Hi everybody, I'm Jen Krieger. I am Chief Agile Architect at Red Hat. However, I'm not here to talk to you about Agile, so you can take a deep breath. I'm actually here to talk about my second hobby, which is Legos. And for all of you who cringe when I said Legos, you can come and speak to me afterwards. I know I get creamed about that online a lot. So, when I first started working with small circuits and open source hardware technology, I was also playing with Legos at the time. I'm kind of a big kid. And I said, well, geez, the one thing missing in these things that I'm building is lighting. And as I officially learned, almost immediately, because everyone told me, there's actually kits you can buy online. The one problem with them is that they're really expensive. And so you can go to any number one of these companies and purchase $150 worth of pre-fabricated lights for your actual Lego kits. Or you can do what I did, which was do it yourself. However, I also wanted to see what one of these kits look like. And so as you can see on the right hand side, this is actually a picture of one of my Legos with one of the pre-fabricated kits in it. And you can see all the wires going through actually the roof. And so when you actually try to take the house apart, so you can see inside, because I don't know if anybody of you know, but Lego actually has some really, really cute things going inside, particularly in this one, it was the Parisian restaurant. They've got a really cool wine kind of shelf and in the kitchen around the corner, there's a chef and he's making a turkey for the people in the restaurant. And so without the wires, you can take the roof off and can see inside. With the wires, you're kind of stuck leaving the wires where they are. Number three, you might go through a little batteries. And so these are all the batteries that I used up in making this tiny little thing up here. It's amazing.  And the reason consumed most of those batteries is because I had a short in the back and I didn't know it. And so I thought when I turned the switch to the off section, that it wouldn't actually consume the battery, but it was. And so I repeatedly gone through batteries not knowing what I actually, what was wrong. So if you're going to put holes in your Lego like I do, you can actually melt plastic with your Dremel. And so slow and easy is better than fast and hard. SMD LEDs, so how many of you have used SMDs? They are super tiny. And if you try to peel them, they will fly everywhere. And you will lose half a strip of LEDs almost instantly. I cannot tell you how many of those I found stuck to the bottom of my foot. If I've walked around my apartment barefoot, they're all over my house.  That's quite frankly the only thing I can say about it. I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong with these twinkle boards. Come to find out it wasn't the board, it was me. How many of you have had that problem before? Yeah, thank you, because that makes me feel better. Four hours to try to figure out what I was doing wrong. I was just connecting it incorrectly. Seven, the right tools help. So my favorite tool is up on the left-hand side as a multimeter. That is the only thing that works you find the short in the battery. So you know what's actually going wrong. I also love cutter bee tweezers, because they have a tiny, tiny head at the very end of them. And that's really good with those tiny, tiny LEDs that you actually saw earlier.  So I said earlier that I didn't want to spend like $100 on a prefabricated kit. Well, guess what? It's really expensive to have this hobby, and this is only sparkling native fruit.  Also too, if you have cats, it does not help. This is my cat, Kip. He likes to knock Legos all over my apartment. My other cat likes to eat them, including, you might notice, my sweater, which I did not notice until I pulled out of my suitcase this morning. He likes to just basically eat anything. But at the end of the day, the best thing about it is it is actually really worth the effect. So thank you.


Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening.My name is Takuya Miyazaka.I am a network engineer in KDDI,which is a Japanese network operator company.Today, we will talk about the network anomaly event reductionand optimal resource control in cloud-native network functionswith my co-presenter Takuya Miyazawa.Actually, we would like to attend this conferenceon-site, but due to the COVID-19 restrictions,it became very difficult for us to go to Spain,so we appreciate the event management teamfor preparing this remote presentation.This is an introduction and our motivation of this talk.The use of cloud-native network functions in the telco industry,such as 5G and MEC, have started to emerge.From the network operator perspective,the benefit of ZNFsinclude quick sub-deployment, flexibility of operation and management,and diverse business model accommodation.File these benefits are attractive to us,but as a network operator,we need to fulfill the typicalteleco services requirement, such as higher availability,residency,and optimal resource utilization.To realize these requirements,there are some challengeswe need to tackle with.For example,to realize the extremely high availability,we need to protect the network anomaly eventand resolve the anomaly event before our customerhave bad experience.This slide summarizesour lessons shared in today's talk.In the first section,I will talk about the network anomaly eventpre-detection in the 5G network,using the EVPF and deep learning technology.After my talk,Takaya Miyazawa will sharehis experience on the optimal resource control in ZNF.So,let me begin the introduction of the network anomaly eventpre-detection part.The network anomaly eventsare inevitable for network operators andokay almost every day on our commercial networks.Typical example of the network anomaly eventincrease network latency and increase the packet loss rateand increase the CPU utilization rate.So,this network diagram shows the 5G core network on the kubernetesenvironment and let's consider an example of a packet lossevent in the control plane of the 5G core network.So,for some reason,the packet loss rate in the control plane of a 5G corenetwork built on the kubernetes starts to increase at some moment.If we don't take any action on this issue,the packet loss rate will gradually increase and at some point it will have a significant impact on the communication between network functions in the control planeand finally it will cause a major problem in customers 5G services.To avoid such a situation,the monitoring system needs to detectthis network anomaly event as soon as possible.This is our motivation.Our motivation is to detect these network anomaly events rapidly and precisely.But is it possible?Our hypothesis for this project wasbasics metrics such as CPU utilization rateand not enough to realize the rapid and precise detection.This is because the amount of information of such a basic metric isvery limited and we consider it insufficient for the futureprotection by deep learning.So,our idea wasEBPF observability.So,before jumping into the details,let me show you an overview of our approach.Our approach consists of two parts and our target application is 5G corecontainers which is built on the kubernetes on top of a Linux kernel.Firstly,as i said in the previous slide,we used theEBPF functionality inorder to collect the percontainer detail metrics.So,this diagram shows an example ofEBPF metric and shows the number of TCPtransmission of a 5G core network functions container like AMF.And this,you know,the ebp metric are measured under an anomaly eventthat the packet loss rate increases gradually.So,as you can see from this diagramas the packet loss rate increases,the number of tcp-dutrace mission alsoincrease due to the tcp packet drop.On the other hand,this observationalso implies that it may be possible to protectnetwork failure from these ebpf metrics.Secondly,AI and ML.We used an AI ML model from the ebpf metrics to protect the future key indicator of 5GqoE4 customers.This example diagram shows the protection of thenumber of UE-registration failure in 5G network.If we can protect the key indicatorprecisely,we can detect the anomaly event that violates a stressful or SLA.So,these two things are overview of our approach.And from the next slide,I'd like to talk about each part in detail.So,ebpf.This table showssome of the ebpf metrics collected in our work.So,we collected some cpu-relatedmetrics like LANQ latency.Also,we collected several tcp-relatedmetrics such as,you know,the tcp-dutrace missions.So,next,these two graphs shows the ebpf metric behavior when an anomaly event occurs.The top graph shows the behavior of LANQ latency in the case of the cpu-utilization rateincrease event.And the bottom graph shows the behavior of tcp-retransmissionin the case of a packet loss event.And,as you can see from these examples,so,several ebpfmetrics are positively correlated to anomaly event.Therefore,we expect thesedetailedmetrics can be applied to deep learning for the future prediction.Next,is the detail of the AIML path.We use the LSTM model,which is a recurrent neural network-baseddeep learning model for the future prediction of time-stream data such as the number ofUE registration failure.As the data input of LSTM,we apply the basic metric of each containercorrected by C-advisor and ebpfmetrics.And,using these past actual metrics as input,LSTM can be usedto predict future metrics.This slide shows the variation result of LSTMin the packet loss event in the control plane of the 5G network.In this variation,weシミュレイディed many anomaly events in our experimental 5G network and collectedmetrics of 5GC network function container for the LSTM learning.Our first evaluation result showsthe ebpf enables more accurate prediction.In the case of ebpf and she advisesbasicmetric,accurate prediction was achieved at 150 seconds after the start of anomaly event.On theother hand,without ebpf,at the same 150 seconds time point,the accurate prediction was not possible.This upper line shows the actual value and the lower dashed line shows the protected value by LSTM.So,as you can see,there is a large estimation error without ebpf.So,although thesedeserts were obtained in our test environment and not evaluated in actual commercial networks so far,butit is expected that the ebpf will enable rapid and accurate detection of anomaly events in 5G network.So,this is a summary of my part.Thanks to ebpf,detailed percontainermetrics can be collected even in cnf's 5G network.And our first evaluation result showsebpf and aiml will enable faster detection of future network anomaly event in cnf's 5G network.With this,Ifinish my part of the network anomaly event prediction in 5G network.And from the next slide,Miazawa will talk about optimal resource control.Next,I'm going to introduce our identity on optimal resource control in cloud-native network functions.And name isMiazawa from NICTJapan.This is the summary of this talk.NICT operates a public network desperate called JGN in Japan.There are several access points,but this time we have created severalvirtual machines and constructed a small scale of virtual networks in public region,middle and north part of Japan.The virtual network consists of several nodes,each of which has several virtual machines.monolithic network functions are directly deployed on a virtual machine as VNF.Cloud-native network functions often called microservices are deployed on containers created for a virtual machineor hostOS as CNF.We have installed HCE open-source manual OSM on the JGN public region and it operates these network functions.We have also deployed our AI machine-learning engine for analytics of data such as ncpu utilizationand uncompetition and resource control,especially for CNFs.And connected to theOSM system as a northbound component.Important thing in this talk is that we have implementedadditional interface,especially for autoscaling.That interface is the main topic in this talk.This is a framework of AI-assisted and computational resource control and management for network functions.This framework is compliant with ITUT-wide of 3,177 standards.AI machine-learning should be installed into both data-analytics and resource control decisionto provide high agility to find a solution of dynamic resource adjustment.The data-analytics system analyzes and predicts the resource usage based on measurement results obtained from theanaly network and or cloud infrastructure.That is usually completed in seconds or in minutes by utilizing machine-learning.Based on the analysis result,the resource control system decides a solution to execute resource arbitrationamong services and or network function migration,which is completed in seconds or in minutes by means of machine-learning.Our goal is to simultaneously achieve maintenance and enhancement of quality of services, effective utilization ofcompetential resources,and agile processing of data-analytics and resource control in the time granted of seconds or in minutes.This figure illustrates a verification of a modern network infrastructure consisting of four network nodes,7 links and 2 end hosts,that we have constructed a part of it on the NACT public network desperate called JGN,Hawk Recreation,and constructed other parts in Kokore city in Tokyoand interconnected both networks on around 400 kilometers.We have installed anHC open-source version 10 into our network function operation systemby Kubernetes installation.As northbound components,there are AI engine,OSM client,and visualization system.The AI engine obtains data from theanaly infrastructure such as CPU digitization of each network function,analyses the data,and decides the solution for adaptive resource re-allocation to each network function.So,what is working or insubmitting in the OSM version 10?Firstly,it cannot obtain some information that is necessary for adaptive resource allocation to CNFs,with higher accuracy and higher scalability.Concretely,the OSM cannot get the current real-time situation of fluctuation in CPU digitization in every second,although it has a function of autoscaling.Secondly,it has no function of designated scaling,for example,designating another virtual machine to migrate a containerized network function from the current virtual machine.Precise,it is impossible to designate the amount of CPU resource to be increased or decreased to each CNF.Thirdly,the manageability is relatively low,especially in terms of support for visualization.Firstly,the operability is relatively low,especially in terms of arranging the form by manual operations.For example,calling a web API and receiving session required.Finally,no AI ML function to analyze various data to be reflected in network function operation.So,to solve the issues that I showed you in the previous page,we have added two stars.One is an additional interface for a function enhancement called the direct interface.The other one is our AI engine to automate CPU data analytics and the computational resource control for CNFs by utilizing AI and machine learning techniques.I'm not going to explain the AI engine in this talk,but briefly speaking,we adopt several machine learning algorithms such as support vector regression,RASU,and encoder decoder recurrent neural network for time series CPU data analytics and automatic resource control decision.This talk focuses on this direct interface for a functional enhancement.This is an overview of a direct interface which is added to the OSM,the non-span components such as AI engine and the visualization systemMiddle components such as VIM,quantities,and NFV infrastructure are connected with each other by the direct interface via Kafka bus.Without going through the OSM internal components such as life cycle manager,resource orchestrator,and so on.The main objectives of this traditional interface are to obtain necessary resource information,resource arbitration among CNFs,and NF migration from server to another server.In other words,the additional interface may only be effective for these purposes,and the original OSM interfaces and internal components may be effective for all other objectives.So,it should be better to equip both interfaces in the system just by adding the direct interface to the current OSM.So,what are the benefits of a direct interface?The first is to obtain a VNF CNF CPU utilization in every one second.We utilize C-group to realize it by tuning for each VRM,which means each a quantities cluster.We can obtain higher accuracy and scalability in obtaining a real-time situation of CPU utilization of each network function.The second one is this unit is scaling.In horizontal scaling,we can specify a virtual machine to increase support for each CNF.The current OSM Kubernetes cannot do this without our direct interface.In particle scaling,we can specify the amount of CPU allocated to network functions.Again,the current OSM Kubernetes cannot do this without our direct interface.The third one is higher manageability.It's supposed to visualize a lot of information obtained by multiple OSM northbound interfaces.The fourth one is higher availability.We have a convenient compound DCTL,which enables easier measurement of processing timeDue to a function to designate asynchronous or synchronous to each request.So,finally,general on conclusion for two things.The use of CNFs in the telco industry has been receiving much attention in recent years.Why CNFs enable quick services requirement?We have still been investigating a solution to realize the typical requirements of telco services.Such as high availability and optimal allocation of the confidential resources for CNFs.In this session,we have introduced our experience in utilizing CNFs as an infrastructure for telco services whilesatisfying these typical requirements.In the former part,we have introduced lessons learned on EVPF observability5c core network deployed by Kubernetes,and showed that the detailed metrics of each 5c and container measured byEVPF enabled the detection of future anomaly network events in the 5c with deep learning.And then we have introduced our ongoing activities on autonomouscomputational resource control system for CNFs.Being compliant with the GAC OSM standard,and deploying the network function operation system in the LACD network testbed called GACN.So,Thank you very much.


Yeah, so I usually talk and ramble way too much, so let's see how this goes. I might not be very successful at 12 minutes. But yeah, so my original talk was gonna be about how to create the almost perfect multilingual website. And we were gonna talk about the whole setting up process and detail, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's not gonna happen in 12 minutes. So I'm gonna kinda just go quite quickly through some of the key things that over the years I've come across and noticed that always people either other people seem to miss or that we've experienced in our company missing things that hopefully you can learn from and try and take back and not do the same mistakes as we do. So a little bit about me, because I'm that important, not really. I'm a bit weird, first of all. Why do I sort of have this big interest in multilingual websites? The reason is basically this. I'm originally from New Zealand. I then lived in Argentina. And then I went to Australia for about six years. And then I came to Finland after spending a few months living in Uganda doing some stuff at UNICEF. So I've got a bit of a weird background experience in different countries where people do speak English, people don't, people have more than one language in their country, and things like that. So for me, this is quite a passionate thing because I also have in four of those countries had the experience of being someone living there but who doesn't necessarily speak the language and the frustration of trying to find your way around things. If that's my details, if you want to stalk me or ask me questions because we don't have questions today. So let's get started. So content stuff. So when we're doing a multilingual website, think about, as I said before, if you value the person's visit, value their language. If it's someone that you think is, you're gonna get something out of as a customer or just as a user in general, you probably should have content in their language. But then there's this wonderful thing that people often tend to do, mainly in Finland but in also other countries, is briefly in blank. Don't do it ever, not even ever. It is the most offensive thing almost. You may not realize it, but it just makes you feel degraded. For the fins in the room, if you've been on Finnair recently and you've noticed that they've started swapping the language of the videos, so now it has everything in English and then it has this briefly in Finnish. I would be really offended being like, hey, this is my flag carrier and you're telling me in five seconds what you told everyone else in three minutes. You clearly value me. So it really kind of knocks the user down a bit from the start. So when we talk about the content, you want to keep the key content in sync. So that means if you have a big website with a blog, with news, et cetera, et cetera, you don't have to have everything translated by any means, but make sure that the key information that someone might need to know about your company, about your organization, about your event, make sure that that's translated and it's correct. Don't leave it so that your main language is correct and then you realize that your language or your stuff in English or in Spanish is two years behind as I found out for an event recently where I got the dates wrong because they hadn't updated their thing in two years. So keep it in sync. Because if you translate it, then people will come. If people go to your website and they don't see their language is there and they maybe expect to, they're not gonna bother. If you actually translate it, people are obviously, funnily enough, more likely to go and say, oh yeah, okay, I'm gonna go to your event. I'm gonna work with your company. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. And consider your resources though. So at the end of this, yes it would be lovely to have a million languages and do this and that, but be realistic about what the resources you have in your organization or company or whatever. If you can't afford to translate into four languages, then don't. Pick the two that are most important and sort of go from there. And do it right or just don't do it at all. So kind of going back to the thing about this briefly in whatever language. If you're not gonna translate the key stuff properly and actually put the effort in, then I would say even don't bother at all because you're just gonna start providing misinformation, frustrating people with bad user experience and bad content and it's just, you're gonna end up having people walk away from you with a bad experience. Speaking of experience, user experience and user interface things. So these are things that you should think about with the design and with the layout of your site. So how are people going to find their language? You may think this is a pretty obvious thing, like yes there's a thing in the corner, but you'd be surprised. A lot of websites I've come across, you have to dig into the menu, especially on a mobile and it's actually really hard to find how to switch your language. And then you just go, well they don't have my language, I'm gonna leave the website, I don't care, I don't have time. This is always a fun one. Do you auto detect the websites based on their browser language? Yeah. It's a useful feature, but you have to think of the market you're in. Finland has a weird thing in particular where a lot of people's computers are either in English or their browsers are actually set to English. So they will be redirected first to the English page even if they're going to a site that has finished language. So you just have to really think about that. Also there's sort of weird situations that are becoming more common, that this comes down to local codes. If you don't know what a local code is, please Google it, look it up, read about it because they're actually very important with multi-lingual websites.  And very few country, very few websites will probably have that as a language set in their website. In Finland you might have that's been set up correctly, we'll come to that in a moment, but often it's better to actually sort of give the user the chance at the very start to select a language. But it just depends, you have to think about the user base. Yeah, this kind of comes back to that sort of point as well. If you come from Google or if you come from somewhere and you get sent to the wrong language, how easy is it for the person to find out that, A, do you have this content in their language? And B, how do you get there? Again, when you have to dig into mobile menus like for ages and ages just to change your language, it becomes frustrating. Depending on your needs, you might have something down the bottom that says, hey, this article or this content is also available in these languages or there's many different ways, but that's something you shouldn't think about. How do you deal with that situation? Yeah, my favorite. No flags ever, like ever. Unless you're showing a country. I always like to use the example of Finland. You have two, three languages. So what language does the Finnish flag actually represent? A lot of people probably here would say it's Finnish. Okay, Swedish has their own flag, that's fine. Samen, well, that's a good question. But when you go to a global site, so it's not actually a site that's really got information specific to a country, but it's a global site, if you put the US flag as English, I'm from New Zealand, I speak English, that's not my flag, not my president. So you've got to think about this sort of thing. So I would always recommend don't use flags unless you are really saying, okay, this content is for this region of the world, technical stuff. So these are some things that you might need to look out for. And most of this is handled by plugins, but there are a few things you should be aware of. And this is more about testing and checking at the end of sort of developing a site. So is your locale right? So before I said about the issue with, for example, sort of sweetfins and sort of Swedish from Finland, because a locale, yes, there are certain set locales, but it does affect where your browser is, or where your site sort of loads based on your browser if you use that. Also, Google has some stuff to do with that that they'll be checking, so they'll be actually presenting certain content if you've got lots of different languages based on your href, no, hreflang, yeah, hreflang tags. There's a lot of technical stuff in there that Google and other search engines use to identify the correct content for the users who are searching for it. So you need to get that right. The problem with this is that, and again, I'm gonna use the Swedish from Finland example. When you, if you go on to say polylang and you put in the locale code, which it would then use to pull the language files, or WordPress would use to pull the language files, I don't think that there's a Swedish finish translation is there? Nope, exactly. So it's gonna take the Swedish one, so it's not gonna take the Swedish one though. So it's gonna say, ah, this doesn't exist. So you go, cool, I'll change it to SE SV underscore SE, which is the Swedish from Sweden. But then you're giving the wrong locale code in your hreflang tags, and then you're gonna redirect people wrong. That's something you have to sort out manually. I think that's something that WordPress one day might want to work out how to fix to let you kind of set things, but that's another story. But yeah, check those locale codes. That's really, really important. Does your theme even internationalize or localize? So these days I think this is less and less of an issue, but just making sure that especially if you're developing custom themes or custom plugins even, that you set this stuff up correctly so it can actually be translated even by yourself. And then look at tools. Now we just told that local translator is not that great, apparently, okay? I think it's a good tool for using when your clients want to translate things. So it's great, you can use PoEdit as an agency or as a developer just to do this, but if your clients want to actually change certain translations, this can be useful. It could also be something that you possibly kind of put there, let them do their stuff and then take it away later. Local translates actually backed by a company which calls themselves localize.biz, I think, which actually have a big, they actually have like a whole full-on interface for translating apps and all sorts of things, which is something that we actually use on some projects, which is another option. And you can also get the same effect of giving your clients the ability to translate things if they want to. Oh, let's see how fast we're going. No, I told you I ramble. Accessibility, so for the most part, again, this is taken care of by plugins, but just check that if you're using flags. Please don't. If you are, flags aren't particularly accessible. If you have issues with seeing colors, they can mess things up. So make sure that you've got the right text and information there and make sure that it's readable. I would say that it's much easier to identify a language from a word than it is from a flag. SEO stuff, pretty simple. Choose a structure that's standardized, I would say, that makes sense. This also comes to user experience side of things that users can understand what's going on with where they are on your website. So whether you have country and language or just language, then they understand. Watch out for unlocalized strings. Just, they pop up everywhere, trust me, so just make sure you do a good check of your website. You don't have the title and the title bug on. And country domains, when you do like Google search console, check through those because you need to set this sort of stuff up correctly. That's something you need to do specifically. But this is something that Google have sort of redefined. It used to be that a .fi would be focused on Finland. That doesn't matter anymore. They have now changed this. So now a .fi, it can be sort of localized, but they'll, if you put sort of Swedish content or Norwegian content that's targeted at those countries, they're not gonna penalize you in search results. And yeah, get Google search console. Things got an equivalent so that you have all that everything set up. Sorry, I'm almost finished. I think that, these are the key things though. Make sure that what you're doing is helping your users find things and understand how your site works. Don't skimp on content. And before you release something, just check your setup actually works and does things the way it's supposed to. If you have questions, ask me later or you can tweet at me. I usually rant on Twitter, so maybe don't read my tweets or email me. Thank you very much. Thank you, Thomas. I kind of, I already knew that why you are talking multilingual sites because you really know your stuff. So please keep on rambling around with those issues. Because it's pretty common nowadays that you actually build multilingual websites anyways. So it's really important to get things right. Especially here. And I assume that elsewhere also. We are not gonna have a big break now but if you want to change rooms, you can do that now.


We have been warned and three places posted and on the website and emailed to interested parties. So we can move forward with this and welcome everybody for the preview of town meeting next week. And does anyone have any questions, comments, suggestions? Well, then I guess I was expecting a couple of trustees and something to say, but I believe they were under the impression of a 615. That's the regular select board meeting. The pre-town meeting took six. Well, we were going by the back of this. It's a 615. It does. It does. Alright. She was warned at six in the paper. And it's more of a round town as six o'clock too. Okay. Well, let's just explain. Let's change that to six o'clock. All right. So do you know what they wanted to talk about? I would hate the words in their mouth, but I think about the library budget not being included with the rest of the town budget. It was explained somewhat in your select board letter in the town report. However, it kind of reads like the library is a separate organization as opposed to a department of the town. And to a certain extent, it is slightly a separate organization. And in that it's run and directed by the trustees. So that's why it'd be handy, I guess, to have the trustees here too. Right. You do your own budget. We have no control over your budget. Therefore, it's outside of our round of control. I mean, this is just a diversion from 50 years. It's been part of the town budget since 1969. We're always striving to improve and be clearer. You just pulled it out with Werba. It was sort of not... What directed that was the size of the chunks of the budget. It seemed like there were big enough pieces of change that it was worth having a separate focus on that. Whereas most of the other appropriations are just... You just had some concern about the differences in the way calculations were made. Which calculations? In your letter, it mentioned a 12.3% increase in our request. Actually, our budget appropriation request this year was actually a little bit less than last year. It may be 12% more than what was appropriated last year. But our budget request this year was actually a little bit less. I think it has to do with the budget ending June 30th. And that's probably where the 12% came from. What was actually spent June 30th. I don't have it in front of me, but I think that could have been it. Spent versus budget. Anyway, just... We felt that it would be easier to talk about it and for people to think about it. If it was a standalone entity and not piled in with everything else. And being as it's 40,000 plus dollars that it was a big enough chunk that it was worthwhile speaking about. It's extremely difficult to discuss the library budget considering the way it goes up and down year by year with what's appropriated, what's not appropriated, just budgeted, what's not budgeted. It's difficult to compare year to year. That's actually a perfect reason why maybe it should be separated so that it doesn't take the regular budget numbers and plate them up and down and up and down where we're looking for a consistent number. And if it does fluctuate, then that's almost a good reason to have it set beside the budget. And I believe the library would love to have a consistent number so that we can adequately budget it. Also in previous town meetings, there have been numbers of people who have questioned keeping those large appropriations within the appropriation line, article line. And there were requests to take those large items out and vote on them separately. And I think that that's listed in the town report in last year's town meeting minutes too. Right, and I think those were the outside organizations that are lumped together. Those specifically were the last year. Right, which is a separate 501C3 or whatever organizations, not the municipal library. It would be strange to include that with separate organizations. Well, again, in the past, didn't people vote on every line in the budget? And that wouldn't allow, so it's not in the past. In the past, when we approved the amount to be raised by tax, it included the library budget. And this year it won't. This way, this year it won't. So that's a difference. So it seems like extra money to the library trustee. It seems like they're being singled out as the kind of money that can be axed from the budget. In the same way that if you decided not to fund, I don't know, safe house or something, because they haven't done a good job. Not that we ever have, but you understand where the library trustees are coming from. It's a matter of interpretation. Putting it in its own entity does give it its own identity so that the taxpayers can look at the library. Does the select board come up with a second number to be raised by taxes, which would include a vote yes on all of the extra appropriations? The budget process, we do that yes. Is it presented at the town meeting? If we vote all of these extra things, the ambulance and the various organizations and the library, that the number to be raised by taxes will be this other number. It's already in the book. It's page 36. That figure is provided all of the appropriations are approved. So that would be generally worst case scenario. Of course the appropriations. Worst or best depending on who you are. Yeah, the appropriations can be voted, can go higher, higher or lower. Or lower. Or lower. Right. Or lower. So it happens. It would go higher? Yeah, yeah. I think that a couple years ago the council on aging was increased by 500 bucks from 2500 to 3000. Right? And you know it's kind of people feel that there's something they care about and they want to increase it. That's you can from the floor. And that's one thing it allows a something to be voted on when it's isolated versus like a whole budget. And there is one more question. Yeah, sure. Are there any of the funds that are under possibly the control of the trustees for public funds or some other or maybe the library trustees funds that were donated to the library not to be just spent but to be either invested or allowed to grow as an endowment so to speak. There are both from the town and the trustees of public funds and I believe the library also has. The library also has a fund. And also the cemetery has some funds that have been donated to that where the proceeds from interest can be applied. Now that's part of what made this such a challenging budget year this year is that the trustees of public funds were not able to contribute anything to the budget whereas in past years they have been able to you know dozens of thousands of dollars in significant amounts. And this year in the way that it's working that was a zero. Did they explain to you why they could give zero this year when they did tens of thousands last year? Nancy, I have a response. It's in the town report that you're not getting the kind of interest. The trustees of public funds have a... Yes, but you went from $70,000 to zero. That's right. Why didn't you go from $70,000 to $4,000? I'm not a trustee of public funds. It was basically reported to us that the fluctuations in the market and under the leadership of our federal government that everything's better now but the small people don't get any money. But to have it zeroed out. In the past my impression was that they gave the town some of the increase in the value of the investments. Right. Not more than they had earned in that year usually. Right. But maybe almost all. That they allowed their funds to grow on a regular basis. Now are we to understand that they lost money this year? I think that when they got together and I'm speaking myself and I'm speaking for the trustees. I think that when... I think that when they put their report together when they met with the management of People's United Bank they felt that it was not prudent with our funds to distribute anything this year. They operate under the trust agreements that the donors... Am I saying it correctly? Yes you are. Donors. Hey Justin, time. Any questions for you? Here she is. Thank you. Not so fast. I'm reading your report in the town report and there's a question. Did the funds under your care, did they grow at all this year? Here. I had to check. I'm talking about here. The report is what we got her off guard here. I mean based on the June 30th statement as of 2018. They did grow. Barely. They did grow. They did grow a little. But none of that money is going to be given to the town because it's so small. Basically trying to keep a conservative amount of principal in the funds that we have money to continue to go forward. Right. So you don't... Then you make one money this year but you don't want to spend all this year because you did not make anybody next year. Let me ask you a different question. Do we ever... Do you ever distribute funds to the town in excess of the money earned in that year? Oh yeah. You do sometimes. But it's based on... So the fact that you... It's based on... We only broke even wouldn't necessarily mean that you wouldn't give the town... Not necessarily because you're doing... You can look at that three years or five years and kind of take it... Okay. Let me ask you just one more question. Am I on the road? That's just joking. Can she get her coat off? Yeah. Go ahead. I'll let you get your coat off. Okay. Do you need the... I don't think so. You can see as much as I can. While she's taking the coat off. It's broadly based such things are under which known as a spending rule. The endowers... Yeah. Set a way that the money can be spent. Yeah. So if they're not making a substantial amount the endowers rules may say you don't disperse in a given year. Yeah. So you really have to go back to the endowments themselves. Thank you. Correct. You're saying that the trustees were forced not to... They're bound by the endowments. They're bound in such a way that they couldn't give the town any money. They're bound now. Several times. But you... But... But she's already explained that there are years in which the trustees give the town more money than they earned that year. That would seem to reduce the endowment. But you're not doing it that one single year. I think that's for the point is that you're doing over a three to five year average. Okay. One more question. My last question is... You want to let her finish her explanation. Sure. So that in some cases you may not have make money in that particular year but the other two or three years you might have as long as the principle... What our carry is our philosophy and goal is to maintain the principle of those endowments in addition to the cost of living adjustment of those endowments. So basically that's your guiding principle and then what you distribute is based on that guidance. So you're never invading your principle and you're never invading your principle if there's a three percent cost of living you're not going to give any money out even though you might have made three percent. So your analysis this year was that you were in the red on that basis? No, we said we were not in the red. We just said we didn't have sufficient funds that would reward making any kind of distributions in particular years. That particular year we made last year significant contributions. This particular year coming up for the town purposes we did not make a contribution. What was the last year that you made no contribution to the town? I don't really know. Probably not in my term that I can recall. There have been years before. You mean you were given varying amounts? But zero. Off the top of my head I don't remember any of zeroes the last five years I'd say so there goes back further than that I just have to look at the records. I think overall we've been fairly consistent with generous donations or not donations but generous return of the money to the town. Yes, but the endowment has grown. Because of the fact that we don't distribute money when it isn't growing and we don't delve into the principle in order to make a distribution. Had we delve into the principle and not follow our rules the endowment may not have ground at all. There was times before we were more actively engaged in managing the funds by the trustees in the town that there was hardly anything for principle growth because the way the investments were going if you have a 2% interest rate or something like that you've had no distributions and for many years I don't believe before we got more active in this there were not very many distributions there was barely anything going anywhere because the income was so low you can't tell me when the last time that happened I can't go back to the town report definitely added to the challenge of working out the budget when we were our first draft we're looking at a 14% increase across the whole they gave you a heads up months and months ago this is not it wasn't dropped on you it was we spent the last couple months working on the budget and it's I don't say months and months ago that we knew but as it became we never teased us that we might get some money and usually they don't usually we work through the budget and try and get it as tight as we can and then afterwards they say well here's the extra bonus you can put it in perspective if it was $70,000 last year that would be a $200 million house that turned down you're not going to get any taxes from it it's one perspective I say I guess you could say that so that among other issues made it a challenging year to keep the budget to a modest increase and with all the department heads scraping and cutting and putting things off that they wanted to do until later then we were able to keep it down to what was the final just under 2% just under 2% increase in the tax rate from 14 so yeah there's things that we cut that we would rather not cut and that's Marta yeah in fact I noticed when I was writing from a pre-town meeting article or a town meeting preview article for this week that the total sum in the budget is a little bit less than you asked for last year but if you look at it the other way the amount to be raised by taxes a little bit more yeah that's the shift of the line that you probably had last year versus this year you guys remember the shift of the budget right put this budget together and to make it all work thanks to all the volunteers that kicked in and helped to do it it was going in the door what kind of question will they have so Tony you came in a little late but we talked some on the library and the issue of separating the library out from the budget which is basically for no one here is very soon okay I don't think we would have been late if the time for this meeting had been set somewhere I saw 6 o'clock and 6.15 and somebody else said 6.30 I got 6.15 I was kind of wondering about that myself it was more than 6 o'clock in the painting 6.15 for the regular 6.15 that's all I'm saying I didn't get sorry my brother let me know but it was 6.15 he forwarded it to me and it said 6.15 and it said pre-towed meeting and 6.15 we're all here now I like to be punchable so that's that comments, questions motivational speeches I mean we'll have hopefully a larger contingency at the full town meeting and have more conversation, yes Harlan speaking at town meeting, you're running? running away or running for meeting, no I'm going to run again, yeah that's it we'll close the pre-towed meeting and open up the regular select board meeting tonight you're looking like you're you're just I just was apologizing because I thought I was only 2 minutes late well don't feel cut off if there's anything that you wanted to say anybody want to talk about something that they think we've already talked about speak up because it's here we are it was a mistaken communication so I don't know how much we've covered about the town library being taken out of the we talked about that straight off and you can of course go back and look at it but recap basically that the we decided to pull it out for just more clarity since it's a big chunk of the budget and make it easier to talk about when aside from being buried in the midst of the other budget just as we had requests at the last town meeting that some of the bigger items be pulled out specifically were those pulled out as a separate item also I was just wondering with that knowledge the fact that you were trying to make it clear and the fact that we were trying to show as a town that how much our town library cost to run in that description did it say how much tax is paid of that amount of money and that our budget is paid for nearly 50% by donations and I just thought that would be nice to have that in there too oh by the way this has been pulled out because they're asking for this much money did you know that your town tax is only paid for 50% of your town library and it just wasn't there so it didn't seem as clear as it could have been because I think as a general knowledge most people don't know that their town library is only funded 50% by the town taxes and that's a pretty big piece of information so if they look through the budget in the library that should maybe that's two pages of lots of numbers and because we went to the budget committee went to the effort of pulling it out and making sure that people noticed it was 12% and those that it was a big hunk of money it would have been nice to also notice that it's only 50% of what it costs to run the library and that was just I just felt like maybe a little not as clear as it could have been good thanks for bringing that up and the spirit of the clearness maybe we can put that on can we mention that tell me should have a little spiel ready for the town people might they could put it right in the paper right now I think also the library could have put that in their report we did in our report what's in the town report is what was sent to us well sort of we send a narrative each year and then we're asked for a financial report similar to what we've done in previous years financial report that the trustees approved and that was sent in before the deadline is not what was printed in the town report we had made a much easier to read much easier to understand one page summary of the financials which wasn't printed that a two page we felt that that was it simplified things a little overly much so it ended in the same format as all the other budgets that are in there it just would be nice when the trustees send their financial report perhaps there's some feedback that we'd like to see a little more detail rather than just not print what was sent substitute something I thought there was some back and forth on that and I think YOLA was made aware of it too yeah it's just that I spent an entire day of library time doing this what you want to print is this it's a waste of you know like a day and we'll do a better job of making those narrative moving clear always room for improvement absolutely why not add that one page summary as a handout at the it's just that I would imagine there's a lot of people in town that can't even read the size of it's pretty much the same size as the entire budget is just trying to make it easier we should have a large print town report maybe on special request just to end up we'll be compliant so are we satisfied with the anything else you'd like to say for the pre-town meeting we'll close that and enter into the regular select board meeting which was properly warned even Harlan you're saying you didn't get an email about it no you got the email list she allowed me to I got one about the special meeting they're on the I think they're on the same page anyway anyone have any additions to the agenda tonight that they would like to first I'd like to give you just a quick update on Pierce Hall activities I'd like to talk some on the missing select board meeting minutes the book we'll start by Harlan which missing minutes are you talking about for what meeting when well there's a bunch of select board meeting minutes that span as I understand a few years a book that's gone and it's I'd just like to know you know what it spans the time period what's gone you seem to know more about it than I do do you know what you're talking about go ahead Bruce when I was doing the road research I was looking for various records for discontinuances or changes in mileages and when I couldn't find what I thought was complete information in the roads in miscellaneous records book I went looking for the select board minutes and there seems to be a period from I can't give you the exact dates but let's say the late 30s and through maybe the early 40s that that whole book of that period of select minutes meeting is not with all the rest of the book so it could be that it in the vault some place that we haven't discovered it or it might have gotten taken downstairs with other records for some reason but right now you can say it's not with the other select didn't accidentally go through the crusher did it there, the shredder last summer no nothing like that would ever happen of course not anyway my point is is that if there's no book to prove that Pine Gap Road was thrown up there's no book to prove that it wasn't so and I'd still like to know a little more specifics on this on the dates on that I mean it's only logical you gotta follow my logic you gotta admit it's only logical yeah from from my correspondence with a state the the map record is clear that that road continued to be on the state highway maps and the offices up there have no correspondence saying that there was any discontinuance on that road or any other roads in that early 1940s period there, does that go through there you know keep track of all that well he said that the oldest correspondence they had was I believe is 1947 okay and that's reflected in our roads in miscellaneous records for okay so that's 1947 and that's just about that spans just about the period that yeah those meeting minutes would be handy but as I said before there's no record indicated on the maps that there was any change in that area on that road whereas the pine road it does indicate a change how about you would change on the pine road I was gonna say what this bill said that the state maps probably have some reference to when roads are thrown up because they work differently when it happens and in order for them to change their map they have to have something in their files to say change your map there has also been a lot of research to the pine gap issue for the last year if there were attorneys researching during the 1930s and the 1940s and they found anything that pertained to this lawsuit I'm sure they have copies of it so therefore there wouldn't be documentation to back up what will turn it from it would just be nice to be able to verify that with minutes from the meeting it's just kind of real kind of well we may have secured copies from those books before they went missing is what I'm saying I don't know that for sure but I would imagine an attorney was in here doing some research about it and they found any information that was pertinent to it during the 30s and the 40s from the minutes they would have made copies of those pages yeah but I don't well I'd like to get that information anyway I'd like to know what's missing and what period it spans I think I'm asking too much Carlin were there any land transfers during that period in that region where there might have been a meets and bounds and something on a survey that says you know class 3 road, class 4 road as one of the boundaries of a piece of property that had been transferred from the road used to be across the river from below my place where the abutment is and the piece of land that the roads on now that goes through my property was sold to them right during that period to the national forest service so the national forest service owns the road from the bridge of the old bridge abutment past my place to where Pine Gap Road comes in okay that's all national forest land was sold to the national forest for the purpose of the road have you looked at any of their old maps I've looked at my deed with the date on it where it was taken off my chunk of land and I've spoken with Chris Matrick and we're trying to find out exactly when Bingo Road was built because on my property because I have a feeling that if there was a meeting which probably would have occurred right during the period when the minutes are missing if they were going to throw up roads out there like Bingo Road they might look around and throw up other roads even so there's like Pine Road you say the way things have been screwed up out there with names and stuff that could have been Pine Gap Road for all practical purposes I mean the way facts have been construed in this thing right you know, portrayed everything's been screwed up I'm just saying to go full circle we will probably pull out the troops and the chipmunks and start looking for this book I'd like to hear some more on that next meeting Chris? Yeah, with your approval I just assume start in one corner of the ball and go through and look for that book Absolutely I second it Because I'm interested in that area Somebody probably put it back in the oil I mean Nobody's trying to push it one way or the other it is what it is but let's find out what it is Bruce, Pierce Hall, you had an update on Pierce Hall? Yeah I just wanted to let you know that Pierce Hall has signed a contract with Russell Construction Services out of Rutland for the construction of the Community Fitness Center and we hope to start construction next week Did you say Russell Construction I'm sorry Russell Construction Services out of Rutland Okay, thank you and hopefully we'll have a grand opening in June So the construction the physical space is created, is that correct Is this the construction of the actual the equipment Yeah, well it's the conversion of two spaces in the lower level one will become a gym where the treadmills and the nautilus and all that kind of stuff will be and the other larger room which is basically under the stage area will be for dance instructions aerobic, zumba, that kind of stuff so there'll be two parts of the total fitness center Did you say that would be a grand opening? They have an 84 day schedule right now with if everything goes right which it never does lead time for some of their subcontractors is getting pushed way out and that's what they're hoping to do in the 84 days You shouldn't have to walk through snow to get to the grand opening You never know Give me an idea of what monthly fees will be They'll be reasonable We're working on membership levels right now for some of the activity Yes It's from the January 28th meeting We had to skip a meeting because a properly warned meeting last one so it's been kind of a long spell but these minutes seem good to me as typed up but I moved to accept them All in favor? All right And that brings us to Joan. Got any Facebook? There's another one in there? That's one Hold on there Oh yeah, this was the quick one speaking of the budget on February 2nd to approve the town budget of $1,015,315 for town on highways with $749,315 to be raised by taxes That's moved to accept these minutes All in favor? Joan, back to you A few miscellaneous things Mostly questions for you at this point I'm looking ahead towards what grants you might want me to be working on in the next fiscal year including well before the next fiscal year starts The B grants grants series for class 2 roads and structures is in mid-April and wondering if you have any thoughts about doing any projects We of course have things being stacked up the one that's the most shovel ready if you want to call it that is Mount Cushman culvert replacement because we have the engineering drawings for that now But looking at the budget I didn't see anything where you had a line item and maybe you do it differently and it's in a different place for the matching part of grants which is typically anywhere from 10 to 20 percent which program we're looking at We already have a matching requirement for the small sidewalk project which is 2008-2005 and I don't have a number yet for a cost estimate for the Cushman Road culvert I hope to get that next week but just wondering whether you have any thoughts about whether this is just a year that you want to skip budget constraints or if you want to still keep trying to do projects We're going to kind of tug through that because the budget did really constrain a lot of ambitious plans for working We really overshot the budget on paving last year and really have to catch up a little bit So the answer is maybe should I just sort of bring things together? Yeah, definitely We're moving quite a long on the Mount Cushman project so that might be the only thing considered Okay, so I can get back to you with a round number for what we're going to do I'll take a look at it To the point of carrying the line item to your matching grants or whatever they might be what the town will be responsible for what I think with both the office and the select orders working on now we have a different structure for accounting for and preparing for the grant monies that you might be applying for and being sure that we do have an accurate amount of what would be carried forward as an expense to the town The problem has been the differences between when the grants have been authorized and when it has been implemented and when you finally get your full payment So it's become a kind of with all the grants that's going on right now which have been wonderful by the way and so they're working with the accountants to set up a system that will help make this more current and more accurate months to months to month not just on an annual basis That would be great because then it will help you plan and think ahead a year or even more about what your priorities are what you think the expenses would be and then which things you want to be able to do Very often they do go over the cusp of a year one year to another year especially when they're starting to arrive first So it makes it more confusing because different grants have also different terms Each project will have its own entity kind of like the library Each project will be set aside to see where everything stands And the White River Partnership is soliciting monies towards the wastewater product stormwater We're supposed to hear sometime very soon about the second grant which plays into the ongoing need of working on the sidewalks around town Which is a whole Yeah, it's a whole kind of work I don't want to cut that up anymore I was just going to say something about paving and everything I know last year we were told or I believe it was brought up in a meeting was going to be doing some work on Route 100 through town It could really really, really use it It's getting very, very lumpy We're not even on the list No, we're not even on the list Is there any way the town can fill some of the potholes? It would be up to the state and I'm sure they will and do time I've seen them a couple of times come through filling them in this kind of weather Yeah, I know They surveyed that whole thing back in about 2 or 3 years ago 4 years ago It was 15 Yeah, I think they did I thought it was a whole review of it I talked to Chris about that last year the year before and he said that was taken off the list They're doing the other side of Brandon Gatt next year So I have a couple more items I've been researching the EV charging station There are a lot of questions I have to do some more research I'll probably bring them back to you Their state now has an annual funding round It just started this year funding those things and reading some of the paperwork they've put out made me realize that I have a lot to learn Maybe we have a lot to learn about them models and different levels of charging and they require different utility connections and then they also have requirements for how much space is allocated and you're not allowed to take use the space that you allocated for handicapped parking for an EV station unless you can replace the handicapped parking space and we have we're very constrained, as you know, down at the park and ride we only have like 6 spaces So there are a lot of things I need to find out and then put the question to you about whether depending on what those constraints are or whether it may be a work rate, that would be very nice but I'm not sure and so the question is whether there might be other good places in town where you want to put that facility as a fallback Is there a point person or an advisor that can come visit us? Yeah, I think so So I'll let you know when I'm ready to do that and we can schedule if you're interested in doing it so you know it's more complicated than I realized Maybe we're the dysfunctional communication facility out here That thing Okay, so that's just an FYI at this point The bus shelter is another sort of conundrum for me I'm filing for reimbursement on the cost of the construction of the park and ride and I'll be going in, that's one of the things you'll have to sign and that wasn't a whole lot of money and we still have $10,000 in that grant budget which the state has said yeah, we'll submit what you've done so far and we'll give you an extension but they're not going to extend it for a whole lot longer maybe they'll give us 6 months of grants that we really need to close out and so I'm still wondering trying to find out whether we can put where we do want to put a bus shelter there and whether it's getting used or would be used I don't really know how much the stagecoach folks actually stop there how many people actually go there to catch the stagecoach and so whether there's actually a need for a bus shelter there maybe again there's another place in town where it would be more appropriate to have a bus shelter and unfortunately the person I was dealing with the stagecoach has left and they've told me whenever it is they hire a new person we'll be able to work with them again but they don't have one yet it's been like 6 months so I have a hard time figuring out what to do with the bus shelters I don't know if anyone has any advice to give me would it be possible to put that money into Pierce Hall if we made the airport co-chair into the bus shelter unfortunately no if it was on Pierce Hall property you mean put it there there is that shelter right there and there is a drive-through sort of I don't know if we had some sort of plans to fancify it a little bit that we needed a little bit of money for maybe that money could be used building a bus shelter from scratch we'd nearly be improving one well we couldn't use the grant for that for a park and ride so the money is for a park and ride so we have to I think a shelter there maybe is a separate question about where that would best be located there's probably some historical restrictions on Pierce Hall too but they had to do a lot of rework on there to comply with historical requirements like the height problem but anyway the shelter is not meant for the bus the shelter is meant for the wait of the bus it's not like you have to drive the bus here do we have any historical perspective on what the ridership of this stagecoach stop is at all? I mean there's a guy driving the vehicle he must know how many people get on off there talking stagecoach and telling us they'd expanded their routes in the last year and they were all very excited about that last year and they're actually doing now a lot of the high schools they come up at the school school suits and they're life safer it's already been discussed and then I it's also a lot of use when Quintown has their meals when they do their noontime meals there's a lot of people that ride the stagecoach to get up to Hancock but they don't get picked up for people to pay for bus and you can see I think the official stagecoach is Vax that's where the sign is stagecoach stops here our original discussion is what we were talking about doing in Park and Ride was would you move that location to the Park and Ride and they said sure they like the idea but I don't know if that's your way they're waiting it is the stagecoach does use in front of the fire station as a turnaround it's on the other night wasn't it determined from the school that the pick up at Max was better because of the access to telephones and so many other things and the school didn't want it changed there were parents that thought it best that the students wait where they would have access to a land line there were more people more cars also because some of them who go to schools far away so early that the school is not open correct that's why with the impression I got from the meeting I was that that's kind of a shifting Patty do you say students using a land line are you sure about I think they go in and the people work at the school do they know what it is okay they know they don't dial anymore they punch the numbers okay well that's another thing that you worked out is there anything else to work on since we have folks from the library here we have an opportunity to have an update from the library do you have anything that you want to share with us tonight and it's gearing up for a very busy march we have scheduled events if anybody hasn't gotten there march library schedule I have some here alright well Thursday a Vermont Humanities Council event we're talking about congressman John Lewis's autobiography walking in the wind as well as the Vermont Reads Book of the Year which is his graphic novel March with Saturday morning we'll be planning your cutting garden with Megan Payne and we'll be giving away free flower seeds on Thursday March 7th free tech support for all your gadgets Jesmyn West will be here again unfortunately we have one unhelpable person last time but we were booked solid for two and a half hours Saturday March 9th perennial garden design and a photo tour with yours truly Sunday March the 10th we're kicking off the feminist book club with Joy Worling from the State Department of Libraries talking about feminist literature and on Tuesday the 12th both the Diabetes Support Group and the White River Valley players are meeting at the library on Thursday March 14th AARP will be presenting a workshop on identity theft and preventing that and evening the Valley Singers meet at the library Saturday March 16th free tax prep assistance free registration is required we can accommodate up to 12 people and then Thursday March 28th the History Book Club is reading Isaac Storm and the following Saturday we'll have two sessions of yoga and dance for kids three to ten always a busy month at the library it seems like it's been really gets busier and busier and busier we took a kind of siesta over the the wind because people don't get out after dark and in the snow but we're definitely gearing back up I mean in general it just seems like the activities have been expanding we had 62 people in the library Saturday morning this week busy place good job you didn't know the writers group hmm? oh yeah I forgot to mention the writers group first Saturday and every month at one o'clock we have a group we have about six people a month come to that they've been meeting for a couple years now working on their individual writing projects that maybe Ron leads that group see there's plenty to say we also have a lot of books there which that keeps right up to date for and computers and movies and lots of other good things stop in because a lot of people there's a sign behind the check out test of all the people who sponsor specific offers a lot of people in town do that too a lot of people don't realize that although we spend an average of $10,000 a year on materials that in my tenure there in 15 years there's never been a penny of tax money spent on books or movies or any of the content that all comes from donations either past or present you should also plug when you get the chance the fact that people are streaming movies now at home in the canopy system yes, new this year is streaming movies with canopy canopy is not new Hollywood movies they specialize in documentaries foreign films, independent films in the classics but sign up and you can stream them for free enough thank you one here talked about the constable office and the highway crew is out working but I did learn today that the western star is down the bad radiator so they're going to try and get that up north to be dealt with as soon as possible but that's what happens the Terry's not here to update on the utilities so we're on to the new business and you had something about the auditor's findings regarding disbursements with hotels disbursements for any of the reserve accounts so we have developed a select board more specifically for withdrawing these reserve accounts and the select board will assign and whenever either the treasurer assistant treasurer makes this request via an email to the credit union a check is to be drawn from the reserve account and she would sign it and date it but the assistant then would have to deposit this check into the general fund and sign it so it just kind of keeps it separated and then we also have Leslie Strauss who comes in as this interested third party and she periodically reconciles all of our town bank accounts so that was resolution form resolution form is just basically to state that the select board of the town of Rochester hereby authorizes Julie Smith, town treasurer a signatory for all town bank accounts and just sign that happy you got that license for max ballet market property tax mapping and we've already agreed to do this so we can sign it on both pages the fee for a liquor license for max of the matter of public record which 70 is paid to the demolished certificate we took care of filed that I took on I just wanted to explain that it turned out to be more of a project than I anticipated right now they are asking for re-measurement of a class 4 road that we supply the digital file for that survey and that's something that I haven't been able to do yet and I need a little instruction on how to download that and get it up to them the other thing was that I was going to propose to the select board that the first quarter mile of Jones mountain road which is now the Jones mountain road is a class 4 road but it's treated that first quarter mile as if it's a class 3 road in order to make that change on the record you've got to go through the whole process you've got to advertise it you've got to give 30 days notice you have to have a hearing so that's something that the select board will have to figure out whether it's worth that effort to upgrade that section of road and this would be done sometime this coming year how long is that that first quarter of that road quarter mile it's generally out to that first house is that plowed yes it sure is it's plowed up to that first house it's plowed it's graveled it's graded in the summertime thank you for your attention I'm sure it would be a lot easier to do this kind of work in the summer yeah I'll get those digital files up to them as soon as I figure out just how to do it very soon one quick question I was typing away and somehow missed about the highway mileage certificate did you sign that okay thank you we're just talking about some future improvements and modifications thank you alright thank you all for coming and we'll see you next week for a big party


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What's going on everybody? This is 1920 obsidian basketball two box break number five Everyone gets two random teams in the NBA with this one from two boxes of the brand new obsidian basketball We're gonna roll the dice and we're gonna go this many times on the randomizer random.org a little slow tonight nine times six and a three So there are the 15 names right there Robert are last-bought mojo And then we double them up everyone gets two teams in this one So we're gonna go nine times one two three four five six seven eight and nine We got Robert down to Paul now for the list of NBA teams nine times one two three four five five six seven eight ninth and final Orlando down to Charlotte Robert with the magic Paul with the Mavericks Enoch with the Clippers Chris Bay with the Suns Roy with the Brooklyn Nets Rodney with the Jazz Enoch with the Grizzlies Paul with the Kings Sean with the Blazers Roy with the Bucks Chris Bay warriors Robert Pacers Enoch Knicks James Celtics John heat Paul calves Enoch nuggets John Raptors Sean Thunder Enoch Timberwolves Sean Spurs Chris Hawks Sean Rockets Chris Erickson with the New Orleans Pelicans James with the Philadelphia 76ers Rodney with the Bulls Enoch with the Pistons Chris F with the Wizards Chris E with the Lakers and Paul with the Hornets So we're gonna pause the video see if there's any trades if not we're gonna come back and rip these two boxes No trades in this one. We're actually gonna pick the boxes. We'll go one two three left side four five six right side to see which two boxes We doing Left side so right side will be for break six already in the store last two boxes from the case We got a Grant Williams base Dennis Schroeder base Bogdan base first numbered card is a Reggie Jackson numbered 61 to 75 for the Clippers that's going out to Enoch and we have an atomic D'Angelo Russell T-Wolfe's edition 9 of 25 I think the first card I've seen of him As a Timberwolf is that a photoshop or is that I can't tell it's a good photoshop if it's it is T-Wolfe's is Enoch as well Shake Milton auto volcanic signatures 63 of 99 Believe is a starting point guard now for this season. That's James Newton the Philadelphia 76ers And we got numbered 81 of 99 PJ Washington, Jr. Auto nice rookie auto there for the Charlotte Hornets That is Paul on the board 81 and 99 Hornets got a lot of young talent. Hopefully they can turn it around soon. They got a Demonte Graham PJ Washington, Jr What's they got Terry Rosier, I guess Cody Martin forgetting somebody Can't think right now D'Neo Galanari Luca Samanich There's Terry Rosier. Just talking about him. We got a little pony Kristaps poor zingas 48 of 50 for the Mavericks Paul Orange and we have a Nikola Jokic tunnel vision 27 of 35 Well, it's Enoch Two hits of the break. We have a debt left shrimp As seen as part as seen in parks and recreation the TV show debt left shrimp. This is Sonic's edition 75 of 75 not Pacers Seattle Super Sonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder and that is Sean debt left shrimp and the hit is 90 of 98 of 99 relic auto From the University of North Carolina now Phoenix Sun Cameron Johnson Going out to Christopher Bay So last two boxes in the store nothing crazy from this case so far Hope him for a Zion auto in that last two boxes. Thanks everybody. Next you are in the store 15 spots left


The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated presents the High Boarded Fence, starring Ward Bond and Mary Eleanor Donahue. Lon McAllister is your host.  They say that spring is the time when people fall in love. The poets write about it, songsters sing about it, and everybody talks about it, so it must be true. And you hear a lot about spring house cleaning too.  And a wonderful thing in a home is a renewal and reawakening of love of God. Yes, and the expression of that love in the daily practice of family prayer awakens a new harmony and peace and happiness in a home. Family prayer means all the beautiful things that home is meant to have. Family prayer means springtime all the time in our homes. Lon McAllister returns following tonight's Family Theatre story, The High Boarded Fence, starring Ward Bond and Mary Eleanor Donahue. At the edge of the Elmswood River, a high boarded fence forms a barrier against the town. A watchman stands guard at the narrow gate. Above him is a sign with a single word, danger. Okay fellas, passes. Mike Newton, 379. Newton, 379, okay. Andy Brown, 424. Brown, 424, okay. Hey Mike! Yeah. What's this, a super secret jam? They gotta board it up like we're building an A-bomb. No, Elmsford's a high-class town. What's that got to do with it? You remember digging the Holland Tunnel in New York? Yeah. Well, didn't they board that up too? High-class people might get scared of sandhugs. What are you trying to do, kid me? I once saw where they had holes in a fence around a job so people could peek through. Hey, that's a good idea. I think I'll borrow me a few peep holes and charge a quarter of a look. Even with inflation, nobody will pay a quarter to look at you. Now something Mike, that's what I need. A good racket where I won't be stuck down the town trying to blast my way into a river. Then I'd relax and grab the super chief to California. I hope they take about 50 years to finish this job. What, are you looking for trouble? I thought you were going to get out of Sandhaw and retire before the bends get you. Some day soon. And this is the kind of a town where I'd like to settle down. It's got class. Yeah, but I mean, hey, what are they trying to do? Hey, it's easy out there, will ya? They must have jumped the pressure 20 pounds in three seconds. Got some soft spots in the tunnel. I think they're going to use about 50 pound pressure. You should be used to that, Andy. Nobody ever gets used to high air. You know, yesterday I heard about Matt Sorgan. Remember him? Yeah. He was sitting in one of these air locks on the job down in Colorado. Some dope jumped the pressure up to 45 before he was... Andy, you always begin the day with some kind of a sad story. With a sad story from Matt. He's still in the hospital paralyzed with a bend. Well, that's the chance you take. That's why they pay you 25 bucks an hour. It's not worth it. Well, it's worth it to me. I've been saving, waiting till I could get to a town like this. It's going to mean everything I ever wanted for Peggy Ann. You're lucky to have a kid like that. Don't I know it. Okay, you can get into the hoist now. Pressure, 39 pounds, depth, 790. Pretty hot down there, watch it. Mode, digging down a red hot heat. That's us. But there'll be a blow today. That's what you always say. For once, Andy, why don't you try to be cheerful? Every time I get down my heart to my mouth, waiting to see the wall shake like jelly and split. You've only been in one blow?  It's like a hurricane. And I'm in the middle waiting to get sucked in by the river. But right, I should be dead. Me too, maybe. Say, when do you see the house I bought? You bought a house and we've only been here a week. Job's good for two years, ain't it? Okay, 379, 424. No way! Two stories and the porch in front. Big hedges all around. The kid's nuts about it. About 13, now, ain't he? He's 12, her last birthday. Here's a cute trick. I only wish Helen were here to see her now. Mighty hard, Andy. Losing Helen three years ago. Yeah, yeah. Kinda tough placing the kid without a mother. Sure has been tough. Them construction camps are rough going. No decent schooling, living in barracks.  She's gonna have just as good as anybody. You're really going after it's serious. This is what I've been saving for. We're gonna live different, better, like everybody else does in Elmsford. Now, as I was saying, the Elmsford Tunnel is a miracle of engineering and all of us have a great opportunity to learn about it. I'd like Peggy Ann Newton to explain what she knows about it. Her father works in the Tunnel. Peggy Ann? Well, Dad is a Sandhog. Peggy Ann's father is a skilled workman. He's an engineer, isn't he, Peggy Ann? No, he's a Sandhog. Please, children. And what is a Sandhog, Peggy Ann? Well, Dad goes down into the Tunnel. And it's huge and made like a funnel. He's sally. He sure has a lot of fun. Look at the get-up she's wearing. I wouldn't be seen dead in the tunnel. Quiet, please. Go on, Peggy Ann. They go down into the tunnel that is sunk under a bed of the river. And they dynamite and dig, parting inch-by-inch in terrific heat. And they wear helmets and hip boots like pirates. Cheap. Boy, that's something. She's a show-off. Glass, please, no whispering. That's very interesting, Peggy Ann. Well, there's a section of the river they have to fight against and the rocks. It's all mud and sand, so that's why they're called Sandhawks. They can only work for short time because of the terrific heat and pressure. There aren't many men who can take the air. Take the air? The high air is 30 or 40 or 50 pounds. Yes, I see. That's a severe strain on breathing. Yes. And if they come out in the ordinary air too quick, they get the bends. What's the bend? Joseph Rankin, please don't interrupt. Excuse me, Miss Arnold. I was only interested. When you get the bends, my dad says it's like swallowing a ball of fire. And maybe he'll never be able to walk again. Gosh. That was very interesting, Peggy Ann. Well, that's the dismissal, Bear. I'm sure we'll have many very interesting discussions about building tunnels. Class is dismissed. Mike, you sure picked yourself the classiest neighborhood in town. I thought you'd like to see it, Andy. When it comes to my kid, nothing's too good. I almost feel like I want to get dressed up to come out. Hello, Mr. Newspaper. Oh, hello, Joy.  Sure, you get the gang. I brought my friend Andy along just that. I've done enough work for one day.  Why? Good, good. This is our pitcher, Joey Rankin, Andy. He's going to make a great ball player someday. How do you do, Mr... Mr... Brown. Brown's the name. Mr. Brown. I'll go and round up the game. Sure, we'll be ready, Joey. How do you like that? Mr. Brown.  Well, I've had more fun. The way till I show you what I got in the backyard, I've been building it with the kids. Well, here's the house. This place? How do you like it? It's a regular palace. Well, not quite, but it's everything I was hoping for. Hey, that lawn looks like something you'd seen in a park. I got a guy that takes care of it, too. There's a lot of other places on the street. Come on. Peggy Ann? Peggy Ann? That's funny. Kids usually right here at the front door waiting for me. You sure got yourself something, Mike. It's for the kid she's going to have. I just wonder, wait a minute, Andy. I'll run upstairs and see if she's around. Peggy, what's the matter, sweetheart? You sick? No, Daddy. I'm all right. Well, what are you lying down on the bed for, like you were sick? It's just... What is it, sweetheart? Oh, I guess I'm just tired. Well, I'll get a doctor. There must be some... Mike! I don't need a doctor. Who's downstairs, Dad? Andy and Joey and his pals. We're going to play some ball. That's wonderful, Dad. Can I play? Well, I thought you were sick. No. I'm feeling fine now. Maybe you got me puzzled. I'm taking you down to see a doctor tomorrow. Come on, Dad. Let's get down and have some fun. Oh, Rankin. Oh, well. Good morning, Mr. Newton. Hard work? Clipping that hedge by hand? It's got to be done. It runs wild. I was watching you and I thought maybe you'd like to try this gadget I bought. Does it easier by electricity? We can plug it in the porch here. Please don't bother. Oh, no bother, no bother. Look, this is how it works. See?  You're cutting it too deep. Oh? Well, try it yourself, Rankin. You can regulate it any way you want to. Thank you. Well, it's easy once you get the hang of it. Electrical devices make me nervous, Mr. Newton. Yeah? Well, I guess I'm so used to working with my hands. You don't have much chance for that, working at a bank, do you? No, there isn't. Excuse me? My wife is waiting for me to help her with a rose. Sure. I'm kind of disappointed, though. I thought, well, us being neighbors and all, I'd be glad to have you use my clippers any time. But I won't be needing it. Uh-huh. Well, goodbye. Oh, incidentally, Mr. Newton. Yeah? My son, Joey. Oh, nice kid. He's been playing in your yard lately, I believe. Well, a bunch of the kids are getting me to show him tunnel construction. Very interesting, no doubt. But Joey was very late for dinner last night. Oh, gosh, I didn't mean to keep... Youngsters forget about time. But we would appreciate it, my wife and I, and I think I speak for the other parents in the neighborhood. If you... Well, sure. I'll watch that. They're great kids. Yes, we think they're fine, children, Mr. Newton. And we want to keep them that way. Oh, we just don't want to have them injured in any way.  Yes. I'll be careful. Mighty careful, Mr. Rankin. Tunnels coming. Hey, Joey, it's swell. Just like... Where's the gang today, Joey? Oh, everybody said they couldn't come. They had... Well, they had other things to do. Oh. Your dad coming home soon? Yes, I think so. Gosh, he knows everything. They's fallen. I only wish my father... Hey, there's Sally! Joey! Joey Rankin, there you are. If your father knows you're back here after what happened, there's going to be trouble for you. What happened? Well, our parents have decided... to pay any attention to her, Peggy. She's a sucker. I am not. And you know what our parents said. They don't want us to become groundhogs. Sandhogs? See, you don't even know what you're talking about. Well, it's all the same. That's why they didn't want Peggy to come to our party tonight. Peggy Ann, where you going? Oh, just leave me alone. Just leave me alone, please. I got a surprise for you, Peggy. I bought a car today, a second-hand car. I'm picking it up tomorrow morning. That's nice. What's the matter, sweetheart? You didn't eat any dinner. I'm not hungry tonight, Dad. That reminds me, I was going to take you to see a doctor. But when I saw you playing ball, I... I'm not sick. Dad, do we have to live here long? Here? You mean in this house? Yes. I hate it. Why, sweetheart, this was... was everything I'd hoped for. What's wrong, baby? Didn't you notice anything wrong when you came home today, Dad? Oh, no one was around. Well, yes, but I thought... Well, they're not supposed to be around anymore. All the kids have to keep away from here. And they're having a party tonight. Who told you this? Sally came over here this afternoon, and just because her father's president of a company, they can have a party. Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You mean they're having a party with the kids in the neighborhood, and they left you out? Oh, it doesn't matter, Dad. I can get along with them. Where is this party? I'll get down and show them something they didn't expect. Come on, sweetheart. We'll give them some fireworks for their party. Please, Dad, please. Well, it's bad enough the way it is now. Without. Without what, baby? Fighting's only going to make it worse. And then... Oh, I know why we moved in here before me, but it's just not working out, Dad. It's going to be worse if you... Well, maybe you're right, sweetheart. Yes, it's like... Well, I guess we're new here. And it's a different kind of air. It's kind of like me going into the tunnel from free air to high air. And what happens if I don't stop a spell in the airlock? You get the bends? Yeah, and they're mighty painful. So you gotta be patient and waitin'. That's us, sweetheart. We gotta get used to a new place and let it get used to us. The stickin' gets me. It's this racket. You ain't built for a 50-pound pressure. Dad, it's settlein' torch. Like a firetrap, too. The emergency weldin' job. If there's a spark. Yeah, bad stuff.  What do we plug up with if there's a blow? Bags of cement. Yeah, that's safe. I'll tell the foreman. You work the hoist. Tell the boss we're checkin' out. Andy, here we are. You're gonna ride in my car and like it. Get in. I'm okay, now.  Nothing to do. And you ain't goin' back to no room in house. Says who? You see, Andy? This is the perfect life. A good dinner. A good front porch with a swing. Peace and quiet. Yeah, sure. Don't know what happened to me today. I feel like a million bucks now. Say, any of your gang of kids around today? No, they don't come around much anymore. Yeah, I guess kids lose interest. I see we got neighbors. Over there in the garden. Look at my rope. A trampled, caved in. And it took me years. Oh, my poor dandy bears and my beautiful talus. Who did this, Diggle? The boys. Surely not Joey. Joey and his friends. But it's not their fault. You don't make sense, Janet. It's that sandhog. Mutant? What's he got to do with it? They are so crazy about him. He's got them all worked up about this tunnel business.  Mike, it looks like you've got some nice, friendly neighbors. Yeah, I've been trying to figure this out. It's like working in a tunnel shaft, Andy. Everything's going along fine. Then a steel rock drill penetrates a cavity of compressed gas and boom. The whole thing goes off and a lot of people get burned. I don't get it. Well, Andy, I'm trying to practice a little of what Helen used to do a lot of talking about. I'm trying to be kind to the people next door. Doesn't seem to do much good. Helen always said it's bound to work in the long run. It always has. That's how she put it.  Did Doc say you won't change? Sure, sure. Well, take it easy, will you? I know what I'm doing. I was in this game when most of these guys were... They finished that welding today. Watch out, those sparks. Six-storied up. You'll make it. Andy's done for. Come on, Mike. I ain't gonna leave him.  Help him on my back. Crazy. Listen, you help him on my back.  I'll break your neck. I'll set any. You ain't got a chance. The six-storied up. Let this land him. Together.  You heard what your father did. Have you seen him? No, dear. The doctor said we couldn't go in yet. The doctor's an old friend of mine. He said your father's going to be all right. Miss Newton? There's the nurse. She's calling you, Peggy. We'll wait out here. She's a sweet girl. I'm so ashamed of myself. You have a reason to be, Janet. Worrying about a man like that influencing our boy. Well, you were just as bad. I know, I know. It turns out the kids understood him better than we did. I'll make up for it with Peggy. Don't start patronizing, Janet. It's just as... Oh, Peggy. I'm... I'm so sorry, dear. Is he hurt badly? My dad's tough. His hands are burned and he had the bends. But he'll be all right in a few weeks. Dad's only worried about Andy. It's going to be quite a while before Andy's well again. Is there anything we can do? Well, Dad said he'd like to see you for a minute. Yes. All right, we'll go in. Mr. Newton? Mike's... Mike's the name. Yes, I know. Joey's always talking about what Mike can do. Joey's a good kid, Mr. Newton. The name is John, Mike. It's... it's just... I wondered if you'd kind of look out for Peggy Ann while I'm taking this rest. I'll be up and around in a week or so. You said it, you'll be up and around. Elmsford's made you into a town hero. Oh, go on. Sure, they've decided you're the kind of guy who lives the adventures most of us read about. Yeah, that's a new angle. But if you just look out for Peggy, she's kind of... I'll put an opening in the fence so she can hop back and forth between the two houses. That's nice going. Say, John, you know that electric clipper? Yes? It's there in my workshop anytime you'd like to use it. You know, tonight's play reminded me of going into a store to shop. Because today, mostly everything is made up in standardized packages. You don't have to make a cake or cook a dinner anymore. You can just add a little water to a box of ingredients and you've got a cake. Or you can open a few cans and you've got a dinner. So we sometimes get to thinking of standardizing everything and everybody. We put people in little packages and we try to measure out things that can't be measured, like charity and kindness and love. And that's what makes for a lot of misunderstanding and unhappiness among neighbors and in homes. Neither can we standardize God and put Him in a package for Sunday. We need God in our lives and in our homes every day. That's why daily family prayer is so important in all homes. Daily family prayer means God is there in our homes every day. Daily family prayer means God's daily blessing for the family that prays together, stays together. Before saying good night, I'd like to thank Ward Bond and Mary Eleanor Donahue for their performances this evening. Our thanks to Mark Carney and Phyllis Parker for writing tonight's play and to Max Ter for his music. This production of Family Theater Incorporated was directed by David Young. Others who appeared in tonight's play were Virginia Gregg, Jim Nussar, Shepherd Stradwick, Bill Bissell, Gloria McMillan and Gilbert Barnett. Next week, our Family Theater stars will be Tom Conway and Natalie Wood. In once on a golden afternoon, your hostess will be Moreno Sullivan. This is Lon McAllister saying good night and God bless you. This series of the Family Theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this kind of program and by the mutual broadcasting system which has responded to this need. Be with us next week at the same time when our Family Theater stars will be Tom Conway and Natalie Wood with Moreno Sullivan as hostess. Tony LaFranco speaking. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.


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