We need to do why. Therefore, we've gotta cut that request from 15 to 10,000. I think, and I don't have the exact number, maybe Sarah does, but I think we started out, there's probably at least $100 to $200,000, well, easily including the historic society for the tower. Many more demands than we have funds to cover. So it really comes down to a function at the end to take a look at these and say, what can we afford within the two cents and what's our priority? And then we go back to the staff and say that particular department and say, guess what, 15 is now 10, make it work. Thank you. I'm confident that you choose wisely. Lastly, not for that, as a point of information. I heard, I think Chairperson Haney, I think you said that the stormwater contribution to the village is split evenly. Technically, it's not. 52% of it is covered by the TOV, 42% of it is covered by the TIV. And the same thing would be said for the public works. That's it. Thank you. Over and out. Oh, thank you. So unless there aren't any other comments from the public, let's move on. And I will make an observation in the last several meetings, we've talked about capital budget. We've talked about all three of the town's historic buildings. We've talked about the library, Memorial Hall and the water tower. I wonder if a future conversation we might start considering maybe a focus on our historic buildings as a whole, just to look at them together as something that we treat slightly differently from the rest of our building needs because they're special buildings, just a thought. Dennis, as always, thank you for your encyclopedic knowledge of our buildings and infrastructure and for the thoughtfulness that you and your staff put into the binder and the capital budget. And as always, thank you so much for your hard work on our behalf and on the town's behalf. Thank you. So board members, we have the next business item is to warn the public hearing on this capital budget and plan. And if we recall from our earlier business item about the general operating budget, I'd like us to look at the proposed, the memo for this item to, so 6C1, right? Oh, next one, 6D, excuse me, to warn the public hearing. So if anyone would like to make a motion to warn the public hearing, but also add to it public hearing for the capital budget, as well as the FY22 operating budget, that would be the motion to make. Would any board member like to do that? I move that the select board warns to public hearings for February 1st, 2020 at 635 p.m. The first meeting for the purpose of soliciting comments on the FY2022 capital budget and five-year plan and the second hearing for warning, for the purpose of soliciting comments on the FY2022 operational budget. All right, thank you, Vince. Is there a second? I will second with the amendment. Vince, I think you said 2020, 2021, February 1st, 2021. I'm still doing it and it's mid-January. I can't believe it. Otherwise friendly amendment accepted. Thank you, Pat, for catching that. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, so we will be warning to public hearings for fiscal year 2022, 2026 capital budget and plan and the FY2022 operating budget. The next business item is another warning. So 6E, we are going to talk about warning the public hearings for the proposed plan of merger. Board members, any questions or comments before we move on this? Okay, and before we begin to take a vote, does anyone from the public wish to talk about the warning? Okay, seeing none, I'll take a motion. I move that the select board warn public hearings for February 1st and February 16th to solicit public comments on the plan of merger and propose charter for the merged communities as approved on January 11th, 2021. Thank you, Pat. If I may make a request, I forgot to say this before you started saying your motion. Can we please amend the actual warning to indicate that we have a sentence in there that says the proposed merger plan and charter for the consolidated community are on file at the town clerk's office and copies are available upon request. Can we also please add a sentence that says the charter is available at sxvt.org, sxjunction.org and greater sx2020.org so that everybody knows that they have three different places where they can access the entire proposed charter online. Pat, would you mind accepting that friendly amendment to the warning? I will happily accept. Okay, board members, are you okay with that addition? Yeah, I just have one question. Is the merger charter that's on the sxjunction village website, is that their version of the charter or our version of the charter? Just wanted to make that clear. Good question, Evan, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it'll be the select board's version because that is the one we'll be voting on although the village version is probably still going to be on there as well. Would that be accurate, Evan? I'd have to think about that. If I can ask, Tammy, are you still with us? What's- All right, yes, barely. Network kicked me out. I'm really having some issues tonight, but I'm here. I think- I have both versions on both websites. Okay. But what you would be voting on and having your public hearing on and is the town version, but they are labeled on the websites as the village version approved on 9, 24, 2020 and the town version approved on January 11th, 2021. Great. Okay. Is that do it, Vince? That does, thank you very much. You're welcome. Okay, so Pat has accepted my request to change his motion to an amended warning. Is there a second? I'll second that. Thank you, Vince. Any further discussion? All those in favor? My hand has a zando. Oh, thank you. Sorry, your hand is not shared. There it is. Go ahead, Andy, of course. Yeah, I just want to say that my position on how ready we are to go forward with this has not changed, but I am certainly not going to object to asking for more public comment, so I will be voting in favor of this. Understood. Any other comments? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. That passes unanimously. If I might ask Evan, if it's at all possible to keep that agenda as light as can be so that we have room for the hearings that we have scheduled for that day. That's not going to happen. Let's make everything we can possibly make in a consent agenda. We say that every time. I know, but this one's going to be a long one. We do ask for some consideration on that. We'll do our best. I see Darby, you have your hands up. Are you recording, Secretary Burdak? For the minutes, so I have Vince as a second. Now, was that Pat as the one to be put down is who made the original motion? Yes, please. All right, thank you, Mitch. Thanks, Darby. Okay, item 6F, consider approval of final draft merger vote, final draft merger vote informational materials. So for this, that's in the packet. I have received some additional edits from Dawn and Andy, which I believe Linda is going to try to incorporate some of them into the packet. But staff is expecting to send this document to the printer as early as tomorrow. So we really have run out of time in terms of being able to refine this to make it the entirely perfect informational document that we want it to be. And I just want to thank everybody for their input on it. And at this point, we just need to approve it so that Linda can get it to the printer. So does anyone have any questions or comments on this part of the packet?  I'm really unhappy with sending an unreviewed document out. If you're making edits, we're not gonna have a chance to see them for you, Senator the printer. I'm very much against that. I would rather see us put out a two-page document with a link to some other online document that we could continue editing rather than sending out this of 40-plus-page document that is, in my view, has a lot of bias in it, has a lot of confusing information. And I'm not gonna have a chance to even see what's in it before it goes out. I'm unhappy. I truly understand, Andy, and you've made your concerns very clear to me, both publicly and privately. And I just wanna say a couple of things. First of all, what I'm talking about in terms of edits that were sent, like I got from you this weekend, I got from Dawn, they're grammatical and they're not content changes. There's a couple of different things that people pointed out that just need correction in terms of grammar spelling, that kind of thing. They are not substantive changes. So I should be very clear about that. The board has had two weeks to review this material. And the creation of this material comes from presentations and documents that have been presented to this board publicly multiple times over the last 12 months. So there was a couple of memos from Sarah, some slideshow, a slideshow from Sarah, the slideshow that the village used for their public hearings, the FAQs definitely were put together, the answers were put together and many of them appeared on the village's website and they're being repurposed here. This is a document that was many, many, many weeks in the construction. And so while I still completely understand the frustration that we are feeling pressured to get this out, we have also been given permission to do mail-in ballots by the governor just today. And so it's important that residents receive this in their mailboxes around the same time that the ballots go out and which will be probably somewhere around February 10th, if I recall, our memo from our clerk last packet. So I just understand completely where you're coming from, Angie. And I want to also address the comment about it being full of bias. We've been accused of bias an awful lot and I have to talk about one of the reasons why we are a board and one of the reasons why we five sit here on the board is we've been elected by the folks of our community to do the work and make recommendations to them as to what we think the best course for the future of our town is for all 21,000 plus people. And I consider the fact that we have voted to approve this plan of merger and we have voted to warn it and we have voted to put it on the ballot that we as a majority feel that this is the best course for our community to take. So going forward as a board, if we have an initiative that we think is the best thing for the community, it's our responsibility to tell the community that we think it's the best way forward. And I understand the need to provide very factual information. I think we do that. I think that our finance staff has excelled in providing very clear tables and charts and data for the community. I think we have gone above and beyond in terms of the quantity of information we are providing to people in this booklet. And we also have to contend with the fact that we can't do this in person. So we want this booklet to go in the mailbox of every single household in the town. So that they don't have to go outside. They can stay safe. They can use their mail-in ballot and their booklet together and they can do the research they need to do to make this critical decision. But I do not feel that it is inappropriate for the select board to promote this plan. We have worked years on this plan and we have put all of our efforts and all of our reputations at stake on this. We are telling the community you voted for us beyond at this table and this is the work we did. Now it's up to you to make a decision. We are not making the decision for them. We are saying this is the best work we have. We've put a lot of effort into it. We've taken your thoughts into consideration, your participation. We've consulted all the experts that we could possibly consult. And this is what we think is the best path forward. So I really take issue with the accusation of being biased. I am biased. I do think this is the best way forward for the community. The majority of our board voted in that direction and that's why we are telling residents we think you should vote yes on this but it is entirely up to you. Here are the facts you make your decision. Andy. So I want to make it clear that I have never said that I'm against merger and I've been asked by some to actively campaign against this and I have said no because I will not actively campaign against a majority decision of the select board. And so, but neither will I, but when I asked, I will give my opinion. So now I've completely lost where I was gonna go. And I feel that I am doing the job that I was elected to do. And my concern is not that, my concern is that some of the items, there's some of the content that's in this package will be used against the whole, it only takes one small error or one point where those who are against merger can blow it out of proportion and it removes credibility for the whole thing. And that's where I'm coming from. I am not trying to fight against merger. And so I understand the majority position and I guess that's where it's gonna go and I just have concerns. You mentioned grammatical errors on page 10, it says that the village budget is $3.5 million, it's $5 million, it's not 3.5. So there's a technical error rate there that I've pointed out a couple of times and I haven't seen addressed, but. So Andy, may I just say a couple of things? I really, really wanna thank you for what you just said. You said two things that are really important and I wanna hold them up because they're really important. The first one is you said that you don't wish to go against the majority of the board and that is truly excellent board service right there. And I really, it's just such a good example to set and I'm very grateful to you for that. The other thing you said was, and it's the first time I've really clearly heard you say it and I'm so pleased that you did, that you are in favor of merger, but you want it to be right so that everyone has the information so that it cannot be made. People can't take the information, we're providing it and use it against the cost. And that is truly a honorable thing to say and I completely understand where you're coming from and I wish we could have the luxury of all the time we need to make this just the right document that it needs to be. With all due respect, however, not to you, obviously, but this plan has been trashed so hard by so many people who are not understanding it and who are intent on not making it work. And I'm being very specific when I talk about the video presentation that was made last week with so many mistakes in it and so much sloppy math and misunderstandings and intentional misinterpretations of the content, I was shocked by the amount of errors in that presentation. And so we are working on correcting the record regarding what came out of that video, but the thing is, no matter how hard we work on this document, there will never be 100% acceptance of it and there will never be people 100% agreement with what we're doing or how we talk about what we're doing. And so I think it's really impressive that you are so invested in making it the very best document it can be. And I'm right there with you to do that. But also we have deadline, we have ballots that are going out in the mail and we just have to fish or cut bait at this point and move forward. So I thank you for all of the, I mean, you've made a lot of efforts to improve this document and the charter itself and we owe you a debt of gratitude for that. The other thing I wanna ask is, I wanna ask Evan to talk about that 3.5 million versus 5 million thing because he can say it better than I can. So Evan, could you take care of that please? Yes, the village's budget is $5 million. It's taxable portion is 3.5 million. So then the document should say that, not. Okay. It's just wrong. And Andy, I could agree with you. There are so many numbers involved in this. We try to make things as easily understandable as possible as much as local government budgeting and taxation can be that way. But sure, but the amount, so here's the thing. The amount of money that is being integrated is the 3.5 million. All the other revenues and stuff don't change in merger. As far as I understand. So if somebody has a good idea of how to say that I'm open. Vince, I see your hand up. Please go ahead. So can I, can I? I'm sorry, Evan, please, sorry, go ahead. If Tammy, you're able to make changes sort of in the margin or, so if we say, Andy, and I'd love to be able, so if we say integrate the 3.5 million taxable portion of the S6 budget, would that work for you? I'm so frustrated. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I wish my camera was working. I'm frustrated you see my face look right now. I totally understand.   Yeah, so I just kind of wanted to poke around at that a little bit. So the 3.5 million taxable, does that equate to 15 million taxable from the town? Sarah has gone home for the night, but the answer I believe is yes, because the town's budget is upwards of 16.9. So that sounds about right. Okay, so could we add like a sub item really quick? That says like the other, the difference in like, I'm assuming that comes from like fees and like recording stuff that like comes through the town. So like when we record like sales for homes and stuff like that. Yeah, it's all the stuff on the revenue page. Yeah, you subtract that off the budget and you could collect the taxes to pay the difference. That's exactly what I was getting at. Maybe like kind of just putting like a sub bullet under that, first point saying that there is this much revenue collected in fees and other through other revenue sources that will also be integrated with the, and then you list the same difference for the town. And then pull a little thing around it that says these will not affect tax rates because they are fees. For this portion of the document where we're just saying why merger is hard. We don't need to get into the nitty gritty on this page. There are other pages that completely explain all of this but that bullet we could say integrate the taxable portion of the S junction budget into the Essex town budget period. We don't need to even put the numbers in on that page because there's lots of explanation of it elsewhere. Evan, would that be something that you think would be clear? Yes. Okay. I don't agree. I don't think the 3.5 billion appears anywhere else in this document. I think you need to have it clearly stated out there. This is how much we're transferring. This is how much tax the village collects today that the town is gonna have to collect in the future. So I see a sentence in the chat that I think solves the problem just regarding the comment I made. I see a sentence that Irene has put in there that seems very clear. Andy, is that acceptable to you? Sorry, I don't have the chat. I don't even open the chat. So I've not even seen it. I'm sorry. Oh, that's okay. I'll read it to you. Integrate the 3.5 million of the $5 million village budget with the $16 million town budget. Sure. Does that, okay, that works. Okay, so Tini, can we ask you to make sure that that comment from the chat is what is put for bullet number one? Yes. Thank you. Yep, I can't do that on screen for you, but I will be sending this to Linda in the morning. Okay. And Dawn pointed out in a previous email that there is a duplicated question on the bottom of page 25 about the village voting twice. And I believe you told me that, Tami, you've already deleted that. Yes. That one, at the bottom. Yep. Because it's already answered in a previous question. Yes, so we, yes, I talked to Linda about that today and she's removed it in a different draft, so. Okay. And get in this packet. Totally understandable. Dawn. Yeah, yes. What? Did you not have your hand up? I thought you did. No, I think there was therapies, but I do have a question. I was gonna put it up anyway. The part about Australian merger will result in Australian ballot. I've had a lot of comments on that and I need to know if that still needs to remain in there. So I've had a lot of comments on that too. And the reason it's remaining in there is because while it is absolutely true that the town and village voted on Australian ballot to approve this year's budget, we added it into the charter. So we wanted to make sure that people knew that what they chose this past November was going to continue into the new merged community. And we were not going to revert back to voting from the floor at town meeting. Thank you. Sure. Vince? Sorry, that was residual. Oh, okay. Any other board member comments or questions? Andy and then Pat. So as long as we're going through some technical stuff. Page 21, it says that the select board can only pass ordinances outside the village. This is not strictly true because liquor license ordinances or ordinances that we have around liquor licenses apply to the entire town. So just, and I don't know if there are others, but that's one that I was able to sort out. So I just concerned about that inaccurate statement. It's probably nobody's going to care about it, I guess. So you did mention that in your email over the weekend and along with a lot of other questions which Evan and I and Sarah have answered. And a lot of them are just different interpretations and it's completely reasonable to expect that every different person who opens this document is going to have a different interpretation of everything.  Did you want to say anything? No, I took it down. I was going to expand a little bit on the voting thing but it doesn't need to be said. Yeah, I mean, it's frustrating because we want to make this perfect. We don't have the time to make it perfect but what I do think we have done has been our very best effort at it considering all the things we are doing, all the information we have at hand. And it definitely has been reviewed multiple times by multiple parties and it could be reviewed for another year with our tendencies to look at things very closely. So we need to move on. So before we have a vote on improving these materials, let's open it up. There's four hands up and I see Irene and then Annie. Please go ahead. Thanks so much. I heard the chair say a few minutes ago that we're deciding on the best course here and the best course for the town as merger. I would respectfully suggest that this is based on old data. We have just shown that the tax equalization has manifested over time. Thanks to all the consolidations that were done back when I was on the board and when Andy was on the board before. So I would respectfully ask that you revisit this because there's no use going through all this work and paying for all this postage and all this printing when the tax equalization that merger is happening. In addition to that, I would bring to your attention the fact that the budget is on the same ballot as the merger vote. And I just heard a few hours ago that you're gonna be putting off your final conversation on the budget till February 1st at which time I believe your annual report would go to the printing press. So I'm not sure why that's going to be bulk mailed out at the same time that this could be bulk mailed out and you could buy yourself another two weeks not to make this perfect, but to address the many, many concerns that have come up for the past couple of months and have not been addressed in these informational materials. And I just think it would be really smart if we remembered we're not having an in-person town meeting this year and that's something that a lot of us have to keep reminding ourselves because it's all new. But this mailed and printed information could be printed and mailed exactly when the budget information goes out because the two issues are on the same ballot. There is no reason to hasten to get this to the printer tomorrow morning because it would arrive prematurely compared to the budget information. And if you have to, why not put them in the same thing and save some more postage? Put them in the same booklet and everyone gets the packet that they can read before they open the ballot they're gonna get from the town court. Thanks so much. Annie. Sorry, I was on mute. I wanna talk, which it feels like I'm working through Elaine like she's a medium. I wanna thank Andy for his comment. I'd like to thank the board, the entirety of the board and Andy in particular for the comments that he made earlier. It really gave me a lot of faith in our, I already have a lot of faith in the five of you at the table. And in particular Andy's comments this evening were really supportive and thoughtful. And I'm really grateful that you all figured out how to work through wording right now and get some components done. I'm a fan of this getting into people's hands so they can start thinking for themselves. And I appreciate all of the work and effort by the board and staff. Thank you so much for all you all do. Thank you. Tracy Delphia. Good evening. I just wanted to point out that I also appreciate Andy's attention to try to make this document the best that it can be before it goes out. And as an objective observation, I think that a lot of his frustration comes from the fact that this was on the agenda last week and when discussion should have taken place he was told that now was not the time to discuss it. And now it seems as though it's too late to make any changes to potentially improve upon that document. So just in case folks weren't aware of that fact, I just wanted to point that out quickly. Erin Dickinson. Yes, I actually, Tracy said exactly what I was thinking. I've been a silent observer for the last couple of months because I have four young children. So this has been an avenue for me to actually join meetings and I've stayed silent because I know you have a lot of work to do and I don't want to take up your time. But I do have to say that I really appreciate the attention to detail that Andy has brought up. And some of the points he made particularly tonight, I think it's really important to particularly listen to the fact that when voters do go to vote if there is any incorrect information regardless of how small or large it is, you don't want that to deter from the potential success of what you've spent so much time doing. So anyhow, thanks for letting me speak and I do appreciate all you have done. Thank you. Is anybody else who hasn't spoken yet wishing to speak? Okay, go ahead briefly, Annie and then we're going to bring it back to the board. I know that some people have not been aware of the work that was done at the subcommittee level for the past two years towards this document and that Andy has contributed so intelligently for so long to this document that those that have only seen the last few months are maybe unaware of that depth and length. Thank you. Okay, so board members, are there any further questions or comments before we vote? All right, I don't see any board member comments. Okay, one more comment from the public, Patty, go ahead quickly please. Oh yes, I just wanted to say that from that last person's comment, I thought it was really good. You know, the Essex.org website, if you could put both videos that were done, one was on 114 and one was on 115, whatever way people learn best about, how all this is explained to them, some people learn better with graphs, some people learn better listening to you, some people learn better from listening to Ken. I mean, everybody has their own way. I would like the Essex.org website, which was originally the town outside the village website, because you have an Essex.junction.org website, but now we're one, I'd like both sides to be presented please. Thank you. Thank you. Annie, you've gone twice already before, we need to wrap it up unless it's really urgent. Thank you. Pat, go ahead. Just very quickly, Essex.org, the town outside the village does not and has never had its own website. Essex is one town in one community. Irene made a specific point of, pointed that out in a verbal chat during our last meeting to me, conceding that point while I was trying to be rhetorical about the sense of community and the sense of one town, which clearly I don't think we're at yet. Patty, there is no town outside the village website and there has never been a town outside the village website. Essex is everything that includes the village of Essex.junction and has been. Okay, thank you, Pat. All right, would anyone like to make a motion to approve the informational materials? I move that the select board approves the distribution of revised informational materials about the March, 2021 vote to merge the village of Essex.junction and the town of Essex. Thank you, Vince. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Pat. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. No. Roll call? Pat? Aye. Vince? Aye. Andy? Nay. Dawn? Nay. And Elaine? Aye. Motion passes. Thank you everyone for your very close reading of the materials and for your efforts on behalf of communicating with the community about this important decision. And in that vein, the next business item is outreach efforts. So in the past, Dawn and Vince, this is your first go-round with the budget for us. In the past, we used to go to divvy up a bunch of basketball games and hockey games and other activities happening in the community. And board members would go stand at the entrance and hand out flyers about the budget, answer questions, talk to people. We are not able to do that this year due to COVID. So if any of you have any suggestions and I think Evan might have some things to say about outreach that we can do online for this budget and for the valid item on merger, let's talk about that. Evan, did you have any ideas in mind in particular or would just sort of like a quick brainstorm on this? Oh, it was just more of a, I'll put my camera on. It's more of a brainstorm. I mean, obviously, we're now in the virtual world more than the physical world. The days of going to a basketball game will remember them finally, hopefully next year. But it's going to have to be virtual. So I know that it's tough. People would like to go out and explain the budget. You did it tonight. You're going to have a second budget hearing. Do you want to do a budget show?  That's what's left. And again, as you mentioned, the ballots get mailed out well in advance of March 2. So we're really up against the calendar and the clock. Yeah.  But you got about a month to do some outreach on budget. So. Vince, go ahead. Yeah. So my suggestion might be like instead of doing that meet and greet at the door of a basketball game, we could each set up our own or pair off as board members into teams and then have a virtual meeting, like a teams meeting set up by the town. So Evan, maybe staff could prepare a few meetings for a couple select board members to go. So that way we're not violating any quorum rules or anything like that. But we still have some overlap. Maybe I could sit with Andy, because Andy is very experienced with the budgetary process. And I don't know something like that. I mean, if Andy will have me. Vince, I think that's a great idea. I know that channel, excuse me, town meeting television annually has the manager and the chair of every town come on to do a half an hour budget show. And we have one scheduled for January 28. But we're going to have to move it because we've moved our second hearing. So we'll do it after the first to last them to reschedule that. So there will be that. I'm assuming, Evan, that we'll still do the Q&A sheets. But we'll just make them PDFs and make them available on the website. And then, yeah, Vince, I think that's a wonderful idea. We can put a couple dates up where board members can talk with answer questions, kind of like what our state representatives do. They have a community coffee hour. We could have a budget coffee hour. And board members could participate and answer questions. I think that's an excellent idea. Pat or Vince or Andy, Andy, go ahead. Just Elaine and I hopefully this doesn't come out wrong. But in the past, when the select board chair has been on the ballot, we have had the vice chair do the budget presentations both on television and at town meeting. I don't know if we want to continue that practice here or not. Did Pat, did you do the budget last year, the budget show? No, Elaine. No, this is Elaine because you'll be on the ballot. Of course. Yeah, absolutely. That would be fine. If Pat, you're up to that, absolutely. Oh, Jesus. Oh, wait. Was I unmuted? Oh, sorry. No, I can't do it, but obviously I'll need to get with Evan and Sarah to run some rehearsals. We have a slide show and everything. We'll just plug in the new numbers and then you can go. It'll be fine. If I can explain a $73 million school budget to a crowd of people, I think I can take a crack at this one. I've got confidence. I have every confidence you can do it. You're coming back from the abyss there. Thanks. You had me a little worried with, oh, Jesus. OK, I'm making a note to contact town meeting television and ask them to let them know that it'll be you, Pat and Evan. And Andy, thank you very much. I don't think I was aware of that precedent. And I think it's a great one. So I'm happy to step back and let the vice chair take that over. And we're going to have to change the date from the 28th until after our public hearing. Pat, would you be able to work with Elaine on some dates that you would be available so that we don't accidentally book a night you can't do? Yeah, absolutely. Although I can make any night available except for February 10. Any other thoughts about Vince regarding the community conversations? Maybe what we could do is send around it. I'll send around a doodle poll to board members for some weekend afternoons. And folks can sign up and then we'll set some dates out for the public to just jump in on a Zoom or a Teams meeting and ask their questions. How does that sound? That sounds perfect. OK, making a note of it. Any other? Just just a quick note. Maybe we should advertise those on like front porch forum. The front porch forum? Absolutely. I think Tammy already has a great system in place for using front porch forums to advertise that kind of stuff. So OK. Any other thoughts, board members, on outreach? Go ahead, Pat. Do we have any other large groups that do meetings weekly or bi-weekly? I'm thinking obviously Elaine, I'm thinking Rotary is one. But I'm wondering if there's other similar groups in the area that do kind of either get together on a semi-weekly basis where we might be able to take advantage of 30 or 40 eyes sitting down. Rotary honestly is the only one I know off top of my head. But maybe there might be some others. Lions? The Lions. Well, I mean, you are welcome to approach Rotary and ask them if they want to host a budget discussion. I'm not sure they will want to do that. Yeah, it seems a little political. Right. But it's worth a shot. And then Evan, is that Carmel Turborg, who's the chair of the Lions right now? I actually think it's Tom Stone. Oh, OK. He's a neighbor. I don't know Tom. So I'm wondering if someone could reach out to see if the Lions would want to have such a presentation. I could ask him. He's around the corner for me. OK. OK. And if it's OK with the board, even though we're not voting on anything at the moment, I'll open it up to the floor. Patty, go ahead. Yes, I would just like to clarify that we actually do have two separate websites. But I'm not saying that to divide us, to say we're two separate municipalities. But we're trying to be one. The reason I'm stating this is everybody is turning to the internet. Everybody goes to the s6.org website for town and village information. And it would behoove you to put any kind of video, whether it's the budget, whether it's a Lane's presentation, whether it's Ken's presentation, anybody that has a voice belongs on that s6.org website. If you want to put it on the village website, too, go for it. Thank you, Patty. We have two websites. That doesn't mean we're not one town. Thank you. I never said we're not one town. We are one town, very much so. Thank you. OK. Thank you. All right. We do have an executive session on the agenda, which we will do at the end after we've done our business. Would anyone like to move the consent agenda? So moved. Thank you, Vince. Second. Thank you, Dawn. Any discussion of the consent agenda? OK. Seeing none. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? OK. Thank you. Board member comments and the reading file. Anything to discuss? I would like to just throw out a thank you to Travis and Evan and Greg for their work on a proactively coming up with a COVID emergency leave plan for employees, since we no longer have federal coverage for that opportunity for staff. So thank you very much for being proactive on that. So I just got an email today. We have had a couple of employees test positive over the last couple of weeks. It is regrettable, but we're not immune from the rest of the United States. So we are just trying to muddle through schedules and trying to keep people shifts and departments from all coming down with COVID at the same time. So right now, we're struggling or going to struggle this week a little bit in a couple of departments. And so for the people at home, if a sidewalk doesn't get plowed or a street or something's just not done the way the village or the town usually does it, it's probably because of a staffing issue. And we're trying to make do in these very troubling times. So just FYI, again, thank you for mentioning the policy. Every week something new comes out, whether it's from the state or the federal government. And we're trying to maintain security and safety and try to be a fair employer to our employees because we need them to not come in if they're not feeling well, but definitely come in when they're OK. And so it's a balancing act. Please give our best wishes to your staff members who are not who tested positive. I'm very sorry to hear that. But also it's a testament to how much preparation and work you are all doing that we've only had three. So thank you. Pat and then Vince. Yeah, I can correct that. We're upwards of five or six, but it's three this week. Still, I mean still in all this time. Go ahead, Pat. Yeah, no, I haven't. You have to definitely send along our well wishes. I will. And I know we are small government, but we are government nonetheless. So I think that it would be safe to acknowledge at this point that tomorrow is a very eventful day for the nation. So I want to say that I hope tomorrow goes safe. I hope that everyone at the Capitol tomorrow manages to that we don't have any problems, no violence, anything along those lines. And we see a safe, peaceful transition of power. Thanks, Pat.  Yeah, I just wanted to thank Evan for all that he's doing for DPW and trying to keep everyone safe. I don't know how many of you know this, but I have a family member who works in the Essex Town Public Works Department. And I just, I really appreciate that, Evan. You're welcome. I didn't know that, but all the same. They do a great job and a great service to the community. And again, luckily now, I guess, we're not expecting any snow of any measure in the next couple of days. But we do have a lot of roads and a lot of paths and a lot of water main. And we're hoping that this week is not on whatever a quiet service week. Yeah, yeah. OK, so if we are ready, that concludes the public business of our meeting this evening. Dawn, what's up? I have a question before we go into executive session because I'm technologically challenged. Are we coming back to this one? That was the perfect T for me. We are, it's just the select board going into executive session. And so we will not be making any decisions in executive session. I don't believe we have any business to do after we finish executive session. So I think we'll be able to adjourn from executive session. And so we would end this video link. Do you, is that your understanding, Evan? Yes, I believe I'm not going into executive session with you, but yes, I would cancel this link. So again, I do the audience, go into executive session on the other link and adjourn from there. Yeah. And I will make sure that you. Time and yep. I will make sure that we have the time and the motions for the minutes. I wish you all well. Thank you. Evan, you're just saying that. Thank you again, as always. Thank you, Tammy. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Dennis. And I think there was a couple other staff members in the audience, thank all of you for being here this evening. So would one of you be willing to make a motion to enter executive session? Sure. I move that the select board enter into executive session to discuss the evaluation of a public official in accordance with one VSA, section 3133. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. I heard Dawn there. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, at 10.13 PM, we are heading into executive session. So we're going to leave this link behind. Good night, audience. Thank you for all of your comments this evening. We'll see you next time.


You got your start. Well, I'm from St. Louis, Missouri. I think I was about 17 years old. And I was working in the pool hall. Had become a pretty good pool shooter. And I was hustler there. Sometime I would clean the tables, and sometime I'd mop the floor, sweep the floor. You know, I'd pick up a couple of dollars here, a couple of dollars there. So one day, these guys came in, five guys, different color outfits, green, purple, red. They looked like peacocks coming through the door. All these different colors. And they had cars that matched the colors of their suits. And they had women in the car.  I had been confused as to what I wanted to be in life.  Whatever they is, that's what they want to be. So as faith would have it, I stayed right around the corner from them. And I would go over to their house and they would teach me how to cheat in cars. I could deal off the bottom of the deck and deal a second card and I could shoot through your full paradise. And this is what I was doing. Sometime I'd run to the store, walk the poodles, take the cars and get a wash, just to make a couple of dollars. But in the process, they would teach me, like I say, how to cheat in cars, cheat in dice. So eventually these girls went to coming through and this girl says she took $500 out of this guy's pocket and the other girl says she took $700 out of this guy's pocket and I said, well, what the fuck? I ain't getting no money with these cars and dice. I want to be a pick pocket. Totally. So I went to the, I went to my teacher, I told him, I said, look, I want to be a pick pocket. He said, you don't know anything about picking pocket. I said, I didn't know anything. I didn't think about dice and cars until you told me. Teach me how to be a pick pocket. Well, he didn't, he wasn't that good at stuff. He knew the basics, but he didn't actually know what he was doing. You know, I got more from the girls than I got from him. But as faith would have it, he called me one day and said, look, pack your bags. We're going to New Orleans, Louisiana for the Monogro. I said, New Orleans, Louisiana for the Monogro. He said, yeah, you'll get plenty of practice down there because everybody down there wore costumes. And they're drunk. And they're drunk. And they're drunk. So off the Louisiana we go, and he tells me to go get about five costumes, Batman and Flash and all these different costume, Daffy Duck and so on. So when I got here, he said, in case you get hot in one costume, you run back to the hotel and put another one. And by hot, you mean overheated?  So, so. You know when you're on like the same wavelength with someone and then you're not at all? That just happens. So I'll tell you, Park, I'm taking wallets and stuff and I'm going up and down and getting kind of hot and I'm running back to the hotel. Chase Costume come back and get hot, run back to the hotel. So I'm going back and forth taking wallets.  I was parking like a fish on the street. All he had to do was tie him up and grab it and going down the street, you know. So I was getting plenty of practice. So anyway, when I got back to the hotel, my teacher, I said, this was a piece of cake. He said, you think it was a piece of cake? He said, well, let me tell you one thing.  If you can do it in New York, you can do it anywhere in the world.  So he said, look, you're not a pickpocket. I'm going to give you a letter of introduction to the gypsies. I said, he said, yes, if they got some gypsies in New York, I'm going to give you a letter of introduction. You got $500? I said, sure. He said, when you get there, go see these people.  Teach you how to be a real pickpocket because you're at the beginning stage. So sure enough, I get to New York. I got checked in on the 8th Avenue, 54th Street. About two blocks down the street to have one of those gypsy places in the women's, in the front. I have no idea what you're talking about. They're one of those storefronts places and they're the crystal ball and they got the cards. Oh, totally. Okay, the fortune tellers. Fortune tellers, yeah. And you're like, why am I gonna get my fortune read by someone who can't even have a full floor? They just have the little window.  So I go in and I say, look, I'm looking for Ralphie. So she's away right here. So she goes in the back and this tall thin guy comes out, looks like Earl Flynn.  Flat.


Good morning everybody. Welcome back to another stream. We need to lay my out of the way Read it weep it. I don't know. I don't care. Let's get started main main Yesterday pretty easy day nothing pretty much went Let's be sort of attended We're looking for prices why blow it was building short prior to the open There you go at 10 o'clock. You've got your swipe. You go a further. So they get here It's still within sort of where you'd have entered soon find So there's your 10 o'clock entry around here and it pushes up Comes out makes it high because again, you're only looking for this Up move just to clear out the shorts It's you only really had these shorts stack up in the first place Because you just wanted to get people tripped up on this high And after that back down again We have now monday's range set up for the week. So that's what we always want to mark out There's our sort of tentative range or tentative weekly range because Tuesday will end up Siding Holy whether the weekly range will be Tuesday trades inside monday then this becomes our weekly Right now, I mean you can see that new york already So i mean london rather or he went above that grabbed a bunch of lungs pushed back down And now it's sort of struggling The makeup of the current sort of market and you can see that when it went above new york London rather It did end up collecting a bunch of lungs here and that's always a nice sign today. Okay, you're at 50% of the week range and also collecting lungs So we're potentially going to go down a lot Pretty nice and simple In most times you just want to see something and do the opposite Break down this again. We did a lot of love Narses on this yesterday where you could see something slowly stacking up here We went over to spot We saw spot had the same thing you can see that here But we had all these guys just panic selling into someone And then push on Same thing here just much of selling no one really bought on spot yesterday She's always nice And it's just back to the same story again where we're pushing down pushing down So we're probably accepting similar sort of results to come out from today Uh if anything I mean you can see that for some reasons People bought on the break of London. I don't know how you get trapped like that and how it's By as you just see that and just say yeah, that's great. Let me buy there I mean, let me let me sell at the bottom and let me buy the top I don't know like what are these guys doing that To sort of signify and buy there And the same time I shouldn't complain because these are these guys reasons you make money, but Bill is just confusing. It's just like, okay. How can you be this bad? That you just haven't learned your lesson After like the second time Just it just strikes me as weird Maybe if people have too much money Or maybe they have too much. Yeah They have no sense for the money they have Surprising But again, we already thought about this. They just start fun pushes back down We're collecting a bunch of shrewds here. So that's something we have to be wary of and you can see in spot as well There's a lot of selling that's been in touch That's always always a fun time If we had those two together we can tend to look at ways to try and Try to clear these guys out prior to moving down if we are in fact trying to move down for the day I mean if we're doing the opposite where We're just searching down and just seeking for lower and just grabbing a few more shorts and the way because I mean They've been pretty good about on on a downswing So Managing both longs and shorts. So they've been breaking both ways So it's not one way or another. It's okay. There's a decent amount of both ways. There are more shorts than there are longs but there's still sort of longs still listed around here rather than being sort of Completely tapped out. So adding a few more longs here could be a nice addition I mean, you could just sort of signify If we swipe down it just becomes a swing down like it was yesterday and push up out for the longs or the shorts after the After we clear out longs on the down move here So we can sort of push out and try and If we look at it Here You're gonna see this as Came into initially. So we've got stops here Yep stops. Yes. I haven't been here So we're looking for these two areas It's better to stop on so for the main one is always going to be that weekly low here. It's always on the Monday rather initial load That's something that we're looking for here generally want this week to be worse than Open I'll open the week is here. So it's still green pretty much on doji so Ideally, we just want today to try and sort of recover upwards. It's the best course action for us in terms of long run moves If we end up pushing down so be able to and then sort of reach around If we're pulling out here, we can reach around like this as long as the closing read The week we're happy Again, what the week looks like After the last week just sort of Meloing out for now Closed off the week here I mean, but that is this you can see that it's closed off everything here on the weekly So it's just met this and that was the reason for going by in the first place and Again, something we discussed yesterday And back down it's by itself. You can always trade with the inside itself as long as it starts being that We're still sort of hoping for that to continue downwards At least try to find itself around sort of the territory Yeah territory around here, I mean Generally or better and better sort of Areas we're looking for this. I mean, it's just what we've been looking for for a really long time I mean at some point they're just gonna have to give up ghost and give it to us Uh, I mean They don't give it to us. You know, I'm just gonna be Yes, I'm gonna be levied Yes, same story here. We ended up doing uh, I mean it ended up driving it Everybody out. So you can see the recovery they had Be getting into new york. They held it up here grabbed a few more lungs because people thought they could break this Then instantly got wiped out and as soon as the open came they just sold into this area here to help the all the stops Today's the 25k day I want it to be but I don't think it ultimately ends up being today. That's the thing So it's just uh Getting sometimes you don't get what you want I never get what I want Because Uh, you can see here. That's where it hits the low hits it with london. I mean bitcoin rather On that 10 and 10 15 and swipes up the covers and see where it mills out And that's what you use for bitcoin. It's like, okay. I hit there. Nice got rid of the lungs That's where it ends up stopping at also that would be must the area I stop at for A bitcoin so that's where you just sold into and you're sort of been happy here and just say, okay There we go. You got both sides and just reverse it Again, it just built up different again. It's just Just we're looking at this just opens here. That's the only Only subspent and it's still a bit above but it might continue as it did for last week where it just Spated sideways and just gave you it just the shallowest of uh shallow Downward swing Just getting the more this continues going this way the more people we can catch on the up swing instantly get them out And just let just make them feel a lot of work I remember we drew this uh not as All right, but just do sort of uh Do the opposite or just monitor where retail is going because we don't like trend lines here We use them just to say that. Oh, yeah. Okay. Where can we catch retail? Where can we catch traders here here here? Did we catch them? Yes. Yes. Yes and back we go So you can do the same thing for everything Throughout I mean this deeper one this Good body to body You can see that again You have that closer area where you can catch people on the sort of Short term anything above here will catch people on a break And catch breakout traders and stock out uh shorts on this slope as well So you can see you've got a lot of liquidity up here available to us From both breakout traders and stocks So it's a twofold. So we want to look at that and just say okay So we're bringing out This here, but we're just probably going to trade back Yeah, which we are already if we swing high and then catch a nice little Let's say inverse head, uh, then we can catch people catch people out by sort of ripping them away Jen's up working out, uh to what the book says, uh, and In sort of uh, how we've been training again After sort of yesterday where we had the high everything's been trading really short We could have given up uh here and just said okay. I'm closing here. There's no point being in one and just seeing this and like, ah damn it Then see this back in probably expecting similar sort of scenarios to uh Sort of unfold where you do have loans you did have loans so come in to and throw But right now initially collecting more So you want to you want to swipe them out if you want to go any higher And we do have a bunch of shorts added to our sort of uh books always, uh, create a lovely time for an upward swing Even if it's on the impulse or Uh, today was a quiet day for the news directly, uh, nothing's all coming up and Like I said, Canada didn't really affect us made up place. We don't really care for it Uh, just have some things coming in close to sort of 10 Speakers coming in retail sales don't really affect the charts too much again Like I said, another thing sort of too important coming out uh from today Major that will affect uh Everything anything that it's decent sort of kind of Uh, I mean it is sort of driving itself a bit higher grabbing a bit of long I mean fell well below below, uh, forecasts If it was anything else if this was sort of KDP or any sort of major This sort of disparity will normally I mean Here's a big thing holding on stock market. Oh, is that is that a hook him? unrelated findings from finance and so tesla seek Yeah, I would also tesla stick each I don't know why you're holding that Let's let's see what the bank of america is saying critical information for us trading day Registrals and more debt ceiling talks are a big spot like tuesday with stock futures indicating a wobbly Unwobbling ahead There was also some disappointing china data that showed a slow recovery Everything Uh It's the dipping a toe into how investors are feeling these days So the latest fund manager survey from america strategist michael Upknit and team reveal that investor sentiment deteriorated in may The most bearish of 2023 as investors lifted cash balances And more and got a little more negative on growth Uh, you say that good news positioning Very positive You see that do I have to go like this? You see that Interesting Everyone's always talking about how Like I don't know if everyone's talking about but I've heard decent amount of people talk about there we go It's finally coming down Like I said, it's nothing that will affect our sentiment in Trying to push people out. Yeah I'm going to push people out for the 10 o'clock 10 o'clock, so I since we get these people out then we can maybe make a dig for higher Anything if anything carry on yes this or just wait to transition into a Uh, that's this. Yeah. What was I saying again? Uh, yeah, everyone's talking about how everything just looks like 2008 again with uh You saw that when it was flashing that If you find that out 14 million people be fine. That's in homes. That's that's never a pretty good thing Uh, that's always That is always a bad time. Uh, especially if we force banks to collapse. I mean banks already Uh banks are in a predicament then It always lead to us having worse Times especially when people starting to refinance Just to survive That's and that would explain the slow growth Seeing just like our people struggling so sells Well below but still recovering because we were out We were out of worst a couple of months ago. Now everything's slowly Trying to pick up the sort of incentives that the government give it out But generally it's just not holding up very managerial convince that this is it will mean uh So long as the economy economic soft landing is soft Hello Charges The soft landing has the most like outcome of the global economy Oh I'm gonna get no landing Oh, no Everyone thinks that we're gonna get a soft land. I don't I'm interested in those What do those say no landing What do you mean? You just know the session and we just don't land just look just the dollar just becomes zero uh And 61 percent are convinced that uh has finished hiking Employees Perhaps not They went on pause. Do they not the Fed so They at least just monitoring the situation. We'll know when uh, that that darlard Power comes to speak Other than that, I mean we'll hopefully give us some Some semblance of hope to say, okay. Yeah, we're just monitoring the situation If we need people go up It's never finished the feds never finished. They're they're just pausing what they're eating See if they need to hike once more I think that's what they mean by finish, but I don't think they thought uh Put rates down anytime soon just because They're struggling Get ceiling blocks baffling some wall street Everyone will be raised We don't need this to be raised though. That's the thing raise the equity more issues Uh, so where the worries capital markets Uh, the bank credit crunch global recession at top followed by the high inflation rate that keeps the banks Yes, I think yeah, like I said bigger sorts of sessions I'm not even just global Yeah, everything's been looking weak geopolitical of China and Taiwan My inflation keeps going Don't fish dramatic credit then But yeah against a couple of the lists is bank credit crunch and global recession That's always We're always going to shout for those signs Right now, especially just like I think Everything's looked worse. Everyone's financing banks are struggling It's just it's just cooking into a very bad mess Out of the time sort of being like any harder I mean, maybe it's time sort of leverage that but you know, it may be too soon So you might get caught up in And like a flash crash then after that it recovers Because you always want to try your luck that in those flash not quite a lot But you always want to slowly accumulate in those crashes because after a flash they're Take is a recovery or a consolidation for another crash So it's if you see a consolidation neither consolidate alongside ad positions, but only if people just panic selling like we see But you can see that if you have both maps, just like, okay Everyone's selling at the bottom. Everyone's buying at the top. They're trying to trade this range But it's struggling. I mean we had a range a while ago with This bitcoin Just here where everyone's selling the bottoms everyone's panicking here. It's all Getting shares everyone's buying these tops and finally after one swipe recovery everyone's out Everyone's back buying these tops and selling the bottoms We want them to potentially sell more to the bottoms once they get a lot selling then maybe we can recover I mean, it hasn't dropped it since it's all plus I mean, I think they're just waiting for people And again, I don't think we drop it public. They're out On longs. We want people to come by us in spot market That's the only way to get them to sell to us at lower price and Finish them being wrong Listen, you've covered These bars playing so okay the day it was and not even the day that causes it's just the trying to cover this And just of course some mayhem Even course ma'am just grab us many longs Make sense to that I mean pretty early in the cycle and look at yesterday Pretty early when we came in Come in always around like eight We went higher and higher But we're expecting the drop because we saw Buildup of here. We knew that. Okay. It's it's not buying here. It's waiting for it to build up in shorts Then buying around here We're not longing here. We're not shorting here as well because we know that we're looking for And if you're shorting here, like, oh, yeah, it went down my way. Ah, I still recovering then you Then you instantly got spiked out all the stops taken if you're in that short then it's back down again Then ah, I don't know rest of the wicked and finally lines up with Pushing up being very aggressive this early Still sort of spells nice things for us if we're looking for a down sort of swing Just sort of collecting those longs As soon as we see that Sort of come out. We're just trying to create a nice little double bottom for us. Once we get that double bottom And then push out if it continues to go higher and just then consolidate into sort of this area here Then push this higher. That's where you've been and she's short But that's sort of your unlikely outcome Does the sound quality that sound really bad? Is it that bad? Maybe it's just my voice I've got a pretty croaky voice today And you've got some spot buyers. That's all Again, that's the whole reason for trying to go up in the first place to get people buying. They bought here They didn't buy anything here. They didn't buy anything here, but for some reason they're buying here That's always nice. I mean we managed to accumulate a lot here in terms of From the side of the market Accumulated those bids and people selling So that's always sort of signs that okay, they're trying they're probably sort of sell to them when they're buying So anytime you see this the market sort of offloading whatever you bought here They didn't really offload too much here. So At some point you're going to have to recover this game. They can hold off a week And maybe even a month on these sort of positions because they average it out Average out when they go to the downside Showing signs showing People say, oh, yeah resilience, but not really resilience. It's just just trying to grab people out and the only way they can really do that is by Making them think price will continue to fire In fact, yes, this is an imposition that we thought about. Yes, they mean I go there's where we got them There's this again, you can see they just start buying to this. They think it's going to break out And then when it doesn't they get Mild shock and we're like, oh, yeah Why did you buy that without open interest? How do you know it's buying and selling? Book my man and experience I guess a bit of both like Here's very fast movements tip will stop on we already had shorts here So expect stops to be taken We see these rapid flurry of uh lungs just being market buy So we can say a majority of that stop on No real new loans then you can see the truth of positions slowly getting added with our shorts. These are retail shorts flurry of longs stop on stop on And back again So most of these longs are stoppons. Uh, the only real people that ends up being added getting added here are these suckers Uh, again, love sort of flurry The fast movements and flurries. They're usually stopped Uh, if you see sort of medium positions slowly being added and taken away they're usually sort of actual beds And usually you have walls where the stoppons should take place And that's why you can trade with these walls for most of the part But again, sometimes they dig deep by like, oh wait, they can collect more here because they see breakout traders have orders as like Penetrally like here just say, oh, yeah, if it goes to this, I'll buy so they just wait for them to buy People will just love and push it back down. So again stoppons mixed with sort of market buys But the general consensus is, okay, they got what they needed If it's stoppons or breakouts regardless, it's going to go down At some point just due to the fact that they've collected or they've had to collect in short Uh, to hold the stop there in the first place. So I mean for instance here, this is in Lariat stops ends on the large dot here You can see this didn't really move the market but it was what a plus In the same way for what? 3,000 ones out of us plus plus two cages and this one hit here So instantly regardless of the stops or or new lungs being opened They just take it away because they're short here to hold it here But they had to counteract and you only can see That's 600 here.  It's not only going to be two Unless you're on spot market, that's it Then I can use that on here and just say okay. Oh, yeah, easily say that's just reaction That's just that's just reaction to say lungs I know the behaviors now and the patterns I'm looking for it's just like, okay. I'm looking for lungs here because I know I'm expecting breakout traders Um, look, but there's no you can see those stops here, but no real clean stops to be put here So just sort of breakout traders instantly caught out and I don't know they get caught out because there's no volume at the bottom No real shorts here No one sort of being tricked on this uh slope here So they pushed it out only the volume you got is on the second half and the top Push them Down and goes again, if Those are confused just comes time experience just spend more time looking at the charts and The better it becomes again, you can see these guys no volume here. They didn't get any lungs They're just getting shorts here anytime they flash red Get traders Because feeling your knees. Uh, yeah, man. You got you got you don't have that Does your knee also tell you when it's gonna rain because mine does like I I can tell when it's gonna rain Just by the feeling in my knee my bones my bones Probably my arthritis, but my bones feel weird, didn't it? I can feel the storm coming Like generally that's like that's not even a joke as well Another joke most time, but like like that's a genuine thing. I my knees start getting crickety before it rains. So Are you when it's raining? When it's going to rain Which is a nice thing to have It's not it's not even uh, but for trading it's not uh Experiences just like, okay, you know people where people are going to come in and stuff like that I mean this uh Tempted but at the same time just just a lot of effort and I don't know when they are gonna add it when they're gonna add custom indicators It's just right now I don't know when they're gonna add it. So let's say add it and essentially look like that I mean I can I can do it I think they're still sort of developing it, which is annoying.  That's that's why I'm trying to wait for Makes life easier I think that was late for like the end of the year, but We'll see if which comes to us me learning Me learning javascript or python But no, I'll I'll give it a go Just got to find the time because I'm still sort of Reading on the fact that it doesn't have most of the functions I And I have to get so I have to get really smart about things and I'm not that Maybe I can just run it through or talk again chat gbt and see what it gives out Then spend the rest of like the two weeks just trying to Make it work You know could be fun could be fun Slowly but surely coming down. I mean they do grab a lot of Still grabbing So nothing's all Surprising here and nothing's off too Too bad you're looking for Game stop on into a time up. That's what you're looking for out today But you can try to trick people out the main thing you try to do This one's already making a break for the downside, but In We have a lot of time We have a lot of time before we can get that nice and stuff on before you can get that to try and time up All the way here, but generally that's what we're trying to do It's been consolidated Because we don't have anything serious going on until uh This is bellen Friday here after the bellen comes in Nothing's all too serious until that friday That we can still close red for the week. We just have to pull out eggs and Friday basket and that dialogue to stay some dumb things and say Oh, yeah, we're gonna crash up Symptoms of the same thing that we had yesterday. Nothing should be surprising today Really, yes. Say you should be able to trade today.   That's your perfect. That's a nice area to short into walking given We start pushing down. I mean it depends on what we're doing these posts here start pushing up That's likely what we're going to do here But genuinely you're trying to pivot this already because you have an hour To kind of pivot this a bit further down If you want to look for a recovery long Then from there push back down if we end up breaking the low here, I'll be very surprised Again, it's been worth things. I think uh, that'll be where we go next after we take this area out Uh, so that's something you may want to look for after the fact maybe wednesday To start pushing outside the range because we need to start pushing the range. We can't just sort of Make this make this a good day or a good week rather for us You want a bad week just to Just to live within uh, sort of activations again Uh, again it falls under where we're looking for We're just just burying out here to make sort of sense. We've got stuff to catch us if we do take uh, take this low in large This is coming We've got areas to hold us so it doesn't sort of matter Out there's not going to be just a random crash, but we have nothing to trade to uh At least not this case uh this time As we've had uh It did Go itself out now Now we've got all that to do the same this week last week again Lift two expectations of having a bad week. Now we're just covered during the weekends Then we've got to try and do the same thing Same thing here Go push out you've got to do it in a way where we're making money And that's always that always looks like this where it has ebbs and flows And creates sort of nice little scenarios for us Again, you choose scenarios today either up and down And ultimately down to make it for Wednesday Or push it out to meet into around here Very aggressively Meet into aggressively then start pushing start pushing the envelope For Wednesday and so on Just all depends on the way the bids are going What's going if you think it does uh be uh latter Where it goes down Get clear as it clears out some infantry Just grab the few more shorts and pushes it out Clear as these guys out adds a lot more fires into the market because We've got to sort of offload all these shorts that we end up putting the market into collecting to someone We've got to do it some way Yeah And we go And with that I think I'll end it there Done pretty much all I wanted to do said what I wanted to say you guys know what I'm thinking for today And I will catch you guys tomorrow with uh the update on the uh aftermath Great save guys. Have a lovely day. I will catch you tomorrow. Peace


Have you ever wondered what a below-the-knee amputation looks like 14 days after surgery today's your lucky day? I hope you haven't had to wonder that but if you have I'm headed up to Denver right now to get my cast taken off And we're gonna see what this looks like. I Am gonna be honest. I'm a little scared to see what it looks like I feel like it's been an easier transition having a cast on because I woke up from surgery and I saw that my leg was gone But I didn't really see it. It's covered up. It's been encased in something.  I haven't seen where it ends And so I feel like it's been a little easier to deal with But today's the day today's the day. I actually get to see my new leg And I'm freaked out. I I really am I've been okay about this whole process so far But I'm starting to feel a little a little weird about it I think by the time I get up there, I will be good to go I generally generally am but we'll see I'm gonna take you guys along for it And you'll be there to see my reaction and to see what it actually looks like for my fellow amputees This is what a below-the-knee amputation looks like 14 days after surgery. So let's head up Let's check it out and let's see what it looks like


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, find the length of the altitude Pt of an isosceles triangle PQR in which PQ is equal to PR is equal to 2x units and QR is equal to x units. Before we move on to the solution let's recall the RHS criteria for congruence of right triangles. According to this we have that two right angles triangles are congruent if one side and the hypotenuse of one are respectively equal to the corresponding side of the hypotenuse of the other. This is the key idea that we use for this question. Now let's see the solution. So here we are given the isosceles triangle PQR in which we have PQ is equal to PR is equal to 2x units then QR is equal to x units and this Pt is the altitude of triangle PQR. We need to find the length of this Pt. Consider the right triangles PQT and PRT in this we have PQ is equal to PR which is given to us and PQ and PR are respectively the hypotenuse of triangles PQT and PRT and side Pt is equal to Pt since it is the common side for both the triangles. So therefore triangle PQT is congruent to the triangle PRT by the RHS criteria. Now since both these triangles are congruent so this means that PQT is equal to PR since they are the corresponding parts of the congruent triangles and this means that Pt is the point of the side QR of triangle PQR. Now as we are given that QR is equal to x units and Qt is equal to PR, Qt equal to PR would be equal to x upon 2 units. Now if you consider the right triangle PQT in this by the Pythagoras theorem we have PQ square is equal to Pt square plus TQ square we are already given that PQ is equal to 2x then Qt is equal to x upon 2 so we have that 2x whole square is equal to Pt square plus x upon 2 whole square which means we have third x square is equal to Pt square plus x square upon 4 from where we get Pt square is equal to 4x square minus x square upon 4 this gives us Pt square equal to 16x square minus x square upon 4 of Pt square is equal to 15x square upon 4 so from here we get Pt is equal to x into root 15 upon 2 units. We were supposed to find the length of this altitude Pt and this comes out to be equal to root 15x upon 2 units. So this completes our session, hope you have understood the solution of this question.


Good morning! Bolina's Lagoon. That's Bolina's Lagoon. You know what that is. This is last night's home. Anybody who wants to sleep on the side of the lagoon, please do it. It is totally vehicle-dweller-friendly. Morning, guys. Morning. Or should I say good afternoon? Because it is 1pm and we've been working hard in here. So here's the latest news. What's the scoop? In three hours we're going to go meet the guy with the bus and we might end up buying it today. Yes! Dude, I'm stoked. It's gonna be stressful as well. If I end up buying it, this is a big jump out of nowhere, but I want it, so listen. Yeah. Well, dude, this is gonna be epic, man.  Absolutely, yeah. Check out this. This is good for the towns around this area. Stinson Beach, Bolina's, Dogtown, Alima. Anyways, you kind of get the idea. If you guys want this coin, make sure to comment in this video that you want the coin. And I will give it to one lucky person. Here's Josh's potential school bus. Some dude in a Mercedes is gonna be the one selling it, so we will find out if this thing is legit or not. Are you gonna secretly film the whole thing? I'm pulling this whole thing, bro. Oh, let's do this. I'm gonna get my secret shades on. We're gonna roll. He seemed like a sleazy. I got you a help, man. Thanks. I'm glad I was there. The first time as soon as I rolled up with the camera, he was like, if you film me, I'm just driving away right now. Yeah, yeah. Like he's wanted or something. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this could have been a car deal gone wrong right here because he even came back and was like, what's wrong with it? You know, make me an intelligent offer thing, which I didn't get. He was kind of like, I don't know. It seemed like some old school drug dealers or something. I don't know. But like, so if you watch the other videos, you'll see what I said to them. But basically, there's way too much wrong with the bus.  It probably cost him more to fix it up than the purchase price. Even if the purchase price was like a thousand bucks, I would guess at least three grand. Yeah. Because that thing, it wasn't driving straight. I didn't say anything, but that thing was like the steering was off. Oh yeah. The engine, it sounded good, but it sounded like something was a little off and the mechanics to it. It's hard to say. But anyways, like I said, we're going to try and find them the correct bus because it's not about finding the cheapest price. It's about finding the best quality within your price range because that is going to save you money, folks, especially in the long run. Almost got it. There's a cliff bar. Here you go, buddy. Sorry, I didn't mean to toss it in, but it was a green light. This is the Lowe's where we're stopping to get some home improvement stuff and like right next door, I don't know if you could see it because we were going kind of fast, well, not fast, but it was a little fast for the camera. This is, I don't know what this is, but they have school buses here. All right. If you guys saw the vlogs where I went to Jersey to pick up Dan, the adventure bus, you'll recognize these buses here because it's owned by the same company. They're just written out space, so there's no one to talk to. And plus I've already been talking to people via email about getting a bus, so I think today is a bust. Did you get it? Guys, I think you know what time it is. It's shower time. I've been telling these guys about my heated shower and installing the bus for quite some time. Are you feeling pretty ripe? Yeah, it's been like four days. Four days since the shower? I already know your answer. You need a shower. Yeah, I'm only looking for a sponsor in Oregon right now. Nice. So we're still in north of San Francisco. We still got many hours to drive north to Oregon, but I feel like I need to hold up my end of the bargain, which I promise these guys a shower, so we need to install it somehow. I'm going to locate some parts and we're going to make this happen. This is going to be the shower head holster. I'm going to drill it into the bus right here and then pinching it together here using this to lock it to lock it in place. So then it'll be a holster for this like that. You'll see when I put it up. By the way, also apologies. I forgot to take this off of manual focus last night from the nighttime, so I'm dreading to look at the footage today.  Got a little rack with a little clippy action. We're just going to put it right up here. Outside shower situation. Really, I just connected the hose to the heater. Like I said before, we've got to find a propane hose that's long enough to reach here down at the tank right there. Let's begin. What's your name? Diana. What's up Diana? Down to the beach. We just had a little dinner. Stopped by Walgreens and got a scrubby pad because there's a good chance we're going to be showering in the river. Yeah, that was rad. Hello, very nice to meet you. Sorry we couldn't chat longer. You can't really see much, but this is tonight's parking spot. I saw this sprinter doing the van life thing. Right here is a cliff. You can't really see, but the ocean is right over here. We rolled up and we saw these two damsels in distress and it looks like their brothers and friends came out to help, but she drove the wrong direction and the car stuck. So, oh nice.