Hey guys, it's Nate aka The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. It's one of the biggest Fridays of the year on FIFA and it is Premier League team of the season. It is here today, guys. It's going to be a super exciting day with great cards and packs. Some of the best we will see during the entirety of the season. And of course, probably the sweatiest week in league of the year, starting today with everybody chasing after these team of the season cards in those rewards starting today. So we're going to take a look at that, of course, big content and SBCs and objectives is expected and a lot of movement on the market. So there's a lot to cover today. If you're excited for this big day of FIFA, drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you are new. Let's quickly talk about what happened yesterday, because what happened yesterday kind of prefaces what we're heading into today. We had one SBC yesterday, which was Marquis matchups. But once again, it is that little XP logo at the very top of the SBC. And that means once again that it is tied to an objective to get XP for the TOTS season swaps. And the new objective did drop yesterday, every Thursday, guys, for like the next month, basically, we're going to be getting these TOTS swaps objectives as we move on throughout the season. So we have a new one, right? It's very similar. It's kind of copy paste from the community TOTS season swaps. But again, make sure you check through this one. And it kind of gives us a look forward to what we're going to be seeing later on this next week challenge for SBC. We're going to have a Premier League, Premium League upgrade SBCs. Those are the big time upgrade SBCs we look forward to every single year. We're going to get those on Monday. So we'll talk about that later on this week and how we can prepare for that. But very similar to last time. But of course, make sure you get all those objectives done that you can because I do believe now it is possible to get Kaisado from level 15 or the 15 times 83 plus pack, which would be a really nice pack to be opening today. Now, of course, with yesterday's content as well, we had a loading screen and that's going to start the conversation about today on Friday. This loading screen right here, which we saw the leaks earlier yesterday. We made a video about it. We'll talk through them really quickly again here today. But this gave us some confirmation on some of the insane boost they're going to be giving these cars. First of all, Muhammad Sala five star skill moves. That's crazy that they're giving a five star skill move upgrade to Muhammad Sala. Really excited for that one. He's going to be an expensive car today as a lot of these guys are looking like they might be on the right here. We definitely have Marcus Rashford with the four star weak foot upgrade that he has needed as a second card that's in the game. It'll have a four star weak foot, but it's been needed for sure on this team in season version. And then we have the moments card in the middle. And there's some debate about who this card is. I think this card is clearly one player that was leaked yesterday. And that player is Rafael Varan. But the reason why we're all crazy about this 94 rated French with French player with 90 paces, you take a look at the Varan card that we have in this game right now and for a Tots moments card, which are supposed to not be getting that big of upgrades. This is a huge upgrade for Rafael Varan, 88 rated to 94. They're going to give him plus five paced plus six overall. That's going to be a really cracked looking Tots moments card. Now, why do we believe that's Varan and not another French center back because based off of the leaks that we have seen, Varan is a Tots moments player. So anything could be, of course, changing with this because leaks are not always a hundred percent right. But that is why we believe it's going to be Varan. So that's a crazy card. And just seeing this stat here, 94 rated for Varan. He's a Tots moments card. That's a crazy stat boost, right? So that gives me hope for today that the rest of these team of season cards that are dropping in this game today will be boosted up incredibly high. Now, speaking of these boosts, that's probably the biggest thing for the Tots cards coming in packs today that we're looking forward to seeing how big of the rating boosts are EA going to be putting on these cards. I do believe once again that these these are predicted stats that foot sheriff posted yesterday. If you take a look at a lot of the tweets that he posted, he's saying that stats are a prediction. Do I think Holland's going to be 99? I would love it if he is that be so awesome. But I just don't see EA doing that. I would love to be surprised. But again, that just seems to be kind of too big of a bump in the power curve. And I mean, it's still only May and we have a lot of months of this game left to go. So we will see it's kind of according how whatever EA wants to do today, they're going to do. But I really feel like a lot of these ratings as we look at these predicted cards, I think they're going to be like minus one, minus two, some of them, maybe even minus three from the actual predicted stats that we see here. But so many big names, Otagard, Martinelli, Sokka, Zanchenko, we have like half of the arsenals starting 11, right? Holland, Rashford, De Bruyne, Saliba, right? This is the other card people think might be on the loading screen. But the way that I look at this is, Veran was not in the Tots voting. I think it's clearly Veran on that moments card. And Saliba was in the Tots voting. So he is getting a Tots card. There's no other center backs that are leaked unless that changes. This is going to be a Tots card today along with Ramsdale right there. Moving up the list, we've got Casamiro. I think this one might be one that has a smaller upgrade today. Depending on him on Bruno Gamerash, one gets a bigger upgrade, one gets a smaller one. We'll just have to see. But again, you look through this team. And as we talked about it yesterday, just so many absolutely insane players and insane cards that we are going to be seeing on this game today. Harry Kane gets in. There's the Salah, of course. Might not be 97 rated, but it's going to have five-star skills. Actually, a 97 Salah kind of reminds me of the Mane that we had last year. Not Mane Garencha, but Sadio Mane had a team in the season card last year in FIFA 22 that had a five-star skill move boost. None of his other cards had that. But this card was absolutely insane. It was 96 rated, and he was 3 million coins because he was five-star, four-star, and he had never gotten a five-star upgrade before. So that's what that Salah card reminds me of just a little bit. Trippier is going to be a very usable card today. It's going to be very cheap, as well, in my opinion. And then the Tots moments cards to me still are crazy. The fact that we're getting a Reese James, a Hyunmin Son, somehow getting it in Tots. You could definitely argue not deserved. And then, of course, that Rafael Verón. So it is no secret. The cards we are getting today are looking absolutely insane. And like we said, it does come down for a lot of these guys to some of the boost that they get in terms of the stats, but also for some of the bigger guys, like you're talking Holland and you're talking KTV, will they go above the rating of the team of the year? Will they match the rating of the team of the year? Or will they go below it? We really don't know. That's the biggest question mark for today, the boost on the stats and, of course, the weak foot and the skill moves that we will see today. Now, of course, with all of these insane cards that we see right now in this game, and comparing to the cards that we have right now in the community team this season, we really do believe that these Premier League Tots cards are gonna be pretty expensive guys. I mean, think about guys like the Bernardo Silva and some of these players that have been in the community Tots that really, I mean, they've held pretty high prices throughout this week. We still have a 1.2 million coin Bernardo. We've got a Gabriel Jesus, who is 2.6 million coins right now on this game. It's gonna be tough to pack Premier League Tots today. I know all of us are gonna be going out and trying to do it through player picks, through packs that have been saved. Today is a massive day where we're all trying to pack team of the season cards. It's gonna be tough to pack these guys and I do believe they are going to have some pretty high prices. With that being said, there is a lot of supply and that is gonna be happening in the first 30 minutes to an hour. Very similar to what we saw with these community Tots cards. I do believe there will be some low prices within the first 30 minutes to an hour on this game today with lightning round packs and saved up packs being opened where some of these cards may be buyable in that first kind of hour range for a rise that happens later on. Remember last week, I bought Kingsley Colman and like, I think it was like 490K and he went up to like 600 something.  Alexis Sanchez, like all the cards last week started low and then rebounded up a lot because there was just so much pack supply and then after that, everybody is done opening their packs. They have coins. They wanna go try out brand new Tots cards for the Weekend League that is starting and just like last week, we're gonna have that same kind of fluctuation today. Same sort of, I guess you could say like, not fluctuation, but yes on the market fluctuation but schedule, four foot champions. The Weekend League is gonna start at the same time today, two hours after content. It's the same schedule throughout the entirety of team of the season and of course the rewards that we have are Premier League Tots and AirDivision Tots. Now AirDivision Tots cards, they're going out of packs today. They are leaving the game. They are not gonna be in packs anymore except they will still be in the Weekend League reward. So they will still be available in those but they will not be available in packs unless EA do something kind of snakey today and extend these guys in packs which I don't think is gonna happen. The only Tots cards that will be in packs today will be the Premier League team this season, items, moments and Tots cards that are dropped onto this game. So that's one thing to kind of watch out for and remember, now speaking of more Premier League Tots content, what is our SBC and objective content going to be today? Now last Friday, you probably remember we had Arajo as our day one SBC player. Now the question still looms large, who in the world is gonna be our SBC today? We have a couple of flashback leaks and we're still trying to like think and like just I guess decipher when is that Alan St. Maximum coming?  We have other cards that have been leaked like Metoma and Polina, are those guys gonna be coming as SBCs? Are they going to be in packs as a part of the Tots moments drop today or are those leaks entirely just like now not gonna happen? We don't know. In my opinion, I feel like it might be a flashback Friday today with Kai Havertz. We had this SBC leaked first a couple of days ago. I feel like he might be our SBC today unless it's gonna be ASM. Guys, it's honestly up in the air and this is the biggest thing for me today that could move a lot of prices on the market. If we get a Kai Havertz, if he's got a really good looking card, if it's a cheap price, he's got really good links with a lot of Chelsea special cards that are in this game. Maybe not so many that are in team this season besides Reese James, but you've got a lot of guys like Mudrick and Zofranandez as we go full screen there that was not supposed to happen. But you've got plenty of guys that are in the game that have special cards that are Chelsea that would be just perfect for people to put this card into their teams, especially with the Premier League links that are gonna be very hyped this weekend. So I think I would watch Premier League attackers today if Havertz does drop, he'd have to get a massive boost and potentially five star skills to be such a really, really insane SBC. But we'll have to see, right? If it's La Porte that gets dropped today because that's another SBC that we have leaked, then you would wanna watch out for center backs because those would drop in price. But if we're talking about the market in terms of SBCs today, if the SBC player is very, very hyped, and of course, very, very, I guess you could say, and I'll card that a lot of people wanna get out and go and do right away, I would be careful with your other cards in this game that are not Premier League. I do feel like other players, whether it's Community Tots cards or other players from other leagues could see a hit in price today and could actually drop off a little bit because people are gonna really focus on the Premier League team building today with those Tots cards, with the SBC and maybe the objective players as well. Now, speaking of objectives, another thing that might hold some demand into Premier League squad building is a cup mode. And I do believe this cup, Air Debussy is expiring today and I believe the new one, this came out last week on Friday. So we might have a Tots Premier League cup today potentially, or maybe EA would delay that until Sunday when we probably have the EFL Tots cards in packs. But if there is a Premier League cup today, watch very closely because that could potentially mean there's more demand for Premier League cards for objectives as well. And speaking of objectives, we do know that the objective player that is leaked, it is going to be the Ali Watkins card. He is leaked to be our objective player. Also almost forgot, and Ali Sun is somehow supposed to be a part of Tots whether it's in the team, whether it's a moments card or an SBC objective, that's where the unknown is today. SBC and objectives and what in the world's going on with some of these moments cards like ASM and Allison like this one. But Ali Watkins and objectives, and then the SBC is all up in our arms, all up in the air today for potentially what it could be in the content drop today. Now also today, content-wise, I think there's gonna be some new stuff in the moments store. So watch out for that because I do believe it even said here in objectives are gonna be new Premier League associated things in the moments store there. So yeah, it's a really big day for the market as well. Like we mentioned, and I've got a lot of my coins liquid. I am doing a couple of quick flip trades at the moment. You see I bought a Rubid Diaz, I bought a couple of Brutal Gamerash because I do feel like for some of these cards that are getting team of the seasons, their new cards might just be so expensive that the ones that are older, but also still very meta are going to be in demand as people go and buy teams for Weekend League. And you might see guys like this Brutal Gamerash who's actually up about 20,000 coins from where he was, go up further in price today. That is a potential thing that could happen. But if you're looking to buy players for your team today, what I would wait to do is wait until the content drop, see what we get. And then of course, if it's a player that you're trying to buy that's in packs, even a Golden Boppy like this, he's probably gonna drop a little bit at least for the first 15, 20, 30 minutes as everybody is opening their packs today. It'll be a mad rush to open packs today right at content time. I would also believe that the servers are gonna go down today. So if I have any advice for you, it would be get on FIFA as early as you can, make sure the game is open and try to not exit the game during that first 30 minutes because with the big server outages yesterday, there's probably gonna be server outages today. I think the servers on Community Tots last Friday went down for like five minutes or something like that. I would imagine there's gonna be server troubles again today on this game. But if you're looking to buy players for your team, that first kind of like 30 minutes should give us kind of an idea of how the market's gonna react throughout the day and especially if it's a really meta card. Again, like we said, there will be coins put onto the market today. I would just be careful with cards that are not Premier League, but a lot of the cards on the market today should start rising up later as people go and buy teams for Weekend League. If you guys remember last week and we had a huge kind of like, I guess you could call it like rise in price and prices like exploded for a couple of hours after content because we were riding up to that new Weekend League start time where everybody was buying teams for the team of the season Weekend League for Community Tots. There's gonna be a lot of buying today on this game as well for Premier League team of the season. So just keep an eye out for that. That could be a really good time to sell cards about two, three, four hours after content. You could see some really big price spikes then as there's all the demand kind of coming to a point as people start playing their Weekend League games. And also like I mentioned as well, watch in the first 30 minutes or so for these Tots cards because they might start out really, really cheap like these guys did this last week in Community. I do believe these guys though are gonna be very expensive. We're talking cards, multiple cards over a million coins and unless EA dropped the pack way super-duper low or something crazy, the Premier League Tots today are gonna be pretty expensive. Now what else can we be seeing today? You guys are gonna be opening all these Saved Up packs trying to pack blues and there's gonna be SBCs for us to rinse into, right? Well, of course we did talk about the potential for a flashback or ASM but there is an SBC refreshing today. I kind of forgot about this one because I did it right away when it came out but the 88 plus FIFA World Cup foot fantasy or trophy Titans, Hero Player Pick is refreshing today. So we'll be able to do that SBC again, 84, 86 rated squads. You need 285 as a part of it. So if you're opening packs today this is also a player pick you could do. Just remember last time we did this the weight was absolutely terrible. So just be very careful with that one there. If you're gonna rinse into it again, you know the risk the weight was terrible last time maybe it's a little bit better this time around but it is pretty cheap nonetheless. If you're opening any upgrade packs today any Saved Ones maybe you're gonna have some fodder to get that done and that's kind of it. Maybe a player the month SBC today for La Liga. I mean, I could expect to see something around those lines as well but it's just gonna be a massive day on this game and really just talking about the hype all the hype today is gonna be in the store with the packs for the first 15, 20, 30 minutes maybe even an hour. And then after that it's gonna go crazy. Speaking of packs really quickly we have some massive store packs that have been added to the code as well and they're just, they were just modified. The pack code was just modified here but look at some of these packs. Tot's Elite pack contains 100 gold rare players 81 and above for all of them. 386 pluses and 188 plus. And you know guys, I feel like EA might be doing something along the lines in that Tot's Cup with a Premier League requirement because if you look in here there are a lot of kind of like Tot's player pick loans and some of them are Premier League specific. If you look on this next page you've got a Tot's Premium pack but then Tot's Foundations pack and a Premier League Tot's Essentials you get four Premier League Tot's or moments on a loan, player pick for two players, loans for seven games. That's four player picks for Premier League team this season players. That's kind of insane. So GG's for that pack right there. It's also got 10 rare golds, 184 plus. Tot's Foundations pack, 30 gold rare players, 286 and above and you've got some max overall rating for some player picks. I do believe all of these packs are untradable but again, as we saw this last weekend during Community Tot's there's going to be a lot of lightning rounds. They're probably going to drop all of the second half jumbo, whatever, try out, whatever packs. There's going to be just gobs of packs in the store today. It's going to be everybody opening packs to try to pack Team of the Seasons. Now the pack weight, again, I'll tell you this. I mean, look at some of these packs that may get rid of these, right? A second half Rare Players pack, Team of the Season player right now, 8.1%. That includes the Air Divisy and the Community and the Team of the Seasons moments 2.0%. I would have to imagine that that percentage is going to be going lower today. Although we're all trying to pack Team of the Seasons Blues where some of you guys that are going to be opening tradable and untradable packs, one thing we talked about earlier in the stream yesterday was maybe it's worth it to save your untradable packs until Monday when we get the actual SBCs that you could then trade and craft and do the no man left behind method where if you have duplicates you put those duplicates into an upgrade SBC like this 81 plus player pick, which we know this week we're going to be getting a Premier League specific upgrade pack. So that could be the play there. Also, if you wanted to wait to open your packs till an optimal time, we do believe we're going to get EFL Team of the Season on Sunday or Monday sometime during the weekend, but that's why the Air Divisy cards are in rewards once again, because they are, you know, they're ending in packs today, but weakening starts today. So if EA is not dropping another set of Tots cards from a secondary league in packs, that would be the reason why they're not in rewards. So it's probably just going to be Prem Tots today, which will decrease the percentage chance of us being able to pack Team of the Season anyway.  We're going to be live streaming at all. We're reacting to the content, making coins, playing games, and hopefully packing some Team of the Season today on Twitch. That link's going to be down below in the description. So check us out. There will be live a couple of hours before content or so. And yeah, if you enjoyed this video today for hype for Prem Tots, hit the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you are new. It's Benin for the Count and see you guys on stream today. Peace out.


My name is Lieutenant Junior Gray Jason Heinen. I'm RPSN Joshua Sunderman. My name is IT2 Andrea Pinocchimenez. I'm CTN1 Reti Young, I'm from Sacramento, California. And the reason I serve is to further my education and career while still giving back to my country. My family has a long line of military history. I felt it was my time to pay my dues and create something better for myself. Because I wanted to carry on a proud family tradition of service in our courses in this country. Both my grandfathers were in the Army and my uncle and father were in the Navy in Air Force. To accomplish my personal goal I obtained my bachelor's degree. I served to provide for my wife Lydia and two sons Riley and Riley.


I don't know what to make of this. This isn't some made up scary story meant to make people go and scoop out the inside of their wrists with a spoon. At worst it's just some virus on my laptop that I'm gonna have to fix up later. The only thing that worried me about it was how it messed with my games. See, I've gotten ZSNES, like any sensible person, and recently started playing Super Mario World on it. I was playing on it, say about, maybe a week ago. Nothing unusual, there wasn't some weird mind-fuck demon having their period on my computer screen, or anything like that. The usual Nordic security alert on the bottom right of my screen. Just for shits and giggles, I clicked on it, as I usually do, it isn't some divine action wrought by God, and saw that some weird bug was on my computer. In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised that I weren't finally got its way into my computer. Between you and I, buying games doesn't exactly make me any richer. So I simply go and get what games I want via other means. Bottom line, I have all of Valve's games without having paid anything. Anyway a couple clicks later, it said that everything was going to be just bandy, as soon as the cleanup was over. I celebrated with a round of Super Mario World. And that's where it all began. See, I never really liked screwing around with the ZSNES functions too much. Anything technical that I touched had a tendency to kill itself. All I do is just configure the controls and, once in a rare while, screenshots.  Moving on, I started it up and this is what I saw. Pretty weird, huh? It wasn't cataclysmic or anything, but it was strange. The only differences that I saw was that the colors changed, obviously. The background changed from rain to fire, and the mouse shadow was gone. I decided to keep the colors, they were pretty cool to be honest, and went to boot my game. Unfortunately, the only game available was game Genie. Inconvenient, and I'll admit I was a little pissed. But I went right over to Cool Rum, and went straight to the Super Mario World rum, and was about to click the link. When I saw that the owner of the site had announced that the link was no longer legitimate, he gave a new link to the same rum, only safer. He warned that because it went to an ad site other than ad.fly, my computer might read it as a threat. So I ignored the warning and went on ahead. Shitty mistake, I now realize. I booted up Super Mario World, wanting to start the franchise earlier on. Everything went on as normal. I died, saved state and went on. Then I came to this. Everything was as it should be, as seen here. But immediately after that, a second bullet came from the side of the screen. After it happened, it took me a couple tries to get the right screenshot for it, but I set up the slow down and rewind keys, so it became easier. This wasn't in there originally. It really confused me, and so I made it my mission to find out what the hell is happening in this game. I quickly made my way to Cool Rum. When that failed, I went on to ask some representatives of Nintendo. When I ran out of options, I decided to keep playing. And why the hell not? At worst I'll end up being even more confused. So after being careful to not die of a bullet wound, I progressed to the end of the level. I hit the switch, everything normal, and then came the levels to the right of the screen. The first one did something interesting. Where I should have received a Yoshi egg, I instead got a red shell. I completed the level, without my well deserved egg, and continued on to the next level. In case you're wondering, the other block that should deliver an egg, also gave me nothing. When I progressed to the next level, there wasn't any blockbugs. I did however lose a life to something extremely strange. As you can see, everything looked fine here. Then, as I made a jump, everything around me vanished. Textures changed and I plummeted to my death. It was strange, and ridiculous. I couldn't pass this one no matter how hard I tried. I tried until I had one life left. I decided to visit the only level I hadn't visited yet, Yoshi's house. When I got there, there was nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing at all. So I hit the point of advice block, and got this demented message. Just what the fuck? I explored again and again, just to find more and more nothing. So I just went out and quit the game, saving my screenshots. Why would I post this here of all places?   At least in here it'll fit in, and I can remind myself that this wasn't some weird trip that happened from some drug I accidentally took.  All trace of it will be eliminated. Don't ask me for the link, it's already done. I checked. And don't ask for gameplay, I know this is some prank from a couple of douchebags who decided to hack the devs account and play some weird game that might have taken an hour to make.  Anyway, I'll update you guys on anything that happens.


The Nigerian military has promised to employ all known methodologies and strategies to achieve national peace. Chief of Army staff Lieutenant General Tariq Laghwaja gave these assurance in Ibadun during the course of a quarterly media chat so he enhanced civil military cooperation. The Army Chief was represented by General Officer commanding to division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Barmidele Alabi, also charged media practitioners to remain our political and professional in a discharge of their duties. Details on this report. The Nigerian military has over time been in the forefront of efforts at maintaining national peace and security but civil military relationship remains on the low ebb as public perception continues to dwindle. This parlay organized in Ibadun with media practitioners is a strategic attempt at engaging non-kinetic means in building partnerships between the media and the military. This media chat provides a unique platform to intimate journalists about its operations and build consensus and confidence with the military, even as it strives to maintain peace and national security. The event also features other sessions with media practitioners where they gave their verdict on why the military must regain more public confidence if it's serious about winning the war on insecurity. The event also featured a session with media practitioners where they gave their verdict on why the military must regain more public confidence if it's serious about winning the war on insecurity. When was the last time any radio television station did that for free on anything about Nigeria? We have to go back. Then we were not at war. Now that we are at war, we should go back to PSA, public service announcement and NOA also should also be revived and brought on full strength. Sometimes when I watch us reporting military activities, I wonder, how it looks like that way really? Nigeria? Our country? Which people are we protecting? This country must be safe for us to report. Look at Ukraine. Nobody is reporting because the territory you're reporting is not safe. So we must know and learn how to also report our military operations. The army says it would improve on interagency collaboration efforts and reverse the dimension of diminished trust while urging journalists to perform their duties more professionally.


Good morning. I'm Jonathan Salvon, the chair of the OPM subcommittee for the Amherst School Building Committee, and I will introduce myself and all the other folks from the committee introduce themselves, and then you all may introduce yourselves and dig into your presentation. And I'm just going to pick on people the way I see them on the screen. So, Anthony, you're next after me. Anthony Delaney, Procurement Officer for the town and member of the committee. And then Kathy. I'm Kathy Shane, and I'm chair of the building committee, of which this is a subcommittee, and I'm also on the town council. And Steve. Steve Schreiber, I'm vice chair of the Amherst School Building Committee. I'm a town councillor, and then the chair of architecture at UMass. And Dwayne. And I'm Dwayne Chamble. I'm the out-of-school time coordinator for the district. I appreciate that. I guess we can go through and into my team. My name is Sean Sweeney. I would be the project executive on this project. Tom. I'm Tom Gazunis. I'll be the project director for the project. Brian. And I'm Brian Wolcox. I'll be the project manager, project representative. Christina. I'm Christina Hopper. I'll be your project communications representative. And Del. Del and Williamson, and I am director of cost estimating. So we're excited to be here today. Thank you so much for inviting us. I believe we have a member of our CHA team is going to be presenting the slide. So if you're ready, we can jump right in. Yeah, Sean, this is Brian. It seems our chalk is having a bit of a difficulty logging in. So I'm going to open it up and I will present the slides and get us rolling. Okay, great. Thanks, Brian. I will do my best. All right, great. Can everyone see the slides? We see your presenters view. Gotcha. Apologies. Let me see. There we go. We're still in presenters view. We lost it. From beginning. Okay, from beginning. Yeah, it seemed to be struggling with it on one second. Life was so much easier when we could actually meet in person. This is our first test on how we deal with issues, right? Yeah. Well, we have a supplement. I will present it as a PDF. I'm not sure why it's running through that way. I will do my best here. Brian, it looks like a second Brian is logging in down here. Yeah, Chuck mentioned that. He seems to be having an issue. It keeps logging in as me. That was happening to everybody. He just needs to change his name. Okay. All right, great. Thanks again. We're very excited to be here. Can't wait to get going and talk to you about our expertise and our team and how we can really be a trusted partner with the town of Amherst as they look at this very important project. Next slide. We've introduced our team today, but what I think what you'll see as we go through this presentation today, that you really have a seasoned group of professionals as well as a diverse team that can deliver the services that are required for such a project. You'll hear from each of the members of the team today that are on the call talk about their expertise and what they bring to the project. Next slide. So a little bit about CHA and why we think that CHA is the perfect fit for the town of Amherst. 30 plus years of managing public building design. So I know from introductions today, seems like folks do have a good experience in these type of projects. And you understand the importance of public procurement, the design process, feasibility, as well as managing the construction process. And so we're going to touch on those points today, but we feel the strength that CHA brings really will provide value to the town. We'll also hear from Del later today, where we talk about cost estimating value management and how we really try to work with the designers during schematic design and all the way through design completion. And then even post start of construction where we'll help with change orders, change events, and look to get the best value we can for the town. So, you know, all in all at this during this presentation, we're going to touch on these points. And at the end, absolutely want to open it up for questions from the group. Next slide. Tom. Thank you, Sean. So as I said, my name is Tom Gozunis, and I will be your project director working with all of you, town of Amherst, building committee. And my role is really to provide general oversight and help the team coordinate with all of you and our group to carry us through through all of the various phases of the project. We are ready to hit the ground running. When you make your decision later on today to hire CHA, we're on board tomorrow morning. We're ready to go. So we're very excited as Sean had indicated. And I think as you'll hear throughout our entire presentation. With us, quality really starts at the inception of the project. And it's woven into everything that we do. We're going to keep looking and reviewing the design as it comes through from the designers. We're going to look at product selections, code review, of course, cost will be included, but we don't want to deliver a cheap product. We want to deliver to you, to the town, an economical project, one that meets all of your needs for the future. Dell will talk about value management in greater detail. Christina will discuss public outreach, again, in greater detail. And now Brian will go into some of the details of the phases as we move through the entire MSBA process. Yeah, great. Thank you, Tom. And again, I'm Brian Wilcox, and I'll be the project manager and project representative for Amherst, working on the Fort River Wildwood Croker, depending upon how this shakes out there in the feasibility study. I echo what Tom and Sean had said about our excitement, our readiness and willingness to engage in this study and in this project moving forward as a responsible partner and extension of Amherst. We see ourselves as an advocate for the town of Amherst, working with you to cross the T's, dot the I's as we move through what is a cumbersome process with MSBA, a difficult process in working through the public outreach component of this and getting us to a position where we can have a project scope budget agreement out the door and moving forward towards detail design. The first portion of this that we address is in that designer selection. We're here to help you to establish certain of the scope, establish the evaluation criteria, establish what's needed for scoring so that we can get you the best options available for selecting a professional designer who has the experience to meet what you need in Amherst and to move us forward on this study for the Fort River Elementary project. In that process, we'll be working with your designer to get through the preliminary design program. We'll be looking at existing conditions. We'll be looking at a variety of options that become available to us as we start to work on this project and we'll be helping you to prep a detailed submission to MSBA, which examines all the available options, examines the budget considerations associated with them, examines a potential alternates that may arise during this process and we help to get through there and get you to a submission that MSBA can be informed about what your needs are and also to help us get to a position where the town council, the school building authority can help to understand what would be your preferred schematic report, what would be your preferred direction on this project. The option that works best is most responsible for Amherst and we are there to provide that leadership as your extension of it. During the schematic phase, once we're moving forward and we've established what exactly we're going to be building here, we'll work diligently with the architect and engineers to ensure that we keep on target with scope, quality and budget so that when we do submit that project scope and budget agreement at the end of this that we are in a great position. The Amherst is in a position to make sure that the expectations have been set. The tone and pacing of the remainder of the project through construction is also established and that we identify any risks that may potentially occur to us throughout the project and we work to mitigate those risks. And while I act as the day-to-day, the detail-oriented guy who communicates with all the other key stakeholders and leaders who are working to execute this effort through the Visibility Study on behalf of Amherst and for the Fort River Project. But you know that's only a part of it. We also recognize that speaking to your community, the public outreach component of this is incredibly critical to making sure that an informed community can allow your council to make those informed decisions. So I lay heavily on Christina who is our communication specialist and I'd like to hear from her a little bit about her approach. Thanks Brian. So again I'm Christina. I've been with the company for almost 18 years now. I'm a project manager and I have a marketing background as well and so I will be your dedicated project communications representative. I'll work with you the school building committee as well as the town of Amherst, school district, local organizations to try to get the word out to your community early and often. It's really important to engage the community right away in the process, let them know what's happening, keep them informed step by step throughout the process and the more information they have, the less questions I think they'll be when it comes time to actually approve the project. It's helpful for the school building committee to have that kind of feedback so I'll help you gain that feedback, gather that feedback through a variety of mediums. So I usually come in in the beginning and help you create kind of a strategy or plan for outreach. We'll identify how your community receives information, whether it's digitally, by print, by face-to-face meetings, by local organizations and we'll highlight all of those and figure out our plan to get out to the communities. Even as soon as getting the designer on board we're going to start wanting to meet with the community. During this time where we can't meet face-to-face it's a little bit more difficult but I've become much better with hosting Zoom meetings and doing online polls and I have a history of doing online surveys as well as print surveys and workshops in both a digital and in-person format. I will build you a project website because it's really important to have that singular place where everybody can find the information, the most up-to-date information. Instead of having to go out over and over again and trying to say the same thing over and over again, one place where everybody can go and get most information, most up-to-date information. I can help you create print communications and digital communications, newsletters, informational brochures, as well as we can work on video series and online presentations and livestream stream presentations. The good thing about the pandemic is there is an opportunity to reach a greater audience through digital mediums. People that aren't always available to attend a meeting in person whether that's schedule-based or mobility-based or whatever the issues are, we will explore all different options to get out to your community. I will help you lead that effort from the get-go and I will walk you through every single phase. I've done a lot of MSBA schools and I work closely with the MSBA on each phase project to make sure that they're looped in as well. It's important that they stay involved and they stay abreast of everything that's going on with the project as well. They really appreciate being linked in through that process and I will help you walk this process all the way through to construction completion, close-out, and your ribbon-cutting ceremony. I think that Brian's going to give us a little bit more information about some of our other team players as well. Thank you, Christina. I think it's also important to realize what Christina just mentioned there in the end. While we are focused on this as a feasibility study right now, we understand that project lifecycle and getting to the tail end of this is really the larger picture for us. Understanding that getting you into either a new building, a renovated building, multiple renovated structures is the key outcome here. While we do laser focus and we do narrowing on the feasibility study portion of this, it is important to think of the long-range goal. We actually see that we're excited about this opportunity to also explore working with some of our WMBE partners that we have good relationships with throughout the region, especially in Massachusetts. We've done a lot of work as an organization and working through utilization goals and engaging local partners or even just regional partners who are qualified M&W firms or DBE firms as well. We look forward to this exciting opportunity. We've actually had some already engaging calls. We actually see this as a real opportunity for us as we get later into detailed design and through the construction phase. Internally, we have some exciting people. Alicia Monks is a registered architect. She's lead certified. She has net zero experience. She comes with an incredible background in doing design review, constructability review, and really QAQC documents as we move forward. She will have an eye on things as we go through that feasibility study. As part of this process that Tom mentioned and that I know Del will also get into is this idea of managing quality from the get-go so that we are always keeping our scope schedule and budget in line, just traditional values and project management. We think highly of schedule. I'm a big proponent of having solid schedules, good milestones, and a lot of traceability between accountability and accountability. We've partnered with Dynamic Scheduling Solutions and Heather Boonecki who comes with a 20 years experience in Massachusetts providing state work, doing high-level scheduling in order for us to be able to manage this now all the way up through turning us over to a contractor or a CM and being able to do those reviews. She's got a great experience in managing impacts and claims. I'm very excited to have her as part of our team. We think VE, we think VM, and I don't really want to get too much into talking about that, but we have a great department in CHA and a lot of experience doing this to help make sure you get the best value for your project and I'm going to turn it over to Del to share about that. Del, you're muted. Sorry. Thanks, Brian. That pause just gave you a moment to see the graphic. It's a very simple graphic, representing where our service adds value to the entire life of your Fort River Elementary School project. Firstly, early benchmarking during the feasibility design stage. Christina mentioned earlier about early and often. This particular approach applies equally to cost estimating, as you can see in this graph here. Secondly, we engage during the design phase as another set of eyes on the design package. This is a collaborative process with Alicia's constructability review. Brian mentioned that service earlier. And then lastly, during the actual construction phase, we are supporting our project managers with cost analysis and change order review. As a current example, our Lincoln School is currently under construction. This is a challenging renovation and addition that our cost estimating team has been engaged with from early feasibility to now. Earlier, Brian mentioned scope scheduling and budgeting, which is where we pride ourselves. And it's a matter close to my heart. One of our tools in this is the value engineering. Value engineering is better represented by our efforts to value manage, which, by the way, does not compromise quality. It's all about dollars. Rather than the value management process, excuse me, the value management process makes your construction dollars go as far as possible. Our goal is to provide the best cost, the best, excuse me, I'll start that sentence again. Our goal is to provide the best cost data available so that this building committee can make the most informed decisions.  Thanks, Del. So a lot to unpack there, right? And I know we're going to move on to some of the questions that you asked earlier, and we're going to give time for you to access questions as well because we can dive into this a lot more. But at the end of the day, why is CHA the right choice for Amherst? And what we truly believe, and hopefully you're beginning to see as we talk about our team and our approach, that we deliver certainty. We've been doing it for over 30 years in Massachusetts on public buildings. We've worked with most architectural teams and construction teams in the area. We understand the market. We understand the pressures on the market, whether it be with subcontractors, labor forces, or even materials. But we also understand the feasibility, which of course is the first part. And as Christina mentioned, Brian mentioned Tom and Del, it's really a team effort, right? We all bring our abilities to that effort to help the town of Amherst as a really not just a OPM firm, but truly as a trusted advisor. Because at the end of the day, we know the committee, we know the council wants to do the best thing for the town, and we really want to be that trusted advisor to make that happen. So if we may, this wraps up kind of the 15 minute presentation as outlined. We take the liberty to put the five questions that you've asked. And if we can, we'd like to start there and make sure we answer those questions. And I'm sure if you have other questions, after that, we can move forward with those. So if I may, Tom, do you want to take question one? Sure. You asked about a challenging elementary school. So I'm going to describe the richer elementary school project and the process that we went through with that. So the richer school city of Malboro started very, very much in the exact same place you are looking at the schools, looking at the district, looking at where things are at for you, your design enrollment, your student population. Through our process, and we looked at many, many sites across the city, it was determined that what the city really needed was to build a new school, one in addition to the three that the district already had. This helped to solve their overall district overcrowding problems. But of course, you could imagine the challenges that ensued because we went from, okay, we're going to either be building a new school or renovating the existing richer. And in that neighborhood, all of the schools in Malboro are district neighborhood schools, to then communicating with the community that we're now going to build a brand new school on a different site. After a lot of public participation and public information, the city and the city council overwhelmingly, it was a unanimous vote at the city council to approve the project and move it forward. A little other interesting fun fact here on the, what was then the richer and is now the good now elementary school through our design and feasibility study, the city determined that they wanted to look at and then ultimately pursue a model school. At the end of the day, the good now school came in at $10 million under the original feasibility budget and was delivered a month ahead of schedule. That ended up providing a huge benefit to the city as a result, not as a result of, but in the wake of the COVID pandemic, because it having the new school with new classrooms allowed for the social distancing aspects that were needed. And the younger grades in Malboro were actually always in a remote school setting. There was a very, very short window, really only the time that it was mandated by the state that everyone be 100% remote. The city was able to engage in a high in a hybrid model very, very early on. So long story there, but really it one that started out as a huge challenge and ultimately resulted in a huge benefit for the city. Great. Tom, can you take question two as well? Net zero and net zero schools. So I'm also involved in the Belmont high school project, large projects, seven through 12 school, but it is entirely fossil fuel free. Only external power to the building is electricity. We have 304, 500 foot deep geothermal wells that are supplying all of the heating and all of the cooling to the building. As Dell had, and we all spoke about value management, there was a lot of effort, energy, not to use the pun energy, but a lot of time was spent on reviewing not only the upfront costs, because of course, when you go with something like a geothermal, very, I shouldn't say very, but higher upfront costs. But overall, when you look at the life cycle costs of the buildings, because let's face it, our schools are being built for 50 years minimum. Those life cycle costs outweigh that upfront cost and there's an overall savings to the community. The entire building will have PV panels on the roof. And I also want to just say that net zero lead, you know, five years ago, 10 years ago, they were like the buzz thing, the nice to have and kind of a, but they're really now built intrinsically into every school project. And as a soon to be new granddad for the first time, it has really, you know, put a different focus in my life and in thinking about what we're doing for our children. And now for me, and hopefully some of you, if not all of you in your futures, our grandchildren, and really setting the tone and forward thinking for what we're doing. So roundabout story here, but lead, energy efficiency, net zero, they're all aspects that need to be woven into every project as we move forward. And you can see from the list that I'm not going to read the names, but the two lists that are on the slide in front of you, the extensive experience that we have in lead in net zero in chips and moving those projects forward. We're very proud of that fact. And we will continue to do so in all aspects moving forward. So great. Thanks, Tom. Yep. Question three, Christina. Your third question I think was about generally engaging the broader community, challenges, successes, failures. So one of the examples I chose to share is the Knosset Regional High School Project, which we're proud to say just passed their ballot vote on March 30. This was a complicated project to get out to the community. The Outer Cave is a very interesting set of communities out there as far as how they get their information. Plus this was a regional district, which meant it was four regional towns within the official district, as well as two additional towns that were not officially part of the district. And it's a highly attended school choice school on the Cape. So there was kind of this broad outreach to reach both the district as well as the greater community that this particular school serves. The second challenge on this particular project is that we had to do it through COVID. So we started the project free COVID. There are some nice pictures there about with some visioning workshops that we had with the public prior to COVID. We did as many in-person, face-to-face meetings as possible, let people get a sense of what the building looked like, what its challenges were, what the educational plan meant, and what our options looked like. Post COVID, our meetings were all virtual. Our outreach was entirely virtual, but we were successful in reaching the community through Zoom meetings, through small forums, through print, through digital print media, as well as streaming videos, live streams of interviews and presentations. So we really did use that kind of combined effort, which honestly, I think one of the lessons that I learned as a communicator through the pandemic is, as I mentioned before, it actually gives us more opportunity to reach a greater number of the public by using all of these different avenues. And so NOSCIT was an interesting challenge and a success, and we're happy to be moving into the detail design phase with them and moving forward with their project, which is, I believe, slated to complete in 2025. I believe your next question had to do with projects that didn't proceed. Sean? Thanks, Christina. So I can answer the first one pretty easily. CHA has never been terminated from a project in its history. We've always seen our projects go from the beginning to the end, but we have had some projects not move forward. So Christina? So the example that we're choosing to share with you today is Tisbury. Tisbury is a beautiful community out on Martha's Vineyard, also known as Vineyard Haven. They were invited into the MSBA program in 2014, I believe it was. We joined them in 2016 as their OPM, completed a feasibility study, and in 2018, we unfortunately did not get the project passed at the ballot. So the story behind that is that we worked diligently with the town, the school committee, and the school building committee to engage the community and get information out to them. There's a little rendering of what that new building would have looked like on the upper left, and what's below it is, I did several surveys for this town when we were going through that initial feasibility study, and their two main options were to build new on the existing site or renovate ad. And you can see it was a 50-50 split as far as whether they wanted to keep the building or replace the building. And continually educating the community, we still felt that it was a 50-50 split on the main two options. The building committee did as much as they could and me along with them to inform the public on why they were choosing new construction. Ultimately, it was more efficient, it was a shorter project, and it was slightly less expensive. But though we passed the project overwhelmingly at town meeting, at the town ballot, we lost by 21 votes. So it was, the result was exactly as the community had spoken to us through those two years. It was a 50-50 split. What did happen with the town of Tisbury is they removed themselves from the MSBA program and restarted the project. And we were both grateful and honored to be invited back to serve as their OPM for a non-MSBA funded renovation and addition study, which we have recently completed and we're preparing for it to go back to the ballot this late spring, early summer. So the image on the upper right is us adhering to their desire to save the original 1929 building on the front, renovate and expand the remainder of the building. And we're doing the same thing now, going back out to the community. And honestly, we're getting a lot of very positive feedback on our efforts to save the original building. So it wasn't really an insight into any kind of failure on the part of the town or the school committee or the school building committee. It really was just a minor understanding of of what was a real priority to the community and really trying to sell the effort as to how it was going to benefit the community as a whole. But this project is moving forward well and it's actually a good lesson that we learned to spend more time getting feedback and more time educating the public on what the project means and what it costs and how it's going to come about and how it's going to benefit the community in the long run. Great. Thanks, Christina. And I think your last question we're going to ask Tom to speak to that. Sure. Thank you. So we approach all of our projects in a spirit of collaboration. Gone are the days of that antagonistic contractor owner architect need to fight each other. The projects don't proceed well that way and we have never taken that approach. I like to think of every project as a three-legged stool. One leg is the owner that includes us as your OPM and of course the MSBA having that role. The other leg is the designer, the architect and all of their design team. And the third leg is the contractor. If you take out any one of those legs in the stool then everybody falls and everybody gets hurt. Our approach is to keep that stool together with all three legs and nice and strong and have all of the groups work together collaboratively to make the best project for the town of the Amherst, our students and faculty as we move forward. That's not to say that we won't be a very strong advocate and make sure that the town gets what it deserves out of this process and out of the project. That's why we include our estimating team all along so that we can do that deep dive value management and make sure that when those change orders and we all know that there will be some change orders that will come through but when those change orders come through they are fair, fair to all three parties because that's really what makes a project run right. And you know my style and our style, Brian's style will be on the project every day with all of you and all of us together is again to work collaboratively to get the project done in the best interest of the town of Amherst. Thank you. Great, thanks, Tom. And one thing if I could add to what Tom just said on working on projects you know it's a little nuanced but it's a real value. As we work on you know we work on a number of school projects as well as municipal projects and we truly work together as a team and what that means to Amherst is we'll see things happening on one particular project whether it be in feasibility or design or actual construction and then say whoa this kind of shocked everybody and in our internal meetings we'll say and Tom might laugh when I use this one example we just put epoxy flooring on a school and the maintenance personnel wanted it less gritty and so we had to reapply this floor four or five times and don't we go to another project and they're preparing to do epoxy flooring so we said hey first and foremost we should do a test pass we should make sure not only that you know the school representative is happy to bring out the maintenance staff make sure they're happy with this finish and make sure it's something that they feel they can maintain and so these stories are happening every day within CHA and I think you know as a team we can definitely bring that value throughout all phases of this journey so I just wanted to throw that in there Tom because as you were talking I was thinking it's not just managing the team but it's bringing that collective experience and whether it be experience from 20 years ago whether it be from experience from last week we really feel it can help the town of Amherst so that's great so we've answered those five questions I'd love to open it up to the committee to ask any of us any questions or you want us to dive into anything in detail Steve thank you so much fascinating so I do have a question about question number four so number four is supposed to be my question but the so you answered for the firm CHA but and I assume that goes all the way back to the origins how about individually so we were also asking about individually whether or not that um any of you individually as a person in charge as an OPM has there been uh any termination not for me I can say no I have never been terminated I have never been terminated okay thank you so much I just want to make sure that part was covered also all right great thank you in full disclosure I was not reappointed as commissioner when in my previous life as the public safety commissioner for the commonwealth but that was a change in governors I have kind of a follow-up on question one which is uh not usually the one I asked when we asked them individually um it's just you answered for a challenging project I guess I'd be curious what you see as potential challenges for us with this project in in what you've seen from what we've given you what what do you think is our greatest challenge Brian do you want to start with that sure I'd be glad to and I appreciate that that question you know I think in just discussions that um that we've had during the uh the kind of the pre-proposal walkthrough it was clear that one of the biggest challenge you're going to run into or it appears that you may run into is dealing with the with the public in the community in terms of establishing exactly what it is you need to be successful in terms of the three potential schools the elementary schools that are are being looked at which is yes it's the fort river project but also incorporating uh enrollment in from wildwood and croaker into how you manage this process so I think engaging the community um early making sure that we can manage and set expectations uh is a good way for us to speak to a little bit about what Christina had mentioned during this process about getting to a point where there's a split in the community or a potential not to approach um the idea of a new fancy building a new building with steam a new steam programs a nice new fancy structure where there the community itself may feel a real connection to these schools and while they may be older how do we look at incorporating the community's view into this project so that in a long run we can get you um what you need for the next 50 years in terms of managing your enrollment and managing your programs but also upgrading you um in a way that's efficient so I think that's going to be what I see as the biggest challenge is managing expectations at the community level by doing that engagement um and and moving forward through this process and I say that a little bit because for me you guys have been through this before you've been through the MSBA process you've had this experience I think the you understand what to expect in terms of milestones but I think that it's going to be that community outreach engaging a designer who's very familiar with this type of work and the elementary school and making sure we get you what you what you need but that's that's listening that's communications and again that's setting the expectations and if I could jump in too on that point Tom and I are actually working with a district right now in the Commonwealth that is looking at one of their elementary schools which is a community school and they have I think it's four community elementary schools spread across the town and the solutions that they're considering include a a new school building on a different site with possible redistricting throughout the district and and shifting things around and and so we're familiar with this process this is not the the first time we had to do that Tom had to do it in Marlborough we're doing it for another community and we understand that that's that's difficult to go through with a community to keep them informed engaged involved and feel part of that process um when you're when you ultimately have to make decisions that's best for the district and best for the town itself but but that is important I agree with you Brian that that you know that I think that challenging piece of getting out to the public and informing them is a challenge for all districts all communities across the Commonwealth and it's sometimes their greatest challenge because ultimately you need buy-in from the community you need parents support you need your senior citizens support you need all of the support this isn't just a school for the students that are going there now it's students that are going to be there in 30 years it's you know people that own property in town it's a town asset and and we'll make sure that we we craft that message and explain that piece to all of your project stakeholders um Tom I don't know if you want to jump in at all on the on the redistricting efforts that we're doing in another town I have to apologize to the to the team I have an emergency I have to deal with so I'm going to put myself on mute but I'll keep listening but I have to deal with something great thank you so yeah I think biggest message we can say regarding the redistricting is informing the community informing the community as early as possible as soon as you start to head in the direction and knowing where you're going with that redistricting if it's necessary that that information gets out because what we've seen is that it the we don't want the redistricting to or the new project let me put it that way the new project to give the impression that it is causing the redistricting if it is not in most cases what we found is that redistricting is required regardless of where the new building if it is a new building would be located and that message needs to get conveyed early and often because it gets lost great thanks Tom thank you we have a a little bit more time I don't know if there's other questions Kathy yeah I just wanted to ask if any of the projects you've had you've had to work with choices on are you building a smaller school in terms of student size or a larger school where the intimacy of the school was an issue in the community I don't know whether that was clear you know that on you know okay I understand exactly and that was one of the very very strong factors in Malboro because in order to again alleviate the overcrowding issue that they had the one option was to create a very large elementary school and the the superintendent the principals the the district the mayor all determined that they did not want an elementary school that was mirroring or actually even larger than their middle school so that was one of the definite factors in determining that it was better to build a fourth school than it was to renovate and expand at the existing richer school thank you did that answer your question Kathy I hope I might also jump in here and cite the the bridgewater elementary school project that we're working on that's under construction right now they did an analysis on the enrollment the MSBA had given them two certified enrollments for a pre-k to two and a pre-k to three they're a larger community they were also dealing with the same problem they have a lot of kids they have a single elementary school that they wanted that small school feel and we did the study with the different enrollments to to figure out what was going to work best for the community as well as spreading the grades across all the schools within the district properly for for parity to all the students and they went with a pre-k to two and the design although it's a school that's built for 750 kids because of the enrollment in the town the design included essentially pods scaled down areas to make it feel like more of smaller community spaces within a larger school while also being thoughtful about access to shared services the gymnasium the cafeteria and all of that as well as access to the community spaces for after hours so it's definitely I think a challenge that that many districts have when they're trying to create that small school field this particular district they're the building that they replaced used to be three small houses in a single building and they wanted to kind of recreate that that small school feel in the newer building and and we're we're helping them achieve that thank you any last questions great well thank you very much that was very informative and did you have some housekeeping if you could send me the slides just for our record after this meeting email those to me this recording will be put up on the town's youtube channel in time and we'll see the committee for the next interview in 10 minutes yeah get to you we log out of this right and log back into the yes it's a totally different zoom room so you have to log Brian did you have something to say before we yeah I was going to ask you guys one question maybe somebody can pick up on it it's just uh we know that you've been through this experience before with MSPA we assume you had an OPM and I don't need to know the firm's name but I'm just curious what you thought of that experience and if you had kind of one thing that that firm could have changed from your perspective not to get this through in the past but what could they have done a little bit differently to have met some of your expectations that's that's a somewhat hard question to answer as most of the folks on this committee weren't actually on that prior committee um and and well most of us were here in town um you know I don't I don't know that I have a good answer off the top of my head you know it was it's sort of a different time and place and uh and sometimes communities need to learn by doing okay I appreciate that and thanks so much for the time we're really excited for the opportunity very good thank you all right thank you everyone thank you


We're not happy update so look here noticed that this control arm rear lower control arm is bent as you can Tell Then I noticed that it's got a mark right over here Right like it was hit or something so then We took out the other side. This is the driver's side What do you know it's got a mark? It's been to and it's bent And This one brand-new one is not it's straight so You guys know what happened? we're guessing auction auction forklift Yeah, so thanks forklift guy driver and tow guy driver for a messed up diff and a rear suspension Now we will have to Well, we're gonna have to you know, we're gonna do the right thing and bend these straight We're not spending 30 40 41 41 41 dollars, man. I'm brand new cheapest doorman lower control arms no way genuine are 120 150 120 130 whatever So It's gonna be press time soon So that came out Heat heat heat All right, so the plan here is to save this bushing at all costs So I got a 16 socket I Cut out the bad part so the actual bolt or whatever is left of it is About here. So the plan is to Leave that smooth, you know damage this part Just to get it going push it this way So that lower part that smooth part of the bolt is still good so it can still come out as you know as soon as I Loosen this up. I'm gonna leave it alone and then continue to you know go press it from the Flip this and keep pressing it on the good part So here we go Fingers crossed still fingers crossed More Yeah, the top part it's it I'm basically squashing it maybe cut it flush and Drill it out. Oh, man, that's gonna be a lot of drill. Yeah, and I just smashed the Inside of the bushing. Yeah, I think this is it's gonna have to get heat up I'm gonna need a new bushing most likely Alright plan B. Whatever it may be. Alright plan B of a different issue We're gonna instead of buying you once I'm gonna try and this is supposed to be straight. So yeah for cliff guy Thanks again. Good job. Good job guy. So I'm gonna prop it up here and here and Try and bending it straight I mean, this is we couldn't probably leave it and just adjust the alignment on the On the toe and camber it is possible that we would still end up with a good alignment But we would not be able to sleep at night. Is that some reference to me? Maybe Here we go.  I use your two straight edges your eyeballs good or good enough This way Okay, assume the position Looks good from here now here. You're sure you like it. Yeah. All right next. You know, what did I think? What where's it? Where's the other one? There you go. They should be same length Check I to I this one's still warm. Yeah slide over. It's good. Oh, yeah, so me hammering Finally here man You know, I didn't see this because it was in a socket. Anyways, this bushing came out and I thought That these bushings they have another metal rounded Body kind of I guess we you know press them in and out But no, this is not the case. It's just rubber on the outside So I can just push it back. But since we have this setup. I'm gonna bring it back to factory All right, so If you look closely towards the left It's not ideal Well to me, you know, that's that's good enough But to Lucas that may be different. What's wrong? No, it's fine. Nothing decided not to waste any more gas Healing it up. It's just gonna destroy the bushing so Decided to just press it out these these this came out very very easily just put a Socket not the same socket 16 deep actually held this in place with my hand on one end in the press and just Worked it out very easy So this is what it looks like Yeah, I don't think This is not coming out without destroying the bushing We got parts we got no, that's the old bearing we got a new bearing for the rear housing It's gonna go on this chef that Lucas is about to clean. We have new bolts Remember, we're only gonna install one one we're gonna keep because that one miraculously came out And we're gonna treat it with antifreeze antifreeze anti-seize. We got bushings from Napa This is the part number. Hopefully they'll fit these guys here. We got two So they're you know, they're both the same on both sides I mean if I was if I was buying it now, we just get one But you know dealing with look over here. So these two are gonna get So these two are gonna get you know what I would still leave it man Okay, I lose yeah, so we're gonna replace both or yeah, you know what I mean and we have a clutch clutch kit By look Nice, you got a company at that. I don't know about All right, I guess look is making clutch kits and we got You got a throat bearing here with the sleeve I'm gonna show you later once we get to it. We'll show you how to do it. Very simple. We got a new pressure plate and Somewhere under there is the clutch once we get to it. We're gonna compare the two clutch plates And we'll tell you why we're replacing it. We're really replacing it because of the pressure plate but You know, we still needed a Throat bearing the sleeve and all that might as well get the whole kit wouldn't make sense just to get individual parts So that's where we're going with a new clutch the old clutch would still I would say maybe it's I Think I said 50% but now when I look at the the new one My guess it's probably at 70 maybe even 80% we're gonna keep it and Keep the old one so so about that later. So we pretty much have it all we even have the fender liner check it out Brand new fender liner from rock auto and we got tires Later on these I forgot the name 185 by 55 Sixth 185 by 60 we're gonna talk about that later too. So we got tires fender liner Rear diff is ready to go Clutch kit you got we're gonna install an STI Shifter maybe if we'll fit got the bearing got the bushings and we got the bolts your look one of us forgot to Yeah, you clean the gasket off This here is the part number for that Bearing in case you're wondering which came from Subaru, you know one of these episodes we're gonna sit down and Give you guys a list of all the parts where we got use new whatever different sources and How much they cost almost forgot we also bought from AutoZone new CV axles these CV axles are for an 0203 WRX and This these are the same on both sides well Now this obviously, but remember we could not remove these axle stubs from that 98 Legacy trans manual transmission and these Actually take those stubs. So that's why so we got the best of two worlds over here from an 0203 WRX so, you know Because of the differential. No, no, excuse me because of the tow truck guy We're having we're having issues.  Okay guys So this was very easy this bearing here drop it in first knock it in lightly kind of just dropped in with this tool Literally it just dropped in Didn't even need this now we need to install that snap ring your look is gonna do that All right, I'm just gonna set this down and look is gonna show you how to do this Okay, now we will have to press in the blow-sharp Hopefully it will pop in. No, it's not that easy. We have to go to the press and press it in 30 millimeter for 32 socket is resting on the inside race of the bearing but it's big enough to Fit the shaft the lower part of the shaft in so that lower part of the shaft is gonna come in Keep it going and we're pressing on the top part of the shaft. This doesn't have to be perfect Mr. Perfectionist Sure, okay Yeah, yeah, we can snap in the C-clip I think so, okay. Yeah, there's a little ridge for another smaller clip. That's got to get snapped in and that's it Much less noisy. Yeah, even without oil. Yeah fun fact those bearings have the same more or less kind of play I'm talking about the old one the used one and the new one so if you go on this guy's sideways and We are we compare the the both bearings same kind of same amount of Play on both bearings, but remember this one was noisy. It's not noisy now So, I don't know who know, but we don't know how many miles this one has a lot Okay, so I guess it was an ideate after all Yeah, check this out. This is Not making any noise whatsoever and it's without oil. Remember it's still dry Press it. All right, just knock it in now With the tool there Nice Snapping yeah, there you go C-clip snap ring. We kind of forgot to hit record but Very easy diff first. There are two splines on the other side of the diff that Turn individually, so you kind of have to play with it play with a diff Do your best pop it in got a line up those two splines Once it gets in don't push it in all the way then install this shaft There's the bearing only that bearing needs to pop in Push that in all the way and then push in the rest of the diff So now we're gonna make sure these both surfaces are clean because we're gonna use Gaskets and our TV on both sides very light film like before This is the guy here So the the our TV is going to end up on this surface and this surface We're gonna slap on the gasket on this guy So it's gonna stick and then again, we're gonna fight with both of these splines one of them turns individually then I Think that's the spider gears inside and the actual Diff splines on the outside pop it in and that's it torque it down Was the torque on these these are 12 miles right is it 18? Yeah, if they're 12 then it's 18 if they're 14's then it's 29. So yeah, these are these are 14 maybe 29 You gotta wait, you know one hour for their TV to dry up 30 on these and then now the 12 18 So 30 or 29 close enough and then 29.7 so okay, so 29.7 which is 30 and then this one is going to be 18 Meanwhile, I'm gonna show you the clutch plate how it looks 54,000 miles on this on this clutch. You can see it's still in decent Shape but these springs Well, I mean Still get away, you know, you could still install this This is what the one we got what it looks like So I would say Guessing about 70 to 80 percent of life left on the old one Mainly this was the issue This is actually whoever was driving this car knew how to drive a stick shift this Surface is not burnt. No cracks. Nothing. No this coloring same thing on the Flywheel, but this was the issue tiny bit and if you look at the New pressure plate these springs they're much higher So as we were driving it and we would do aggressive shifts if I wasn't Jerking like forward when you were changing that gear. It was the RPMs will go Then they would come down, you know, so that's the main reason why we're doing the clutch. Okay, so Now we're gonna install the clutch get away to another 40 minutes or so for those Torque those bolts. Now, are we gonna do a lock tight on the Bolts for the clutch plate that I mean the pressure plate Do they have lock washers they have lock washers a lot of people tell you Yes, we have we do have to reuse the old bolts and go here So a lot of people will tell you know, you got you got a the flywheel. That's different always do a lock tight on the flywheel bolt the inside ones But then some guys will tell you also to use lock tight and Pressure plate and some people will tell you you don't need to You probably don't have to if they do have lock washers and Yes, they do have lock washers As you can see so I don't know we can we could maybe just do blue lock tight All right, so I think this is a two-part flywheel or two-piece flywheel. I Don't know maybe clutch first If the fat part of the clutch plate out Hopefully this will stay you don't have this tool just eyeball this Come on I'm in an awkward position because I'm stretching my hands My arms all the way. I wish I could sit up over here, but nice. I'm gonna do a Little bit of blue lock tight On each bolt. Okay, so you've noticed I was going in circles reason for this is You want to avoid tightening up one bolt all the way and Then go to the next this this doesn't work Going across When you're still, you know tightening it down not talking talking it just go across but to get it Tight or finger tight, whatever before talking What I look is breaking something because the plate may flex and bend On you so you want to stop once you get some resistance stop go to the next one go, you know tighten it up Stop don't force it stop next one. Excellent. Just keep going until you'll know when it's tight Now I'm gonna torque it down to what again. What's the torque 12? All right, torque is 12 foot pounds Before you get it kid. He's going 12. Yeah Make sure this isn't the same because the plate will drop a bit Once you put this on and you get one in or two in then just kind of kind of jiggle it Center the clutch plate So installation of transmissions will be much easier


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