Okay. Thank you for everyone for coming today. We're going to talk about MyRox in the Wild Wild West. And to start the talk, if you haven't met, please add me on Twitter or follow. My name is Alken and I work at Paracona and managed services department as Paracona and a few other people over here. Today's agenda will be going to introduce MyRox and talk about some of the background and some notes. We won't get into two details. The slides will be available and I will provide a lot of links, blog posts and information. And if you want to have asked questions, you can reach out to me or some others in the references. So what is MyRox? MyRox is the storage engine. It's a hidden gem in MySQL as I call it because it exists there for a while and not many people know or use it. And it's basically a key value store that is added to MySQL. It's based off of RocksDB and it was also fork of a level DB. So these technologies existed for a while. It's forked and it had its own use cases and started using. Of course, this was needed for some large operations and we know it's been implemented in Facebook. And others also still use it as a RocksDB or MyRox distribution. There's a link provided. There's some new blog posts that actually identifies a few areas of interest that actually utilize RocksDB. And initially it was a source code, then it was kind of picked up some attention and brought into attention of the MySQL providers other than Oracle, like Percona and MariaDB and released. So how do we get MyRox? We get it via Percona server or MariaDB. Percona server institutes this in 2017 and fully supported in 5.7 and 8 or releases. And it's been also available for a while in MariaDB from 10.3 and 10.2 later distributions. Basically they come built in. You don't need to do extra download or anything like that. If you download Percona server 8.0. I think 18 is the latest version. It will come along with that. There are some differences between the distribution. So one main difference is the Facebook distribution. Facebook doesn't use the mainstream version of RocksDB, MyRox implementation. And the Percona server has some different implementations for the compression algorithms. And there are some minor differences in the data file locations. The other thing that I wanted to highlight over here is the gap lock detection. This is like something major in the way that the engine works. So the Percona server and its support doesn't actually use it. Percona server errors out and in MariaDB there's no gap lock detection in the MyRox engine. If you want to read about some details there will be some links which we won't get in now. Okay, going back to the key value store. So we have the DB engine versus LSM tree style which MyRox utilizes. I actually had to put up this infamous page and the link over here. Please have a read. So the way that it works is data streams of key value pairs actually written in the memtables which is the memory actually. And then they're flushed to the disk in a level format and the compaction happens in each level to create a small larger small number of files. That's the main difference between the B3 and where B3 actually handles the data stream is slightly different than the LSM. So this is the right picture is what the MyRox actually utilizes. So in short, over here, the B3 actually mostly read optimizes. We know uses buffer pool utilizes and actually writes are in place and the LSM tree, the writes are sorted stream tables are written in sequentially and then the compaction happens in the background from the algorithms that we mentioned above. You could choose your algorithm and then has a fast access to data. Continue on the InnoDB. So not undermining what InnoDB can, InnoDB is a very powerful storage engine and can be used in other areas of Galera library, writes at replica and Percon extra DB cluster or group replication where MyRox is not. InnoDB also provides different bin log formats that in MyRox we have to be in the roll format and the transactions are limited to memory in MyRox. So if we go back to MyRox and the components of the MyRox, I'm going to skip this and show you the how the write request is handled. And basically we have the memtables, the writer head log which actually they go along together and then the leveled LSM tree structure that actually does the data writing and the compaction happens in the background for the logically partitioning we have also call in families. And when a write request comes in, we have the active memtables are actually written immediately with the writer head log and then they are flushed to the sorted sync files and the compaction happens on that level. And this allows the fast write and sorted files to be available in the disk. So we have a concept of logically partitioning the data with the column families and the memtables actually allow the writes to happen fast while we also have a log of it written in the storage and then get flushed to the table. So they are limited to 64 megabytes and a fast read and write optimized. The wall is the writer head log which we actually compared to our inner DB's reader logs and when an immediate write happens it's also written into the log. This also helps the crash recovery of the engine. And the MyRox actually the similar way on the read request actually the opposite way of trying to achieve that information process via memory, memory tables which is similar to buffer pool in our DB. And then with the index and the balloon filters you can actually access to those leveled and compacted data files and then retrieve them fast. So the level compaction is also targeted for different data sizes and as the compaction happens it gets in a larger and larger. The fewer level is better but if the data size is big then you have actually fewer files that are already sorted and merged into different files. And there's more details about Yoshinori's tutorial over here. There's a link, it's a very detailed explanation that he made. So there are some improvements over the compaction. So they are aligned with the operating system units and then also the Percona server. There has been some tests and benchmarks made in different algorithms. LZ4 was selected as the medium level algorithm and then there are other compression methods are also available. So the column in the other components over here that wanted to highlight is the column families. So it actually allows the partitioning of the and the column families also allows us to configure MyRox properly depending on the data set and that's all the configuration parameters which we will not get into it today but you can actually have a more control over the data how it's been accessed. So there are some advantages on the disk versus in a DB on the LSM side and there's a lower right penalty and reduced fragmentation over it and so this is being advised as a good fit for the right heavy workloads. Also there are some advantages on the flash with the compaction and the compression you get actually saves space and there's a lower right amplification for writing on the flash. We mentioned about the gap lock and there's a there's a roll locking available. It's only read committed and repeatable read and then we don't I mean MyRox doesn't support gap lock as much as the InnoDB. For the replication side it has to be roll level and then they'll have a large bin locks and again once again the statement base replication will cause gap locks but you can still use it on the on the slaves. So this is the high level of MyRox engine and then how do we actually mix and match? It is not very much advised to mix and match InnoDB engine and the MyRox engine at the same server but if you do the extra backup still works it's on only on 8.0 with the later versions of extra backup and it's both optimized to take a backup of InnoDB and MyRox at the same time and there are no partial backups so you can't actually write on an InnoDB and write on MyRox maybe like a different application, different the model. You can't say okay I just need the backup for MyRox if you have the backup you have to backup the whole thing it's so you have to design it that way. MariaDB also Maria backup also supports after 10.2 on later versions they don't also support MyRox partial backups. There's also MyRox hot backup tool that was originally designed to backup the ROXDB and the checkpoint and the log file but that's only for MyRox. So there is a trade-off between using the extra backup Maria backup or the MyRox hot backup and that way you have to be cautious about what your recovery method is. There is also MySQL dump and you can basically dump the data from MyRox and right now snapshots are kind of difficult when you're mixing the engine and then on the MyRox side you have to have the checkpoint and the log to be able to go into that point of recovery. So if we go back to the the other tool comparability, let's say we have a MyRox engine in our ecosystem so okay PMM is per corner monitoring and management utility it has built-in dashboards so what that means is you have a system and catalog files information schema information that you can actually gather show engine ROXDB status output that information is there so that that tool is we consider is compatible you can actually monitor analyze and record the events the extra backup is supported for the online schema change it's partially supported because it's feed committed and PT table checks them and sync you can't do it with because these are required to have a roll level bin log. So that's the tooling comparability there's you need to plan ahead of time if you're actually going to test MyRox and how my tooling and automation and other stuff works. Okay this is the benchmarks aren't the subject of this talk but as a reference we wanted to have an example over here I will not go into too much details which when these tests were ran we were on 8.0.16 now we are on 8.0.18 and on engine there has been some optimizer changes lately and then we believe there's some numbers are might be skewed because of that I am from Percona Percona's engineering department is working on new benchmarks which I will also work with some other friends over here to analyze but we can see in the as the threads are higher the you know DB gets kind of saturated but the IO bound network MyRox DB excels in the cispanch TPCC test I'm sorry these are these are writes and and then we have also read and write test over here same thing over here you can see in the in the ROX DB as the 64 threads and more it excels over you know DB engine like I said we will we will share more benchmarks and details about the latest developments with the latest version we have and and then compare some of the data versus but the the highlight of the the ROX DB MyRox engine is is to have it have a larger data set writes optimization so so why why would you use MyRox because in now there's most of our clients are in cloud they pay per per disk and disk space so your your costs are not going to be just okay I have these storage unit and it's going to run in the background and I can use it this is like as you provision more there's a link over here for another blog post that there is a comparison the chart is very small but it's it's it's cost efficient for for cloud as you can actually utilize and and use use different compression algorithms to get more more out of that than you know DB I mean there are some numbers that Yoshinor actually shared earlier about comparison between you know DB compression versus the the compaction that ROX DB provides it's much higher so that way simply you can save costs in the cloud or your storage in conclusion we we think it's it's big for big data sets are actually more suitable if you have a lot of indexing and again repeating over here for the right intensive workloads are actually much more suitable that we think so basically the data that has has a read write type or a style of applications that actually you're writing and reading quickly and that's might be suitable for that the other thing I wanted to mention is earlier the ROX DB as an as an engine as a technology is used in some other areas they're not like as far as we know they're not like my ROX implementation of the engine but the the technology that relies underlying technology that's that's in the in the ROX DB is being used in several other implementations there's a blog post and a link at the end of the the slides and I wanted to also thank Yoshinori and and Vadim Sweeta and Mark especially they put in a lot of work in in ROX DB and Yoshinori is over here if you have any questions and and there has been extensive research and development to come to this level where Facebook is running with the migration of ROX DB and thank you okay are there any questions can you repeat the question okay okay okay the mic because of the mic sir okay okay the comparison between the my ROX and the Toku DB we have initially made some comparisons and I will have to look up those the Toku DB is also similar technology is there are similar use cases that but all the data that we had or I found they were all outdated so there are really no good comparison and as my ROX is being kind of accepted both Parcona server and the Maria DB server adopted into it it's going into production is one of the largest web scale my sequel topologies in Facebook we don't find too much value in going back and doing testing in Toku DB right now so more more like a more in a DB my SQL 8 comparisons where you actually have an option do I actually have a benefit from ROX DB my ROX implementation any other questions okay so it's not a really a question but it's more like a suggestion and commentary okay so yeah I don't know much of it details on that but we'll have to look at it okay so it's more like a suggestion to use different filters than a balloon filters as the question yes how updates and the leads are handled okay so the so how should I okay how updates and leads are handled basically we had we had a slide over I think over here let me see that's still have time okay okay so basic basically the way the way that it works is the the the MAM tables are handling the rights and and when they actually the sorted strings come in the when there's an update you have you have the merging so that the rights are coming in and the updates are coming in for the data and as you already compacted and the leveled the data into into the files those sorted strings and it gets actually basically it's flushed and and and read on it in the in the memory so basically it's an ongoing operation as far as I know the how it's handled yes any other questions on T right good question does Percona have gap blocking it doesn't have a gap blocking it has a gap blocking detection so it's actually detects there's a gap block there could be a gap block yes yes yes at a route yes you can have you know all you can't you can't have mix and match but you can't support it so but it did it detects that there's a gap blocking it's the detection range update yes okay thank you okay thank you thank you thanks for the question


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Well sweep it under your lids and let's get going I isn't it wonderful County just you and I alone in our dream house Yes, it is Philip and if anyone comes calling will refuse to answer the doorbell Sorry wrong number Oh, okay alarm clock. Oh You win I could have slept a few more minutes that dream I'd have gotten the Academy Award Good morning, Mrs. Davis, I've brought you a little breakfast tray. Hope you like the surprise recipe on it another surprise recipe I'm still trying to get used to the last one Why Chris boiled in breadcrumbs This is a famous Alaskan dish want to know what it consists of no what it's very simple You just take a pound of frozen whale meat for it out rolling the patties and fry in deep seal fat What do you call this Eskimo's delight? Yes, of course not everyone can enjoy them at first eating how do you stand on this? We'll meet Connie. I really don't know Mrs. Davis. I've never stood on any It was nice of you to bring a tray into my room Mrs. Davis But I'd rather have breakfast out here in the dinette with you Oh, thank you Connie, but you haven't had a thing but a glass of milk. I know you can't fry that That is I didn't feel very hungry. Oh, that's too bad today of all days What's so special about today? Don't you know? Let's see. Oh Certainly yesterday was payday. So today must be rent day. What do I owe you Mrs. Davis? I'm not worried about the rent Connie although I could use a small loan How much meal of $5 would do nicely. It's for a donation. I promise the ailing news boy's son All right, Mrs. Davis. I can let you have $5. You're sure you won't miss it No, I won't miss it the people I owe the payment on my car might miss it, but I'll take care of that later I've had my eye on a bag in Justin's department store And I've decided to throw caution to the winds and buy it this afternoon the one you told me about green alligator skin That's the one of course I'll have to postpone a lot of my time payments the car my coat the watch I bought for mr. Boyden, but it's worth it Wait, do you see that bag? Mrs. Davis, but what about your creditors? What do you tell them? I'll write them all polite letters letters. What do you say? Oh, I'll think of something I'm an English teacher. Ain't I I mean Aren't I am I not You certainly must have your heart set on that day. Oh, I have do you think mr.  Boyden Oh, that must be Walter Denham. He's giving me a lift to school. I'll be there in a minute Is your car in the repair shop again Connie? Yes, the garage says they just have to get one more part for the car before I can Drive it again. What part is that a motor? Thanks, mr. Brooks. I just came in to tell you to be sure and bring a coat with you this morning It's cold in the school teachers heart out. I mean some school teachers hearts, mr.  I'll go get a coat. I'll just be a few minutes Oh water, I'm glad you came in. We've got to make arrangements for the surprise party. Does she know it's her birthday? No, just like last year. She's forgotten about it completely. Well, then the party will go over that much bigger Did you find out what she wants? Yes? I did water. It's a green bag in Justin's, but she's threatened to buy it for herself That's no good. I know so I thought up this scheme if we all borrow some money from her She won't be able to buy it Then we can give it to her for a present I'll call the conglance and tell them to be sure and borrow something from this Brooks when she gets to school Good. She's so soft hearted. She'll never turn anybody down as long as there's a hard luck story with it I'll put the bite on her and I mean I'll borrow something on our way to school Here she comes. I'll go back into the kitchen. I don't want her to think we've been conspiring. Okay, Mrs. Davis That wasn't such a long wait was it Walder? Oh, not at all, Miss Brooks. That's a nice coat. When did you buy that? Within the next 18 months Let's hurry Walder. I couldn't touch a morsel of Mrs. Davis's breakfast. I'd like to get a bite on our way. Don't worry. You will Our Miss Brooks will continue in just a moment But first here is Vern Smith with an important announcement. 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I'll get palm olive soap today Mail your entry to palm olive box 92, New York 8, New York get palm olive soap for a lovelier complexion Remember doctors prove palm olive's beauty results Just had a tune-up job done in the Karmus Brooks friends pretty smooth it doesn't it. Yes, it does walder What kind of a car was this is this a 1938 Hudson hmm certainly held together for the past 10 years So of you miss Brooks Not I'm comparing you with a car or anything, but well you're still so youthful Nature's treated you extremely well Why you haven't even got any crow's feet nature probably knows I can't afford shoes for them Don't like to keep bothering you with my personal problems miss Brooks, but could I once more? Could you once more what walder father you with a personal problem? It's about a financial matter. What kind of a financial matter alone Are you asking me or telling me? I'm telling you. I mean I'm telling you. I'm broke. Really? How long have you been a school teacher? No, I'm serious. I've just got to get some money somewhere. It isn't like it was for myself I wouldn't even ask if it was for myself. Who is it for? It's for a friend of mine He's a he's an ice man and his horse fell down the other day and he's laid up in the barn now And my friend hasn't been able to sell any ice. Oh, that's too bad walder He doesn't know when the horse will be on his feet again, and he's just had a baby the horse. No the ice man Well, that's a switch his wife And they haven't got enough money to buy milk to feed it. I'll let alone the other seven children in the family plus oats Sadness Brooks saddest thing since Camille How much do you want to borrow walder $5 it help a lot? Okay, here you are Thanks, are you sure you won't miss it? No, I won't miss it walder the people who sold me this coat may miss it But I'll take care of that later Thanks again You don't know what this money you'll do for these people and you'll get it back just as soon as my friend's foot heals Your friend's foot I thought it was the horse who fell the horse oh sure But didn't I tell you when the horse fell my friend tried to lift him up and sprained his own ankle? Between his sick horse sprained ankle and having a baby your friend is the busiest ice man I ever knew Well right near school oh Gosh, I got so wound up talking about my poor friend I forgot to stop and let you get some breakfast. Well after that story walter. I'd feel guilty eating anything, but hey I'll have an early lunch in the cafeteria. Okay, miss Brooks. Well here. We are Thanks, walder Say isn't that Harriet Conklin going up the steps? Yeah, that's Harriet. Oh, you better hurry. She's anxious to talk to you How can you tell from the back of her neck? I'm psychic about some things and go ahead miss Brooks. All right walder. See you later Good morning Harriet. Oh good morning, miss Brooks. I'm so glad we bumped into each other before school starts I've been very anxious to talk to you walter is psychic at that among other things What did you want to talk to me about? Well, it's rather embarrassing not that you're hard to talk to or anything, but Golly, I just don't know how to say it now that we're face-to-face. Oh, we'd look pretty silly chatting back-to-back Seems to be the trouble. Well, it's really not my trouble miss Brooks It's just that I've got to get some financial assistance for a friend in need. What friend Harriet? Well, it's a little boy. I know he comes from a very poor family and in order to help his folks He shines shoes after school now. He's got a little dog that helped him get his business started. What did he do put up the money? He used to do tricks and track customers But just the other day fell down and hurt his foot now the poor little dog can't even get downtown anymore Well, I can get him a lift downtown if he doesn't mind riding on a lame horse Well, I don't either but how much do you want to borrow right after he was hurt? They took the little dog to a hospital and the bill there was eight dollars. You must have had a semi-private room Well, here's the eight dollars Harriet. Oh, thank you miss Brooks. You sure you won't miss it No, I won't miss it the people I owe the payment on my watch might miss it, but I'll take care of that later Anyway, I still have enough left to pick up that bag at Justin's this afternoon. Yeah. Oh, I mean what bag a green Alligator job that I've had my eye on for weeks.  Oh, what have I done now? Why should you think you've done something miss Brooks golly? Just because daddy's a principal is no reason for anybody to be afraid of him. No, maybe you're right Harriet Good morning Step into my office a moment miss Brooks. Certainly, mr. Conklin. Yeah at ease Yes, sir. As you know, I was a major in the last war Spent almost four years in charge of the post exchange at Camp fabric, Ohio Stoutfeller Yes, although I've been returned to the arms of my loved ones for over two years now I opened my last box of Hershey's in 46. I Must confess there are aspects of military life, which bear remembering such as the camaraderie esprit de corps Don't you agree miss Brooks? We mon capitaine Now you've been teaching at Madison High for over five years, haven't you? That's right, mr. Conklin And in that time I've had a lot of esprit de corps, but very few raises. I think the last one was I know let's not talk shop miss Brooks. I Have realized that you haven't had a raise in some time, but after all it's a universal complaint these days And one which can't be remedied overnight Meanwhile, you get by very nicely on the money. You earn don't you well speaking frankly. That's the only way to speak miss Brooks Now if you don't mind I'll come to the point I've got to have some financial assistance for a friend of mine in distress another one This poor chap was one of my gi assistance during the war just a corporal, but I recommended him for a war department Citation really yes, you never saw anyone fill a coke machine like this land As for stacking Kleenex boxes Well after the war he got married and started to raise a family That was three years ago, but luck didn't favor this boy. He lost one job after another Things went from bad to worse. You mean he became a teacher No laughing matter miss Brooks. He's just written me that his wife is going to have another baby Therefore in three years There's a set of twins In any event he's desperate. He can't even afford a hospital room for his wife Well, I know where there's a semi private room if she doesn't mind dogs I mean, how much would you like to borrow mr. Conklin? Well, I've asked many of my friends for five or ten dollars I see well, I guess but you're such an old friend miss Brooks. I feel that I can ask you for 15 Before our friendship gets any older. Here's the $15 Oh, thank you miss Brooks You're sure you won't miss it. No, I won't miss it The people I owe a repair bill on my car might miss it, but I'll take care of that later Very well, that'll be all then this missed My excuse me miss Brooks, but may I sit at this table with you the school cafeteria is pretty crowded today Oh sit down mr. Boynton. You'll forgive me if I go ahead with my lunch. Of course. I want to eat this salad while it's still warm There's something I'd like to talk to you about yes, mr. Boynton I've heard from many people how generous and warm hearted you are under your veneer of seeming sophistication Of course, I've always known that your true blue 100 percent human being deep down below the surface Why mr. Boynton you've been peeking at my x-rays So serious I know that I can appeal to you for assistance without fear of embarrassment And I know when you hear my story you'll want to help at two boynton Well, what's your story? Well, I have this friend who's also a biologist from a poor family No, no, his family's very wealthy as a matter of fact, but he's married and has seven children and one on the way Now he's a single child But he's got a bad sickness No, no, he's in the pink of condition. Oh, wait a minute. I know his little puppy broke its leg Oh, he hasn't any puppy, but his great dane just won a blue ribbon wrong again But give that lady a box of red heart and two tickets to next week's flea circus Look mr. Boynton, I'll bet your friend's horse is so lame. He can't even ride him to work My friend drives a Cadillac If you'll just let me finish I'll be as brief as possible You see he's leaving town. He's got about 30 white mice and frogs that he wants to give me Oh, so that's it. They're sick. No, not at all. They're wonderful specimens But they're orphans Please mr. Brooks. What I'm trying to tell you is that I'll need about 20 dollars for the added equipment it'll require to house them. Oh, well, why didn't you say so? Here mr. Boynton, here's 18 dollars. It's all I have left. Let a couple of the mice double up Thank you, miss Brooks. I certainly appreciate this, but are you sure you won't miss it? No, I won't miss it the people I owe the payments on my car watch and coat might miss it But I'll take care of that later. There's only one thing that's not going to be put off mr. Boynton Oh, what's that a green alligator bag? I've got my deep down underneath little warm heart set on my first stop after school will be the nearest bank that lends money Attention quietly now then Harriet it was your idea to have this surprise party for miss Brooks Suppose you outlined the plan. All right, daddy First of all, did we all borrow enough for miss Brooks to keep her from getting that bag she wants? Mrs. Davis and I took five dollars each from her. I nailed her for a good. Uh, that is I appropriated 15 and she loaned me 18 dollars. Good for you, mr. Boynton I'm afraid it's not good enough mr. Counten. She told me at lunch She was going to the bank and borrow the money for the bag. Oh golly, that'll spoil everything I know Why don't we call the store and tell them under no circumstances to sell her that bag tell them we're buying excellent water It's a wonder that that agile mind of yours doesn't function quite so efficaciously in the school room Ash, thanks mr. Conklin Then I'll run down to the store pick up the bag and take it home Now who'll get miss Brooks and bring her over to our house? Oh, I will I'll call for it about five o'clock and bring We're over to your house at six fine now synchronize watches everybody Confidential loan department. This is it Pardon me. I've read your ads, but I'd still like to be assured that any business we transact will be strictly confidential You may be quite certain of that miss What I said we treat all our transactions with the utmost secrecy Well, you can let me in on it Borrow about 35 dollars. Yes, ma'am. What is your occupation, please? I'm a school teacher How long have you been teaching and at what school please five years at Madison High? How do you sound when you've got laryngitis? Very comical name and address down and I'll get you the money. Is that all there is to it? Yes, we don't believe in a lot of red tape. Oh, all you have to do is sign a few papers First here. Yes. Oh here Right. Now this one. There you are. Now here. Mm-hmm. And here again. And this one. Yes Now we'll start on the second page Here and here and here and here and here It's miss miss brooks. I'd like to see an item your department has been featuring in your window display Uh, what item is that miss brooks? It's a green alligator What? A green alligator. I've seen it in your window every day for weeks now Of alcoholics anonymous You don't know what I'm talking about Oh, not at all miss brooks. You know, you don't know what you're talking about, don't you? Or do you? Of course I do. Let's start all over again There's a purse made of green alligator skin that's been in your window It wouldn't have to I've got a job Uh miss h conklin, I believe. Well, couldn't you get one just like it if I h conklin? That's Harriet. Why that little demon Maybe if I get her another bag, she'll trade me the green one Now she wears a lot of green besides she has alligator shoes too Well, I might as well go over to her house and see what I can do. Anyway Mean to eavesdrop on your monologue But uh h conklin won't be home for a while. She said she had a lot of shopping to do And then she's going to get a manicure at antwans. Well, I'll go to her house and wait. Thank you and good day j. Edgar Hoover Conklin is Harriet at home. Why no miss brooks. She's out doing some last-minute shopping for the Miss brooks isn't it terribly early? I mean with the day is getting shorter all the time It seems like about five o'clock. It is five o'clock. May I come in mrs. Conklin? Oh, of course Who's that? Oh, mother. Oh, it's you miss brooks. Hello, mr. Conklin. Martha did Harriet get back without Miss brooks Isn't it a little early? I mean it only seems like five o'clock Five one I'd like to talk to you. Yes. Will you excuse us, please miss brooks surely? I wonder if they've had a confidential loan lately Hello, mrs. Conklin. I got all this stuff funny hats noise makers confetti and streamers Oh, come on in the living room and we'll start decorating the place. But walter look who's here walter. Hi miss brooks Hi walter now. We'll take the streamers and we'll start in this corner of the room and we'll I was just over to mrs. 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That's a big one dude. Oh that's a freaking toad Cody. Yo what's poppin boys and girls welcome back to another video of Kicking Their Best TV. In the last episode I told you guys we're going to do a 30 minute challenge. We get 30 minutes on the clock and we're just going to throw as many casts as we can and see how many fish that we can catch in 30 minutes. In the last episode we started off with a chatter dunk, caught a lot of good fish but I ended up switching up to this red eye shad by Strike King. By the way if you guys want to get a discount on any of the rods or baits that I use I have the code down below in the link as well. This sucker was catching them so good that I looked at Cody and I told him I said dude we got to run a 30 minute challenge only 30 minutes on the clock see how many fish we can catch. I was catching them back to back to back to back and it's crazy because we were throwing the chatter dunk we weren't having that many bites right when we switched up to this bait it was game over. We got a storm pulling up right now pressure's dropping prime fishing conditions clouds in the sky the fish are roaming and we're about to put a smack down on them. So we got Cody's phone right here we got 30 minutes on the clock we're going to hit start right here and we're going to go I'm going to show you guys exactly what combo before we hit start rocking with the new kick in the best combo by Luz very blessed and thankful for this opportunity been waiting on this for a very long time these rods are going to be dropping very soon I just can't wait to get it in some of y'alls hands so you guys can go catch some big fish on this rod we got 17 pound fluorocarbon and then like I said we got this red eye shad right here go check it out down below I don't know exactly what color this is but it has been smoking the fish in the recent videos this is like my little go-to trap so many teeth marks on it and they've just been eating really good but let's go ahead and get it started got 30 minutes on the clock we're going to start right now all right let's get it we were hooking some big ones right here guys I'm telling you need to go watch the last video it was crazy and they're schooling on that bank bro we're going to move super quick today guys we don't have no time to mess around you gotta see how many fish we can catch in 30 minutes and they're biting so good so I think we're going to kill it good fish get us started on our first one right off the rip hit me so hard we got all this wind pushing up in this bank over here we were having like bite after bite that I just literally saw them schooling I'm just firing them up real quick oh no it came off yeah I've had a few bites it was not even that once we get the momentum going guys we're going to be catching them I just feel it got hunkered down pay attention make some cast we'll get them you want to try that pipe again with that there you go there we go right there buddy there's one first fish not a bad one 27 minutes left 27 minutes I know they're on this bank dude I just gotta fire them up we just gotta keep the momentum gotta keep on casting casting casting can't waste any time I wanted to say I think I could get 30 in 30 minutes but it's coming down to it if we can get them back to that cast and just keep it going I think we can it's not out of the picture yet I think I should go over to the pipe Cody I think try a couple of it on your mind those ones that missed the chatter that baby it's a freaking toad Cody look at that fish brother that's a massive one ate it right at the bank we don't have too much time to talk about this girl but that is a mega let's get her back in the water fish number two massive there she goes give me some boy yes sir let's get it let's check the clock 23 minutes 40 seconds on a slower pace than I wanted to be but that's a big one dude that was a big fish it's like I like to enjoy those big fish moments but in this video we can't let that happen that was a big merch shout out do we have time thank you so much too come on internet Michael thank you so much Michael for ordering some merch I really appreciate it if you guys want to check out any of the clothing kick in their bass calm link is down below but we do not have any more time we got to keep on fishing oh gosh dude what are you doing dude they are smoking this thing how are they not eating it right I'm reeling it super fast I'm just like I don't know yeah fish number three 19 minutes left and we got to pick up the pace oh it came off that's fun that would have been fish number four it's all good there's a lot on this bank I know we can this is like the money shot that's a big and dude feels huge isn't the same spot as that other fish they're stacked up on this bank they were schooling you got all this wind pushing up heavy storm coming in this fish fire up this fish number four I think four or five the last one would have been would have made this five but I don't think we should count it fish number four no we're in my pliers I don't know where I put my pliers they might be on the ground over there there you go fish number four all right we got like four fish in just a little over 10 minutes not a bad start but not the best start there he is they're so loaded there dude this is our spot that we got to be fish number five right there perfect five fish five fish five fish got another one they're loaded out here guys I've never seen anything like this I mean dude there's there's so many fish this isn't big and oh god Cody I can't move them dude dude this is this might be mine no no no no no no no fish number 6 god that's a freaking toad Cody spot pounder god oh no baby I'm sorry I was ready to get her back in the water too sorry I didn't complain was that number 6 yeah that's fish number six should have been number 7 We are halfway through the challenge. 15 minutes. We have six fish. Not bad at all, but just not as good as I would like. We're finally picking up the pace right here though. I'm out of breath. This is crazy dude. I'm like never rushed so much for fishing. Those fish are stacked on this bank over here. I mean there's so many of them. They keep pulling up. All this wind is positioning them perfectly on this bank. Is that the big girl? Yeah, she's still there. No, big girl. I gotta save her. Oh my god. Should be money. It's money. Oh, that was another big one dude. This is the craziest fishing I think I've experienced all year.  Throw you a moving bait. Throw you old red eye shad. Just start catching them. Should be another one right there. They're stacked dude. They're just in that same cast. To think we almost didn't go fishing today. I know we almost didn't go fishing. We thought we were going to get rained out and we got a few hours of clear skies. It didn't show that it was clear skies. No, turn out. All right fish, we're halfway through this challenge. We caught two monsters. We need another one right here.   Dude, I made the same cast like the last 20 casts. 10 of them have been productive. 10 of them haven't.   Right here. Come on, baby. Want to get it on the bank? Yeah. How could he trick me like that and come off? Some of these fish are just turning up right now, bro. The storm has them all types of psycho. Some of these fish have been fighting like they're a dang 10 pounder. That five pounder a second ago felt like he was literally over 10. He couldn't move them, dude. I was convinced too. Like I seriously couldn't move the fish. There was nothing I could have done to get him to move sideways. That never happened. Even on my biggest PB bass, like I could always move them. Fish are strong today. They had their weedies this morning as you guys fired up. So guys, I have literally been catching so many fish. Look at the paint on this thing. Even before this video, they were just munching it and it's starting to run sideways. So I'm going to slightly turn this. Every once in a while, you know, on crankbaits, they stop running straight. You just got to slightly adjust it. Let's see if that helps. Yep, it helps. It's running straight now. Right when I fixed it for the first cast, they decided to bite it. Yeah, that's a little tip. If you're crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, square bills, deep divers, whatever start going sideways, you just slightly adjust it. Might take you a few times. I actually hit it perfect by the time. But then they let it run straight again. It was a monster. Dang it. It's crazy, dude. How many fish should we have right now? I've lost like we should have over 10. Yeah, I've lost like every five. We have six, right? I think so. We've got about 10 minutes left. Man, we should be cooking right now. I'm getting the bites. I just can't execute. That was a big one, too. The whole rod almost came out of my hand. All right. These are the ones you don't want to mess with. Shake him off real quick. Number seven. Let's go. These are so big. Perfect cast. They're huge ones, dude. Number eight, baby.  It's not big. I'm going to play with them. We live and we learn. Is this the 30 minute challenge or Noah makes a fool of himself in 30 minutes? Number eight, baby. Dang it, you win. Come right here. Come here, baby. Number eight. Here we go. Fish number eight. Nice little two pounder. Not bad. Got gnats in my eyes. 30 minutes is up. How many do we get? Like eight.  And I know that those don't count, but we almost had 10. Almost had 10 in 30 minute, dude. I mean, either way, bro. Eight fish in 30 minutes. I mean, that's a lot, dog. Considering the size of a couple of those, dude. A few of those are freaking giants. I didn't even get like a second to like look at them and just kind of hold them. But man, that was wild. And I lost what? Like six or seven fish? Yeah. I lost a lot. I could have had 15. But dang guys, that's crazy to have. If we were to land all of them to have like 15 fish in 30 minutes, it's quite crazy. We ended up with eight fish total, which is really not bad in 30 minutes. That's insane. Let me tell you guys, if you have a pond that has a lot of big fish in it, and if you hit the weather right, just like we did today, that is exactly what you guys get. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. This is a different style of video that we kind of wanted to do since the fish were biting so well. If you guys want to see another one of these 30 minute challenges, or maybe even a one hour challenge, or maybe even like a 30 minute challenge on the river, let me know in the comment section down below. Hit the like button if you guys enjoyed this video. Hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. I love you guys so much.


Full attendance and it's seven o'clock So we're gonna open the meeting Call the order We have any additions to the agenda Bruce now for me Anybody else Under penalty of death Okay, we don't have any additions to the agenda Um public comment. I see it could be public here public comment. I don't see anything So I'm gonna turn the meeting over to East Montpellier fire department or let me let me call call us to order. Yeah Rick are you here Rick? Are you there? I was gonna introduce you to Rick. He's our a new board member and A couple other board members had some last-minute personal Stuff come up. So we don't have a quorum, but I'll still call it to order I just talked to Rick and he was gonna be Signing in so hopefully he can join us And I don't see is there a public comment or additions or changes to the callous agenda Yes, not. All right. Hi everyone beautiful day Oh There's Rick. Yeah, sorry to me a minute Yeah, I just called the meeting to order Rick.  Is he going under an alias? Is it that Melanie? Melanie is Rick. Yes, I am I am I forgot that I forgot my mustache and plastic glasses, but Okay, so Melanie is Rick or Rick is Melanie. That's your newest board member. Yes, that is There's one and you have Rose here, too, right? No, Rose is not I am now Rose Excuse me. I think Rose is Rose. Nice to see everybody Rose is here Do you know who was on your select board just out of curiosity? Say what do you know who was on your select board? You have Rose and Melanie. No Rose is no longer on the board. Oh, okay. Oh, so you've got just Melanie then Yeah, just now Melanie aka Rick. Okay Sounds good Okay, everybody set for the East Montpelier presentation to the joint select boards Is that Toby? Yes, that's Toby. That's Toby. Okay So the agenda the first thing is financials I will put the financials I sent you up on the screen and we can have a discussion about it if there's questions step right up You're going over the balance sheet Yeah No Here we go Assets Seems like a lot in your checking account or not miss reading Yes, there's a lot in the checking account and we'll explain we'll explain some of that. Okay Any other questions on the balance sheet looks good Yeah Okay, this is a profit and loss by class. So this is the two the two budgets side-by-side Expenses and income. So the one thing that's new here is COVID So if you'll see here that we got a COVID grant for 17,995 to cover Unexpected expenses for PPE and other COVID related equipment in which which Number are you looking at? COVID grant for expenses under ordinary income 17,995 and there's also a COVID hazard pay in the amount of 42,155 dollars so That is gone directly to the paid staff as a bonus to them directly from the state for Putting up with a hazard of responding to COVID during the last year So that's almost $60,000 we didn't expect to have as part of our income Everybody understand that I know when you say that has gone directly to the paid members Is that that both of those lines or just the second one just the second one? Thank you And in this other line is to reimburse us for COVID related Expenses such as PPE and disinfectant and other materials of that sort How many did you have carries that were direct COVID emergencies or just you had to disinfect just to be sure Well, every patient we went to was a possible COVID person. So every time we went we had in 95s goggles scouts and stuff and Essentially, everybody was putting themselves at risk every time they went with an uncertain patient Okay, we did we did transport COVID positive patients as well as some that were potential COVID positive patients Okay All right, and so the hazard pay you just distributed among the Or did you just I'm not sure how you distributed that so Essentially anyone who responded during that period of time was eligible for us for a lump sum as far as Each individual and I don't remember what the total number was. There were actually two rounds of it There was one round for about 19,000 and then there was another round of 20 plus thousand So they you know, essentially everyone who worked during that period if you didn't work you didn't get the hazard pay It's only the people that were actually going out on calls during the period of time. Yeah, was that was that tax free? No, no Okay, so essentially that money is in our expenditure, but it's really also Covered by the state income that came in right so it's in and out So it doesn't really affect what we you know, it's not like we have $40,000 in our pocket. It came in it went out Yeah, and it doesn't have anything effect on them on the fire department or ambulance budget. Yeah Yeah, you just play in those two numbers, right? The only thing that that is effective is for expenses and as you as you get down here lower You'll see that there is COVID related supplies. Yeah 9,480 Yeah, so essentially we continue to have probably close to $7,000 to spend before the end of the year in that item because of the income right is 18,000 and we spent nine and a half. Yeah. Yeah I'm glad some folks got a bonus. That's great. Right. Well, they put their lives at risk for you. So They deserve it Um Everybody's looked at this. Do you have any other questions about line items? Essentially, it's just, you know, the end of February It's eight months in There's nothing that's really seems out of ordinary the only other Thing that we could look at is as of the end of February, we've already received 111,000 in revenue from insurance So I'm gonna say the insurance High Well, that's that's money coming into us right that's more than usual it is and it's right now. I'm looking I'm looking at expenses. Oh Well, and again just remember there's almost $50,000 of expenses that came in and went out right But it shows that they it shows that the insurance cost those I think what Denise is saying is $30,000 30,000 750 right No 37,000 right exactly But that's combined. Well Yeah, that's the two combined. Yeah, and what's the budget amount for the year? Yeah, that's what I don't see is what was budgeted. That's the same as salary I was just curious to know what the budgeted amount was for salary. I Mean we spent 207 I guess that's an inflated figure because that includes the 42,000 So 207 is where we're at as as expenditure through February the budget. It's 273 786 right there We have 66,000 left to spend before the end of the year on Salary right It's a little bit high because we're staffing two people in the day and two people at night and some people overnight So we're doing what we had told you we were going to do and Telling you that we were probably going to be over budget on that particular line item because we're staffing very fully To have the ambulance go out and not have days when there's only one person on Right and that's why that number is higher and You know next year's budget you guys are going to put another 37,500 in there, which is really where it's going to end up Topping out at because that is a full staffing model Yeah So you'll be a little over you're thinking by June 30 Well, if you go in eight months you're should be shooting for your budget about 66% and that's our item is now at 75 Right, so it's 10% over budget right now Right, and it's not going to drop because that's where we're trending In order to in order to get you know daytime and nighttime two people on for you know Essentially from seven right until midnight. Yeah But isn't that 207 inflated because of the 42 or is that not included? No, if you look just below that there's the 42. Oh, I see it It's separated out as we did that intentionally so that we could actually yeah what the real real salary impact was yeah I got it. Okay. This is this just sits here all by itself. No, no, I got it. Yeah Any other questions on the ambulance budget Did the answer was the answer given for people to understand what the budget was for the insurance I Didn't hear that I didn't hear that figure. What was the budget though the the ambulance is 30,750 for primarily workers comp portion of payroll and then the fire budget is the 40,000 for insurance which is largely the operational insurance and the building insurance So we're talking right here. So the budget line for insurance is 30,000. That's workers comp That's a portion of payroll and that's what that's what's in the insurance on you have your work much cop Oh, yeah, so this is only workers comp on the ambulance side Okay, there's nothing else there just workers comp and that's the number. It's just what you pay based on your on your payroll, right? So our payroll at 273,000 there's a $30,000 workers comp premium Yeah, what why doesn't say salary marshal? because March we we started them separately and with this part of what they do so Essentially, it's going to be just what we get collect from our shield. It was just it's just another way to do that It's part of the total. It's just has a separate line by itself Any other questions on ambulance? So moving on. This is the fire budget We've received all the funds from the two towns And you can see here. We're at 53 percent instead of 66. So we're actually under budget right now on the fireside So wood pellets is really is that the right line wood pellets Right, so we took an extra load of pellets this spring because There's another community group that buys pellets and in order for them to get a full delivery of a truck. They have to share with us So we added a little, you know, almost another Five 15 tons of pellets in this fiscal year. It's it's just a timing thing So we had an extra delivery that we didn't have last year. So it's gonna fall in here any further questions We'll keep in budget way up that must because you're hiding it from bookkeeper Pardon me You're bookkeeping budgets way up, right? Yeah, that's because we have father Gil do reports for us every month And and we're actually starting to you know, because we finally developed this so it's easy for her that should essentially flatten out. Yeah It doesn't require that much time and you know when she comes to a An emfd board meeting now we can cover these things in five or ten minutes instead of an hour when we were trying to make decisions about how to display all of this Okay And your bank charges. I assume that's rubber checks or something. I Can't tell you what that is. I don't know exactly what those things are but it must be a small amount because it's only $13 over budget set right. I got it, but I say a hundred fourteen percent I know and that's the only thing you that's the only thing you look at is how Much over it. Well, that's that's one Parameter that we should be looking at right, but if you look down here, we're at 50 53 So I got it. Yeah, so you're averaged it out and you're only 53 Congratulations, right because we are we're managing the money for you guys very well very well, right? You took the words right out of my mouth actually Okay That's it on financials unless there's any other questions What's what's that? What's the vaccination contract? Oh So that's something that just came up. So essentially this state of Vermont it has reached out to ambulance and EMS services to be vaccinators So we trained almost 20 people to actually participate We have an open-ended contract with them for up to a hundred thousand dollars So essentially this is just like the hazard pay when people work to vaccinate they get paid and we get reimbursed directly from the state So it literally has no No impact on the budget. It just comes in and goes out and we're what we're doing is paying the people that Get called to be vaccinators at these state-sponsored point of deliveries So just on the insurance on the revenue side for the ambulance What's it usually at at two-thirds of the year? Isn't it under a hundred thousand? Oh, yeah It's it's it's very high right now, which is great You know last year the total last year the total at the end of the year was a hundred and forty thousand dollars Right, and that was why we have four months left and we're at a hundred and eleven already Yeah, it's a lot it is we work hard to make that to bring those those into the town Okay Careful your arm is getting sore from pat yourself on the back, but that's okay. Well, I want you to hear the good news Okay So that sounds good Anything else? No, it looks good. All right. I will turn it over to Chief Okay, all right So you guys received in your pocket the transport statistics Yeah Yeah and You have on there on your first page on the two ambulance transport statistics, we have a total of 348 up to date and 130 of nine of those were no transports with 209 transports And then you can see by town What the category totals were by town for transport versus no transports? Yeah Any questions on that page? hearing none Your second page is the cost statistics total and even though it says 2018 on the top These are the current year You can see on the bottom Fire and medical the grand total of the date is 468 Where we are currently That puts us on track to be in that 650 700 calls a year range So these are all the calls that you got These are all the calls yet Okay, ambulance and fire ambulance and fire all right And I assume a lot of these are mutual aid Berlin very city But yes, those are Northfield we've been to Northfield a couple of times Peachham for fire So yes Those aren't on here, but they are down the bottom Where it says other the other is actually Northfield and it's just not in our system because that's not a regular and then Peachham is the one on there That's an ambulance, right? No, those are The Peachham is a fire and then there's a medical one as well. Yeah. Oh, there's two separate ones. Okay very cities had quite a few fires since The end of the years we've been going there frequently Yeah, there's been a couple I've seen on the news pretty Pretty wild They've had some very fortunate ones with people trapped that they've been able to get too fast enough to save them Yeah, right Any questions on the call logs? I just have one question. I thought I thought you were issuing burn permits and there's 49 visits to people's homes for Burn permit so burn permits that is through the start of the year till now We are not currently issuing burn permits over this two-week period Then we started on Monday until two weeks from now and then we'll reevaluate based on weather conditions and how dry it is But don't mind a COVID pandemic. I believe that there weren't burn pits of burn burn permits allowed, right? There was a period of time last year where we didn't run burn permits because or open burning because of the again primarily because of the weather conditions and how dry it was with the drought and as you can see as we start into this spring It's early, but we're already in drought conditions now that we need significant rain So even though the snow just melted everything is dried off with the breezes we've been having Right. Yeah, I'm just surprised there's 49. That's all Yeah, that's kind of surprise. Well, that's that's year to date. I mean there was times last year when they issued permits They're not issuing now if it's too dry and there's times last year they didn't issue because it's too dry But there's other times they did issue permits so right here today 49 I mean they added a large brush fire into it right now in Northfield Berlin over in the town over there They've got five or six agencies out and that we had gone to Northfield for structure for a second alarm structure fire Week and a half ago and add brush fire as part of that as well so Yeah goes will hold the permits and check for right now and you know We're gonna see a little bit of rain over this weekend, but it doesn't look like much Now we need rain bathy Yeah, dry in Florida to wicked dry Any other questions on the call logs or types of calls or where we've been for calls? Nope Community programs We do have masks available from the Ford mask program. We were able to hand out if people need masks We've gotten rid of some out there to the community, but we still have some left So people need them or you want some at the town offices. Let us know we have some bags available They can be handed out. We cannot use them on our ambulance because of the Specifications for them and can find space don't meet the standard for that, but they meet the standard for general use Just a update kind of quick on the holiday programs again even in the downturn of the economy and everything through the Colbert We had an exceptional year through the holiday program we had 38 families combined between Christmas and Thanksgiving with 38 children at Christmas time But we also had additional donations that it come in so we were able to make donations to The food shelves at the brick church here in Eastmount Bayer the senior center here in Eastmount Bayer and the Woodbury callous food shelf The other one is our smoke detector CEO program We've been able to finally reinvent or our smoke detectors During the the Colbert struggle of getting supplies and things we haven't been able to get the ones we need for our program where if we go out to residents whether it's for a faulty detector activation or for other reasons and It's determined that people need a smoke detector. We will leave one for them Their battery operated smoke CEO combos with that 10-year lithium battery in them Any questions on any of those or comments? Okay hearing none We did receive a callous notice of non-renewal And just a couple of things that ain't going forage with that is we'll have to have some determination of agenda in Timeline and how we accomplish this with the three parties For the interlocal agreement which has been in place since 2009 Any comments or questions on that? Okay Hearing no comments or things on that we'll have to work to establish a program going forwards or not the final item on the agenda was Capital West and that was a question from callous. So we'll let callous ask that question Yeah, you know, I don't know if everybody else receives these very long emails from Steven What's his last name? Whitcomb or Whitaker or something Steve Whitaker. He periodically sends out these emails And it's hard to send it's hard to I don't know who they all go to because most of the time It's all BCC and he's been raising all kinds of issues about Capital West and Money and all this stuff. So I just wondered if you guys had any insight and can help us understand What he's talking about does that does does he's not clear do you get those emails from Steve Whitaker? Yeah Yep Yeah, I don't I don't respond but it's just every little while, you know, he'll bombard us with a couple of Very long detailed emails So I just wanted to see if the fire department's getting them and if you have any insight into what he's talking about Well, he doesn't sound unreasonable with his Observation so no, he doesn't that's the thing. He doesn't sound unreasonable. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about Right, and I know that Bruce has been forwarding them on to the rest of select books. I think he gets them But we don't really know You know what the plan is with Capital West because it seems like that's what he's alluding to right what's gonna happen in the future I don't know. Have you been getting those? Toby or Ty So what's going on currently with Capital West and the CVPS a Group is there's currently a survey survey being done of all radio Equipment what including towers. There's going to be a survey sent to all the fire chiefs to Inventory all of our mobile radios all of our portable radios basically taking an overview look of what the current capabilities are of the system for each agency as well as what the problem areas are for each agency in terms of communication Some of the other things in terms of Capital West that we're working on is part of this is the Looking at the upgrade to tower capabilities If you it was simulcasting which means that all towers can talk to each other in dispatch at the same time If you think of yourself standing in a circle right now you talk one direction and talks to one tower If dispatch needs to talk through another tower to reach the farther region They actually have to manually switch to another tower to be able to transmit So part of what the survey is looking at and part of what the future estimations are on equipment is to Create the ability for each tower to talk to itself independently all at one time So when there's a broadcast on it would go through the whole region The other which will enhance our capabilities of communication in the field The other thing that's being worked on that's been worked on for a number of years To get full resolution to is Changing our frequency that we're on currently because of the traffic overfeed We receive a tremendous amount of traffic overfeed Explain you gotta explain what that is. I'm working on that. So from Canada They can talk from Canada and they can override our radio systems down here And so it can cause a lot of additional traffic and may not all be emergency traffic based on how they use the frequency up there and What happens is it gives us a lot of background noise or override where? dispatch has to sort through all of that additional communications through on the frequency and May or may not be able to hear us at times when we talk because the channel may be locked out by the overall communications going on So we've been in the process of getting new frequencies through the FAA And that's coming or not FAA sorry FCC And that is in the works. We're very close We have one more tower in Walden that we need to get approved to get the frequency change And once that happens then we would we would have to go through all of the agencies change all of our radio programming To be able to switch to this other frequency and that includes pagers portable radios mobile radios truck radios base radios Where's all the money going to come from? So part of this survey and part of where this would come from Is there is potentially federal grants that are available to pay for part of this There may be other revenues that need to come from Financing long term for some of the purchase of the equipment that would go into place as well Those answers are not in place currently. There's been nothing finalized and established The final quotes for all of this are not complete And that's where everything is at within the capital west system currently So and when he keeps and then in some of the emails he talks about the people on this capital west border Whatever, however, it's made up and who makes those appointments. How does that? I mean, are you're somebody for me some familiar and for callus woodbury Serves on some committee there. Is that the way I understand it? the capital fire and mutual aid which is made up of Towns all has representation On the committee or on the in the board We meet regularly and then they within that there is a communications committee. That's a subcommittee four people that participate And review pieces like this. They're working with the cvpsa what I can tell you is that I'm not going to Get into the semantics of the emails you're receiving what I would tell you is when There is official information to be released in an official capacity. It will be released Other than that, this is non official information You mean release to the towns or how what do you mean release to the towns when everything's finalized for the surveys? Again, this is a work in progress. It's not complete and when it's time for an official report to be done There will be an official report to complete it It's tell me what cvpsa central vermont public service What does cvpsa stand for? It's a public service group. It's been meeting for years Working on looking at dispatching services where they combine some of the things for dispatching How to make improvements to that And our dispatching is still done through month killer Our dispatching is done through capitol west which is based out of Mount failure police department. Yes Okay, that's what I thought that because he's mentioned that a few times something about that And there's no intent to change that we Okay Any other questions on capitol west? I'm sure they're I'm sure I will be sometime But it's just all of a sudden you get these very long emails and I read them But I don't totally understand it. So Katie, did you have a question? Can I ask a quick question? I'm sorry. I kind of missed like does capitol west mean And I wanted to kind of summarize it and I caught the details. Is capitol west itself Corporation or is it an organization like you're talking about with all the all the towns that participate? Capitol west is an organized group. It is an official organization. Yes So are those those meetings you have? Are they open to the public? Are there minutes? How does that work? They are open meetings. They are open to the public There are minutes Okay, so they must have a website then with all that information Um, I can't actually answer that for you. I've never been honored if there is one We received the information directly because we participate in the meetings. Yeah Well, I really I really appreciate your given us a little bit of background. It's very helpful I had a question Yeah I just wanted to say that um Towards the end of my term on the select board, which would be the end of february beginning of march Um, I was getting those emails too from that guy and it sounded to me like he really just wanted to stir the pot And he really wanted to bring up old old stuff like history Um, he asked me what my connection was with the fire department He asked me for documents if I had this or that or if I had minutes um, and so you know It it was just um, I don't know. I just got a bad vibe from him and um, You know, I just said look at I gave him the callus website And I said you could find, you know, the minutes there. Um, but it just seemed to me like he was really just Looking to stir the pot or stir up trouble And I wasn't really clear on what his intent was in the end Yeah, that's what I'm not that's what I'm not clear on is I don't know what he I don't know what he wants Yeah Yeah Yep, exactly Okay, any other questions on that Any other items that anybody wants to add to the agenda for discussion tonight? Can't think of anything Um, I guess I had another question. It's rose here. Um, when the Discussion about reopening the interlocal agreement or the contract and whatnot are those meetings going to be open to the public Since I'm not on the board anymore I think when callus when callus has those discussions um I'm not sure yet rose, but if it's it's about contracts. So we would probably go into executive session Okay And I don't I don't you know, I don't know. I think it's I just think it's a good opportunity for you know, everybody to Look at things and review documents and Just think about it Yeah, well if I could provide any historical perspective, um because I helped write that contract with everybody so Yeah, I Interested in helping. Yeah. Thank you rose. I remember one. We did it too. Yeah. Yeah, doesn't that um When is when does our agreement end that we have at the moment because we I don't think we have a lot of time to Get this done. I think that's kind of what um, ty was saying is Kind of want to get the ball rolling because it takes quite a lot of time and effort to redo these things I think well the contract ends on september 1st That's why and we're and we're required to give five months advance notice We want to reopen it to discuss any issues. So that's what we did Yeah, I assume you have issues identified and that'd be great when you can share them with the rest of us So we can get to work on this It does take a lot of work to hammer out the new ones with lawyers and all But that's just the my concern is the busy time of year and It will take a few meetings to get The issues resolved. I assume Yep so Does callus have a timeline for presenting issues to the other two parties in the agreement? I'm not at this time. We don't but we're going to be working on it Okay So I don't have anything else to say Uh, does anybody else from the east monthly or select board have anything to offer? I mean it's great that we Everyone attended from the east monthly or select board. Thank you really thank. Thank you so much it shows um It shows that we have interest in what's going on with fire department And it's important that we participate in these meetings. So it was really nice that everyone showed up I really appreciate it Uh, but I think that we can adjourn our part of the meeting perhaps Thank you everyone. As I said, we had a couple of select board members who had some last minute Personal issues come up. So we usually have a forum I apologize at this time. We didn't and thank you so much fire department and the ambulance for everything that you do Yeah, thank you for educating me tonight too. I'm gonna take a little while to get up to speed on all of this. So I really appreciate it Nice to meet you rick. Welcome aboard. Yeah looking forward to working with all of you guys. I appreciate it I think it's melanie, but thank you melanie Thank you toby and the rest of the ambulance crew for the presentation We always appreciate knowing what's going on and toss the numbers around etc. So Look forward to the next meeting and I think that's it for us Yep, I guess rick. We can adjourn That sounds good Thank you. Thank you everyone. Have a nice night Thanks. Thank you melanie That's our adjourn our meeting too. Yeah, no, I'm leaving. Good night everybody. Good night. Thank you Thanks for participating Thank you So, kyle you made the motion


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It's not about getting the badge, it's to having an expert soldier in your field regardless of what your MOS is. The first day of testing started with the expert physical fitness assessment and that consisted of a one mile run and 30 pushups, 100 meter sprint, 16 sandbag lifts onto a five and a half foot platform, 25 meter water can carry and then a 50 meter individual movement technique, so high crawl and then 35 second rush and then it finished off with another one mile run. All day of physical assessment, dayland nav, nightland nav, four hours of sleep, now you go to one day weapons, one day patrolling and one day medical and there's very little room for error which also causes a lot of stress. The hardest part of the EIB is definitely the physical weight of the fear of failure. Try cover squeeze, cover latches and open feet, try cover assembly, upwards and open it. So the two week train up for me was a lot of reps getting hands on and studying to ensure that I was ready to treat my casualties when the time came. Lots of tedious memorization and attention to detail. It was hard work that paid off so I'm pretty excited about it. You know your word asking the battle drill is at a level you know to be an expert and I think the goal is that you know when you look across and look at your leaders and look at your first sergeant or battalion, they either have one of those three badges. I am Captain Kara Adams. I am Lieutenant Colonel Bingham. I am Sergeant First Class Morgan Hicks. I am Specialist Holton. I'm a big red one soldier. I'm a big red one soldier. And I earned my expert field medical badge. And I earned my expert field medical badge. And I earned my expert soldier badge. And I earned my expert infantryman badge.


So, when you're engaging students in writing courses, you have that double objective of teaching them writing, but you have to have a content to work with. And so when I teach literature or writing courses, I tend to just bring in the subject matter that I'm teaching at different levels, but I have them engaged with the text differently. And I have the objective is really to teach them to think critically about text, to help them understand how a text is sort of crafted together by various parts and that the heart of analysis is being able to understand how the parts relate to the whole and to kind of deconstruct the meaning through its language. And so I think that I'm able to infuse multicultural perspectives by virtue of teaching authors who are underrepresented in these classes. So while the students are learning how to think critically and learning how to develop analytical writing, they're also sort of getting introduced to these writers of color that then some of my students will go on to pursue in higher, you know, like upper division courses where they're really producing independent research on these writers or these texts. When you're teaching writing about literature, you also introduce students to different critical approaches to writing, so you introduce them to psychoanalysis, to feminist theory, to critical race theory, post-colonial theory, and these are all different ways of reading the same text. So one of the things I'll have them do is we'll read one text from multiple different angles and that giving them that opportunity, inviting them to read a text differently, multiple times enables them to understand the importance of perspective and how a critical lens can really shape not only your interpretation of the text but the way you write about it and, you know, the meanings the text has for you and for your readers. So in these writing about literature classes, it's a chance to introduce maybe non-majors, non-English majors, to the work of literary studies while also engaging them critically with these texts and that really helps them see the value of multiple perspectives in writing and in talking about literature. I'm teaching writing about literature class this quarter and I'm teaching Sherman Alexi short stories and my students, a lot of the students are felt sort of trepidatious about talking about the text because they would say things like, I can't relate to this story, I'm not Native American or I feel like I don't have a right to talk about this entire community which has been so oppressed throughout the years. And what I tell them is that Sherman Alexi wrote to speak to all audiences and that, you know, you can look objectively at the text so long as you recognize that any claim you want to make about the text has to be sort of grounded in evidence from the text and has to be sort of rooted in analysis. And so I get them, once they understand that their job is to sort of analyze a text to understand how the parts make up the whole, they sort of realize that if they recognize their own assumptions that they're bringing to the text that they can actually analyze the text objectively and fruitfully and they're not so, they don't feel so alienated by the text or they don't feel like they have this, they don't have this right to talk about it because I'm teaching them all these skills about writing like, you know, thesis development and, you know, rooting those claims and analysis from the text and if they see that they can, there's this actual process that they can, they can engage in suddenly questions of identity, they're still important but they're able to understand like, oh, this is an assumption I'm bringing to the text and just recognizing that it does like trigger a light bulb moment for them where they realize, oh, I hadn't thought of that because of my background and now that I'm able to understand, you know, this context or, you know, the goal of the assignment is to articulate, you know, a thesis with support, they somehow feel like, okay, if that's what I need to learn how to do, I can do that and recognize these assumptions. So it's sort of a give and take between what they're bringing to the text but also recognizing that they have this job to analyze the text and part of analysis is sort of knowing when your assumptions are there and when they're informing your analysis.


What can public roads tell us about the urgency of trustworthiness in democracies? What can public roads tell us? Well, the distinction I drew was between a public road and a toll road. With a toll road, you can always get the road paid for because you don't let anybody on the road who hasn't paid for it. You build a public road, anybody can use it. So how do you get that road paid for? That's a problem that people have been facing since the beginning of time. And the answer is you have to have some form of coercion. You have to have legitimate coercion. The best coercion is legitimate coercion. And democracies are best answers to the production of legitimate coercion. So having established that, I then wanted to draw some distinctions between kinds of democracy and kinds of representation in particular. One form of representation I painted as being representation based on the trustworthiness of the representative, that that representative is going on an inner gyroscope and will always have their particular vision of the public good in mind. Another form of democracy is based on sanctions, the desire to be re-elected on the part of the representative. And the representative is only doing what the representative is doing in order to get re-elected. So Denmark, I think, has the first kind of democracy based quite heavily on representatives who can't be trusted. It's amazingly the country with the least corruption in the world, tied for the least corruption in the world, according to the Transparency Index. And it's also got the most trust in its national parliament of any country in Europe. So Denmark has this form of representation based on the inner trustworthiness of the representatives, very little corruption. But it has, and it should keep them. And what we need now is innovation in democracy to see how, when you've got that kind of representation, which is a difficult achievement, its problems are that the representatives become more distance from the people. They get involved in the work they're doing. They're not as responsive. The citizenry, having elected them, sort of doesn't care anymore. Those are the key, that's the underbelly, that those are the key problems in a democracy such as the one in Denmark. And the answer is not to throw it over and go to a democracy based on sanctions, but to innovate and to try to invent, Denmark's in a perfect spot to invent new forms of democracy, new citizen groups, new forms of using the internet, communication, other ways of taking the trust-based form of democracy, but then adding to it some innovative ways of getting citizen responsiveness and communication back and forth.


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Thank you. Good morning and I'm great to be here. I appreciate the opportunity, this logo here, Basecamp for a Better World, is an inspiring statement and I guess we are very much in the space of a better New Zealand. Looking at what we can do to prepare New Zealand to strengthen the ecological resilience that we have here for changes that are coming. Just a quick background on next foundation, I'm not sure what, how much you've heard, but I'm just talking about the environmental project. So the foundation is involved on education and environment, my particular area is the environmental programmes. So, small beginnings for this project, first thing we did, which was actually a precursor to Next Foundation itself, but the same funders, was restoration of an island on the Harriki Gulf. Small, privately owned and converted from what had been an alcohol rehab facility for the Salvation Army for 104 years into a new ecological destination in the Harriki Gulf. Very exciting project, and a chance for us to really have a look and see what could be achieved with philanthropic funding. So next foundation, as you're probably aware, is funded by one couple from Northland. We have a magnificent endowment, but we've been told to spend it in 10 years, $100 million. What we discovered when we first called for proposals was it wasn't gonna go very far. The first 287 applications total $1.9 billion and made us realise that we're gonna have to get smart about how we spend our money. After the experience in the Rotorua Island, we moved on to Abel Tasman National Park. How many of you have been to Abel Tasman? Quite a few, that's cool. So hopefully you've seen dying pine trees, dying weeds, birds coming back, and lots of control of predators through there. What you might not have seen is the education programmes that sit behind that, the connection of young people to the place. A lot of wonderful things happening there to future-proof the project by creating a whole bunch of young champions for the work down there. In many ways, this was a game-changing project. I think it's fair to see Lou in the back there. I think we really helped to energise the DOC partnership approach, and so the relationship with the Department of Conservation is really important to us. We're modelling landscape-scale involvement, so we're not interested in small projects, we're interested in big projects that create models for how we might go further and faster in terms of ecological resilience for New Zealand's landscapes. I think we've established a great deal of credibility with Iwi over time. The project inspired the formation of the next foundation, and it led to a thing called the Tomorrow Accord. And this is reflecting the fact that it's not a good use of philanthropic funds to create endowment funds to fund a project forever to keep pests out of the Abel Tasman. So what we did was agree with the Government in a document called the Tomorrow Accord that we would be the strike force. We would pre-agreed the indicators of transformation of these places, and when we achieved those goals, the Crown would take responsibility for funding it for the rest of time. And that allowed us to think about our next projects and to make sure that we're really focused on delivering results that would allow us to step on to the next project. And we started thinking about this whole question of ecological resilience. How do we transform at landscape-scale? How do we secure at least 80% of New Zealand's terrestrial biodiversity across altitudinal and latitudinal ranges? How do we assure that these ecosystems are well placed to deal with climate change effects? And the obvious climate change effects are things like high wind speeds, changes in weather patterns, rainfall, and so on, temperatures. But one of the less obvious ones, perhaps, is that eventually, Government's going to get serious about dealing with infrastructure changes required to adjust to changing sea levels and so on. And there might not be so much money around for those ecological works. So how do we get on with it, and in the next decade or two, make a big difference before some of those other pressures really start to impact? So we're creating the lifeboats across the country in places where these species can adjust. They can go up the mountains if it's getting hotter. If we have to, because they're not all connected up, we can shift species around from place to place to situations where it's more suitable for them. So we're working at the moment with the Department and we developed this list with them on a suite of properties across the country that represent altitudinal, latitudinal range, and represent a significant proportion of the ecosystem types across New Zealand that we think could secure that biodiversity in the long term. Total is about 1.3 million hectares. So it's about 16% of the conservation estate. Most of it's on conservation estate because of the close relationship with the Department. But as you'll see shortly, one or two of them are escaping beyond that. So let me just focus on Taranaki. How many of you know Egmont National Park? Quite a few. This is the volcano that sits out on the west coast of the North Island. It's a perfect circle when you fly over it. Somebody had a protractor out and it's 9.7 kilometres radius, 35,000 hectares. Quite remarkable in the sense that it's got no pigs and no deer on it. So the foliage is actually in pretty good shape except for the impact of some goats and a few possums. But it's really quiet. If you walk on that mountain, there's not a lot of bird life there. So our first approach was to set up a consortium to work on this. So the ATIWI of Taranaki, founding partners of this project as is the department, as is NEXT Foundation, and then we brought a bunch of other folk in to help put this project together. This is now fully committed, $24 million for the next 10 years to make a difference in this place and it's tracking really well. The one I'm working on at the moment is this place. So Araki-McKenzie, which includes the Araki National Park, includes the braided systems at the head of Lake Tekapo and Pukaki and is 300,000 hectares of vital drylands country, essentially, on the east coast of the South Island. So we've got scale, we've got huge potential in terms of the protection of braided river birds, like the Black Stilt, for example, of which we have 123 in the world and most of them live in this particular zone and a whole bunch of other endangered species also associated with that location. The cool thing about this project is it's about 60% conservation land but the rest of it is in either other departments of government, including 16,000 hectares of Defence Force Afghan Training Centre and about 10 high-country range holders here, or farmers in that area. And so we've been working with the iwi, with those 10 run holders, with LINZ, with the Defence Force, with Canterbury Regional Council, with the Department to put together a group, again, a consortium that's interested in achieving the changes that we want to achieve there. And so we continue to think about how do we take this project forward. There are two others in active discussion at the moment, Stewart Island and the Auckland Islands, which we would like to get sorted and there are a number, as you saw, through the rest of the country that are of interest. So this is the Black Stilt and it doesn't look so black when it's young. It changes to black. So what do we bring to these conversations? Well, one of the interesting things is we come in with relatively little baggage and when you're sitting there with iwi and in Department of Conservation, sometimes you sort of, you get all the history, not just of the Department of Conservation, iwi relationships, but of the Crown, iwi relationships. And so it's very good to be a neutral player, sort of a fresh voice in that conversation. That stuff aside, that's not important to what we're talking about today. Let's talk about how we take something forward. And that's had an effect in Taranaki, for example. The ATIwi who are part of that consortium had never really sat around the table together to talk about a project like this and as it happens, they were about to start on the joint negotiations on what was going to happen to Igmont National Park on Taranaki. And so it became a test bed for how they worked together and I think it's helped the start of that process of dealing with that treaty claim. We're focused on transformation, so we're not looking to tinker around the edges. We want to make significant sustainable changes in these places, gotta be sustainable solutions. We bring professional management, we bring an urgency to deliver that often isn't there on these projects and we bring a willingness to challenge and that includes challenging the dock experts, challenging the scientists in New Zealand to think differently about some of these problems and to help us to accelerate the process towards change. And we have a strong sense of responsibility about what we're trying to achieve here, so it's back to this base camp for a better world here for New Zealand to try and significantly change the biodiversity and transform that ecological framework. That might be the end, thank you.