six o'clock, I won't call you in order. And we have public comment. Click on Patty to hear first. So what's up? Well, over here, we're here on religious side of it. Okay. And we know power needs to move the pole. Yeah. And to do so, they need to remove the tree that's in front of our house. The only tree that's in front of our house is the good side of Red Maple, the Norway angle or something. And it can't be permanent. It's just, if you're too interested in the tree, it probably wouldn't make it permanent anyway. When we first discussed this with a rep from GMP a little over a year ago, it was last week, I think. She indicated, this woman indicated to us that they would take the tree down and replace it. Okay. So, they said, she said that we need the estimate and she would take it to her superior and get back to us. She never got back and we thought, you know, we got so used to the sidewalk being limbo that we didn't expect to hear from her necessarily the right way. And thought, not much more of it. I was away most of the last week and got back to find her car in Norway to work. And I called and she said that they want, are we ready to have them come in and remove the pole that would be like over a week and a half or two weeks in two steps. So, everyone put the pole in their hand and put it back in, remove the existing pole and it was a wire stick. And to do that, they need to have the tree down. So, the subject of replacing it came up and she said, well, you got to go to the town. It's their responsibility. Well, that was kind of a surprise to me because how long they had been indicating that they would be the ones to replace the tree. And that's why I'm here. I talked to her when I got home late Friday and then called you guys to see if I could get into this meeting. I actually didn't account about it. I thought it was just another week or two. To bring that issue before you guys and to see what your position is, if this is all new to you or had this always heard of. It's firstly heard and it's news to me now. I mean, all that, I don't know why this has come up and we've been working on this project for going on five years. I don't know.  She was going to bring it to her supervisor. I mean, we were dealing with this well over a year ago with Green Mount Power when they said they wanted to take the tree down. And we said, you know, this is an important piece of our property. We need to have it replaced. So she said, send me an estimate. I had an estimate here from Sarah Holland and she got back to me. I forget her name. Should have wrote the card, but we didn't get it.  Yes, correct. So you have an estimate? I do. But it's not going to be complete. Well, it's from last year. Right, but that's sort of a separate rule. You know, it's the cost of tree lord. And I think there's some missing, some costs in that that aren't clear in that president. Correct, but at the time, so this was like the beginning of June of 2018 that we were corresponding with Lauren. And she was saying, well, yes, that sounds reasonable. Get me an estimate. You know, I'll talk to my supervisor, whatever it is. And I have those emails, send me the estimate and we never heard anything back from her until. Until she got the card up. Now she said something to me on Friday that sort of ends the sorts going on here. And I think it probably came from her, to her higher up that she had to approach. And I told her that this was a total surprise to me. And really it's not the way I was. I was not meant to believe this was going to happen. This way, you said you were going to take care of yourselves. And then she said, well, except we're only moving the poll at the town's request. So it really is the town's problem. And so when I'm thinking, you know, I'm guessing from afar, I wasn't there. I'm thinking the supervisor said, hey, we're not moving the poll because we want to. I mean, it's not our responsibility for ours. Well, I wish they had said that because we were led to believe that, you know, I didn't know it would be this year. Two years from now, we'd be talking about replacing the trade. Well, it turns out to be this year. And so I was as surprised as you are. Does anyone know what form of agreement we have with GNP on its project? You know, here's what I think. Pat's coming in later, right, you don't know. But I would suggest that we enter an agreement with Rick to get the tree that will replace the tree and then we'll work it out with Green Mountain Tower as far as getting our property back. I think they need a tree back. Yeah, I was saying. It's not their problem. It's the town's or Green Mountain Tower's problem that the poll has to be moved. And they should get the tree. That makes sense. I would think that we have a contract with Green Mountain Tower about their moving poles. Yeah, and we do, and Pat would know that, but I don't think that they should be going through that. Right. Yeah, now, if I was sitting in your shoes, I'd probably want to know how much this is going to cost me. Right. And that's for the tree. Yeah. I have to find out, although she hasn't called me back, we left the message with her today. I'm going to say that the tree is going to root out of the stump, at least. And again, I think it's up to Green Mountain Tower to do that, but I think the town has an obligation to make sure the stump is gone. Regardless, it takes the stump out of the stump, right? Right. Because the stump is probably in the sidewalk. It's part of the tree, I'm sure it's going to be removed as part of the sidewalk work. Well, the reason they have to move the tree is because when they relocate the pole, the tree is right in the second hand where the wires are going to go. So it's not so much the stump that's going to go, and the pole is part of the way from the tree that it's not going to appear necessarily, but it goes with the wires. So it's really the wires that are getting in the way. But the stump has to go for you to place a new tree in the second position. Is this saying anything about the size of the tree? I'm not saying anything. I'm going to ask Sarah Holland, who is a local landscape architect, to think of something that would be a smaller size tree, but a native tree. And she came up with this suggestion, a what kind of tree. Fortunately, it's not a native tree. Remember? Yeah, it's not part of the tree. Well, you can come up with something. She came up with that. So I know you like plants. Yeah, yeah, I've tried some of them. You've tried them before. But you know what, I think magnolia is growing in my yard, so you can't do that. I have many, many magnolias. If you'd like a magnolia. No. No? Oh, I think they're beautiful, but they would be not one that's out pretty soon, too. Because ours grew pretty quickly. Well, I mean, there are some that are multiple. No, I know they can pick and pick. Whatever kind of tree I'm open to, we were just trying to think of a smaller scale so that it wouldn't interfere with wires anymore, so that it wouldn't need to be pruned out for the wires. Something that affects the post is the size of the tree can't plant it. So what are you thinking of? I don't see any information. She was talking about the tree and trunk. It's not really big. All right, but it's not that big. No, it's not that big. We have to pick up on the size, I think. Yeah, probably. Here's another potential sticking point. Our house's on the market, and we had a fair amount of interest. We don't know if anyone noticed that, not for yet, but we think there might be at least one in the wings. And so we have to have something we can present to the owners that indicate what's going to happen and what their rights are. Like nobody creates nothing. I could assume it would happen, but some newcomers would not necessarily be in the same shoes. If we did it, if we made a motion, it would be in a minute, so you could jump into that. Oh, OK. Yeah. Right. That's pretty much it in the nutshell. I thought I was going to say something else, and I can't remember what it was. You're welcome to stick around. I've got to be very late, so I could stick around for a while. That's not too long. Yeah, I'll let you guys move on to the next thing, because I can't think unless you can. I think they're in good shape. Yeah, OK. OK. Let's work on that. It's one reason it's OK with you that I don't know if, I mean, Sarah made this up primarily for green mountain power, correct? Yeah. Right. Yeah, OK. And that's what we were hearing about. Right. What we were dealing with green mountain power. Right. Right. So, you know, we're going to, Lauren, is that her name? Yeah. Right. Lauren Kelly. Yeah. I asked her what the timing was, and she said, well, we want to get in there in September. Well, that's only a couple weeks away. I don't know when the point is September, she's talking right now. So, you know, I'd like that. It would only make sense if they had to go ahead at the time to remove the sun. Yeah. So can I just tell them that it sucked up? Well, yeah. And we're leaving it to these guys. Yeah. Well, I'd like to talk with Pat. I think we're going to have to answer that. Pat has been our liaison for forever. Yeah. So we'll get right back to him now. OK. Yeah. So is it our intention to do a motion later tonight? Everybody vote for Pat? Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Great. So we just have to check the minutes to see if the motion. Yeah. Passed. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. It's a call to action. OK. OK. Thank you very much, Pat. Thanks for coming. Thanks for your time agenda. We appreciate that. OK. We appreciate it. Are we having something? Oh, I just wanted to send an email to the select board. It might have been some last night. I first came in and started writing by hand. So I better send an email. But I was approached by the zoning administrator. He gave it to let me know that there was an availability upon the Development Review Board. And I considered it. And I'd be interested in serving the town in that capacity. So I forwarded a resume.  And I'd be glad to serve in that capacity if you choose for me to do so. OK. I was always curious or anything you'd like to tell us. My wife approved. That's always good. I served in the town government in New Hampshire for 13 years when I was there. I did this work also professionally. In front of boards presenting other clients' work. I think one thing that may come up, although we're not, we have an active project in Moretown. So there could be a situation where I'd have a conflict of interest. But we're not really doing much. We're kind of trying to finish the plan as we started. You know, build it out. So there's nothing on the works right now. Yeah. I'd be glad to serve. Also, if you have any questions. Also, if you have questions after the fact, I'm also very happy to answer an email. Whatever. Whatever you are. How long have you lived in Moretown? We first moved. We bought the property in 2015. We started renting that September. And our kids, my son, he was in sixth grade. We started living in Moretown school one year. My daughter was in eighth grade at that time. So we just finished. Is it four years? I think we just finished it. Yeah, we're coming up actually. I think it's this week on four years ago. And we just moved into our house, which we're still still building. See if that ever gets finished. But we moved into that house in 2016. Pretty good. To that extent, my main motivation would truly be service to the town based on my familiarity with some of the regulations based on my experience. And I think that's why they contacted me. Sherwin has kind of encouraged me over the years too. I've said that a lot of times already. But I think I'm kind of grounded enough here now that I feel like things at home are kind of in order and rolling along and we feel pretty stable and secure in the town at the end of the year. Cool. Yeah. I don't need to know the answer either right now. I know you've been everywhere. Yeah. Quite a resume. So it happens when you're in a dependent contract or it's working for somebody. You probably could have done as many things if I worked for one company all these years. But I think because I haven't, it looks like I've done a lot. I don't think I've done much more than many of our friends and neighbors have. What do you think about that much right here? What do I think about the redwood tree? The redwood. It sounds like you have a lot of knowledge and experience. I have degrees in biology as well. It's interesting through, in my degree as a lens, you are effective. I definitely know more about planning, toning, construction, administration than you about like with Sarah Holland and other plant specialists now. I mean I know some, but plants are definitely not my strongest point. Unless it's farm based, kind of fruit and nut trees and vegetable and stuff like that. I'm such a promotion of the day. We have a point break. My fellow to the development report. I'll second that. Any further discussion? One further? Say hi. Hi. Great. Thank you. I'm going to go cook dinner. Okay. Great.  What do you do with that? I have one of John's dogs. Yeah? Yeah. So. Okay. See you later. Hello, Michelle. Hi there. Come on up. So we had some concerns. Okay. We sent that weather.  I mean, and we're just hoping to get a little bit more information. Yeah.  No, no, I wouldn't say that. And you're not losing me. I'm still on. Well, I know. Always remain committed to serving the town. It's not that I don't agree with the direction. I just don't have any or interest beyond. And I still think there's a little bit of a balance. But, you know, over the last couple of years, we have worked on the tennis courts. We've worked on the baseball court fence. And, you know, just make up of the group and the interest of the town. I think that's where the direction's been going for the last couple of years. And I don't think that's a terrible thing. Is it that most of the work that you're interested in has already been done? Is it accomplished? No, I mean, I think my interest is a lot more in the management of existing resources and things like, you know, could we have a website and could we, you know, do more polling and that sort of thing. But I think there's a real need for more trail maintenance and signs. People have expressed that interest. And so, if that's where the group goes the next couple of years, I think it's to the benefit of the town. It's just not my thing. I think it's still good that they care about the rec fields and all that. I mean, certainly there's more than just the trails to the recreation. There is. I mean, but, you know, any group is hit dirt by the interest of its members. I think there's just a real interest in the land and the land issues right now. Again, not a terrible thing. I think it's a good thing. It's a good thing for the town. I think it's a great group and I think we've done a lot of time over the past couple of years. And I see them continuing to be successful and, you know, to get a lot done. We're just hoping to twist your arm a little bit. I got an email from Sasha that you did except my resignation. I thought, well, I've never seen that before. You're doing something right. Well, we just wanted to hear it from you. You're going deeper information. I mean, like anyone in town who volunteers, I don't want it at that time, you know, or married in a job like we all do, and I don't have a lot of extra time. So I just want to spend that extra time. Again, I'm always wanting to, you know, work for the town in some capacity. But I'd rather spend that time on, you know, the local service needs committee. And it's tough to do both. Well, just as long as you're confident that everything's going to be okay with all the wreck fields and everything else. I think it's never a bad idea. Not because I think there's anything wrong, but to have like a presence. When we started this group, when Duane and I started it, he was at the school and I was still on the board. And so I got off the board, but I still, you know, I still have a connection and he was at the school. And now he's at Harwood. And so with nobody, there's not a school presence and there's not really a town presence.  I don't think it's 100% necessary. I think it would be fine without it, but it might be a good idea. Just because, you know, Duane and I's roles changed over the course of a couple of years. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll make a motion to accept Michelle's resignation from the rec committee. One second. Any more discussion? Okay. I'll say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thanks so much. Hey, Pat. Hi, John. What do you think of the sidewalk out there? Looks beautiful. Right. Can you get a dump at Martin on that? Oh. Dipped up and dumped. By the tree? Yeah. Unless you know what happened there. I don't know. I just know it's after night. Yeah. Nobody's calling me. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just know it's after night. Yeah. Nobody's calling me. Yeah. Tom and I were discussing it earlier. And I guess he saw Eric housed. And Eric thought somebody was doing some work in Norfolk. But he was, you know, he thought that might be. And so he was going to check into it. The vehicle or the brick? I guess or a piece of equipment. Whatever. So you're making the corners? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And before we get started on that, we've got another issue. Our bridge and paddy hands are just here. Yes. And it seems the green line of power is going to move to the pole. And it's going to be moved where there's a large red maple in the nest. Okay. I can't recall the truth. Yeah. But originally they were led to leave the Green Mountain Power to be replaced with a tree. And they even got an estimate. And now Green Mountain Power comes back and says, Oh no, it's the town's responsibility. I don't even remember to talk of this. Whatever the Green Mountain Power is a year and a half. There were a couple of trees that needed to get trimmed. Or cut or reduce in size. And I would probably glue it in the poles in the search for the wires. Right. So I will have to take a look out there and see what they're talking about. Okay. Does the Green Mountain Power say anything when we're the other about a glue that is responsible? I've never seen Green Mountain Power replaced trees. I mean by somewhat limited experience coordinating with them projects. I mean they get stuff out of their way for their power lines. That's true. Yeah. But I've never seen them actually plant a tree. I don't know if that's actually in there. Normal process or whether we can talk about it. We forgot to ask. I guess we can get back to them when they were here. They said that they had all the emails. And we didn't ask for them. Apparently the Green Mountain Power was originally speaking to them as if they were going to replace the tree. We didn't ask them to get an estimate. Okay. So at least they were indicating to them earlier or over a year ago that they would do that. Okay. Let's just look. And perhaps the field right changed. It seems to be the same person if you're dealing with it but I think she referred it to her supervisor. Okay. But we'll know more when we get the emails which we do not have. Okay. Well it's not a correct or wrong pattern. Generally speaking, on a project like this, if a tree has to be taken out of work construction, it generally is replaced by the owner, right? It can actually be replaced by the project, right? Yeah. I mean, it could be inserted in a contract guidance as part of the project. The tree gets removed, the tree gets replaced. I mean, I see that a lot. So then the replacement ends up being, you know, the catalyst or cost. Through the construction. Yeah. John, are you able to evaluate whether that tree would survive severe pruning? I could certainly take a look at it. I mean, there is one somewhere along the line that I can't remember if it's there. There's a tree that probably doesn't look that healthy. I do remember that, yeah. I think that was taken down. Okay. Could be. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was. So the satellite was back further. Back further? Yeah. Off-road? Yeah. Which means they're talking about, well it was back further off the road. They thought the lines were going to be going right through us. I don't know. Okay. You know, they seem to feel, you know, empowered that it couldn't be pruned. Okay. Then again, it takes more work to prune it than it does to just cut it down. So they're rolling it. Yeah. Right. I'm sure that's the route they wanted to go. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So you're awaiting some emails. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, a great suggestion earlier was that we make an agreement with the landowners that if something needed to be done with the tree and we're unable to get green mountain power to pay working care of it, then we would. Okay. And that seems logically sound to me because it makes sense to you as well. It does. Okay. It does. Quite often you see in a sidewalk road that one of the things I have to say about the contractor is trees, trees and troughs. Mm-hmm. I'm sure you've seen that along your sidewalks where all of a sudden there's a bunch of new maple trees. Right. The maple trees have been pulling along. So the sidewalk is part of the contractor. Right. It seems like it'll make more sense even if the tree, you know, they're talking about one of the poles this year. It wouldn't make any sense to me to replace the tree until the sidewalk was built because of the several constructions coming that close to it or something that might not survive it. You know, I've seen that we could enter some sort of agreement with them that, you know, when the project does happen, that tree would be replaced. Right. It means it may be a short period and they're going to have a tree going. Right. Right. Right. I think they're just necessarily having something in writing saying they will have a tree. And we need to be more general because we don't know yet if it requires replacement. Right. Right.  Right. Perhaps I'll ask Howard to come and I don't see anything else. Okay. So, is it a whole layer? Yeah. This is how it looks like. Thank you. It was as big as that cloud. That window there. Sure. Okay. So, do you feel that emotion? I don't think that was specific enough to be what you like. Okay. I reckon it's specific. Okay. Where does the couple's name get? Rigor. Rigor. Yeah. Rigor. Rigor? Rigor? Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Rigor. Okay. I don't know their adtime, which... Okay. About 98. Moving on. In regard to the tree that Green Mountain Power sells has to be managed to deal with their moving the power line pull, the town will either prune or run? prune or replace the tree in co-ordination with the sidewalk project and pursue recompense from green mountain power in accordance with their original statements that they would replace the tree. Can you read that back just to show that's not green enough yet. In regard to the tree, Green Mountain Power says it needs to be moved or managed. The town will either prune or replace the tree in accordance with Green Mountain Power's original agreement. Is that an accordance with the Green Mountain Power agreement because that would be in accordance with Green Mountain Power's original statements to the NCC. Any other changes? No? I'll second that. Okay. Any more discussion? Okay. Alright, moving on to the engineer. So I should have a resident engineer for this project. Okay. Further request to the town, the town has decided to procure the resident engineering services, i.e. the construction inspector, through the after-ready process which is a stream-like process that VTrans has created to illuminate the need to wish you a formal RFP and have the whole world submit proposals for doing the resident engineering services. So a selection committee consisting of John Hokey, Roby, Jason, Moranowicz, and I went through the qualification statements of the six pre-qualified firm statewide for conducting resident engineering work on state-funded local transportation projects. We actually did an arrow down to five because one of the firms is pre-qualified as mine, and I cannot be a resident engineer, unfortunately because the federal government re-translocated that as a conflict of interest. So we end up studying the qualification statements of the five remaining firms on the re-transferring qualified list. And further procedures online in the after-ready selection process, we then narrowed it down to the three, what we consider to be the top three most appropriate firms. And we did make a primary selection. It's not finally yet because there's some stipulations that the committee wants in the request for proposals or who gets put out of the project. We're looking for the on-site resident engineer to have at least eight years' work experience in construction inspection. So the town is concerned that we do not end up with an inexperienced construction inspector. We will perhaps understand certain situations to come up. So I haven't run across that before in the selection of the resident engineer, so I have reached out to the v-trans municipal assistance bureau, Project Silverizer, with whom we're dealing as Chris Hunt. We met last Thursday. I reached out to Chris Hunt Friday forgetting that it was been into the battle day, so it wasn't in that day. And then I did turn the reason both by phone and email today, asking if it's okay to put that eight-year minimum experience stipulation in the requirements for the resident engineer, but I've not heard back from him yet. So I do not have a formal answer, and I know it's appropriate to bring up the name of them. When we consider the most qualified firm at this point, I would wish to wait till we... Alright, I don't see why we're good. Alright, well the three firms that we determined to be the three would be the best fit were John Turner Consulting, Greenland Peachtons Cooperated, and Donna Hamlin, Inc. And the firm that received the highest score from the committee was Donna Hamlin, Inc. of mass execution. So that is the firm that we are preferring to work with for the resident engineer. So that's where we are. The selection of the art is many questions from the board. Unfortunately, I can't ask for my people to vote on the selection yet because we haven't got the answer to that. That's an important question we have about the minimum number of years of experience, otherwise I can't put forth the recommendation to the board yet. And if Chris Hunt does not allow that, then we want to ask at least for information about the individual people we would get. Yes, we can do that. Okay, I think we can certainly ask... I'll find out, Chris, how far deep we can get into asking the degree of experience that Hamlin has in mind from the person. I have not reached out to Hamlin yet, obviously, so I have no idea what's coming down the plan. So if he says no, then the committee needs to reconvene and decide what to do, come forth with them anyway, or decide to put out an RFP, but I guess we'll decide what the delayer was before that wasn't getting the answer from Chris. Are we able to reconvene by telephone if that happens? I would say so, but I have no problem with conducting a teleconference. No, I would not feel comfortable. No? Okay. Jason had one of the concerns, and I'm sure you're aware of this, is the fact that RFP is based a lot on the price. There's an allow that. So, there is no... Well, how do you work on track without a price? Well, here's how it works, Ray, under the after-ready process. Okay, we don't have to put out an RFP. We don't have to request for qualifications because there are six firms that would request that. So then, if we're able to go through with the firm we want to engage, I then have to write a request for a cost proposal. I see. Okay, so a scope of service. So there's an after-ready RFP for scope of work and cost. So we won't know what the cost will be until I send out that RFP and then respond to the cost proposal. Isn't there a limit to the contract value based on the value of the project, like a certain percentage? I know on some of the other projects, silver projects, there's a limit to the engineers on how much they can charge based on the cost. There's actually no limit to what they can charge. Now, a weekend have a target cost. I meant to look this up before I came here tonight, but generally speaking a rough estimate for an appropriate resident engineering contract is 8 to 12 percent or sometimes 8 to 15 percent, depending on how complicated the project is, of the value of the construction work. Now, if I recall right after the sewer line, but the storm sewer line got added to this sidewalk project, I seem to remember that the job is not worth like $530,000 or something like that. It's over half a million, so we were about $200,000 an hour with the drainage being added to the work over half a million. So if we call it a half a million dollar project, what might be appropriate for a resident engineering project would be about a $50,000 contract. Now, if our first choice comes in with like a $75,000 proposal, we can say sorry. We're not going to work with you because you're not within our acceptable guidelines or budget. And then we go to the second choice and ask for a cost proposal from now. And hopefully we get a more reasonable price for the second proposal if we can't work out our differences with the contracts. So you actually have to solicit the formal cost proposals already from the engineering firm. It's not my favorite video, but it's a process. Luke, can you just send an RFP to like the top three that the committee has selected and ask for a price from the top three? No, you're one at a time. You have to go through the process one at a time. Which is actually the same procedure you followed when you selected me. You didn't do it through an open RFP, but you scored my company's qualifications as the highest. And then you opened my cost proposal. I guess my cost proposal must have been within your budget. One of the RFP processes each firm and it's open so anybody can submit proposals. You asked for both the stay of the qualifications and the cost proposal. And what you're supposed to do is open the state of the qualifications first, score all of the firms that submit statements of qualifications. And then you do the same thing where you start with that. You open up the cost proposal of the top three that come. You already have all the cost proposals. They're supposed to remain sealed until you're in a qualification stage. So you open up the cost proposal to the highest rank firm. In the case of the local project manager with me. And then if my price is too high you can try to negotiate with me. You did it so I wasn't following within your budget guidelines. So under this process you actually have to one by one ask for those cost proposals. Now that is what you know. You were supposed to, we were doing this at the same time, right? Yeah. I can certainly run that question by Chris. If we can just throw our cost proposals to all three. I was thinking subscription as well. It doesn't sound right. I don't think so. I mean specifically it says you choose three but require or request the RFP from one. Your top choice. It's supposed to be made based on qualification. Never mind if they've already worked out that yes all these people are qualified. And none of the firms are not qualified. I mean there's six solid firms that are all qualified to do the work. So it's kind of ironic you can't score each one anyway. So any other questions from the board? No I guess just let us know when you know anything. I will send emails to you two guys when I get a response from Chris to my question. And they sent me a copy of Humanity email and I sent to Chris. I'll double check and then make sure I did. Neglected to leave me through all those calls. Is it really explicit that an answer to that question is yes then we go ahead. If Chris says yes it's perfectly okay that one of the firms that couldn't experience RE in the field then I will blast work and put out the RFP for the cost reports. Yeah let's hope that happens. Otherwise yes it's going to slow down the process. We all have three. So I just want to have it on record and I told Tom that I'm not going to vote or participate in any decision on selection of the resident engineer because of a possible conflict the company that works for it's own work. Just like I have that in the minutes please. You're probably well familiar with all the firms there right because you probably have to stand over your trenches. Yeah everyone over there. A couple of items I figured that if you want to hear a couple of updates here people probably wondering what's going on with the designs and all of that. Two items. There's a proposed permit and easement agreement for the drainage lines from across the fire station property. It's been drawn up to standard easement agreement. There's nothing crazy about it. It should be ready to be signed. The last I heard from Chris is about three weeks ago that he needed to run the easement agreement by District 5. Retrans District 5 to make sure they had no issues with it. I haven't seen anything in District 5 so I'm going to have to jump out of order and find out where that is. Whether Chris is here back in District 5. It's a tough time to be here with a lot of locations and stuff. And as far as the drawings. About three weeks ago Retrans sent what's supposed to be the final drawings for the project. About three weeks ago Retrans sent its comments on the final drawings. Back to Doug Henson and Lionel Dickinson. I have not seen Doug's response or updated drawings incorporating comments in our directions. Once that final set of drawings has been reviewed by Retrans and been approved. We would be ready for the project out to bid. Of course we also need that final easement agreement. Where's the fire station signed? What's that signed and what's the contract drawings and bid documents have been approved? We're going to jot it out to bid. And so I'm shooting for a lot of them this year. I think the town would prefer to still go out this year to bid, right? You don't want to bully it. Got it. So I will also update everybody on that. We'll find out from Doug where he is in the process of responding to Retrans' comments. And I'll also find out from Chris and or District 5 where they are as they review that easement agreement. So what are the fire stations we end up going across? I believe it's the north side. Yes, yes, yes. There's a cast station over there. We're going to exit from that towards the river. Okay. All right, great. If you'd like to stick around for the discussion on the tree, you're welcome to. Okay, I can stick around for that because I'll get to follow that. All right, we get to meet Rachel. Hi, Rachel. Why don't you hold a chair? Hi, Rachel. Nice to meet you. Is Jason around with us? Very pleased to meet you. And, uh, I'm Ray. And this is Pat Travis. Hi, we had some photos. Yeah. So, um, I actually have had a call into, um, three words and, um, they're going to be coming out on Friday again to meet with me to do an assessment of the health of the tree. And, um, have you had any other thoughts? Um, no, I don't really understand your, where you're coming from with doing it now so that the town doesn't have to do it later on. Okay, well, that's why I'm having come out to this, that's different.  If you were to say something like that, then it would be advantageous to take it down sooner rather than later because then the town wouldn't have to or you wouldn't have to at some point in the future. How do you feel about the risk of that really large tree there? Um, I have had large branches fall in the house last winter, so that's a little bit concerning. I haven't been too concerned up until that point, but now I'm a little more worried about it. So how do you weigh having a tree compared to not having the risk of having things falling out? I would go on the side of safety. Okay, so you would rather have the tree removed? Yeah, I think so. Well, I mean, if that's how you feel, I mean, I'm going to move now. If I can have a lever if that tree is even addressed in a kind of drug to artist. I don't think so. Yeah, I think it's just, you know, I think there's no mention of it. We're just reserved. I think they only came back and said that they wanted to take the tree down. They didn't say they wanted it down. According to Doug Hanson, it's my quality, he says, in terms of that. As a matter of fact, on the contrary, if you remember several years ago, they said it didn't have to come down because there was no record of any accident there. So it wasn't a safety issue. I'm just going to have to be sure it wasn't happening. Yeah, sorry. And so anyway, and I hope it's like that tree, it is an icon of Doug Hanson. Yeah, I mean, if they come up on Friday and they say that it's a perfectly good health, they will never say there's nothing to do with it. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a good idea. They will never say there's nothing to do with it. Yeah. Yeah, I think you still meet with them. Yeah. Right. Any other, do by chance know who did that with the sidewalk? No idea. I was actually going to ask you. We're still trying to find out. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. I figured that it was part of this whole... No, isn't that so? It's ironic because, you know, if there are any danger of the roots coming up through the news of my block, we'd be able to tell now. Oh, wow. So it's just ironic. That's so strange. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she's supposed to be back for work one morning and I didn't notice it. And then I came home that day and it was like that. My boyfriend looks from the house there and I asked him if he heard anything. He said no. Is that right? Well, I'll be the owner. Yeah. But rumor has it that somebody was bringing a piece of equipment over to Northfield to do a job or something like that and they hit it. I'm still trying to find out. So strange. It wasn't us. It wasn't us. It wasn't us. Hit the run. I'm sorry. Get the snack. It's done. Yeah. We'll see what you guys have to say. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. I'll follow up. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll follow up on the items and I promise. Okay. Take care. Thank you. Thank you. You already know what you're trying to do. Tom would have us out by now. What's that? Tom would have us out by now. Yeah. Right. Okay. Take care of that. He's talking about trees. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I can't expect anything wrong with that. Reporting communication. We've got a letter from Eric Tipperude. Hi Sasha. I am interested in continuing a serve on the DRV. Could you please arrange a select word that we're reappointed? Thank you very much. Make that motion. Except me. Any discussion on that? There has been an issue. I've been reading about that, right? Yeah. I just read John Riley's textbooks. Yeah. I don't know what to think about it. As far as I'm concerned, a good job. And it just seems like a neighbor thing. And if there isn't anything actually to complain about, we're here to listen to it. Right. And I've never heard anything yet. Yeah. He said he thinks he should be reappointed. As chairman, I respect that. Yep. And he writes that he expects that if Cusil was necessary, he would do so. And if not, I imagine we'd hear about it. Right. Okay. And all in favor? Aye. We're running out of time. Aye. Okay. Perfect. And here is an email from Dwayne Pearson. And let's see. Where's this little start, Sasha? Michelle. Yes. Okay. He's got two kids that are in the school. Yeah. Yeah. Chuck would be great. Yeah. Okay. I'll make that motion. What's that? Any discussion? Great. All in favor of Chuck Burt replacing Michelle on the direct committee? Say aye. Aye. Okay. Okay. Okay. So is he still doing the little website at 19 or? As he said, anything about how much longer do we need to do that? No. Okay. Okay. Everything is moving again, so are we looking for some other, is that a plan to see it? I'm asking, we're not to that. Oh, thank you. Yeah. In terms of the email from John, we're a radius of The email from John, you said that you took a look at that. Anybody else have a chance to look at that? All right, that's next. All right then. We've got more time at elementary school. Sasha, can you tell us a little bit about that? It's from a while ago, and it was requested on John to compose a letter. Ah, okay, yeah, yeah. And I think there were some suggested revisions at some point. So this is his next draft. Okay, do you want to take a few minutes to read this? I did a bit well. I don't know if without the full board you want to do this. I don't know what to call it. I think that would make sense. It's a pretty important letter. Do you want to know if Tom has this letter? I think I forwarded it to him, but I'm not sure. But you didn't hear it from that? No. I would think that Tom and Ron have communicated. I think it's important to get this letter out because this is our last meeting before school starts. I think it's important to get this letter out. I didn't know this one would be the third bullet. I think there's too many halves. That works for me. There's one phrase that I don't understand in the second bullet where it says placing dots. Is that something everybody knows? Except for me? Oh, good question. Which one's that? Second bullet point right here, placing dots. I don't know what that means. My scenario starts from there. They placed dots. They had all these different scenarios. And they chose their top ones. Whichever one's got the most dots are the ones that were chosen. So this is something that during the meeting? Yes. Isn't that right, Katie? You talked about the scenarios. The outreach, yes. They go on and they whoever has the most dots, they keep those ones to scroll the other ones. And then the next time they go off, they do the next meeting. They do the thing over again to slant down their odds. So they won't go with it. Thank you. All right, excellent. So I'll make the motion that this letter be sent out to the chair, Caitlin Hollister of the HUSD board. Okay. Any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay. Yeah, read it. Yeah. So you have that one.  Well, Tom. Yeah. I'm okay with the one being the sign of it. Correct. You think it's a statement that carries any more word than we all signed it? I think the more things that the whole world signs, I agree. I know it might be difficult. We don't have to wait until the next meeting. Oh yeah, we can just come in. Okay. I'll send everybody an email when it's done. Yeah. Any other reports? Okay. Okay. I forgot nothing. I forgot to tell the road crew about taking down bleachers. Okay. Okay. Okay. Just be here. Thank you. We're talking a little business. Yeah, I guess we're talking a little business now. We're going to be getting it on the town hall. No response. And we need to know who we should put on the contract for contact with the person to put some events coming up. Are you able to do that? We need to know the person if they want to stop here and pick it up. Yeah. Just manage access and can we simply hire a cleaning service? The inspection will create my home. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so. In the past there was she would go in after the event and just check it and do a sweep through or whatever we needed to be done. Was there some sort of a form that she has to make something up? Yeah. We're going to leave it in the same condition. We're going to take a shot at that. How many events you got coming up? So we don't have any agreements from people who used it in the past? I think there's something in the contract. People also like to know how they get their deposit back. Exactly. That's all. Anything else on any of these other items? Anything else? Let's do that. Let's go back to the minutes. I remember something that you said. I thought you needed a little clarification. I don't recall that you said that he's taking action as a DRP, but just let the letter claim that. No. I think I questioned whether it was personal. But I don't believe I said that. Is that how I read it in the recording? I don't have to recall that. Yeah, it becomes true. Right. No, I know I'm going to say that. The way I remember is that I questioned whether it was a personal thing. Or I believe is why we wanted it forward to John Riley. Now that was more, you should know about this, not that we had the impression that he was acting as a member of DRP. Right. But it's quoting you. Yeah, right. I would just, I don't see any reason why we just, it's not a select board issue and would like the letter forwarded to John Riley. Okay, I love your lecture. So if you make a motion to approve, then it's based on that. No. I make a motion to approve the minutes as amended. More discussion on that? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. All right. So I've just done any new business. It's not until October 2nd. Unless anybody knows right now, they want to be the voting delegate. I'll step up a little bit. I'll hold on to this. Is this something else? Okay. Okay, we're missing 2019 brand list. We have owner's name Michael McCarty change value from 0 to 113,200. Reason failed to enter acreage change into grand list. That little bit of information doesn't make a whole lot of sense. No, it doesn't. Okay, please. I heard of his land and the dwelling and he had like 30 something acres plastic and only a couple acres went with the house. So it should have just been split. Everything went to the new buyer. Oh. So we never got a tax built to him. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. All right. And then the next one is Carol Wheeler change value from 318,300 to 218,600 and didn't correct acreage into grand list. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. So to those to zero change. So no, no, no, they don't. Okay. So if this is stuff that was incorrect. They assigned to this property, the amount this should go up should be not this one down, right? What's up? No, it's saying. Okay. Well, let's kick that one back. Okay. Is that okay? Okay. Okay. So he sold some of his property to somebody else to separately is greater than a value. It does make some sense. Yeah. Yes. Right.  All right. Michael Michael. Sorry. Yeah. The total value went up $13,000 reasonable. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. But I don't need to fix this. You know, the total value went up $13,000 reasonable, right? Right. Okay. Right. I'm confused by the first page here. Yeah. This never happens. Okay. So, what is this infelix amount may for this? This is a copy to usually sent in. Okay. And this is what should have been dated from January 1st to July 1st after a year. She just already gave this amount. And then that was the date between there. So she was just highlighting that to show that. And then she just gave... What about these two? That isn't included in it. She just highlighted what... This is an actual... This is back from May. Okay, so this will show up sometime? No, she's only been to these. It's just that she was being paid the difference. Oh, okay. So that's where you paid. This is also where you paid. Yep. Okay. Sorry, I did pick this stuff. That was the third one. Anyhow, we're on time. We're on time. One minute early. 7.29. Good work.


How's it going everyone Caleb here with the late in sports cards next time you've got 2022 tops archive six series baseball retired edition break Number seven random hit style. Thanks again so much for joining. I do really appreciate it Got all the names here typed into the random already guys and remember the way that this does work We do open up all the cards first here show you all the hits will type them out as we go and then afterwards we'll do a random with your names and And the hits and you'll be matched up with one of the hits with each spot purchased So good luck and thanks for joining number seven number seven here we go my most poor dumb so far We actually made a decent recovery It could have been a lot worse actually But it was one of my more poor dumb so far. I will say that here we go Good luck Yes So Sean will be typing those in as we go see what we can find starting out Ken Griffey senior number here to 88 On the Ken Griffey senior auto Andrew Jones auto four of six Very cool on the card choice there Andrew Jones four of six. It's gonna be Cecil fielder 14 of 31 Cecil we got a one of one On a game use patch card That's what this was and then he autographed it as well. So now it's a patch auto with a With a buyback auto one of one Dustin Pedroia Very interesting there very very interesting. There he is Paula duke a number to 97 67 of 97 Go that is sick Cal Ripken one of one Very nice. Good luck One of one Cal That's awesome Good luck on that That's nice Next up here. We have Howard Johnson auto 19 of 20 Howard Johnson the Allen and Ginter 7 of 33 erick ganye auto 7 of 33 80 of 97 Shannon Stewart autograph 2000 tops Shannon Stewart Jason Kendall autograph to 34 24 of 34 Jason Kendall autograph and Guys like I said, we got to keep moving those spots on the next one Break number 8 16 to go. It's up next tonight archive 6 series. Check it out random hit style Let's get that going for you right after this guys Breaks next tonight Okay, here we go. Let's continue on 28 of 40 on the insert here. It's gonna be a Maglio Ortonia's nice Maglio Yeah, 28 of 40 pretty cool choice there on the card as well Maglio Ortonia's Believe it when I saw his name again It's gonna be numbered 12 of 38 Justin Morneau auto Appreciate the follow there 12 of 38 Justin Morneau Autograph wait box Awesome card there Very nice wait box Beautiful there one of one you can check out the break schedule link right here I just dropped it for you in the chat. Those are all updated to your time zone Feel free to give that a look Here we go next one up Very cool wait box. Good luck on that one. It's gonna be a one-of-one mini Eddie Murray There you go one of one a Murray mini nice auto definitely a monster It's gonna be numbered 33 of 34 autograph Garrett Anderson Garrett Anderson 33 of 34 One autograph rookie cup card Raphael for call Very cool. Nice one on the rookie cup card Very nice Raphael for call. There you go Good luck Jose can say go five of nine on the auto Jose can say go stadium club autograph Five of nine you to go There he is Phil Hughes autograph 23 of 59 There he is Phil Hughes 23 of 59 One-of-one autograph Larry Walker On the tops high-tech Sick card there nice one-of-one we had it can say go earlier Nice one-of-one And last one here. It's gonna be a Brooks Robinson autograph numbered 18 of 18 Brooks Robinson autograph All right guys that does it there for the cards. I'm gonna get the random setup for you here Remember, this is random hit styles. Now you will get one of these 20 hits Randomly out to you. Let's do that with the random right now. Good luck Okay, so these are all the participants. Thanks again for joining 20 spots and here are the hits good luck Let's roll that dice It's gonna be 11 times on each random one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven We got AJB down to Kevin D And 11 here on the hits. Let's do it. Good luck Got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Eleven Jose can say go five of nine down to Eric Gagnier Okay, number seven read off these results guys. All right AJB Jose can say go five of nine Justin R. Brooks Robinson 18 of 18 Jesse K. Jason Kendall you to see Cecil Fielder Jeffery S. Howard Johnson Justin R. The Cal Ripken one of one Wang S. Raphael for call one of one Daniel W. The Shannon Sharpe to 90 or excuse me Shannon Stewart to 97 Jared G. Ken Griffey senior Mike W. Phil Hughes Christopher W. Magna Ordonez Eddie Murray one of one for Brett E Anthony M. Just a more no to 38 Brett E. One of one Padroia Matt T. Wade Boggs one of one AJB Garrett Anderson to 34 Mark H. Andrew Jones to six James E. One of one Larry Walker Ryan V. Paula Duke to 97 and Kevin D. Eric Gagnier to 33. Thank you all and good luck on the next one


Thank you for your interest in NCSSM's Open Enrollment Program. I am Camilla Breathers, the Outreach and Partnership Manager. This recording captures the information shared during the webinars hosted the week of November 16, 2020. During this session, we will share information about NCSSM's Distance Education Open Enrollment Program. Under that umbrella, we'll discuss the STEM Scholars Program and provide information about next steps. Most people know the School of Science and Mathematics for being the nation's first public residential high school focused on STEM concepts. Since then, we have grown. We now have the residential program, online program, summer programs, and the Open Enrollment Program. Today, we will primarily be focused on the Open Enrollment Program. The online program, like the residential program, has an application process. Students apply to participate in the program during their sophomore year. If accepted, students participate in the online program during their junior and senior years of high school. Additionally, all courses are asynchronous, meaning the class does not meet or happen at the same time each day. These courses may be considered self-paced. The Open Enrollment Program does not have an application process. However, many of the courses do have prerequisites. The majority of the Open Enrollment courses are synchronous. Meeting the courses do occur at a specific time and students are expected to be at each class session as scheduled. However, we do have two asynchronous courses scheduled for this spring semester. They are AP Macro Economics and Honors Forensic Science. We will look at the full course catalog in a few moments. Now, let's watch a video to tell us a little more about the Open Enrollment Program. Stand by. Coming to you in three, two... Hello everybody and welcome to the Global Public Health and Infectious Disease Show. Hey, good afternoon y'all. How are we doing? Hey, out there in TVland. How are we doing on this fine Wednesday? Good morning Honors Arrow. Welcome to the School of Wizardry. I am Dr. Gary Love. I am your instructor today. And our first lesson today will be a lesson in predicting the future. Welcome to a new way of learning. North Carolina School of Science and Math offers interactive teaching and learning opportunities for students across our state by using technology to nurture and connect young scholars. How do you think I should start up the stove? Zoe said hit the power button. Do you think that too, Preston? One would think. Through our Open Enrollment courses, students get to have this experience from the comfort of their own school in a distance education format that provides more support and connection than a typical online class. We offer a variety of advanced STEM and humanities classes in 70-minute 4x4 blocks throughout the school day. NCSSM accommodates multiple school calendars bringing together diverse learners from the mountains to the coast. Our instructors prioritize building relationships with every student and combine lecture, hands-on learning, problem-solving challenges, debates, project-based learning, gamification and more to make learning relevant and impactful. Our project here is to have people understand how animals perceive the world in an empathetic way, not a sympathy way, not all those poor polar bears, but no actually this is how it feels to be a polar bear. They also make it a priority to visit every student at their home school. These site visits help to bridge the gap between instructor and student by providing face-to-face opportunities for conversation. Some instructors even broadcast on location from partner schools. Technology advances mean that schools don't have to purchase expensive cameras and software to participate in interactive video conferencing. Students can take part in our open enrollment courses if they have access to a computer, a webcam and the proper software. Using our interactive video conferencing studios and our expertise in STEM education for talented students, we help public schools offer courses in hard-to-staff subject areas. As you see, it's a low to no cost way to support your STEM goals and offer advanced coursework to smaller groups of students. This affords students the opportunity to develop the skills required by business and industry. Let's take a moment to listen as Joshua shares his experience. Throughout high school, I had a difficult time finding courses and topics that I was passionate about. I knew that I loved science and planned to pursue a career, but the advanced courses I was looking to take weren't offered at my local school. As soon as I found out I could be taught courses like genetics and AP Environmental Science in real time with live teachers, I knew I found what I had been looking for. Through my two semesters with NCSSM, I was challenged and supported by excellent teachers. They went the extra mile when it came to ensuring that we understood the course material and showed us that though we weren't physically in the same room, our well-being was paramount. I made friends with other like-minded students from across the state as well. I'm so grateful for the wonderful experience NCSSM's IVC program provided me. Thanks Joshua. I'm going to stop the video here. We will cover the rest of the information during this webinar. We have four state-of-the-art studios on campus used to broadcast our open enrollment courses. However, due to COVID-19, many of our instructors will be broadcasting from a remote location. However, some will still be using the studios. This photo was captured prior to COVID-19. Students have always said how much they truly enjoy being able to see and interact with the other students from across the state. This also allows our instructors to engage and instruct and assess students in real time. That interaction still happens. It just looks a little different because classes are meeting via Zoom. So students can take an open enrollment course from any location with a stable internet connection. Here are a few frequently asked questions. Question one, who is eligible to take an open enrollment course? Well, any student enrolled in a public North Carolina high school is eligible to take a course. Home schoolers can also take our courses if there is a pre-established agreement with the assigned school district. Your assigned school district should be able to provide more information about if this option is available in your area. At this time, the open enrollment program is not able to serve students enrolled in private schools. Question two, how hard are the courses? Well, our courses are honors and AP level courses, so they are rigorous and demanding. However, our instructors are caring and very supportive. They're also trained to meet the individual needs of the students. So you don't have to be an AIG student. You just have to be a student that is willing to learn and try and do their very best. How much time will I need to dedicate to a course? This may differ slightly depending on the course taken. For the most part, students should plan for up to seven hours of engagement per week. And that both includes synchronous and asynchronous activities. For the typical course, students should plan for about one and a half hours of out-of-classwork per week. Well, taking an open enrollment course helped me get admitted to the residential or online programs. The residential and online programs are looking for well-rounded students that have participated in a variety and wide range of STEM related activities. Taking an open enrollment course would not hurt your application status. Here's a list of our open enrollment courses offered this spring semester. Students are not able to self-register for an open enrollment course. If interested in taking a course, the student will need to speak with his or her counselor to see if the school is interested in establishing a partnership with us. If the school is interested in moving forward, the counselor will determine if the course will fit in the student schedule and confirm the prerequisites have been met. Ultimately, the school counselor or another school official will register the student for the course.  We have a few brain games. Listen closely. When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I? If you guessed a secret, you are absolutely correct. Here's our second one. You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on.    The bus is gray and is raining outside. What color is the bus driver's hair? If you said whatever color your own hair is, you are correct. Remember, you are the bus driver. This one is a little harder. What are the next three letters in the following sequence? What letters would fill in the blank? If you said S, O and N, you are absolutely correct. The sequence is the first letters of the months of the year. September, October and November are the next in the sequence. To find the most current information about our courses, visit our webpage. Go to www.ncssm.edu. Go across to four NC schools and go down to and click on Distance Education Courses. On our webpage, you will find all our open enrollment courses listed. When you click on a course title, you'll find more information about the course. You will be able to see the prerequisites, a video about the course, and a course description. There is also helpful information for schools such as other requirements and power. This is one of my favorite courses, Honors Discrete Math for Computer Science. If you are interested in being a computer programmer, software engineer, data scientist, security or financial analyst, this is the course for you. TechArt is one of our newly added highly desired courses. Let's listen to the instructor, Adam Grates, tell us a little more about the course. In this technology in the arts course, you'll learn a little something about all the artistic and technical components that go into the creation of video games. Exploring the history of video games, video game engines, traditional art principles, fundamentals of visual and audio design, and the elements of visual storytelling. You'll start by analyzing the artistic design process and creating original artwork based on your personal interests. You'll also create original sounds, 2D and 3D models, and use elements of AI machine learning to create new art. Each unit will have both technical and creative challenges, mixing synchronous and asynchronous activities. You will be encouraged to explore your personal interests and create something you're passionate about by identifying real world issues that need solving, creating solutions to problems through the design process, and ultimately building the type of virtual world that you want to see for yourself and your future. This course is for anyone who wants to know more about what goes into creating video games, virtual art, and how to create art in 3D spaces. If you are interested in video gaming, this is the course for you. The STEM workforce has grown to over 8.5 million jobs and is set to increase 17% over the next 10 years, compared to just 12% for other employment. These STEM jobs also have the highest starting salary on average than any other career field. The potential for growing minority presence in STEM fields is certainly strong, though research shows the percentage of minority college students desiring to enter STEM fields is similar to that of their white counterparts. However, by their second year of college, more than two-thirds of these underrepresented minority students quit their science focus for a different major. What happens to them? Underrepresented minority students in STEM seem to leave their field due to a weak math or science foundation in their primary education, cultural barriers in the highly competitive, unforgiving college atmosphere, and a lack of diverse pathways to STEM careers. Most underrepresented minority students likely look for a friendlier career path far away from STEM, meaning this enormous pool of potential talent and diversity will be lost if left un-nurtured. When we are referring to underrepresented minority populations in STEM, we are referring to blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Here is a little more data that illustrates the necessity to support our minority students. What does this data tell us about women in STEM careers versus men? Women are also minorities in science and engineering occupations. Now, let's watch a video to tell us a little more about the open enrollment program. What is STEM? STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, but it isn't just those four subjects. STEM includes the cycle and journey of learning, growing, and aiming for success. You know who loves all that stuff? The STEM Scholars at NCSSM. The STEM Scholars program prepares you and gets you excited about the STEM subjects and the journey of learning. As a ninth grader, you can join this one-of-a-kind, cost-free program to develop your foundational skills by participating in awesome elective courses. You'll also have the opportunity to learn from dedicated instructors and you'll come out better prepared for your career choice and life. The STEM Scholars program at NCSSM helps students in all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and math. It helps to better prepare them to be the leaders of our state, our nation, and the globe, and to be the problem solvers of our tomorrow. By the way, my name is Anna, a graduate online student from the NCSSM class of 2020. I'm headed to New York City to attend Columbia University, and I sure wish I could have been a STEM scholar when I was in ninth grade, and it's not too late for you. The STEM Scholars program is a two-year cohort program designed to prepare ninth and tenth grade students for a pathway to STEM careers. Students would take Honors, Computer Science, and Computational Thinking in ninth grade and have a choice of four different courses to take in tenth grade. After completing this sequence of courses, the STEM Scholars graduate will receive special recognition. The instructor for the ninth grade STEM Scholars course, Honors, Computer Science, and Computational Thinking. Let's take a moment to listen to him tell us about this dynamic course. This survey course covering concepts and computational thinking in computer science is well suited to students that are interested in technology and want to get an overview of how computer science is used in different fields. In this hands-on class with multiple projects, students will learn about the principles of computer science by exploring topics like how algorithms shape our world, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and programming languages like Python, HTML, CSS, Scratch, JavaScript, and mathematical modeling. Students will meet mentors, leaders, and historic figures in a wide variety of STEM careers and discuss some of the obstacles they faced. The class is fun and challenging. Students will leave excited about future STEM coursework and possibilities for careers in STEM fields. As a ninth grader, these are the computational thinking practices that will be explored. Next steps. 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So it is almost always easier to draw the number line. And remember, on a number line, the value is the distance from 0, and the sign indicates whether you are to the right or to the left. So let's try to compare the absolute value of negative 5 and negative 5 itself. So the hard way, find the absolute value of negative 5, which is 5, and negative 5 is less than 5, so negative 5 is less than absolute value of negative 5. But let's try to do things the easy way. So we can plot negative 5 on the number line, we can plot the absolute value of negative 5 on the number line, so remember, absolute value only changes the sign, never the magnitude, so the absolute value of negative 5 will be in the same place as 5, and since negative 5 is to the left of the absolute value of negative 5, then negative 5 is less than the absolute value of negative 5. So the reason that this is useful is that we don't even have to know what these numbers are. Suppose x is negative. Well, let's compare the absolute value of x and x itself. So again, we could do this the hard way or the easy way. Actually, why would you want to do it the hard way? Let's do it the easy way. x is negative, so it's to the left of 0. So we'll plot it. Remember that the absolute value of x is the same distance from 0 as x is, but always on the right side of 0. So that means absolute value of x is the same distance from 0, but always on the right. So we'll plot that. And since x is to the left of the absolute value of x, we know that x is less than the absolute value of x. Suppose x is negative. Well, let's compare the absolute value of x and negative x. So we'll do this the easy way. We'll draw the number line. Since we're told that x is negative, we can draw it. We know it's to the left of 0. Now, if we want to say something about negative x, we know that negative x will be positive, so it's going to be to the right of 0. And since the only thing that's changed is a sign, the only thing that's changed is whether we're on the right or the left. We've got to be the same distance away from 0 as x was. Meanwhile, the absolute value of x is the same distance from 0 as x, but always to the right. And the thing to see here is that minus x and the absolute value of x are at the same place, and so they must be equal. Or what if we have x, y, and z, and we're actually showing them on the number line? Let's put a bunch of expressions in order from least to greatest. Now, since we want to do this in the hardest way possible, we'll skip trying to graph the expressions on the number line. Wait, actually the problem doesn't say to do things the hardest way possible. Maybe we don't want to do things the hardest way possible. Since we want to do this the easiest way possible, let's graph these expressions on the number line. We've already plotted or have been given x, y, and z. The absolute value of x is the same distance from 0 as x is, but always to the right. So that's going to be about here. The absolute value of y is the same distance from 0 as y is, but on the right. But since y itself is already on the right, then absolute value of y and y are going to be in the same place. The absolute value of z is the same distance from 0 as z, but to the right. And again, since z is already on the right, it's going to be in the same place as z. And the only complicated one is this, what the absolute value of x minus y. So remember, this is the distance between x and y. That's going to be this amount here. So remember, the value of a number when we plotted on the number line is the distance from 0. So we want something that's this far from 0. And so the absolute value of x minus y is going to be right about here. And remember on the number line, as we go from left to right, our values increase. So reading from left to right, so the left most value is x, that's the least, which is going to be less than the absolute value of y, which is equal to y, which is less than the absolute value of x, which is less than the absolute value of z, which is equal to z. And the right most expression, the largest of these all, is this absolute value of x minus y.


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