When you won the world title and you're coaching for some day when the world title 24 is about Joel. Yeah at 24. How are you accepted? Was there any question marks? But I actually took over probably three or four weeks before and he's really struggling with his weight I've been working with him the whole way through so I sort of knew what position he was in and my thinking at the time was We can't afford to win these rounds big because he ain't got the gas tank for it for this fight because He was really struggling with his weight And I know what he's like so I remember he come back to the corner But again people are thinking 24 year old probably doesn't know this doesn't know that he lost around But he come back to the corner I purposely told him he won that round on purpose because I know if I told him we lost he would have come out and Watch so hard to win that round So I purposely told him that he won the round Just to keep him calm and I already had in my mind I know Billy Joe personally before going into his fight and I thought I know how to get what I need out of him But it was about picking the right moment and this guy that he was boxing was not the most not experienced at that level And I thought to myself one we can't afford to shoot our tank too early But I know he's gonna have his own doubts of doing the rounds at world championship level So I thought around that mark when that question starts to usually come in around rounds eight rounds nine That's when we need to Push to pace them because I know what he'll start thinking he'll start having doubts. Can I do the pace cat? I've got four five six rounds left in me So I thought if we can save his energy and use round that seven eight nine to really push on then Those doubts gonna creep in the other guys mind and we can sort of control the pace from there on out And use that guy's doubts against him So it was about The importance was mostly round management and also, you know, Billy Joe wasn't He was seasoned, but you know, it was his first offensive He's well-toiled first fight not working with Jimmy Tibbs, and I thought I don't want to completely Change the the way he's used to being community communicated to in the corner But people would never think oh 24 years old. He's thinking about these things Was there a question marks on your ability to get into that fight? afterwards because it wasn't afterwards because it wasn't a great performance from Billy Joe But I think it was easily a not because of the opponent but because of the way he'd done his weight It was definitely a potential slipper. It could have gone a lot worse if he wasn't economical and efficient But always had sort of confidence in My ability and yeah, why do you think belly Joe? Performs better when he's underdog Um It seems to pick it seems to if I don't know all that when he's well put it like this If you was to do a hundred meter race against someone that you know, you can win out Mm-hmm your own specific time of what you recorded when you know, you can win that race quite comfortably Would not be the same if you thought I don't know if I can Beat this feather in a race. I guarantee your time would be quicker against the guy that you thought Hmm, I'm not 100% sure I can win this race. I need to Do you see that with a lot of boxers if they know that I get in favor of it even There's a lot rate slow down even with sparring I say this to Josh because they've got the big gloves in the head guard there's just a lack of respect for Sometimes he's just almost switches off as a case of Because it's not that respect but when you get in there and I got eight ounce gloves on it's I'm not giving this fellow a chance. So how do you?  He's so easy to go If a boxer doesn't have a performance good performance And to go I was weight drained or I didn't this I was this I was that okay all of what you're saying is great But that's how you feel what actually transpired and happened in the ring So I don't really focus on how somebody feels I focus on what's actually happening, you know, but Billy Joe man Phenomenal fighter. I believe in absolute animal and I've seen photos.   I know it can win that fight I believe so I believe so reason being because I believe everybody thinks he's underdog and it easy kind of guy It gets pissed off. I believe to prove people wrong I can't this and I hope he does He's a showman boxing needs that kind of guy just zero fucks given says it how it is I can clearly see what he's smiling your face I'm happy you're for him like how is that when you see fighters going for that for the biggest fights in a life? How proud do you feel that you're part of that journey?


Hi everyone and welcome. I'm excited to be presenting here at the embedded Linux conference virtually. Today I will show you a project that will help IoT companies and developers to make their solution more sustainable, open, secure, and in less time. So I'll go through the main problems that IoT is currently facing, how device maker companies can drive the change and how developers will benefit from it. So, first of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Etto de Chimente. I'm a software engineer at Seco, a global industrial IoT company, and device maker. I'm working in the field for more than five years and I'm currently managing the Seco hardware enablement for the Onir project. So let's begin. And in the last years, we are witnessing a large and exponential growth of IoT devices on the market, much higher than consumer electronics, such as smartphones or a PC. Many companies are building smart solutions, adding connectivity, artificial intelligence, data telemetry, cloud services, analytics to their IoT products. Thanks to existing technology that we know well, such as open source resources like operating systems, libraries, frameworks, just to name a few, development got a huge boost and this is one of the reasons why this is happening. But all of these is raising a problem for both the customer experience and the management of such as fragmented ecosystem. So why fragmentation is bad in IoT and we should avoid it? Many devices are difficult to actively support from a device maker perspective. Often devices are provided with a closed code base and doomed to a fast obsolescence. Another aspect is even if they're built over open source tools technology, the resulting device will likely not cooperate with different vendor products due to lack of open standards. The rise of fragmentation in IoT is not sustainable, reduces the customer experience, services are totally cloud based, even if the devices are in the same room and devices are totally dependent on the vendor in terms of security. To counter all of this, the Onir project was born, a community open source project aiming to simplify and help developers to create secure, interoperable and long lasting IoT solutions. The project was launched in October, 2021 from a community of companies under the governance of the Eclipse Foundation, enforcing the vendor neutrality among the companies. So where are the main principles behind the Onir project? The main idea is to have a common and open base for the development of the IoT solutions for big and small IoT devices. We don't want to reinvent the wheel every time, it would be a waste to ignore existing technologies that are the standard and have a wide community. Open standards and interoperability protocols are the key to avoid technology silos and we should use it in the project. So Linux based architectures are very common nowadays and many developers are used to the Yocto project and a big build system for embedded. So we decided to adopt it for the main core building system as it provides an excellent platform for developing a very customizable cross kernel operating system. Exploiting the big base system it makes the build process easy to compile and target different architectures such as single board computers and microcontrollers using different kernels like Linux or Zephyre. We can control this behavior using custom layer provided by the Onir project. So we have the Meta Onir layer for a root layer. So the main components are provided by this layer. We use Meta Open Embedded from upstream. So main features will come from a stable version. We use Clang as our main component. Toolchain for compiling the project. We have some kernel layers that help us to compile kernel for different architectures. We have Meta Open Harmony that is compatibility layer for interoperability protocols and BSP layers like Metaseco, Metastee, Meta Intel for our reference hardware. So layers are fetched with the repo tools through a manifest and depending on the initial configuration it will compose the image to be compiled. We already provide some basic image to be compiled for our reference. But everything can be expanded and many contribution can be composed for making any type of image that your project requires. Here are the architecture layers that Onir provides. Inside the root layer Meta Onir, we can find several layers that provides different functions. For example, from bottom to top, we have the kernel layer that is responsible of the kernel selection. We also have the kernel selection that is responsible of the kernel selection and build. So it's possible to select a different kernel depending if we are targeting a single board computer or a microcontroller. And we have the system services layer that will provide a complete set of capabilities essential to Onir to offer services for application like OTA support, communication, discovery, device management, everything that we need for an IoT project. Then we have the framework layer that will provide an SDK to develop Onir application in multiple languages depending on the target device class and its hardware constraints. As an example, we have graphical frameworks that the user can exploit or making their own product, for example. Lastly, we have the up layer that Onir Ops will be able to use API to expose business logic as ability that may have, for example, inside other application like artificial intelligence or a speech recognition. One of the main feature is a distributed agent that connects all the appliances running Onir Ops. In this way, they are able to communicate with each other exposing capabilities and offer new interaction to the user without using the cloud. So the user application can exploit the resources among all the devices running Onir Ops to make new interaction that will enhance the user experience. Of course, we have also some connectivity protocols that the user can exploit. So, for example, we have some protocol agnostic libraries that can use co-op, MQTT, OpenThread. We have some examples that are available for hacking and starting new projects, for example. But Onir Ops is not the only one that we can use just layers, octolayers and libraries. We have a whole infrastructure that we provide to companies and users. Onir Ops project have an infrastructure that checks IP compliance, provide documentation, a testing environment with reference platforms. All the infrastructure is based on GitLab runners that triggers test builds, LavaWorker and IP compliance. Lava is a test environment that we use for a test real hardware. And LavaWorkers are figured to ensure that every device still boots and passes all the tests after every merger request. There are several labs and each of them hosts many reference boards to avoid regression that could affect stability. This makes the project always production ready and ensure that project that I'll build with it still passes all the tests. We have also an IP and POS compliance tests based on the open chain specification. It is crucial for this type of project to enforce openness and that the project is usable by anyone. So we follow strict IP standards like also SPDX, reuse and Debian license check. Summarizing, the open source software core is maintained and kept up to date. With stable components from myocto, BSP layers, tool chains, call libraries and on-hero frameworks. All of these are supported and backed by the processes developed by the on-hero community like CICD, testing, documentation, maintenance, IP compliance, OTAE and security. Then on top, we have default configurations that help you kickstart your project with out-of-the-box configurations, OS management and hardened security. And finally, your application on top. On-hero helps developers and companies by focusing on the application rather than on building and maintaining the whole system. To start with, On-hero is giving some defaults that user can pick up to rapidly build real applications, but every piece is customizable and replaceable by design with your preferred choice. As an example, we are using Raoq as the OTAE engine, but the wrapper and the APIs around it are flexible and can support also other engines. As per real hardware, Seco is a partner and a device supplier and introduced three reference industrial hardware platforms so far. We have the Seco Halvin that is an NUC Intel Atom that have industrial peripherals and connections. We have an NXP single board computer that has dual ethernet. We have an heterogeneous processor. They have both microcontroller and an application processor. And then we have a cost-effective board that has an ARM Cortex A35 and an STM32. Of course, they are together with the common prototyping boards like Raspberry Pi and Arduino and virtual targets that help developers to test their application on. This help to test core features to real hardware via CI-CD, so that they can test all of the features of core features to real hardware via CI-CD, enabling security features and trying out real case applications for customers. Reference hardware also helps build what we call the blueprints. MVPs or better reference design for real case applications that showcase one or more features of the Oniro platform. In this way, it is easier for the developer to know how to implement a certain feature or for companies to pitch ideas for a real use case. As an example, we have a vending machine blueprint that provides support for building a proper concept smart vending machine showing the capabilities of the Oniro project. For example, we use the Intel board that expose capabilities like a video, like an HMI screen and a selection metrics built with the LEDs. So what is the added value of Oniro here? So you get to have a co-investment among other partners that are around the Oniro project and you get the shared pool of expertise and know how is a global ecosystem rooted in Europe. You get to code, develop and deploy your applications. You get a unified set of complex API and protocols that are natively for build for IoT and you get a shared go-to-market strategy for building your application. The project is already out of the staging process and you can start to look inside the first features. So you can download the project, start using the base images on the reference hardware or to the virtual machines. You can try it out and hack the blueprints that are already available. You can read the documentation and hopefully you can contribute into the community. We are available also in IRC where you can chat with the developers. And thank you for your time and I hope you're joining the community. I will be available for comments and questions after the presentation. And there is a booth in the Linux conference if you want to chat with other developers and members of the on your project. Thank you again for your time.


So this is fun I'm a little nervous actually But hi, I'm Joanna. I'm gonna say it again. Anyway, Joy Anna. That's how you say it My last name was originally Smith. So my parents were like, let's be clever. We'll throw a Y in Joanna So anyways, that's how my name is pronounced And I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my background. Okay. Also, I'm gonna figure out how to talk into a microphone All right Let's see if this thing works How do I make the clicker work? This is great. Ah Perfect. We got stuff All right fun. We did it. Okay, so I've been Doing a lot of different things in the past 10 years At like 19 or something. I started doing screen printing I'm also nervous. I'm like shaking Anyways, yeah No, right? It goes away eventually, right? Okay, cool. So yeah, I made t-shirts Yeah, I made lots of t-shirts. Like I did a you know screen printing doing graphic design. So that's all related. I swear So I've done that and then after I did that for a bit. I was like, you know what? I really like graphic design This is great. I'm gonna go to school for that. So then I started working at a digital marketing firm that makes websites They weren't using WordPress, but then the next one I worked at they were using WordPress So I started using WordPress then Yeah, so then from there after a really long time. I was like, you know what? I really like code I want to get into code So there are a couple things that have shaped my outlook on typography and one of them is Printmaking because you're able to look at the actual letter forms. You're able to see it actually print it so moving from that into working with like a As a graphic designer making websites and having these different responsive states where you you have a break point at you Know, however many places I think at the time we were doing like six different break points Which was really weird especially coming from a design background because you're like, oh, man I took all this time to lay out this beautiful type and put it in the right space and make sure it's beautiful and now it's gonna get weird and Then sometimes if it's a pixel or two bigger than the break point all of that type is gonna look incredibly different So that's a little bit of what shaped my understanding of using the web and using typography So from there as a developer, I'm really really interested in fluid typography. So that's the basic summary Yeah, oh Wow, this is great How do we make any of this work All right, I'm just gonna we're going with it. All right So what we have in the middle is a printing press and like I was saying I've worked with print before I've actually worked with something similar to this and This over here is a glyph and it has a letter on top of it. And so what we used to do What we used to do is we used to line up type We would line it up and then we put spacers between and we would have all this ready to go And then we would print on top of it so this is kind of like where typography started to become what it is today because we started looking at these letter forms and Really thinking about what are we making like? Why is this readable? What are the different things we can do with it? How can we be really creative and so A lot of the fundamentals come from the very beginning whenever we were doing this and we were laying out letters So I'm gonna geek out for a second. I don't know if you've heard of the hot metal type setting But it's ridiculous.  There's totally a documentary on it I watched it in design school when it was really fun So yeah, all right, so this is type so what we're looking at are all these letters and They have different ways of lining up and we've learned a ton about the way we read and how we're able to take in information from this process Okay, so we're really excited about type. We're lining up things We're thinking about stuff like grids and how these things fit together and As we're doing it we start to come up with all these different rules and that's where you get design fundamentals That's where you're pulling in like letting kerning tracking all of that all of those concepts come from this So this is a baseline grid. It's one of the best things. I wanted the design firms I've worked at I actually had to lay out like a hundred page book and it was A lot of work, but one of the things that really saved me was the baseline grid because when you have a two-column layout Having everything on the same baseline makes it easier for the reader. Your eye just tracks right over to the next line without there being as much trouble so we're thinking about all of this and There's a huge difference between legibility and readability So the ability to distinguish letter form So like the difference between like a lowercase j or a lowercase p or a lowercase q and like all of the things that you're Looking at your eye is picking up on all of that. That's why certain typefaces are definitely more readable than others But there's a difference between that and then there's and actually having type or design that affects the ability to make it understood So there's a huge difference and your priority might really change the way you design something Okay, so let's start talking about type All right, so I've talked to you about baseline That's what that makes a lot of sense and then there's also letting and kerning So letting is the distance between the type and then kerning is the distance between each letter so The reason why that's important is because certain things will be much harder to read than others based off of that letting And it's really important especially at the time for newspapers and different books Making things accessible for everyone All right, so here's tracking tracking is the distance between letters and kerning is where you can precisely put Two letters closer together based off of like the V in the a that space is a little bit different So going back to typography going back to the different blocks that we're using and letterpress in general What they had to do was put tiny pieces of lead in between everything so because of that We have a really strong understanding of What works and what doesn't work? so This is where we start to think about What we should do and what we shouldn't do as designers for People to be able to take away the information that you're wanting them to take away And one of the things we talked about is line length Like if you've ever been on a website where you've literally had to turn your head to finish reading it I'm not going to read that website for very long. I mean, maybe some people will but that's just not a thing It's the same for why that we have double-com layouts in print or why whenever you're working on a book You don't make your text span the entire page if it's a very large book so these are all things we're learning and Okay, so this down here is what we call a display font and Basically, it's a font that's really interesting has a lot to it But it would be very taxing on your eyes to read lots of that display font for a long period of time Because your brain has to take all of that information in has to take in all of those different letter forms Similar to what I just talked about legibility readability different things so Another problem is that if text is too small It's hard to read because you can't see the shape of the letters You're not able to distinguish your a-senders and d-senders. That's just the part that goes above and below the letter So that's really frustrating and if it's too big, it's hard to read because the horizontal flow isn't there Your brain is just breaking up in tiny little pieces So all of these concepts have been in print for a very long time. So as a designer When you come into web and you're writing breakpoints You know, you're asking your developer to write breakpoints where your font goes down a couple sizes here and there Like for four devices It's very frustrating because you feel like you have to let go of a lot of what makes design good design like you have to Really be okay with sometimes your font looks like this and it's What you know so yeah, because basically it'd be like if you had a book and Every single page in the book was a different size and you never changed the font So it all just gets really weird in and out so We have taken a few things from design and regular typography standards into web and They are letting which is now called line height and Tracking which is letter spacing So these work pretty well, it's kind of nice to be able to set these But especially if you're working with letter spacing and you set like a unit that's standard It's going to be that throughout the entire site no matter the font size like it's going to be always so many pixels Which is a little bit weird Okay, so The purpose of design. I'm just going to read the green text because I don't like reading large Thought needs to be given to how a user reader viewer will approach the task of obtaining the information from the design so a huge concept in design is User flow and not user flow as in UX like your actual eyes Going down the page where the hierarchy is what you're supposed to be looking at and how you're delivering that information and Using typography and using hierarchy like headings headings and things like that. That's how you get them moving through the page It's how we know what to read and when to read it All right, so I'm going to show you some really great examples of typography on the web where it's done really well Because I think that we are doing typography beautifully throughout the web And I'm not really talking about that exactly but anyways I love these because they look like print it really looks like someone has a poster and these this is a Okay, so this is beautiful web type from Hello. Happy and it's using all Google fonts So they're all free and I love seeing that because you know You get really inspired by things that you know you can use and that if you just have a little bit of design background A little bit of ability you can really make it look nice like it looks like a very expensive type face that somebody bought So yeah, so here's another example of that And I love this one in particular because it really looks like a book like wow, that's that's on the web That's so easy to read Like how does that respond? You know So, um, yeah, it's really an interesting thing and of course I have to end on Jean some and Jen summons because Her website is beautiful. The typography is gorgeous and it really does look like a poster Yeah, so All right Another thing that we've taken from print that we've put into web is ends Right, so when you see it in web, it's E.m. But when we use it in print We were taking the letter M and we were looking at the size of that letter and that's a unit Why would we want to do that because it's? Responsive whenever we had big blocks of type the glyph with the letter on top of it We wanted something that was relative to that typeface We didn't want something that was a different typeface that might be a lot bigger and use that unit We wanted something that would stay within that typeface that we could reuse and so we came up with ends Ems are pretty great so on the left is also an M but The difference is that sometimes Ems are full-width and sometimes they aren't and so that's one of the distinctions between Ems and print and Ems and on the web because Not every typeface has an M Didn't matter before the internet, but if we're taking ends into web then yeah We definitely need something that's not going to work if we need something better This is obviously not going to work for you know Arabic and Chinese So what we came up with was using a point size and So the point size of the font whatever that is that is now what we call Ems Okay, so I'm putting all this together. There's a lot going on here But I'm coming from print I'm looking at web where we're using it now like typography on the web and I'm thinking well That's great. We actually have a relative unit Like we can actually use that for things. That's really interesting. So Yeah, in CSS we use Ems. This is just explaining it further. All right, but we also have rems. So rems versus Ems They're very different, right? So a rem is basing off off of the root element Which is always going to be the same size and M is basing it off of the element that it's inside, right? Okay, so let's walk us back for a second. Let's go back to our book All right, because basically we're designing for different books, right? So what we're saying is that type size can change it can grow and shrink based off of the book based off of the page of that book So that's what that's why fluid type is so dynamic Because you can set up a typographic scale So that way whenever you have like the smallest phone your font is roughly the same size So that really helps whenever we're sitting here, you know as designers like we're sitting at our desks We're setting up hierarchy. We're putting it all together We're trying our best to show like a user flow and get people moving through the page And it'd be really great if all of that work Was sustainable or it just sustained at all, right? So this is from CSS tricks And basically I'll post all of these but this is there's a lot of different ways to do fluid typography This is one of the methods that I really liked so I know this is the funny thing about it is it's just so Obvious like of course it should be doing that. We've not been doing this So anyway, it's great if the whole thing resizes and so what's nice is the headline and the type They're staying in proportion to one another I've experimented with all this with this a little bit as well This is on my code pen and Basically it just responds So This is justified type Which is incredible to respond because the way that should work is it should just be reflowing and you get these huge gaps in the paragraphs That's what you should expect to see but you don't see that at all So if the whole thing is responding like this, right? If we've we've gotten to this place finally where we're able to control this medium that's so fluid It's so hard to handle as a designer Well, why not let's do it with images, too That's a background image and it's just responding. I'm not even like it's the same size as the box So the background size is just responding So yeah, I think we've spent a lot of time Talking about design. It was probably a little bit confusing, but this is basically all I have I'm really excited about this. I'm excited about using fluid design and being able to just get things to do what they should have Sort of already been doing in the first place But yeah That's basically it So yeah, I'll take questions Well, it's on my code pen and then I also have a portfolio on Behance still I think but most of myself is in code now So, yeah, gotcha interesting, okay, so His question was how When I'm referencing break points, like what's the difference between that and fluid design? Okay, so the difference is you have a lot of different devices, right? And you can't really code for every single device and when your font size is something that's static It's always 24 pixels.  So what you do is you go, oh, yeah So for tiny devices from this break this point to this point I want all of these to be roughly this size and that's kind of how we walked around it which Sort of works sort of works unless you have a slightly outside of that looking font and or well Let's slightly outside of that device that's going to not be at those break points and one of the biggest things That's kind of hard to explain is that the actual Proportion between the heading and the rest of it you want that to stay fluid You want that to stay the same like when when you're doing it you you put it at that point size on purpose for a reason It's very much a specified thing So yeah, maybe it'll change a little bit But if it gets a lot smaller then it's harder for you to see like is this what I'm supposed to be looking at Is that what I'm supposed to be looking at and it's not even just typography You can do the entire thing like you can do the entire module you can have it just Move up and down like the entire box can move and so when you're basing it off as something that's relative It's way easier to get it to be fluid. I Think that maybe answers it. I don't know max widths Like using a max width. Yeah, so that's an interesting way to do it because like I said before like We're just gonna go back We should not be doing this We should not be having line links that go all the way on a website We should not be doing that so max widths are great, but that is awful. It's awful for reading It's awful for people with glaucoma. It's awful for a lot of people It's just making it harder for them to get to your content Anyways, yeah, you can just do a max width it can stop it can grow and stop at a certain place and continue. It's yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's great Yeah, it's gorgeous No way really that's so cool. Yeah, I know I have to go check that out I'm I love it so much from such a geek about it. Like her stuff is just so beautiful Yeah, for sure. We need really good web typography. We do Call them. Yeah. Yeah Very smart. It's a really good way to do things. Yeah, once we start being able to utilize grid more widely I think it'll help a lot of things a lot more things can be more fluid with with that. Yep. Yes. Yeah Yeah, I'll tweet it out. I'll do my citations at the end. So I'll just tweet them out So you guys have them. Yeah, I'll put that in there. Yeah. Yeah Mm-hmm. So I Could definitely answer to higher contrast not sure that it would be a screen reader thing I think that really falls on the front-end dev to make sure that they've put things in the right spots But yeah, I know for sure we have I think it's ADA compliant You have to make sure that it's ADA compliant so that everything is in a great way like one of the things I think that people don't realize is that really good type designers and really good type boundaries spend a year working on a Typeface one year and so when you're going to like dove on or whatever What have you someone has just put that together and maybe they did a really good job You never know but they might not have so a lot of this stuff where we're looking at like really bad Versions of this right where you get a typeface and because we don't have kerning We don't have the ability to just get different letters and put them together on the web I mean that would be insane Because we don't have that you get typefaces that just look awful like they'll just have too much space here It's hard to read so I think some of that really related to accessibility because you want to make it as readable as possible Yeah Yeah, for sure It's always a balance between making it like beautiful and making it accessible And I think that when you hit that sweet spot You have a really gorgeous website and a lot of people do really great work, but yeah Yeah, so I had thought about using percentages like So I have looked at that before I'm a really a big fan of this method because you can set them like the tiny Like the you can set 320 and set your pixel size And you can set your largest screen and set that pixel size and it basically makes a scale using calc And it's so nice Yeah Right I'm not sure on that one either because I did look into it for like a half second And then I was just like I don't know I really like the being able to set it exactly and knowing what it will actually be because also My designers are coming in and giving me pixel sizes So it's kind of nice to just be able to use what they've designed and have it set and then set it So what what we've been doing a lot of is having calc on every header So like every header might have a different size at different screen sizes and then on body So really we're setting it a few places, but it's still going to have the same proportionate response Yeah Yes, yes, I think I think it definitely does and there I just listened to a podcast about that I forgot which one it was. Oh Yeah, absolutely He was asking if there's a disadvantage coming from print and looking at web as if it's print and I really think that there is I think we've done a lot of things Like it took us a long time to get to where web is now because we looked at it as if it was print Like we really and I stress this all the time to my designers that I work with I'm like you have to stop making it a Width that stays the same all the time whatever element you're doing you have to stop that stop making margins on websites Nobody wants margins on websites, you know, like, you know, like you take the page You move it out and then there's just big white bar down the page like what is that? No, you know It's like we have in print we have gutter That's the middle portion of the book like you don't want to gutter on a website like come on like anyways But um, but yeah, so I think that there there are things that have been done that are like Detrimental and then there are things that are really great like bringing ends into web I think is really smart and making it something standardized because not all languages have ends, you know Like that's great But I did just listen to a podcast about that and I don't quite remember the one, but if I remember all it Cool yeah Yeah, one of the things I like to tell them a lot is think about it as multiple grids Right because if you're a designer like 101 use a grid right like and there are lots of grids There are lots of beautiful grids that you can use and I like to tell them like don't think about it Just being like a half column half column like think about it being four columns. Oh, what if it's five columns? You know like it's the web you can literally do five columns and have it just flow like it can just have You know four columns here and wherever else like it can just scale and stack basically the biggest thing is scale and stack I feel because it's it's hard for them to understand. I think the designer who I work with who understands It the best is the one who worked at the Apple store first and Would just watch every year they slightly change the device like a few pixels or whatever and so he's like yeah No, I can't really just design something at a pixel size like it's gonna be something else tomorrow You know so and there are all these different devices everywhere. So I think he understands it the best and trying to think about it being Like try to think about it being a movable thing that can just completely Grow like instead of thinking about it always staying where it's at think about it growing and then starting with mobile I think the biggest thing is starting with like mobile sizes. So anything that's movable that you can move around. Yeah Yeah, absolutely cool


But Well, thank you guys for coming Welcome to our Arba American recipe plan act community outreach informational meeting We sorry, my name is Ramsay Pap. I'm one of the committee members and You guys want to introduce yourselves for be happy to hi on Michael body And yeah, this committee's been together since mid-March meeting at least monthly and We're at a point where we feel ready to roll out the intake and Thanks for coming out. Yep, and I'm Mary Richter right now. I am the acting chair Working with the rest of the group and then we have three other members that are not here They'll be presenting on Thursday the same material over at the Red Schoolhouse over at the VTC Campus and again, thank you for attending today's session or informational meeting So Project as you can see on the agenda, we're going to talk a little bit about Arpo and The funding that is going to be distributed to the greater Randolph area, which means basically Randolph Randolph Center East Randolph We'll talk about the scope of the ARPA committee our timeline that we have set in process for Taking the ideas and and trying to implement them Our framework for Making the most of this one top once in a lifetime kind of batch of money that our town is going to get to Hopefully do some really impactful things with Use of existing tools You know We're going to talk about let's not reinvent the wheel that worked somewhere else. Maybe it could work for us How to stretch the ARPA dollars are there are there other things that are other Pots of money that could use embellishing to make a project happen what ARPA means in Vermont and Our phase one we're going to talk about that and then phase two and take any questions at the end so If we can do the presentation and save the questions for the end that would be great Let's get started Do you want me to I could go ahead? Sure. So again, I'm going to kind of read from the slide So the the American Rescue Plan Was established in 2021 due to COVID And to be able to provide money to government state and local throughout the nation to respond to Things that have been lost as well as you know some recovery from COVID pandemic speaking, you know regarding Randolph, there's been a lot Being part of the Economic Council We were in what we called Crisis mode trying to get through that and so now we are in recovery mode and so we have been allocated the funds And now it will go through Some stages again as we Ram seems stated this is the first one with take first intake and then we will have a second round where it will be more formalized And again a lot of this information is available on the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Just real quick here that the last slide is important to note the The federal final rule did actually increase the flexibility for How these funds can be used which is it sounds like that's counter how it usually works usually final rule tightens tightens up the ways you can use federal funds the other pieces in april We recommended the select board There's a thing called the standard allowance If if you're getting less than 10 million you can just Take that And that saves a lot of paperwork I believe Um, so we recommended to the select board and then the select board approved as we're coming in at 1.37 million We are a smaller pool of money so we could do that So just to give an idea of the group, um, the so not the select board, but yes the select board in the town um, we're tasked with developing a Council or not a council but a committee And so it is a seven member committee which consists of trevor our town manager perry armstrong. That is our uh chair Myself as acting chair Jeff grout as our secretary Michael then we have matt ramsey and maria who's present today and it is our task to collect everything and then At the end make recommendations. So that's the purpose of This committee is to again How is the money going to be best spent for randolph and the randolph the greater randolph area so, um, we um The committee was pulled together our scope of work. There's the door um To review and discuss and understand all the app applicable Criteria or guidelines related to the use of ARPA funds So, um, we actually had a presentation from someone from the, um, vltc Uh, did I say that the way the vermont league of cities and towns came and talked to us about um different ways that we could look at Implement implementing, um The guidelines and what some other towns had done. So that's where we talked about the taking the standard um What did you call it the standard allowance the standard allowance it made a lot more sense, um for flexibility and for, um ease of reporting um, so We um Hello, thank you for joining us Um, so anyway, we um We are working with town staff to figure out how to engage the community and how to get the information out and and spent some time Working on a timeline and figuring out how we would do an intake how we would solicit projects and and how we would look at The criteria for implementing them um so we You know are reaching out to other Local stakeholders and potential partners if we need to that will be part of the process and um The main goal is to develop a list of potential uses for the ARPA funds And identify which of those need additional development research at other works So with our intake form we'll get the information we need and see how You know shovel ready the projects might be and in addition to that we um Since we've posted this on uh front porch form. I've gotten some inquiries regarding municipal uses for the money and anything that is regarding the randolph Infrastructure will not fit into this project really those quest types of questions Need to be forwarded and and passed on to trevor who manages the town So the purpose of this committee is really set differently than dealing with the infrastructure So we will leave that um again any references to infrastructure such as the water system maintenance of the roads and things like that will be then forwarded to trevor Should come through us or through the forms and then trevor will address those and then we will address the other pieces of that right likewise with the um intake Applications if it looks like a really great idea, but maybe is better Fits for a different pot of money that might be available. We see our job is helping people Sort sort that out as well so again, um, go it's just really What ramsey and might have said a lot of this is just information that can be found I don't want to go you know read what is on the bullets because again this information is available on the town website We'll make sure that we will provide additional information So it's easy to find it on the town website and then again anybody who's interested and possibly post the power point presentation so that um, it's easily accessible of what is being addressed because we're just going to go through a really high level and try just to give resources and The information and then you can find it Either on the town facebook page And as well as the town website I mean it's just important to note too that um the The community that we're talking about is the greater randolph community with east east randolph and randolph center included and and so the money distributed The projects need to keep in mind the the short and long term benefits for that entire area, um, you know, we don't want something that's solely randolph Village focused we want to it could it that doesn't mean it can't be in one of the locations But we want to keep an eye on the broad the broad impact Correct So what we've done is just to be transparent to the community is created a project timeline So each stage has to do's tasks to be accomplished And again, this will be posted on the town website and other resources And social media and i'm not going to go through everything But this is very high level and and the arrow is just indicating which stage of the project we're in So we're right now at the gather, um, sorry doing the informational meetings and then Having the intake forms completed and then that will then that arrow at some point will start moving towards stage three and so forth So this My goal I would hope and I think the committee agrees is to keep this on the town website So that everybody knows where we're at and ask questions as we move through the project Have anything else you want to add? No, you got you covered it. So really, um This is a pulled off of the Vermont League of cities and towns And just again, they provided us when they visited the committee of establishing and defining the framework for Doing the funds and again, it's to prioritize Good governance leveraging the ARPA aid and then, you know, really get what's the best Bang for your buck invest in the best uses for the long term recovery And again, I'm not going to go through each unless you want us to but this is a high level That, you know, is Just being transparent, you know gathering the information and really the key is Community involvement because this is not just for a certain setting. It's for all of us Yep community of involvement and really transparency throughout is really important We want to have as much information we want to people to be able to access that So we'll be putting things out on the website. We're we're hosting these meetings We may have some more meetings coming forward to try to generate ideas and maybe around Projects that come in that aren't fully fleshed out but seem really exciting for the community. So Right and also as you were mentioning, we're keeping an eye on geography that there's a good spread Yeah Also just demographics as well. There may be an idea that really is like Makes kids lives better makes working parents lives better makes the elderly lives better. So we're also keeping an eye on breadth that way demographically as well So when they talk about existing tools really, it's you know, there there are so many resources here in Randolph as well is that you know instead of You know trying to figure out well, what can the funds be used for there are resources and I Couple I can hit upon and I'm going to ask the rest if I've missed any But one of the things that we have is the town plan and so out of the town plan There are action items and I'll use an example out of the town plan One of the goals that was to have a An economic development director And that was accomplished and that was a task on the town plan And there are other pieces on the town plan and I believe that a lot of these Wish lists or things that we want to do as a town have come from A variety of people and a variety of committees and and discussions And I could see when I look at a town at the town plan. There are things that had come out of the The back and when we had r3, you know, there are a lot of things that came out of there You know re-energize randoff and that had for tourism Downtown a whole bunch of items In which I was part of and then there's also things that come out of the economic council and other committees that the again the town plan committee and so a lot of things are out there that can be Looked at to say, okay How do we have we accomplished this and if we haven't is this something we want to accomplish with the funding? Does it apply with the ARPA funding? Can we use that ARPA funding? Is there other funds that could be complemented with that so Again taking a look at what is existing but also what is new? So it doesn't have to be one or the other. It could be a combination of items I don't know if you had additional if I missed anything on that or no Yeah, and I just wanted to put in there You know, we do get a lot of in at least early on a lot of comments about you know The roads are horrible fix the roads, but we in one of our presentations. We talked about that and I don't remember the exact numbers, but 1.37 million dollars actually wouldn't do make a big dent In fixing roads It's a it's a it sounds like a huge amount of money and people wouldn't think yeah fix all kinds of things with that but There's other funds that that are specifically used for taking care of those things and we would use the money up immediately if we If if if we were even able to do something like that with roads a small amount of road work costs a lot of money so So we're really looking at projects that That maybe can leverage other grants. There might be other grants out there that can can help with a certain project But not that a project that's already covered by existing funds that that are already in place to take care of those issues right And if you think about 1.37 million If that and not that we would pick a number, but if that could that could be 137 10 thousand dollar grants or You know so many 50,000 or so we are thinking the word breath keeps coming up. Um Yeah, I don't think we I think consensus is we don't want to dump it into three miles of road Right And again, you know, don't reinvent the wheel. These are just some resources that the Vermont league of city cities and towns has provided um And you know it gives it helps just say, okay, what can I look at and how can I? Adjust my project. Does it fit into this? So and this is not this is not limited to this list. There's other Um areas that you can look but this is at least some of the information that the Vermont league of cities And towns has provided so Some of the things that where you can stretch as they say here stretch your arpa dollars is pretty, you know I don't want to say simple, but it's just here are some of the points is that they do It's funny. They write water and sewer however I've had a conversation with trevor and water and sewer is being handled by the town So i'm going to kind of skip that but things such as the broadband um Having safe streets the charging stations for evs items like You know things that need to be done maybe with some municipal buildings throughout town One of the things website. That's where I was just going to go. Thanks. So one of the things that the committee has already talked about And are considering is and we pretty much put that as a project is to update the town website It's antiquated. It's not user friendly And so there are already going to be funds that are going to be appropriated to updating the town website Um, so that will be forthcoming. I don't know if anybody wants to add anything else to this particular slide But this is pretty much in a nutshell um just in in In our initial meetings and getting together and information gathering, you know, we did go and look at a lot of other towns websites and um see what other people are doing with arpa money Projects and we realized at that time that our website is very limited. There's been discussions in randolph for At least as long as I can remember at least 10 or 15 years about having um A better town-wide website where and a town calendar was the other thing that a lot of people and a lot of organizations have talked about are trying to Communicate so a town website and then some security. There might be some things like digitizing land records and Things like that that are really important for for access these days going forward. Um, that is something that also Probably will be looked at as well. Yeah, and I think coveted opened our eyes to you know, what can be more accessible? Especially when you can't come into a building and access it. So this is now the opportunity to Digitize what records and so forth as rams. He had said To make life a lot easier for folks just to access the website. So Right. Um, yeah, and in terms of the evaluation criteria and it's also on the intake is Connection to intent of the ARPA funding, which is really imagining, okay, if The world shut down again because of another pandemic or another disaster. Um, how would randolph be better positioned to function? So something like accessing Land records online would would fit. So as you think about your projects think about, hmm How would how would what I'm imagining? Um make randolph a more self-sufficient place if the world shut down again Good point And again, this is just continuation of ideas Again, you know, I know there have been talk about, you know, bike paths and you know safety and things like that for pedestrians We already talked about broadband, but also some support for local nonprofits. And again, this is another Slide from the Vermont League of League of Cities and Towns that can be accessed, but You know affordable child care And that seems to be the driving force here in randolph for a very long time. Um, and one thing that I know companies Here in town is the driving forces bringing people to randolph and being able to have affordable child care So that they could go to work and if that piece is missing then They don't come so that it seems to be one of the the big things along with other I don't want to go down that path, but there's housing and a whole bunch of other things But child care seems to be one of the biggies that um come up all the time. So It's something, you know, we need to address so, um, it's pretty again just You know, this is our first phase of getting the initial intake Form this is pretty much a Snapshot of what's on the the website. So I'm going to read it because I can't remember So so we've received 1.37 million From arbor to strengthen the resilience of our community. So now we've got to decide how we're going to spend the money So by December 31st of 2024 um, I'm sorry identify how to spend the money by 24 and then allocate the funds by I think they all need to be done Allocated and used by the end of 26 2026 so Yeah, it's a pretty big window of opportunity, but it will go fast So and so what we've done is We're having a two-stage process. This is the one of the two To look at the the different projects that are going to you know be considered and then It will be up to us to review. We'll have a set criteria At a matrix to score and then you know what what is best for the community again Not just Randolph village, but the greater Randolph area That is encompasses that area and so What we will do is start the intake process which is going right now We've got some paper copy here, but also will be available on the town website Facebook page Front porch forum and then there will be hard copy Applications in the front lobby of the town hall here and so The window is going to be starting now until the end of the year to complete and submit And it will be best to submit it online because the way it will get tallied We'll get the responses and it gets tallied and It will keep it straightforward so that we could just pull that information electronically and then start our review and and what we're going to end up doing is not wait until the end of the year to start Start reviewing we'll probably start reviewing as soon as applications come in But again the window is going to be starting today through December 31st of 22 and just to be clear. We probably will Consider depending on what our what applications we get we'll probably consider Having some funds saving some funds potentially for later ideas or developing ideas We don't necessarily saying nobody can tell us any ideas after the end of December We just want to get started and have some concrete ideas to work with so that we make sure we know that Uh 2024 can sound like a long ways away, but it's really not it's right around the corner. So We want to get this process going But it doesn't mean that That necessarily we won't hear any ideas after after the end of December this year So again and but then that we'll end up opening another window After our review we'll open up another window To put in the final projects and the way I I and I think the committee we all look at it as it's going to be more formalized similar to like a grant process So again that the details of that will be announced For phase two in the first quarter of next year Right and just backing up to phase one The intake form is built around the evaluation criteria. We came up with So that it's well aligned and transparent There's a consideration of cost and we're not asking people to pull like 35,380 We're not asking people to pull that but we have bins under 10,000 10 to 50,000 50 to 100,000 100 to 300,000 and then over 300,000 those will be the bins The next evaluation criteria is connection to the intent of the funding. We spoke to that a bit earlier About resilience and self-sufficiency Community benefit that's really the breath piece geographic reach demographic reach number of people Who would who would actually benefit from your project idea? Viability is also key Can you share relevant relevant expertise as they're already a sort of You know, you've got a file with planning you've done for a while And then just the availability of other resources that may be able to connect And then economic growth. Just how does it help Randolph grow as a town? So those those are the the five biggies. That's our evaluation criteria and you'll see on the intake form Those are exactly what you're being asked to produce And then yeah in phase two after we sort The qualifying projects will have the opportunity to fill out much more detailed That's where we may want to see the line item spreadsheet and an actual nailed down number Yeah, and in this day and age with if if it involves construction and things like that we probably need to See that it's viable to make sure it can get done by 2026, but that gives us Making decisions soon gives us a lot of time to make sure projects and money the money can get spent So again, as I mentioned earlier that We're in phase one and then there will be more Announcements in the first quarter of 23 for phase two. That is going to be a little bit more detailed So we are Going to open the floor to questions if anybody has any Okay So, uh, just to declare that the 1.37 mil Is that going to be expanded entirely on community initiated projects or Is it possible that the select board may decide we want to carve out half a mil for x Yeah, we let's just say pot or the town website In other words, there's a cost of the new town website coming out of the 1.37 mil We actually talked about this and the if the town wants to do something It is it's an applicant as well as anyone else So they can't sort of cream off the top and say yeah, we're grabbing 500 And then you guys can play with the rest. No, they would be an applicant as well And that means it that's but the answer to the question about the website is yes that money That is something that we have talked about like The website that kind of thing would be part of that money Okay, and and so as I understand it then the round of our community you folks Will make the decision about who makes the final cut That is to say it will be the community that decides if the town gets x for a new website Just as you would decide if project y Goes on to the to the second round. Is that correct? I believe that we have to make a recommendation of the projects to the final But I I dare say it's it's likely that the select board is going to follow the recommendations of the Arpa committee. We hope certainly hope so. We hope so I mean and just for a little bit of background to when we first started the discussions about this It was it there was a little bit of a more narrow parameters, I think where For where the money could be spent and so that was where our our discussion started about You know one of the things that had been mentioned by a lot were if there was needed Needed updates to municipalities and and land records was a really big thing for a lot of towns because during covid it was so hard to To access things for for certain people or you know, maybe they're you know, maybe in Irene certain places with flooding and and Problems like that lost records because they weren't protected properly So so modernizing and digitizing and doing a lot of things like that was a was a big suggestion that a lot of other towns municipalities had looked into for that So that was a recommendation that really made a lot of sense to the committee when we started talking about that So that that's just a little bit of background But then the in the final ruling things opened up a little bit It's a little bit more flexible now for what the projects can be as long as they consider the greater community and Go towards building a resilient community But really looking at the effects of coat, you know, this money is came about because of covid and because of The the huge detriment that covid was to communities The ability for communities to come together to meet in person and to to do things efficiently So that's where a lot of that came from and that's that's still A focus that it needs to to look at but it's a little bit more flexible than it was originally Next question. Yeah So award decisions need to be made by December 31st 2024 Does that mean that they will not be made until then or will award decisions be made? Possibly sooner than that. Is there any hard or even soft? Date for when decisions would be made? I believe that we talked about sort of having a rolling Rolling decision making based on, you know, our initial Based on the initial batch of projects that we get looked at. I think that we talked about, you know, if you came to us with a really Concrete proposal that we all agreed was met all the criteria and Then we submit we put it out to different people to say, okay Here's submit us your like final grant more like a real grant proposal with the details and things that are really Well thought out and put together and ready to go our our Our hope is that we will be able to have them funded Not waiting for a whole year, you know, it's as soon as possible Yeah, and the and the key too is not necessarily all of the money allocated at once. That's what I was saying before like Um, we don't have to spend it all by You know We don't have to spend it all immediately But if there's projects that are ready, we are hoping to be able to approve them Yeah, and then the thing too is it gets escalated up to the select board to make a final decision So we as a committee will say, okay We're done and I agree. I think keeping it as a rolling You know review process and then bring it to select board that then it would be put on the select board Schedule agenda for review and discussion and approval and whatnot. Um, I can I yeah, I could see it as rolling not just All everything all at once and then being allocated all at once. I think it's it's all also, um The the phase one the intake Um Information we get will be able to help us sort out just how long phase two will take because if we've got, you know a million dollars worth of projects For 1.37 million dollars that becomes a very easy and very quick kind of Or if we've got seven million worth of ideas on 1.37 just playing with numbers That is going to make for a slower p2 process. So a lot of this intake process is to be able to say, okay I mean right now we hope to By, uh, I think we by the end of the first quarter of 2023. We hope to be sorted through Um, the intakes as they shut down at the end of this year We figure a quarter to really digest what what people are saying and tally up numbers um and ideas So so just sort of thinking through that timeline that would mean that Final applications of those proposals that make that make the cut shall we say um Those then couldn't be due sooner than in the second quarter of 20 20 23 hours. That's that's yeah, that's what made 2023 Which means the soonest I presume the soonest that are worth to be made Would be say third quarter of 2023. Is that does that sound right? I was yeah, I was thinking the third or fourth quarter of 23 Okay, I'm asking of course because I'm thinking of a project that's very time set has a lot of time Sense of elements, okay, and also elements where What the proposal is requesting may depend on when funds are available because there's a huge mix of of Funding sources that have to be juggled and I think too like like michael said like if we get We don't have any idea really. I mean you've been our faithful our faithful attendee at our meetings and So other than that, I don't know that we have a really great idea yet about the How many other project ideas ideas there might be so, you know We might get to the end of december and find that we have Three really good projects that people have proposed to us that will make our decision making process a lot easier So that might mean that then We could make a funding decision a lot quicker Depending on you know the number of projects that we have to sift through I think so I I think Until the end of december. We really don't have a great idea at the moment of of of what to expect But at the end of december we should be able to say We have this many projects in the works that we're looking at and have a better idea of What our time frame of making a decision could be Yeah, and we we've been thinking in terms of okay. We have till december 20 2024 end of To allocate these funds. So let's make sure we come in well before then And we even were like are we ready to have this meeting? So we push it back a week or two. So we're really ready I was like no, we gotta we gotta get the ball rolling here. So We're feeling good about having the intake applications open until the end of this year And then being able to really figure out. Okay, maybe can we figure this whole thing out in 2023? Do we spill into 2024 how much into 2024? But um, We are yeah that dropped that deadline of of last day of 2024 feels like We'll hit that So, uh, as you know, I mean, I'm I'm representing a project That's quite large. Um, the child care center that we're hoping to uh, to build Up there at the enterprise center of vdc. Um, and we're Ranging with the state with uh foundation funding sources the state Congressional delegation and so forth The fact that the magnitude of this project Is a large with so many funding sources I would presume is not going to count against The project in terms of the the ranoff arpa No, I think it's that's actually like a fantastic Point that it's the kind of project where Where we had said before, you know, if there's a project that needs a piece and there's a lot of other support for it That that speaks well to it actually I think because We want to make sure that That the projects that get proposed are actually possible That's part of our scope of looking at them and saying, you know, is this That what the intake form is going to hopefully tell us is are these different projects possible? So I think it actually They'll they'll work right in tandem together Something like that really meets the bank for the buck criteria We've got in in terms of like, wow, you've already lined up matching funds because we see part of our job is to like Figure out what other sources are out there and give people that information but If a project's already done that kind of legwork that just That would one wrinkle may be that what we asked ran off arpa for Maybe someone in precise. I guess I take it by early 23 will have a clear idea of what funding is in place What we need more funding for yeah, but you know, I It could it could be uh I don't know um It might be for I don't landscaping at the at the center or it could be furniture for the same. Yeah. Yeah, depending on when Yeah, and I think so that the idea of this of the intake form is to have that broad picture Maybe some specifics too, but you know, you don't have to go into you don't have to know those specific details for the intake form If that's what you're asking. Yeah, I feel like that's sort of what you're asking. So in the second phase Like Mary said it would be more like a Like a grant Request where you'd have the specifics and in regard and I know that the daycare center has been going Working on this for a very long time. I think you're going on to three years already four years. So um So you have done a lot of this legwork So the information that we're going to need for the second part You probably already have that information again. It's just what I'm hearing and correct me if I'm wrong Is that? Specific dollar amount and where is that specific specific dollar amount going to go regarding the daycare project? Am I understanding? Yeah, okay. Yeah And we'll have a clear as I say by by early 2023. Well, I Hope we'll have a clear picture of what we need when we need it and so forth, you know Yes, just it's a little fuzzy right at the moment, but um, plus you had a lot of you've got a lot of moving pieces on it And yeah, I I've been fortunate I think fortunate But I've been involved in listening to updates from Damian Of what has happened and what's going on and the needs and just some of the bottleneck and It just the different again, you've got a lot of moving pieces that you've got to manage. So, yeah But the the ran of ARPA funding would be would be a crucial piece of that Eric, do you mind if I ask you a question? Sure? Um, so we Was on the kind of the intake committee. Um, designing this form And we really try to figure out the the bins. We didn't we should people come up with a specific number Uh, we went with this bins idea the under 10 to 10 to 50 50 to 100 100 Does that does that seem sensible and helpful the to have those five bins under cost just kind of as a As a place as where do I land my you know scale and scope? It's it we thought asking for specifics at this point made made a little sense But just wondering if those are those bins were helpful Well, I think I think we actually have a Fair idea what what our ask is going to be I'm not sure how if that applies to other other proposers, uh, but but You know sure I know it's box. We're probably we're planning right right, okay But you feel like you could be even more specific than these bins at this point. Um, yeah We certainly could could be I mean, you know, we'd love to we'd love to we'd love to ask her over, you know The over 300 000 category, but I mean I think you know, we're we have Some specific need and amount in mind that fits within one of these bins So I think I think they're fine. I I don't know what other applicants are likely to Decide about what their ask is going to be. Yeah, that's I think in general people figure well Shoot for the moon, you know Right, but I guess you'll see 300 times five gets us over, right? That does it for my questions Okay No, thanks guys Yes, Jeff Joe did you have a question? Yeah It's right there I wanted you said that it includes all the towns and I just wanted to make sure I got them all It's east Randolph ran off center in Randolph village. Does it include anyone else? No, no Brookfield and Braintree have their own funding Anything that's considered Randolph, right? Yeah, we could say west Randolph too All right north Randolph, thank you I'm not familiar with some of the other parts as much so school streets very well represented Yeah, I know That's good. That's good. Uh, let's see. Uh, and I was wondering, uh, do you have money coming from the infrastructure act as well? They are aware of or is that something that you're still mulling over the infrastructure? Yeah, well, that would be a town question We are just arba. You're just Any other funding sources would need to be asked of the town manager Yeah, Trevor would know if I don't know if infrastructure funding is just going to state and the state divvies out or Yeah It's outside our realm of that's okay But potentially we may point someone the intake to like actually that looks like a really good Go for that. Yeah Well, I'm thinking if somebody pitched a project that really met some of that criteria What you might do then is start it and with a bit of money and then push it along to a much larger funding source Just curious and our our town manager is involved in our meetings So when we have questions like that come up, you know, so people have proposals When we're going through it, he'll be able to say You know, there's this other money that this looks like it would fit better So that's part of the that's part of the criteria that we'll be going through when we look at the proposals to see them and and filter them out and say if there's Funding from another source because we don't want to duplicate Funding sources, but we might want to add to funding like if there's a something that's limited And then ARPA funds could complement it then we want to look at that So we either want to redirect or have them work together or have them be solely fun You know, if it has to be something that's solely funded through ARPA then we'll be considering those options Gotcha. Now, I just wanted to know one more thing about the structure of how these proposals are going through You mentioned the select board. I actually don't know like how many steps they're going through right now Obviously, you're just going through initial applications, but then could you walk me through some of that? Well, I think this this is what I think and this will be discussed in upcoming meetings So, you know, we got through this first piece and now we've got to build out What I think how we envision it is that the first step this first step is are Giving the information out there and then gathering information from projects Gathering that information and then the committee will review projects and Like I said differentiate whether there's other funding sources for those projects and how viable they are And then we will reach out to people with the projects that We think are viable I believe and and have a more in-depth grant type application Be filled out so that we can really evaluate the the viability of the projects And then I think at that point we will also have some form of a Scoring matrix and hitting the points that we haven't developed that. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah We're still working on that. I'm totally just asking because you know if I have something pitched. I'd like to you know What kind of steps do I have to think about? I think that that is where we where we're going with that so we still have to develop our final processes, but um You know, we'll get the broad ideas Find out how many projects we're even thinking about so that we can So we can see if we are you know Overwhelmed with them or if we have a couple really well thought out Projects that we can then you know that will make it an easier decision if there's yeah, like michael said if we've got You know six three hundred thousand dollar Proposals then we have a lot more decision-making to make if we have You know For fifty thousand dollar proposals. It's a lot easier. So we just have to We're not quite sure Like they said, you know, both uh, michael rams. He said, you know, what are the quick hits? What are the short-term goals? Is that it's something that could be turned around quickly and then you're going to have a longer term goal? so Again with the goal here was To inform the community Get the intake going because as we all said 2024 is sooner than later It comes real quick, especially when you're on a project And the other thing was if we waited any longer to get out to the community You're now running into the holiday season and and we all know how the holiday season is so um I think we have done pretty well being Prepared for this round and we know what we've got to do We know what our to-dos are So that you know, we are Making sure we look at everything and it's transparent. It's fair and then Again develop our scoring process so that and reach out to the folks and keep going So I I envision that we'll probably have another meeting another informational meeting as we move along with the project this is just our very first step and It's um, it's been interesting. It's it's been fun, but you know, there's a lot of pieces to it and also being compliant with the you know the feds so Yeah, how much stakeholder involvement do you have to have just you have to have it advertised and then, you know Whatever you get it's what you get or say that again. I'm sorry. Uh, your stakeholder involvement. So us How much do you just have to advertise and then just hope people show up? Yeah, I don't think there's any specific requirement. Um You know, I I I think that a lot of different towns were able to kind of come up with a process that they You know, whatever they thought worked for them. So this is what our our committee came together and decided That this was the process we wanted to go to for reaching out to Um, the community to try to get ideas I don't think that that was really set in stone at a different community The committees were sort of able to make those decisions on how how do you want to go about trying to figure out the best way to It's it's just a really important We felt as a committee That it's really important to If we are to be representing the community and working on what's best for the resilience of the community That we get as much community input as possible. So and and FaceTime and and again, I you know As the others I I looked at other websites, you know to or other jurisdictions within the state and outside and within new england and there are some with Towns that didn't even do an outreach with the community They did a survey and they've done everything just totally online Some There was one that I read where they Had already allocated a huge portion of the funds and then the remaining funds they reached out to the community Using a survey. So again, there's no structure There wasn't you know, so it depends on the town too because there are some there's a lot of towns in vermont That don't I think there's one town that ended up wanting to do their project on The water quality or a water water treatment system something like that because they didn't have that And that was proving to be a really Difficult problem for them the town decided I mean they worked together with the committees and everything but that was a very big impactful Project for that area and so most of their money I think was going into that It was a single long-standing which totally makes sense for certain for certain places There might be a big project that makes sense like that, but we felt that it was important to reach out to the community for ideas You know, we had a few ideas that we thought were important like the the town records and the town website and some little things that Right. Yeah, we also talked about, you know, not everyone's online So there are paper intakes and you do see posters actually at physical locations throughout the town because Yeah, there's still a digital divide. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that was definitely Yeah, I did like your broadband mention. I think that probably would be Well, yeah, well used. Yeah, and related to intent of funding, right? Well, those are my quick questions, I guess and feel free to reach out Um, you know, I think we're listed um, on the on the On the website. Yep. There should be a contact So feel free to ask it send any other questions and we we meet frequently so we can address There's a question. Well, uh, well, our committee continue to meet publicly. Uh, so I'll have something to do on my first stage Yes, we will That's an easy one And you're more than welcome.  But yes, most definitely we will continue. So our next meeting Is that first thursday in november? I can't remember the day seventh I think it's this. No, it's not the seventh. I think it's the No, nine days of wednesday. It's my husband's birthday Is that election days the eighth? Eighth is lucky. Oh, that's the tuesday. So eight nine ten No, so then it's the week before because it's the first thursday Oh, yeah, because halloween is the is the is a monday. Yeah It'll be we're falling on the third. It looks like the third. Okay. That sounds about right. So yes So now that we figured out so the next um open meeting is going to be on november third And it will be warned it will be also on front porch forum and other locations and posted around And there's another informational meeting on um thursday night at seven o'clock at the red school house up in Randolph center. So, you know, if you generate any more questions between now and then and you want to go Listen to this presentation again You can go up there and ask questions Using my daughter's sleeves This is probably the best fit And just again the window for getting your intake in is between now and the last day of the year december 31st 2022 Yeah, sure. However, if on new year's day you have a fabulous idea That is well supported We might consider it It's not it's it it's a window. It's it's not it's it's you got to have a drop day You know drop dead date. Um, just so that you could get the stuff in but there's always a little flexibility afterwards Um, I wouldn't say into march, but you know, we really want to get it within This window so that we could get to work on What we need to do next and if a few trickle in so be it. That's not, you know, it's not a big deal And if if in the unlikely event that you don't have many submissions by december 31st Is it likely that you would then extend the extend the deadline in hopes of uh, uh, Drawing drawing more applications. Yeah, we've talked about that. I mean, that's I think like around the holidays Yeah, we've talked about various different things And I think it would make sense too for us to consider That if we had some really well thought out projects that were You know, depending on the on the amount of money, um, that we could approve a first round and then Do it again another, you know another time Right and we you know, we don't know if we're going to get overwhelmed with applications or it's really quiet But maybe on december 1st we can say oh, it's really quiet and we do Um formally push back But right now we've got the december 31st We we did we went back and forth a lot of like is that a fair window? Yeah It's still open and we left it open for discussion because I think at one point in one of our meetings we even said, um Considering, you know, how much comes in do we extend it to the middle of january? So again when we meet we'll we'll figure that out And we want to balance it too for, you know, exactly for the concerns that you have of a project that Has been underway and really needs might need funding Really quickly So, um, we don't want to be completely Locked into saying we can't make a decision to fund you until you know the third quarter We want to we want to be flexible depending on on what we see come in in december. It's great We'll we'll hopefully know a lot more by the end of december of a lot more clarity on on what the next steps look like Yeah So Whoops Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much for showing up. Thank you for the good questions. Yeah, those were great questions Definitely Well, thanks for Thanks for doing this Sure. Thank you. 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What's up guys and welcome to another channel spotlight. I'm drake. I'm Chris and we are the Baldy Brothers, right? There's a reason for that name. I don't know. No, it's got nothing to do with the hair and Guys, thanks for all the brilliant reviews and everything else and the comments And we would love to bring this on a daily basis for you guys as always But remember we got something very epic happening today series. Yeah, and that is our speed comment answers Yeah, that's a speed comment answers. That's what we're gonna do right at the end of the show Agree. Yep at the end of every show. We are going to answer 10 comments in speed form Yeah, like one two three four and let's see how that works out. We're very excited about it But we haven't gotten it to yet, but we're gonna try but without a further ado Should we look at some of the great spotlights of today before we look at the spotlights guys Thank you for all the comments and remember just like we're adding the speed comment We're gonna start learning from you guys as we teaching you guys you guys are teaching us. Yeah, that's fair enough Yeah, definitely. Yeah, and uh, can we go to the comments now? No, that's at the end. I mean to the video highlights. Yeah. Yeah, let's spot Light our first video. Yeah, I think it's time. I think we said enough Yeah guys the first video of the day our first video of today comes in with the name of the champ But please read below that champ Professional idiot. Okay, that is cool. And he's not talking about us which is kind of cool I personally love this title. I love it. I think it's brilliant Why not? Why not buddy? Very nice. I enjoyed that part. Yeah, okay taking a look at of course the trailer of the champ Let's take a look at the trailer of the champ and see what's going up here.  So you champ and we might be fixing that up before the end of today's episode Love your trailer.  Yeah guys are young, you know, we can't do that No, we could what to escape people. What would you subcribe in front of the camera? Well, you know what? No, we can do a shot of your face in front of the camera. I'd actually like to see that But we can do that some other time. Well, no, anyway, let's take a look at your bitmaps. Your bitmaps are not bad Buddy, they look very cool. You know, you got a cool sense of humor in your videos. I've definitely enjoyed that You know what he's got interactivity now he draws me into these videos. He just actually champ watching you know Good idea, but You definitely love that part of these videos a lot. Definitely. We've got a guest in the show as well You might have seen her around here. She normally pops in the night guys But let's go back to the champ champ. I think this is damn great. I love your channel. I love what you're doing You've got 91 subs right now. Well anything else Chris. We want to talk about. Oh, yeah Quick hint in your channel trailer. You might want to put a couple of links here in the beginning Welcome to my channel and that those blue links help out a lot if you want to Maybe that is at the end of his does he have With your end walls, I agree Chris is for your end. Well, I think that's what you're trying to say there for mistaken and Hell, yeah, definitely the gent has got and walls and they are annotated annotated I'm not sure what this one's going to but these two are and I'm clicking on one of those annotations right now straight to a playlist if I'm not mistaken. Well, right on right on the champ keep on being a champ Definitely, I think you're on the right track. I love your content and guys. He's consistency. I'd wait. I actually didn't look consistency. He is Decent decent actually very decent. He's nothing wrong, buddy Nothing wrong.  Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Um, love that. Love that, right. So guys, I think Chris, are we subbing?  Yeah, and yeah, that's where it's It's his name Yeah, true. It's his name Yeah champ You got a nice keep on rocking. Yep The next channel our second channel of today and you think we don't read the comments We read the comments guys, we will do our best not to just make it all gaming channels But that's it. Mix it up a bit. You know freedom's got music graphics Roller stuff happening. That's it. So we're gonna try and mix it up whenever we can and today we're bringing JK Scalos, I think that's how you said J Skullos. Skullos, no, Scalos Scalos or Skullos. Scalos What? I'm trying to figure it out. Well Straight up the bat. Beautiful header. I love the head of this channel. Very nice style to it and the artwork Bravo, but then I mean that is that's what I'm saying. That's what you do. Yeah Yeah, that's exactly. Yeah, let's take a look at his trailer and let's have a look at the Jens trailer here Nice soothing music. It's I like it Find me on Facebook, Twitter Blocker, all these links here. Very nice Are these annotated or not annotated? Find me everywhere Simple to the point. Love this. This is what we were telling the gen before That's it. He's put all of these links right here in the beginning of his trailer. That's a 29 seconds You kept me in there Short ad, get to the point. We can find you anywhere. If we're looking for you Bring it. Yeah, love it. You have videos Very nice, buddy My point, you know, I'm going with this. I think I've said a million times before Uniformity in the BMPs some kind of your own logo. I love this little mind character here You know that you're using maybe yeah in each one. No, but wait, he does have he does actually have it In one year on the last two looks like a yeah, that kind of thing Beautiful work on that if you want to Okay, quick thing. Let's take a look here at another one of your videos and Endwalls. Do you have those happening right now?  Can you don't have an end wall there? Maybe an end wall would be great as well to link up your videos and everything else like that Kind of thing but definitely love your channel and love the work you're doing did a very nice graphic squad Yeah, guys, so For all you guys out there Give this channel a shot at You'll be able to show you how to do some of your art guys. I'll help some guys also Yeah Very very nice work.  Well, I think it's 830 now As of right now. Yeah, and guys, let's try Let's try graham 2000 subs Yeah If you wanna, yeah, that's good as well, right buddy. We subbing keep up the great work Hope you guys enjoyed the review next channel, right Chris. Yeah And right guys video number three of today's spotlight series and episode that's it and it's reality Yes, it's a reality It's reality and this is the first channel first off the bat landing on to the site love The graphics on his banner graphics. Well done. This image here looks like this does mean serious business as well Like it like a lot Definitely very very good Right, uh, he's uh He's uh, he's uh Yeah, I don't say the wizard. Don't say the word. I didn't say the word. Yeah Okay, so Maybe this is a bit more of an adult channel like Easy on the swing, bro. Nothing wrong with it. It's entertaining.  It could be an a Try for it on your trailer could be an a but hell yeah, I mean Well, yeah, okay. I wouldn't swear as much as I could not swear because Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait You like old age Yes, I agree. I agree. I suppose they use The initiative to do the car. I don't know. I just feel that uh swing is not that good But try boy. Do you know what girl? We'll let you guys decide. Yeah, you guys decide. I don't know Leave it on the comments below. Actually, you know my days when we swore more would You know what? It just happened Chris. We never swore when you did but you remember what used to happen Yeah, you got bowed Remember guys, we had corporal punishment. It was bad. Now. Let's take a look at some of your videos I love your bnp's your bnp's look cool Cool energy there. Love it. Um, let's take a look at one of your videos grabbing this one here in the beginning The vanishing of Ethan Carrot. Now this supposed to be like kind of this It's like you're Now nothing wrong with it It's interesting. I want to watch more but we've got to move on with the show But I definitely want to watch a lot more Or Of the gent here. Definitely this looks so interesting. Um, yeah, definitely watch your videos buddy and keep up the great work a little What would we say? Yeah, I mean he's putting his face in here. That's cool. He's got that Yeah, keep on working it Very very nice. I've got easy little swear words if possible That's my five cents worth and very old manner Yeah, be be adventurous. Do swear but just politely, you know help certain I don't know swearing politely Yeah, so so there's a difference of saying to someone just like Yeah, don't say it Don't say that off. No, don't or just say it Please politely move on off. No. No, you could you could tell him um For flip sake move on right Seriously, yeah, seriously. You'd read something going for flip. Thanks. Please move on. Okay, whatever Uh guys, whatever. Love your channel. You got an answer buddy. Keep on rocking and uh We're subscribing. Yeah, we definitely subscribing. Oh, yeah And right guys the what we promised in the beginning quick answering tail of your comments rather Yeah, don't say speed That's what we said speed. What's the difference between speed and quick? Just sounds better. It's was like the And flip Same thing speed Okay, let's go for it comment number one. All right comment number one. Okay. Let's go quality tai chi tai ha Let me read them Really hope these guys review my channel. I said respond you're asking me this question.  Maybe you randomly next Honestly, do you never know That the best you can come up with. Okay. How would you answer it? Honey, we're definitely gonna get to your channel real soon. Okay next Craig head pro welcome to my mind. Hell, yeah, buddy. You might want to include these three channels in the description and Answer answer already been done. Thank you very much with you and thanks for pointing that out. Hell, yeah Vortex gaming hd This is a good idea. I should keep going and would love to be featured buddy I hope you're gonna get to you the real soon future But for now you're off to shooting the comment section and thank you for the comment minus receive Right. I just got partnered with freedom. Hell. Yeah, congrats buddy. You just joined the best network on youtube That's a tell you everybody grew me there mad betel mad betel If you want to see this, however, could how could you get around to getting your channel spotlight? Well, buddy, we choose them randomly, but we will notice you in the comments right now Your comment has been highlighted and maybe your channel will be spotlighted real soon from Tombo t2 Longer to say than it took me to say the whole sentence Also great concept. Yes, and great concept. Thank you very much, buddy We're gonna do our best to try make it as entertaining as possible and of course Pump action number two. Could I get a spotlight? I would much it would much be appreciated Hell, yeah, buddy We're gonna try getting to your channel as soon as possible But for now your comment has been spotlighted and keep on as the entire strikes as the entire strikes and that was I would love Um It would be awesome if these would be daddy shows. We definitely gonna try and make them buddy And thank you very much for that comment the strange I would love to be spotlighted, but these are just against me of getting one Buddy, we're gonna try getting to your channel definitely before right now your comment has been noted and spotlighted So hell yeah guys Okay, well chris that was all 10 comments. I think we got through them quite fast Well, hopefully tell us what you think guys. Leave a comment below. Should we do the 10? Quick comment replies at the end too busy. Not too busy. What you guys think about it as well? Tell us do you like the set you want this inner set you want this back out of the set back in the dining room Either way, we were very happy just spotlighting your channel watching the great work every one of you are doing Um guys, thanks for watching another one of our programs. Leave a comment below. Tell us what you think Tell us. Yeah, you like the new set. Don't you like the new set? 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