Good morning, everyone. I'll leave this here. I'm going to talk to you today about feathers. Now, I know some of you probably are vegetarian, but the reality is society eats a lot of chicken. What does that mean? There are a lot of feathers out there, millions of tons generated every year. But disposal options are limited. It's basically turned into a low-grade animal feed. But feathers are an amazing natural material. So at Aeropowder, we think they can be used for better. Let's start with another problem, then. Packaging. Specifically, polystyrene packaging. We all know it. It keeps stuff cold during transport. But we also know it's terrible for the environment, petroleum-based and going into landfill at the end. Here, we think feathers have the answer. I'd like to introduce you to our product, Plumo. Plumo is made from waste feathers converted into a textile surrounded by a biodegradable liner. You can therefore put it into cardboard boxes or delivery bags, and then put your items inside and it will stay cold during transport and fresh in a more sustainable manner. It is a bit silly to come to Helsinki and talk about keeping things cold. However, it really does work. We've done lab tests to show that its thermal conductivity is down to 0.03, meaning it's standing toe-to-toe with polystyrene. And we've looked at the market we want to enter first, and we're looking at food deliveries and recipe kit delivery services. I think they're invented around this region as well. It's a booming market. Often some of them are still using polystyrene as well. So we've been talking to customers in the UK, thinking more small about butchers and farms as well, showing that our product keeps their items cold for as long, if not longer, than their current solutions. We now need to convert these trials into paid revenue, and that's been done at the moment as we're working on our costing. At the moment, it's a bit inefficient as a startup, but we've got our costs to a certain level where we're slightly more expensive than the polystyrene solution they're using, but we think as we scale and grow, those costs will come down as we get economics of scale. I'd just like to point out that doing 250 tons is a quarter of the UK's output per week, and that will let us do many different customers in the UK. So there's plenty of potential. And who are we? Well, I'm Ryan. I'm handling the commercial side of the business. I have a PhD from Imperial College. My co-founder, Eleanor, actually is doing a PhD in feathers, which is unusual, at Imperial. We're a small team, but beyond that, we've got experts involved in textile manufacturing, coal-chayed packaging from GSK, and importantly, former members of the World Rendering Organization, and they were the ones who took the feathers previously, and are an important link to the poultry world. We're sponsored and supported by various networks, and through awards we've won, we've raised about 200,000 pounds at the moment, and this lets us kind of sell fun for another year. We're going to get this right and then launch our products, securing our first direct customers. But then the plan is obviously, as I said, to scale working with packaging suppliers to access distribution, and then mass production will begin in a few years' time. So thanks to feathers, we have Plumo. And Plumo can now, in a more sustainable manner, generate value right across the chain, from the poultry industry to the customers and the delivery services to the end users and have an improved end of life. All thanks to feathers. We don't want to stop there, though. The long, the big picture is a magical bit of kit that goes into the poultry industry. In-go feathers out comes valuable material. We then license that technology out globally, enabling the sustainable manufacturing of local manufacturing of sustainable materials, wherever they are in the world, as long as they are feathers. Thank you. Another good pitch. Funnily enough, I'm an investor in one of your target customers, Gusto. And they currently use wool, the sort of raw wool. In what way is your feather solution better than the wool solution? I'm debating what I say right now, but I'm going to say we've talked to Gusto, and it went very well. This outperforms the wool in terms of thermal performance. At the moment, just because we're so small, the price unfortunately wasn't right for them, and I couldn't guarantee them a price long-term. And that's what the sticking point was, but they love the product. It works really well. So I think we've got the beating of the wool, and that's what we're trying to do as well. And in terms of material available, there's far more feathers. So looking at competition or competitive products, how much are you better once on the cost side? Because I think it's important that you're not more expensive than the other solutions. And then if you think about the benefit where you say, hey, I'm after 40 minutes, my products are, I think, one degree cooler than with the other solutions, is that really game-changing? Because one degree feels like not so much. They care about the time, and the time to pass the critical limit of this is not safe anymore. And if you're using some of the more basic items, then this has got many hours over that. Unfortunately, polystyrene is very good at what it does. However, this at least matches that. Where you get, we think at scale, we can beat the polystyrene, but also importantly, polystyrene boxes are quite a hassle to receive. You've got a lot of dead space, which is something that customers don't want. They would love to use a more flat-pack solution. It's not for everyone, but there are other benefits as well. So I'm thinking about this ability to take the company to the next level. So let's assume that one of us here would be from IKEA, and we would be talking about, so how do you ramp this up? What is really your true capability to ramp the production up? Another side story, we tried to get into the IKEA accelerator, and they said very good, but unfortunately, probably not going to use any more feathers. So that was very sad to hear. So I think the way we ramp this up is we're doing a lot of hard work at the moment ourselves, but we know we need to partner with the right people, especially in terms of the packaging side. This is an area we need more expertise in. But we've now in discussions with pretty much the major poultry supplier in the world. Their basin also got arm in the UK. We engage with them at the R&D level, and it's been bumped up to the chain now to the head of innovation, and they want to push this project forward and figure out at scale, how do you receive waste chicken feathers, thousands of tons a week, and they are desperate. That industry is desperate to find value out these feathers. They're paying to get rid of them at the moment, and I receive emails about once a month from all around the world saying, can I buy your factory? Can I buy this? And I say, no, I'm just a guy with some material. So, yeah, not at the moment, yeah. Can we get a close-up on the materials? Oh, I was going to pass it over, I didn't want to. Not to go two dragons dead on the whole thing. I was going to bring loads and throw them out, but we kind of need them. Have a feel. How important to you is the look and feel. I guess for the gauze-toe or helo-fresh experience, it has to look natural. Does that matter, or actually most 99% of this market is industrial when it's no matter how it looks? We targeted this kind of higher-end food delivery industry, because it's slightly easier to access if you get the messaging right. So, things about the branding, that's why we kind of spent a while thinking up the name that sort of fits. And the look of the item, there would be some branding on it, but we started with a, I'm not going to scroll through it all, but we started with a plastic liner, and it just didn't look right. This is a starch-based biodegradable one. So, yeah, the look and feel of this product is going to be quite important. And it's part of the reason we want to keep lean and small ourselves, because we know there's a lot of work to be done about iteration. And if we just go to the big boys instantly, they sort of don't like it, it's dropped, that might be our one chance gone. So, we're going to grind it out for a little bit longer.  Yeah, yeah. So, if you were to buy the wall-based equivalent, that's probably coming in at something like a pound something, one pound 50, and ours is probably coming in about one pound 80 right this second, but we're sending material all over the place. So, we really think that can match that at least, and be competitive. Thank you.


Hello everyone! BlizzCon is here. This is day two of BlizzCon actually and we're gonna go and we are going to walk around a bit in our halls. We're gonna check out the Warcraft stuff. These look super sick. I'm labbed up which is cool. Everything is here. They have like season discovery. They have retail stuff all around here. They have cinematics playing all day. They got the music. You can see Jaina over there too. Let's walk around this way and let's start checking everything out. Look at this Jaina statue. This Jaina statue is unreal. It looks almost human. Look at her face. It's freaking wild. But yeah, they got all kinds of crazy stuff here. This is like the place. This is the place where like everybody's at.  It's nuts. They got cinematics playing all day. People are here. They got this like cool little, you got like a dining hall area. This reminds me of, this is like in Karazhan and in Moro's room. You got the dining area. They'll just sit here. They're watching like different cinematics and stuff are playing all day. And also I think they've re-streamed some of the stuff. Like they like, that if you can't make it into the main hall, they'll they'll re-stream some stuff which is pretty cool. So they got everything man. I think on this side they have all the different retail stuff set up. People can go and make a demo like the new retail content. I think it's like 10.2 stuff. I'm pretty sure. And then of course my personal, my area. Classic side. It's on that side. So yeah we got classic stuff. Hey, how's it going? What's up dude? Hey, oh look they got the big sword. Look at this. We got a huge line of people all the way over there taking pictures. But yeah this sword man. They got the sword and sell this from retail. Isn't that amazing? Actually amazing. Like that sword. The sword. That sword. But yeah. We'll move through this way. But man the spectacle of BlizzCon.  There's actually nothing like it at all. The spectacle is insane. But I wonder how do they do this? Are these projectors? Yeah, oh this is a projector. Yeah it's a projector on this side but it's so bright. Yeah it's so bright they can see through it.  Yeah we didn't really get to walk the floor at all yesterday because we were so busy. There were so many different announcements. There were so many different events that I was doing. Like I actually streamed. I got to play Season of Discovery yesterday with some of the devs which was great. And then I was on the panel. I was at the panel. Excuse me. But yeah you got people playing here. That's where I was set up playing. I think some of the retail guys. I saw Abster here earlier. They got a big crowd. They got a big old crowd here. Is this the uh yeah this is the classic area. The classic demo area. Oh they got demo surveys for people. Like have you played it? Human. It's human of course. Very good. Where's the paladin? They need to be a paladin one. But I love how they have all the different like dark iron dwarf, shaman, rogue, blood elf. They have all the different crests. It's sick. Dude you guys look incredible. How long are you gonna take you guys to do this? Are you guys doing the contest later? Nice. Well good luck. You guys look incredible. Hell yeah. I'll see you guys. This is all the classic demo stations. I wonder if I can just cut through. I want to jump over. Here chat. Let's do this. I want to jump over and I just want to go talk to people and just see. I just ask them what they think. Just see what people say. Hey how's it going? How are you? Can I jump through and just talk to people who are playing?  They're in the chat. Yeah blizzard has been just like progressively more and more like more than a work of the content creators and stuff which is which is cool to see because I mean you see it happening with a lot of the other different companies. A lot of the other different devs. It's good for everybody to work together and give people access to stuff and like hey get to show this, get to do that. So that's cool and it opens it over for you guys. Yo how's it going dude? How are you? I'm good. I'm good. How about you? Yeah it's been sick.  I was doing like double everybody else's damage. Yeah it was great. I wanted to go through and they said I can cut through and I was just gonna talk to people in line and they're not in line but playing and I just asked them like hey what do you think? It might be funny I show up and people are like wait what? Yo what'd you guys think? It was good. Yeah I'm having fun. Sick. Okay cool. Nice. I've seen you man. You gotta give Wake a hug for me. Oh I always do. I think it's interesting they did this with BFD. I actually would have liked to see them do it with another dungeon personally because I almost think like BFD is like a wet molten core. I kind of wish they had done like shadow frame keep or something but it's so cool. It's fun to like check everything out but what the heck they're trading. Dude it's sick man. Oh they have voice chat. Oh they use the in-game voice. That's funny. The in-game voice section not bad. Dude I was doing all the way when I did all track valley. I was doing AVs and burning crusade on the voice and I'm just it was like just memes. It was so good. The in-game voice with randoms min-maxing on demo server. True. No the in-game voice is sick. It's so funny man. Isn't this crazy like just looking through and just seeing all these people playing. Wow and classic and season discovery and I like I said I think I think I'm worried that they might be going a little bit overboard. That's my personal thought. I'm excited about the potential but it's almost a little bit too much. Yeah it's almost a little too much. Yo what do you think so far. Yeah man. How do you how do you what do you think so far.   Oh no what happened. I don't know you showed up. The camera died too. Yeah my bad. I cursed you. Have you played this yet. Yeah I played earlier. I put a video on my YouTube channel. You like read a lot more now on this don't you. It's it's okay. It's a I think they need to tweak it a little bit. I was like I was like overpowered. I was doing double everybody else damage. Yeah man.  Literally I showed up and the guy dies. Are you kidding me. I'm like I'm like a curse. I think they're going overboard but they basically all but have said that this is like it's the classic plus beta basically. Hey how's it going.  Yeah it's all but the classic plus beta like they didn't they didn't call it that but that's what this is. I think we're probably gonna get a classic plus sometime next year. I expect I expect this to be like hey let's throw everything in the wall see what happens. Okay you throw everything in the wall see what happens and then from there okay people like this they don't like this they like that they don't like that maybe we need to re-implement this another way. Like I think the rune system can be cool but I think it might be too much. It needs to feel like vanilla and they said that in the panel they said they want to keep it to the spirit of vanilla they want to keep a class fantasy and I think this this might be a little bit moving too far this way and I think they need to reel it back but this isn't it's a beta it's this is a demo and I think season of discovery is a beta that's the only way I'm looking at it. Hey how's it going? Hey what's going on? How are you? How do you like it so far? We just started. Oh really? This new root stuff is pretty fun. I think like I think it's fun I'm I hope it's not going too far but like just seeing the potential is like insane like the pre-step is like I saw the pre-step yesterday in the panel and I was like dude they can do everything I'm honestly unfortunately Blizzard has a real habit of shitting the bed as far as introducing stuff yeah when they introduced it I was like this sounds really stupid. That's what I thought too. But then when I did the deep dive I was like oh okay yeah there's something there. But yeah I've been playing a shadow priest at the moment I got a 45 on Bosse. Yeah yeah. It's been pretty cool. Oh cool.  Okay well I'll be a fun dude. Yeah man we'll see ya. Oh no! No! No please! Why do you hit so hard? I'm four levels higher than you! You hit so hard! What the heck? You guys look great. I love the belliger on top. Yeah. Oh yeah. Look at the stature dude. The Spectua BlizzCon is just absolutely incredible man. It's it really is something else. Okay so we're gonna check out the Warcraft Tavern. So this is cool this whole hall like we said earlier. They have Warcraft stuff everywhere right. Warcraft stuff is everywhere. You got the statues, you got the demo stations for retail, for classic, you got the streaming stations and then on this side you have the Tavern right. Here in the Tavern what you have is the Hearthstone. This is the Hearthstone area. There's Warcraft Rumble on the other side which we'll check out too. But Hearthstone is here. We're gonna find a way in. I think entrance on the other side. Let's go over there. Okay so yeah this is basically like the Hearthstone area but this is I think one of the coolest areas in like in all of BlizzCon. The last couple times I came to years ago four or five years ago. I just feel like this is like an upgraded loot goblin set. They got the Hearthstone like the Badlands stuff that was just announced. There's these nice wooden benches like it's like a real tavern style. Super cool. I love I love the RP stuff man. I love the RP stuff. And this is a this is a bar. They have a they have a bar set up here. That's food too. I think they have food. Oh they have popcorn. Tables no way. Yes it dude. Tables are sick. I love tables man. Tables are badass dude. Look at this. Curvature. That was cool huh? I'll do it again. I'll do it again. Watch. Ready? Ready? Dude the Defiance Pillagers. They were red earlier and they changed their light to green so they're not aggro anymore. That's hilarious. That's so funny. Dude look at this fire. This is a real fire. Wait this is cozy. This is super cozy. We got the uh the bison. Oh man it's toasty. I get looks it looks like those are actual windows but they're just hanging from the ceiling. Doesn't that look cool? Yeah look at that. Isn't that wild? By the way Chad if you guys are new here turn on your notifications for the channel. If you want to know whenever I'm live you want to see what I'm doing turn on the notifications. You can also download on Google Chrome and Firefox. There's an there's an add-on. There's an extension. S-Fan updates. YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Red, everything else. Okay so next we played this yesterday. Let's go to Warcraft Rumble. Let's check Warcraft Rumble out. I think these are cool. Good quality. What do you think these trees are made out of? The flowers. Some kind of foam. And the Warcraft Rumble area is very like very cartoony. Very like like they made it look like kind of the same aesthetic of the game. Like the art style is really cool. It's me! Number one villain! Hey, how's it going? You want this shirt? Oh no I'm good. I'm good. I'll see you. Did we see? Oh we didn't see the dark room fair. Let's go to the dark room fair. We made this very unwritten dude. This looks amazing. Absolutely incredible. What's your opinion of Paddy and Sid's new classic? They're overpowered. Overpowered? Way strong. They're always overpowered. They're always overpowered. So he's the same? He's the same. All right guys we're here at the dark room fair. The real dark room fair chat. They do this at BlizzCon. They have a bunch of fair games and stuff going on here. This is like a super hype exciting part of BlizzCon. Like if you know the dark room fair in WoW, I mean it's once a month it comes. What is it? Is it the first Sunday? The first Monday of every month? Something like that. I can't even remember right now. One week a month the dark room fair shows up and there's like a whole bunch of different like games and like little mini stuff you can do. It's not so fleshed out in classic WoW but in retail it's nuts. Like it's its own zone. It's a portal and it's a little instance area and they have all kinds of stuff. So they got a bunch of different like pins and badges that you can win here. I guess doing games and oh my gosh look at these guys' collections. This is crazy. What's up man? Hey yeah do you know what this is yours? Those are mine. Uh oh I'll show them. Take videos of everything. Yeah look at this. This pin collection is nuts. You didn't ask me to come did you? No no. No he's just blowing back at home. Yeah yeah this is sick. Is it? Yeah so how many how many pins do you have total? Total?  Well there's like 12 like yeah there's like 800 us pins that are like blizzard like related licensed pins. Oh my gosh. And we have almost all of them. I'm only missing a set. Oh my god. Every blizzard pin that's been made. That's wild. I got employee pins. Really? I got stuff that I have I have a set of pins that I'm the only one outside blizzard HQ that has. Wait so how did you get that? I found a guy. I found a guy who was willing to sell him. He was on the team and we talked. I traded him for a little bit of cash and now I have him. Hell yeah. I didn't even know what I had for the longest time so I had to talk to the other guys. Wow that's sick man. Isn't that amazing? That's absolutely insane. So you're missing all but like one set so you have like almost 800 pins. Oh easily? Yeah. Yeah wow. Plus the extra stuff. Plus all of this? Wow this is amazing. Yeah oh my gosh you have like everything. How dude this is probably gonna be so heavy.    That's what we do man like I walked into blizzcon I stood in this spot all day yesterday. Yeah I did the same thing today. Oh yeah that's my blizzcon man. Nice. Well dude that's amazing man. I mean that's that's one of the things about blizzcon is like the community aspect of it is it's just like nuts because people come like every year or like I mean in this case not for four years but like people always show up and there's just everybody has a different experience whether it's like there's there's community things that have happened over time like this or like people meeting up with like their guilds and wow or like it's all kind of so that's what's so cool to me it's a very different vibe so I love staying like this and seeing people hang out and do everything so hell yeah. That's the whole reason we come to blizzcon. Yeah that's so sick.  Oh this is the gamba it's it's gamba. Pin trading oh there's some more pin trading here so it looks like that's a lot of what the dark moon fair is it's like they have like a lot of pin trading and stuff. Hey how's it going? Good. Hey how's it going? What else do they got? Wait do they have like food and stuff here?  Let's take a look inside the toy shop.  I'm so proud of you man. Thanks man I appreciate it. I just think everyone at the office was tuned in. Really? I mean the whole place came to a home. Really? It's so awesome dude. That's awesome I'm so glad man I'm like that whole thing went out I'm like so proud of it. Chat this is kivax what's your exact like title now? Community Manager. It's still okay it's it's because I don't know because I feel like everybody like their titles all got like swept around and whatever like all of them so I don't know what people's titles are but yeah kivax is Community Manager for a while and we've known each other like five years now yeah yeah ever since you returned just for a classic yeah I can't believe it's been that long I know right it just seems like maybe a year ago but it was 2019 yeah yeah there's like a covid like like you like fast forwarded like the last like three years so I gotta say again you did such a great job yeah I like people had all kinds of screenshots of you with your green screen right oh it was just it was just so crazy no it's fun like I think it was like a really good way to because I kind of like had been taking a break for a while doing like just everything so I was like a good way to like I mean it's something I was really passionate about right like I've always want to put on something like that and it just went so well and and the guys worked so hard on it I mean tips alone like I keep saying this tips might have put in like a hundred hours behind the scenes like I'm already kind of cooking up some ideas for like doing something similar in the future I'm sure I'm not the first one to say when's the next one yeah yeah I mean who knows maybe even something for like uh the the season discovery I mean there's a lot of ideas yeah yeah let's go yeah good to see you man yeah absolutely it's great to see you man yeah see what I've seen you yeah thanks it's been great I think that's it for the Warcraft stuff so the Warcraft part of BlizzCon was absolutely incredible I bought some things right I got a little Starcraft thing too you know classic but uh absolutely incredible stuff in here with Warcraft YouTube Instagram Discord Reddit Twitch Twitter X threads whatever it's called TikTok anything it is everything is SPN TV so make sure you go like follow like subscribe all that stuff leave a comment below like the video let me know what you guys think I'm having a great BlizzCon so I'm happy I get to share it with you guys so hope you guys enjoyed


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In video number two, I'm going to show you how to import and work with pictures that you've sourced from the internet. When we return to the Adobe Spark page, we can see down here the project that we started called Big Cats. This is where we can pick up where we left off. If I click here, it'll open up the project and we can start to edit it again. This video will come up again and I do encourage you to watch this. It might give you some good ideas when you're just getting started. For now, I'm going to click out of this. To import a photo into Adobe Spark video, just click this little plus sign here in the middle of the screen and this window will pop up. Click on the photo, then you can come over here and find free photos or go to your Adobe Creative Cloud. But if you've sourced photos from the internet and you have them stored on your computer locally, you can just click the upload photo button and then navigate to where you have your photos. In my case, I have them down here on volume D in a folder called Adobe Spark Tutorial. I'll open that and then I'm going to open the still images. And here we can see all of the pictures that I've sourced from the internet. In this case, it's only three. I'm going to take this first photo here, select it and say open. Now we've imported that photo into our Big Cats project. As you can see, we need to do some things to this photo so that we can see all of it. Simply go up here to the top right hand corner and click this edit button. And we can zoom in or zoom out. In this case, I'm going to zoom out so we can see all of the picture. This is a picture that I've sourced from the Black Jaguar White Tiger Foundation. That looks about right. You can see here now in slide one, this is where we've imported our first photo. You can also decide how long you want each slide to last in your video. If we come over here to the bottom right corner and click here, we can make this slide last anywhere from one to 30 seconds. In this case, I'm going to have it last about 10 seconds. If you look over here on the right side of the screen, you can see in the layout tab, right now we're in full screen. You can choose to make this a split screen and you see how it changes there. Then you could add text here or you could add another photo here. You could also do this, change it here and put a caption wherever you want. Or you can select down here and put some title and text. Let's use a split screen and let's type some text in here. And now if we want to see how this looks altogether, we can hit this play button down here on the left hand bottom corner. And then we can click up here on the right hand corner to get out of this. You notice that you heard music. To find out where that came from, just come up here to these tabs up in the top right corner. Select music and you can turn the music on or off or adjust the volume here. You could also add your own music or pick from any of these themes that come with Adobe Spark. And that's it for adding still images or pictures to your Adobe Spark project.


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It happens to me that he's American Ricardo. Well, let's just thanks for putting it into context. The Koi Bramble, the 400 meter on the summer team champion, displacing, or should I say replacing, using both as the holder. How do you feel about achieving that feat, replacing the great man himself? It's a wonderful feeling knowing that I've finally wrote the record. I've been eyeing it since the season I started. Summer, last summer, I've been eyeing the record. So it's a great feeling knowing that I could come out here and take it. Yeah. We know that you were feeling a little bit of discomfort, struggling with a little bit of injury in your hamstring. But how were you able to put that behind you and then execute the research you needed to? Let's put one, I just take my mind off it. And put my mind on the record. Yeah, it was as easy as that. As easy as that. Congratulations to you, Nikoi. And again, the Koi Bramble there, the new record holder in the boy's 400 meter on the 17th category, replacing the great man, Usain Bolt. That record was in 2002. And now it's moved in 2024. It's a new man in town. He's also Jamaican. Nikoi Bramble is his name.


of the peace and we'll have lots and lots of people who want to do it and we'll um uh talk to the the party the party committees of um of our town the progressive committee and the republican committee and the democratic committee it's not the the only way to get elected obviously but it's a good way to get on the ballot um so that's all i have thanks and jack jack thought it was going to be a short meeting uh so uh pete chief uh see i do connor and casey the same way i'm calling casey the first name part of the time um but anyway chief pete uh you're much appreciated and i'll did tell whatever's everyone else has said but also to add my experience with you dealing with the public safety authority and particularly this last application to the department of public safety uh you've really been pivotal you've really jumped in and something that's got a lot of history and you've just joined at a higher level and helped everybody so i do appreciate that and i appreciate your family going through another move uh whatever the the positives are it's still stressful so give yourself more time as you go and settle out and likewise uh just wish you well wish you well and like and i want to mention john and all the other people who helped volunteer for the election it's always a lot of work and a lot of worry and he hasn't fallen asleep here but i know he wants to but but thank you and really appreciate all the voters coming out uh it wasn't as large a turnout as we expected but it was a good turnout and as far as being a candidate in a general election i do feel like we're too partisan i really feel the two parties have a strong hold because there was very little activity there were no paper interviews paper articles once the primaries were over and i think that's a weakness uh but then that's my bias but i know that connor and kate will do a good job they definitely ran an excellent campaign uh after all he used to be managing everybody else's campaign you learn something uh and and so it means the council have a has a lot of big things happening in the future and so people out there should be thinking about do you want to run for council and really think about the issues and start showing up whether it's and it's not just the council meetings you should go to a committee meeting i went to so many committee meetings before i went to council and it really helps you and grounds you and what are your priorities so the challenge is out there for all the voters and i'm still challenging voters to call the state about housing that we really need the state to be the leaders they have the authority i call it one senator an article said the state has the money and the muscle to do housing municipals can help they've got to have leadership and they won't until voters put the pressure on so use your voices and call the state they need to deal with homeless as if it was a big flood and make people get housed thank you all right thanks uh city clerks report thank all the volunteers some boomer right here uh for all the help the other day um and thanks to everyone who came out to vote thanks to all the candidates for running we had almost exactly the same number of voters it was like 30 some i think from the last midterm election four years ago which is um almost spookily consistent but um yeah anyways thanks thanks for all the kind words and city managers report just a couple things um also thank everyone involved with the election candidates and poll workers and the clerk and everybody um we are fortunate here in vermont and mobiliar to have these things run smoothly and civilly um and it's it's it is really a nice thing i certainly would add my praise to chief peep but we'll probably be doing more of that later but i appreciate i know he appreciates the kind words that you all said uh we mentioned it earlier i was going to uh mention it tonight but we did formally promote curt modica to public works director we're very excited about that and zack blodgett to deputy public works director so that their um they as a team will be of excellent leadership at dbw we're excited about that um of course we've already promoted kelly to assistant manager we are interviewing candidates for her well still trying to present job and former job she is doing double duty i'm surprised she's still awake but for finance director next monday we hope that there's a top candidate in that group and then i am meeting with the police department members tomorrow to get their take on where what they'd like to see for the future of the department to get that piece of input before make a conclusion on how to move forward on uh filling those big shoes at the police department so that's what we're happening with our our big positions i've got some great news during this meeting actually that i found out that another way group has voted to operate an overflow shelter at christ church this winter so that's wonderful obviously we will provide them and hats off to the homelessist task force who helped push to make that happen and those members so that's great that's that's we got a long way to go but that's something that's desperately needed and let's see uh oh this is a really minor thing but in our budget schedule we had left either january 25 which is a wednesday or january 26 is a thursday as our last day as you know we've often done thursday because that's a deadline for petitions but we didn't actually make a final decision so any any preference just because we got to start posting the schedule at all i'd probably go with thursday because because then it's all right yeah okay fine then that's what we will do 26 that is and um okay um i don't forget we have one more topic right we have one more topic um item 10 a proposal for housing and conservation project and this is a motion that we'd probably go into executive session do we have a motion i'll make a motion we go in executive session to discuss the potential development of purchasing the property pursuant to one vsa section 3 17 subjects in 13 absolutely right that's what i thought and we're having the manager and and alex and alex and kelly if she'd like to join us okay and is there a second second and we're not expecting to take action afterward are we i don't think no okay we don't need to come back out and vote so that'll be the end of the meeting okay all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed okay we'll go into executive session


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