know they really belong together, but at the same time the level of detail, and and what we're seeking really belong in two different discussions right the exterior. And what it looks like and finessing that compared to the interior and we're talking about wayfinding and colors and materials are really independent conversations. And trust me, these these can go on and be pretty time consuming so a we're trying to be respectful of everyone's time and then the other component, which is important and to your point Angelica is, we really want to hear from staff as well, especially as it relates to wayfinding interior colors and things like that you have some students that have special needs we want to be sensitive to those so some bright colors or patterns or like it's important to have staff involved in and a lot of the interior conversations. But Angelica to your point, you know we have a playground specialist that will be joining our team. That kind of goes hand in hand with the other comment of merging the site and the playground, the playground, as you've alluded to takes on a life at its own. It literally is going to be an intense time consuming evaluation of playground. Again, we also want the folks from the school whether it's, it's the PT or adaptive P or people from making sure that all students have access and use it we don't want them just to, you know, be able to go up to the equipment we want to actually engage them on the equipment so that really is should be a dedicated separate group from the overall site, but we agree that we absolutely need to make sure that it's fully accessible and there may be certain equipment that not everyone can but we have to make sure that there is enough equipment for everyone to participate in. We appreciate the other thing. Angelica to that point is, I think Kathy, someone reached out and asked us if we were going to go through the access, you know, do a formal like a set accessibility review and we will do that. And this was someone from the community and and Angelica asked, and I see Tammy has joined us Tammy just make sure welcome. Make sure you can hear us and we can hear you. Yes, I can thank you good morning. Good morning morning. We're at, we will in everyone's inbox. I'll make sure we had a list of potential working groups. That going forward some of them might be formal subcommittees. And, and one issue would be as if any of our subcommittees are just subcommittees of our of our committee because if it was something broader Paul gets into an appointing process. So we'll come back to that everyone I think saw that on the agenda, I put the next meeting day, which is, if the school vote is a yes. The next time we meet will be the next stage of this and I decided to go on vacation, right after the vote. So, so right now we're talking about it was in your thing we're talking about May 19. And if you can make sure you hold that time on your calendars, May 19. And, and so we're going to be coming back to this topic and really into the next steps on it. Maybe. So I Kathy I raised my hand as soon as you started talking about like dates that kind of stuff. I'm just trying to figure out. I guess what the schedule of topics we're going to discuss is going to be going forward we've had kind of a little bit of a break. I didn't see I was a little bit surprised to not see on the agenda kind of an MSBA update like those kinds of things. If we can get a little airty there that would be great. Thank you. I'm sure I'm Margaret at or Donna can update you on MSBA and then I think Donna you you have a like a tentative schedule you know again assuming the May 2 vote. Everything hinges on that vote on what we're going to be doing after May. So, Margaret Donna on MSBA. The vote, the MSBA vote is April 26. So, at that point, you know, we will be able to let everybody know that the MSBA has voted. I you know I think it's important to know for everybody's perspective that's, that's a done deal in the sense that they have reviewed and signed off on our submission. They have met with the leadership and reviewed and signed off on this whole project budget. So, at this point, it's essentially a staff recommendation to the board so I don't want anyone here to think that that's sort of not going to happen for any reason. It can, it should be considered something everybody can anticipate so then that leads to the vote after. You know Phoebe we have not. And I would say that consulting needs to come back together with an overview of what the design development process will look like. What I can tell you is that I, I don't believe we'll have to meet meet as often. I do anticipate that we will continue to meet at this time because having sort of spent some time, a couple months ago, sort of digging into that I think this was is clearly the best time for the majority of this committee. So I think what we should do but I can't maybe Donna can embroider on this a little bit. I'm going to sort of have to lay something out for you. Donna, do you want to sort of just outline the rough way in which you approach this and it seems to me. Sort of thinking about what needs to happen next to a big part of this is really developing more information on the building systems and the building exterior details but why don't you talk about it from the designer perspective. Yeah, sure. And Tim can chime in as well but this, we're not done with design this is a refinement of the design so we do know where the building is going we do know the layout we know the gross square footage. And we really do know where the building is going to be cited on the site. That was important from a whole host of reasons including soils and everything else but now's the time to refine the design and by outlining those sub committees and working groups that that will tell you what it is that we're actually going to be focused on over the next four months. We have, we have design development for four months and our goal is to have all most not all most of the design decisions made over that time period we'll be doing another cost estimate towards the end of design development, just as a check to make sure our design basis of design hasn't changed. Hopefully the market has calmed down a little bit right. We don't have to be talking about changing anything that's already in the project to keep the project on budget but being optimistic for me and then and then for the construction I am optimistic that all of the decisions we've made today will will stand true but so that is kind of the expected process over the next four months and we really don't have a lot of large decisions to be made at the committee level. It's more having input on the small working groups and then reporting up to the overall building committee, if that makes sense so we'll leave it to you to every two weeks is probably too many meetings and we need time to get our work done. I don't know if once a month seems acceptable to you all just because wanting to keep everyone informed as we go through maybe every three weeks would be kind of a happy medium so that it's not just three meetings or four meetings during design development but a lot of the discussion points really need to occur in these smaller groups for us to be able to move the project forward. Can I just add one thing before I take my hand down which is that everybody should have in their calendar placeholder invite for me for May 19. So, you know, Phoebe, and Donna, I think that that sort of organizing meeting of May 19, if we, Donna, in terms of how frequently if we have subcommittees or working groups that our committee members want to be on, and when we're not meeting as a full group that that there's a fair amount of activities there so thinking we should think carefully of when to the 13 of us need to be together, and when are we separately working on things and then figuring out a way of during the time together of having the groups report or getting reports through Dinesco on where the groups are so so that that discussion hasn't. I haven't been in any discussion like that yet Phoebe on a, you know, tell me what we're doing in May what we're doing in June tell me what you know, so I think what what you're asking for is right and I'm hoping we, when we come together again after the vote, we get that schedule on what needs to be happening when to meet this four months of design development. Kathy, well actually Kathy just I'm sorry Jonathan just to respond to that. If it's acceptable to you, maybe what we can do is take that list, refine it, identify, you know how frequent each of these groups need to meet and maybe start throwing some dates or weeks that we would recommend. Some of these conversations might be better held in person. So, we would probably like to maximize our time with you all, maybe spend days. We were, you know, suggesting getting an apartment.  So that when we hit the ground running May 3 that will be ready to to roll. So, Jonathan, Jonathan, and then I just want to have to be a reaction and whether that's enough, you know, getting a list, go on Jonathan. So I was going to mostly ask that if that was something the NISCO could do which kind of put together a calendar of things, because I expected even even if we were this group larger group was only meeting every three or four weeks. So, certain subcommittees I can imagine meeting every other week, just from the intensity of some of the decisions and some of the review that'll need to happen. So are people comfortable with, if you put together that and then you share it this is a planning document for us where, you know, it could certainly meet earlier than the 19th this was driven by Kathy would like to be at that meeting but I'm, I would be fine with the actually, I can't join remotely based on where I'm going to be but we could meet sooner than the 19th we could meet the fifth we could meet the 12th. I'm just looking at the Friday so I welcome free feedback I selfishly picked a date I knew I could be here. Paul. Thanks for Donna. If we wait till the 19th to meet does that put us behind schedule or anything like that. Tim, it wouldn't, wouldn't it be great to would be great to meet earlier but certainly I mean, DD is four months and you've used almost a whole month. Time is important. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, so. Sorry, go ahead, Kathy. As I said, you know Paul I think that's the right question you know the if, if you all would be ready the fifth or the 12th, you know, those are the two other Fridays. I, my deciding to go up to Norway should not not drive this decision. I think we should have the meeting out there with you. Sure, or, you know, Paul, respectfully, maybe if we met the, you know, in two weeks or whatever the, I don't even know what day it is but the Friday right before the vote, where we could even T people up and ready to go on the committees like roll that out maybe right before the vote so we're not having this conversation after the vote and then trying to mobilize. We can set up organize with Margaret sign up sheets or whatever it is, identify dates that were available and kind of put a plan together so that we could maybe roll this out in a couple of weeks so that that would be the 28th would be August 28 would be two weeks. April. Would that work? It feels like August. I mean that actually then the 19th would be you're already up and running and we could. I'm just looking around the my the faces does that work for people. Yes, thumbs up. Okay, so let's that that great. Okay, so April 28. And if you can also in that the sustainability. Subcommittee come up with a when you think you will be able to reconvene that group with TT so that once having a date for that would be helpful for, especially some of the outside groups in town. So who are particularly interested in participating in that. So Donna, that's just yeah. Yeah, that would be your scheduling when does that fit but having that happen in May would be great. Yeah, we'll definitely want to kickstart that for sure. So, so just to recap then, based on the kind of working groups or so I guess we don't want to calm sub committees but working groups and the areas of design that we want to focus on going forward. We'll put together kind of a summary or a little description of what the expectation is for each of those like what what does it mean when we're talking about interiors what does it mean when we're talking about envelope or exterior. As far as the frequency there might be some that we don't need to meet as frequently, and then there will be some that probably are going to be a little more intense because we want as much information as we possibly can on the design development documents for the cost right. And then, and then we can leave it to you, whether, depending on who's interested whether it's a daytime meeting or, you know, if we need to do it later in the day or six o'clock, depending on people's availability. Some of it will, Mike, Tammy, and Allison, you know we definitely are going to want staff input, and it might even be fun to have kid student input as it relates to playground and the design of the heart surface around the school. Okay, so I think we have Phoebe, fantastic question you just organized us that. Thank you very much. I did just send in a whole invite for that 28 to everybody on the committee. Any other questions on on this, these related topics of what are we going to be doing for the next four or five months and work groups. I don't see any. So the other item, the only other item on the agenda is the invoices, we have a backlog of invoices that we need to approve so some of the people who've been working hard on all of this get paid. So I'm going to, I'm going to pull them up again. If it's easier for you to look at them in your email. Please feel free. I have with each one I have highlighted in what I'm going to show you a little bit of what it is you need to see and I'm working with one screen this morning so I may not be able to see you if hand goes up so let me know if I'm missing anybody. Okay, so let's get this open in a useful way. So there's, there are five invoices in total. And the first one, there's two from Dinesco and three from us. So this first one, this is the end of January invoice from Dinesco. And you can see here on the cover page. They're now sort of close at this point they were closing in on their final billing. So this was this billing of theirs was leaving about 93% left in there and then they also had some billing for consultants a little bit of wetlands permitting, a little bit of geo environmental and a little bit on the rooftop solar so that invoice. When you roll it all in utility investigation when you roll it all up that one is a little under $52,000. Now I'm going to keep scrolling through these on the theory that you may want to take a vote on them as a bunch. So that's the first one. There's a whole bunch of backup here that I'm going to move through very quickly which is the supporting documentation for what the invoicing is for so it includes. As you see before Dinesco's invoice plus the consultant billing so I'm going to move down as quickly as possible. Okay, and then I'm going to go to the next invoice. Whoops, what happened here. Sorry, the screen sharing thing is right where I want to see. You have to rotate it. It's this is the last this last page is This is a reporting on the that that the MSP requires for Workforce participation. The problem I'm having and I apologize I'm going to unshare for a minute is the share icon is right where I need to click on the next item so I'm going to have to reshare. Okay, hopefully this will work. So this is hopefully This is the next invoice. Yes. So this is Dennis goes February invoice. And here you can see that at that point on the end of February they were fully billing out for the remainder of their base fee. And there's no consultants involved. So this is shorter. Here's the total. And then the backup is shorter, because it's just their one document. And again here is the end of January invoice reporting. So that's on the last page. So I'm going to keep moving into our invoices. So here is answers invoice from January. So, you know, again different format but what is included here is some of our time. And then we have had consultant invoices also in here with this was our estimating invoice. And as I think you've seen before, hopefully this is going to show up. What is ours are backed up by this kind of hourly reporting, which again I'm going to scroll through quickly. And then that's the estimators invoice. The second invoice that's in here for us is from February. So smaller amount. About 13 450 for us and a little bit for Shelley. And again, there's this kind of detail showing what we were doing in a detailed fashion. And there's Shelley's invoice. Okay, and then the last one. Thanks for bearing with me. Most recent is our invoice for March services. 7534 50. And again, we've got all the detail on here. So I am going to stop sharing and see if there are any questions. I see no hands. Kathy is it okay if I make a motion. Yes. I move that we approve the five invoices that were just presented. Shane seconds. If there are no questions, I am going to proceed to a vote. Paul. Yes. Kathy is a yes, Mike. Yes. Jonathan. BB. Allison. Yes. Ben. Yes. Sean. Yes. Tammy. Yes. Angelica. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's unanimous with. One person absent. I'll just have to count a Rupert had to step out. Okay. Thank you all. Before I open it to. Public comments. Or, or questions. Is there anything else. We need to describe right now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Pb us about MSBA. I did send everyone the responses. And then the back and forth. One of, I thought the really good news is. Every space in the building was approved. And desi approved the, you know, the various other issues. So we really got a. A strong approval of what we sent in on schematic design. But it doesn't think they follow us closely. They immediately after the council met on. Third said, I think the council took a vote. And they asked for a certified. The tally of the boat. In ink. On paper sent through to them. So they, they do. Really. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stand by our clerk. Absolutely. You know, so that they, they wanted the official that it happened. So they are really. Following and, and watching. Less and hoping the project goes through. Any other questions. Comments. Then I'm going to. For public. Comments. Alison. I'm going to be leaving. Well, I see. Good. Maria, if you unmute, you have been pulled into the meeting. Okay. Thank you. I was happy to see that there was a meeting today, but. Really confused about why. There we don't have more of a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. I don't have a report from the MSBA. Reference. I don't believe that those have been made public. So the last time that you guys met was. On February 17th. And we don't have anything, you know, from the public has no idea about what the MSB and said. About the schematic design. Was it approved? What were their comments? And I believe that there was also a meeting that has been referenced. I don't know if you guys have heard of this committee meeting with the MSBA. But I was hoping that the school building committee and the public could be given more detail about what happened there. Was that a facilities assessment subcommittee? We know that there were changes in the town's share. Of the reimbursement. Again. Was looking for more information on that. But I don't know if you guys have heard of this. I don't know if you guys have heard of this committee meeting. To approve the project scope and budget. At the MSBA. April 23rd. And Amherst is listed on that. I'm hoping that you can. Send your rule about not. Responding to. Public comments, but. Honestly, I think that's, that's what a lot of us in the public. We're. Hoping to hear at this building committee meeting. Thank you. Well, I'm just going to. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If we respond, I sent all the documents, Angela, trying to figure out how to post them. We sent them to the committee. Once we receive them, but we didn't have a meeting and a meeting packet. So they will be posted. The. What they sent to us, they came in relatively recently, but they will be posted. There's a resource page in the website. And I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that Angela has to figure out how to do it. Cause we want to keep a record of those as well. And that the meeting is April 26th. Any other. Are there other. Public comments. And seeing none. If there were any other questions from the committee. Now would be the time to ask them, including. Anything related to the MSBA process. Seeing none, I think we can adjourn. At nine 28. Thank you all. And we'll. Get back together on April 28th with. And Dennis go as soon as you can get that to us if, you know, a few days before we'll post it in the packet and share it with everyone with the. And I think we'll be able to do that. I just want to remember to do the percent for all by law, just so you can see what. That more formal commissioning of art would look like. That we have to set up and Paul would have to do. Work to actually create, create that. That's not something the building committee would create. We would. The liaison. With it. And the design team. Okay. And this is great. Thank you all for showing up. I apologize for posting it. With less than the 10 day notice. But. That just happened. So we are adjourned.


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