Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this year's Give Education Event Basics and Platform Overview webinar. We're super excited to be here with you all. We're going to give it a second, let everybody get settled. If you are here, we'd love to hear what organization you're representing so you can just say hello, type your word name into the chat, and we'll get started in a second. Alrighty, we're going to get started. So again, welcome. Thank you for taking time out of your day to join us for our first webinar. We have a lot to cover. Just a little housekeeping note. The webinar is going to be recorded today, so I will be uploading that, and then we'll be adding it to the fundraising toolkit, and I know Kerry's going to pass that along to everyone as well. But just to get started, we have an agenda we're going to cover. Just to welcome you all again, my name is Sarah. I am the Project Coordinator with Mighty Cause, and we are the platform provider for Give Education Day.  So if you have been here before, welcome back, and if you're new, we're excited to have you. I have some other lovely people joining me on the call as well that I'm going to introduce in a moment, but just to cover the agenda real quick, we're going to kind of highlight ways to get ready, because this is a wonderful national movement for pay to 12 education. We'll talk a little bit about the benefits of participating in the event. Of course, I will walk you through pages and just the different platform overview and the tools that we have available to help you have a successful campaign. We'll talk through next steps once we get through the webinar, and then we'll also chat through resources, and we'll have some Q&A, so a lot to accomplish. But without further ado, I'm going to pass it over to our host, Alumni Nations, Jonathan. Fantastic. Thank you. So hi, everyone. My name is Jonathan Rivera. I just wanted to take a quick moment to represent the team here at Alumni Nations and share our excitement for this program. We are proud and honored to be sponsors of Give Education Day. For us, it was an easy decision and easy investment, because this is what we're passionate about. This is an absolute passion for us. So we hope you find success. We hope you find success in engaging with those in your community and really anywhere around the world with how this program is set up. We hope you find success in engaging with these individuals that believe in what you're doing. They're out there. We know they are. And oftentimes, they simply need to be asked because they know not where to go or how to find help, how to contribute, how to give. They just need to be asked. So we're just so happy.  You're making a huge difference in the lives of students. You made a difference in my life and my four kiddos lives. And so we're just so grateful. So with that, from all of us at Alumni Nations, we wish you the very best in Give Education Day 2024. So thanks. Awesome. And I'm going to pass it over to you, Kerry, as well. Great. Thank you. Hello. My name is Kerry Dayton. And I am one of the administrators to help all of you with the Give Education Day. We are here as a resource for you to make sure that you get your profile set up, to make sure that you're maximizing your ability to fundraise and reach out to your communities. Let's talk about Give Education. Honestly, this is a tremendously project that I'm extremely passionate about. Like Jonathan said, we have all been touched by education some way or another. And so it only makes sense that we have a day to celebrate education across this country. This is a national movement that's supporting K-12 education institutions and organizations across all 50 states. And when Alumni Nations came to me and said, hey, we think we want to do this, I thought, why isn't this being done already? So the fact that you're on this call and thinking about joining us or perhaps already have registered is fantastic because you see the vision as well. Like Jonathan said, I actually have a wonderful high school that I went to. I don't know how to donate to them. But if they sent me an email or I saw on Facebook and they said, hey, we're raising money for Give Education Day, I would absolutely click on the link and donate money. So sometimes people just need to be asked. We all have that school or that organization that we were so proud to be a part of or helped change our lives. And today's Give Education Day is the day to celebrate that and give back. And so Alumni Nations, we're trying to make this easy for you to go out and reach out to your donors and your supporters. And not only that, but then capitalize on your donors networks. The wonderful thing about Give Education Day is it's one day that celebrates education and encourages people to donate, but it builds through social media. So I can go on and say, hey, I donated to my high school, all of you alumni that graduated in my class, don't forget to join it. Don't forget to donate today as well. So you really start that snowball effect through social media when your donors have the opportunity to be cheerleaders for you. A few other things about Give Education, it is one day, Wednesday, March 6. However, we do open up early giving on February 7. So that's your opportunity to reach out to donors electronically or via social media or email and say, hey, we're participating in Give Education Day on March 6. However, if you're on vacation or whatever, don't worry, click here and donate today. So you do have the option to get donations all the way through from February 7 to the end of March 6. The minimum donation is $10 per donor. And we just need you to be a 501c3 organization with an NCES code. So everybody's invited to apply as long as you meet those criteria. And you do need to register. We can't tell and share the news about your organization nor can you, if you're not, if you don't register on the Mighty Cos platform, which is a software platform that we use to help you raise the funds. Next slide. So let's talk about benefits of participating. Normally, on this call, we've had the blessing to have Central High School Foundation out of Omaha, Nebraska participate. Unfortunately, Josh was unavailable, but he can certainly speak. He has certainly spoken in the past to the benefits of participating. It's a really easy way. So if I can speak on his behalf, a really easy way to raise funds for your organization within a short time frame, we found that, you know, if you allow several months for people to donate, they keep saying, I'll get to it. I'll get to it. I'll get to it. But with one day, they feel the sense of urgency. And so through that, it's a great way to jump start and get moving quickly to raise funds. It's a wonderful way to educate the public about your cause. And also because of that snowballing effect I talked about through social media, potentially draw additional donors to your cause. It activates your supporters. And again, lapsed donor, I want to donate to my high school foundation. I just don't know how. It's a great opportunity to say, Hey, Carrie, write that check. And I would if they reached out to me.  So in other words, if you sign up and I give Education Day, you raise $100, then we will match that with $100 from our account to yours. So there's a great opportunity here to again, build and capitalize on the money that you raised with the $100 that we're able to give you. Thanks for our next slide. Go ahead. I'm meeting myself. So the first thing that you will definitely need to do like Carrie said, you need to register your organization in order to participate in this year's Give Education Day. Super simple. You're just going to go to the Give Education Day website and you'll click register. It'll bring you to a short form. It'll prompt you to either search for your organization name or EIN and it'll have you log in or create an account on the platform if you're brand new. But if you like Carrie saying all education focused nonprofits with the 501c3 tax exam status or if you're a school with an NCS code, you're all welcome to participate and Give Education Day. Once you are registered, you'll also be able to and you're approved. You'll also be able to go in and make changes to your page if you participated last year. If you're brand new, you'll be able to edit your page. And Carrie and I are going to kind of walk you through that. And then I have extensive slides showing you how to edit. But then you can also add or remove any administrators if you need. And just a reminder that the deadline to register is going to be February 21st this year. And so I had asked Sarah as well when I first started working if four or five years ago with Mighty Cause, I didn't understand what it looked like to have a finalized page. So I asked Sarah just before she starts talking to you about building your page, what a good example of what your page would look like. So Give Education Day, you're going to send out emails, social media saying, hey, click on this link and donate to our organization. Central High School Foundation has raised tens of thousands of dollars to Give Education Day every year. And they have a good page. And so I wanted to show you kind of what the finished product would look like. You can see when your donor clicks on the link that you'll provide, it takes them straight to a finalized page with your organization's name, really big donate here button shows the goal that they're looking to raise. And then if Sarah scrolls down a little bit more, you'll see the mission about Central High School Foundation. There's testimonials of people who value the Central High School Foundation, so your donors can see that other people are supporting the organization that you care about. And then there's also a section for videos and or media galleries. And I would really encourage you to throw some pictures up. People love seeing what is happening at your organization and how the money is being spent. It really ties them to you. And as a donor, it helps me see where my money goes and it makes me feel better because I know it just didn't go into a dark hole. So please take some time when you're filling out your page. I think the more that you fill out the page and Sarah is going to talk to you about that, the more likely you are to close on larger donations. Sarah, thank you for taking a minute to show everybody what that final product looks like. Hop back into the slideshow. All right, so for this segment, we're going to kind of walk through the platform and the tools available to you so you can hopefully have a really wonderful and successful campaign this year. So just kind of platform feature highlights like a large, I know, top level overview. Mighty Cause, we offer you customizable organization pages, custom donation levels. You can set up your own matching grants during the event. We have peer-to-peer fund raising capability. Of course, we have very robust donation reports or donor retention reports. You can create a custom thank you page. And then we also just have extensive resource library, really great tools, and just different resources for you to hopefully, you know, be able to successfully plan your campaign from start to finish. So first things first, accessing your organization page. Easy, go to the site, click login. It's going to prompt you to sign in or create an account. So it says login or sign up if you're brand new. You can log in through Google or you can just create an account with your email address. Once you are logged in, you'll be able to see at the top right hand corner, there'll be a little note image and your name. And it'll show you organizations that you are an approved administrator of. So you'll be able to see that. That's how you're going to access your page directly. You'll just click that drop down, click your organization page, and then you'll be able to go in and start making edits.  You are automatically also requesting admin access to your organization profile. So admin requests are actually reviewed by our Mighty Cause support team. And so you can expect somewhere around two to three business days for an approval. You'll get a separate email for registration approval and you'll get a separate email for your admin approval. And sometimes that, you know, looks like you've been approved, maybe because you have like your school email address, or maybe you have a separate email. And sometimes we'll need additional details just to verify because of all the sensitive donor information that you'll have access to. But when you are logged in, just like I was showing you Central High School's page, you'll be having your organization dashboard on the left hand side of your screen. And just a quick walkthrough, you'll have your overview. That's where you can see a quick kind of to-do list. These are just kind of recommended items that we suggest you to definitely double check or fill out if you're brand new.  All of those, the more you fill out on your page and the more you make it look like a finished, you know, piece, the more likely donors are going to take your page seriously, know that you're involved in the event. And it just looks better overall, which, you know, encourages more gifts to be made to your organization. Organization page on the left is where you're going to customize your profile, tell your story, add in that media gallery. Fundraising tools is where you're going to manage all of your fundraising efforts.  Reports is where you're going to find your reports. You'll be able to find your retention reports. If you were a previous participant, perhaps last year, participated, you can pull that report, see which donors gave last year's campaign, but haven't given this year. We also have the checkout, which you can customize that experience. And then, of course, your settings. So if you need to add any additional admins or anything like that, that's where you can go. This is another example of a very well-filled out organization page. So you can see logo, banner. It just looks really nice. Banners, usually with less text, are going to be more effective because you probably already have a logo that has text. But there's enough text on the page that you really don't need to fill your banner with a lot of text. Making sure that you update your goal bar for this year's event so you can set your metrics, your goal bar. You can also opt to include a fundraise button. This one doesn't show you one, but there is a toggle. It's always on. You can choose to hide it if you prefer. But this easily allows people to go to your organization page, click fundraise and start a peer-to-peer campaign on your organization's behalf. Then you can update your about section. People really want to know where their funds are going to in your school, whatever that looks like. So this is kind of an example that I thought was really good. Why you should support them during their campaign. They also took this space to thank community partners. So if you have any community partners that you want to call out, you can also add them to that section as well. But it's all on-page editing. So all the edits that you make directly to your page, you'll be able to see in real time. You'll be able to get that sense of what a donor is seeing. You can bold things, highlight things, add photos. It's very customizable, which is really nice. You can also, whoops, I'm scrolling like it's a page. There's also a featured campaign section. So if you do have peer-to-peer fundraising efforts happening, you can highlight those, which is really nice. And then additionally, as you scroll down, there's a giving activity feed. So if your donors, you know, you want them to be displayed on your page and thanking them in real time and just giving them added visibility, that's really nice. That's something that you can optionally toggle on or toggle off. So those are all, you know, different parts of the page. So definitely take some time and go through and update.  So kind of narrowing in a little bit more on this. Logos will be one-to-one ratios. So basically square images. If you have a social image, a Facebook image for your logo, like usually people will use the same one. You can also set a theme color, which I think is something that not everyone is aware of. So if you have specific colors that your organization uses, like for instance, this one is using a dark vibrant blue, you can customize what color these buttons on your page will be, which is really fun. But overall, your profile page, your URL, that's what you're going to be sharing with supporters. And then also your donation form. So you can choose, do you want to put a direct form, a direct link to donate in your emails? Maybe that would be helpful. Or do you want them to go to your page and really see like your campaign efforts and where you are and your goals and stuff like that. But as you work down, you can tell your story, like I was saying, there's all inline editor, which means you can make edits directly to your page. You can move photos around. You can add different colors, different heading sizes. You can also add a fun little custom tab. So on the example carry was showing they had a testimonials tab. So you could create a testimonials tab. You could also do like a deeper dive into what, you know, different donation levels are going to what impact it's going to have on your organization. So if you wanted to break that down further, I do encourage everyone to make use of it. Just think it adds another fun dynamic to the page and just more information. But overall, just really think about what you want to get out of participating in Give Education Day and make sure that you are getting across that message as clearly and quickly as possible. Think about the fact that, you know, donors, when they come to your page, you probably have all of maybe eight seconds to kind of grab their attention and get your ask across. So you don't want to think about like too much text. Really think about, you know, a good flow of photos and videos and kind of bulleted points because you want to try to keep their attention. But you can update your, your profile page on this content at any time. There's there's no deadline to really, I mean, there is a deadline like you want to get it done probably before early giving or before, of course, the giving day. But if you want to go in and make an adjustment to your goal, maybe you met your goal, you can go in and update that just to keep momentum going. So this is something that you can always update. Going into some of the tools on the platform to help you. We have a really great matching grant tool set up, found under your fundraising tools. The goal is for you to secure your own matching grants. So maybe you have community partners or you have an alumni who is willing to give you, you know, a matching grants amount, but you can set these up and you can basically cue them one after another. If you have multiples, there's a lot of different parameters that we are kind of give you ability to edit. So whether you want to match dollars one to one, it's very customizable. So take some time, look into that. If you have not done matches before, I encourage you to try them out. Get your toes wet. It's a really effective way to kind of get donors to give during specific times. Maybe there's a lull during the day. Maybe you have a full day match and it's just a really great marketing tool for you as well. So definitely check that out. Take some time, look over. It's also fun once you, you know, once you've a little more comfortable with matches, you can start to work with your grantor and maybe get a little more creative. And that just overall is going to make the grantor feel very seen by you, which is, you know, always a good thing. Peer to peer campaigns and templates is going to also be found under fundraising tools. This is where you're going to see all of your peer to peer efforts or any campaigns that maybe you might have set up in the past or last year. A good, you know, housekeeping thing is to just go to your campaigns. If you are a previous participant and maybe clear out toggle discoverability is what it's called. So you'll just hide any out of date campaigns, campaigns that you don't want showing up in Give Education Days search this year. So go through and take a look at that. This is also where you're going to create a fundraiser template, which really overall just helps people who want to fundraise for you. It helps them not have to start from scratch. So basically you've got one fundraiser template as part of participating in Give Education Day. If you used it last year, you'll want to go and make any updates or tweaks. If you're new, then you can set kind of a streamlined look for your pages. You can add a fundraising goal. You can add an image. Maybe you want to have your logo on there. You can add, you know, custom messaging. Maybe you want your mission statement or any information at it. The donor, not the donor, the participant can then go in and they can tweak anything they want. So if maybe the 500 goal feels too big to them, they can go in and they can update it to 250. So this is a really good way to kind of cut the fear out of starting from a blank page. So I definitely recommend everyone to review their template or set one up. Reporting is also as we work through your dashboard. So this is where you're going to go to grab all of your data. So donation reports, if you want to see them in real time, you can pull donation reports starting, you know, as soon as early giving starts for this year. You can also look at last year's donation reports if you want to start to compare, like, when were we getting the most gifts during the day? Maybe we want to focus our efforts, you know, between these hours because we saw a lot of gifts during that time. So that's a way you can kind of start to use your data to plan your campaign for this year. Offline donations you can add here. You can also view your retention reports. Something to note that all admins on your organization are going to receive email notifications when a donor makes a gift. So if you know somebody on there doesn't want to get notifications every time a gift is made, they can go ahead into their own user account and under settings they can turn off that option. But yeah, so this is where you're going to go. You can sort your campaign by event year and then you can also set your time period. So if you want to look specifically like during early giving last year, you can set those time period dates and you can pull that data. Like I was talking about retention reports, you can also definitely work this into your campaign strategy this year if you are a previous participant. Easily go to your retention report button, click it and then filter by campaign event type. So you'll select the 2024 event. Once we start getting data, you'll be able to go in and you'll be able to see in real time which donors gave last year that have not given during this year's event. So that's really important information. Those are key people that you're going to want to reach out to, you know, pull that CVS report, pull those emails, throw it into your email, you know, system and then send a note that just says, hey, you donated during last year's Give Education Day campaign. Here's how you can make a gift this year. So be sure to work that into your timeline and your strategy. You can start, you know, pulling these reports as soon as early giving begins this year. Working through, we have our checkout flow. This is definitely something you'll also want to check up on, making sure that, you know, you have a couple of different options when it comes to how much donor dollars to give some suggested amounts and then also their impact. So for this example, you know, $25 a school project targeting teacher retention. So whatever those dollar amounts that you want to suggest, just make sure that you put kind of a description. It's not required, but I will say it goes a long way in helping donors decide how much to give and also maybe encouraging them to give a little more.  Well, that sounds really, really great. I would love to, you know, be able to support that. So being able to go in and just review donor suggested levels from last year or add them fresh this year, we always suggest between four and six. We find that that doesn't overwhelm donors too much. If you add too many, they get a little overwhelmed. And we don't want that. So keeping it between four to six is really the sweet spot. And then you can go ahead and just kind of, it's really nice. Part of, you know, what's really special about Mighty Cause is everything that you're seeing while you make edits is what the donor sees. So you can kind of get a feel in real time. Do I have too many donation levels? Would I feel overwhelmed if I was looking at this donor, you know, checkout form? So something to just keep in mind. Oh, I also wanted to mention that your donor form is also where you can collect additional information. So if you wanted to collect phone numbers, that's not something that we automatically collect. So if you are, you know, a school that likes to follow up with donors via call, you'll definitely want to add one additional question that collects that donor information. Post-checkout flow as we continue across. So we just looked at donation form. Thank you, Paige. This is definitely something we'll also want to add some content to. Just a quick message, maybe a video or a photo, thanking your donors for their gift during the Education Day this year. It goes a long way. I know, you know, most organizations hopefully have a larger follow-up plan in place for donors. But this is just a special quick thank you that the platform will show them as soon as they click donate. So I'll click that donate button and then this page will pop up with your thank you message. It's also a good place where you can add an additional call to action button. So right here you can see kind of small says learn more. Where do you want them to go when they see your thank you? Do you want them to sign up for a newsletter?  Thinking about what would be a good next step for them, you can add a little button there. And like I said, you can preview this. This just looks exactly like it would look pretty much to the donor. So you can kind of decide formatting, you can bold things. It's all on-page editing, which is really nice. Additional settings, kind of some key highlights here. This is where you're going to go to add or remove admins. So if you have people on your admin list for your organization who are no longer maybe with your organization, you want to remove those. So you can go in, you can make, you know, changes. You can add new people. Maybe you have additional people who need to be attached to the page. Maybe you have like a reporting kind of someone who does specific reporting for the event. You'll want to get them added so that they can access that data. This is also where you can go to update any illegal addresses. So if you need to make any updates, if you want, you can update your disbursement settings. You can sign up for EFT so that you're not getting a check. We always encourage everyone to sign up for EFT because you'll get, you know, your money twice a month rather than once a month via check. And then you won't be subject to that $5 check fee as well. So we always encourage if you can set up EFT. You can also update your social share information. You can add a little picture, a description. So just kind of go through and take the time to make sure if you are a previous participant that all your dates are right. Sometimes you'll see a social card that says 2022 because it's just something that not a lot of people check, but definitely take the time and make sure all your dates are current. So once you've kind of filled out your entire organization page, your feeling guide, the basics are done, you've built out your fundraising kind of template, you're probably thinking, what do I do next?  So what is it that you are fundraising for? What do you want to get out of participating and give Education Day? Carrie went over just a wonderful list of benefits of participating. So kind of thinking those through, talking with your school, figuring out like, are we fundraising for something specific? Just kind of goal setting is definitely like where you want to start. And then you'll want to start promoting via socials, email, maybe you want to have an event, maybe you want to start talking about it in a very public way, kind of creating a timeline so that you can from start to finish just have a really successful campaign. Timelines are going to be key to keeping your campaign on track and your momentum going. Then you'll want to activate supporters. So this usually looks like reaching out to community sponsors, talking to maybe your school board, anybody who's like connected to your organization that maybe has a larger network would be good to activate, see if they want to do some peer to peer fundraising, kind of thinking about how you can extend your reach. So it's not just you trying to fundraise. The more people you can leverage and get involved, the more success you're going to feel and see. Like I was saying, invite supporters, fundraise them to participate as peer to peer fundraisers. We're actually going to have a prerecorded webinar that I'm going to be doing that's all about peer to peer fundraising. So look out for that in the coming weeks. And then start thinking about how you can secure matching grants. If you've never done them, just start simple, do a one to one match. Maybe you have an alumni or somebody who is willing to make a gift and you know, it doesn't have to be a huge amount. It can be something smaller like 250. But any matching grant size is really going to help keep momentum up and encourage gifts. And it's also just something to talk about. So it's nice to say, you know, send out an email that says between this hour to this hour, we have a matching grant live, make your gift now to really double your impact. So thinking about securing matching grants. And then of course, just overall raising money for your school or foundation. So I want to cover some of the resources and support that is available to you. Of course, Kerry's awesome. So you can always reach out to Kerry. If you have questions about participating or just any type of kind of general questions, if you have more platform related specific questions or technical questions or maybe a donor needs a receipt recent to them, you can just email our mighty cause support and we'll be quick to help take care of that. So that email is support at mighty cause.com. And then we have, you know, just of course, as usual, a wonderful resource library for give education under resources, fundraising toolkit. You can see kind of important dates to keep track of. We also have support resources. We have mighty cause support information available to you. We also have a bunch of kind of downloadable PDFs to help you start building your campaign. So timelines, tips, we have templates, email templates, things to really kind of take some of the lift off so that you can then focus on the fundraising efforts themselves. So you can customize these emails. And then of course, if you have questions, review the FAQs, a lot of the information is there. You can just copy paste into any emails you need. And I want to just give a quick shout out. I know so many of you are one person shops, maybe, you know, it's one individual that's trying to do everything. And so use these resources. We built those with you and mine thinking how can we make this easy, right, to be able to promote and get things off the ground. So. And then, of course, mighty cause also has a wonderful resource center. Some quick little picks for you. We have a blog, we have ebooks you can download specific to giving events. We have pre recorded webinars, which are really nice too. So we have an extensive library of on demand, kind of different topics, we have one specifically about matching grants, we have one specifically about kind of peer to peer fundraising or how to activate your board, different things like that. So definitely go and just kind of browse and see if there's anything that maybe would help you out this year. And then again, general questions, you can email, give education at alumni nations calm, technical and support, go ahead and send those over to mighty cause. I'll pass it to you, Carrie. Lastly, thank you, Sarah. I just wanted to, these are a couple of testimonials. You guys can certainly review them on our website when this webinar has been posted. One of the things, Sarah, as I was listening to you talk that I want to stress to those that are on the call, and it looks like the majority of you are new or considering joining rather than past returning participants. It really, there's, you can make this as time consuming or as not time consuming as you would like, right? So at a minimum, it's about a 45 minute from beginning to end, getting your profile set up and getting, and that's if you were going really slow, right? And so at that point, we have really provided, and one of these testimonials says, Hey, it's really turnkey, which Jonathan pointed out as well. If you go into that toolkit on the website, there are literally email templates that you copy, paste into your email, change your organization's name and hit send. So at a minimum, I mean, it's great if we all think about, you know, would love to come up with really creative ideas, that type of thing. You can if you have the time, but if you're limited on time and you still want the opportunity to raise money, we've done everything that we can to create a toolkit for you that you can just copy, paste, send. And so it's really don't let the timeframe intimidate you. We have seen organizations sign up, you know, right about now, get their profile set. And just with some social media posts, we're able to start achieving the goals, because again, you're getting that snowball effect with other people promoting what you're doing. So I don't, you know, make it as detailed and spend as much time on it as you would like, or at least get going and get started so that you don't lose out on the opportunity to raise funds. And if you don't get a matching grant, that's okay. Get your feet wet this year, next year, get the matching grant, right? So don't, don't let that stop you, Sarah, next page.  So at a minimum, try and raise $100.  And so don't hesitate, get started. My team, Sharon and I are here to help you. So if you run into questions or challenges, you can certainly email us, we'll get you taken care of. And I can honestly say the Mighty Cause support team, they respond very quickly. So don't hesitate if it's a technical question to respond to them or to send them an email, they will get back to you very soon. I know sometimes you're working on this on a Saturday because you don't have time to do this on Monday through Friday. They'll respond quickly on Monday.  In my opinion, when it comes to this and you'll see how easy it can be, all of the schools that participate, like so many of them are returning year after year because they've learned it's just a great easy way to help achieve your goals financially. Thank you, Sarah. Awesome. Well, if anyone has any questions, you can send those through the chat or the Q&A button. We'll wait and see if anyone has any questions. In the meantime, I'm thinking this is being recorded. So we were going to upload it to the toolkit and then the slides will also be available to you. So you don't have to listen to me talk again. You can just look at all the beautiful slides. Sarah, we did have a question come across in the chat and it says, as a newcomer, does it make sense to identify a lower fund goal? Sure, absolutely. I can tell you in my experience, you know, we've had some organizations say, hey, we just want to raise $500 for some teacher kits that will go into the classroom and provide supplies. And those organizations that did that hit that $500 very easily. So I think 100%, if that's what you're more comfortable with, I would recommend going ahead, setting that lower goal, seeing what it feels like, and then next year, go higher. You'll find that as long as you're promoting it through social media and sending out your emails to your network, you will raise money and you'll start to see how easy it becomes using this platform. So I do think, sure, if that, do it, absolutely, get that lower goal in there and just give it a shot. I'll add that it also just kind of depends on Michelle, the relationship that you've kind of already built with your community and with your alumni. If you're coming at a cold, right, then this is the first time you're ever asking for funds, then, yeah, it's maybe smart to start a little bit lower. But if this is part of something, some nurturing and relationship you've built, then you should feel confident and comfortable asking for more because you've been giving, giving, giving, and now you're asking, right, to them, to participate in this. I'll also add, if you meet your goal during Give Education Day, feel free to update your bar, update your goal, make a stretch goal.  Encourage more gifts, thank everyone for everything they've done, you're blown away by the support, and can they take you to your stretch goal? So that's something that you can always kind of have in the back pocket as well. Yes, perfect. Any other questions? If you do think of anything that you need, Carrie's available, you can send her an email, you have technical questions, go ahead and send those over to us at Mighty Cause, and we're just, we're really excited to be here supporting you all for another awesome Give Education Day. So thanks for joining us. Thanks everyone. Thank you, everyone.


From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar, and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. A quick word of advice though before the show begins – your chances of waking up and smelling the coffee are much better if the cat's litter box is not in your bedroom. This episode is brought to you by the audiobook Could It Be True, Volume 1, Urban Legends by Cindy Parmitter. Here a free sample of this creepy and true audiobook at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. A new book about Saddam Hussein's last days in captivity reveals he was a big fan of the music of Mary J. Blige. Wow, that's gotta make Mary J feel all kinds of creepy. A new study says pesticides on food may cause damage to the brain. So it took a study to figure that out?  There's a dirty little secret about hanging out at the International Space Station that NASA is finally talking about. It seems the cost of transporting water up there is so cost-prohibitive about $48,000 per liter that NASA engineers had to find cheaper ways of taking H2O into space. Fortunately for science, somebody figured out how to do it. Unfortunately for the astronauts, it's turning their own pee into drinking water. Now, I know it's a survival thing, but I would be demanding a lot of Kool-Aid mixed to mask the reality of that. A new Dr. Seuss museum has opened in Springfield, Massachusetts. Although I think they made a mistake with the green eggs and ham vending machine. Wonder Woman made $223 million dollars around the globe over the weekend. Stateside it was the biggest opening for a female director ever, and the only film in the new DC movie universe worth spending a buck to see. In Tennessee, 19-year-old Lucinda Luna is dead after she was accidentally shot by her boyfriend with a gun her father gave him as a graduation gift. It seems the boyfriend, 18-year-old Brennan Fields, had taken apart the pistol and put it back together without realizing there was still a live round in the chamber. Fields was reportedly playing with the gun when it fired and the bullet struck Luna in the stomach while she was lying on a couch across the room from him. Luna died early the following day at an area hospital.  Wouldn't a more appropriate graduation gift be a prepaid gift card to Walmart or Applebee's? If the kid likes guns, buy him the latest Grand Theft Auto. You don't buy the kid your daughter is dating a gun. A rumor says Kraft Heinz is planning on buying Colgate. Well, that's going to make for some disgusting tasting toothpaste. Or will it be toothpaste-flavored ketchup? Either way, the first Nutella Cafe opened its doors this week in Chicago. Chicago knows that it can buy Nutella in stores, but it's so used to spending money it doesn't have, it's just habit now. The lawyer in Mexico is planning to launch a Trump brand of toilet paper, with 30% of the profits going towards financing programs that support migrants and Mexicans deported from the U.S. You know, if that stuff is available here in the United States, it is going to fly off the shelves. The Marlar House mobile app is now available, and it's free. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, watch Marlar House YouTube videos, check out the t-shirts, mugs, audiobooks and other stuff in the Marlar House store, see what's in my blog, and more, all in one app, and it's free for iOS and Android users. Download it now by clicking the mobile app tab at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe if you want to see more. And click that little bell icon next to the subscribe button to be notified when I post new videos. And if you're already an official Weirdo, please share this video on your own social media. Find even more weird news that I didn't have time for on the Facebook page at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. I'm Darren Marlar, and I'm going to leave you with this thought. Scientists report that nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check. I'll see you next time, Weirdos.


Hey Aaron, I'm just curious as to how you came through tonight with your neck. Any issues there? Hey Meredith, nah, no issues, no nothing.  Aaron Boone had said you thought you did it maybe while you were sleeping. Can you just kind of take us through how you injured it and what the progress has been? Yeah, sometimes you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed, you know. That's all I really got for that. But now that they've been training, trainer's been helping me out just just a stiff neck, you know. Couldn't really, no my biggest thing is I couldn't see the pitcher. You know, I couldn't really turn my neck all the way to see the pitcher and that's not where you want to be so now I can see the pitcher and it's time to roll. Saw the pitcher today. I feel good to get a hold of one. Yeah, oh, yeah, just trying to have some quality at bats.  And that's where it gets tough with a guy like that who can, you know, he can hit every corner of the play at every part of the strike zone. Every single pitch is a wipeout pitch. So for me to, you know, get a walk there. I was that's probably my favorite at bed at night. Okay, we could take the next question from Marley Rivera. Marley, go ahead. Hey, Aaron, thanks for your time. Aaron, does it start getting a little bit frustrating when a young and talented man like yourself has to go through all these little, you know, things that happen first with them? With the rib injury now with the next of how do you move on from that and show that you can stay a healthy player on the field? Yeah, that's kind of what spring training is about is, you know, these games really don't matter right now. It's about getting ready for, you know, opening day. So, you know, if I didn't play a single spring training game, but I'm ready to play for opening day, I'm going to be excited about that. So, yeah, I'm not really too worried about it.  Just a quick follow up, Aaron, how do you balance like being excited, you and G for the home run, but at the same time, we know that Paxton is working on certain things. So it certainly isn't a happy moment for him.  So that time, you know, Paxton's pitching for the bombers, so we're competing against him, you know, and he's going the same way, man. When he gets up on that mound, man, he stares right through you and he was, you know, getting ready to go. So that's how we got to treat every single game as a competition. Thank you. Ron Blum, you're up next. You can go ahead and unmute. Aaron, for the net, what's the treatment just hot and cold? Did they give you any scans to test? Do you think it's something that could linger? No, like I said, sometimes you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm not really too concerned about a stiff neck, but the treatment is just try to mobilize it. My biggest thing was trying to get range of motion back into it when you only can kind of turn maybe 35 degrees. So just trying to mobilize it, loosen up the muscles a little bit and just kind of go from there. The biggest thing is just taking a couple of days. That's the biggest thing. You know, during the season, you know, if it was a season time, you know, we'd do whatever we can to get me in the lineup and I'd be playing. But like I said earlier, these games really don't matter. It's about just getting ready for the season. So I did what was right to get ready for the season. And from where was 35 degrees the other day? Where is it now? That's tough to say. I can say I can see the pitcher. So I guess that's probably about 90. We're there. Okay. Thank you. Welcome. Sweeney Murdy, you can go ahead and unmute and ask the next question. Hey, Aaron, for about the first 10 days of this camp, we've all kind of remarked how far ahead the pitchers are ahead of the hitters. It seems just from the contact, not just you, but some of the other guys are making that it's got it's gotten a little more in your favor. Have you and the other hitters been talking about that? Have you felt that? Have you kind of seen it swing your way a little bit with more reps? Yeah, definitely. We just kind of treat it like spring training. You know, that's where it's nice being in Tampa where we have a lot of extra fields and a lot more room, more cages that kind of go down.   And I think the other day, me and a couple guys got on the field and kind of worked on a couple things. And that's what kind of helps you out.  So being up in here in New York, we're kind of limited on our space and what we can do. So it's just about finding the time you can to, you know, get your reps in and get back up to game speed. So were you talking about the night that you guys faced the machine after the interest squad game? Correct, correct. Thank you. You're welcome. We could take the next question from Christy Eckert. Christy, go ahead. Hey, Aaron, just curious what you saw on that pitch that you had out from Paxton and then just basically being eight days away from opening day. Do you feel like you're ready? Hey, Christy. You know, with Pax, I know he's got a good fastball.  You know, the minute I know a lot of lefties try to come in a lot, that's kind of the game plan.  I think Gary was trying to set up really in and, you know, I was just able to get to it. Yeah, eight days away, you know, we're going to try to, we're going to squeeze as much as we can out of these next eight days and try to get the reps in we can.  So I think we're ready. I'm ready. But like I said, I'm going to try to squeeze in as much as I can out of these eight days. Thank you. Welcome. Eric Boland. Go ahead and unmute. You have the next question. Aaron, I know you've got Paxton the first time just curious him coming off of surgery in February. How did he look to you overall? It looks good. Paxton is always looking sharp. You know, I've been, you know, trying to watch and kind of watch some video of his last couple, you know, live BPs and games and man. The fastball is coming out good. You know, that's his bread and butter is that fastball cutter combination. And then he throws in a good curveball slider action. But, you know, everything had good depth had good bite to it.  But now he's looking good. He's looking sharp. You know, so I'm excited to see him, you know, get going during the season now. Thank you. You're welcome.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says a Gulab Jamun when ready for eating contains sugar syrup of about 30% of its volume. Find approximately how much syrup would be found in 45 such Gulab Jamuns, each shaped like a cylinder with 2 hemispherical ends. If the complete length of each of them is 5 cm and its diameter is 2.8 cm. We know that the volume of a cylinder is equal to pi r square h where this r is the radius of the base of the cylinder and h is the height of the cylinder. Then we also know that the volume of the hemisphere is given as 2 by 3 pi r2 where again this r is the radius of the hemisphere. This is the key idea for this question. Now let's move on to the solution. Consider this Gulab Jamun. It is shaped like a cylinder with 2 hemispherical ends. We take r to be equal to radius of the cylinder which is also equal to radius of hemispherical end. We have this r is equal to diameter of the cylinder upon 2. Now we have that the diameter of the cylinder is 2.8 cm so 2.8 upon 2 would be equal to 1.4 cm. Thus we have got the radius of the cylinder and radius of the hemispherical end as 1.4 cm. Now we take h to be the height of the cylinder which would be equal to the complete length of the Gulab Jamun minus 2 times the radius of the hemispherical end. So this would be equal to 5 that is the complete length of the Gulab Jamun minus 2 into 1.4 cm. That is 5 minus 2.8 cm. Thus we get height of the cylinder h is equal to 2.2 cm. The next we need to find the volume of one Gulab Jamun. This would be equal to the volume of the cylindrical portion of the Gulab Jamun that is this portion plus 2 times the volume of hemispherical end. So this is equal to now we know that volume of cylinder is equal to pi r square h. So this is equal to pi r square h plus 2 into volume of the hemisphere that is 2 by 3 pi r cube. So this becomes equal to pi r square into h plus 4 upon 3 r. Now we substitute the values for pi r and h. We take pi to be equal to 22 upon 7 into r square that is 1.4 square into h that is 2.2 plus 4 upon 3 into r that is 1.4 cm cube. So this is further equal to 22 into 1.4 into 0.2 into 2.2 plus 1.867 cm cube. So we have this is equal to 6.16 into 4.067 cm cube which further is equal to 25.05 cm cube approximately. So we get volume of 1 Gulab Jamun is equal to 25.05 cm cube approximately. Next we find the sugar syrup contained in a ready Gulab Jamun is equal to 30% of the volume as given in the question. So this would be equal to 30 upon 100 into volume of 1 Gulab Jamun which is 25.05 cm cube. This gives us 7.515 cm cube approximately is the sugar syrup contained in a ready Gulab Jamun. We need to find the sugar syrup contained in 45 Gulab Jamuns. So we write sugar syrup contained in 45 Gulab Jamuns is equal to 45 into 7.515 cm cube. Now this would be equal to 338.17 cm cube approximately is the sugar syrup contained in 45 Gulab Jamuns. Thus our final answer is 338.17 cm cube approximately syrup would be found in 45 such Gulab Jamuns. So this completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution for this question.


The challenge of the Yukon, and King Hanyohusky! The Wonder Dog King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, glazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest-mounted police who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant. Insector Coulson of the Northwest-mounted police looked approvingly at the tall broad-shouldered sergeant who entered his office, followed by a large husky. The dog stayed close at the Mounties' heels and stopped beside him when the inspector spoke. Good morning, Sergeant Preston. Good morning, sir. You returned sooner than you expected, didn't you? Yes, sir. I, uh, got in a criminal, but one I didn't go after. This, uh, this man is a murderer.  Yes, sir. But in my opinion, he's insane. I think his mind cracked due to his age and the hard life he lived in the wilderness.  I'd like to hear the keys from the beginning. Yes, sir. Light on, King. It, uh, wasn't just coincidence that I went up to Matt Clemens' cabin. He'd asked me to stop by on my way north. I met him in Jean Duplais' trading post about two weeks ago buying supplies. Matt, as you know, was an old sourdough. I'd known him for years. He lived about 20 miles north of here with his partners at Brankin. He was Matt older than his partners. They were all, Matt may have been a little younger and old in his late 60s. Matt had come to town alone for his supplies. Hello, hello, Sergeant Preston. Hello, Jean. Well, there isn't Matt Clemens. Matt, how are you? Well, hello, Sergeant.  There's King. Hello, boy. I swear he looks bigger than ever. You, uh, just got to town? Yep. Came for our winter supplies. Got a big load to take back.  Ha, ha. It is too hard life to live up in woods so far away. Well, we've been doing it for good many years. We're used to it. Well, where is Ed? The hotel? No, he wouldn't come with me this trip, Sergeant. I had to come all alone. Wouldn't come with you? What?  No. Just didn't want to come. Well, me, I would like to see somebody after being alone so long. Yes. I should think he'd welcome the opportunity to take a trip to town. He always used to before, uh, maybe he's just getting old. You staying at the hotel, man? Yep. I'll be here for a couple of days. Just drop in and say hello to Gene, give him a list of what I want to take back with me. Well, I'll walk back with you if you're going now. I will have everything ready for you, Matt, when you want. That's fine. Oh, uh, Gene. I want you to add another case of dried salmon to my load tomorrow, and I'm afraid I didn't get enough. I'm going north on a long patrol. You stop for it tomorrow? Yeah. Coming, Matt? Yep. See you tomorrow, Gene. Good night. What's going on? Good night, Sergeant. Sure is getting colder. I hope it doesn't get too bad. I'm off on a patrol tomorrow. You going anywhere near our place, Sergeant? Not this trip, Matt, but I will be up that way about three weeks. Well, I wish you'd stop and stay with us a few days. Your place is so far off the beaten track, I hardly think I can. Well, I didn't mean just to visit. I thought maybe you could talk to Zeb. Talk to him? Well, I've been wanting to do like Gene said. He'd come in the town for the winter. But Zeb won't listen to it. Well, if you can't convince him, I don't see how I can. Zeb's been acting awful funny lately. Funny? I guess I can trust you. You see, we hit a mighty rich vein of gold on our claim. Well, that's fine, Matt. I'm glad to hear it. Well, don't tell nobody. We was just panning about enough gold to live on before. But now we'll have enough to retire on by next year. Well, you've both worked hard for many years. You certainly deserve it. Yep. But it's made Zeb act funny. Oh. Here we are. Here's the hotel. I'm sitting in the lobby for a minute. All right. I guess everybody's in a bar. We can talk quiet there in the corner. Am I down here, King? Now, tell me about Zeb. Well, getting that gold seems to have made kind of a miser out of him. He's scared somebody's going to get it. He even acts suspicious of me now and then. Of you? But you're his best friend. But he thinks I'm trying to get more in my share. Oh. And he does funny things, like peering in at me through the window when he thinks I don't know he's doing it. And it's as you? Yes. It's kind of creepy. A couple of times he made me let him count all the gold after I'd already divided it. Well, after all, Zeb is getting along in years. Well, just the same. I wish you'd stop in and talk to him the next time you near our camp. All right, Matt. I'll plan to stay overnight with you on my next trip. That'll be in a week or two. Maybe I can tell what's wrong. On my way north, I turned off the trail and headed for Matt's cabin on Beaver Creek. There'd been a heavy snow, and I had to break a trail through the forest. Darkness had fallen by the time we got to the cabin. The light shining through the window guided me to it. Then as I knew it, a shot rang out. The bullet whizzed past my ear, and I jumped behind a large spruce tree as Zeb's voice called. Get away from here! Zeb, it's Sergeant Preston. Put that gun down. Who is it? It's Preston. I've come to spend the night with you and Matt. Honey! Yes! So slow. How do I know you're telling the truth? Here, King. Come along, boy. Put that gun away, Zeb. You should know my voice. Where's Matt? He's your Preston, all right. Back that gun out of my face. Didn't Matt tell you I was coming? No! No, he didn't. I saw him when he was in Dawson. I told him I'd stop in on my way north. He didn't tell me. Doesn't he hear? No! No, he ain't. Where is he? He went hunting. Yes, he went hunting. Will he be back tonight? No. He won't be back tonight. Oh, I'm sorry. I wanted to see you. Hey, hey! Your dog! Call him back! What's wrong? Here, King. King, come back here, fella. He must have seen something back there. Keep him here.  Stay here, fella. Stay with me. Well, I'll fix the dogs for the night, Zeb. You'll tie them, won't you? So they won't get away? Of course. They always do. All except King. Can't you tie King, too? Why, Zeb, you've always let me keep King in the cabin at night. What's wrong? Oh, yes. But you'll put him in the cabin before you pick a dog, so he can't run around, I mean. Well, this is who says, then. Come on, King. I put King in the cabin, fed and unhished my team. Zeb never left my side. He followed me around, doing everything that I did. When we got back into the cabin, I was shocked when I saw his face in the lamp light. It was dead white.  I knew, then, what Matt had meant. Those eyes made my spine tingle. OK. Well, Zeb, shall we have some supper? Supper? Uh, yeah. I guess maybe we should eat. Bad Matt didn't get back with some fresh venison. I liked the way he cooked it. Why are you always talking about Matt? Why, uh, I didn't know that I was.  He's gone hunting. Yes, I know. Don't get excited, Zeb. I'm not excited. Why do you say I'm excited? Look, that dog. You should've chained him outside with the rest of him. He keeps walking around near the door. He does seem a little restless. I suppose he's hungry. OK, I'll give you some supper. Have you got something to tie him up with? Why, I have his leash.  I'm wandering around the cabin. But Zeb, he'll sleep right beside my bunk. Not tonight! You tie him up there in the corner. Well, it's your cabin. What's that? Listen. Well, that's just my dog. Why are they howling? They often howl at the moon. What's wrong with you, Zeb? Nothing! Nothing! Let's get some supper cooking. King didn't like being tied in the corner for the night, but I had to humor old Zeb. Matt was certainly right. The old fellow was definitely a bit balmy. As I went to bed, I started to wait until Matt got back and then talked them both into Dawson for the rest of the winter. I was tired and fell into a deep sleep. It was hours later when I was awakened suddenly by a deep growl from King. I sat up in bed quickly. Everything was quiet and King growled again. I reached under my pillow for my mattress and struck one. As it flared up, I saw the figure of Zeb. He was on his hands and knees, calling toward my bunk and a knife gleamed in his hands. I leaped out of bed and lighted the lamp on the table. Zeb was sitting on the edge of the bed, shaking violently as I went toward him. What's wrong with you? My gold! I dreamed my gold! You must have been dreaming. Give me that knife. Knife? Yes. Here, I'll take it. Now, you get back into bed before you free that. My gold! My gold! Your gold is safe. Come on.  I can assure you I didn't do much sleeping the rest of the night. When morning came, I dressed quietly and started out the door with King. There was something in back of cabin that Zeb did not want us to see. Why didn't he want the dogs back there? King, the head of me. And suddenly I heard the door of the cabin open and shut. I turned in time to see the wild figure of Zeb his white hair flying in the wind, raising a rifle that was aimed at King. I made a flying tackle and we rolled in the snow as the gun fired. Here, let's go! I've got you, Zeb. That King is all right, fellow. I've got him. Get up, Zeb. Up I say. Stop it, no! Quiet, King, quiet. Come along, Zeb. By going to find out what it is, you're afraid to have King find. All right, King, find it, boy. He was heading to that pile of branches. Come on, Zeb. No, no. I don't want to look.  He was trying to take it off. All my nice gold. It's Matt. I got here too late. Poor Matt. To kill him. To keep him from stealing my gold. Everyone wants to steal my gold, everyone.  And then I'll take you back with me. Back where you and your gold will be safe. Come along, King. Come on, Zeb. Well, sir, I finally convinced Zeb that I wasn't going to steal his gold. He held it in his arms on the sled all the way back to Dawson. He still holds a good inspector in his cell. He's completely mad. We'll have the doctors examine Zeb. He'll undoubtedly be sent to an institution. Well, that's what should be done with him, sir. We owe a lot to that dog of yours. We're lucky to get back. He's a smart animal. Yes, sir. But that's all in the day's work. Isn't it, King? These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WFYZ Detroit. And all characters, names, places, and incidents used are fictitious. They are sent to you each week at this same time. This is Larry McCann speaking. This is the Michigan Radio Network.


All right, it looks like we're live, but we're waiting on a board member to get a quorum. Can't start until they arrive, so we will twiddle our thumbs. Hopefully play background music till we can start. I don't know. Joe, should we ask and see if there's anyone on the phone? Is there anyone on the phone right now? Kurt, are you able to hear us? Kurt, are you able to hear us? Yes. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks, Pam. Hey, man. Did I get a hold of you? Yeah. OK, because she didn't let me know if you were coming or not, so she was like, I wasn't sure if I was at number four. You should hear it. You're always critical to me. Yes. All right, we have our quorum. While I think we try and figure out getting someone on the phone, we will go ahead with calling the roll, please, Steve. You should call us to order. Sure. So we will, now that we have a quorum, we officially call the July 25th Architecture Review Board reading to order. Now if you could do the roll. Sure. Zachary Rust, Joe Clark, here, Pam Langen, Dick Lindy, and Jerry Jones, Bob Heimerall, and Dave Aldig indicated that they would not be able to attend tonight. All right. If we could please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And for our board members, any potential conflicts of interest with our item today? Hearing none, we will move to item number four, the approval of the minutes from June 13th. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Minutes are approved. Thank you. I think I'm getting a little feedback. I don't know if that's annoying anyone else, if that's adjustable at all. And do we have a caller on the line yet? Kurt, can you hear us and can we hear you? Kurt is saying he can see us but not hear us. Sign language, right? Jason, you'll just have to do interpretive dance. Yeah, that's right. Whatever it takes to get it approved. Kurt, we're just waiting a bit to see if we can get you connected. If you want, what I could do just real briefly before they get into this, I could just kind of explain to everyone where this is taking place, because the owner is obviously familiar with that. So this particular property that we're looking at today is in the former Schopko parking lot. So it's directly south of Applebee's. Schopko's in the process of right now being renovated into a hobby lobby and a Ross dress for less. And those had come to the board previously. One of the things that the owner of that property did create this outlaw that's in the parking lot, just south of Applebee's. So they have been working with Jiffy Lube, and now Jiffy Lube is coming in here with the site plan drawing and architectural plans that you have before you today. So I'm sure we can get the owner on. And then Jason today is from Excel Engineering and is here. And he can also speak to the project. Well, in the interest of keeping stuff moving, Jason, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself and give us a little background of what's being proposed. I suppose Jiffy Lube was the service building just in the short 2000s sort of area. And then the building, which is kind of a wide-bump whole portion of the building consists of a separate area, a lobby area there. It'll be a lobby area, a lobby area. So yeah, it's a bad thing. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Good now? Yep. There we go. Southern, I guess the south two-thirds of the portion of the building that'll consist of four service bays. The two furthest to the north, those will be the quick Lube service with a oil-changing pit underneath. And then the furthest two bays to the south, that'll be for like alignments, break jobs, tire replacement, things like that. So buildings kind of centrally located within that parking area south to Applebee's. Anything that we are not repaving on the property will become green space. During our pre-op meeting with Steve and city staff, we kind of went through the building elevations to some extent. Jiffy Lube's prototypical architecture is 100% exotic. Oh, yeah. Jamie Hendricks. And Steve said that wouldn't fly. So he provided us some architectural details and pictures of what hobby lobby. And I forget the other user that's going in. Is it Ross? Yes. What they were looking at doing to kind of mirror what they were going to be proposing or providing for their front facades. So we've kind of tried to mirror that to some extent. Provided a full brick stone wanes coat all the way around the four sides of the building. We did try and provide some additional articulation on the east side facing Taylor with some variable height parapet, as well as providing some additional emphasis material for the brick kind of centered around the overhead doors for bays two and three, as well as on the customer end of the building. We also provided some awning canopies over the two entry doorways on the customer end, as well as over the centered windows on the north elevation. I know there were some staff comments that were in the report that was put out. I think one was just question on as far as equipment. There will be a RTU unit on the roof. I think the biggest RTU unit that would be used is a five ton, which would fall below the top of the shortest parapet height on the roof. That would kind of be centered in between bays two and three on the roof. I think we also provided just perspective from Taylor Drive to the top of the building showing that unit being fully, I guess, not in view. I'm afraid what other questions were in the report, Steve. I think one was just on maybe the window on the return portion of the customer area that's kind of shown on the south elevation. There is a brick material in between the window and kind of that inside corner. You can't see it just because of the bumpouts there. But that's where Jiffy Lube puts the window if you guys would rather see it centered. I'm sure we could accompany that and center that on the south elevation of that return. As far as signage goes, this would be a typical Jiffy Lube sign package, how they would present their signage. I think there was a comment on signage for the north elevation potentially being centered over the center window there. I think Jiffy Lube likes to present their signage closest to the front of the building towards the roadway. So that's fairly typical for them. They'll kind of flip the signage to wherever the closest roadway is. And with this building kind of being set back into the site and behind some vegetation out front just south of their main entry, I think they'd prefer to keep the signage at that location on that north face. I think the only other question was on the dumpster enclosure. It was referenced on the plan to the architectural plans. But we don't have those. So describe what's being proposed. Yeah, dumpster enclosure will be split face block with color to match the brick material on the building with a stone cap. And then they either do a metal panel for the gates or vertical treks, boards, to complement the brick material, the stone material. Great, thank you. I appreciate you running through those staff comments. The window on that south elevation, whether it's centered in the EFAS or not, I guess I could go either way on that. Centered might look nicer from the outside, from the inside. Looked as if there might be a piece of equipment. I don't know how high that is. Yeah, I think there's a built-in with the TV just east of that window. So I think that's strategically where Jiffy Lube has it just to avoid that built-in furniture on the inside. Let's just address that one with the board. Any other thoughts on that window on the south elevation? How critical it is to anyone to center that window in the EFAS knowing it might disrupt the interior layout? And from a staff perspective, I wasn't as familiar with the interior layout. I don't think it's a huge deal. One way or the other, it was just something that was noticeable. And so there's no recommendation on where the other. No, it was a great question. And if someone feels strongly that it should be centered, it can certainly be included in a motion. Not hearing any strong requirements on that one. The other one, I guess a couple of other pieces I wanted to comment on, the question about the north wall signage. That one, I do agree with staff comments that if we could locate that in the Sunder Bay with a higher parapet and over the windows and awning, I think that would look better. And given that just around the corner to the east on the brick elevation is where the next piece of signage is, it doesn't seem to me that they need to be that close. You still have the visibility from the street. And the approach, I think that whole north elevation is going to be visible coming from the north. Sure, so. We've done that before. Like I said, again, it's Jeff Loob's preference to have it closest to the road, but we've centered it before upon a request. And then the only other question I had, and it was really minor, was on the west elevation, the signage there. If we're moving the north signage over the window and awning, if we would want to center the west elevation signage also over the doorway and awning, or just leave it centered on the wall above as you have it. Can I, I could go either way on that. And without seeing it, it's hard to know if it's going to feel too crunched if it gets moved to the left there. Don't know if you have thoughts on that. No, I mean, how we're showing it is tip would be prototypical to the Jeff Loob style. So I think their preference would be to leave it. And that elevation really isn't visible from the street. Right, it's kind of on the back side. Sure. So those were my thoughts. Any other questions or comments or thoughts from the board? Nothing. In that case, I would certainly entertain a motion. I would move forward as presented, but on the north elevation, moving the signage in the middle panel above the windows there, but leaving the signage on the west elevation as is. Super. So we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? We're all clear that the only variation from what's being submitted then is moving that west signage. To the north, the north elevation. Right. Looking right at it. The north elevation, thanks. I just didn't know if we should see if the owner, by chance, one more time, whether or not he can hear us. Oh, great point. Kurt, are you there? Can you let us know if you're on the phone? I just want to make sure. All right. Sorry, Kurt. We're not able to get you on the line for this. So hopefully nothing here is to adverse to be able to do. I don't think so. So we've got motion to second. We've had discussion hearing nothing further. All those in favor? I signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion is approved as noted. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow night. All right, so our next meeting is scheduled for August 8th, tentatively at least. And if there's nothing else, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion and second, all in favor? Aye. We are adjourned. Thanks, everyone. Hey, I appreciate everyone making it. What if we were to have one last, they wouldn't have made it on the go. So thanks, you guys for coming today. Appreciate it. Yes. Yes. Well, I had a bad something right before this. And so I just, I didn't know what it was.


Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. In today's episode, we are continuing on with our VGC Series 10 content and we've got another rental team to feature from one of you fine viewers today and this team comes from Little Mo and it is all about the Ice Rider Calyrex. So a very heavy trick room orientated team. You can see here we've got some of my favorites on the team. We've not seen too much of in Series 10, but the Snorlax there is going to be able to take advantage of that trick room, takes advantage of the Follow Me from the Indidi as well. Obviously the Psychic Turin there helps out a bunch and you've got a Rangaroo as well, which is a very interesting Pokemon in Series 10 with that instruct move that it's got access to because it wouldn't work previously on Dynamax Pokemon, but now we haven't got Dynamax in Series 10, at least not for the moment. We are able to get the most out of that move where it can if it goes after directly after your partner in Pokemon has a tactic and instruct and then you can hit again. So things like Snorlax, things like Stack Attacker and the Ice Rider Calyrex all going to really benefit a lot from that instruct. Our Rangaroo also is able to set up the trick room. It's immune to Shadow Rider Calyrex with its normal typing and can hit and pick up knockouts onto it with file player that has got access to. So a really nice team. It looks a little bit vulnerable to something like Zashin. So that Zashin matchup is going to be pretty difficult. I think I think for most of the time against that, you're probably going to want to try and get the trick room set up and then utilize something like Indeedy with the follow me next to the Snorlax. Hopefully get the belly drum up and then you can kind of earthquake your way out of trouble in that scenario. So you have got the Taboo Finney, which provides a little bit of offensive support against it.  But there are means for you to be able to get the trick room set up. So hopefully we can showcase that in today's episode. Here is a rental code. We'll have a couple of games of the team as we always do. And then we'll wrap up with the rental at the end. And just on a side note as well, I will be streaming later on the ladder update today. So we will be streaming tonight and seeing how far we can push up the ladder. So I've got a spicy team lined up for tonight's stream. We'll be kicking off later on. And hopefully if you are around, you'll be able to join us. So without further ado, friends, let's get into our first match of today's episode. Okay, next up, we have a Nincha, Reggie Drago, Rilla Boom, Kai Ogre, Reggie Alecchi, and Tornado. So pretty kind of standard Tornogre team. But the inclusion of Reggie Drago here makes it a little bit different. You've got the Mincha as well, which can kind of obviously avoid any sort of fake up pressure and does put good pressure on the board itself. It does have access to something like White God, which can cause us a few issues. But I think the main thing for us to concentrate on here is trying to get a trick room set up. So we could go with something like Stack Attacker could be one for us to kind of lead with. If we want, we could lead Stack Attacker or Rangaroo. I think Halorex in the back with I think Snorlax as well. Not bringing the Indeedy here might be a little bit of a problem because it'd be nice to be able to change the terrain, of course, from the grassy terrain. It's likely to come from the Rilla Boom, but I don't know for Rilla Boom. Does Rilla Boom come to this map? Probably it does. The fake up pressure is probably really nice and the way to kind of manipulate the terrain obviously gives my opponent a nice means to kind of go from there. But we are just going to see the Kyogre and Tornadus. Now where does my opponent taunt? Because that's the big question. Because the play here really is to just wide guard and then trick room. But both these Pokemon we've got have access to trick room. So which one do they pick? If they get it wrong, we're good. Hurricane just coming straight out into the Rangaroo. Are they just going for the single target? No, they're going for the water spad. So we get that pretty seamless trick room setup, which is pretty nice. I'm surprised we don't see a taunt, but maybe expect a mental herb as well. It's all something that you've got to think about if you're approaching matchups against things with trick room. And now we can just go rock slide and instruct onto the stack attacker and we get that double. Unless we see obviously a taunt into a Rangaroo this turn, which definitely could be a thing, that would be enough to stop us being able to get the instruct off. So that is a little risky this turn of course, but with the Tornadus not gone for that. Taunt turn one to stop the trick room initially. You kind of think they're probably going to be forced into repositioning now. So we may get away with this. As we see the tornado, let's just go for that protect here.  So let's see if we can get rid of this Kyogre. I mean, we're going to have a double chance to flinch, which is pretty huge. And this is doing nearly 50% damage anywhere with the life orb. So you can see the Kyogre is going to be in a real awkward position. And if it doesn't click that origin pulse button or scald button, because if it goes for the water spot again, it's just not going to have, we avoid, we avoid course we do course we do. The origin pulse, wiping everything out. So it can come back to bite you. But I mean, we lose our instruct, but it's not too bad. It's not too bad at this point. I think we can Glacial Lance Thunder Punch. And then we could Glacial Lance and we could Bellydrum. That's the option. The problem is Bellydrum right now is not ideal because the Kyogre probably take the Glacial Lance, which is not really what we want to have to deal with. And I think once the Kyogre has gone with that kind of threat of origin pulse, it's so hard in the rain. With that gone, then it frees up a bit of room for us to get the potential Bellydrum off if you want to the following turn. We're just a bit locked at the minute because ideally Snorlax wants to be sitting next to something like Orangaroo on the field. And without Orangaroo there with its telepathy ability, it makes it harder to use something like Earthquake. But the Thunder Punch taking that Kyogre down from Snorlax, which is nice. And the Glacial Lance should, unless this is Sashed, take down this Tornadoes. It may be Sashed, may not be. It is not. So there we go. And we're going to get that Chilling Ney Boost, which is always useful. Getting that Attack Boost. And we're sitting in a decent enough position. We've got the Protect and Self Destruct as well the next turn if we want. But I've got to worry about things like Mane Shell coming in, which does have Fake Out, which can disrupt a kind of flaw, especially taking advantage of these trick room turns. But Regidraga, one of the Pokemon coming out, which is not too bad. And then Rillaboom. Again, has got access to Fake Out. What we could potentially do here, you know, is just go self destruct on Snorlax and protect Kalorex. Because I think out of the two, you're probably going to fake out into Kalorex. And let's get the self destruct gone, because I haven't exploded my own Pokemon in a long time. And I can't see anything on the opposite side of the field protecting. The Regidraga protects here. We've got a pretty clean knockout the next turn with the Ice Rider Kalorex. So that's all right. Let's see where my opponent goes though with this fake out. That'd be the interesting thing. I can't imagine you go after the Snorlax. It has to be that the Kalorex is putting so much pressure on both sides of the field there for my opponent. So it feels like the only thing that you would see being stopped or trying to be stopped this turn. There's a Protector Fake Out coming out into the Kalorex. Snorlax is going to go for that self destruct. Let's see how much damage it does. I haven't used this move in a long time. It's a lot of fun though, isn't it? Self destruct, we protect on it. The Damage is big. Snorlax goes down. The Regidraga is dragging in as you're going to be weakened considerably. We've got enough turns of Trick Room left to kind of close this game up. We do have the threat of Grassy Glide from the Rillaboom this next turn. Regidraga, I would imagine is probably Scarfed. Yeah, it may be Specs as well because you've got Tailwind to take advantage of that. But we can Glacier Lance. We've still got the Trick Room up. We're going to be able to close this one up. There's no way anything's surviving after that plus one attack boost that we've got with the Kalorex. Ooh, it does reveal the Protector. That's interesting.  Not doing a massive amount of damage, but we are going to get another attack boost here. I think the Trick Room does the Trick Room end this turn. I believe it does. The option where we can just set the Trick Room up if we want, but we'll probably better off just going for the Glacier Lance. Just to pick up the knockout onto the Regidraga. Like I said, the Dragon Energy has been considerably weakened. There's no Specs on there either. So we don't really have to worry about being knocked out. We're not going to get knocked out by a Draco meteor. Either I wouldn't have thought from this range. So the Glacier Lance should lock up the game for us. But I do like Regidraga as a Pokemon. It is interesting. It's just really kind of hamstrung by the fact that it's got a very small move pool. It doesn't have much coverage. So you're really kind of relying on your dragon type attacks. Anything fairy is just going to blow through you. It doesn't really have coverage outside of dragon type attacks or very much anyway. We do see the dragon pulse come out. It's going to hit pretty hard, but we should take this. Just about Kallorex is a big, big old horse beast. So you can take that pretty comfortably. And we do pick up a win, which is nice. So the team doing alright here. Like I said, the team is very reliant on Trick Room. But if you can get the Trick Room up and you can kind of make the use of your Trick Room turns, then you can really overwhelm your opponent quite quickly. You've got a lot of options to kind of really punish turns as well because I self destruct with Belly Drum on the Snorlax in particular and the Oranguru with the instructor as well. If you can get that into play, then you can really take advantage of it. But nice way for us to kick off and we'll jump into our next match of today's episode. The next opponent is playing a team of Incineroar, Suikun, Reshiram, Serena, Togacus and Ditto. Very interesting team. I really like the look of it here. We've got some redirection support for things like the Reshiram, things like setting up Tailwind on Suikun from that Togacus. You've got obviously support from the Serena blocking any sort of fakeout. Got Intimidate from the Incineroar there. And then you've got the Ditto which can pretty much transform into anything. We've got to be careful around that because I think the fact that it could transform into our Oranguru and then start instructing there, so the field. It worries me slightly. I think the one thing, the big takeaway here is though that their main form of speed control is Tailwind, primarily from that Suikun. So if we can set a trick room up, we're going to be in a good spot. We could go in DD Stacks, I think Kalorex, and we just got Oranguru. I'm kind of tempted to go Snorlax as well, but I feel like Oranguru in the back to kind of come in. With that instruct might be enough to kind of push us over the line if we need to to kind of close this one up. Also before we get into this game, I would just like to say if anyone does have a rental team, it doesn't need to be a massively successful rental team. It can be a fun rental team that you've put together. You'd like to see featured on the channel. I have no qualms about that. I would be very grateful for any sort of rental teams passed over and to feature them and play them on the channel because I think it's a really nice way to showcase other trainers and teams that they've put together and their ideas of what they've been playing on the ladder in series 10. And you know what? This team is a lot of fun and we're having a great time with it today. So it's a good example and if you are hesitating at the minute, hopefully this is enough to convince you to send something over in the comment section below. Okay, we've got the Indeedy and the Stack Attacker out against Incineroar. We've been intimidated and then we've got Serena as well. It's a pretty easy like follow me trick room for us. Really, you know, they've not really got a way to prevent that. Now they could double, we are trick rooming, right? Yes, we are trick rooming. That is the thing we want to do. Now they could just probably party shot with Incineroar. So they've got that. Oh, they go for the fake out into the Psychic Train. Not realizing that that is an option for us. Okay, that's a little bit of a shame for my opponent, but we do see the High Jump Kit come out from the Serena into Indeedy too. They're pretty well. And now we've got a nice opportunity where we can go for the follow me again and just rock slide and hopefully that will then allow Indeedy to go down. It protects Stack Attacker for a turn as well. And we potentially get some decent damage on the board and start taking advantage of these trick room turns. The beauty about Stack Attacker as well under a trick room is as well, you know, it's got that, it's got the slowest rock slide in the game, but under a trick room fastest rock slide in the game. So you're going to be able to potentially pick up flinches and things like that with the attack as well. Just having that speed boost. And if you can get something like a Rangaroo in next to it, then, you know, you can get that double flinch chance every turn on both opposing targets, which is always nice. And the odds just fall a lot more into your favor by doing that, you know. So Indeedy going for that follow me again. The worry here would be obviously if the Incineroar takes down Indeedy and then Serena's free to land a High Jump Kit onto Stack Attacker, but we do see the flinch there, the High Jump Kit coming out again. We get a little bit fortunate, but like I was talking about with the rock slides, the flinches, you've got to take them when you get them. You put yourself in the position where that is a possibility, right? So you can take those flinches when you can because you're not, for a fact, your opponent would if they got the opportunity to. Now we're bringing Kalorex. The nice thing here is that the Incineroar is out on the field at the minute. So the Intimidate, the only Intimidate opponent's got on their team is out. That makes it difficult for them to reposition and we can punish any sort of switchings. Maybe the Suicune comes in on the Incineroar slot here, but again, it's going to take a combination of Glacial Lance, Rock Slide. It's going to put it into a little bit more of a precarious position where again the following turn after that we do have Trick Room Active, where it's still going to be, you know, potentially, ooh, what have we missed? Don't say it's the Incineroar. It is the Incineroar, no. We don't like that. We don't like missing Incineroars with Rock Slides. We're kind of getting just deserts for getting that flinch the last turn. We get the Glacial Lance, which will mean that this arena is going to be going down here. But it's likely we see a Flair Blitz from this Incineroar. And it not being Intimidated as well, it's going to hit pretty hard. We do get the Chilling Nair Boost, which is always good, but the Flair Blitz here is going to be very dangerous. But we take that pretty well.  But the burn there is not ideal. It does proc our weakness policy. The burn is pretty horrible, to be honest. That weakness policy boost does just negate the burn damage. So we're kind of still on plus one, technically, from that attack boost that we've got from the Chilling Nair ability. But the burns put us a little bit further behind than what we wanted, because ideally at this stage we want to be just clicking buttons and picking up knockouts. But it's going to be a little bit more difficult than that. So the trick room is still up though, so we're all right. We'll just check. We've got two more turns of trick room. Yeah, so we're sitting in not a bad spot. We just need the Stack Attack. It's a beat on point with these Rock Slides. Now, a Rock Slide and the Glacial Lance should take down the Reshiram. Rock Slide should take down the Incineroar. I mean, Glacial Lance will take down the Incineroar. We are seeing it switch out at this point. Maybe Suikun? No Ditto. So Ditto coming in. It is going to copy our Glastria, but it's not going to enjoy taking a Rock Slide for starters. We may see the Reshiram here protect to stall out these trick room turns. No protect though. So we might be able to pick up a double knockout here, because, well, I would have expected the Rock Slide to do a little more. I guess we are intimidated though. Same as just plus one. I'd imagine it to take down the Reshiram. Yeah, it takes down both. So now the Incineroar to come in. Psychic Turin still in effect. It can't utilize that fake out there. And you can see that with this team in particular, I feel like you're on a timer straight away with the trick room. Now, if your opponent plays well and stall out the trick room and can deny that second trick room setup, then the team can start to fall apart pretty quickly, I feel. So you've got to be very kind of... You've got to be on the ball with taking advantage of the trick room turns for one as the Intimidate and the Incineroar come back onto the field, but this is pretty much it now. We can just Rock Slide and High Horsepower. And there isn't very much my opponent could do. We could double trick room here, but it's likely that... Well, the thing is, if we knew the opposing Pokemon had protect, that would make sense to do, because they're going to protect on the last turn trick room. We double trick room here and just lock the game in. But the fact is that they've only got fake out as a means to kind of slow us down and probably no protect. It doesn't make much sense to go for that play, because we'll just end up losing something, even though we probably do end up with a trick room set up anyway. Although we wouldn't, because Incineroar would just take down Calorax. So anyway, good game to my opponent. We get two nice games in with the team today, both pretty similar in respects to how reliant we are on the trick room, how we need to get it set up, but we got to see a good mix of all the Pokemon in the team. And we'll hop over now and remind you all of today's rental call. Okay, friends, here is today's rental team, and it is from Little Moves. So a big shout out to Little Moves for passing us over the team and putting this together and sharing it. And I hope if you do try it out, it is a lot of fun. I think it's got some really nice features to the team. Obviously, the Snorlax with the belly drum there is a big one. And as I say, we haven't really seen too much of that in series 10. But if you want a bit of fun on the ladder, this is definitely the team to do with the Ice Calorax is a brilliant Pokemon. It's so powerful. And when you combine it with Orangaroo with that instructor, it can be really overpowering, especially with the Snorlax as well. When you get that belly drum and you've got that instructor next to you to just really take advantage of Earthquake or, you know, self-destruct even or Thunder Punch, it's really, well, you're not going to take advantage of self-destruct with instructor. That just doesn't happen. But, you know, the other two options are there. Really nice team though. And as I say, if you do try it out, I hope you enjoy it. Let me know down in the comment section below. And like I said, if you have a rental team that you'd like to see featured on the channel, we've only got a month left of series 10. So there is a lot of time for us to feature teams. We've got a bunch of them lined up, which we'll be doing next week on the channel. Obviously, we'll be streaming later on today with the team that I put together, which hopefully will be kind of pushing up the rank ladder, which will be a lot of fun because I haven't done that in a while. So hopefully see you there and have a great rest of your day, whatever time of day it is, whatever you are in the world. And more importantly than anything, just make sure you take care of yourselves. And I'll see you all for another episode very soon. So until then, friends, take care and bye-bye.