Hei kaikille, haluaisin vain haluatko teille uudelleen kokemuksia, ja todellakin haluaisin tämän ensimmäisen vuoksi, koska ensimmäisen vuoksi 2021 on ollut aika ympäristössä. Haluaisin vain vain apua, mitä on tullut, mitä on tullut nyt, mitä on ehkä tapahtunut tämän vuoksi, ja myös vain ympäristölle, mitä on tapahtunut 2020, koska tämä oli tietysti, että tietysti kaikki ihmisille on tärkeää vuoksi, ja viimeisenä ensimmäisen vuoksi oli The most hectic gear I ever had in my life. Like right now I'm in Dubai and this first week as I said it's been busy. I've been trying to look for an apartment here because we gonna just be staying here for a while. I wanna find a good place and the goal is really to be able to settle down here for now for some time. Because going back now to last year it was just crazy traveling non stop. kaikki kertaa tämän jälkeen asiaa. Tällä hetkellä järjestelmässä ensimmäistä kertaa olimme järjestelmässä. Mutta se oli tietysti järjestelmässä samalla järjestelmässä järjestelmässä kertaa järjestelmässä ja kertaa ja se oli järjestelmässä järjestelmässä. Me aloitamme järjestelmässä Suorin rutiinaan 2019 oli tämä alun alusta peruustossa. Se oli alun alun alun viholla. Se oli olemassa semmoinen alun alun, jota on täysin hauskaan, mitä voisi alun alun alun alun alun, jotta alun alun alun on paremmin ja niin on. Se oli alun alun alun alun alun, mutta efter tämä alun alun oli suurin tykkästi Trikka, Kankfu ja tietysti. Haluatko sanoa, että näin videon, joka on ollut tänne, asetettu. Sitten kyse on, että me katsomme tämän tiimeen 2020-tiedemme, jossa on vielä paljon kerran, että olemme ensimmäisen kertaa vuosina, ja me olemme tämän tiimeen. Mutta me jäin olemme jäin tämän jälkeen, sitten olemme katsuneet tämän tiimeen ja tuli meidän ensimmäisen kertaa. Tämä oli kertaa ja pikkukoneen. Meillä on tosi tyypäin kurssilla, jossa master Janyshan 2020 oli. Meillä oli Hellenfightin Chikong, internan ja extravakanfu. Ja sitten meillä oli Monkifistore 24 warrior Chikong set. Se on todella tärkeintä kurssilla, jossa meillä on tosi tyypäin kurssilla. Ja nämä ovat kaikki kurssilla. Se on todella tyypäin, joten meillä oli myös To Auss somewhat Two other courses that I'm not gonna talk to much about now that we even film and prepare or just filmed, but we didn't have time to put them out, because simply the whole year or so booked just traveling, making this courses, training, learning and non stop the whole year. And it was important face. It was really important to go through this, especially because the chigong stuff that we learned was so crucial or amazing and it gave, you know with the master. Olen ymmärtänyt, että ei ole niin paljon ihmisiä kuin Chiikong tai Kung Fu. Se ei ole niin entisempi. Kung Fu on ehkä enemmän ihmisiä. Esimerkiksi Chiikong. Täältä voidaan sanoa, että se on semmoinen. Se on semmoinen, että se on semmoinen. Ja kun olen tullut ensimmäinen koko Chiikong, en ole semmoinen, että se on semmoinen. Ja se oli only after I met with the master, Jenny Sean there in Taiwan, that I really realized wow, because we got this like a straight window into that sort of ancient lost world through this master. And this was unbelievably amazing and gave so much different techniques and methods and principles to take care of the health. And this is what has been our passion now for years. So to get this sort of opportunity, it was unbelievably amazing. I'm putting a whole year mostly on that. It just felt like it had to be done, although it was rough. It was tough trips, long trips to Taiwan and all the preparing and so on. But we felt that this kind of information needed to get out there to a broader public. So that as I said was really the big theme of the 2020. Of course there were other things. We were also in Russia. We were supposed to be the three months. But we ended up being maybe one month and a half. We were there training the MMA and wrestling with the Russians. This was a great time. And it was really funny because in Russia, well, when we were in Russia, we looked at what the other countries are doing there. Everyone is having these strict measures because of corona lockdowns and so on. And in Russia everything is just going on normally. Nobody cares. And then suddenly they put on the restrictions and our training stops. And well, what do you know? We were there kind of stuck for a while. But it was a great chance for us to prepare to help them fighting chicken. We just put all our focus on that. And finally we managed to get the bus ride back to Finland. And again the year goes forward from there. So right now, so yeah, the second time in Taiwan, we all know where during this year in Lithuania. We were in Croatia enjoying the sun. We visited some other cities in Finland, like Turku. So living all over and just doing what we do all the time, preparing again the courses and so on. And there was also the other time, the second time that we went to Taiwan. This time we went to film the internal and extra kung fu and the monk chikung set. These were the last two courses of this year again. And this trip went really well, despite there being some difficulties again because of the COVID.  I don't know what it was called anymore to go there and film these courses. So I'm very happy about that because we're not really sure when we can go even back to Taiwan now that the situation is going on. But after Taiwan, we flew straight here into Dubai. So we were thinking, we had been thinking about going to Dubai for a while. It seemed like a good option perhaps to leave for a longer term. And we wanted to come here to see it out, how it is here and see if it's really a livable place anyway. And while we were here also for over a month, we were preparing these chikung and kung fu courses, living here and seeing it out. And after that, we decided to go to Christmas, spent the Christmas in Finland. So we flew back to Finland to our parents and to spend time with the family. I was very lucky that I got to go there to my home and see my parents, my brother and sister and our dogs as well because I just heard that the other one of our family dogs passed away, a very old dog, like 15 years old, Jack Russel chariur. It was just spent. I lived like many years with the dog, but I haven't been in home a lot during this past year. So I felt good to see that dog for the last times there, last moments during the Christmas. So after Christmas, we have already seen that Dubai was a nice place to be. So we head back here and now we are going to stay at least this next year here. Who knows, perhaps even longer and just live here. And the idea is really, as I said, perhaps in the beginning of the video that to settle down a little bit because last year was just complete here and there travelling and just didn't have time for much anything else during the process of creating those courses. So now it's time to make this a base, be able to focus on what we really want to do this time which is create content for you guys, something helpful material. We have still like a lot of training stuff that we haven't shared methods that we haven't put out. And this is all something that we really want to focus on during this year the most. But I would say 2021, it's still definitely going to be an adventurous year even if we would stay more still, there's so much plans. And I just get this feeling that something is going to happen during this year as well. But for me, I really want to also, I want to keep you some tips to get started during this year, perhaps offer some help. There's something that must help and get you started better or give you a better start for the year because 2020, you know, with all the mess that was there, it was already tough and especially like regards to training and helping people to train because this is what we have been doing now for a long time. I felt like this became very, very crucial to being able to maintain and build a strong body, strong physique and healthy physique to withstand these sort of tough times. This became very crucial. And even now that we go to 2021, we don't really know what the situation is even going to change. So we need to stay strong. This is what I always say in the end of the video, but I really mean it, stay strong. And this has become very, very important during these times to keep yourself healthy. And it's not only that, it can make a whole, it can have such a tremendous effect on your life as well as just a better functioning body. It can change your thinking, can change your attitude, your confidence and this can lead and spread out to different areas of your life. And we got a really amazing example of this in one of our comment that was in our private Facebook group. It was a member of our training programs and this guy said basically that 2020 was the best year of his life and it was mostly based on this text, it was just due to him improving his body on multiple different basically levels. He was just first of all able to do more with his body than like movement skills, comrade walks, strength moves, single winged mils kind of stuff that is in the movement, twin xx. And on top of that he managed to fix his hip pain and then there was this one really funny thing that I think most people would never even consider to be a benefit from training and this is to be able to sit on the floor. You wouldn't necessarily think that to be even a goal from training to be able to sit better but that is something that can actually happen from when you're doing good training and this is something that can actually limit some people. The older you go and the more or the less you do with your body, the more you kind of just stay still sitting around, the more your body is going to degenerate and you will lose these things that you thought were you know there like self that you took for granted perhaps. But these are things that we can lose. Suddenly we go on in our life and suddenly something happens, a big pain appears, a tightness appears and then we are there stuck and we don't really perhaps even know what happened but this has been accumulating over the years just because of the neglecting our body or perhaps doing too hard training all the time. This is also the other extreme that some people do only hard training, heavy lifting perhaps while also neglecting the troubles that have started our eyes over the years. But so going back to this just saying that the 220 was the best year because of all these things, improving the pain in the body, being able to do more with the body and understanding the importance, realizing the importance. This was one of the biggest things that I think he got from this year was the understanding of the importance of taking care of your body, understanding the importance of movement altogether because this is as I said, not everyone knows really how to value this and being able to value the importance is one of the most important things in staying consistent and without staying consistent you are not going to get the results. Many people in New York comes, you make the promises, you have your goals, you go after them and after a while you lose the side of the goal. Perhaps you don't have a strong enough idea of the benefits it's a strong enough motivation.  If you've ever had really nasty thing aching somewhere in your body you know you want to get rid of that very very badly. And if you have got rid of it then you know how big of a difference it can make in your being because something's not bothering you all the time perhaps or most of the time you can go after the sports you want to do. Play with your kids, whatever, go to a hike. You can do the activities that you want to do when you have a body that doesn't hold you back. A body that supports you. A body that doesn't only hold you back but that supports you under these hard times. Hard times for you physically or mentally. Stressful times with all this lockdown and whatever is going on there. Financial troubles in all of this time having a strong body will help you go through this. I feel like even personally for me I couldn't have kept up with the rhythm with the schedule that we had during the past years if it weren't for the training to keep me like mentally, even just mentally sane to be able to rely on this sort of apparatus from where everything comes from. And this has been basically priceless and I can very very easily understand why this could be the reason why someone had a great year just because they improved their body because as I explained not only is it a goal in itself to be healthier, to feel better in your body to be stronger, to be able to do more but it also is that sort of thing that can allow other areas in your life to change as well. This I feel very very strongly about. And for us we have some ways that you can really get very easily started. We have the mobility class that I've been I can highly highly recommend because this is a class first of all it's completely free so it's very very easy to join it and it's not only that I give you exercises there on a paper or something that you know you repeat them but it also has so like a very very deep sort of lesson, I'm explaining everything I'm explaining the principles this also comes down to that staying consistent because I want that you understand what you're actually doing in this class and I want that you understand how to do these exercises. This can also give you much much better chance to stay accountable yourself when you are increasing the body awareness. A lot of that also for me the motivation as always has come from that body awareness I can feel a lot of like what is going on in my body and I respond to that and this is why I also train and I move because I respond to the things that come from my body and this can be simply ask me to move, ask me to breathe ask me to do this or that move around and in this class you know I show the exercise you can do the routines but I also explain how to do these exercises in a very detailed manner sort of internal approach to developing mobility in your body to open up your body to fix pains and achies with this and it's also you know it's like a six exercises there which is of course not all the exercise that are out there but when you have a good methodology and you understand how to do the training even a few exercises are good and these are some of my favorite exercises there so this is as I said 100% free class day of mobility you can find it from dayofmobility.com you can sign up for the class and after that you will get the whole routine and everything so you can start to take care of your body in a better manner Another thing that I think is really great for the start of the year is the Warrior Twin X-X and we also have a free trial for this program and I like it because it's our training program that's in a follow along format so this is also something that I think can help a lot of people to stay longer into training and especially like seeing the example of how to push themselves this is also the big benefit from this because I'm doing this program YouTube, I'm doing what exercise every single rest period and intense training period I'm kind of like training with you and giving you advice and pushing you forward sometimes perhaps yelling you so this I think is a really great motivation to get started on a year in a very very fired up manner with this high intense routines of the Warrior Twin X-X and the free trial is also a great really really good way to get started and I think like just other material that can really help you with training and understanding how the importance also as I was talking about understanding the importance of taking care of yourself is the articles that we have we have hundreds of articles on our website www.bopfitness.com so getting a deeper idea also behind our training methods why do why are we doing certain things that we do and getting just a more in depth and detail also approach compared to the videos that you see in this channel every time we have a video here we also write an article there so this will give you much usually wider and more profound idea of the training that we are doing and I think this also very important for many people to finally get the realization of the full capacity of your body and the really the importance of taking care of it in the long term as well so free a day of mobility class the free trial for Warrior Twin X all these hundreds of free articles free videos that we have on this channel really give you a great start or something to really follow and stay consistent during this in the start of the year and I think also in the long term as well during this whole year of course we have many many programs also for many different needs and different goals, different personalities out at the moment that this is also something you can check out if you are interested but I do think that these free options are amazing to really get started with the easiest possible way to build the class probably for the first time I've ever started to learn these methods mobility methods that we are using challenges are going to be there whether it's 2020, 2021 or whatever year it is there's going to be some adversities that are going to be in your way but we always have that ability to choose which sort of way we go from there you have that sort of like a crossroad or a fork and the other way more like depressed you start to feel sorry you think that you can't, you don't have any chance to control anything and of course you need to accept the things that you can't control which is this big situation here what is ever going to happen is going to happen with the lockdowns whatever restrictions that we have but you have also the other road where you can choose to control the things that you can control in life this starting from your body, the shape of it the health of it, your diet your posture, your breathing, your exercising all things that you can have an effect on and this can have a massive effect on the rest of your life so this is why I say stay strong guys and this is what I'm definitely going to be doing also this year I feel like just need to keep strong keep going what we have been doing already for years even 2020 there was multiple times you could have just thought well it's too risky you know you shouldn't do that but we decided to focus 100% on what what was the mission that we had learn, train complete the mission make the programs, share the training to other people this is what we wanted to do it's like really all the challenges and also the things that we have gone through it's just much easier to go to those challenges when I know that you guys are backing us up you are actually following what we do under the channels you are commenting here you are getting into our training programs this is all invaluable support and I am very very thankful about to each and every one of you so really want to thank everyone of you and I now wish you a very happy new year and hope you get started in a very strong manner so take care guys as always stay strong


Hello and welcome! My name is Drew Darrow and welcome to Town Meeting TV's coverage of Town Meeting Day 2024. This program is part of a series of forums we are bringing you in advance of Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5th. Town Meeting TV hosts forums with all candidates and covers the questions you will see on the ballot, including introducing you to the community decision makers and connecting you with the issues that shape your local community. You can find all our forums at cctv.org slash 2024 or on our Town Meeting TV YouTube channel where auto-generated captions are available. On tonight's program we will hear from the two incumbent candidates running for Wilson Select Board, the two candidates are Greta D'Agostino and Mike Aisham. Hello Drew. Thank you for joining us. We have prepared a list of questions for each of you and you'll have 90 seconds to answer each question. If you are tuning in live, we will also welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you call in live, we will do our best to prioritize your question, though we will screen calls to ensure questions are not repeated. We ask that you share your name, the town you live in, and that your questions are directed at all candidates, not just one candidate in particular. Let's get started with one minute opening statements and we'll start with Mike. Hi, my name is Farmer Mike. I grew up on the farm that I currently own. I've started working there since it's about knee-high to a baby calf. I also worked at IBM for 26 years, so I have earned lots of good common sense and a hard work ethic while living in this town. I think in this town we need to maintain what makes this town special and the rural characters that represent this town. I remember the old farmers like Ray Fontaine, Marvin Clark, Herb Goodrich, Howard Lunderville, Ruth Painter, Deb Beckett, and many others that made this town special before me. I hope that I can respectfully represent them as well as the new people in town today. New people in town, including James Heltz, Sally Metro, Stockwell, Crystal Lee McSweeney, Ginger Morton, Carter Smith, and many others that I admire and hope to represent. Our town's history from Thomas Chittiton to today has always been quality over quantity. Great, thank you. And Greta. I have been on the Wilson Select Board for the past three years and it has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. I have been really honored to represent the Willistonians, all Willistonians. I grew up with a single mom and one of her core values for us was civic engagement. She made it a point to always be involved in our community and instilled in my sister and I that give as much as we can however we can. And so I am continuing that tradition with my Select Board membership and I have been using this position to really represent the voice of many of the Willistonians I speak with on a daily basis. I work within the schools, I am a social worker by trade, and I feel that when I use my voice I am speaking for many of my fellow citizens. Great. Great. And thank you. And so for this next section, I'll start asking questions. You'll have 90 seconds to answer the questions. And then if a direct candidate's name is mentioned, you'll have 30 seconds for a bottle. So Greta, we'll start with you for the first question. Do you support the proposed town budget of 15.35 million dollars representing an increase of $1 million over the last year? So the budget was voted on unanimously by the Select Board this year and I do support it. I recognize that this is a tough increase for our town and for our citizens. Any increase in taxes is felt. And then we worked very hard as a Select Board to keep this increase as low as possible. But many of the dollars this year are going towards things, unfortunately, that are outside of our capacity to change. We need to pay a fair wage. We need to meet rising costs of insurance, which is a huge part of this year's budget. And we also need it to address citizen concerns. So you will see that there is a new police detective position as part of this budget. We do have an HR director position as part of this budget. This is all attempt to make sure that we are responsive to our town staff, to the citizen concerns about public safety, and to deliver the same quality service that everyone in town has come to expect of our town and our town services and staff. Thank you. And Mike? Yes, I also support the new town budget. Most of the increase is just due to inflation and the health benefits cost things that are beyond our control. We worked very hard on identifying our wants versus our needs. I believe we did a good job at it. Great. Well, thank you. And so for the next question, we know that the school budget and everything's trying that is quite up in the air right now. So I will ask a question just about about the budget specific to the area. So state legislatures are considering repealing the 5% cap. Do you support the effort to rescind the 5% property tax increase cap? And how would that impact CSVD schools and taxpayers? And so we'll start with Mike this time. I think the school budget is a very complicated issue. I don't really understand it that well. I believe it's a legislative issue that will need to be resolved by our legislator. It's nothing a flatline budget this year is an 18 to 20% increase for every town across the state. So we can't we can't blame our school boards for this. This is something we need Mom Peeler to work on. Great. Thank you, Mike and Greta. So the the bill in question here Act 127 that the goal of this was to make funding more equitably available to school districts that have higher student needs.  All Vermont students deserve the highest quality education. Unfortunately, the effects of Act 127 and that 5% cap have impacted some of these same towns that were intended to benefit from this process in a negative way. And and they are going to be paying disproportionately higher taxes than intended when Act 127 was passed. So I know that this is all still being worked out in the legislature. And I do hope that they are able to resolve this in a way that kind of lessens the impact for each town, especially again, those with the highest student needs. What I will say is I, you know, know that our school board is recommending that they do continue with the vote for the school budget on Town Meeting Day, and feel that there is, you know, not a lot of wiggle room in their budget as well, so that they can provide our students with the highest quality service. And so we're still waiting to see with a school, whole school word votes to continue with the process on Town Meeting Day, but I do support our school board. Great. Well, thank you. And so I will move on to bond questions next. So the bond question is, do you support the bond votes to expand the Town Hall parking lot? And then follow up to that is to install a new fire suppression system on the old Brick Church. So Greta, would you like to begin? Sure. So in terms of the Brick Church bond specifically, first, I'll start there. The Brick Church is a Williston landmark. It is something that we have heard again and again from our constituents that that they really value about our town. It is used for town concerts and other events. And it really is something that is is a key feature of the Williston Village. And so I do support the bond to add the fire suppression system, because as we know from a few years ago, you know, acts of nature can happen. And and we want to keep that safe for generations of Williston to come. And so this this is the way to do that. As far as the parking lot, I also support that bond. The parking lot has been in need of repairs for many years. There is need for additional space. And so this would allow us to, you know, address drainage issues and space issues. But it also is looking into the future as well, because we are going to add some sustainability features and and hopefully implement things so that we can electrify our fleet vehicles within town. So the town hall parking lot is also used by our police station, looking forward to electric potential police vehicles in the future, town fleet vehicles and so forth. And also, you know, public use charging. So I think this is great step forward for our town as well. And I hope that the citizens will vote for that bond. Great. Thank you, Greta. And Mike, same. Yes, I also supported putting these on the bond, let the voters decide, you know, the Old Brick Church is a historic monument in the town holds a special dear place to many people in a fire suppression system would be important in there. And I also believe, you know, the parking lot is old. It does need a lot of work. But you know, I think it's important that we let the voters decide on that, rather than add it to the general budget. Yeah, great. Thank you. So for our next question, want to move on to policing. The proposed FY 25 budget will create a new detective position. But there are currently two unfilled officer positions in the Wilson Police Department. What would be the impact of the new detective position? How would how should Wilson address ongoing challenges in police department, recruitment and retention? So, Mike, would you like to begin? I support the detective position. I believe it's important because it would allow continuity and allow more focus on the town's retail theft problem that we have.  I think, you know, right now there's a real we need that support for the police department. I think it's important that we have a police detective. Wilson's having a hard time retaining police officers. There's a real shortage of police officers across the nation. And we need, you know, we need to grow the department size. We've learned that several years ago through the Jim Baker report. And again, that report this year has again, showed a lot of shortcomings that we have in our police department by having more more help for our patrol officers. So I do support our police public safety is number one. Great. Thank you very much, Mike. And Greta. Yeah, so as Mike mentioned, you know, we recently had hired Jim Baker to conduct a study to address, you know, the future of our of our police department and what that should look like and where our needs are. And and he did identify many issues. One of the things he said to is that is that we do live in a safe town that we live in a town that is growing and that our town needs to address that within our police department as well. And so while he identified several positions in discussions with the police chief, the first and greatest need he felt for a police department this fiscal year was a police detective position, which would free up time from our officers so that they can do their jobs on the roads and and addressing other, you know, things in town do more community policing and so forth. And the detective will allow us to address investigations quicker and for there to be continuity in those investigations. So I think that this will motivate other potential other new police officers, because they'll see that there is room for growth within our police department. We like many other towns are facing recruitment challenges. But when they know and they see the Jim Baker report and see that the select board is behind them and is creating an environment for growth and potential for them, we hope that that will draw new officers. Great, thank you so much. So I'm going to move on to climate change next. And our climate change question is, how is Wilson dealing with the impacts of climate change? What can the select board do to reduce emissions and prepare for climate impacts? So for this we'll begin with Greta. Great. So over the past few years, the select board has undertaken several things to address climate change. The first was implementing or adopting the energy plan, and then establishing an energy committee, which is robust and been very active. And then utilizing input from that energy committee and from the energy plan to address climate change where and as often as much as we can. We also consult with our conservation commission so that we can keep, you know, land, you know, as protected and that that as another way we address it. We've done things like adding charging stations to some of our parks. And again, adding charging stations to the town hall parking lot will be part of that. One thing that may not be immediately noticeable is is the plowing of all of our town sidewalks. I see that as a really important step towards this. This past year is the first year we've done that, but it allows for our town to be a more walkable town and walkability, you know, is is in key to addressing climate change. You know, we are looking at things with ARPA funding like addressing our town lighting, the purchase of the solar panels that are on the public works building. All of these are ways in which we are doing it. And we are even looking forward in the electrification of our fleet vehicles. Great. Thank you. And Mike, climate change. I agree with Greta, the town of Williston select and the select board have done a lot on energy efficiency. At the farm, you know, we have a wood lot. Since 2007, we've we put in a gasification boiler, a frolling. We heat our house with wood. In 2010, I put into all earth trackers. So we use we generate our own electricity at the farm. The farm four years ago started a nonprofit called the First Earth Project. All of our performing arts series, all of the excess revenue that we generate at the farm goes to a Vermont environmental group. So I feel that, you know, we all have a part that we can play in this. It's important that we all do it ourselves as well as what the town has done. The town's done a great job. Great. Thank you. So my next question is going to be about development for for the town. So how is Williston dealing with the impacts of Oh, no. Can you identify a current development project in Williston that you are proud of and think you'll and think will support sustainable economic growth? So Mike, I'll start with you. I believe the Glacier project is one of them with the inclusionary zoning. It's in an area where it's approximately 100 acres. Half of that was given to the town. Part of it as a view shed, part of it as to go for the, you know, the horse farm to continued use. I believe that, you know, that is an area where it was zoned for three to five residential lots per acre. So the compromise of 108 homes is a very good compromise. We're getting a lot of pressure from the state to, you know, increase housing in this area. This area has very high housing costs by increasing housing. We believe this will lower the price. These will be there'll be a mix of affordable homes in this building area. So I believe the town, the town is working at it. It's not something that's going to happen overnight, but this is a good good start. Great. Well, thank you. And same question. I agree with with Mike. I think that the Glaser project is kind of a pit-a-mises of what this town can do when we all work together and when we see people passionate about an issue. When the Glaser specific plan first came before the planning commission, we saw a lot of opposition from folks in the town. And as the process unfolded and there was the committee to study it and we got input, we really, you know, as a town we're able to address the needs. We do need more housing inventory. And we need it at all ends of the spectrum. And so this will add more inventory. Again, it maintains public spaces. It does include some affordable housing. And above all else, you know, it's responsive to the town's desires for kind of measured growth and so forth. I will also highlight, you know, that their poly is building or has submitted a proposal for a new project within the form based code area. And I'm particularly excited about this. It is a multi-story dwelling that has quite a bit of affordable housing. And we know that multi-family dwellings are much more environmentally friendly. And so I am excited to see where that project develops as well for our town. Great. Thank you. So my next question is going to be on the inclusionary zoning. The town of Wilson approved a by law amendment last fall to enact inclusionary zoning requiring a certain number of units provide affordable rent. Do you support inclusionary zoning and what impact does it have on development of the town? So, Greta, can I start with you? Sure. I think that the lack of housing, again, across, you know, all income brackets is a major issue for the state. It is a major issue for Williston as well. And so I do support inclusionary zoning. I do believe that we need to use whatever tools we can to encourage developers to build more affordable housing. Housing is a right and I believe that all are entitled to fair and safe housing. And with inclusionary zoning, this would encourage developers to to build affordable housing and those that choose to not go the path of inclusionary zoning have the ability to then pay into the housing trust fund as an alternate route, which would then allow our housing committee to determine how to use those funds to in turn build more affordable housing. So I do see it as a win-win and I hope that in the future we can even increase, you know, the limits of what would be included in there. Great. Thank you Greta and Mike. Yes. The inclusionary zoning, the objective is to add more affordable housing to Williston and what's important about that is that it includes housing in the Taff Corners Growth Center. This does not affect the rural part of Williston. It only affects the town growth center where public water and sewage around Taff Corners. I think that's a great idea. Great. Yeah. Well, thank you. So I think for the next question I'll move on to some some challenges you think the community is facing. So what do you see as the biggest challenges facing the community and how would you use your seat on the select board to address these issues? What is your vision for the future of Williston? And Mike, I'll start with you. I kind of like what Governor Scott said about the number one thing in, you know, for Vermont is public safety. You know, as Williston becomes a suburb of Burlington, we're becoming an East Burlington and we're seeing the problems of Burlington come into Williston. I think, you know, public safety is important. Supporting our police department is important. Supporting our fire department is important. I feel like affordability is number two. Our older residents of Williston are no longer can afford to live in Williston. I think that it's sad when the indigenous people of Williston are the old Willistonites. I can't afford to live here anymore. Number three is, you know, affordable housing. We need to do something to keep our young people from going out of state to find other jobs. Vermont needs to keep our, you know, our people in Vermont, keep Vermont what it is, quality over quantity. Great. Thank you, Mike. And Greta. I think that Williston is such a unique and wonderful place to live. And like any town that is growing, you know, there are going to be some growing pains. But I do think that, you know, we need to address address those collaboratively. And I think that the biggest challenge right now that we need to address is housing. I, you know, keep speaking about this, but I truly do believe that Williston has a lot to offer and can be a leader in this area. And so I would like to work with our housing committee, our planning office, our planning commission, zoning to really encourage the creation of housing in a way that is measured and equitable and sustainable and looks towards the future. We have a daytime population that nearly doubles in our town. And most of those workers who come to here on a daily basis cannot afford to live here. And so I think that is a real issue that we need to address. We want to make Williston a place where I'll feel welcome and all are encouraged to live and work here. Great. Thank you so much both for that. And so I want to move on to connecting with the constituents. As a candidate and an elected official, how do you gather input and balance differing perspectives from your constituents? How do you ensure you're hearing a wide range of voices and not just the loudest ones? So Greta. Sure. So as a Williston Select Board member, I firmly believe that I represent all Willistonians. So we may not all agree on every issue, but I do, you know, represent this town and I am always available by email. I try to attend, you know, public events, participate in public forums and, you know, encourage people to reach out and show up at town meetings, show up at select board meetings. We want to hear your voice. And again, we may not always agree on every issue, but your voice does matter to us. And we do weigh that in, in all of our decision-making. So, you know, whether or not, you know, it's from the Planning Commission meetings or, you know, any of our other town committees, show up, be active, and let us hear your voice, because we want to do our best to weigh all sides when we make decisions. Thank you, Greta and Mike, connecting with constituents.  I think it's important that we hear everybody's point of view. I like talking about it at the farm events. People come to the farm. They go do a farmers market. They come to the fall festivals. We've had a lot of good discussions over cutting a Christmas, you know, during cutting a Christmas tree and just a cup of coffee at the sugar house is probably my favorite way and it's sugaring seasons. I hope to see a lot of you at the sugar house. Coffee pots on. I'd like to hear your hear your stories and hear your ideas. Great, thank you. That's great. And so I have a question just about your love of Williston. So tell us a little bit about why you care, tell us a little bit about why you care about and want to work for the community of Williston. What are your favorite spots and why do you live here? So, Mike, we'll begin with you for this question. My favorite spot, of course, is the farm but my favorite part about Williston are the dedicated employees, the dedicated town employees. I think we also have very dedicated commissions and committees and boards in the town. The select board all care about you. They care about the town. I think, you know, it's amazing, you know, the number of volunteers in this town that are on the Old Brick Church trustees on the Conservation Commission, the DRB, the Planning Commission. These are unpaid jobs. People are volunteering to try to make the town a better place. I think that's really important that we have these, it's the people in town that make it special. So I'd like to thank the people in the town. Thank you. And same for you, Greta. Love of Williston. So I've been living in Williston since 2009 and I have yet to explore every, you know, possible place. But I love hiking with my children at Fyfe True Hill or Suckerbrook. We utilize the community park. We utilize the Allenbrook Nature Trail. We are constantly on the bike path. I'm a long distance runner so I have run over miles and miles and miles of roads and bike paths here in town and it's the small things that get me the most. I love that we do live in a place where people will wave to you when they see you. I love that we live in a place that people are so passionate about housing and development and growth that they will show up by the dozens and dozens for planning commission meetings. Or I love that, you know, our schools are top in the state. I happen to work at a school so one of the schools here in town. So I particularly love them. But you know, I feel fortunate to live in this town. I feel fortunate to be on this select board to represent this town and I hope to continue to do that for many years to come. Great, thank you so much. And so I would just love 30 seconds of closing statements from both of you. So Greta, do you want to go first? Sure. As I mentioned earlier, these past three years being in the Wilson Select Board have truly been an honor for me. I encourage you all to show up on March 5th at Town Meeting Day to not only vote for the select board, but to vote for the bonds, to vote on the school budgets, to vote for any time you are allowed to vote to use your voice. It is the most important thing you can do to be civically engaged. So please show up. Please use your voice. Again, it really matters. Thank you, Greta and Mike. Everyone's voice and everyone's count, everyone's voice and everyone's vote count. So be there. Perfect, thank you both so very much for joining us. Thank you for tuning in to the Town Meeting TV's ongoing coverage of local candidates, local budgets and ballot items. You can find this and many more forums at cctv.org slash 2024 or on our Town Meeting TV YouTube channel. And you can tune in to our live election results show after you cast your ballot on March 5th. Contact your local clerk to find out how to obtain a ballot and to register to vote. In Vermont, you can register to vote on Election Day. Thank you and for, thank you for watching and sharing with Town Meeting TV.


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Ukrainian guerrillas infiltrate Russian airfield in Crimea, discover radar system. Ukrainian guerrillas scouted the airfield of Russian troops in the Zankoi district, Crimea. The occupiers are hiding radar stations there, according to the Atech guerrilla movement. Our agents conducted a successful reconnaissance of the airfield in the Zankoi district, during which they managed to discover the occupiers' radar stations, Atech says. The guerrillas note that they are showing only a small part of the footage shared by the agents who managed to sneak into the occupiers' military facility. Recently, Ukrainian guerrillas managed to sneak into the base of Russia's 56th Guard Assault Regiment in Temporarily Occupied Fyodorosya, Crimea. Citing their sources, guerrillas say the regiment suffered heavy losses in intense fighting, including due to poorly planned assault missions. The command replenishes losses at the expense of convicts, which strongly undermined the morale in the unit, causing discontent. First of all, among lower-level commanders on the ground, the report reads, It is known that a number of the Atech Partisan movement successfully infiltrated a section of the Russian National Guard last month in Yevpatoria. We managed to gather intelligence on the quantity of equipment and personnel of the adversary. Additionally, we learned the location and time of the command meeting for the unit. Atech wrote.