Hi, my name is Steve Schreiber, and I'm running to serve as Town Counselor for Amherst District 4. I'm running for many reasons that I'll touch on in just a bit, but first and foremost, however, I think it's important for you to know that I'm the only candidate with a professional background in design and planning. Why do I think that's so important? Because our Town Council is getting its start in the midst of a vital townwide discussion about what we want and expect from development in town, particularly downtown. How do we want our downtown to look in 20 years? How much development is too much development? And how much do we want and need in order to diversify our tax base, serve our residents, and keep our downtown bustling while also preserving trees and green spaces that make Amherst such a great home? How do we encourage development that nurtures diversity and caters to a broad spectrum of residents and visitors? These are the types of questions I've grappled with professionally for decades, including nine years on Amherst Planning Board. I'm also the founding chair of the Department of Architecture at UMass, and my wife and I are both designers and serve as UMass faculty members. During those nine years on Planning Board, and almost eight years in which I was an elected member of Town Meeting, I learned so much about what this town values and expects from development, as well as what it wants to avoid. That's learning that it will bring to every Town Council meeting. I'm also passionate about these decisions personally. After all, in District 4, downtown development affects us all directly. I want us to be proud of the changes we see in terms of buildings, parks, and infrastructure. I'm a frequent user of our libraries, our pools, our trails and sidewalks, our buses and bike lanes. Our daughter is an alumna of Wildwood Amherst Regional Middle School and Amherst Regional High School. Over the years, I've built a great record as a team player, as someone who can listen, take a large view of important issues, and take on complex problems in a careful, thoughtful, rational way. I'll be looking to establish a Town Council with a structure and culture that embraces multiple perspectives and where there's respect for all. As an architect, I have particular problem-solving expertise that will be useful on the Town Council as it works with the community and with Planning Board to update the master plan to ensure that the master plan has a guideline for sustainable development and conservation. In particular, there should be a clear connection between that master plan and land use regulations. I support another look at form-based owning and infill development in our village centers. Infill, if it's done strategically and thoughtfully, will sustainably increase our tax base, breathe new life into our downtown and other centers, and increase the diversity of our community without expanding the infrastructure. I also support the implementation of a capital plan that will fund, with state and private support, necessary building projects in the town, renovation and expansion of Jones Library, the replacement of two elementary schools, and the updating or replacement of the Central Fire Station and DPW buildings. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you will vote for me on November 6th.


Hello and welcome to this CUBE conversation. I'm Shelly Kramer, Managing Director and Principal Analyst here at the CUBE Research, and today I am thrilled to be joined again by Gretchen Tinnerin, who's the VP and GM of U.S. Telco Media and Technology for Kindral. Gretchen, welcome. It's great to see you again. Hi, Shelly. Great to see you again also. Always enjoy our conversations. So, and this is going to be a great one. So, to set the stage a little bit, you know, we're at a very interesting time today. We've got platform transitions. We've got the emergence of new platforms. We've got the outsized role that data plays from a business competitive advantage standpoint, a need to continue business transformation initiatives, costs, improve efficiencies, all of these things. And so much is happening across industries across the board. We know one thing for certain. They need help. I know you won't disagree. They do. Absolutely. So, we last spoke in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, and as I mentioned, you oversee telco, media, and the technology sectors for Kindral, which are three very fast-growing, very rapidly evolving industries, all for different reasons. So, I would love it if you would tell us a little bit more about how you work across these industries and maybe share some insights on the market trends you're seeing across these sectors. Absolutely. You're right. Three really fast-growing and evolving industries. And these are our newer markets across Kindral, right? And so, the reason we really establish these distinct, three distinct markets, being telecommunications, media entertainment, and technology is because as we look as a systems integrator to solve our client's business challenges, it's really important for us to understand what those challenges are in those particular verticals, right? So, as businesses look to diversify revenue streams and reduce dependency on any single market segment, they're really aiming to move beyond traditional connectivity and traditional platform-based products. And so, our intention of being very focused on these three verticals is to bring those industry-subject-magic-matter experts to our clients. And we do so through our consulting organization as well as our managed services teams, right? And really aim to provide that advised design, build, and manage across the industries. Again, with each having their unique product sets, unique situations, unique challenges, but developing the use cases that solve those enabled by technology, right? It starts with the business challenge that they're all having. I think Shelley and I kind of reflect on MWC and all that we've heard and saw at MWC in particular. But I would say a trend that we're seeing across all of those three verticals is around sustainability, right? And I think coming off of MWC, we heard certainly everything was about data and AI and sustainability at MWC. And it does align with the trends that we're seeing in those three markets. Approaching them differently, right? Based on the relevance, but certainly I would say from a trending perspective, data, AI, and certainly sustainability top of mind. Okay, so as we saw at Mobile World Congress, there's a huge talk about and then focus on sustainability efforts. So I would love to know more about what you're seeing from Kindrel's Toco, media and entertainment and technology customers. And part of my question is really about, I truly believe that every business of every size is thinking about this, concerned about this in some ways, focused on this, but it's a little bit of a challenge too I think because as important as sustainability is for customers, there are also other business things that need to happen, right? So it's like, you know, one of the things that I like to think, you know, when you think about your own sustainability efforts just at home, right?  So sometimes you have the best intentions and you really want to focus on all things sustainability, but there are other other business things that may get in the way. So I'd love to know more from you about what you're seeing from Kindrel's customers in terms of how much focus they're actually able to devote to accomplishing their sustainability objectives. Yeah, so you really hit the nail on the head there and really what we're seeing also, whereas sustainability is one of the highest, if not the highest priority for our clients, right, with their CEOs, with the board members. But we're also finding that and through our own global sustainability, parameter study found that 85% of organizations, although place a very high strategic level of an importance of achieving the sustainability goals, only 16% have actually integrated sustainability into their strategies and data. So, right, when I think about that, that tells me that to your point, Shelley, our clients have to continue to manage their current state of business at the same time, be very future forward thinking of what is that roadmap look like for my current state of business, what does transformation modernization look like, not tomorrow, but even 12, three years, five years down the road. And then how do I put sustainability at the center of that, right? And how do I execute with sustainability as the highest priority through my current state, but also transformations? And that comes whether our clients are, you know, as they look at their, continue to look at what their data center, you know, strategies are and looking at climate control and power consumption. This is where Kindrel really brings the skills of our people, of our tools, to be able to advise on the clients and how to integrate sustainability to actually show real results in current state, but then two, three, four years down the road. This is something that should always be at the forefront, but it's going to, it's evolving Shelley and it's evolving quickly, right? This being absolutely. And customers want to expect and as they should to see those results, right? Then those efforts. Well, I think that, you know, I started really getting immersed in the sustainability space in the last couple of years. And I was on the leading edge of all things digital transformation.  And in the last couple of years, I really, I believe very deeply that as important as digital transformation is and has been and will continue to be to organizations, sustainability is right alongside that in terms of importance. And you're saying that as well. I think that the challenge though is that, you know, we talked earlier about some key customer challenges that everybody's wrestling with, right? Getting arms around data and, you know, managing this massive influx of data with sustainability in mind. And then when you add AI to the equation, that of course also has some massive effects on sustainability. And I believe, you know, AI and generative AI and all of the hoopla around that is driving a lot of conversation around sustainability, because you've got power and heating and cooling and data centers, privacy and other challenges that are really resource intensive. And so, you know, and, you know, one thing I'll also mention is that I've been involved in some sustainability research that Honeywell does on a quarterly basis. And I remember when we were in really is all about sort of measuring where organizations are on their sustainability journeys. And when we first launched this survey about a year ago, most of the survey respondents indicated that they were the efforts they were making to meet their sustainability goals were pretty slight and they were about things like changing your processes and not really adopting technology solutions. And we've seen over time, as we've continued to do this research, that that has changed and shifted a little bit. But I think really that's where a vendor, Mike Kindrell, as a partner can help because you can bring the guidance in terms of, you know, helping develop a strategy and how to execute it, implement and all that sort of thing. But there are also some very, very real technology solutions like you can't meet your sustainability goals. You cannot meet your sustainability goals by just changing your processes. You just can't. No, and nor can you meet it, Shelly, just by technology, implementing more AI into the environment. Right. Right. Right. You can certainly implement and take advantage of more AI into develop into your environment to help streamline and efficiencies and processes and et cetera. But you still have a whole lot of data sitting out there, right? In the data today. So what are we doing with that data in a way and how can we and how do we and this is what we do is advise our clients on that data that then is going to help them in the current state and in the future state tie that back to again sustainability by using certainly products like generative AI. But to me, that's a side benefit, right? You're using generative AI to help you with processes and streamline operations, but you have to look at that data and again, looking down at the data center, looking at the software, looking at the programs, integrating all of that data. How are you consuming it? How are you protecting it? How are you securing it? Right. Data is at the core of it. AI is a side benefits. And that's also I think why it's so important, you know, observability plays such an important role. You know, you can't monitor what you can't see. Right. I mean, I think that's a big part of this equation. And so I feel like it's a very interesting time. And, you know, I believe that just like with digital transformation, technology alone isn't the answer. Processes alone aren't the answer. The real answer is a combination of people, processes and technology and how we can all work together to identify, strategize, execute, implement, measure, monitor, all of those things. And I think that the other part of the equation, and I'm a big fan of this, you know, I've been talking about this for a long time, but, you know, strategic alliances and partnerships and relationships with trusted vendor partners, that is the path forward. It's not build it yourself. It's not start from ground zero. It's not all of those things. And I think that's really where we see, we see as analysts in the industry as customers who really, really do very well on the sustainability front. And a lot of it has to do with the relationships that they forge, the alliances that they forge, how they embrace this move towards sustainability. And I think that, you know, really, to me, that's where I see Kendra bringing deep value in terms of expertise. You know, the thing about working with a trusted vendor partner that you get as a customer, you get so much advantage because you get a partner who brings all of the experiences that they have had working with other clients, right?  They know what the problems are. They know where the hiccups are. So I really see that as an important part of the process in terms of reaching and achieving and getting on the path that you need to be as it relates to sustainability. And I have a feeling you won't argue with that. No, I won't. I mean, it's certainly we have a lot of data and experience that we gain from our existing clients. We also have our own, right? We refer to ourselves as customer zero. I was just getting ready to ask you about that. And I think that what's so important here, I'll set the stage for you. We talked a little bit about this at Mobile World Congress. And what I really love about this is that, you know, Kendra is not just talking the talk, you're walking the walk and, you know, calling yourself customer zero on the sustainability front is a big deal. So talk with us a little bit about how you treat yourself as customer zero. Yeah, yeah. So Kendra, we have gone through a major transformation with all of our systems, processes and operations in the last two years, including sustainability. And so for sustainability, specifically, we have been very focused on our own environmental goals in setting those goals for ourselves, which were very open and transparent. And with and our commitment is really a fundamental part of not just how we're strengthening and changing our business operations. But again, customer zero share those insights with our clients, our clients in the market, how and why we have committed to achieve net zero by 2040, right? And share, I think this is really important also, Shelley, is to be able to share the education opportunities that we have created as a company to empower our own employees to drive sustainable outcomes. Driving sustainability in an organization is not at the executive level only place, right? It involves all of them. So if I'm a to your compost, you know, example, yeah, I'm a household of six. And only one of the six are composting. It's a problem. It's a problem, right? And so we really, I credit all credit due to to our ESG team for really creating educational programs to empower all of us as built business leaders and our employees to just make better informed sustainability decisions really so that we do reach those goals. And again, customer zero, right? We have these insights and the experience to share that and advise, advise with our existing clients and new clients on on what that process has has looked like experience where the bumps have been in the road. But that that to your point through our ecosystem also, we don't do this alone. Right. And so we have a broad ecosystem of partners ourselves that have helped us through this journey. The same partners are advising and helping us with their own clients. And then that's what we bring bring to the table. I think that transparency is so important. And to be able to share that, you know, even something as simple as we started down this path, we thought this was going to happen. But instead this happened. So we had to pivot.  Right. And so when you can be transparent about that and when your customers can take advantage of the things that you've learned along the way, I think that's truly important. And I also really think that, you know, I am in charge of ESG at my corporate location, which is my home. And I'm constantly educating my team, my family on here's what you here's what you can come post here's what you don't do here's what you know, you know what I'm saying? And it's just like, or I'm the one going out digging out, you know, greasy pizza boxes out of the recycling bin and trying, you know, but I mean, that's a and I don't mean to be silly with these examples, but this same cut. And by the way, I have these conversations with my people here at home all the time.  And I think that that's really the path to success, for sure. It is. And we'll take a village. It always does all of us as an industry. Right. So to make that change. But again, I think it's exciting for us to be able to share our history, our changes, our own sustainability report and goals, but the outcomes to the outcomes to show that now, you know, we want to help improve the number from 16%. Yeah, you know, to a much higher number and influence that to make simply make the world a better place for all of us. I'm down with that goal. So as we wrap this conversation, I know that Kindral has had a big year and we're really only a little bit into it. So where do you see Kindral heading as we move on through 2024 and maybe what are you most excited about? We have had a big year. I mean, just in the last month alone, while at Mobile World Congress, we announced two very two new additional announcements back to the partnership conversation right to expand upon our ecosystem. We launched a unified multi SIM service. This was developed and launched to expand connectivity private beyond the private connectivity that we have deployed across several industrial environments and mobile devices to give our clients more flexibility on the connectivity piece at the IOT level. So that that was a really exciting announcement. The other announcement that we happened to launch also Mobile World Congress was it was a renewed global alliance and a new private network service collaboration with Hewlett Packard. So this was this was a really exciting announcement for us at Mobile World Congress because last year Mobile World Congress, many saw our announcements with Nokia and our private solution that we've been deploying successfully to many of our clients. But again, we know that we need to expand our ecosystem as technology and technologies with partners changes. Our clients expect that of that of us. And so we've done that research and chose HPE as another as another partner. But certainly we're, you know, we're just continuing to get started. And we're going to continue to make progress in this TMT market space. I'm really excited about the opportunities that we have in all three industries. And I'm especially excited for me leading this market, the skill that my team has to bring again that industry knowledge. It does the conversations, but the clients don't start with technology. They start with understanding what their business challenges are. And I'm really proud that I've got a got a fantastic team having discussions about business challenges and have created and continue to develop more use cases that solve those challenges for our clients. Technology enables the use case, right? But the conversation starts at really understanding what are our clients business challenge. And that's what makes us unique as a system integrator. We are people first company. And as many have heard and heard Martin say, we are simply, we are the heart of progress. And our people sit in the center of who we are. And that we've got a lot of great things coming. Start by solving problems by listening. I mean, it makes perfect sense, right?  That's really, it's, and you know what? It's something that not every company does. So Gretchen Tinnerman, VP and GM for telco, media and entertainment and technology at Kindral. Thank you so much for spending time with me. It is always a great conversation. I enjoy it so much. This is the second of what I know will be many. And I look forward to talking with you again soon. Thanks, Shelly. I look forward to hearing how your comp hosting is going and how you set for some hip tips now also myself. All right.


Hi, I'm Lieutenant Commander Jim Cowan, the physical therapist here at Buds, to talk to you about our most common injury, stress fractures. Historically, our stress fracture rate were some of the highest in the world here, around 15 to 18%. Roughly six guys out of a class of 30 develop some type of stress fracture. With some prevention strategies that we've been putting in place, we find now that our stress fracture rates are about 4 or 5%, which is acceptable, but I think we can still do better. So I hope to put out some information in this segment on probably our most important prevention strategy, which is preventing stress fractures. The most important thing is to make sure that you go to a running store in your local town there and have somebody that knows about footwear fit you for the right kind of running shoes, possibly some orthotics that you need for your boots. It's important to start off with really good footwear for all your training. And we recommend that you change your running shoes every six months or 400 miles. Now if you're running 40 miles a week as we recommend comfortably, that may be a running shoe change every three months. So it's important that you're changing your shoes regularly on a 400 mile schedule, that somebody is looking at your foot, somebody that knows what they're talking about, whether it's a physical therapist or a podiatrist or somebody at a local marathon triathlon store that is very good with shoewear, they're evaluating your foot and putting in the right kind of footwear. Now we run approximately 45 miles a week here and all that running mileage is done in boots and pants. I don't recommend that you do 100% of your training in boots and pants, but you should also be doing some familiarization runs in boots and pants to get used to the added weight and how things are a little different in a boot and a pant. The next most important thing beyond proper footwear is calf flexibility. I tell people here all the time that if you were only to do one stretch for me when you came here to budge to prevent a majority of our injury, it would be just a good calf stretch and you should be doing that two or three times a day. If you're sitting on the table with your foot pointing straight up, you should be able to pull your toes back about 15 to 20 degrees. That's for normal running biomechanics to happen.  That loss of flexibility in your ankle joint because your calf muscles are tight really makes you at a higher risk for stress fracture in the bone because some way or another your body has to get that 15 to 20 degrees. You really want it to happen in the joint like it's supposed to be happening instead of your bone making up for it. It's extremely important that you stretch your calf muscles two or three times a day religiously before you come here. Another thing that we highly recommend and we've mentioned before is proper nutrition before you come here for our stress fracture prevention. The nutritionist that works for Special Warfare recommends 1,000 milligrams of calcium on a daily basis. That's simply three glasses of skim milk a day. If you can't drink milk then chewing a couple of tums tablet is another way that you can supplement with calcium. But you should really be trying to get 1,000 milligrams a day. Now don't go overboard and take 3 or 4,000 milligrams a day because that could lead to kidney stones but we really do recommend at least for bone health 1,000 milligrams on a daily basis of calcium to help your bone stay strong and prevent the stress fractures as well. As always eat a good balanced diet with a lot of different colors on your plate, a lot of different vegetable colors and avoid any kind of illegal supplementation like creatine or protein powders. We mentioned about the importance of calf stretching to prevent stress fractures. You have to have adequate toe up ability to run and if your calf muscles are tight this bone will compensate and break. So what we recommend is that you do at least two or three times a day, two or three repetitions of a minute stretch and it's important and most people tend to know how to stretch your calves but they neglect doing it in both positions. So the first position really is with your knees straight. This gets your true calf muscle that attaches behind your knee and that's a very good way to stretch it. But also you need to bend your knee about 30 degrees and this now gets the muscles that attach below the knee joint, the deepest muscles that affect the ankle range of motion as well. You can see here he has very good calf flexibility and really you should be able to strive for about a 15 to 20 degree toe up position like that. So stretching these calf muscles leg straight and leg bent position is your goal two or three times a day. Okay I want to talk a little bit about the motions that the muscles around your shin bone do and some of the exercises that you can do to help strengthen the bone and keep it from breaking. So the muscles around your leg do four main motions. They point your toes down and that occurs in more of your calf muscles. They roll your ankle in that also involves these backside muscles here.  And so stress fractures occur either because you're ramping your mileage too fast but also if the muscles around your bone don't have sufficient endurance and strength it leaves the bone vulnerable to fracture. So one thing that you can work on is trying to work these four motions around your shin bone and keep them just as strong as you can through a couple different ideas that I'll show you right now. So if you can go to a local sports store or if you have access to a physical therapist or any other kind of sports or athletic clinic or even sports store they should be able to give you some exercise band like this. One thing that we have our students do is to use band for the front side of strengthening motion where they can anchor it on and use it to really focus on this anterior lateral compartment right here pulling back and forth for sets here and this is very important and it buds to keep this strong both for the running and for the thinning requirements. We have a lot of students that have a lot of problems with the strength of this front compartment here in the thinning requirements as well as the running protection of their shin bones. So you can use the band to work the front side and you can also use the band to work the lateral part, work in the side as well. Really focus in on this lateral compartment of the ankle and this is also a very important muscle for sand running because it helps with unstable striking on unstable ground and it's also good if you've had a history of ankle sprains to really stabilize the lateral ankle. This is probably one of the most neglected yet important muscles around the ankle joint that we really work hard around here for the sand running. So you can use band to work the front and the lateral compartment. Another exercise if you don't want to use bands to work the front compartment of your legs are heel walking. It's a nice endurance exercise that is so important for that front compartment for the thinning strength as well as the protection of the bone by having a strong anterior group of muscles. It works a lot on endurance. You could do laps around your gym with dumbbells like we're showing here. If you can see that front compartment is really working. It's like I said a really nice endurance and strength combined motion that you can work on. Probably one of the easiest backside calf strengthening drills is just a nice calf raise. Doing it on a slightly elevated platform is a good idea. It really lets you get to the full stretch at the bottom as well as the strength work at the top. So with weighted dumbbells you can do high rep endurance type sets are good. Just nice slow control. This is a good demonstration of that. So we've shown you how to work band for the front and side muscles. We've shown you some ideas with dumbbells on how to work the back compartment here with dumbbell raises as well as heel walking to work a freeway version of that front side of the compartment. So all of these muscle strength exercises for the groups of muscles that surround your shin bone are extremely important to prevent stress fractures. Having strong muscles with a lot of endurance to protect that bone as you slowly ramp up your mileage is your best prevention as well as having a nice flexible calf muscle group. And hopefully that will keep you out of our clinic. So the last exercise we're going to talk about here for stress fracture prevention as well as our knee pain prevention videos is what we call monster walks here. This works a lot of the lateral hip strength that is very much neglected by guys before they come here and it becomes a big problem for them. Having a very strong lateral hip muscle group has been shown to help prevent a lot of running knee pain as well as I feel some of the stress fracture problems that we have here. So once again using some band around your ankles and in this case we're using some nice overhead medicine ball work here to simulate his portion of the log. You can start some lateral hip drills. And it's important while you're doing this to really not let your knees collapse inward. The knees stay open while he's doing this. And then at the end you can actually integrate some squats at the end of the shuffle here. Once again making sure that your knees stay open and that they don't collapse inward.  Like I said this is probably the most neglected muscle group that guys fail to work out before they come here to Buds and it really does become a problem for many of them as soon as they get unstable sand running. So make sure that you're incorporating some glute medius lateral hip work. So to wrap up the stress fracture portion I think it's important that you are investing in some good footwear, that somebody evaluates your type of feet and make sure that you're in the right kind of footwear, that you're changing that footwear every six months or four hundred miles, that you're making sure that you have a good diet that includes a thousand milligrams of calcium, that you are stretching your calf muscles for an extremely flexible calf group, that you are running 40 miles a week and that you slowly progress 10% no more per week as you get to that goal and that the muscles around your shin bones are extremely strong with good endurance. So I'm Lieutenant Commander Jim Cowan wrapping up here at Buds and wishing you good health.


If you can get it there. He'll eat it. Definitely. Oh, he's turning to it. He's gonna eat it right now. You got it You got it Yes, there's a big into it No, that's a different one. Look how big they are Oh my god There's a huge snake right next to me. Oh my god, Toby. He's gonna eat it. He's huge What's happening people welcome back to another video We are going to be doing some bank fishing today We're going to be throwing some big jigs to try to catch some big bass got a few boys with me today I read some of the comments in the last bank fishing video and you guys said, you know what Noah? We want to see some more bank fishing content So we're out here today I'm going to be trying to film a few episodes for y'all and more importantly get on some really big fish If you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button Hit the notification bell also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content And Jocelyn comments down below on some of the bank fishing videos like ideas on what you guys want to see next I've got my boy Connor with me. If you had to catch one big one today Can you put a number on what you think it's going to be? We're going for eight plus seven plus maybe but we'll see And we also have Cody. He's gonna be tagging along fishing with us today And this is the place that we're going to be fishing pretty big pond Never been here before Cody's caught a few really good fish out here. So I'm excited about it Let's go ahead and hop into this video I'm going to show you guys exactly what I'm throwing the whole rig up process And then we're going to get right out on this pond and just try to get to work I saw recently you guys enjoyed the big jig video. So I was like, you know what? Let's go pond fishing with big jigs. I'm also going to have this thunder cricket By striking on and I just put a little caffeine chat on the back. It actually looks really good We're going to be rigging this one up custom pro mach 2. We're going to take this trap off And then this is a custom pro mach 2 and we're going to be putting this jig on This is the tuber grade skipping jig by striking is like a green pumpkin with a blue swirl I think it's a great little natural color, especially in the pond that we're going to be fishing today It's more of clear water. We don't really have stained water and the crawl that I'm going to be pairing up is a rage crawl And this is actually in summer crawl, you know, my favorite color This guy green pumpkin a little bit of chartreuse on the back I just pulled up with some 17 pound fluorocarbon as well.  All right. So there's a bad a bass like I think he's on bed right here I'm on if if I catch one first cast is that Gonna mean some bad luck. So I'm probably gonna catch this fish Check our drag too. I'll throw this for a caster too Let's get my setup. All right Yeah, he's about to eat it. Yeah Dude, I can't tell if that's just spot in the water if that's a fish Oh, there's a lot of cover right here I should catch one ton of like stomps and stuff right here Maybe it'll be deeper over there Uh-oh, what'd you get? Went right over to it and and ate it nice. Yeah, the rest of them have been finicky But I think this shady area is gonna be the money. Oh, yeah, for sure That's nice. You got the first one guys We walked all the way from over there all the way around and the bass have just been so it's super shallow and Like the jig even hopping on the bottom just creates like a big just Bunch of dust coming off not dust, but It's a big cloud of mud and nasty stuff But this bank right here has some shade on it Hopefully to drop off a little deeper down here and we'll get on some of these fish A little better fish number two It's squeaky just a little bit better It's crazy because the ones that we've seen are big like You know, we've seen some small ones, but we've seen a ton of four pounders Just can't get them to eat so that last pond I don't know what was going on just didn't work out. You know, it happens you go to places You don't really catch any kodi caught two small ones on that texas rig, but that jig it was just too heavy I know if we would have tied on a fluke and fish that If we probably could have caught it around 10 fish But we're actually at a new place right now if you guys saw one of the recent videos like a few weeks ago Maybe about a month ago now We came out on Cody's mom's pond with a kayak and I caught that like eight pounder that eight plus really big one And so we're out here today and we're gonna be bank fishing. We haven't bank fished this pond yet So I think we can really hook into a giant like there's big ones out there There's a lot of small ones, but there's also some tanks So we're gonna start covering some water. It's getting a little windy too. So I do apologize about that But we're gonna keep tossing this jig. I have high hopes We've got to make it happen right now. It's been a little tough grinder, but We're gonna get it started boys. I have high hopes this water is so clear from the last time I've been here. What in the world? There's some really big ones in here coming Oh, I got one Oh my gosh, that was so funny I had to look at him so hard.  He bit pretty good. I was Pretty getting excited. I thought it was gonna be a big one We're back. Thank you for biting bud. Now we're starting somewhere. That's how we got to start off today's video Dude, there's one on bed right there There's two on bed really really small I'm gonna catch this one first. I don't even know if he can eat this jig I'm like he's on it Uh, just pulled that stick One right there too Little guys are smart. There's a dead bass too Oh, there's a decent one I got like a not a bad one in front of me two of them Uh-oh He's right on me Swam all There's a couple swimming around right here. There's a little guy He does I was like popping my rod up What in the world are you doing? No, you're not getting my jig. You're just looking at it. Yeah, let's go We're having a tough day. We really thought that we were gonna smoke him We've been to two different places. It's just It's not going as planned, but we're still hunting down We're we're gonna go to a couple more spots after this And then we have some doggies that have literally followed us from like the other side of the lake And this one just wants to jump in front of us and spook off all the fish and try to eat our jig So That would be a lunker though.  That'd be a big it. That'd be a pv. Wouldn't it?  All right, let's go to the next one You can see all right. You see that orange leaf next in the middle of the slop Go out from that. He's facing this way. Do you see him? Yeah, you can get it there. He'll eat it. Definitely Oh, he's turning to it. He's gonna eat it right now. You got it. You got it Yes, it's a big intuitive like a three pounder That was so cool. Did he come off? Let me see dude. It's about two and a half. Nice Dude, that was perfect. You see him turn around just eat it Turn for it right when it hit the water. Dude, that was so dope. Oh Wait, dude, that's a giant Look, look Dude, that's a freak.   Yeah. Oh, it is he turned No, that's a different one.   Watch this dude. We're about to film the craziest clip ever I'm gonna release him right back. Look how big he is. Look how big he is Dude, that's like a six pounder Dude, we have to never in my life if I had that happen, dude We have three fish on right now. All right, let's get these back in the water I want to take care of them.  I don't know where he went, but that's a tank How do we just do that? We just got started. We've been trying all day, dude This is why you don't give up in it. Didn't give up. This is why you don't do that's a giant All right, give those two back in the water Oh, dude Dude, that is insane connor. This is a freaking large one too Now that is the type of fish that we want today.  I did not want her to swim off And that is a tank right there. Let's get her back in the water. We have a lot more fishing to do We've been fishing for two minutes like Oh man Cody's gone too. Cody like ran off But that fish is over four There she goes Just trying to get through the slop. Oh my gosh. All right guys that has to be one of the craziest moments I've ever witnessed. There's one more bass over here that we can see. I'm gonna let connor throw on it I'm gonna see if I can get it on the big camera.  Or no, no, I don't yeah, dude, dude I just snagged a thing five pounder in the tail. I'm just confused dude. I watched her eat it And I got her in the tail I did not mean to do that, but See when you're site fishing bass, dude, it's hard to watch them and feel them at the same time. It's like your Your senses don't combine well But that's a freaking tank. He's like almost I'll say four pounds. I did not mean to snag her though.   He's like seven pounds. Dude, that might be bigger connor. Let me see if I can catch her right here There's a snake too. Dude, he was like seven pounds.   I cannot believe I just passed up that opportunity I don't know where she went, but my my jig got buried in the grass and she just couldn't find it Like she had her nose down, but I was too far in the slot. That was a freaking moose though So that's the male. Yeah. Oh my gosh I'm telling you do that fish is big. You see how big she is There's another one down there that big too. They wouldn't hit anything and I walked like pretty far to the other side and then through back across Yeah He crushed it like right when I hit his back Cody's got a good one over here. Yeah, that's about three three and a half.  I've never seen anything like that fluke fish. That's nice. Was he right off that tree? Yeah, he was right off of that Holy Holy Dude Two of them mating. I'm but I'm right in front of both their noses Oh I need that jig for the thumbnail too. That's heartbreaking. You could probably flip in there and do that's a big Oh my god, they're bigger than I thought. Look how big that one is. Maybe you can get my jig back Oh There's another one Right keep reeling right right there.  Look at it Oh, yeah, that's my jig look. He's trying to get out of his mouth. They're trying to eat it out of each other's mouth.  We're back out here early in the morning. We got out here very early It was about an hour Hour and a half drive from our house. We woke up early get out here. The sun just came up We're gonna be trying to catch these fish if you guys saw, you know the day previously It was me and my boy Connor also at Cody out here. We caught a couple good fish, you know We started off the day really slow hit two different places just wasn't happening We came out here had like the craziest experience where we caught three fish like back to back to back like Had all three fish on the bank, which was insane And then all of a sudden the bite just cut off and we could not catch any more fish So we're back out here another day beautiful mornings. We got to hook a big one today We got to catch a large one. There's a ton of big fish Bedding up on the bank and I know we can make it happen. So let's get this video started. All right, guys We've got to get revenge on yesterday. We have to catch a few good fish I'm throwing this menace right here by striking in summer crawl It's got like chartreuse on one side green pumpkin on the other with a little tiny bullet weight in a ewg There's a few fish that I see right up here in front of us, you know Me and Connor we had that crazy moment where we caught those three fish right over there And then all of a sudden like I didn't have a bite for like two hours or I had a bite, but It was just we could not get them to like eat properly, but we're gonna catch them today. I feel it Cast around a good bit in here See if we can catch a few really big fish Oh Look at that snake dude. It's so big Dude, what is that? What kind of snake is that dude?  I gotta catch this thing What kind of snake is that dude? Wait, dude, he's just happening.  Look at that guys We were just sitting here huge snake on the bank. We'll show you guys in a second He's literally right down there. That's disgusting I like solemn just going at the water. He's probably what five foot long.   Yeah It's like it's trying to form back together. I don't want to grab him You know I want to grab him by the head so I don't hurt him But that's every bit of three and a half pounds And even pushing a four pounder, you know if you had a little more weight on him But it's a good fish right there. I just don't want to lip him And come here. Let me show you guys this There's another big one on the bank so I don't want to spook him I don't know if you guys can see him down there, but that's a snake It's like five foot long He's all the way up on the bank That thing's gross dude. I don't mess with that. There we go guys first fish in the second half of this video And it's a good one That's that's almost a four pounder. We're just gonna toss her right here. These snakes are freaking me out Thank you, baby for biting. She just zooted off Man, that was awesome. These fish are just chasing bait and I threw that menace in there and just destroyed it I catch one on that stand What I was saying is if I catch one on that standing tree It's gonna get in my head because we can't cast at the other ones He was right on it Get up here bo.  Look at this So like how that other one was with his lip. He's got like a big Sister something on there. It's weird That's a little two pounder And all the fish that we've caught have been like up on the bank, you know, mainly bedding He was around that standing tree. It looks so good. And what I was trying to get to with that cast is I'm gonna be mad if I catch one here because There's all these standing trees back there, but we can't get to them. So Who knows they could be loaded with bass, but pretty guy right there. Nothing big, but Getting somewhere. Thank you, buddy. Oh my god, Cody. He's coming towards me. He's gonna eat it. He's huge Judy came out of nowhere.  Come on, baby Oh my gosh, you can't make that up I was over here fishing for a one pounder and this guy saw my thing just going crazy And he just got so aggressive and just went over and ate it That was the easiest fish catch I've gotten all day Oh my god, that's a tank too.     That's a biggin right there. I just can't believe how that went down I saw him swimming All of a sudden he noticed my crawl and he was gonna go steal it from that small fish He wasn't even gonna give him a chance to eat it and sure enough, she freaking ate it That's a freaking tank right there.  All right, baby Thank you for buying me.   I think we caught three or four fish today Um, but we put the time in I mean, I'd say we've been out here for about three hours Yes, this is a pond that's out here and just got really big fish in it But that doesn't always mean that they're gonna bite super easy And uh, that's what we found out today But we still got it done ended it off with the toad And uh, if you guys want to see some more videos like this or you want to see us come out again Hit that like button. Let me know down below and uh, yeah I love you guys so much. Catch you all in the next video


In the movie, in return for his get-out-of-jail-free card, Schaefer went sealed to fly AK-47s out of Mina to the Contras. The insurgent group tasked with overthrowing the Sandinistas, the left-wing movement that itself overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Samoza de Valle in 1979 and took his place. Then, Schaefer ups the ante by requiring Seel to return, bearing Contras who will be trained in Mina. Meanwhile, Seel's old pals Ochoa Neskvar suggest he drop some of his guns off in Colombia and resume bringing in cocaine on the return trip. It is certainly true that Seel's planes, by which now he had a fleet, flew from Mina to Colombia, making refueling stops in Panama and Honduras, where the Contras were training. Before returning, laden with approximately $13 million worth of drugs, Cockburn, among several other journalists and historians, also alleged that a quid pro quo existed, with the CIA turning a blind eye to Seel's drug smuggling in return for his using it as a cover to get weapons to the Contras.


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All right, 6.15, looks like, on the wall. Is the computer say that? Close enough? Close enough, yeah. All right, you're welcome. Everybody for the May 22nd, 2023 Rochester Select Board meeting, which has been posted in three public places. Correct, and on our website. And interested parties emailed. And so let's move forward with the minutes from the last meeting of May 8th. And I see there is one correction on the wording of the waiting on the word of the class two grant on Bethel Mountain Road. So otherwise, I'd move to approve as touched up. Second. All in favor? All right, all right, all right. And then we have the treasurer's report. And it seems all up and ready and good. We'll be right at one. The numbers grow as we. Yeah, we'll be right at one. It must be right. And I'll move to approve that. Second. All in favor? All right. Yep, we got that. And Frank, you want to talk about the driveway permit on Sky Hollow Road? Don't know much about it, to be honest with you. I think John's got it. He did, sir. I hadn't read it yet. And he was all set with it, I believe. So it's actually on Valley View Drive? Yeah. Right, so John had a chance to check it out. Isn't this cool? Yeah, I think it's really cool. All right, so I'd move to approve that. Second. 40 Valley View Drive. All in favor? All right. OK. And this is going to be not the special softball tournament, but the first annual, so that some people still want to go and hurt themselves by softballing it. So I'm going to get these here. My turn? Yes. OK. So I'm not sure how much you know about it, but Makayla Richardson had been doing it, I think, for the last couple of years. She has decided to let it go. He was going to let it dissolve, per se. So I've decided to take it over. Because I've decided to take it over, I'm going to be having some help through the fire department as a member of the fire department. So it's on here as the first annual softball tournament, because I'm hoping to have it be called RVFD, annual RVFD softball tournament. That way, the money will be going, will be in good hands as far as it being in the fire department, and then depending on how things go throughout the years, if there's a certain place that money needs to go to or. So like the winning team has to cough up 1,000 bucks for the fire department? No, two. Well, just like last year, each team will pay an entry fee for each team. I'd like to do it on the 1st of July, which is a Saturday, before 4th, obviously. And have it kind of talk about the field, too. Yeah, I think I have to have it go on the same as before. I do, I would like to utilize the baseball field. Last year, we currently used the softball field and made like a little makeshift field on the grass, which I think was actually very unsafe. We had someone break their leg. The baseball field is a little bit too big, and I have a couple of people that know the numbers to make the field the same as the softball field. Because it's not being used and there's no high school, I'm asking to sort of change the baseline. Not the field. It doesn't have to be changed. Just the bases need to be moved to make the field the same size as the softball field. And then both fields would be utilized. Both sets of dugouts would be used. It's more of like what the town made it for, I guess, having them both be used. But I do need approval to fix the bases. And they can always be moved back if there was. So they want to, yeah. OK, so the new configuration is not going to. No, just the base, yeah. Do you need the fields to be rolled? I have people that have volunteered already to help do such a thing. Never were never against any extra help if anybody wants to help do that. But we have a couple of guys that have said they help with some field maintenance. And it has my blessing. Caitlin. Yes. It's Martha Slater. I was just wondering, when it gets a little closer, I mean, in a couple in a week or two, a couple weeks, if you would be willing to send me information about this, I could put an article in the Herald specifically about the tournament. Yes. I was waiting to have the date and the name change be approved. And Kristen also said tonight it'll be disinformation will be in the Select Board article. But yeah, I'd like to do a specific special article just about that, if that's OK with you. So the girls here, the ladies here, have my email address and everything. I'll get it to you, Martha. So we're going co-ed. OK, thank you very much. Yes. Same as last year, co-ed. I think it worked wonderfully. Yeah. And I think the same thing via double elimination. Last year, I think there was four or five teams. I know the year before there was six. So we definitely wouldn't want any more than six. But I don't think we're going to get a big, crazy amount of people. But it's just for fun. That's all we're doing it for fun. Nancy. So I understood that, I guess, the recreation department was having to move over to the baseball field because of regulations for young people's baseball. And you probably know more about it working with Makayla. Does that all fit into it? It does. There are actually the regulations for younger kids are actually closer to a softball field. So that's why I'm trying to make the men's baseball field in more regulations of a softball field and a minor's baseball field. Because there is no varsity baseball teams anymore that would need such a large field. It's too bad not to use the field. Right. That's why I'm hoping to use it. Use the dugouts and use the land that's out there. Is there any interest in an ongoing league participation in the future? You mean the baseball? Like the World League? The softball league. Softball league? So if she starts more. I think there's some. Some took it a little more serious. Like, I'd like it to be fun and then see if there's a few teams that want to play once a month or something or, you know, and then, of course, that would be a different discussion and a different approval. But I'm not against that. That would be great. So I did understand. I think I understood from Makayla that the bases are a different size. The bags are a different size. They're just further out in the field. The line that you run is further. So they would just be brought in. And the size of the. The look of the field wouldn't change. But there is a need for different supplies on the field, like the size of the bag has to be a different size? No, they're the same. They would just be the placement of them. Someone we would have to set them differently. And it's great. Sounds fine with me. Is that, you know, we'll formally approve that. Can I ask another question on that? How often are we mowing that field now? I think it's on a whatever basis it needs to be mowed. I think it's more like, I'm not sure he's had. He's only mowed it once, of course. One mowing this year. He needs it really bad. Right now it's grown. Well, I think that we cut them back on mowing. We did, yeah. So we should step it up before this event. Yeah. And make sure it's done timely for your event. Yeah, we'll talk with John. You might even be a participant in your event. And really, and all those guys. So, yeah, we'll make sure that's taken care of. So I'd move to give the RBFD softball tournament our blessing. Second. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Have fun. Have fun. It'd be nice to hear your sounds and play from down there. Thank you. Thanks for coming again. We'll do the same thing again. Thank you. So we have an application for use of the town park from the shelter team filed by Janice. You can. That is, she wants that one Friday per month during the farmers market. So she wants to have an information booth regarding emergency planning and looking for help and support from that. So I'd move to approve that. Seconded. All in favor? All right. And can I ask a question? Yes. Is it going to be part of the space of the farmers market? And if so, does it require a payment for a table? That's a good question. Yes, it does. I can only say that because I know the energy committee was charged $12 every time they showed up to table and they ended up paying out of their pocket, even though it was like a town committee. I would think that a committee like this that's looking to find support for volunteer effort would be. So the fee for the table, that's part of the farmers market's deal. So this is a separate application not to be part of the farmers market. Because Jan approached them and they said that she could not participate with the farmers market because she wasn't agricultural. Well, a lot of those things aren't agricultural. That was my question. Yeah. You said that. So I. You said that. So I think anything to do with the town though is a little crazy as far as if they want to. They're using the facilities of the town for nothing to have their farmers market, basically, and the vendors charge for whatever they sell there. And if the town has a use for that kind of purpose, then I don't see why we should be paying for to be a part of that Friday night gathering if that's the case. I mean, that doesn't make any sense to me. And even with the library folks there, I mean, just anybody that is a town sponsored thing and they're just there to promote whatever, like the energy part of it or whatever. This doesn't make any sense to me that they should be charged for that. Well, especially since then, again, in a separate application from us to have a presence on the park. And just because the farmer's market is there, it doesn't mean that nobody else can use the park. Right, exactly. So I would move to approve this, but I would also, I guess we need to talk with the public. They shouldn't be paying the farmer's market people to have a table there. We need clarification on that. I know that they carry insurance. Right. And that's not, but we need to have their take on what it is. Isn't anybody associated with a town like the emergency shelter people there under our insurance anyway? Yeah. As far as I know. But they're volunteers. Right, they are volunteers. You know, they're there to make money wherever the farmer's market is. They're there to make money. Right. I agree. I agree with you on that too. So should I tell Jeff? That he should just fill out a park use permit? Yeah, he'll be, he's at the meeting anyway. Oh, Jeff. He's not, he's not, oh, sorry. I guess he's not, usually he shows up, but he's not here tonight. Okay, I'll suggest that to him, because I know they were paying out of pocket. Yeah, yeah. And we weren't aware of that. It wasn't aware of it. No, I wasn't aware of that. No, but they shouldn't be paying out of pocket because that's ridiculous. All right, so we move to approve this one to be voted on that? Second. All in favor? Aye. Good. If we did. If we did, now we do, for sure. And then, speaking of the park, it's a popular time of year for that, we have Pierce Hall Community Center asking to hold their annual ice cream social with free ice cream for all historic car show and family games, and that's free. And that is on June 25th, that 12 noon, set up at noon events from two to four. And so, let's move to approve that one. I second. All in favor? Aye. Yep. Sounds like fun. And we have Pierce Hall and Ridgeline Outdoor Collective that have an application for use of the Riverbrook Park. And that is for their 5K run walk event, which will be a registration table and some banners.  Yep. And they put that in there. And fundraiser for Pierce Hall and the Ridgeline Outdoor Collective, and I moved to approve that one. On July 4th. I second. Yes. July 4th, seven to 1030. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Yep. Well gee, look it, here's another one from Pierce Hall Community Center. Also for... Same day. Same day, in 4th of July, and this one would be on the main park. And this is for their July Chicken Barbecue and 50-50 Raffle. And that is from nine to two-thirty. And I moved to approve that. I second it. Is it nice to be having 4th of July again? Yeah, it seems like it. Yeah. All in favor? Aye. All right, this is more interest, maybe to some of the other folks in here. I mean, parties and stuff on the park are fun, but this is our fiscal year 2023 to 24 pay rates for the town employees, which was decided and approved at the Budget Committee, but now this is our official adoption and approval of that. I second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you for your service. All right. All right, and then we have the, we have some discussion on modifying the town's procurement policy. And that was the proposal was to, up to now we've had to anything we spend more than $10,000 was requiring, we'd go out to bid for that. And there's a couple situations that have come up and also in conversation with the VLCT, they think that's a little bit onerous to have to trigger that process at a relatively low rate. I guess when they started this policy it was probably $10,000 was worth a lot of money. A lot of money. And that was nothing. And so the way we have those major purchases calling for delivery of goods or services and the amount of $50,000 or greater would trigger a requirement to go out to bid. And regular purchases or leases which would be calling for delivery of goods or services and the amount of $10,000 to $30,000 that would be, so that would just be an ongoing, ongoing expense. And incidental purchases, calling for delivery of goods or services less than $10,000 would be not, those are the definitions of what major, regular or incidental purchases. What about purchases between 30 and 50? Well, that's where we're pushing this up to. To 50. Look to 50, yeah. So it needs to be changed between 10 and. Do you have some input on that?  So I think the major was up to 30 and we didn't go as high as 50, but we went to 30. We did go up from 10 to 30. To 30, yeah, yeah. Nice one. So I just wanted to point that out that that's also been approved by the government. So we would have to go back and re-approve it if we went to 50. We just amended it. We just amended it. Also written into the policy is an option for a waiver off of the policy. So if we did have a one-time event where we thought that it was non-conforming that we approved of it, we could exercise the option of voting in a waiver. Which that kind of covers it right there, isn't it? We would apply to anything we deemed necessary. Yeah, yeah. Without changing the whole policy. So in this situation, and what has triggered this conversation is the offer from an unnamed individual to pay for a new roof on the library. And they have, how many bits have you got? Four. Four. So they've already gone through a bidding process that just wasn't officially awarded in papers. It would have been by invitation, it would have been by invitation, not public notice. Yeah. And that's fine. That's fine. Yeah, no problem with that. So could we just vote to enact a waiver on this in this situation? I think that's the best way to go right now. Yeah. Yeah, are they sealed bids or? No. Yeah. I don't know, how does that fit in with our policy? Well, with that, by adopting, choosing to, Right there where it's expressed what the waiver is. So we're covered with that. I mean, you guys feel happy about that? Okay. Yeah. As long as you guys feel the same, I mean, that's fine. You can do waivers as often as you want. Or if you'll fit. Third limit on that. How many waivers were there? I don't know how high of an amount. Well, the waiver would be outside of the policy. We're just moving the policy aside to deal with this. Which that came into play, I think, a few times during Irene and we were just like, don't waste time on the policy, just take care of what needed to happen. Probably several times. Yeah, probably several times. We were under a state of emergency then, which I think was true. Well, yeah, it gives you emergency powers at least, I would say. So, let me get this. So the waiver feature, is that included in the new policy, or was it? I think it's on page two right there. Yeah, okay. And that wasn't included in the old policy? No. The old, it might have been. I fully... I think it was, but it might have been. Because I basically copied, except for changing the amount on the major. Yeah. So it should be in the old, it should be in the current policy. Yeah. But it's in the new one that we're talking about adopting. So I would move to approve that one. The waiver. The, well, the new policy. The new procurement policy, basically. I still think it should be at 30, but you can go ahead and vote. Yeah. So you want a second? Yeah, a second. One favor? All right. Okay. It's good. It's nice to not have to be totally unanimous all the time. Really? It's foreign. Except when you wrote the one that doesn't read. I like that. But, now, this doesn't preclude the fact that if there was something that was less than that and we want to go out to bid, we can still go out to bid. But it doesn't mean we can't go out to bid for something. I do think we need to be careful when we do this, though. And, you know, have an idea of what we're looking at in the meantime. And if it does look like it's a conflict in any way, we should put it out to bid. And I think that's the way that we should be looking at it. And I think you have to have leeway. Well, just with the policy, the way it was, John, even with his plow, this winner, almost topped out at $10,000 to try to get three bids on his snow plow was almost impossible to get. And it's just those kind of things that kind of tie your hands. About $30,000 would have covered it. You're absolutely right. And I just think that when we're placing bids out for jobs, we want to stay as competitive as we can. So we can just, somebody could just say, I'll do it for $49,995. And that would be under the threshold. And we wouldn't really know how competitive things were. Savings, the competition saves the town money by going out to bids. And I think that's up to, with board discretion, I think we can do that still, even with a limit of $50,000. I think this, the $50,000 gives us a chance if there is an emergency to just do it. No, we would have to vote on it to make sure the contractors don't come back and say that our policy was violated by going out to bids. Right. Well, we need to also... I think we can still go out to bid if we choose to. Right. It doesn't say we can't go out to bid. The other option would be to do a hard-coded contract for everything between $30,000 and $50,000, at least. Yeah, maybe we should look at it that way. You have to anyway, right? I mean, that's fine. Well, without having a contract without going out to bids, somebody could say, yeah, I'll do it for $35,000, but then you get a bill for $45,000. And there's no, there's no, there's no structure. I mean, it's a lot of money at that point. Right. Well, it is when you only have so much, right? And also, the subject of the budget. Well, what this does, though, is it gives us the freedom to ask for bids invitationally and not have to go through the hole, put it in the paper, and wait another two weeks. As long as the road foreman understands that if he's going to write a check for $49,000, he's got to check with us first. Yeah, right, yeah. And I think that we can rearrange that. I think that terminology should be rearranged a little bit next time we visit this. Because he's going to be amended. I mean, it's important, but yeah, I'm ready to do that and amend it. Have you guys, do you know how much it's going to cost? The bid that was accepted by the trustees and the donor was almost 30. It was 29 in change. Yeah, so 30 would have done it. But I think we're going to have a policy. Yeah. But there is additional work over and above the roof that will be included. So that would have been over 30. I don't know if the donor is willing to. The donor wants the attic inspected to find out why the ceiling on the second floor is sagging to see if there's rotten wood and also to remove any wet insulation and put in some dry. So those things aren't included in. Thank you, whoever you are. But yes, they are donating this scope of work. And it's my understanding they will be paying the roofer directly, so that we won't be commingling donations and checks and all that. But it will be Heather Turnbull doing the work. They all have to be under the insurance policy, too. Yeah, I'll have her stop by before she starts work. Yeah, I mean, that all has to be approved, right? Back into the main thing else. Nope. And work should start in two weeks. Two weeks. That was part of the donor's stipulation. It had to begin now. Yeah. The donor paid, and then that was all. Can you send me the information so that I can get that into the contract? Sure. OK. Yes. For a worker's column and all that, just not that she has it, but that it will. Yeah, I need the wording just to make sure I have it, right? Of the job description and. OK, I will send you over a copy of her estimate. That's all I've got. It's the one piece of paper. I think a little more time on tonight's thing good. I will send her to your door. Well, I think I can get before that. Next, we've also got another investment policy for the trustees of public funds. It's another background on this. Well, it's all part of our updating all of our policies. Right, right. That's basically all. It's part of that master financial policy. In accordance with 24 BSA 2431 funds held behind the town and trust for any purpose, including cemetery trust funds are under the charge and management of the town's trustees of public funds and the trustees of public funds have the power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which any of these funds are invested as well as the proceeds of such investments. So that's basically an opening paragraph, and I'm not going to read the whole thing. I would move to approve this. And as we continue to get more in line with the appropriate policies. The never-ending policies. Yes, my second. I. Hi, sorry. And Doreen Jones, representing the Rochester Public Library, is asking for use of the park for a retirement party for Jeanette Bear. Jeanette, thank you for all your service. Yeah, 20 years, 19. And this is going to be on the 17th of June from 2004. Have you guys made the decision to lose the replacement? Yes, we have. Yes, what's her name? Carol and something. Come on, Carol. Carol. I think probably everybody knows Carol from my hardware. But she, although she's never worked a library job before, she's got extensive work history doing librarian-type things for different art collectors. So I think that she definitely has transferable skills. And I think she'll be excellent. She can read? Yeah, she knows her ABCs in one, two, three. It's a very fluent French as well. Oh, all right. Well, thank you, Carol, for taking on this job. And thank you for doing it for so long. And I move to approve the application to throw you a party. Second. All in favor? And she's always cleaning. Dusty and clean and sweeping. Hopefully she won't have to be doing the mocking. And the roof is leaking. She will, though. Yeah, she will, yes. So speaking of the library, any reports other than that? Big news? Big announcement? Those are the two biggies. Two biggies, they kind of covered that. Everything else? Excuse me. Oh, sorry. Yep. I'm sorry. While you were just still doing park, I wanted to ask two quick park questions. Is that OK, or should I wait? Well, go ahead. OK. Is it? I wanted to ask the town crew to put the picnic tables on the park. This is the time when they usually do it is around Memorial Day. They're going to do it this week. OK, so you, you worry about taking care of it. Yep. My other question was Jerry LeBlanc took a picture today that he sent to me of you, Frank and Nancy Woolley and Lois Bond planting some trees on the park. And I can't remember where the trees were coming from. It was discussed at a previous meeting, I think. Could you just tell me where the trees came from? Worth it a donation or? They were not. They were part of a grant that we wrote. You can call me. They came from Kabul Creek Nursery in Monkton. And there are six of them. And it's a grant, a two for one grant. So we got $5,000 from the state. And now we're looking for in kind. We had in kind to some of it to plant. And we'll be spreading mulch throughout the park around all of the trees. I've got a break down on that here coming up. And Frank will talk about that. But they came from Kabul Creek Nursery, which is a wholesale nursery. Thank you. Sorry to bother you. No problem. Terry puts the scene with the septic field down there behind the school. We'll talk about that later. Yeah. Got a broken hydrant that I ordered a new one. Somebody broke us Friday night. Any idea who hit that? None. But I'm not going to replace just the guts and stuff. The whole thing is 40 years old. So I'm going to replace it. Because even if I replace the top part, it's not replacing where the valve is. So I can't see spending three quarters of what it cost to put one brand new one in. What does it cost to put a new one in? They didn't give me a price yet. They didn't give you a price yet. They ain't going to be cheap. I think hydrant's probably going to own 2,500. Yeah, I think we were valuing them at $3,000. Yeah, they're still going to dig it up and replace it.  Is that insurance? I'm checking. You're checking? Yeah. OK. Just a nice fit of my car insurance. I got a piece of the car down there, but I've asked several people. Nobody seems to have come to light on what it fits. But somebody's got some front end damage. I would think so. Who do the next locker game? Also, I got a fire truck that's in the hospital right now. I have no idea what it's going to cost us. They changed one solenoid and found another one that's bad. So I'm hoping it just pays that to be within reason. Which truck? The tanker. The tanker. We need to have that back. If I get back with the dump two weeks now, I got an idea it's going to be another week or so. Where is it? Down at the freight liner down in the lead. That's the only place we could find that wanted to work on it. Yeah. The agent. It's not a freight liner, it's a custom cab. So it's not like you can go anywhere to get fixed. No more by the end of the week. So we have mutual aid standing by? Yeah, I said that was a job before. Soon as I knew there was something wrong. So as far as that goes, it's not. We don't have any problem with the coverage. We're in better shape sometimes. Since we just went to a fire in Granville last week to a truck fire because there's no response. Yes, I hear that. I was monitoring. So when they come down and thinking about a suit in an ambulance, how are they going to do that when they can't get two or three people to run the fire truck to the scene? They're working on improving that. They ain't going to. They just don't want to have it. You can leave it there. I don't buy what Matt tells me. So I realize what it takes to do the ambulance and what it's going to take. And it's a lot more than you're getting led to believe. Other than that, I guess everything's good. And Jeff's not here tonight? Grant updates? I just have a couple of little things. We received our final reimbursement for the Howbrook of 3100. So that part of the grant is all done and closed out. And we also received notification that we are good to go to begin work with our grants and aid for this year's award. It was $27,000. And we'll be working on North Hollow and Cooper Run. And those grants are to clean up and shape stone line drainage ditches. So Kuta received notification too that he's good to start any time on that. And that's all I've got. I've got a couple of things that have been done. The EV chargers are now operational down here. They are up and running. It's only set up for two cars at a time. The two chargers are different connectors on either side of each charger or different vehicles. So those are up and running. The bridge at West Hill, the clearing started up there. They're probably pretty well done clearing. And then they'll be working on the approach to put the temporary in. And John had put some gravel down at the Lions Club Park in the driveway, which I asked him to do a while ago. And he got that completed. The trees we planted on the park, Nancy gave a rundown on that. And on June 3, which is a Saturday, we're planning on getting 40 yards of mulch to mulch all the trees on the park. We're going to be trying to get a bunch of volunteers together for mulch to spread the mulch. I'm trying to look for five or six pieces of equipment with an operator to at least transport the mulch from the Parkhouse parking lot over to the trees. And if we could get 10 or 12 folks with a shovel or rake to just spread it around the trees, that would be good. I'd like to list some fire department folks, if they would be willing. You've probably got something going on that day. I know, but this is in the morning. Hopefully we could get it done. Even library folks, people that use the park, farmers market folks, anybody that's willing to volunteer, that would be nice if they could call either me or the town office and leave word. That would be good. If not, we'll just have to pay somebody to do it.  I wanted to do it before Memorial Day, but there's just not time enough. And the last thing, I did talk to John and asked him to put the benches and tables out this week. And I talked to the fertilizer guy, and he said after he gets 10,000 acres done at Porn, he'll get to the park. 10,000 acres. So that's about it. Any one-on-soon, anything we want to talk about? No, it's pretty quiet on there tonight. Yep. And I think we're moving to- Oh, Martha's waving now. Martha's waving. Quick question. I noticed that you're going into an executive session with Terry Severy about water and sewer. So obviously, I can't attend that, but what I'm wondering is, do you expect there's going to be something that when you come out of the executive session that you would be, that I should include my article? I doubt it. OK. I was thinking I could call the town office tomorrow and just check with the ladies and find out. Is that OK? Sure. If we come to any major decisions. OK. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. Thank you. So as Martha mentioned, we're going to conclude this meeting and then go into the executive session. Thank you all for coming.


इस्टमाल होने वाली टेकनालूँजीस पर हमरी गुफ्ट्गु जारी है, इस इस्टिस्ले को आगे बड़ातेवे इस्ट्ट्ट्ट, इस्ट्ट्ट एक वड़ा एहम मोजूँ है, वो है सोचल मीट्टिया, यह उसके साथ साथ, वेब 2.0. वो सोचल मीट्टीया, यस को सोचल नद्वर्ख्खम् भी खथे�沒錯 नद्वर्किंग भी कतेगे, सूशिल नजवव्रक्यं, सब यह ईसनईश भी थाने विछायारी है। नहीं अपनी साईचां टब एक मेदे लिबाटान जाए। रचा कर नहीं मार्द रब और ढ़़ कारचाक दे। January 8 Knowledge management Unintentional Collaboration Metal Knowledge sharing component Key Element Key role playing Knowledge management Collaborative work Social media Social network तो ये यो दोनो चीजे मिलके तो नोलज मैंज मेंट के काम को आगे बडफती हैं. तो सोचत्टन नधवोग can serve to identify a community of practice, किस्थीबी फिल्ट में हो सकती है, किस्थीबी नेश्ट के अर्या में हो सकती है, can serve to identify a community of practice which can be in any field in any area of interest the work to make it, the work to identify it all its functioning can be done with the help of social media when we talk about social media in the perspective of knowledge management social network analysis की term से हमारा वास्ता पडते ये term क्या है a research tool that dates back to the 1970s and has become increasingly used in knowledge management applications इस में होता क्या mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people between groups and organizations and machines like computers and other communication machines SNA or social network analysis can be used to identify communities and informal networks and to analyze the knowledge flows that is knowledge sharing, communication and other interactions that occur within them so all kinds of relationships all kinds of communication that happens between people and machines or between people to identify it and to map it social network analysis technology can be used SNA for expertise location system this expertise location system the expertise of an organization it is made as a database it is called as expertise location system so SNA is used to identify experts and expertise to develop an expertise location system for this it is called as a survey tool as we can call it as a questioner survey tool is developed to collect required data and to identify network members and their exchange patterns after that in the next stage data are analyzed using software like PAGIC or UCNET to identify patterns of interaction and relationships and when this analysis is done then these data can be used to inform decision making for decision making the outcome of the results can be used after that social media or social networking sites or services can be used in a knowledge management tool kit social media are increasingly integrated into knowledge management tool kits social media manage the content of the conversation or interaction as an information artifact in the online environment the conversation on social media or the interaction or the discussion or the knowledge sharing is an artifact or in other words as a document it can be recorded on it and its analysis can also be done this example is a wikis wikis are social media in which co-authors collectively build textual and visual websites that on a website together they do their work and by contributing to their share they create those images they call them wikis this is another example of Google Docs Google Docs can also be collaborative work it manages documents spreadsheets and other files in a cloud computing environment which allows users to upload and share documents from anywhere with internet access that wherever you are in the world through Google Docs you can do your work and you can upload the file and you can do some addition deletion similarly videos and photo sharing websites like YouTube, Flickr they use videos and images to create social interaction people make their own pictures make their own videos and through this share knowledge with others social network websites like Facebook they represent links and nodes in the network to conversation threads you can see who is interacting with what is he talking about its analysis can be done when we talk about web 2.0 it has some characteristics it has its own definition according to which if these things are done then we can call it's second version or second addition 2.0 the first point is the web as a platform the platform used is word wide web then user control of your own data that every user can control their own comments whenever you do addition deletion or edit it remove it or add some more it has its own control then these services instead of package software it doesn't have it focuses on services this is the name of the services an architecture of participation through participation knowledge share cost effective scalability the work in it is very cheap cost effective way very cheap any user or participant can share the information after this remixable data sources and data transformations in this data from one place to another can be remixed this is the example of mashups after this software that rises above the level of single device in it there is a software that can run on different devices like mobile, computers tabs, laptops and the last point is harnessing of collective intelligence collective intelligence to harness it to get it what is the meaning of this specifically the collective collective means a set of participants a set of users a group of users determine what is of value what is valid and what is important and what is not important all these decisions are done by users the more people use web 2.0 the more the site automatically improves users together improve that site a key feature of web 2.0 site is that the users of that site contribute the content users contribution that content is moving forward and web site is also improving and services are improving the same way web 2.0 is a big company of the world of the world of the world that IBM uses a decentralized social media approach to promote knowledge sharing and collaboration the IBM company has combination of internal and external blogs in the name of social blue they have a platform like facebook and crowd sourcing in addition to being active on linkedin and facebook there are many other examples but from the IBM example we can see how they have used web 2.0 technologies for knowledge sharing