Graeme, good to see you again. A free week, if that makes sense, no game in the week. Has that been welcome for you as a team? Well, the weekend and the games after that will give us the answer for that, but I think it's always valuable to get training time with the players, I think just to give you a bit of breathing space to assess the previous games properly, try and plan ahead with the game that we have in the weekend and try and get a few lads a little bit more up to speed physically because it's been a bit of a broken time for a few players, so I think on a physical side, a preparation side, a free week is always valuable, but it's about making it pay for us really. We talk a lot about the relentless fixture schedule at this time of the year and partly with what you've said there, do you feel like as a squad you maybe just needed that chance to maybe reflect and look back? A little bit, yeah, because it's certainly coming out of January, we know now that the squad is the squad that we have, everyone can settle down and focus, so we look at the games coming up and what we have to do to win them, and then try and introduce to the new players, well, Cav really and Jake, more than Tyree, because he's still with the medical team, the sort of tactical stuff that we require from them in that possession, so for them boys it's been probably more valuable. But yeah, I think as long as you can get out and train, which we've been able to do this week, then I think it probably did come at a good time, just have to look more about being out of the window and settling everyone down rather than any other aspect to be honest. And do you feel the squad is settling down? People are settling down, no, this is it now, this is how we're going to be until the end of the season? I would hope so, I think, yeah, well, there's no choice really, so that's it, the group that we have now is the group that will take us through to the end of the season, so I always believe, and without a doubt, January brings its distractions, not for every single individual, but if you've got a north, I think it's a topic that people will discuss and focus on, even if it's not directly including them, just to be aware of things going on. So I think February onwards sort of puts that to bed, I think it brings clarity for everybody, including myself, and we get down to work to try and make a good go the rest of the season, because that's what our target is. You mentioned Tyreek Wright, just what is the full prognosis with him at the moment? Yeah, he's not been out, he's been on the grass with the medical team, he's actually been training with us, so he won't be part of the squad at the weekend, and it's pretty much due to the timeline we thought at the start, so we knew it wasn't a significant injury of any long-term risk, but more than enough just to keep him out of the next couple of weeks from when he did it, so he's on schedule to return when we expected him to return, and just fingers crossed that that continues, because we brought him here to obviously improve our firepower and ammunition, and we've only had him for 60 minutes unfortunately. And how is Jake Young? I know you said that half-time he'd reported maybe a tight hamstring. Yeah, it's not that really, it's just before he came off, he obviously was involved in a challenge and hurt his ankle, so he's actually missed training this week so far with that ankle, nothing to do with his hamstring, which is good news, but he took a knock on it and it swallowed up, so we're just trying to get that swelling down and hopefully include him in training later in the week. So yeah, that's less of a risk I think than a hamstring because he's an explosive player, but also there's a good level of discomfort after the game on Saturday, so unfortunately he's not been part of the training week so far either. Other than the longer term absentees that we know about in Jamie Walker and Alex Patterson, how are you elsewhere in the squad going into Saturday? Yeah, I think we have everyone else available, apart from the ones that haven't. So Jake Tariq and Alex Patterson, Jamie Walker, we know about those and they're all in a certain part of the pitch where we need as much quality as we can, so it's probably hitting us hard a little bit at the moment, but I still believe that the players we have available have more than enough to score goals in league too, so we'll focus on the guys that are out there training, preparing for the game, and get them in the best physical mental shape as we can, but every team, if you look at those four players in particular, I think any team at this level would miss those four without a shadow of a doubt, but like I say, I still believe in the rest of the group. And you leave me on to my next question really. Obviously you spoke about the fact that you put Andy on the bench after the game with us, and his top scorer this season still, I think sometimes people forget that, he has got over 10 goals this campaign, so how do you get Andy Cook to the best Andy Cook like he was that we saw last season? Well, I think obviously I wasn't all close and personal with Cook last year, so I couldn't tell you about various aspects of him personally at that stage, but I do know like his ex-G is the same this season, so he's had the same opportunities, the same chances, the same amount of chances that he had at this stage last season. I know he came, I wouldn't say he came good, he was almost red hot after January, he had a little break from the team, and came back with maybe a point of proof, maybe a little bit refreshed physically, and sort of ripped up the division really with his goals. But that wasn't part of my thinking really, I go off what I see and what I feel, and I just felt he wasn't at the same level as he was pre-Christmas, and I just wanted to get him back to that really, and if it means him missing one or two or three games to get back to that level, I'd rather have him at the highest level for less games than sort of plateauing out in average fashion for a lot more games, I'd rather have the best quality Andy Cook. But I am still learning about a lot of the players in the team, out the team, when we go through a spell of a lot of games, a lot of minutes, the conditions that we train under with the weather and everything, all these things can affect a player's sort of condition and his output. So we're just trying to get a freshness in everybody, so it's not just Cookie that we're looking to do that with, I think there's a few players that we're trying to do that with, but he's record at this level, and his importance for us as a team is not diminished. I wouldn't do that, I still know he's a very valuable player for us. So the discussions we had last Friday and then how he's come in training this week, I know he looks refreshed in his own mindset, almost like when you left out of the team, sometimes that's the weight off your shoulder, you might be looking over your shoulder a bit and then when it actually happens, it's just not right, it's a crack on, it's a fresh start and I'm hoping that's the effect it has with Cookie, but he's still got massive parts to play for us now without Adam. And I suppose, Graeme, that perspective is furthered somewhat by the fact that in the window, Jake Young's been recalled, Tyrate Wright's come in, Calum Cavanaugh's come in, that forward line has been bolstered and therefore healthy competition at play. That's what we want to do. I think if you look over maybe last season and a half, I think there's been a strong reliance on Andy Cook to score the goals for the team. I don't think that's a healthy situation for any team, whether it's a midfielder or a striker or whatever. I think it's a team sport, team game and I want us to become a team that has many threats, has different problems for the opposition to solve and not just one very strong problem in Andy Cook. So we've tried to assess the squad in the period we had going up to January. We looked at the things that we're doing really well. We looked at where we need to improve and our output of goals is the one outstanding thing we have to improve. So we have to try and improve the players we already have to try and improve the squad with recruitment, the two main factors. So we brought in three new players, and I do count Jake as a new player for me. Three new players to bolster that but also the responsibility on us to try and improve the guys we already have. So if we do that and get them all to the best level they can be physically and mentally, then I think we've got a really strong forward line but they're all at different stages of those aspects and it might take a little bit of time to get them all speed. Calf has only just come in, he's had a week, he's not played any senior first team football this season. Jake's been off with an injury for three stroke four weeks leading up to this stage. Tyree we've had for, he's played six games in a year and then he's been injured so it'd be great when all these guys are fully fit and functioning and flying. I think we have to do our best to win games when we haven't got them. Just looking at the remainder of the season more generally, and we've spoken about this recently as well, how your ambition is to really just focus on the next game in front of you and not trying to get tied up and what is remaining this season. How easy or difficult is that when we start getting into the final stages of the season? Maybe more from a squab perspective because players will look at the table, players will look at games remaining and stuff. So how do you control that the focus is on Wrexham away on Saturday? I think that's relatively easy from inside, from our messaging, our communication but they're obviously open and exposed to a lot more information than just what they receive inside our building. That's a reality of Monday football. When I was a player it was maybe the odd newspaper report how the fans would respond at the end of the game, that was pretty much it. Then most of the information or communication you got was from your coaching staff and your teammates where it's a lot more open now. It's trying to balance out what we know they'll be exposed to outside of us but us folks, one that come in here and the building, they focus on what's important and you can't win 10, 11, 12 games on the bounce in one go. You can only win one at a time so while you focus on anything else apart from the next game I think it's a reasonably common sense formula and you can't win the game after this one until you get to it so let's just fully focus on the one in front of us and give it our best shot. Plan right, prepare right and then fully commit to what we want to do and believe in ourselves and I still look at the players and I still hear the players and I still feel the players and I still think as a believer that we can do something positive this season but I don't want to put the pressure on the group of players about what the end looks like. Come on, let's focus on this game in particular. Can we bring out a game? Can we get to the levels that we expect of ourselves that we produce and train in and so forth and then maintain it over 95 minutes to win a game in football? If players do that and they have the mind control of the discipline within themselves to do that, they'll be in a lot better position to go and win games. If you get distracted about bigger pitches, what's going on elsewhere, what's going on in the summer, can we do this over 16-17 games this at the other? You're just doing yourself a disservice and not focusing on what you need to do so we're quite clear with the players about that and to be fair I do believe we have a good group to work with on that side of it. Yeah and just finally to, as opposed to further that point as well we spoke with Kevin Macdonald before yourself and obviously we dusted about transitioning back from caretaker manager into player and whatnot and also the season that still lies ahead and he spoke about the fact that there is still a very clear attitude and ambition within the squad that this season can be successful outside of the EFL trophy. How encouraging is that to have such an experienced player who at one point was the leader of this group making that message quite clear? Yeah that's the importance of respected players, senior players that have been around the game still having that belief, still seeing that belief from the staff understanding that we're, you know, Kev's probably got a little bit of history because I played with Kev 10-12 years ago so he's got probably a bit of an insight into my character and my personality I think me with him as well, I think I understand where he is in his career because I've been there myself but you know you don't want to just let things drift away you want to fight for everything that you have an opportunity to win so that's, it's great that Kev, you know, we knew with Kev when we came in that he wasn't in a condition to play because of the role he took up for the month or so and then he suffered a little niggle when he did get up to training and by that time with him tried to build up his exposure to fitness stuff in training because we hadn't been able to play bounce games, friendly games, beyond the scenes so that I think he's an honest guy Kev, I don't think he's going to say things for the same sake I think he's going to say it really is and that's the feeling I get from the players I don't listen, there's a high level of disappointment if we don't win a game for war, we don't play well enough to do that and I'd be disturbed if that wasn't the case but certainly when we get back to work on the following Monday or the following Thursday or whenever it is there's a determination about the group to then go and put it right and go and make sure the next game is the next opportunity and I think it's important that Kev, Richie, people like those guys, Gilly all these lads that have got good experience just keep nudging the others along lads it might be a little bit doubtful, a little bit naive a little bit dramatic in their thinking about all these losses at the other or we've made it now, that swing of emotion I think it's important to have good character in the changing we'll keep that balance between getting too low, getting too high and just make sure we focus on what we've got right in front of us so it's good to hear that Kev believes that I know I said finally but actually this is my final question now because you mentioned a player there that I meant to ask you about last week and notice that in the absence of Richie for the EFL trophy game Alex Gilly had won the captain's armband how easy your decision was that you mentioned him there as one of the leaders of this group what influence does he have? Well, when I spoke to him the day before the game I pulled him in the office just to chat about a few things and then I just asked him if he wanted to be captain and being a smile came on his face excitement about it, well that's my answer so Gilly, Peter Meyers is f-ing I want in a professional footballer and a team I think he's a really talented guy super motivated, great professional at it every single day he hits the level of consistency that we need our team to and that's what I wanted to give him the armband because I felt people need to look at your captain and go yeah that's what our team needs to look like I think Richie does a fantastic job on that side of it as well so I'm not looking to change anything or anything like that but Richie obviously wasn't available because Richie does the same thing in training and every day he's out there competing at a really hard level but I thought Gilly was the natural replacement for him in that game and I thought he went out there and just played his normal game and set the standard I thought so yeah he's a guy that I've got a lot of respect for that was my final question, thanks Graeme cheers can I hear you mate? Simon's on it there we go I knew I'd do it soon yeah I was going to say obviously the game is looking at this weekend you know we sort of touched on it the other day you know Wrexham and this crazy home record I mean we talk about Bradford City the need to get that home record right and how important it can be I mean was it one defeat in the 50 odd games I mean when you go into that sort of game mentality, have you got to have that belief that we can be the team that topples that this time? the belief has to come from us and what we need to produce in the game but it takes time to instill it in a team and in a group of players I think sometimes depending on the environment you go into whether they're used to winning or whether they're not used to winning this out here but for me we have to believe whoever we play we have an opportunity to win and my reference point is my career I never went into a game thinking there wasn't a chance of winning never in 24 years it's impossible to believe a thing like that it's impossible, we know the difficulty of all the tasks that we face and then if you look at the record then what's the point in turn up I mean if you don't believe that you can do something it's not about taking the previous record it's taking what they have to show in that particular game and what we have to show in that particular game and it's always a LEMVI, well it starts off a LEMVI 11 every game and I just want to start the confidence in ourselves listen we know what we do well we know what we have to improve it's really clear for everyone there's no point hiding away from that fact but when we get those things right then we're a really good team and we've shown that in a great spell we showed it even after that even though we didn't get the wins but in our performances we're really strong and we can be that team again but rex and a fantastic team and they've had an unbelievable two years two and a half years of winning consistently certainly at their home ground but it takes time to build that up and yeah that's ultimately our aim here is to build up that sort of environment at home that culture of where it's hard for a team to come and take anything from we're not there we know that we're not going to try and attempt to pull over anyone's eyes but the work has to start somewhere and this is where it's starting for us but I've got full confidence in my team if we get to a level that we know we can do not hope to do but know we can do then we give ourselves a chance of beating anybody at this level and that's not taking anything away from rex it would be ridiculous to take anything away because he's having fun because he's pretty phenomenal and obviously you're the only man who's actually toppled that in all this time looking back on that game how do you go about beating them because obviously they do score goals for fun I think they average three goals a game at home so you know you're going to have to face quite an avalanche at times yeah that's it it was my team the beating wasn't me on the day it was my team the 11 players that went out there and the three or four that came on us the subs and stuff like that but we went there with a belief that we could get a result with it was our first game of the season from talking about that result in particular we hadn't won any of our pre-season games there was nothing expected of us we went there and we attacked them as I'd set up my teams to do on all occasions you know I think is the team I have in my charge capable of a performance like that now 100% but we have to do a lot of things right so that was it I didn't look at Wreckson's record from the season before when I went into that game on the first day of this season they were unbeaten at home last season weren't they so in the league anyway so it didn't make any difference to me how I planned my team how I spoke to my team about taking the game to them and it won't make any difference this time either and that's not me being flippant or anything like that it's how I approach football it's to go and try and win to go and show what we're capable of show what we are as individuals and as a group together and sometimes it gets you result sometimes it doesn't but as long as you show that unity that commitment to a game then that's the minimum requirement of a successful team over a period of time over a course of a season you can't go from performance levels up and down and win, lose, draw, win, lose, draw and expect to be successful at the end of the season but the first thing about consistency is your mindset, your approach to the game the commitment the levels of quality and performance can sometimes change or end product and your preparation and how you approach the game have to be the same and that's what we'll be trying to do this week and in terms of obviously if you do go there, put in the performance and do get the result it could be a real springboard performance a springboard sort of occasion couldn't it because it will really build that belief up within the group again yeah but you know what we were talking about before the belief isn't that dented isn't that, listen we're frustrated more than anything we're not lacking in belief we're not lacking in determination we're just we're just frustrated because we know we have players capable of scoring goals we know the opportunities we've created in lots of the games not necessarily the last game but in certain previous games over the new year in the start of January we're games that we should have won quite comfortably and we know that so there's a frustration there more than anything but the only way we can get this frustration out of our system is by going and putting on performance and winning the game the springboard effect is not what I'm really looking for now I'm just looking for an improvement from our players in our final product our end touch, our end bit of quality without losing anything with the other stuff that we've been doing so well what's that what's the goal scoring as you say it's been the issue, I mean is that something sounds a bit flippant to say you just keep practicing it a training or is it a case of just having the confidence of the players to perhaps not go overboard and keep saying we need to score we need to score and just sort of let them get it right themselves sort of thing yeah well there's a balance you know because I want to be honest in my appraisal after games or with you guys with the supporters, with my players so we give them what we've been doing well the players aren't talking about the squad and then we just say look we just need to improve this because it just focuses the mind on that and I don't want it to become a big issue but I have to if I'm asked a question by you guys or by supporters I want to be honest so I'm honest but sometimes I'm highlighting a fact that will be scrutinised and even more highlighted even more but if you want to play professional football if you want to play for Bradford City then pressure is something you're going to have to handle that's normal so I think if you can sort of respond to that pressure sort of engage with it and sort of see it as a positive that you're in a position that the pressure is on you that's because people expect you you know I think it's a better place to be rather than well we don't really think they'll score what's the point if they expect you that means they must look at you and think you're a decent player or a decent team so I think if you it's how you sort of control those thoughts those messages the information the feeling it's how you control it and push it into a positive that's loads of things come across you in life and football that attests in you and if you think we're a negative mind then you will have a negative outcome if you think there's an issue and you can then go right let's find the solution for this issue let's put in the practice to get the solution let's train and train and practice and practice and practice and persevere and persevere and persevere then it will come good it will come good but if you if you do this forget about it forget about it best of luck weekend okay I agree I agree I've just got a few I was just wondering this time of year is that when you really find out about what you've got in the building I mean a little bit of a little bit of an indifferent role and some players start to think about their own future and sometimes training is disrupted and there's a lot of excuses isn't this is probably the time when you you really find out what you've got characters as well as players I think you're always learning from a lot of times or periods during the season it's great to have a team at the end of one season giving them the off-season program CU sticks to it, CU comes back in then you learn about who's got the discipline to do the right things away then the pre-season when you challenge them who's got the discipline or the mentality to get up to the levels and push themselves through things the game time who can take their training to games when there's games that come fast it's all the way through the season you learn about characters, personalities, individuals you never stop learning so every challenge in time with it even when you're winning five or six games on the bounce we're looking at individuals CU's just coming off, CU's getting complacent CU thinks we've done something and then on the other side if you're not winning CU's going under, CU's still putting himself out there to be picked there's always testing times in that we're always on the lookout for that we're always on the lookout for who we need to help who we need to support who we need to spike who we think crack on great that's what we've given the armband consistency, consistency, consistency in everything he does and that's what we want so you always after a period of time look back and go right I've got a clear picture of him and that's how you try to manage the long term and then focus on the individuals you need to try and help yeah, I think it was Michael Duffy something he said last season that sort of stuck with me I thought he might apply to lower divisions he sort of said the six games in every league season where you're brilliant the six games in every season where you're really poor it's about coming out on the right side of the other ones that's the trick really is that something you sort of agree with yourself yeah I think so something similar at the start of this season in previous club that to win a promotion to be at the top end you're not going to play well 46 games so you're going to play well and know half of those games you need to take the majority of points but you need to learn how to win when you don't play so well and then the games where it's reasonably level have you got the quality to find those game defining moments but certainly you have to be able to win those periods when you're on top and even when you're struggling how can you stay in a game go get some ropes, take the hits come out with a knockout punch but without having that consistency of how you approach a game, how you approach a training you're going to be up and down up and down, up and down so that's why off seasons pre-seasons are so important in the preparation going into a season where you put those things in place when you haven't got the games that can drag you from one side to another that's the things that you can improve as you go through a season and there'll be games this season that the team has won when we haven't been the top team I wouldn't actually say that it's been our case since then I think we've not took advantage of the games when we've been on top all the data and information tells us that you know what the game's about yeah and I was going to ask you to find without going to specifics with your itinerary but you look at it, I think you've got 7 out of 9 at home you haven't got the waitix all over the place there's a chance to build momentum isn't there that's probably fair to say if you get things right yeah well if we get things right that's the golden sort of issue so I don't look at home away because at the end of the day if I look back at Bradford's home record over 5 seasons I think the team or the club has won probably more away games than home games in those over that whole time so there's a thing that we have to try and fix because we want to be successful so you have to be successful at home if you want to do that but we don't say we have to do this at home and do that away we see every game as an opportunity to win and play in the way we want to play so we don't go and sit in front of our own goal away from my own trying to nick a counterattack goal and win 1-0 and then open up our own, we try to have a consistent way of playing so for me home away is still an opportunity to win a game in football so I don't try to emphasise the difference but without a shadow we have to win more home games as a club and it's that's bit I would say another issue this season and certainly even in my time without a shadow so I think we've drawn the majority then and that's something we have to come to terms with at Valley Parade that regardless of where we are in the division every team sees a point at Valley Parade as a good point even when we are in the league at the moment 18th Wimbledon went away thinking that was a good point and they're a team that's got in the verge of the playoffs and that's something we have to be even better to overcome thanks again thanks for your time thank you hi Graham I just wanted to talk about what has been a breath of fresh air for you I know the league is bread and butter but the football league trophy has given you the sense of a bit of confidence so far taking down teams from higher divisions like Derby County who are going well and stuff like that has that been a sense of freedom for the players that started competition in terms of the stress maybe of the league in terms of that that the players have maybe relaxed and maybe the pressure has been off so they've played a bit more like themselves well in my time a little bit I would say that if we kept the same team in the cup games but we haven't we've made a lot of changes in all the cup games so I think maybe the players that have come into the team there's an opportunity to go can I play well enough to stay in the team for next week and this out the other and there's been maybe an outpour of enthusiasm to finally be on the pitch I don't know certainly has a different feel I think when you go into play Derby County at their stadium that's not an everyday lead to stadium so I think you're always going to get a boost in enthusiasm going into that game but then we've won our home games as well in that competition but we have made six, seven, eight changes in all those cup games and we've seen a real spark in obviously the results without a shadow doubt but I couldn't tell you whether the players feel less pressure now because we plan and prepare exactly the same for those games we don't highlight one competition and just Moseon we prepare for every single game in the same way but the personnel has certainly been different in those games so maybe there's a little bit in that I suppose Graham as squads as we know every club has their injury crisis and injury problems and squads are stretched this time year even though clubs might have had the resources invested in January some might have some might not have but in terms of keeping that battle room in the midfield and keeping that fresh with two warriors in there with a mind age of 68 years old in terms of Richard and Kevin in terms of that battle ground and trying to keep that sort of fresh and energy and keep those guys at the high level is that sort of to try and pair them together when you can and maybe then not having constantly in that battle ground in terms of how do you keep two good buys with a combined age of 68 fresh for a long period and I think I was one of those old fogies you discussed when I was playing back in the day and I think if you got to love a football and then if you use as a football then it doesn't matter and I think if you train right, prepare right, do the right things professionally then it doesn't matter about your age. I've seen overweight, lazy 22-year-olds and you know what I mean and 37-38-year-olds absolutely scrapping for every day and loving football and stuff like this and vice versa age doesn't make a difference to me. I think it's about the character, the personality, the professionalism of a player and these are guys that are vastly experienced. They know how to play the game I think when I came in we were looking at the squad and we had probably six central midfield players if we counted Manny Hossa-Daby, Alex Patterson, Jamie Walker and the three we have right now obviously we let Manny go in January but we lost those two guys in quick succession well in the same game unfortunately and Jamie still hadn't returned even though we thought he would have by this stage so we're a little bit maybe light in numbers there but certainly not light in quality and performance level so I think the sort of competition the sort of level of performance that Gilead, Smallwood and McDonald bring is very important for the team so we can play with two midfielders, we can play with three midfield players but these are guys that know how to prepare themselves for training and for games so got no concerns that their age is anything but a number and second last question for me I've just got a touch on two Irish guys Kieran Kelly and Lewis Richards has obviously played represented Ireland and underage level and where do those guys need to probably develop their own games maybe to enhance themselves and maybe take themselves to the next level where are those areas for personal improvement in their game? I think to get to the next level you have to produce a consistency and a high consistency at the level you're at currently which they are both doing Lewis unfortunately both lads weren't in the team when we got here they hadn't played a lot of football but we saw their qualities their attributes and we wanted them in the team we got them in the team they were very good Lewis unfortunately picked up an injury which meant he missed a month so I would say Lewis's condition as in match exposure needs to improve to give him that ability to play it they're both explosive athletes but with that you have to have a real good base level of fitness to then produce that explosive power game in game out they're both really really strong athletes but to do that for 50 games no one even been exposed to that in English football yet so we can only expose them to it although they maintain it but certainly with their attributes in the game I've spoke to both of them at length they have everything to play at a higher level without a shadow of doubt but there's a lot that you have to put in place to get those opportunities to go higher and then actually stay there there's loads of lads who will gamble on and give an opportunity to but staying there for 10-15 years is another level so we're trying to help them in place now that will help them get there hopefully with Bradford City first if not through getting moods and then stay there once again so it's a final question for me Graham I know every manager says that we don't look at the table and we take it one game at a time in terms of that but I suppose we're 30 games into the season now and I suppose there's still maybe there's still half of that 30 still to play for but when you say get on to where you are in a position now you can either start to push on you can make a run to try and get into playoffs or you can just maybe start to position yourself away from that relegation or obviously the dread that gets dragged into it but when you come to start to 38 games in like seven more games is there a fair sort of indication that right if we're not in the top 12 after 38 games it's consistency it's middle of the table we have to just start intending or when does that sort of season sort of begin to realise where we're going to be at is there a certain point to the season around the 38 mark is it it's not about the games it's not about the position it's about the points tally so we are I think from correct seven points from the playoffs so if we were 10th and seven points off the playoffs we've got a right chance but we are seven points if I go back to when I took over at Scunthorpe we had nine games left and they were 13th in the table we won seven of those games and we missed out on the playoffs by goal difference no one gave us a hope of doing that and we just turned it on so if it's mathematically possible I will sweat blood and so will my team to make things happen without shadow though so it only becomes a potential change of focus when mathematically it is impossible and while it's possible it's not in my nature I don't want it to be in my team's nature to give anything up and that's not us looking at and saying promising people we can do something and there's lots of things in life that if you talk about way in advance people think you're crazy crazy things happen sometimes and we've got to believe in that that we have the attributes to do that we've shown it in spells but we have to maintain it over a longer period to be able to do anything successful in the league this season so maybe ask that question when we've played 38 games


Top four tips for teaching classes containing a wide variety of ages. Teaching classes containing a wide variety of ages can be a great challenge. I have recently experienced such challenge. Below I am going to share my teaching experience and how I managed to overcome the difficulties. In spring this year, I was asked to teach an English drama class in a children's training center. Before the class started, the students were recruited and assigned by the center, which was not in my control. There were 12 elementary school students in the class. Students were age mixed, ranging from 7 years to 12 years old. Two-thirds of the students were from grades 1-3 and one-third were from grade 4-6. In order for the younger students to understand my teaching while also keep the older students interested, I chose a story suitable for grade 3 for my first class. Difference in language levels After the first class, I found a big gap between their English levels. The youngest students could barely name letters ABC, while the oldest students were able to read stories and make daily conversations. Although I tried to keep my material content at an eclectic language level, at times I still found the one-two graders confused while the five-sixth graders bored. I talked to the center's manager regarding the level difference issue. The manager acknowledged my concerns and asked me not to be anxious, because the center in parents' expectation from my class was to raise students' interest in studying English, not to increase their academic grades. Having age mixed classes had been the center's tradition. They had found that children could learn from each other in a mixed group. I agreed to the idea, since I believe that the stronger kids can act as models and also learn from helping the weaker kids. Class goals After the talk, I became clear about my goal, to get every student engaged in the class activities suitable at his, her own level. In the following classes, I tried to know each student well, about his, her language level, interest, strengths and weaknesses and personality. Then I assigned tasks to each student according to the above aspects. For example, lower level students get easier tasks and higher level students get more challenging tasks. Lower level activities This method acted as a good solution to our drama performance design. In order for every student to play a role in the show, I modified the story, to make the characters and scripts suitable for my students' level. For the lower level students, I assigned them characters with short scripts and simple actions. For example, a seven year old child boy played the moon. This task was to say hi, I'm Mr. Moon and then stand in the back of the stage as part of the background. Two eight year old boys played trees. Their task was to say hello, we are trees and also stand in the background.  Although these student scripts were short, they very much enjoyed the show, because they were able to make their contributions on the stage. Higher level activities For the higher level students, I assigned them characters with longer scripts and complex actions. For example, a twelve year old boy with good speaking skill played the narrator. A ten year old girl with dancing skill played a rabbit who could dance. These students also gain a great sense of achievement, because they were able to display their strengths on the stage. Our final drama performance turned out to be a success. All my students, parents and the center staff were satisfied with the result. From this experience, I learned that age mixed classes have both advantages and disadvantages. It doesn't matter if every student can follow the language points at a same pace, which is certainly impractical. The key is to allow every student to get engaged in the class, make a contribution, and gain a sense of achievement. The teacher needs to pay close attention to each student's personal characters and give him, her the opportunity to shine in the class. Do you want to learn how to prepare excellent lessons for your students? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


మ్పి న్చలాలాంరిన్ంచి మ్మ్క్ఙ్చి చదింాఠిసింనినింన్చి చ్డిఖనిన్మ్ట్ంన్ంనటోరిసాలంళికిసిరారా. పుఆమిల్చిసాల్చి. మపర్చిసా like one point zero zero zero zero then double one point four times zero then triple one point four times zero like this in the last row we are having values like five times one then dot then four times zero so total length of this row is ten in the output as we can see we are having values like zero zero zero zero one point zero zero zero the length of the output columns for each row is ten if values are not present then we need to add the zero at left side so here as we can see in the second row we are having one one dot four times zero but length is seven so we need to add three zero at left side in the output so how we can write the query forgetting this output so let's move to sequence over management studio where we will write the query and get the output so this is the table we need to create and then we need to insert data on this table so first of all let me execute this create table statement to create the table so command completed successfully so table is created now I just want to insert data on the table so five rows affected so data is successfully inserted into the table now I just want to check the data so we are having same metadata as we seen in the slide so what will be the logic and how we can get it now what we need to do first of all I need to declare a variable so this is declare and it would be going to hold the length that would be the maximum length so it should be integer then we need to set the value on this variable that is at the length now we will get from this so here what we need to do first of all we need to calculate the length of this ip column and we need to get the maximum length so we can use maximum now we can close the brackets now we can check the maximum length that should be 10 now this is at the length execute and this is 10 looks good now what we need to do here we need to write the query and that would be from this table that is our part 54 fix format now ip so we need to combine this ip with the leading zeros so how we can so first of all we need to use the replicate here zero so we just want to replicate this zero at the length now we can use plus sign now we can execute so we are getting this leading zeros up to 10 but we just want to get only 10 characters so we can use write and from this ip then add the length so that is 10 now we can execute and we can compare our output so here we are getting the output as we were expecting so for that first we need to get the maximum length in a variable after that we can add the leading zeros at the left side after that we can extract only 10 characters that is our maximum length so this is the query so this is the first question and let's move to next question so here as we can see how we can find only unmatched values between the tables using join as we can see we have input table that is table one then table two in table one we are having one two three four and seven in table two we are having one two three four and eight so seven and eight so these two values are not going to match with each other so how we can get this in the output by using join so let's move to sequence over to write the query so here as we can see I have already declared the table and insert the data on the table so we can execute this and we can check so we are having same metadata in table one and table two now what we need to do first we need to use the full outer join so we can write the full join or full outer join now as a and let me call this table two as b here we can use the condition a dot id should be equals to b dot id now we can execute and we can check so let me execute so here we are getting the output but what our requirement is our requirement is if values are not going to match with each other there we want so we can use where a dot id is null or b dot id is null so it means if a dot id is null it means data is not in table a and it is in table b if b id is null then data is not in table b and it is present in table a now we can execute so here we are getting two columns first for table a and second for table b but in the output we are having only one column so how we can avoid this so for that we can use is null function and a dot id comma b dot id let me call this as id and now I just want to execute this query and check the output so it's gonna return 7 and 8 so by using full outer join we can achieve this output so these two questions was asked in nid technologies so if you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos don't forget to press the bell icon to get the notification of our newly uploaded videos if you need this script it will be available on the description of this video so you can copy from there thank you so much for watching


Welcome to Film by Run, my name's Stephen. Here we are in Bromley and we're getting ready to run the Bromley Midsummer Evening 10K. I've no idea of the route. I've no idea how fast we're gonna go.  There's loads of people here. So let's just enjoy ourselves. There's some serious stretching going on here. There's always someone faster in there. Petswood runners here. It's their Grand Prix event. Bexley runners are here, loads of Bexley runners. Beckenham as well. Big Club Beckenham. We've got the zero to hero runners here. Hello guys. And we've got Maidstone Harrier here. What are you guys? The Orpington as well, the Maple Project. And we've got Bromley Veterans AC as well here. So it's all alphabetically organized. You can just line up and collect your number. Lots of willing volunteers to help you out. It's an absolutely beautiful evening. So it's gonna be quite hot running 10K. I think I'm gonna take it fairly easy. I've found runner number one. What's your name? Dave. Dave? And who do you run for? Myself. I don't have a club. Good for you. Enjoy yourself. Have a great one. I've no business being this far forward, but what the heck, eh? 3, 2, 1 and we're off. So here we go. 10K round Norman Park in Bromley. What's your name? Lee. Lee Edwards. Lee and where are you from, Lee? I'm from Beckenham. Right, so you're not far away from here then? No. Have you done this event before? No, this is the first time. Got very good things about it. I notice you're wearing the 100 Marathon Club T-shirt. How many marathons have you done? 141. What was your favorite one of all of those? Manchester. Right, that's one kilometer in. We've done a circuit of the park. What's your name? Daniela. Daniela. Is this a bad time? How are you feeling? Tired. Already? We've only done 2K. You can do this.  Petswood. Petswood. There's loads of Petswoods here today. That's too hard. Well, what time are you aiming for? I'm not. Good for you. Just enjoy it. Have fun. So who'd have thought it? We're running on a trail now. So we're trail running in the Bromley 10K. Lovely. Through the woods now, taking my sunglasses off. Very pretty through here. What's your name? Mike. Yeah. And you run for? Back in a running club. How long have you been running for them? A couple of years. What are you aiming for today? 45. What are they about? And why have you come to Bromley? Just out the road. Love it. Didn't last year. First run after lockdown. Why not? Now, you might not expect a water station at 10K, but it is mid-summer. It's going to be hot. You're going to want something to drink. So thank you to these guys. So halfway in 22 and a half minutes in the Bromley mid-summer evening 10K. What's your name? Lucy. Lucy. They're struggling, are you? Yes, it's hot. It is hot. What time are you hoping for? About 42, what are you doing? But I know this is hard, of course. Yeah. How long have you been running for Petswood? Four years now. But last year, I wasn't because I was kind of a baby. So this is my first run back, of a proper race back. Well, well done to you. Okay, that's 6K in 27 minutes. What's your name? Sarah Birch. What are you hoping for today? About 44, 45. And why do you love Bromley mid-summer 10K? That's a great setting. Pretty, coming loads. And we're back at the same age station. 7K in. Well done, guys. That's beautiful, isn't it? What's your name? Sam. Sam. Just practicing for Man vs. Coast. Raising money for children with cancer down there. Two weeks time. How far is it? 45K cliff running. All good fun, jumping in the sea a few times. That's what I love to do. Love watching your videos. Keep going. Cheers, buddy. And we're back into Norman Park with less than a mile to go. That is 9km in 40 minutes. One K to go. Come on, buddy. What's your name? Dave. Come on, Dave. And here we come into the finish of the Bromley mid-summer evening 10K. And here we are. And that was awesome. Cheers to the Bromley mid-summer evening 10K. What have we got? I like mugs. Thank you very much. We got a mug. It's a beautiful course. Lovely to run on. Nice to get a bit of trail, isn't it? In London. I mean, we're not quite London, but you know. We're inside the M25. That counts as London in my book. So, yeah, lovely course. How's the organisation gone today? It's gone perfectly. We've got these lovely helpers and they've done an excellent job. Well done. Well done. Thank you. Good job. You all right? What's your name? Gabby. What were you aiming for, Gabby? About 50. So have you just got it? Yeah. Well done. Fantastic. Good job. And that's it for almost here at the Bromley mid-summer evening 10K. Runners are still coming in. We've had a lovely evening and we'll be back next year, maybe, to do this, because it's a lovely run. Lots of trail, lots of parkland, a little bit of tarmac at the end so you can have a nice fast finish. It's great and everyone seems to have enjoyed themselves here. And don't forget, if you enjoyed the video, do please click subscribe below and we'll see you for another one next time. Bye-bye.


Hello children, I am here with one more new activity for you. Can you see what I have made on A4 sheet? Yes, this is a tree trunk and branches. So, we are going to do one activity with earbuds. Now look, I have tied it with a rubber band. You need to take 8 to 10 earbuds. And now you can see I have 3 colours in the palette. So, I am going to put the bundle here. I am going to dab it here. You can see colourful pattern is coming on the paper. It means we are making the flowers with the help of earbuds. Now, soon our tree will be covered with flowers, colourful flowers. You can see the small circles are coming. You can choose whatever colour you want to choose. It depends on the availability of colour at home. If you don't have many colours, you can do this activity with a single colour as well. Look, our tree is looking so beautiful. Even I am enjoying a lot to do this activity. Now, it is ready. You can show it to your friends, to your family members through video call. Look, our tree is ready. Bye-bye.


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how it ended. And we just keep hoping we can kind of get that what's the end going to be? We know it's going to take some time, but let's hope we can find a happy ending to the story. Lauren. Yeah, thanks, Mike, really helpful to understand what you're doing and really important work. I mean, I'm wondering if our little lobbying committee might want to get together sooner rather than later. I can think of, you know, a handful of ideas to try to push on some key legislators for I mean, this seems like a no brainer. The board could probably approve this. They redirected some money to go to flood relief efforts already. So we have to be able to even make a pitch before the legislature reconvenes. So anyway, it would be happy to strategize. And maybe our council, a lobbying committee could could help you. Great idea. I was just talking to our lobbyists last night and making plans to meet. So, yeah. Great. So so I don't mean to cut my golf. But a couple of so I just want to go over quickly. A couple of things I want to talk just briefly about city hall, just briefly about FEMA, but it was one thing I want to make sure that is clear for you. This is sort of in the public needs to know thing. I see Kurt is still on. But in the in the flood hours, we've talked a lot about what happened with the hub, what happened with communications, what happened with the police, fire, moving dispatch and lost in that story. I think was what DPW did and the way they protected.  And this morning we were sort of debriefing what went well and what didn't occur in his quiet way, just kind of outlined some of the things that had happened. And I was like, people need to know this. So I asked him to put together an outline and I know Kurt is brief. So if you would indulge him and I'm sure he doesn't want to do this. But I really think DPW deserves to get recognized because a lot happened in those 24 to 48 hours that saved a lot of property. Yeah, I think people should know this. So with that, I'd like to have Kurt talk a little bit. OK, thanks, Bill. Kurt Modica, Public Works Director. So yeah, this morning, like Bill said, we were sort of debriefing on flood flood items and just wanted to point out for council and the public, the work that our crews did to really sort of protect the infrastructure during the flood event. So just a few examples, you know, of things that our staff did during the flood is Berlin Hill was washing out the culvert at the bottom of Cedar Lane plugged during the flood and, you know, staff brought equipment up there, restored the hills really were sort of the focus of our staff during the flood event, you know, in the downtown things very quickly were getting under water. And at that point, you know, there's really not much we could do. But on the hilly sections of town where water picks up a lot of velocity and becomes erosive, the pavement, like I said, on Berlin Hill is actually starting to unravel. They were able to get up there, open that culvert up and restore drainage. There are similar locations all over town. Hill Street was another example where the drainage systems were backing up. They were able to get there and save the pavement. As a just another note before the event started, our street supervisor has a list of locations that that are either a system set up to protect from flooding or are prone to, you know, backing up during flood events. So one of those is at the top of Tappan Street City years ago, constructed sort of a small retention structure up there. Made sure that was all clean. And that was another area that even after the preemptively cleaning it before the flood, it did still catch debris and we had to open that up again. Again, Tappan is one of the steeper streets in town to protect that from from getting damaged. So there's a lot of areas like that. You know, the park or where the frog pond is in Hubbard Park. You know, again, a lot of drainage structures up there. The city actually did a pretty big project up there ahead of the flood. A lot of checked dams, small retention structures that, you know, I think we really made a big difference in the damage to that neighborhood. So in addition to during the during the flood, I also just wanted to mention a few things that we did from the last flood event, infrastructure upgrades that also helped the city during this event. Some major culverts that were replaced after Irene. There's one on Town Hill near Leapfrog Hollow. That was upsized, that flooded out in Irene. No damage on that. The Berry Street culvert near Laine reconstructed to withstand the 100 year flood after Irene. Again, no damage there. We actually had a request from a resident to inspect that in about a month before Irene and we met with the stream alteration engineer. And they had some recommendations just to kind of clean things up. We hadn't gotten to it yet. But regardless of that, that system completely held up very well. And then there was a number of other areas of Bliss Road, where we did a lot of culvert work out by Cody Chevrolet. There was a culvert replaced. That one wasn't didn't hold up perfectly, but it was because of an easement issue, we couldn't do all the work that we wanted to do there. So there was a lot of things done prior to the flood to protect infrastructure. And it was very successful. And a lot of things during done during the flood by our staff that really helped minimize the damage in town. So just wanted a shout out for the crews of DPW out there all night long at the pouring rain, the Spring Street Bridge. We pulled debris out with the backhoe as it started to back up and build up against the side of the bridge. So, you know, just that they were doing heroic work out there. And just want to shout out to the staff that was that was really helping to protect the city. This is great to hear, Kurt, Carrie. Yeah, thank you so much.  I think there I have heard people saying, where was the city in those those first few days? And I'm like, there's an answer to that question. You just gave a lot of the answer. And it's it's it's easy for people to say, oh, look at all these problems that happened and how bad things were and they don't necessarily know how much worse things would have been if you hadn't been doing all of that work that you were doing behind the scenes and without us knowing. And so thank you so much for doing that. It could have been so much worse. And I know that you all were tireless, literally out there slogging through the mind and doing that. And I really, really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Donna. Yes. And I'd like you to talk a little bit about the wastewater treatment plant. There was some work done out there. Yes. So our chief operator, he actually volunteered to spend the night at the treatment plant because he was just concerned about, you know, maintaining the infrastructure there. So really the wastewater plant was was safe. So I guess first post Irene, there was a lot of work done. We had some flooding there was actually flooded through a manhole on the pipe that goes to the river on the treated wastewater that goes to the river. The effluent it backed up through that came up through a manhole in the facility and flooded the whole lower level. Post Irene, there's actually a submarine door installed to prevent floodwater from entering the main admin building. And then during the last upgrade, we went, worked with planning to elevate all electrical equipment that we could to get our permit to do our work. And and so all those areas were elevated. And this event, we actually did not get significant water into the facility.  So the the flow, I think, got up to 10 million gallons per day. Our average is about 1.8 million gallons. So I was in contact with with Chris during the event. And at a certain point, we got scared that the the disinfection system, which is ultraviolet lights that are in the channel as the water is kind of the last part of treatment, it disinfects the effluent as it leaves the plant. We made a decision to pull that equipment up out of the channels because the water was moving so fast that it was in danger of dislodging the system from the racks that they hang from. The other thing that we did was pull the screen up out of the channel where the wastewater first comes into the plant. There's a trash screen sort of collects the garbage and everything. Again, because the flow of moving so fast, those things, those treatment processes that are actually in the flow line are at risk of damage. And so by having staff there and moving those things out, we didn't sustain any damage on those. The damage that we did get, not really damage, but the impact to the plant was that all of the sort of sediment within the collection system washed down into the plant. And there's a series of settlement tanks as part of the treatment process. And those all got sort of filled up with silt. And during the during, well, immediately after the flood, that silt was sort of getting through the system and all the pumps that moved the wastewater around where I'm getting seized up full of silt. We had to keep pulling those apart and fixing them. And now we have to go through and clean all of those tanks. We have to drain them all down one at a time. They're all redundant systems. So you drain one, clean it, drain the other one, clean it. So there's still a lot of work to do there. We've started on that process. But, you know, it was protected primarily through the elevation of the Dog River Road, the wastewater plants, one of the lowest places in the city, but because the Dog River Road sits up so high along the river, it sort of creates a natural dam. And that's one of the projects Mike's looking at is potentially even elevating that through a grant program and collaboration with the state to provide further protection from the plant because the wastewater plant is our most expensive asset in the city. I think the value is somewhere close to 80 million dollars. So it's very important to maintain that. Obviously, for the environment, it's critical to maintain operations there. Kurt, correct me if I get details of this wrong, but one of the other things for those that aren't aware, the wastewater plant is a biological process and has, you know, the bacteria, the bugs, they call them that actually eat the germs and things. And am I right? The bugs got washed out, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. Right. Again, because of the high flows, there's vector treatment in the in the aeration tanks that have air, sort of the give oxygen to the bugs. Those wash right out of the plant and the next day. And that does impact the treatment process because, you know, the bugs eat the organics, the food and the waste. So we got a hold of South Burlington, I believe it's South Burlington. And they the next day we trucked in three loads of bugs and were back up and running. So it was a very quick turnaround. And then thank you, Bill. I forgot about that piece. I liked the whole idea of trucking in the bugs. I just thought it was great. So thanks. We have South Burlington's bugs in our tanks now. So we appreciate they also came by the way and sent a sweeper to the day after the flood. So we had City of South Burlington vehicles and employees down here helping us clean up. So thanks for that. I really wanted people to understand that because it was a little bit of a untold story. And I think the other untold story, perhaps, is the whole story of the hub. You know, again, to the point of what was the city doing that the hub was staffed by the Parks Department, that was really 100 percent a city operation led by a volunteer Peter Walker and certainly assisted very ably by Montpelier alive and we are an emergency team, the mayor, Montpelier alive. Those who we were meeting every day, 11, that was our coordinating point for what people needed. And we were, you know, they would tell us we'd call the state to get supplies. But, you know, I'm not trying to take any credit away from Montpelier alive, but it's really important that was preplanned before the flood that we would work with them on volunteers. We'd already lined up the Parks Department. They brought in the entire Parks Department. Another key piece about this is the M Y C C people that were people saw running around. Those are summer employees, the city, so they aren't just volunteers. And we had one person complain that the city hadn't done anything at all to help them. And in fact, the day after the flood, city employees are to clean out their basement, these M Y C C people. So it was just kind of, you know, and I think that's fine. It says M Y C C doesn't say city, Montpelier, I get it. But I think people just don't realize everything the city was doing. Michelle out inspecting all the buildings, the police, everything DPW did. So I'm really proud of our team, that's for sure. And then the rest of our group was moving whole city hall operation over to that, over to the senior center. So that was going on about city. So let's talk a little bit quickly about FEMA just moving on. We met with we had our first call with them in terms of not just helping not the parts that you've all heard about the aid to people, but just our own processing for the city's operations. And we have a we're meeting with them, I think, on Monday, Monday or Tuesday to fill out all our forms, kind of go over and make sure they have all our information, so they take every bit of our damages and then they turn them all into individual projects. So for example, after the May 2011 flood, we had 75 individual FEMA projects was just fixing a drain, fixing the damage, they'll get listed that way. So we will be sorting all of those out. And then next Thursday, we're meeting for fairly substantial time to go through all the work. So then we'll get a sense of exactly what's covered, what we can do, what we can start and we're expecting after. And so questions are going to be asking. We believe that a FEMA recovery officer is covered by FEMA. Flood recovery officers are covered by to some extent by FEMA funding. So we want to confirm that so we can bring somebody on to do that work to kind of help us navigate the whole FEMA thing. And I was actually as I was listening to Mike talk, it may be that, you know, that's kind of person that could help outreach to some, you know, some of these buildings and provide some of that assistance and knowledge we'll have to see. And then obviously, we're going to get going on our city hall project. So we once we get the go ahead, we're going to release our P to get architectural services to help us start planning for what goes where and all of that. Like everyone else, we'll be elevating our utilities, probably to the back of what was the council chambers and looking at how to renovate the basement into different configurations. So that is really the single biggest project we have. There is some work to be done at the fire station and some work to be done at the police station and a few other smaller project pump stations like that, but our single biggest recovery project is city hall. So those are the things that their city staff is working on. One final thing I have on this list for me and certainly plenty more for you is city committees. We have a lot of city committees and obviously it's important that they keep doing work, but they are also staffed and many of our staff are pretty tapped out. So I think one of our questions was, you know, how you all feel if some of them get suspended or not. Or have any thoughts about that or if we I mean, I think it's important to provide staff support for most committees. Maybe they maybe give them the choice, but one day at least raise the issue because we added the comfortable single handedly just saying no more committee. So there are committees, your committees to do work on your behalf. So I just wanted to toss that up for conversation. I think I'll jump start by saying I think that the city staffing for those committees is very important because in years past, I think some of our committees were laxer than we should have been at stuff like getting the agendas posted and the minutes posted and all those things, all those city committees are subject to the Open Meetings Act and Public Records Act. So all that stuff has to be done. And that's something that volunteers really can't be expected to do. So so I think it's an important function. And I think that it's fine to let some of that not happen while the city employees are doing other work. Donna, you had, did you have your hand up? I did. Just a little different point of view that maybe you were saying the same thing, Jack, is that during the pandemic, committees also had staff have to do other things. One, we were so short of people because of everyone we had put on furlough. But I think that it's not the staff that's doing the minutes. It's not the city staff that's doing the posting. And our committees have matured a lot with the records request and open meeting law. And if they run into a snag, they should be able to go to somebody. But I think we should just have the staff talk to each committee and see how maybe this touch base once a quarter or something just to, you know, keep them on track might be helpful. But I think we have to face reality. They still don't have enough time. Tim. My reaction was just still being relatively new at this is how many committees we have. It's a really large number, right? Do we have like your executive committee, Jack, that maybe could review if we have some key critical committees we want to staff that we need to staff to keep going? We could could do that. And then maybe some of the less the committees that aren't as active or not as critical could could take a break. We don't have an executive committee, but it's true. We have a lot of committees and and that means we have a lot of staff, staff time doing it. And Bill and I didn't think about this before the tonight's meeting, but we could come up with a list of all the committees because we had it, because we go through every year and make appointments to the committees. So then that might be a good start. Ellen. Yeah, thank you. I understand it's a kind of emergency, right? We have to put all our resources for recovery, but at the same time, we should decide if this suspension or, let me say, getting rid of the committees is that permanent or temporary one? We're only talking about temporary just temporary. OK, if it is temporary, then if we can tell committee chairs how long we are planning to have this model, then probably they will find a way to do what they are doing by themselves. If they say, oh, no, we can't, then for a temporary time, they don't have their meetings. But I think it is important to have these committees. Maybe some of them are not functioning better than us. But it's a real public engaging with the city. And it is important. Lauren. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I mean, I generally agree with the approach of, you know, putting it on the chairs and to the committees, like letting them know short staffing, here's the responsibilities. You know, are you either take a break for some set amount of time, even like revisit in a couple months? The only caveat I'm thinking about is, you know, out of this huge public process that we've been going through, there were a lot of like projects and initiatives identified that could be things that these committees could be like ripe entities for picking up and moving forward some community priorities. So that might change somewhat like a committee that's maybe been a little quieter lately might actually have this like new energy to it. So we might want to, you know, maybe we staff strategically where there's something that there's like a really active that is kind of an emergency response initiative where we can actually get the benefit of these volunteers that have already raised their hand for the community. So that might be the only caveat I'd put in is if it's like really meeting a kind of urgent timely city needs, then putting the staffing in those places as opposed to across the board. Any care? Yeah, I think it's reasonable for some committees maybe to take a little break of a certain amount of time, but but I'm reluctant to say that committees should just I mean, I guess I'm I'm I'm sort of sensing this idea that the committee's work is not seen as particularly important and it's expendable. And so if we have to prioritize what we're going to do, then let's drop off the committees and and if that's true about any committees, then separate from what's going on with the flood, we need to look at that. So if if the city council decides to create a committee, I think it's because we thought it was important work that needed to be done, regardless of what else is going on in the city. And if we have too many committees and we're stretched too thin, then we should really kind of look at that. And I'm definitely open to that idea. But I think each individual committee should be thinking about do we need to keep meeting right now? Can we take a break? Can we meet less often? What, you know, how does our work fit into the overall priorities of the city? But to just kind of say a blanket, oh, staff is too busy for committees, kind of gives me the sense that committees are being viewed as like extra work on top of the real work that the staff has to do. And if that's if that's really the case, then that's a bigger underlying issue that we need to address. So I just want to say I appreciate that comment and know that is the case. But I'll keep going. OK, good. I'm glad to hear that. So the committees that I'm on, there is one of them where we're definitely getting the message from the staff that we shouldn't meet at all anymore, because it's just too much, you know, it's not necessary and it's too much work and we shouldn't do it. There's another one where it it feels like it's kind of fallen down on the staff's priority list. And then there's another one that that is the opposite of that. That's just going great guns. And so I don't know if that depends on the staff member who's assigned to it or what. But I guess I think I would put it or turn it back to the chairs of the committees and say, OK, recognizing that staff is very taxed right now. Is there work that you can continue to do without staff or maybe with the very minimum input of staff to just make sure that meetings are warned and that kind of stuff, or maybe you can talk to your staff person and not meet for the next month or the next two months or something like that. But but but I don't think that we as City Council can say anything about what all committees should do here. I appreciate that. And actually, this is this feedback is helpful for me to address the concerns of an race. And I think you're right, Kerry, that, you know, different staff are carrying different loads in the flood response. And so some, I think, are feeling really overwhelmed because of the particular roles they have. And so they may be not or as other people, you know, I mean, committee work is policy work, and that's your we're here to support that. And so that's, you know, that is your work and that's what we're here for. So I well, I went here from Don, but I think my approach after this conversation is to go back, look at the committees, talk to the individual staff members, and if there's one or two instances and try to work with that with the chair or, you know, come back to report to you all. But I I appreciate what you're all saying. And I guess I've been on a lot of committees without a staff and not every committee has a staff assigned to it and totally functional. And when you need a resource or you need their expertise, you call them in. So many committees do not depend on staff. And I think we can get by. We got by in doing the pandemic without as much staff support for some of the committees here because of time.  I just feel they can function very well. It's not to take away their value at all. In fact, it's putting more value and more responsibility. It's true, but I think by and large, they can handle it, but it always comes down to the conversation with the committee chair, the committee itself, with the staff that's now working with them. Great. Thank you, Bill. Thank you for that feedback. So that's basically my list about flood, unless there's anything else anybody else wants to talk about. It's just kind of all flood all the time. Yeah, we're going to have a lot of other stuff to talk about. I don't think we need to. I don't think we need to say it all tonight because we'll be saying it night after night after night.  Sorry, Donna, you're still muted. My comment, I thought you're like closing the meeting, but I'll save mine for my council report. Oh, yeah, I wasn't closing the meeting. OK, but that does bring us to council reports. So let's start with you. Luckily, all my committees took August off. But really, the community meetings have been great. I do wish people had more information. It seems we've done a lot of things. It's telling Bill, the city's got to brag more about the things they have done in the infrastructure, because the public generally does not know. And when we have this newsletter, it's a great communication, but it also needs to be a way to tell people what we're doing in a maybe a little more detail to keep putting in front of the work that the staff has has done and constantly, constantly does. But my comment was I really do. Here we are, nine thirty one and no break. And I feel it's not fair that I have to miss the discussion because I have a limited bladder that you all don't have. And so I really feel we need to go back and say at eight thirty, eight fifteen, we take a break, it's human people, it's human. OK, that's all I want to say. Thank you. You're right. You're right. I should have listened. I was wrong. Yeah. Kerry. Thanks. Yeah, I just want to say that I'm I am sort of personally still immersed in so much of the flood recovery process, but that I also know that many of my neighbors and many of the other people in my district are experiencing similar things to what I'm going through. And so I am very interested in hearing from folks about what their experiences are and what kind of resources they need and what kind of just in general needs they have, they're not being met. And I'm going to hopefully be trying to to do some of my own research and reaching out to people to find that out, but I also would encourage people to reach out to me and and share that with me and so that we can have a stronger voice about what is needed for support going forward. Thanks, Harry. Sal. I will echo what Donna said about the city doing a little more bragging. You know, it was great today to to hear detail on what I knew was happening. I knew things were happening behind the scenes. I didn't know the scale of it. I didn't know the detail and I heard a lot of folks around town talking about how the city just didn't show up and it's just I mean, it's great. It's great to have this now. So I can I can sort of, you know, with some authority answer those questions. But we really need to tell this tell a better story. And, you know, Evelyn's been doing a great job. I just think we need to get as much information about the kind of planning that we did, the things that that were on the checklist that got done only because they were on the checklist. It would have been so much worse, as many of us have said earlier tonight, had the city not been, you know, been active and proactive about it. But but so many people in town just just don't think of it that way. That's not what they see. They, you know, they seem on Piliar alive, who did a marvelous job, but they were in the forefront and and the city really took a backseat. And I understand that, you know, humility can pay off. But in this case, I really think we need to blow our horn a little bit more. But certainly thanks for all that effort. And it's still, you know, it's still ongoing and people still don't know. I did. You'll see if you get your bridge today. My my art is about some of that as much as I could sit in.  But, you know, it was my pillar alive gave us the tense and all the tense and my pillar alive and I think so. It's just one of the, you know, we don't have tents. So we appreciate it. And, you know, Katie was certainly there and working with them. I mean, they would. I mean, they are basically one person and she knocked herself out. But, you know, so did the city folks. And it's just again, I want to be really careful that we're not trying to in any way take anything away from our pillar alive when we talk about this. But I do think that it is also fair to say that that what happened at the hub would not have happened without the city. Well, it was a real partnership. But I think if we if we presented that way, people understand that way. Right now, a lot of people don't don't consider it that way. We need hats or t-shirts or something. Tim. Thanks. So it kind of feels like awful at all the time. So I want to talk about something else. But it seems like so this evening we set the property tax rate for this coming year, which it was really significant because that followed a really integrated, extensive citywide reappraisal of all the properties in town. And that's going to impact a lot of people in different ways. But all financially. We know that the tax here that just ended June 30th. We have a deficit. Hopefully, we'll know what the amount of that deficit by our next meeting. And then that's followed by this whole flood, which we know we have significant costs coming at us, but we have no idea what they are and how much we know we'll cover. Sounds like we may have a sense of that by the end of September. We're really looking at all this with really significant increases in expenses and revenues in this current year's budget now, which didn't contemplate the flood stuff at all because they couldn't. It's just feeling like we have a perfect kind of financial storm brewing. And I'm really nervous about that. And trying to take a cue from Kurt and public works, I think it really is incumbent on us as a council that we need to commit and gather and establish some priorities to start guiding this process because the budget season is going to be here immediately. And we have not had those conversations, so I hope we can all commit to doing this to help to get through it. Thanks. Thanks, Tim. Ellen. Yeah, again, I want to thank everyone, all the city staff, all the great work you have done and you are still doing. And I understand again, this is recovery time, it's emergency. So we have to use our resources in a more functional way. But also having our routines is very important to and public needs that too. So yeah, let's talk about how we can recover. Let's talk about how we can have better responses next time. I hope it doesn't happen, but it might, right? But there are so many things are happening in addition to flood recovery in our community, so we shouldn't forget those things to like senior center. There are so many things are happening. Members are not happy. We have to support them to homelessness, right? You know, I can list so many things, but I just stopped there. So I don't know what the plan is. Maybe we can come up something that, OK, some staff will work on the recovery, but some of them can also just continue the routine work so people feel that, OK, this is our community, right? At least we are going back normal, you know, faster than we imagine. So it will give, I think, great comfort and secure, security feeling to the public. Thank you. Thanks for Lauren. Hi, thanks. And apologies, I had to step away. Are we just doing council reports? Yes, we're at council reports. I have a family issue for a moment. Thank you. Yeah, no, I just, I mean, gratitude, it was really helpful to get this level of detail tonight from the city staff, as you all have said, and I think just continuing to tell these stories and sounds like on a great track for the capturing lessons learned and some of the ideas about how we create checklists and things that are going to make it, you know, even better next time. So just just gratitude to the city staff and gratitude to the community who keeps showing up in big ways for looking at the future, both kind of immediate response and, you know, visioning what kind of community we want to be, even as we all deal with the very depressing reality as we still see our devastated community. So I think it's, you know, it's both a really tragic time and a time for opportunity, so I'm just grateful so many people are showing up for those conversations. So that's it for me tonight. Thanks. Thanks, Lauren. Mayor's report, I just have a couple of things. One, you know, I I said this when I first went on the council five years ago that we had these tours of all the departments. And I was just endlessly impressed by the commitment and the dedication and the professionalism of the of the people that run and staff all of our city departments and and what they do every day to to serve our community. And I continue to, you know, when we when we see a crisis like what has hit us this year, it just makes it that that much more obvious that the quality of life that we get from in this city depends in large part on what the the great work that our city employees do. And I really praise all of them for what they do. I was going to these down at the hub. I was going to these meetings every day at 11 o'clock with Bill and Kelly and other departments heads and I never all these things came up. And I never heard a city employee say, no, we can't manage that. No, we can't do this. Whatever it was, it was a constant commitment to do whatever needed to be done to to meet the needs of the city. The the other thing that I just wanted to mention is that. We've been doing these meetings remotely and we can certainly have effective meetings remotely, but but I feel from our experience at this time and our experience during the covid time that there's great value to also being able to meet in person if we can do it. And so I had this idea today and I looked at the at the school board schedule and it turns out that the school board has their meetings, not on the same nights as as we have our meetings. And so it made me think, well, maybe we could talk to them and see if we could have our meetings temporarily at the high school on nights that they're not having their meetings. And so I'm just curious if if you all think that that's something we would like to explore, because I think it would be I think there's a little value to doing it. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Great. OK, well, Bill and I were talking about that today and we will pursue that. And that's all I've got. Next up, city clerks report. I'll pass. And city managers report. Is there anything you haven't already said? Yes, I do. Things that are not flood related. And actually they tie into some of the perfectly perfectly timed comments during council reports. So just first of all, high school. Just for those that don't realize we have done that before. In fact, the last time the elevator went out of service and we were out for several months, we met regularly at the high school and obviously worked with them. And the nice part is they also have the tech set up in the library. It's handicapped, accessible. So assuming they'll have it. So the reason we didn't do that immediately after the flood was that they were closed to they got flooded and so they weren't letting people in. So it wasn't an option for us. And so when the mayor mentioned it, we'll be happy to follow up with them schools opening so there shouldn't be any issues with that kind of thing. So that's good. The plan is as per what some of you have said is starting at our next meeting to get back to some of our backlog of business that has, you know, we've necessarily set aside, I'm sure we can keep a flood update item on the agenda. But for example, we'd actually for tonight had planned to have the council workshop about the Country Club Road project. Remember that? And so that we don't completely forget that our plan is to have that at the next meeting. We've got a couple of items, other items that have been getting pushed off. So try to get back to normal so you can expect some more normal meetings. And I think to again, the point that a couple of you made, I think Tim, in particular, are the December, September 27th meeting, the second meeting is supposed to be our strategic planning meeting. So that is and I think, you know, probably was already going to be interesting with three new people and you may and all this. So for now, we have this huge, you know, huge flood. So I think getting our priorities in order agreed upon, laid out our work plan and dealing with some of our issues will be really important. Working on getting a facilitator for that meeting just so we can have, you know, the mayor and I or whoever doesn't don't have to manage the meeting, we can all participate and do that. And that's that's worked well in the past. And then the following meeting would have actually been the follow up strategic planning meeting and that actually, correctly speaking, starting to talk about budget preview. So it's it's timely that we get back to that. And particularly under the circumstances, we really need to sort out all our pieces and see where we're at. So just laying the groundwork that we too are of the same mind as you that. So that's that's where we're going. That's all I had. Yeah, I was lying. OK, I think we are set then and we can be in adjournment at nine forty six p.m. Thank you all. Thank you. See you next time.