Hello and welcome to order flow trading with Robert Rosa today. I can see some people already joining us If you can see and hear me, please leave a short message either in discord or on bookmap and see then is there Rob Stephen. Hello We just wait a minute or two until we Starting Yeah, hi Dan. Hey Stephen. I believe Yeah, so that's good everything perfect. So just send a shot Hi Debbie and Nicholas good morning or good day depends on where you are good afternoon to the European folks and good morning to the US folk So then we are going to start 3 p.m. Sharp Central European time order flow with Robert Rota who doesn't know me yet. I started trading at the age of 13 and Couple years later two people found me through the internet and I Set up with them Investment company on my first investment company in Frankfurt. I was 17 at that time these two partners They actually taught me the investment business what is private equity what I hedge funds managed accounts and with them I was trading the S&P future through the telephone on the Chicago Mercantile exchange Actually the regular one was 250 dollars per point and then the mini came and finally we also have a micro but I started during that transition time from floor trading to online trading then I sought my shares in that company and in 2004 I moved to China I set up a second investment company with a Chinese partner together and I had over 100 million US dollars under management a team of 30 people. I had my traders analysts and What everything that you need? Unfortunately, this business was quite successful during the sub-prime crisis on my best day I made $800,000 in one day actually trading currencies and Then I was detained unfortunately in May 2011 if you become quite successful See people like Jack Ma and so on you get Somehow troubled with the Chinese government and then I was detained for outsmarting the Chinese finance system And I spent the next seven years and seven months in jail in Dongguan I was released in December 2018 and during the first year After prison I wrote a best-selling book. Unfortunately. It's only available in German. It's a yes. The book is called Dragon years and I started of course Trading again, that's the only thing I can do and I have a free community and I'm offering educational services For training you can find more about on RobertRosa.com There is a German speaking community and also an English speaking community. You can find the link over there Also, you can find me on YouTube Twitter Unfortunately, there's mostly German content right now, but this is going to change this month and Most importantly for all, you know, everyone who's a trader who has to be responsible for his own decisions never blame someone else and Because of regulations I have to read to general disclosure All book map limited materials information and presentations are for educational purposes only and Should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations risk disclosure Trading futures equities and digital currencies involve substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors path performance It's not necessarily indicative of future results And let's hop into the markets So the first thing basically what every trader should do is there is a very great website called trading economics and I want to get an overview of what sort of news are there are today We have Thursday 4th of April balance of trade in Canada, it's not is that important for us And we have balance of trade in US statistics. Basically, I do not Interpret what the numbers are meaning. I just want to know when news are released So I cannot be in the market and I tell you now a true story and was in my life trading room yesterday, I really got somehow screwed. I At 4 p.m. Central European time The actually the yeah news came out and during actually two minutes before basically I take out all the orders in the market, but then I got disturbed or distracted and I forgot during that two minutes to take out my orders and then yeah, the news was released and the market simply run over my through all my Orders and even the final order the stop loss was not triggered was a very nasty Moment in a couple of minutes. I lost a few grand, but luckily somehow the day Saved me and I still made a small profit in trading yesterday But you can see how quick Trading can be if you're not Exactly at that moment Ready in your mind yet to take action and then you get these crazy moves now if we look here at Yeah, it's 230 the news came out. This was simply a small move. Yeah, that was not a big deal Basically, it's like this But if there are any any Yeah, surprises yesterday market still kept running upward upward upward upward and it was so fast Yeah, that every order was triggered and even the stop Was not executed. I didn't understand why Basically it should become a market all about somehow the market just run over it and then I got screwed, but that's trading and Luckily, it did not kill me. Yeah, it's like that. This is you also have to Calculate in your trading the black swan event If something like this happened, you know it Is it going to be your last day of trading or can you still survive and of course? I still can trade another day. That's always it's not about today. It's about tomorrow. It's a saying for traders that's okay. I Still have to have money for tomorrow. So the second thing that I'm basically going to do is Checking The CME group website markets and I look at the settlement price, which is important for me. I Can find this settlement price here We are trading the June contract settlement prices five to six six point five and I have my My cheat sheet so to say I have to enter it here 24 then Important numbers out for me the opening price. Yeah, and Settlement price and the initial balance high and low. This is the high During the first 30 minutes of trading and the low of that first 30 minutes And then I get a delta and I can see what sort of day we can expect if we have a low initial balance In comparison to the last days, then I know, okay, we might have a break out during the second day second half of the day If we have a large initial balance at the beginning then like 32 or more Then basically, I believe the market will move side wards, which is for me I will sell the highs and buy the lows Otherwise if we have a low initial balance, I will start to jump on the trend to buy the pullbacks It's a very important Number for me. It's also a very traditional way of trading. I learned this during the 90s at the beginning of 2000 that basically if The banks if the brokers or the traders get the orders from hedge funds There are huge clients and they have to buy Market at below this and this price. Yeah, so then I get an impression if they're already transacted all their trades or not now let's see we have The event I call it event and many times I like to add a V web at exactly this event price standard Right-click and create an anchored V web here This V web can be important during the Whole day Configure add-ons I will give this V web a special unique color. I will delete the other V webs This V web I call it event and And Exactly want to have this at I will create it. Let's say yellow So and let's see what is going to happen during the trading day when the market will Come close to this V web. Basically the idea behind this is at that moment of the news when the news were triggered automatic I buying programs were started buying or selling or whatever in this case buying problem of programs and during that time normally you cannot Enter your full market size So you simply have to find a benchmark at which price it's favorable to buy for this Most of them using the anchored V web So I entered the V web here and now I believe every time the market will come close to this V web Later on during the day that there will be more buyers section in the support zone Some kilo here. Good day or best greetings to South Africa. Are you in Cape Town or in? Where are you in? South Africa if you have any questions just Put them into discord or here YouTube and don't forget to hit the like button on YouTube only 11 likes and we can do that better And the market still going back to new highs. Yeah, now let's have a picture at the Have a look at the larger picture on the this is no euro US dollar Oh No, it's not the market I want I want the ES And that is the wrong chart window Sometimes you get Okay here you have my chart. No, it's not one second here. I have to close some unnecessary windows Sometimes it's a little bit confusing if you have to move all the Um Windows from the charts from one window to the other. No, I did not find my My normal chart. Let's see which one is it? That's one. Ah, yeah, that's my one exactly was my I'm going to Move this one to here No, we got it. You can see I have a lot of Lines in my chart, but these are basically two sort of lines Initial balance high initial balance low is in green. I will move this one up and down later Then I have the opening price which is always important for me in yellow and I have CSP There's a settlement price from each day, which are basically always good support and resistance zones Now I forgot to know I have to enter the The Settlement price from yesterday, which is this one five to six six point five can close this and I add here 66 That's a nice zone. Also. There's another settlement price close to it. Well, actually I'm writing the fourth of April. Basically, it's a settlement large price from yesterday But for my understanding I just entered it today Now what we can see is probably if we have Well, if we maybe start to get to get close, we have a very nice support zone here at C 65 66 Of course, we are far away from it right now This was yesterday's We will take this one out, but we can see here what happened to give you a better idea where I got screwed I can take out see just let have look at your regular trading hours That was the initial balance basically to explain this area here See low and see high with only 10 points Not much to trade during that time and then the news came out and the market simply Broke through and this is where I got screwed with my orders because I didn't pay attention Basically because I got distracted But that is in here my fault, but I simply got out of that Bad trades still was a profit Then you can also see I added here at this event a V web and this we were later on during the day Becomes always a point of support and resistance Then we also had this sell-off later during that day Where I actually could yeah take some profit I will take out most of the V-webs here from the yes from yesterday. Otherwise, it's getting too confusing These green zones are support and resistance zones for me. I Also want to have a look at the point of control from yesterday. So I will simply draw a volume profile Then I see we have the support zone at five to seven five point seven five I will extend that line and I simply call this we pock virgin point of control So later on when I look at the market in a shorter time frame, I know that there are important zones Also, basically this one we can also add this have a closer look also basically, I do not look at let's say I prefer to watch at the Regular trading hours and now we can have we can see here. We have a huge Opening opening gap up with 36 points. So my first idea is always that the market actually might have Get close that are the best trading opportunities then simply I wait if the big gap close opportunity Arrives during the during the day To enter the market. They are not currently we are trading at five three oh four Going into the next resistant zones. We have at the five three fifteen point of control Check it on the fifteen minute chart from this zone interesting Resistant zone it will be difficult to go through that line. I believe you at this point here We can have nice turnarounds. I Will keep that in mind Also this I'm always like to look at these sort of Rotations they always offer a good training opportunity because I know at these zones was a lot of Volume accumulated and when the prices are going to that zone that there will be Resistant zones and we have this movie park and the Opening price as well. We keep this on in mind and what might be also interesting anchored V-web from the bottom from the low always support zones at the five two five nine Now for me, I'm getting then a better picture and Which zones I can trade and I can can compare them in book map And if we see a yeah If we see liquidity at this levels then of course we basically basically have high trading Possibilities hello demo trader Can you use ninja trader with book map eason? I mean these are two different Systems yeah Ninja trader is more like trading view a charting software and book map is the order flow software. I Basically suggest to have to sort of Trading software. I'm using book map for the order flow, of course and for my trading execution Because it's yeah the fastest execution that I know and Then I use basically trading view for my bigger picture to analyze the markets. I like trading view because it's Fast easy. I can analyze any market very quick. I'm used also trading forex markets I'm training CFD's and I can get a quick overview here Other trading software used one tour before but they're also very good ninja trade also top-notch software Just for me. It's sometimes too too much of Too much of a software. I don't Need that many functions Aloha, Santa. Yeah Well, you basically need the book map data feed or a rhythmic data feed. I'm using rhythmic personally Hello Dasha nice to see you Hello, Texas UAV pilot. Nice to see you. Oh, no, let's wait for the opening And we can enter a new VWAP. So I call you the session VWAP which is starting with the opening Right now. We don't see any How I can say any surprises in liquidity For the moment Let me close the window shortly. It's raining heavy rain outside So I'm back again Hello, some tax. Nice to see you Let's have a look at the spy. That is the exchange traded fund on the S&P we can see that we have a Yeah, little Volume stacked at five to four Which basically can suggest that the market will open a little bit stronger again But the clear picture we only get after the opening bell and then we can see where the liquidity is lying Otherwise, we can also have a look at other markets. Let's have a look at oil. I like to trade oil a lot Or we came quite strong It's a moment. I have to get the Get the oil chart Okay, we broke It's good a V-webs from the highs V-webs. I put the V-web on high on low We can see the market simply Broke the V-web from the from the high one twenty nine That's actually a very bullish sign Cannot see that we've appeared to go to like one hour chart Okay, we broke that a V-web from the high that's sure that's good So basically we can suggest we have the retest here on that line at around eighty four point seven nine and Then that's a market will move higher to eighty seven point five to this breakout level and The support zones are simply the V-webs below at eighty three point four one eighty four point six seven what do we have here eighty four point six seven This zone is eighty four point fifty we have liquidity that would be a zone Where we could think about an entry retest to the V-web the zone looking for Market sweep, yeah something like this and then try to find an entrance point Laura also nice to see you Rob Davies. Are you straightening also? I've been using V-web with its events Yeah, definitely Rob that similar to my style the standard deviations I'm using with the session V-web at Yeah, when we have in the market opening is happening in a couple of minutes Where does the market wants to go right now? Well, the big resistance zone is here really at five three O nine 11 12 13 we can see there is liquidity until 15 There's this big area of the point of control virgin point of control from Two previous rotations, which basically the market should not simply run through it Also, we could see it yesterday. We had this strong up move and then There was a strong down move where all the yeah, basically this rally was Terminated and I believe it To be again, yeah the same situation now We have overreaction on the buyer side and then probably we will take out the highs Maybe dip into this 310 area and then I think that we will you know run for gap close Now we can see mostly during the first half hour of trading. We have really a quiet market low initial balance and Then during the later days and basically around 9 p.m. 8 or 8 to 10 p.m. Central European time The last two trading hours the market will make a strong move and now we are going to open soon Market opening is happening in a few seconds terminated Where is the up move was terminated? That's my meaning if this is correct. I'm not sure sometimes my I'm not a native speaker Well, now we are hitting to this 10 Our market is opening now. Let's add the V web Create new line For this one, I'm going to use the standard deviations. I'm drawing the opening price See at 5 305.25 So now we can see the market is moving between these first and second standard deviation and Basically, I really like the V web. I'm Saying this in each live stream my trading niche is basically try to understand the algorithmic trading and the V web is a important tool for Algorithmic trading when to it's like a benchmark when to see when to At which price it's fair to buy and fair to sell. Let's say if I buy below the V web, then I'm a good trader if I buy above the wee webs and basically as a trader I am Buying too expensive and I don't mean now that trader like us. I mean like trader who work for banks You must execute larger orders They have a different Payout system. It's not about making profit with buying and selling. It's about getting a good entrance price For the client. How can you see any surprises? 5 2 9 5 92.5 we have some But no huge surprises in liquidity at the moment Switching back to regular trading hours We have a big gap that we can hopefully close. It would be a nice trading opportunity Also again a very quiet Trading no Volatility no movement. It's basically starts in the second half of the day Let's see Pretoria some kilo. I haven't been to South Africa yet, but I have a friend from there Hi, Peter. Hi, Rafael. Nice to see you From Kenya on my blog nice very nice So, let's see if we can hit the 5 3 10 take out or absorb the liquidity Which is also the opening and the VPOK Range above here. That is a strong resistant zone. I don't think that we will run through this Can you tell us how to read order flow? AVL gaming Well, let me ask you what exactly do you Want to know do you have anything special in mind? Otherwise, how to read the order flow or liquidity for me? It's always important to see what is a big picture This is what I'm analyzing before the market opens and then I want to see if I have interesting zones is there also liquidity available like see 5 3 10 we have at 5 3 10 Virgin point of control We have opening prices. We have settlement prices and at these are important resistance zones if this is in conjunction with The liquidity then I know that I might have nice turn around trading opportunities Same at C3 15. We also have a point of control at 3 15 many times this price was Traded, but then the market did not go through could not pass and then we always have a quick sell-off These are opportunities that I like to see and then of course what is happening during the day is new liquidity coming into the market or not and then at which levels and Also an important Yeah, I think to see for me is are there market sweeps This basically you can see if we have like your V shape the market is Quickly going down and then going up. This is like yeah the end of a trend mostly and we can probably predict Turn around well if I find some examples for that I will Big orders well the big orders we can see on the right side. Yeah For example, it's three 5 310 big orders are 300 contracts. This is not really big. It's larger big I would say everything above 1,000 lots. That is the big big orders big order number 100 is normal at the moment. We can see here. We have everywhere around 120 130 lots then we have little larger orders with a larger than 200 to 50 and We are around 300 This is common right now, but these I don't call big orders larger orders at the moment But it also depends on the environment. Like for example last year or especially during summertime. We don't have triple Contract sizes in the order book sometimes only 20 30 40 50 contracts on the bit and ask side And then we have a very choppy market where you must be carefully with trading or you have to adjust your stop loss Now we are hitting the event V-web. This is the anchor V-web. I put on at 230 p.m. We had news in the US the market reacted to this So there is somehow an importance and we could see if we might have a support zone here but I would not basically Enter the market at this level. I would see if we get sort of liquidity here and we have liquidity a little bit below 98 97 but it's not that strong English is excellent the Terminator rose Thank you big spark Yeah, I'm happy about I'm happy to hear that. So now we're actually hitting exactly this V-web from the news time Let's see what is happening If we can see a reaction, I wouldn't rate this right now because there is no No confirmation on the other side. Yeah, no liquidity. So we can also see there's no nothing to it The next target would be simply the 92 50 93 There we have a Settlement price in this area opening price. So this could be a nice support zone Okay, the market went nearly close to that liquidity. Then we have the reaction to it Now what's the market basically does is a retest to the standard deviations the second one and the The V-web These are very nice trading Ideas to trade the standard deviations the first and second one either in trend direction or simply as a Support resistance for me. It's important to look at the beginning. How does the market actually react to the V-web and standard deviations? We can see right now. It's a little bit choppy and the The the level from five three oh Two to five three Three oh oh is not that large only two points. It's not there's no room for me to trade I like to trade with if you look at here five tick Stop loss and twelve sticks and profit target. So I cannot see this opportunity Right now because there's no volatility. So I still have to wait for my for my chance We in how often do you trade in a day that depends on basically? Depends on the day like five to ten times but there are also periods where I Probably only make one trade and that's it because the market doesn't give me any opportunity and Right now is the period where I simply trade Very very Carefully during the first trading hour because we simply we simply don't have any volatility So then I'm looking to trade we are after 8 p.m. There are nicer moves like yesterday I Already said the first half of the day at 4 p.m. Yesterday. I got screwed I got run over by that news event at 4 p.m. Our time because I got distracted by my girlfriend and well that was I Was not amused about that. I did not take out my orders and well Went to a big mess But later on I still had to could manage my losses and end up in profit by the end second half of the day Stackage what time frame? You are using on the left. Basically. This is now we starting here at yeah 3 30 It's like five minutes. Basically. I can zoom in and out Like I I'm using this. I don't have a specific time frame here I want to see the big picture and if I'm entering a trade. I really I go let's say on a minute or second basis into The details on the right side. I'm using a one-minute chart David Marcellino isn't five tick SL to small for yes It depends on your strategy For example, I'm looking for V-web trades. For example like this. I know the market either is turning around or It will break through so if I know it will break through I don't need even I don't need more than five ticks SL I want that the market just starts touching the V-web or the standard deviation and then I want that the market is turning around like it did here. I Will give it two or three ticks sometimes with the market is a little bit choppy like here one two three four Yeah But I want to have this move market is touching going three points into my direction. This would happen right now and Then I made my trade. I have a risk to reward ratio from over two to one now if I If I deduct the costs, I am around two to one and well, then I can make money with the hit rate of 50% And these are exactly the moves like here like here The market is touching and Turning around because my assumption is not only my assumption My knowledge is that if the market goes to the V-web or the standard deviation The algorithm algos will start to buy or sell and then we will have this move of around 10 to 12 ticks And this is my niche in the market If you are now well, I would say that I'm in this way more or less like a skyper If you now want to have larger take larger trends with five ten points Or more in the s of course and five ticks might be a small stop But for me, I simply I don't like to be too long in a day trade my trades are basically below one minute or Couple of minutes and I'm either stopped out or I made my profit. Let's have a look where is my Initial balance. Hi, we can already put it there. It's not done yet Initial balance low. I'm just adjusting this. We are now at 9925 and 07 Yeah, eight points initial balance. That's nothing right now. Yeah, there's no Difficult to make money during that time for me. But this is a very nice example. You can see here. Just touching the V-web Three points. That is my trade Enter the you welcome David. Yeah, it's 305. We are getting Orders Well, that's the opening price. Yeah 305 25 and What we can what we know is many times the opening price This is why I'm also drawing the opening price into my analysis into my chart It's always a point where the market is I'm reacting. Yeah, also here again for trading example Just touching the second standard deviation. I don't need a larger stop loss It's touching it and the algos will come to buy and the market is going up. You can see Sometimes I could even use a smaller stop like three ticks For those small three points movements, why are the opening settlement or I be important? Okay, because my niche is to predict what the algos are doing when are they buying and selling and the opening price settlement price and I be high I be low are all Points where algos starting to buy or to sell and if I see this in Conjunction with liquidity Then I have a high probability of a trade of a chance to trade and you can see if we start to come here now You already said three or five liquidity is coming that is equivalent to the opening price So I know traders are already positioning themselves On that area. It's always about having as much valuable information for my trainings trading strategy as possible to minimize the risk of a loss, yeah And then I can get a better chance of maybe having a win rate of like 60 percent and Then you actually make quite good and consistent consistent profits and also settlement prices from yeah previous days or previous months are also Many times important. We can see here settlement price from the 22nd of March It was always respected one two three before We can see the market still has to tackle these zone If I don't have that information, I don't know why I cannot Understand why the market cannot go above for this zone and this is and simply Setting orders coming into the market because they are in the algorithmic Trading programs Slowdown Let me check the discord question Okay, Robert. Do you market profile on and single prints? Well, basically yes, but I don't need the market profile like Peter is doing that term to see that I basically look at the Wix yeah Long wix is similar to single prints in the market profile the different ways how you can actually Find or I identify these These single prints so now finally we have a break Little bit of Selling pressure is coming Hey, Robert on your training you chat how do long do you leave player sessions opening price on there? And what information do you look to get from when prices reaches a level that was prior session opening? Slow down. Well, basically I try to keep them as long as possible Because I figured out even after a couple of weeks or couple of months certain price levels still are important Because there are different players in the market There most of them are actually not day traders like us their pension funds hedge funds They go with huge Quantities in the market and then they want to have a certain buying level For price level which they consider fair and every time this market goes for example to this opening price or to this settlement price Which is more or less the closing price then we can see new activity So sometimes it's looking a little bit confusing, but basically all of these zones have Have a have a value for me to catch some of these small moves and we can also see to Pay attention on it. Let's say settlement price from the 1st of April at 95 Then I try to compare this to book map, but we can see here on 95 There is no liquidity. Maybe it's not important right now, but we have 92.5 There we have the opening price from the 27th and the settlement price from the 25th and we see liquidity here So this level has some interest right now David, so do you buy below Vweb and sell above what I am basically trying to Let's assume now. We are now in a downtrend. Yeah It's a moment. We have see highs the market is moving lower If I want to jump on the trade I would start to sell the 5 300 and now also we see liquidity is coming. We have the standard deviation We have the event Vweb. So I would assume that the trend continues So I would start try to enter the trend the questions always where to enter the trend I don't like to buy breakouts. Yeah, I Would don't want to go short here because then where should I put my stop loss? I have to put my stop loss above the high and that is too expensive for me So I would consider the 300 as a short level in country of the liquidity here standard deviation The event Vweb would be a nice signal Basically, I am using the Vweb and that deviation as support and resistance owns Yeah, I assume if the market goes here, there will be a selling reaction If the market breaks through I assume that here at this Session Vwebs, there will be a selling reaction if the market breaks through and Makes a retest on that Vweb I assume there will be a buying reaction because we have a change of trend. So I will try to jump on the trend Would you mind sharing the parameters of your Vweb settings? Definitely there is on on Well here on bookmap I Have basically is a Vweb at 230 Central European time because it was in use today the market had a reaction then I have the I Can also call it session Vweb, which starts at 330 Central European time Or 930 New York's time and I have the first and second standard deviation That's basically it. There's nothing more to it. There's no reference. That's nothing. That's No reference points. Nope bands this the only thing that I'm using If I want to enter a Anchored Vweb, I simply add go to the high level right click with the mouse create anchored Vweb here Then I have the Vweb from the high and we can see the market Actually is touching this Vweb, but cannot go above and Then the trend continues and as long as we are not going above the 01 301 We are still in the downward trend on trading view I Basically use the anchored Vweb Well, you can find this here trading tools and cut Vweb and I have different templates The first template is simply bands multiplier one bands multiplier two. I have here source open high low close divided by four Style you can enter the colors that suitable for you then you can save it on Templates and then I have a session Vweb a Vweb intraday, which is basically simply high low close divided by three and One color one line. That's it. What I'm using so now the downward trend is continuing and Okay, just Changed my session Vweb here back settings session Vweb, okay And we are go continuing now and we was just went to the settlement price and now Regarding to the other question you can see now these levels still have a Important, yeah Touching the almost touching the you know was touching the settlement price of the 1st of April and Now we have the pullback Nice trading opportunities So you would never know or never assume why the market out of nothing simply makes this pullback If you don't have this information, so that's important for my training That's also the problem. Well, if I would be a breakout trader and try to short the market here when we break through And I don't know that there is this Resistance zone. Yeah, I would have a loss trade or it would become Yeah difficult problems Why don't you use the third standard deviation? Isn't that considered as price extension? Well, I would use the third deviation if we have more volatility in the market, but now we are on a Volatility low for since I don't know how many years You can look here on the wicks utility index We are at 14. These are like all-time lows. Yeah, if we have a volatility of 20 or 30 then the third standard deviation makes sense for me, but we simply don't have that moves at the moment So now we see exactly hitting the settlement price and then the rally is starting Now the next Control or the next resistance zone is here at 300 We have the view up from the high the event view up and the session view up. Yeah now we have Now let's see what initial balance we have Or if I look at my cheat sheet we have an initial balance delta of 12 points It's not high. It's not low It's average the moment if I look at the last two weeks of that contract No surprise and we can see here the V-web at the 300 actually Good resistant point and now we can see at the session V-web also liquidity is coming into the market at 01.5 You welcome mr. Cage Well, and please hit the like button again. Yeah, 74 people watching. That's awesome And on discord also many people. That's very nice Now the yeah, it's decision time. Where does the market want to go? Direction of gap close or new high, but it's not Easy to go simply pass through these levels Now if we break through this zone, yeah, then basically I would enter a new and cut V-web at the Bottom I would assume that we have a change of trend We can see we added it here really market make the retest to the anchored V-web Then buying pressure came into the market Now we are in a sort of pinch zone. Yeah between two V-webs. Now we have to see what Does the market want but like I said, there's no Coincidence that the market is exactly hitting the a V-web and the buying pressure is coming So again to the point of where is your stop-loss? five ticks are More than sufficient for my trading hmm Now we can see there's no No decision at where to go Yeah, thief 5 300 hit exactly at the standard at C V-web. Yeah, very clear Signal so there's no need for larger stop-loss for my training style now. We are hitting the liquidity here at 96.75 I assume this will be taken and for everyone who wants to learn a little bit more I'm having my English speaking community called traders mindset school.com traders mindset It's for free and we will actually put a lot more content Into that community during the next week And then you're up to date on basically my V-web strategies. You know, so put the link here Then yeah, basically I would say now we have again quiet Opening a little bit more interesting than yesterday. I I Expect probably bigger moves during the second half of the day Otherwise, I would I would say we can see each other in my community or we see each other next Thursday again at 3 p.m. Central European time or 9 a.m. New York time or wherever you are You can find it on book map. Otherwise, I can only advise you to actually Join the book map Academy here. Definitely very great content over there and start to post your trades on the book map discord channel It's very important for yourself to learn and also for others. Yeah Trading for me is always to learn. I Don't want to be I made as I was young I saw how the floor traders were dying and the online trading was beginning So I don't want to end up like a floor trader So I have to adapt every single day to learn and if you're in a group in a community You can always learn more and faster Yes, I also have a YouTube channel David, but this one is in German right now the English YouTube channel. I have to start Still question here mine drive. What is your trade management style with smaller moves like this Are you looking to move to Brie after a certain amount of ticks or take some off or just let the trade run? if I see that's a market actually I Enter the market in the market moves like 10 ticks into my direction. I basically takes a break even plus one. Yeah Sometimes it's also like sometimes I don't hit you 12 ticks Yeah, it's just the market moving 10 or 11 ticks and then I know the move is done Yeah, but then I was simply unlucky and I would go break even Like I said break even plus one okay, I Will wish you a nice weekend and see you next week or see you on discord or wherever. Bye. Bye


Hello students, I am Ganesh Vyaghlalai working as an assistant professor in department of mechanical engineering, Wiltian Institute of Technology, Solopur. In this session of extended surfaces or fins, we will see generalized one-dimensional heat conduction equation through rectangular fin. Learning output. At the end of this session, students will be able to derive general heat conduction equation in one-dimension for rectangular fin. Consider this as a base surface. On this base surface, this is the rectangular fins. Base surface has temperature T naught. In fluid temperature T infinity, the width of this fin is suppose W. The length of the fin is suppose L. Now, what we will do? We will consider elemental area dA. This is the elemental area. On x axis, the distance is suppose x. This area thickness is dx. Now, as we know, the transfer of heat occurs from base surface to the fin by means of conduction. So from the base, the Q amount of heat is getting conducted. On this surface, on left hand side, the conductive heat transfer is suppose Qx. And from this right hand side surface, this surface, the rate of conductive heat transfer is Qx plus dx. Now, to this elemental area, if I want to apply the energy balance equation, then Qx will be equal to Qx plus dx. This is the conductive heat transfer. And from this elemental area to the fluid, the heat loss would be by means of convection. So I can write here the energy balance equation as Qx is equal to Qx plus dx plus Q convection. Suppose this is the equation 1. Now here, Qx is the conductive heat transfer where it is equal to minus kA dt by dx. Then I can write for Qx plus dx as minus kA dt by dx plus minus kA dt by dx square into dx. And for convection, Q convection is equal to, in first session we have seen HA Ts minus T infinity. Now here, the conductive heat transfer occurs from the surface area. So I can write, H area is nothing but a perimeter into dx. This is nothing but HA and T minus T infinity. As this is the general equation, this is the fin temperature. This stands for fin temperature minus surrounding fluid temperature. Now substituting these relations in equation number 1, what will happen? This Qx minus kA minus kA dt by dx, this term will get cancelled. Just substitute this here and this one here. So what will remain? Zero will be equal to minus kA dt by dx square into dx plus HP dx T minus T infinity. If I bring it on the left hand side, I can write the equation kA d square T by dx square is equal to HP T minus T infinity. Now I can simplify this equation as d square T by dx square is equal to HP by k into bracket T minus T infinity. Now here we will consider new term, let m square equal to HP by kA and theta is equal to T minus T infinity. So I can write the equation d square theta by dx square is equal to instead of HP by kA, I can write m square T minus T infinity. If I bring this right hand term to the left side, this becomes d square theta by dx square minus m square T minus T infinity is equal to zero. So suppose this is the equation number second. This is the second order LDE whose general solution we can write. This is second order linear differential equation as this is the general equation whose solution, general solution we can write theta is equal to C1 e raise to mx plus C2 e raise to minus mx. This equation is known as general heat conduction equation considering one-dimensional heat transfer for rectangular fin. Now depending upon the cases, fin cases, we can get the constant value that is C1 and C2. By using C1 C2, we may get temperature profile and rate of heat transfer equations. These are three cases in next part we will see. For further study, you can refer fundamentals of heat transfer by Incropara David. Thank you.


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So I'll call this hearing to order and good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the second year of a non-town meeting But a town informational hearing I'm Terry mcagg select board chair and the other members of the select board President tonight are to my right Ted Kenny the vice chair to his right and Jeff fares To my left Gordon St. Hilaire and our newest member to his left Greta da Agostino This year the aim report dedication is for the second consecutive year the Williston select board has Dedicated the angel report to the people of Williston due to everyone's collective effort and resolve To support our community during the pandemic I thank you all. I thank you all to all for your time and talent To support others through your profession Volunteer roles and as neighbors and friends. We are fortunate to live in this special community And this year we have an in-memoriam page that is very short And we have just one person who we will recognize In the town report and that's dick Bell Who was a longtime teacher at the CVU and a select board member from 1977 to 1986 If you've not already done so, please read the many reports in the town annual report and that's available on the website and a hard copy at Town Hall and the library So I'll now turn the hearing over to the town manager Eric Wells and his staff for the ex budget explanation Erton Thanks, Terry and welcome everyone joining us. I think we've got about 50 folks watching us on zoom this evening So welcome everyone Hopefully this is the final evening before town meeting that will meet only over zoom and we'll be back at Wilson Central School next year So we've got a number of things to go through this evening and in articles to review and anticipation of town meeting tomorrow So I'm going to share my screen. We have a presentation prepared and we'll go over some some zoom Aspects here first and we'll certainly have time for for questions as the evening goes on here. See I got my Screen I'll sit here So it's a couple zoom housekeeping Instructions so we get started here. You'll see there's a Q&A box. We use the zoom webinar feature Please you can type your questions there and we'll get to them at the Q&A part at the end of the presentation Could also use the raise hand feature on zoom to virtually raise your hand And I'll be able to get to those questions as well Um, we get to the Q&A portion the chat feature is just set up to speak with me as the host And if you could use that if you're having zoom issues technical issues, I will work to get those resolved with you I'll juggling a few things as we go here from presenter and switchboard operator. So I'll get I'll get to you as soon as I can So let's go to the town meeting if you're tuned in for the public information here You're you're in the right place. That'll be our our topic here for the next hour or so. It's Monday February 28 There's no in-person meeting due to COVID-19 this year as we set the onset will be voting will be available by Australian ballot tomorrow If you haven't already voted March 1st from 7 a.m. The 7 p.m. At the armory just one door down from the town hall annex here in the village So tonight we're here to talk about the articles for consideration at town meeting There's 10 articles on the warning numbers 1 through 4 are for town business that appear on the ballot and numbers 5 through 10 Are for local elections. We'll go into detail on items 1 through 4 this evening So article 1 reads shall the voters authorize that current taxes be paid to the town treasurer and three equal installments with due dates of August 15 November 15 and February 15 This is an article is typically voted on from the floor a town meeting and and since we're not meeting in person like last year This is why this article appears on Australian ballot this year again Article 2 asks so that shall the voters of the town of Wilson accept reports the town officials as presented in the town report As Terry mentioned, we have the town report available online on the town website and also some hard copies available at town hall And as we usually do I'd like to highlight some Achievements and a look back in the past year that's reflected in our town report. It's the last year in review So we've endured two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and it continues to affect each of our lives Along the way, I've continued to see the strength of our community as we navigate this time Fiscal year 21 marked my first as your town manager It is a pleasure to serve the wonderful community of Williston in this role And I cannot thank our town staff enough for their hard work and dedication to Williston and this evening during my presentation I'd like to take a moment to highlight their work from the past year I want to start by recognizing our emergency services in town our police Officers and firefighters EMT's answer the call for emergency assistance with COVID-19 Continuing to be the collective backdrop on each call Our police department has experienced open positions throughout the past year in an ongoing staffing shortage The collective resolve and dedication of our officers is highly commendable as I deliver community policing services to Williston Our fire department has faced an increased pressure place on the capacity of the current staffing model We'll look at this a bit more this evening as we get into the budget discussion I also want to commend each of our career and call members for their service and dedication And what continues to be an ongoing challenging time for first response Our critical infrastructure in town is maintained by your public works department And here's a photo we took last summer of our department Members of public work staff keep our critical infrastructure functioning at a high level and safe for the community This essential service is done through our highway, water, sewer and stormwater divisions They also experienced some staffing shortages and open positions over the past year We had two major infrastructure projects that were completed The lamplight water line replacement project and the muddybrook culvert replacement I've got some photos I want to share from the muddybrook project next The temporary bridge was in place manning the muddybrook connecting us to south burlington After damage to the culvert there was discovered in the spring of 2017 preliminary design was completed and the preferred alternative was selected in fall of 2018 As I'm sure many folks recall the halloween storm we had in 2019 created extensive additional damage to The culvert and the temporary bridge. You'll see a photo right here of the damage after that storm The town voters approved a $900,000 bond at town meeting 2020 to replace this crossing to south burlington And the cost for this project spent split with the city of south burlington So here's a good look at the construction from last summer as the culvert was formed with the precast pieces here here's a look Now how it looks downstream when the precast culvert was completed last october And here's the additional work to backfill and get the head walls in place for this new crossing into south burlington And it was repaved in november and reopened for Traffic last december. I'm sure everyone was happy to say goodbye to the temporary bridge that was there And it's been a a great new structure to serve the town for for decades ahead There'll be a couple small items to finish up this spring But I'm sure many folks have taken a ride over this new crossing since it's been open I also wanted to highlight our ice rink that we have up in the village community park in the winter months This was added last winter and it was added to provide another outdoor amenity to the members of our community It's been getting a lot of use Oops And I wanted to close by thanking our recreation and parks director tog goodwin for his ongoing management of the rank He'll see him out there shoveling and working on it to and updating the community of how the ice conditions are News from our planning department. The planning department in conjunction with the planning commission has been undertaking a comprehensive project Draft form-based code for the town's growth center Sure, many folks have heard of the mytap corners project hearings on the code will be occurring this winter and spring And also want to recognize two of our planning staff members melinda scott and emily hayman Who've received their american institute of certified planners certifications over the past year So it was another busy year at the dorthy allen memorial library in may 2021 Returned in-person browsing visits in the library in july 2021 regular hours resumed Our resilience staff put together a curbside pickup service for folks when the library wasn't open for patrons for browsing And that pickup service served over 8600 patrons over that time The bookmobile dotty continued to be a very active during covid-19 Completing 34 evening visits to neighborhoods And we've got a couple photos the library shared one one is multi generations from a family Playing a checkers game in the library and next is dotty with a four-legged friend Who is waiting for their owner to finish picking out a book last summer? And speaking of four-legged friends, I want to update on our canine duke program for our police comfort dog The first of its kind in vermont You may have heard duke is turning two next month in march and i'm gearing up for for his birthday celebration This has just been an immensely successful program And I want to recognize officer matt cohen duke's handler for all his work in building this program for the community Duke and matt were deployed 119 times during fiscally year 2021 You can follow duke's um many Many pieces of work that he completes on social media. Um, he's on twitter instagram and nf facebook page, so I know a lot of people uh pay attention to what duke's up to We had a new fire apparatus arrived for service. Um last calendar year We had uh the pumper truck engine three arrived in july of 2021 this um apparatus can carry up to 1500 gallons of water Also had a 105 foot rear mount aerial ladder truck ladder four arrived last september This carries 500 gallons of water and 200 feet of complimentary ground ladders And this purchase was from a 1.4 million dollar bond that was approved at town meeting 2019 To purchase these two new pieces of apparatus for the department They also want to recognize our general administration a town administrative staff and our finance assessor treasurer clerk and human resources officers keep our government operations moving each day Each office has confronted the challenges of the pandemic has continued to work to support and deliver community services through the management The town's finances and vital records and importantly supporting all of our town staff So the town cannot provide the services it does without our great staff We have working for the town and each year we like to recognize milestones and new members that joined our team I've got these listed on on the screen now for everyone to take a look at and these are also listed in our annual reports But we certainly welcome new members to our team and really like to recognize the service milestones of members of our community Um, I would just like to highlight that we had one staff member reach 15 years of services past year That's assistant highway foreman rick wixon So now we'll get into the town budget article three of the warning And I think we'll spend the most time on on this part of town meeting this evening So before we jump into the fine details, I always find it's good to take a step back and look at what a budget is So a budget's a plan to deliver services to the community Including what level of services to be provided the cost of those services and the revenue sources to pay for those services A budget is the best revenue and spending model with information available Development for the town budget begins with town staff eventually in mid august or so and it culminates in march tomorrow on town meeting day It's a multi month process to to work to put this budget together So a few budget objectives entering f y 23 We we looked at effective delivery of municipal services to the community addressing staff and capacity of the fire department And working through the effects of the kovat 19 pandemic including inflation that we're seeing So this evening we'll discuss some highlights from the budget But I encourage everyone if you'd like to learn more to visit the town website We have a page with a number of documents including a line item listing of the entire operating and capital budget And a number of other resources you can also review So we'll get into the numbers a bit now This operating budget proposal is just over 13.1 million This represents an increase of just over one and a half million from the current f y 22 budget It's just over 13 and a half percent in operating expenses So looking at potential property tax impact The estimated property tax rate has a 0.0383 cent increase So this is about $38 per $100,000 of assessed property value For a median homeowner in wilson with an assessment of just over $300,000 The increase of would be an increase of $115 for the year or about 958 per month So reminder the final tax rate is set in in late spring after the grand list is finalized This estimated tax rate increase was reduced during the budget development process using fund balance and ARPA funds Oh Folks now got for a second All right. Sorry everyone about that. We just ran into a little bit of a glitch there. I'll back up I'm not sure when I got cut off exactly. So I'll just back up a slide as we're going to the numbers for the budget proposal So we're looking at an operating budget of just over 13.1 million this year This represents an increase of just over one and a half million from the f y 22 budget And that's just over 13 and a half percent So the potential impact on property taxes has an estimated property tax rate for next year of 0.0383 cent increase It's about $38 per $100,000 of assessed property value For a median homeowner in wilson with an assessed value of just over $300,000 That represents an increase of $115 for the year or just over 950 per month As a reminder, the final tax rate is set after the grand list is finalized in June The estimated tax rate in the budget was reduced during the budget development process using fund balance and arpa funds Now let's take a closer look at The expense side of the budget and the story behind the budget this year So I'd like to examine this increase in in two parts Half of the one and a half million Dollar proposed increase is for the addition of career firefighters to provide fire and emergency medical services to the community The town engaged the independent consultant ap Triton last year After a national search for a firm to evaluate how the fire department delivers services and the community's risk We did this to have an independent lens look at our department to evaluate concerns. We were seeing operationally ap Triton took a data-driven approach using a team that undertook hundreds of hours of data analysis and evaluation To arrive at conclusions about our service delivery But we're concluded stakeholder interviews with 30 members of the fire department and our community This budget proposal adds three firefighter EMTs per 24 hour shift a total of nine A recommendation from the ap Triton report that was identified as the most urgent to consider The recommended timeline was immediate when the report was delivered to us last October Driving this proposed change is a sharp decline in fire call staff members their availability to respond over the past five years This is a challenge combination departments like ours of career and call staff are facing across the country And it predates the onset of the pandemic in williston I'll say this is a significant investment in added career fire department personnel To transition and reconfigure a system that is not sustainable the level of reliance placed on call staff members today To balance the resources necessary to meet the needs of our community The call staff division remains an important part of the department and the town greatly appreciates any time Members of our call staff can give as they balance commitments at home and at work with their service Chief Colette is here this evening. He's worked to grow our call staff program in the last year Last summer's membership drive led to three new members who are now enrolled in training courses this year But we have to be realistic We're not going to have a call staff roster with the depth of training per EMS and fire calls Importantly the availability to respond the calls that can fully offset the need for additional career staff to respond to the type and frequency emergency calls We see for our 24 7 service department Some additional stressors putting factors that are putting stress on the department Window willson continues to see an increase in population We've added about 100 people each of the last 20 years consistent and we anticipate that will continue Moving forward in the years to come here in at least the next five to 10 years We see our daytime population increase to over 20,000 people And also our population willson is aging which can bring increased needs for emergency medical services About 17 of our population is over the age of 65 And I'll toss the chief in just a couple minutes here to provide a more extensive overview of additional components of this proposal But first I just want to touch on the other half of the increase in the budget Is from a number of factors for service delivery These include additional new staff positions of energy and community services planner And we added a police dispatcher position in fy 22 We the town reached new collective bargaining agreements with our police and fire unions in the last year We have capital budget expenditure increases and new debt service from the muddy brook culvert bond The project we shared a bit early this evening We're also seeing inflation affecting our cost of living increase and affecting materials and services throughout the budget And I received a few questions about the proposal with the energy and community services planner position So I thought I'd share a little bit more about that this evening for folks This is a proposed full-time position in the planning department Its responsibilities would include implementation of the town's energy plan and support the town's newly formed energy committee advancing comprehensive goals for the betterment of the community and Serving as a staff member to focus on these goals including increasing affordable housing in Yellowstone The position would also provide staff support for development project applications like any member of the department It would also receive any general planning department duties as assigned by the director So a quick visual here of where the where the expense funds would go outside the budget And then looking at how services are paid for to balance the revenue side of the budget There's a variety of revenue sources used user fees state and federal grants host down fees our local options tax property taxes and then Our reserves and our Here's how this budget proposal would balance the budget on the revenue side about half the revenue coming from property taxes A quarter from our local options tax and a quarter from all the other sources of revenue that I previously mentioned here Going to look in chitin county. How our tax rate compares to other communities This proposed budget will soon remain among the lowest tax rate in chitin county at just over 31 cents of assessment So i'm going to pause here and toss it over to chief collett We'll go into a little more detail on the fire department staffing piece and I just want to pause for a second and make sure our And we're not having any more technical things going on. Okay, scott. I'm just going to check the chat here Um Looks like looks like the presentation is working fine. It's just it's just the camera isn't showing up right now Okay, perfect Thanks, everyone. Um, so I think we're all set and I'll toss it over to you now chief Great scott. I don't see it either All right, we'll say thank you manager wells for the opportunity to address Our community again this evening. Many of you have been here in the forum through the select board and the process that's been ongoing since As the late summer and certainly in october when we came in front of the board with our concerns For those of you that don't know me. My name is Aaron collett. I've served as your fire chief since september of 2020 Next slide When I came into the organization I did so with the understanding that I was going to learn and I continue to learn every day I sat and watched and listened and kept my eyes and ears open And noticed a couple of operational challenges within the organization that caused me pause those challenges included The limited number of career staff that we had The decline in our call staff personnel and decline in call staff personnel availability and participation An increased dms call volume an increased community risk It appeared that we have had the potential for not meeting the demand for service And an increase with this resulted in increased risk to our public and our firefighters as such brought these concerns forward and Collectively the town manager Supported a request to have an independent consultant come in to conduct an evaluation of the way that we deliver fire services across the community Next slide, please For those that are not aware the the current staffing model of the organization Looks like this that we are minimum staffing for career firefighters is three personnel That means that every day we have two of our career staff serving on rescue one Which is our ambulance and a single firefighter working a 24 hour shift on an engine that can Increase if we're at full staffing so you'll have two personnel working the engine if we're fully staff But that is the full staff of career personnel would be four persons We frequently will staff the These apparatus with three personnel on a routine basis Our second and third engine the are not staffed We rely on call staff to be able to operate these pieces And ladder four is additionally not staffed So while you may drive through by the firehouse and see bays full of apparatus, unfortunately, we have very limited Personnel to in order to be able to staff these in fact right now and our call staff as I sit in front of you tonight We only have one member of the call staff. That's actually trained That can operate engine two engine three or ladder four Next slide, please The current call staff challenges. We have low numbers on the roster This saw a low of eight personnel in June of 2021 We've increased that today to 10 personnel I Sit in front of you with the hope that that will continue to increase but right now we're not seeing Numbers coming forward There's been an overall decline in participation and this is a national trend. This is not something that's unique here to the town of williston and if you Have seen this as recently as a few a month ago or so and senator sanders Hosted a national or a town hall meeting on the crisis of staffing and fire departments across the state We have limited Shift coverage participation. So our call staff we have two models. We have the ability for call staff to Respond from home if they live within 10 minutes of the fire station Or they can sign up and ride in the station on 12 hour shifts We have limited shift participation With most the most significant reason being is that they our members have other family obligations That they need to attend to and can't commit that level of time in a part-time capacity to the organization Our ability to staff Have call staff respond is unpredictable We don't know whether our call staff members are Out of town available to respond if they're committed because it's their child's birthday their child's parent teacher conference, maybe it's their A family gathering we have limited numbers. So routinely We will see Maybe a single person a single call firefighter or maybe two call firefighters respond to our emergencies But that's not the operational norm Certainly you realize that personnel that are responding from their homes have a delayed response time Up to a greater than 10 minutes, which isn't practical to have them staff the first two apparatus We also have limited assurance of response on a recall. So we have an incident that requires Additional personnel. We have no idea how many of our staff will actually show up And unfortunately many of our call staff have limited EMS certifications Next slide, please This graphic shows you the decline of call staff from July of 2016 to the June of 2021 where you saw a high of Almost 30 persons on the call staff payroll and that decreased down to June as I said before to eight personnel Next slide, please I think more telling than that is the number of call staff hours that we see and this is really an indicative of call staff participation So in 2016 you saw the peak of well over 1200 hours that our call staff was serving in your community In we saw an all-time low of June and uh, July of 2021 where we saw less than 200 hours that our call staff was available These are cosmic pause and uh, really backed up the need to have an independent consultant come in To take a look at the way we operate next slide, please We've also seen a trend in EMS incidents this is a graphic that shows the number of EMS calls we respond to in the organization this excludes motor vehicle crashes So this is simply the demand for EMS and you see as that trend continues to grow In 2022 we predicted this call number will be in excess of 1300 calls per year Next slide, please So in the ambulance is at the hospital So a 1300 times is the number of EMS calls that we respond to If those result in transports to the hospital That means the two of the three firefighters that we have on our staff Will be off at the hospital and unavailable to respond to an emergency. That means you have a single firefighter and the actual the The Actual number is it turns out to be like 1.3 firefighters and we know that 0.3 firefighter doesn't count Unfortunately, so you have a single firefighter on a fire engine protecting the community This is just unsafe And it's almost a false sense of security across the community Next slide, please We look at critical tasking as a benchmark for firefighters to perform on emergency incident scenes These are all a task that must be conducted in order for us to Successfully mitigate in a medical or fire-based emergency So when we look at critical tasking, we're going to look at these jobs in the next slides will help break that down as some examples In a cardiac arrest, we have about five roles that need to be fulfilled in a cardiac arrest We have a lead EMS provider, which is usually our paramedic Who will deliver advanced life support medications and defibrillation to a patient in need It will have another advanced provider that will provide for airway and ventilation And a BLS provider who will be Performing chest compressions that leaves No one to either drive the ambulance or to operate as the incident commander who provides psychological first aid for family members To try to explain what's going on with the treatment of their loved one or foreseen safety So it shows that we have gaps and We have been forced to solicit that the assistance from Other people including our law enforcement partners where police officers will end up either in the back helping us with chest compressions Or they've actually been driving the ambulance on cardiac arrest because all three of our on-duty staff are working to manage the patient Next slide please Another example is a motor vehicle crash Here we have a photo of a simulated emergency where the engine officer is operating as the incident commander and seeing safety The extrication specialist is working with a hydraulic rescue tool to access the patient who's trapped in the back of the vehicle The second extrication specialist is working with another tool and providing support with The stabilization of the vehicle that leads us to say who is going to provide patient care Who is going to drive the ambulance Who is going to provide fire suppression who's going to be the person that Has a hose lying down and driving the engine to run the pump of the fire engine and More often than not our motor vehicle crashes involve a second vehicle So we need a second patient care attendant to assess and render medical aid to the other patient of the other vehicle You can see here that three people are being committed With simply the the basic task of gaining entry to the to the vehicle to initiate the care But four tasks remain unfulfilled Next slide please this simulation this graphic shows the critical tasking that must occur on a residential building fire Here the the roles include a fire attack crew an incident commander the pump operator A search and rescue team a ventilation team a crew to provide for a second hose line or in a backup crew position And a company we call the rapid intervention team. This rapid intervention team Is a requirement of osha 1910 134 which says for every For when you have personnel operating on the inside of immediately dangerous to life and health or an ideal h environment That you have to have at least two members trained and equipped on the outside to rescue the firefighters if they were to get themselves in danger or need assistance themselves Next slide please Unfortunately with our current staffing model We have the engine officer who operates as the incident commander The ambulance driver and the ambulance crew chief will operate on the attack line to get a hose line in operation To put water on the fire The other roles that you see here what we just reviewed all remain unfulfilled Next slide please Hiring nine or adding three firefighters per shift increase our minimum staffing will allow us to staff the rapid intervention crew as required for under osha It gives us the potential at full staffing to set staff a search and rescue team And the other positions that you see here the backup line the ventilation group safety officer EMS Even if we do increase staffing these will all have to be fulfilled either through call staff or automatic mutual aid responses from neighboring fire departments Next slide please The problem with the challenges that we see with mutual aid is that we have a prolonged response time Which means a decreased potential for survival of the patient as you all know Patients in cardiac arrest need immediately Need immediate aid including cpr oxygenation and transport to the hospital We have limited responder availability with no predicted Assurance of staffing to allow for responders from our neighboring communities to respond The call volume for our mutual aid partners is also increasing And it's really our responsibility as a local municipality to provide public safety to our citizenry Thank you chief. I think it's back to me for a few slides here So to round things out on on the warning And we're looking at article four and this article asks Shall the voters authorize the purchase of an ambulance for an amount not to exceed two hundred and eighty thousand dollars Over a term not to exceed seven years This is to replace the 2014 ambulance, which has reached the end of its useful life with the town This question would authorize the town to take out a short term Note to borrow the funds for the purchase and pay it back over the term of seven years So I'll stop sharing my screen now. We'll get into questions folks may have And I just want to remind everyone if you would use the q&a feature or raise your virtual hand What we'll get to work to make sure all your questions are answered here the best we can And the chat feature, please use that if there's some technical issues Going on with zoom here And we have chief collett here We also have our finance director shirley goodell lackey to assist with answering any questions that folks may have so Terry, I'll open it up if Folks watching have any questions for us All right, I see a hand raised scott wittier scott. I'm going to allow you to talk just a moment here. You'll be on Hi scott. Are you there? Yeah, can you hear me? Yep, we can hear you Okay, great. Hey Aaron. It's been a long time. I'm definitely in support of the increased services obviously town has grown greatly and on the 23 operating Budget proposal for a town meeting Third paragraph says we are a growing community now of over 10,000 residents Our daytime population exceeds 20,000 people as well as the student continues to be a regional hub for commerce So my question is not necessarily with you. It's with finance um, my understanding is the local sales option tax, uh, which was adopted in 2003 and I think was made Made possible by the state legislator some 20 years ago now Is we're only getting 70 of that revenue Which means 30 is going to administration fees is my understanding Now in new york city to run a business the mafia charges 30 percent administration fees You know, it's been 20 years. There is no way an administration fee should be 30 percent We need to go and re-examine this go to the state legislator to town maybe even suing the state To see if we can get more of that money back If we were just to get if we were to get 80 instead of 70 percent that would increase 500 thousand dollars if we got 90 percent and still gave a 10 percent administration fee to the state That's a million dollars That would help go a long ways if if we're quote the business or the regional hub There is no support coming from my pillar on that You know, just because we're running the sales tax and we got that local option tax We don't get any increased services to support from from the state Basically, it's they're allowing us to raise revenue. But like I said, they're pulling off the new york mafia and collecting 30 off of the money and sacrifices that this town has made with its planning to create a A business section of the of the town and a residential section. So i'm in full Favor of increasing the services because they are certainly needed But we need to get some support back from my pillar and one way without raising revenues On the back of the taxpayers to reexamine the proportion of the local sales tax option that we that the towns get And that's all I wanted to bring up that this may be a time that should be brought up for for thought down the road, but uh, it is because of Us being a regional hub for business and everything that has forced the issue that that we're seeing right now But anyways, I I thank you guys and the police do a tremendous job and service for our community and we thank you for it and I'll certainly support any Any and all needs uh going forth Thanks Scott. Thanks Scott for your comment appreciate it All right, I have a question online from laura. She asks Why is it that the town does not budget for equipment such as an ambulance? We always take bonds Why not put some money aside every year for the purpose of purchasing equipment in the future? This could potentially save our community money It can't be a surprise that we'll always need equipment in the future and the thanks for the question laura If you look in our capital budget, we do have an equipment savings Fund or what we do is we take the useful life of most assets And plans to put money away each year for them So one thing we do like purchasing our tandem dump trucks In other pieces of equipment like that police cruisers. We have that that system set up The the history with the ambulances we've have done short-term borrowing for it But you know, certainly this is something we we could explore moving forward as well This is the the system we've used for ambulances in the past But we're certainly doing it for some equipment in town and I appreciate the the comment and looking at this here Let's see. I don't have any other questions at the moment here. Well, we'll give folks another few seconds here Well, I guess in broadcasting. I don't want the the air to not be moving here So keep keep this going for a minute that remind everybody you can go on the on the town website to get information about town meeting Going our home page. You'll see we have a nice Big picture to click on for town meeting information if you want to look at the line item budget there If you want to watch um discussions from the select board as the budget was put together in december and january Number number of resources there and reminder polls are open tomorrow from 7 a.m. The 7 p.m. Over at the uh at the armory So we'll we'll stay on as long as we have questions, but i'm not seeing very many coming coming through here. So, uh Maybe we'll give it a kind of a last call if you've got any other questions for town staff on on the proposals here Please raise your hand or oh looks like we might have one come in here Oh, here we go So laura's got another question. Uh, can you provide more specifics or regards to the energy coordinator task? language and Some clarification on the presentation language And how will the cost effectiveness of this position be measured? Or i'll be happy to share with you the job description That was and for folks listening tonight too. That's on the last select board meeting on february 15th It's a attachment there the board approved that final job description at that meeting And laura if you also want to email me your email address i can set that along to you And i i think that will help answer some of your questions on the tasks for the energy coordinator position And the the cost effectiveness of the position being measured I think we'll certainly use the the skills and expertise of this position as we move forward and and look at some How it fits overall and into the town and how we're able to realize potential savings and also assist our community So I think i'll be looking to evaluate that and Come back and let folks know how that how that role's been Been working after we have some some time if the voters support this budget and we have this position filled in the new fiscal year Here we go questions trying to come in here So sherry's asking what were the results of the consultant for the fire department and And sherry there there was certainly a number of findings and recommendations from the ap try and report and I should mention if you go on that same page on the town website We've we've got the complete report there with a listing of the methodology and then the findings and A number of items for the town to to consider moving forward. So I'd recommend Taking a look at that report at least parts of it that it's it is quite lengthy but if you look start maybe at the end you can see the the findings and recommendations and Provide something to help work backwards on for other seconds of the report there But certainly if you're taking a look you have additional questions for us, please please reach out I had another another question on the energy coordinator Now I'll I'll see if I can get that To make this easier for folks after we get off this meeting I'll put the job description right on the town meeting information page On the town website. So if you visit that you'll see an attachment a document to click on there For the energy coordinator position That that will describe In a in a bit more detail But certainly as we as we mentioned tonight It's goal will be supporting the advancement of the town's energy plan that was Put together in support of part of the town's comprehensive plan staffing our new energy committee Looking to engage the community in addressing energy efficiency and climate change Also looking for potentially adding additional solar siding in town But then there's other pieces of of this position we look at for Having someone on staff that can look to address other specific items of the town's comprehensive plan One that we've looked at for a number of years is affordable housing And this would also give the capacity in the planning department to have one of their staff members Doing work on these other Large-scale goals for the town Moving ahead. So I I know there's there's a lot of information there I have to help answer your question and and certainly the job description has some additional specific details of the tasks for that So we have a question Chief asking about how do we attract more call staff? Um, we we could speak to that a little bit We we worked to have a Application drive last summer and we were able to get three good applicants that are going through School right now for firefighter one and firefighter two, but I don't know chief Would you want us to be to um what it looks like for someone who wants to join the call staff? What the the commitment looks like and in the onboarding? absolutely so the opportunity exists for Folks that do have interest in serving the call staff To go to our web page and there you will find Applications, uh, we actually have We're shut down for a little bit with ride-along programs But we have opened this back up as the the covid pandemic seems to continue to Decrease in its risk But we still have masking in the firehouse But we'd allow folks to come in and have interest to actually ride on a ride with us to to see what the day in The life of a firefighter is See if that's something that you may have interest in we can go and have a q&a Session if you had questions about what that service looks like or any of the operations or the commitment, but The the general requirement is is we asked all of our firefighters to go through firefighter one or and two program If they're eligible it was certainly firefighter one, which is 200 hours The firefighter two programs extra hours We encouraged our call staff to be trained in ems and an emergency medical technician As our baseline foundation Which is another about a hundred hours of training so The the simple answer is Send me an email or go to our web page and submit an application But happy if you're just considering the the potential to serve us Stop by the firehouse ring the doorbell Come on in and say hello to one of our firefighters and We'd be glad to to meet with you to to take you through what it might take To be one of our call staff members Thanks chief So i'm just going down the line some additional questions that came in here. Uh, autumn's asking Help understand what if any positive impact to our taxes all of the development in recent years has had for us As in would we have been seeing even higher tax increases if we hadn't allowed all of this development So autumn, thanks. Thanks for the question We look at the town's grand list growth each year and part of that is the increased value of all our property in town and wilson's grand list is just over two billion dollars and We look each year and try to project how the grand list is going to grow It's increasing the tax base and that's factored in our our overall calculation when we come up with the property tax rate each year so um And and if you look in the document online that with the report Of the operating budget. There's a page. I'm going to just cite a couple numbers off of right now but Part of that report looks at the value of our tax rate our grand list the rate change the grand list change the percent of the grand list change since the year 2010 so Since the reappraisal was complete in 2017 We had some years we had an over two and a half percent Grand list increase over two percent around two percent another year And then the last couple years last year was just about one percent and this year is about three quarters of one percent that we're projecting growth in the grand list so certainly The any new development in town helps continue to grow our our tax base of each year and and it's going to vary each year And it's part of the listers in the assessor's job to look at that overall valuation and how our grand list is coming together each year I know this is a pretty detailed and involved topic So i'm certainly happy to discuss this in more detail with you and also we could Arrange some time to chat with the assessor's office as well to look at the grand list a bit more if you if you're interested And then scott is asking about arpa funding in the budget. I appreciate this question scott about three hundred thousand dollars was included in the operating budget to help offset some another revenue source here and in capital projects and scott's asking Speak to explain what will happen if all the funds are not spent for capital projects And what are some of these projects? so i'm i'm going into the capital budget right now to To share some of the projects that are included with the potential arpa funding They include a police store access security upgrades project design engineering for our town hall parking lot In the back here that that's been a project We've had planned on the on the capital projects list for a number of years And it's also looking on this is a big project a community center and library space scoping study to try to understand potential For a community center facility what the community might be interested in and also looking at future scoping for the library And what the needs are for the library and how that fits into what the communities needs may be as well So that that's part of those arpa funds And we also looked for some funds for electric vehicle charging stations and in town parks as part of our energy goals And also we have some variable message board from our public works department You might recall those if there's a road close or some news to get while you're traveling We have two message boards and those are up for replacements, especially one of them so that would help replace one of those boards and public works department is also working on an asset management system And this funding with the proposal for the additional staff in the fire department Those new staff members will need gear and radios to get started So the arpa funds would also help pay for those expenses And the other part of your question If if it if it turns out we were to get another source run of these say a grant or in the future The select board has on on its work plan looking at the arpa funds moving into this spring So if we recognize some of these funds might not be needed for some of these other projects They'll be part of the arpa overall dollars for the board to look at The town has until the end of 2024 to allocate these dollars until the end of 2026 the spent So I have a question here the projected return on investment for an energy coordinator It's I appreciate the question. It's it's hard to quantify that right now I think what we're really looking to do is to have someone take the lead and implementing our town energy plan Here so we'll certainly be looking at all this information moving forward But it's it's certainly a a town goal to implement our energy plan And this is going to be a big a big task for this position here, but I appreciate the question And then last one I have right now from jude. How do you business contribute to the budget? Since we're now concerned a top shopping center In particular police and fire services Much more of the services seem to be for these locations Um, so thanks for the question jude. I will will share, you know, any Any commercial industrial property owner in town is going to pay property taxes like like any other residential property in town So that's certainly going to be contributing to our overall budget We also by having the business community here in our local option tax that helps generate a local option tax revenue We bring in just over three million dollars in local option tax revenue each year and that accounts for about 25% of our operating revenue in town So I appreciate appreciate your question on that as well jude See at the bottom of my list right now If jude Wants further analysis we can actually produce the the number of responses that fire does to residential versus commercial He wants to reach out to that level of detail Connect us. Okay. Well, thanks chief jude for to send us an email. We can follow that if you'd like to look at that as well If there are no more questions It's about time to wrap up the informational hearing Hopefully if you have questions, you can still Ask them tomorrow Hopefully if you haven't already voted, please come to the polls tomorrow Or drop off your absentee ballot at the at the polling center And we thank you very much for your participation In the hearing tonight and hopefully we'll get back to a real town meeting next year, but This is better than it was last year with the Folks out there asking questions and pertinent questions. So Thank you very much. If there's no more questions, we'll end the uh the hearing tonight Yep, I don't see any more questions terry. Good Thank you all for attending