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Alicia Adams and mrs. Emily Llewellyn who will tell you a little bit about the activities of this club and will also introduce you to several of their members who will be telling you about a very special project that we will be sharing with you today this is Adams and this is Llewellyn well good morning my name is Alicia Adams and this is my colleague Emily Llewellyn one year ago we stood here and spoke of history club's accomplishments those accomplishments led the national history club to select our club as one of the top ten history clubs of the year we can we competed against clubs in over 44 states with over 17,000 students participating that's pretty darn good for our second year one of the most rewarding activities of the club is the genes for BC vets campaign Brown County school employees donate money to the Nashville VFW and in exchange they can wear jeans to work for the week leading up to Veterans Day over the last two years history Club has raised over 1500 dollars for our local vets eating and memorial expansions and scholarships at the end of the ceremony we hope you also will participate by donating money to the club members located in the gym lobby 100% of all funds you donate stay right here in brown counties supporting our veterans the club has a very exciting year planned over spring break we're heading it to Boston to learn about our nation's founding history and we also have several tips plan to go around Indiana to see other historical destinations here in our own state history club members are creating history and just recently we've also been preserving history as noted earlier this year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War one to commemorate this anniversary I had the pleasure of working with a handful of passionate creative students to produce a documentary honoring not only those who served in the Great War but our local veterans as well throughout the documentary you will see original photos of our veterans taken from the website Brown County veteran's SmugMug calm this website categorizes veterans photos by war forever preserving our County's long history of service I would also like to especially thank mr.
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Ron Higgins who helped us along the way to make sure all of our information was accurate and provided valuable insight now it is my great honor to introduce four amazing young women Kara Adams Isabella Ellen Ashley masse teller and little ADA lush these ladies will tirelessly interviewing local veterans and editing film to capture insights to help us better understand why our local veterans served [Applause] I'm Ashley mast cell er I'm Lily de Loesch I'm Isabel Ellen I'm Kara Adams and good morning and thank you for attending the V CHS Veterans Day program in creating the documentary we wanted to know what made our brave men and women want to serve in the military we had the amazing opportunity to sit down in each and every one of them to listen to their stories making this documentary was difficult especially when it came to editing the videos we didn't want to cut anything these are stories we all know we're once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear and something we will never forget these stories featured speak to us so much more than our textbook pages ever could these are men and women from our community who chose the past so much greater than themselves we all hope you enjoyed our video and on behalf of myself the history club students faculty and everyone attending the program we all thank you for your service war is a time where the world calls upon ordinary men to do extraordinary things World War one was no exception to this in fact with the number of men fighting significantly higher than it had ever been before and virtually all of the nations of the world participating in some way World War one became known as the war to end all wars while we now know that it did not end all wars the sacrifice of the men in the trenches of World War one was not in vain this was the war to change all wars the effects were not only seen but felt on an international level with the total number of casualties at 40 million people 116 thousand five hundred sixteen of those were from the United States World War one would end in 1918 on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month this day would become known as Armistice Day a time when the United States thanks all veterans for their sacrifice and their service in 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower declared this day a national holiday called Veterans Day this year our annual Veterans Day celebration lands on the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War one while we honor all veterans on this day it is important to remember that World War one like all wars was a time of uncertainty about the future of the United States this uncertainty was persevered by the courage and determination of the soldiers serving the country war invokes a courage not often seen a courage that truly inspire finds what it means to do anything to protect your country this year we wanted to discover a wire veterans did exactly that what inspired them to protect this amazing country this is what they had to say my name is Henry Marshall Bank Marshall serve in the army I joined out of a sense of adventure free trip to Southeast Asia and they pay you to I don't know a fella without her US Army I was drafted in 1968 has served and I've ever heard [Music] served with the US Army from 6006 day for bad my name is Brittany Miller I 19 years old and I'm an airman first class United States Air Force I joined the Air Force because I felt like it offered a lot of guidance and a lot of stability a lot of structure that I wouldn't really had otherwise but I got a college right away I've just been very thankful for the friends that I've made the experiences that I've gone through and I think my Air Force was a very good step for me that's really why I joined the military I spend my time in Thailand I am Keystone which I saw in Australian radio up and me as a private and even through the years of 2005 to 2008 when I joined Isis because I want to and also there was a huge humanitarian effort I can be a part of that branch of the military did you serve in were you in the army the Navy you're in the Navy all right and why did you choose to serve my friends yeah well why did you think it'd be fun seven years no face and my was that was between and she was after the mid-thirties kid and was in the Navy it was III because I've gotten coming up godbye destroy maybe 20 summers very corner and safety father's safety then tossed into service it's like specialist Joshua Brown from Nashville Indiana Brown County High School graduate in 2013 I enlisted in the Army in 2015 as a combat engineer I'm currently stationed with the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell Kentucky the reason I joined the army is because I wanted to be a part of something greater than myself and to protect the rights and the freedoms we have as Americans today my name's and I serve because I included that I enlisted because I was drafted I got a letter just every few months with induction burners and I got tried drafted twelve times before I finally did [Music] IFT hobby hi I'm Kate Fox then airman first class in the States Air Force and I joined to work on airplanes as in there okay my name's Dan Kaiser I was in the Army came right out of high school and I had a very driving birds to fly the army offered a program go straight in from high school into flight school and I did that and became a helicopter pilot hi I'm James Fox the Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps not to want to serve something greater than myself I was you know air force for four years I had other brothers who have already served in the military and so the privilege to attend dhalsim my name is Kareem Howard my nickname teed I served in the Army twice first time 1944 to 46 in Europe and World War two and the second time in Korea from 50 to 51 first time I joined it because my family second side it was different during the first time that was one of the people that was in Luther month took over the concentration camp and after I saw what was there there and affected my life so I have waited it's either the North Korea was a repressive we would have another look at all Pentecost it's over the army was detained I'm so suing and when the honor guard of my County because my duty to today Vietnam is women that was drawn but I just fell under 12 years never in cornacchia their army I want to make our high school 1925 when I wasn't the record but the only thing with the service was about the only thing that we were open and I have to go where to start my name is Brian bladder a certain kind of force I joined the Air Force because I got an isolated I was too [Music] I had the Vietnam [Music] you have to you have to wait my name is Martin Travis hood I served in the United States Army from 1957 through 1960 and the thing rank of sergeant I served because so many others brothers and sisters served in the military and being the baby of the family I thought it was my duty to serve also the travelstead family has represented in the NFL in the military I was in the US Air Force for 33 years and retired as an eight-seat Master Sergeant I was also the first sergeant a joke remember was back in 1976 because I wanted to get in Malone that would be the easiest biggest plane and that kind of deal in the training and experience and after six years of active duty I take you down but then in 1985 I ended up going back into three servers too because I wanted to finish out my 20 year career in the Air Force hit and ended up staying for 33 years maybe so the United States on me I always want to be in the army since I was young and I love marriage so I could deal with our little in the universe of the United States Army why is this thing ever did next amendment what Gail and I in command with my name's Jeff Rylander what branch of the military did you serve in I was a statement yes I did it for you're not going like duration good idea to keep Terminix larceny I mean to be 30 and by the military police officer knowing as I've had a couple influential men in my life that have been in the military I've always respected them to having the courage to stand up and raise their hand and say I'm gonna do this I'm going to be proud of myself and probably what I was doing as well as I'm gonna my [Music] laughter it is thanks to all who have served and to all who are currently serving that we are able to truly be the land of the free and the home of the brave this Veterans Day we must remember our fallen veterans and show our utmost gratitude to our current ones and let them know their service is appreciated and will not go unrecognized to all military personnel whether it be previous or active we all thank you for your service if his parental calendar Jen look at adjoining brain for growth and he was also during the rainbow pillow to make a difference my name is Chris Schatzberg on 20 million groups because the commodity American are be part of the greatest team on earth hi I'm Josh berry I'm the National Guard the reason why I joined the National drives because I want to get a head start live and also because I want to serve my country [Music] I'm not quite sure I've got the words to be able to thank our students and our teachers from our Brown County history club but can we please give you just one more round of applause that was [Applause] so every year we are honored to be joined by a veteran who has served our country and is willing to share with us some of his or her testimony today we will be hearing from our keynote speaker commander Keith Baker of the United States Navy commander Baker has not only served our country but he has also served our County in a variety of applications from an elected official to a community volunteer commander Baker sits on 14 committees and boards across the county and he also serves as the president of our Brown County Council commander Baker is a great friend of the schools and along with his wonderful wife Andrea who serves as one of our elementary volunteer resource officers has donated countless hours of time towards advancing the experiences and opportunities given to the boys and girls of the school district commander Baker's experiences in the military are vast he's a graduate of Columbus North High School Purdue University unfortunately and the United States Navy Flight Training Command commander Baker served the United States of America for 20 years as a pilot in the United States Navy with 400 aircraft carrier landings and over 5,000 hours of military flight time logged commander Baker was operationally deployed on a variety of aircraft carriers including the USS Saratoga America Forrestal and Lexington commander Baker flew his first airplane solo at the age of 16 he began parachuting at 18 and he earned his Navy wings at the age of 23 commander Baker is the recipient of five Navy Commendation medals and the Navy meritorious service medal commander Baker founded the spoil high squadron in Atlanta Georgia this organization uses surplus military training aircraft to fly children who are battling cancer and he founded the website that jobs.com which is the largest online jobs board for veterans across the United States of America commander Baker you are a living example of a patriot I am so thankful to you for your service and so thankful that you will be taken to our audience this morning it is truly an honor will you please join me in welcoming commander Baker thank you try something different today I think that I'm miked up this is a most untraditional speech you ever heard folks I like to run around and jump up into the tables and be crazy because I'm a naval aviator if you don't know what those are you're about to find out I'm so honored to be here today with this group especially in front of us right now I wanted to thank dr.
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hammock the employees and students of Brown County School Corporation guests and veterans particularly our two World War two veterans that are sitting here again teen Howard Bob Richardson truly an amazing group of people we also have these folks that were identified as going into service and I appreciate you as well but you know they're not the youngest that we have here today we have organization in our group called Sea Cadets and they have been in training already and with us today I just raise your hand Toby Smith I see over there Brian Smith is somewhere around here I believe in uniform Brian and I think Brandon Phelps Brandon are here today as well give them a hand each of us has a unique story to tell about our lives and about our military service my stove my story is no more important than those people sitting in front of you today the truly great Americans I think may be superintendent hammock just didn't have any names beginning with the letter A when she called me in a in her contact list I don't know why I'm up here I see three groups here today veterans I see family and friends and citizens and I see the young people a bunch of old guys that serve their country some people who think that was pretty cool and a bunch of young kids are thinking who are these old guys again I know that we have fifth graders what are the fifth graders here today they put you the cheap seats don't worry you'll grow into the others you know it occurred to me that the fifth graders knew the eighth graders are sitting here today thinking hey really cool we're in high school all right the ninth graders are sitting here thinking I hope that old guy talks to another hour I don't want to go to class now the cool 10th graders are sitting there going where's my iPad where's my phone you know the genius well they just look the next door going hey do you think the cool girl saw me well ago what do you think I look good don't I but no seniors where's the seniors all the seniors seniors today you're scared you haven't heard back from college yet you're thinking oh my gosh I better pay attention I might need this information maybe naval aviators could be a little bit rowdy most of us still think we're 25 even though we live in hundred-year-old bodies but it was an amazing time of our lives I have with me today another naval aviator my buddy Jim sparks from Brown County Tim this wave say hi only reason I brought two sparks with me today is I don't like him ten yet you red flag ready there he's got a way to add if I tell something that's a complete lie or fabrication Tim's going to wave his hat he's a check-and-balance I was asked to tell a couple stories and every year we have this thing and typically I think how does it relate to the students some old guys enter that they're telling a story about or 100 stories about what he did back in the Great War and how is that relevant to you and how is it relevant to your families and will bring that home in a minute I guess I was first by dr.
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hammock I had to tell a little bit about myself I don't like doing that I may leave in one or two stories of my own and then we're going to talk about you students and we're going to talk about these wonderful folks here before you don't worry we'll be out of here soon you know the difference between an old war story and a fairy tale a fairy tale always begins with once upon a time and a veteran telling a story those begins with hey this is no kiddin this really happened I'm not sure what you'll hear today but we're working on that in my home I have a uniform hanging in the closet and all in that uniform all kinds of glowblade medals and ribbons it looks really cool except it doesn't fit anymore and I didn't want to wear it I appreciate some of you that have uniforms or partial uniforms that's important I did pee I did bring the cool hat though that's that's still still works it's got all kinds a girl braid on it but after the introduction I'm not sure I could wear it I mean it probably doesn't fit we'll throw that down there filers my place today and I closed this book it just means I'm going to tell a hundred more stories okay last night dr.
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hammock I had a unique opportunity to talk about what it means to be a naval aviator to one of your teachers and I said you know you're pretty crazy people wasn't naval aviators we fly off the ships and we do well you might think they're stupid dangerous things I said so I want to impress on the students how crazy naval aviators can be so when I give you the cue and you want you're going to stand up your eighth grade class and they're all going to take paper rods and throw it at me but he said well I can't do that he says doctor and it would get mad at me the reason I tell you that story is each of us down here in front we make fun of each other all the time and our service isn't what you flew or I flew we make fun of each other but don't you guys try to make fun of us because we'll circle the wagons and whip up on you okay so we we tease each other about Air Force or Navy or army or Marine Corps Coastie you're back there so I'll give you an example how that works when that teacher said I can't do that that wouldn't be according to the rules I might get in trouble I said you might make a great airforce officer someday I don't know if he got that who likes airplanes who likes veterans cool October 15th 1977 at five o'clock in the afternoon cold rainy overcast evening I found myself behind a carrier in the eastern Mediterranean I had been in the service at that time for two years I had just finished flight training literally on Tuesday night Friday morning I was in the Mediterranean flying as a replacement pilot because the squadron had lost an aviator that was sent right from the training environment to a combat type of environment during that period of time we were fighting what we felt like was a pretty serious Cold War the Russians were always trying to push us around and we were trying to make sure they didn't push the little guy around since I got there and I was a new kid without much experience joining a fleet squadron in their wisdom they gave me some practice landings every day that they could now keep in mind this is my second day of flying in the fleet and I'm now they told me to put my tail hook up and just do some practice landings in the carrier get two or three of those and then land when I was about out of gas well you spot the crazy movie I don't make a correlation to Top Gun but I'm fat dumb and happy thinking I got one more to planning to make and then I can go inside need a cheeseburger and relax when I get a call for something that's called screaming Adel I didn't know what that meant I was a new kid I looked down at my knee board and I tried to call it the note pad that said what the heck is a screaming eagle turned out it was some real-world situation that we had an American ship in jeopardy I want oh my gosh why me why me well cos you're the last one in the air nobody else can take off this ship give me a vector for this problem situation turns out the two hundred miles away off the coast of Tunisia and the Tunisians weren't very friendly to us at that time one of our intelligence-gathering ships was right at the 12-mile limit you can't get any closer that to another country without getting in trouble I guess at that time that evening that was a Russian warship that's trying to knock our US ship inside the 12-mile limit and capture it and I was the only kid in the air the ships they switched me up another frequency and said screaming Eagle your signal is one eight zero for 200 miles hey I can do this I'm going I felt like the cavalry myself a few minutes later I look down I realize I don't got the gas for this what are they doing I've been up in the air for two hours and I got 40 minutes of fuel left well at 520 knots most I could go on an a7 Corsair is about 600 miles an hour I wasn't a rocket scientist like some here I wasn't a math major like some here when I start figured out I don't have enough gas to go do this and they didn't care okay so I'm calculating and because I'm a math a math challenged person I'll go to miss Fox math teacher miss Fox how long has it take me in the air to get 200 miles at 600 mile an hour about 20 minutes okay and I got 30 minutes with the gas okay so I get down there pay in the whole time that there's no ship there to rescue because all I've got onboard me on board my aircraft are some machine-gun bullets and an empty fuel tank under my wing the fuel tank looks like the bomb so I'm hoping the Russian thinks that I'm armed and it worked well sure enough I get there and there's our ship trying to get away and this Russian guy trying to get him in to capture him and felt pretty good felt pretty good I put that airplane down on the deck we're about 50 feet up behind this Russian popped up over the head set up a strafing pattern over here what our guy got away and I thought what am I doing here I'm from Columbus Indiana what on earth am I doing here each and every one of us I think and the veterans remember a moment in time where we did something that made a difference today I will mentioned this story and later on a really much briefer story that tells you in my life the things that I remember most that made a difference the thing that David made the biggest difference to me was that I was going to have to go in the water when I got done but it was part of the real world and part of what I was trained to do I just hadn't thought it would ever occur you know I just came in to get the benefits and get some flight time the greatest thing in my aviation career was looking up 15 minutes later about seven minutes of gas left and in the mean time to ship it in sending the cavalry the real cavalry and as I looked up here come six a six Corsair intruders sorry Tim your airplane and two f4 phantoms to keep the bad guys off our backs and a really big tanker airplane with about 10,000 pounds of gas just for me and some of you may know we have the capability in the Navy of plugging in and taking fuel from other aircraft and there was a greatest ride home I've ever had plugged in the whole way I landed with more gas than I needed so it was a great great day let's back up a little bit when I was a kid I couldn't figure out why I loved airplanes so much it just I was eaten up with airplanes airplane magazines pictures all the time I was really little I didn't find out till later I think it's my dad had a little Piper Cub when I was born he got rid of it what my brother's here today gene when I was four three or four probably but later I saw a picture of that cub and I realized at some point my dad must have had me on his knee or something because I was eating up of airplanes while I was six years old our father was a construction worker concrete and he had a big pile of two-by-four it's out behind the barn and he used those words all the time to do his concrete work he made sidewalks in he made driveways and dad couldn't afford much in the way of construction equipment we had this big pile of boards that he used well six years old I went out and got a handsaw and I cut up every single one of them and I made this great long line of plumbers I made two performers about 25 of them took me all day sent him about the driveway waiting for dad to come home used every board he had and my mother said you wait till your dad gets home it's going to be tough my dad came home I never knew him when he was a pilot but I knew that he loved it and when dad came home instead of spanking me he had this great smile on his face and he congratulated me on having a squadron of bombers the squadron of fighters I was 6 years old my friends and I played army on the banks see I'm trainable army we had we played army with our plastic soldiers we probably don't do that anymore you guys but we'd go down to the creek in the sand and we'd lay out huge armies I mean of all our plastic soldiers I was a little weird I would climb up in the tree until firecrackers with my friend soldiers seeing how many I could blow up I think that's when I first learned that I needed to be a dive bomber pilot I wasn't a very good student in fifth grade my fifth grade teacher kept asking me why I was drawn over all the book I had at airplanes drawn on front back in the middle and then she did the greatest thing she could ever do for me she gave me a book but I never read much before that fifth grade but she gave me a book about Guadalcanal called the Guadalcanal diary by Richard Tregaskis it's amazing book and I from that moment on I couldn't get enough of reading about military history and those World War two idiots became very special to me in seventh grade my teacher was a history teacher most of all mr.
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Harris and mr. Harris let me write as much as I could about military history because he encouraged me to write as much as I was reading most I ever got out of mr. Harris was a b-minus last year mr. Harris came to Brown County to visit I had him to my house he still lives today and hope Indiana and I pulled out one of those aviation themes I wrote in seventh grade and mr. Harris this is the best I ever did for you sir sorry it was a d-minus and mr. Harris read that we pray he took a big pen and he made it into a plus so I I won finally if the risk have sounded terrible and not not good for your students I got to tell him I was an average student how many average students join me yeah all right good yeah well you know what there's hope for every students in the world who really believe in what they're doing it really had a dream and really wants it to go where they want to go in life I'm not as smart maybe as I should be but I worked really hard at it to get to where I got and and I think I represented people in this area pretty well you know there was 750 kids in my graduating class in Columbus at that time it was the only high school it wasn't a north or a nice and I was probably number 430 out of 700 whatever proud of my C+ average you know I had to go back and get tutors later in life because I didn't know how to do math with science and that for some reason the Navy thought that was important mrs.
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Fox gonna test am i that missing gene so fast forward I learned how to fly in boy whales brought down where the cummins plant is now was the Columbus Airport little place called Wellsboro at that Airport I went out and cut the grass and pump fuel in exchange for flying lessons at 15 started flying and and finally got the solo when I was she said when I was 16 it was a great experience for me when I went off to college I couldn't afford to anymore airplanes were $25 an hour parachute jumping was only six so I started jumping out of airplanes the cool thing was you got the airplane white on your way to jump so hey it was a good deal I trained in Pensacola Florida which is where all of my heroes that I read about as a kid I trained in Pensacola where the same World War two aviators trained I lived in the same barracks I worked out of the same hangars I checked my parachute out of the same parachute loft as those guys did in World War two and I just kept pinching myself saying hey your kid from Columbus what are you doing here the USS Lexington was the first carrier that I got to look at and it was a world war two carrier you believe in 1977 we were still using an old world war ii carrier for training great radio planes when you approach a ship that's that small the pitching deck it's a little bit scary and to do it for the first time is even scarier you know why they don't send an instructor with you because I don't want to kill two guys they the first time you see the boat you're by yourself and they kind of hope you do wallet so the roll in until the groove behind the carrier your first time ever and your heart's beating really big and you think I'm one of a couple thousand guys that got to do this this is pretty cool all my heroes were doing this one of the most fantastic pictures in my mind is that approach on that day in 1976 I have the option the opportunity to fly with some great Americans I think it was a discussion this past week with John McCain maybe here in high school John McCain was a friend of mine John McCain was an instructor of mine I flew my special weapons qualifications I can't tell you what that is or I have to shoot you but I tried to carry some rather unique weapons in a different time of the world but John McCain who became later congressman and Senator McCain and everybody knows who he is I think great guy I flew some of my flights with him one thing that rained out we had to wait about three hours to finish the training mission and John took me in the back room and said I want to sit you down and tell you my story and that's a very memorable point in my life is having skipper McCain tell me about his days at Scipio W his days as great American his days as you know doing what he did now kind of made me happy because John McCain was number seven hundred ninety two out of seven hundred ninety four students in his classes in college so maybe we had a lot in common great American right brings me to my last story in my part of this embrace Oh booth there are times where you think about things or you take a snapshot in your life that you remember forever well I remembered that Tunisia thing with that airplane and that screaming eagle mission none of us really knew much about that but it means something to me I later on became a squadron commander was in charge of a squadron of fighter bombers at seven Corsairs in New Orleans Louisiana or what circus that was I had 17 airplanes three full-time pilots and seventeen airline pilots all they did was come to town and party down on Bourbon Street it's hard keeping those guys straight but also because of our proximity in New Orleans to Houston Texas where the astronauts live I had two astronauts in my squadron that were reservists they came in and flew a couple times a month they were great great guys my very last flight in the airplane in the a7 Corsair fighter when out did a little flight that's so cool 200 feet 500 mile an hour drop some practice bomb somewhere came back over the Gulf of Mexico and met up with a flight of f15 Eagles and did bad fighting for 20 minutes hit the tanker took some fuel I mean we do it all the whole time I'm thinking this is it and this is the last one I'm gonna remember this forever and as we came in lower we asked for control to let us fly over downtown New Orleans what a cool place it you know 2,000 feet right over the dome and I looked at my right side and on my right wing was commander Steve space Oswald space have flown at that time two Shuttle missions as the commander of the space shuttle great great pilot went on to command our first as an admiral commander first Space wars command the small Wars out the other side and I had to wingman that day was two-time mission specialist Joe Tanner Joe Tanner great American loved into pieces either thinking kids from Columbus Indiana and I'm looking to astronauts back into the break I better look halfway decent I'll never hear the end of this but it was a moment that I cherish and a moment that I will remember forever that the Navy gave me that opportunity I want to talk to you kids about is service and what that means Service Above Self and the concept of service and self can you say that to yourself Service Above Self and service and itself some of these people in front of you performed a service above themselves as I look out I know most of the combat veterans here there were amazing people and they risked their lives and Sparky and I probably risk it maybe time we try to land on the boat we were so bad we never knew if we were coming back or not but service and self is a little bit different than Service Above Self you may be called to come above yourself but we have this crazy idea that unless I go into service of the risk agent killed I don't want to go into service well you can go into service and help your country and help yourself with education experience travel starts okay to have service and self I want you to remember those two concepts I was going to sell at the beginning of this part that Webster defines service as and then I remember that none of you kids probably have a toy what Webster is you know it was an old rusty dictionary that us mediocre students used occasionally so let's google it bingo says that service is the act of helping or doing work for someone above means at a higher level or layer and self does your a purse is a central being that distinguishing distinguishes them from each other from one another Service Above Self helping others higher level yourself now a veteran is defined by Google as a person who has had extents in a certain field well a second-year player the codes could be a veteran they were a uniform I'm not so sure that they have the same level of risk that these folks here had as a veteran so let's just refer to these guys and gals here as military veterans a military veteran defined by Google as a person who has served and is no longer serving in the Armed Forces service to others requires that you willingly volunteer to give something of yourself to make life better for somebody else you have to learn to build a place in your heart to help others it starts with you guys looking out for little kids on the bus or maybe signing up at school to help build a habitat house and before you know it it's going to be part of who you are this service thing how many of you show of hands have been involved with Boy Scouts 4-h or church raise your hand okay all three of those and there are others are involving service to other people unless you want to cite the Reaper you take your hand down now it sorry well there's a Marine Corps recruiter here today Lucia hey stand up look how many Marines are on the front row of these five guys four out of the five she's the one that deserves a medal she comes calling it to her house if she comes crawling at your house you're going to be simplifying under way I can did I know that I told her I said we have done talking I think this is going to be a target-rich environment for you let me put this in better terms someday when you get older you're gonna play in your driveway you're gonna be tired from work and you're gonna look next door and the old man next door is struggling with a mower trying to mow their lawn and they shouldn't be doing that at age 85 before you go in and sit on the couch and have them have dinner have a drink you're gonna go in the garage and you're gonna get your lawnmower out and you're gonna go next door and you're gonna murder that lawn and that couple is going to look at you with tears in their eyes and then you're going to realize how and how good it feels to help somebody else you're going to realize what service really means so how many kids you said raise your hand how many volunteer to help in the community what if you okay in the in the adult sheep seats and they have no parents so since how many volunteer maybe on a regular basis okay do I need to ask you guys in the middle how many ever volunteered raise your hand probably not right I hope that many of you have the honor of volunteering to serve your country as we have done but more importantly make yourself a promise right now that you will volunteer at least once before we graduate your ground County to help out somebody else in need so who are these folks sitting in front of you let's take a second talk about who they are what did they feel like when they went into the service why did they do what they did we we saw this wonderful video that explains a little bit about it right now I want everybody in the student audience I want you to look out to one of those veterans I want you to make eye contact and keep looking at them veterans kind of turned right and left forever let somebody pick somebody out in this audience and keep staring at them okay don't look away now smile at them now with each other you know they were students once they set in those same uncomfortable seats those bleachers are in right now they are the same thoughts running through their heads that you have right now no I don't mean how many classes you're getting out of I mean what you're going to do for service and you're thinking about your options about after high school what's going to be next for you for a lot of you and for us sitting before the story there starts to blend together again trade places with your new friends you just made on the court you talked with your high school guidance counselor maybe you attended a career fair you started asking adults that you know or relatives about what they did in the service and what their career path was you start asking yourself what will make me happy how can I get the most accomplished in the shortest amount of time with the money that I have available remember we all set the same seats that you set in for some of you in for most of people sitting before a military job made sense at that time and may be able to make sense for you maybe you saw a former student in the hallway who came back in uniform to check up on a teacher or said or say hello so to cover all the bases you wouldn't talk to a recruiter just like you did for the SAT or the a CT you took a test to see how you do and what career fields you might qualify for you started asking other kids in school if they thought about the military because why there's safety in numbers right and they can't be a crazy idea if somebody else is doing it finally you made up your mind to serve in the military but you were afraid to tell anybody at first what if they thought it wasn't cool when you got brave enough you finally shot your parents with the big news mom looked really worried and dad had that same little smile on his face of pride they look that you'd never seen before became finally a dealer when you had to raise your hand and commit to a real contract as an adult most likely it was the first contract contract you ever agreed on on your own without a parent those fine your parents didn't do it for you that oath is so important to us and that oath is going to be so important to you it's the first time in your life you've ever sworn to something that costs to you and that dear to you and it will last forever it means something to us I guarantee it first sergeant well the veterans order for oath what you're going to see now we're going to listen witness students is the first probably these these people have done since 40 years ago some of them 70 years ago some of them we're going to reaffirm our oath to our country raise your right hand and repeat after me I state your full name do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice so help me God first sergeant retired [Applause] so after you've done that and you swear in and school side come to a close at the end of the year approached you felt a lot of emotions maybe you felt some pride you felt some excitement you felt some apprehension and a fear of the unknown those of you who are drafted I know that your story is just a little bit different than the volunteerism but you swore the same oath and it meant the same thing to you after you did that you walked around the yard of your house you drove my to see a few friends that date approached we had to ship off he played with the dog spent some time with your boyfriend or girlfriend you had a strong feeling inside that the very next time you were going to see these things to do these things in Brown County you'd be doing him as a very different person and adult until that seems a different approach than going off to college sharing apartment with friends attending well maybe working in a restaurant in both of these paths college or a local job you can come home anytime you want to a mom will help with your with your laundry you can raid the fridge heads Brown County you can even drive through McDonald's six times and say who's home and who's hanging out that's going to get old I can tell you firsthand held both of these Phil because I experienced both military in college it was a constant struggle to work my way through school but it was college for me was the only way I could get to my dream of flying for some reason the Navy decided you had to have a four-year college degree remember I talked to you about C+ average it didn't get any better for me but I made it no matter whether you start some secondary education at 18 or 22 whether you will you go to the service before after college the feelings and the emotions are still the same you leave behind one life and you start another one you know - the first few months the military has this really fun camp where you get to march around and yell real loud hell boot camp and they teach how to actually make a bet not just pull up the covers and then tell mama that's done they make eat three times a day for five minutes total it's kind of a shock but I'll tell you something if fifty million people have done this before you can do it quickly the scale yelling part is all over and the marching stuffs over and you come back for a short visit and what's the first thing you do you put on a uniform you head down to the high school to see your favorite teacher or say or say hi to somebody or go see your friends because you're proud it's kind of a tradition and in that defining moment when you get to tell the world look at me I made something of myself I'm from Brown County and I've got the world that sale each store had point on takes on a different ending because in life it's what you make of it from that point on each of us have different stories and you will to some of us served a couple years some ten some of us stayed in for a career some of the people in front of you served some very scary places some in support some in combat a few came home injured and as you know some didn't come home at all we represented our country and our families the best we could and it made us a lot better people we seem to have come to a place where military service isn't as important isn't what it used to be and I I think there's something wrong with that it doesn't even make the top five of the top ten choices and it should I want to challenge you to consider military service because it's a great way to get skills a great way to get it occation and it's a great way to see the world it's a tremendous way to kick-start your life what you and all of us before you have or had to figure out is what is the end result that you want to achieve and what's a pretty good pathway for you to get there I'm actually going to stop there and go to the last phase of this because I want you to understand something we live in a world right now where military service has provided things for you that you don't even realize we live in a world even Brown County where leadership our families have all been affected by the military in one way or another there are people in charge of this County that you didn't know existed yeah you may know Tom Miller was a veteran where's Tom you may know that you got a teacher who was a veteran you may know that you've got three school bus drivers who are veterans you have a tech department person and a pair of pro who are veterans you're gonna rub elbows with them all the way through high school but what you don't know is some of our greatest leaders and I'm going to take just a minute and then when I'm done I want to tell you about a lieutenant that worked for me in the Navy who was a young helicopter pilot who was brash and energetic and said when he grew up he wanted to be an entrepreneur and we laughed at him he couldn't be here today but his name is Jeff McCabe Jeff McCabe founded big loads burying quote in hard truth hills Jeff's a great a great guy Ron Higgins would you stand one is a brown county graduate of 1986 his diesel engine mechanic in the knee naval reserve also from 91 to 96 he in 2007 became the veterans assistance counselor Ron is the best one in the state of Indiana but probably anywhere in the country I think though you keep standing and one has brought our County millions of dollars in veteran benefits for our veterans all over the county and what it what a great opportunity that it's been to be a friend of him second person you may not be aware of all keep standing there you go as I as I introduced these people I want it's a it's an imperative thing that you look at them and kind of get that optic about who they are the second you heard last year was my Kihara Mike if you're here would you stand for me Mike are you still here Mike Iyer thank you Mike is one of our true heroes here and I don't use that word easily there are people who are heroes mike-mike fought at the Battle of Khe Sahn you've heard his story before and he is solely responsible for the name of this gym nation because of his friend Lacey banks and we owe him a great debt to his country thank you Mike now you may think you may think that military is not a path to to being a smart guy so I'm going to tell you something something we have among our midst the guy who saw if two years as an enlisted Army soldier who is a rocket scientist with a PhD in solid rocket fuels dick young would you stand there you go this machine advances the way it applied mathematics and engineering physics in 1969 was drafted two years whirring probably that same uniform okay and 72 got his master's and applied mechanics and his PhD in solid-state rocket fuel in 1975 he was a professor of engineering at University of Cincinnati truly a rocket scientist I'm trying to know the next two gents because they're they're two of a kind local businessmen growth and Adam Nevins would you stand for me please now both Adam they said in these same bleacher seats was well they were athletes the graduates of Brown County High School both have been listed in the Navy after high school to learn ship code repair and equipment repair and now they own their own very well-known business of Nevins refrigeration that probably been to a house near you we're happy that they're here today Colonel Rick Kelly Turner Rick Kelly would you stand please colonel Rick Kelly if you've ever driven over Kelly Hill that's the lead right there it's Rick Kelly from The Fairly family Rick graduated from Brown County High School in 1967 undergraduate master's degree at some trade school up about 15 miles from here it wasn't Purdue in 71 after college reenlistment enlisted as a jet engine mechanic and he worked his way up to full colonel in in the Air Force Reserve and including squadron command on three occasions and it's really a great guy around here he's been involved with it with the Community Foundation with the 4-h extension office just a wealth of volunteer stuff so thank you Rick really we are led in Brown County by some halfway-decent elected officials and I'm happy to have the top dog here today after high school he joined the United States Marine Corps I became a state trooper he attended classes at the IU School of Trade [Music] he was a state police detective he was elected Brown County Sheriff and had an excellent term there and he became a brown county commissioner in 2012 Dave is currently the president of the County Commissioners Dave bernburg did you stand if you're here Darrin Darrin's back they'd and we enlisted into after high school was a fire-control minh on the USS horn coos guided missile cruiser in electronics he currently works as a CAD computer aided design technician in skills that he learned in the Navy Hill Hamilton behind me who has more bark than bite was it was a famous First Sergeant air force reserve or guide very reserved I get that wrong that a for stuff you know absolutely it's a sub service to the Navy he graduated not from here but from Decatur central in 75 when active duty in 76 and had 32 or 33 years in uniform we also had a tremendous career as a technician in a supervisor at AT&T skills that he learned in the service show ten boards would you stand choice Joe you're not just a token Coast Guard guy you're not the guy that checks our licenses when we go hunting we'll Bambi's are you you never put us in jail right Joe Joe went to a year of all after graduating high school in Evansville into a year college and then realized he needed help going to school and he joined the Coast Guard Reserve and they paid for the rest of his college and which is a pretty cool way to go and he serves still as a reservist in the Coast Guard and that's pretty cool well you don't know most of you don't he became a diver in 2013 and he has saved more lives in in our community in our state than you can imagine as a diver thanks Joe Rison the president of the Town Council if you could Bob : is here I think Bob Pollin after college Bobby back there you go after college Bob : served for a few years in physical therapy in the Army at Fort Hood Texas he spent 32 years in retail and Town Council for 12 years what a leader he was for the town of Nashville thank you Bob as president of town council next guy is pretty questionable he graduated from South Park High School in 66 University of Indianapolis in 70 he enlisted in the National Guard and 30th infantry artillery he was a respected schoolteacher before he went back and got his master's in education and became a supervisor in principle I want you to get to the principal thing I'm not so sure how much here on the side of the kids but I guess you're all right federal principle in high school in the brown county assistant superintendent in 1995 and our superintendent o7 mr.
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Dave Shafer day [Applause] Service Above Self in service and itself remember these gents started a lot of their education in the military or continued it it's important that you remember that the next guy is so pretty important to me he's another Thomas high school graduate 1968 briefly at Indiana University until the draft got him him a medic it was a medic for nearly four years I have so much respect for him he worked his way through college after the army working nights full time as an x-ray technician graduated for the University in three and a half years with nearly an A average and coming from Columbus Indiana I can say that a dream when you're meeting up your student like the next person is is one you really got to work for this man retired as a doctor in 2017 founded a business up in Indianapolis he is my personal hero as my brother dr.
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Jean Baker whenever I meet somebody from Wanamaker or new Palestine they do you know that crack I throw dr. Baker they go yeah how do you know dr. Baker well I'm prettier than he is and what smarter but he got the math gene and I got the reading gene so I think together we kind of work out Tony Cisco was with us and up on the front row and I'm hoping you never meet anybody here I hope you never need Tony firsthand Tony stand up Tony Cisco is our Jail commander captain Tony Cisco graduated Martinsville High School enlisted in the US Army he was in Iraq and o3 and oh for Army National Guard 97 to 2004 also build law enforcement since 1987 and would a great asset he has to our community and again don't go visit Tony unless you really really need to Thanks [Applause] you don't find some amazing people in this community who you didn't know were veterans and one it's gonna surprise you right now this guy went to high school in New York he joined the United States code rancor in 1979 it was in the eighth 1981 as a corporal it was an infantryman with a rifle an amazing guy you know as your pastor of New Life Church Jim convoy I can tell you kids home don't mess with the preacher our chief of police in town been Systrom as a graduate of Brown County High School in 1995 became a navy CP enlisted person has done extremely well for us Ben would you rise hey okay Vince is done by phone or coroner a Pharma corner and recently retired fire department person from the Indianapolis it before Robbie Ayers Robbie are you with us today Brown County Brown County graduate lieutenant-colonel Chuck Yeager Santa Chuck how is it that a guy named Chuck Yeager is not a pilot I don't I don't get that he graduated on high school in 85 once college University Western Kentucky University believe us or not he was a diver scholarship diver off of the high boards I guess in college but he was an ROTC in college and okasan came Carla calling and he liked it he spent a whole career as a military policeman serving in Iraq guitar Wattana MoBay retired last year but here's what you don't know and you should know is that he is on the board of directors for do something Brown County he's an amazing man that really cares about our drug abuse problems in our County and is working tirelessly to fix those Thank You Chuck because you old guys are challenged there's only four more so it's okay we're done next is my friend Rick Fox Rick stand up for a second oh you already owe now Rick Fox was the IT guy here for a while he's our IT director in the county were a smart guy with electronics he's the go-to guy whenever we need help in this county for IT stuff pretty cool now Rick and I went to high school together he was in 72 I graduated 71 the current thing about Rick was Rick was an amazing gymnast on the state champion gymnastics team Rick was on the steering stuff and he had muscles that you wouldn't believe I don't really win trick but he was heavily recruited and have additional a scholarship as a gymnastics participant on the team and in college and did really well with that for a while and then he went in the Navy to learn electronic skills and those are skills that he helps us with every day and he was former enlisted on a helicopter he was a helicopter air crewmen thank you Rick howdy friends Meyer penny I can't sue but I know you back there there you go Patti friends Meyer fatty friends Meyer class of 53 Brown County High School she joined the Air Force in 88 to learn meteorology she briefed pilots on the water conditions and she lied to us every time after the after the service Patti's worked the number of jobs around the county she's in real estate you may know her as the new owner of here's a brown cabin rentals huge staff huge business Patti [Applause] Pat is head of our Brown County leadership program and also serves as the agent in the American Legion and on the honor guard and she does everything for us in the county they've paid also a guard a would you stand babe [Applause] Builders Brown County High School class of 73 active duty army 73 76 he works for Indianapolis Power and Light an exceptional technician and we're so happy to have him as the commander of our honor guard thank you Dave for your service my friend Jim sparks has not thrown the exageration flag once today and I appreciate that Tim Tim would you stand up gently a whole crew like I did only he flew the a-6 intruder a great airplane we have a lot of rivalry between the two airplanes but that's okay Tim graduated from Brown County High School in 1972 Purdue University in 1976 for the worst here's the college RTC he was a combat veteran of Desert Storm we came back together again and worked in my airline career my second career Tim recently retired as I did at Federal Express as airline pukes and you were in the 11 captain big white body captain and he has a big breakfast business in our County Tim sparks great American [Music] [Applause] the the three gentleman mentioned now you can all three stand up if you're still here Don is behind me Don burden Steve Lowery if you're here would you stand up and Hank marshal thanks back there somewhere thank good good steve is the commander of the American Legion inspiration for veterans in the county former enlisted was assigned to Germany Dan burden from Sheridan High School 62 was a Vietnam soldier he got on in 67 and his industrial equipment repair and then brings you to hank marshall the heroes that are here today hank marshall is one of the best hank marshall attended after mitchell high school attended Hanover college for three years and then Uncle Sam called hink Marshall was a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam and I can imagine the things that he did and saw that I owe him my eternal gratitude for for what Hank Marshall did for us and Hank is our commander of the Vietnam veterans and Hank thank you for being here that brings us to a close gentleman you can you can have a seat thank you your knees still work there Nevins boy that's you basketball players have weak knees I know time to finish with this we talked about surface above self and service and self you can do both kids you really can do both and the military is a place where you can have a great career I want you to do something after high school to get that education I don't care if it's college I don't care if it's ot vocational school or the military but you need to get it find something in your heart that can that you can give to make this world a better place always have room in your heart for others the veterans we honor here today sure did they stove each of you we pay their sacrifice by paying it forward I thank you and I pray that God will a blesses your life [Applause] I think it can be said that on behalf of Brown County we are so gifted to have our own Top Gun and Commander Baker thank you so much commander Baker that was really extraordinary all right oh well done perfect good stuff all right I think we're going to move straight into our choir with their next piece which is god bless the USA [Music] if tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife I thank my lucky stars to be living here today because the flag so stands for freedom and they can't take that away and I'm proud to be an American where at least I know one free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me I gladly stand up next and her still today cause there ain't no doubt I love this god bless for us [Music] from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of Texas from sea to shining sea from Detroit down to Houston in New York to LA well there's pride in every American Heart and it's time we stand to say proudly and under guard I know I'm and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me I gotta stand up next year an offender still today comes down and God bless yes and I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm and I won't forget the men who died and gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt about this and God bless you sir [Applause] veterans we hope we communicated to you all today how grateful we are for your service and how much we love you we started our program off this morning remembering the man for whom those gymnasium is named Larry C banks and it's appropriate that we end today's program by remembering him once again Larry C banks was just a boy from Brown County who I would like to think would be sitting right here in this space perhaps seated right next to his best friend alongside all of you extraordinary service members were it not for his making the ultimate sacrifice for our country during his service in Vietnam Larry C banks was just a boy from Brown County who will serve forever as our closest reminder of the brutality and heartache of war coupled with an even closer reminder of ideals like honor valor Service Above Self Larry C Banks is just a boy from Brown County who wasn't given the gift of coming home but we hope to do right by his memory to forever remember him as our hometown hero Larry c-bass was just a boy from Brown County whose life ended before he could advance his own education but will forever be honored in a scholarship that is awarded in his name and has impacted the lives of so many so that they can advance their own education Larry C bangus was just a boy from Brown County who like all of you brave men and women who are sitting on this gym floor today served our nation so that we can experience the freedom that we are blessed to experience today I am thankful for Larry C banks and I am thankful for all of you thank you so much for joining us today it is our great hope that this program will bless you a fraction of the way in which you have blessed us god bless you all at this time I'd like to invite the Boy Scouts up to formally retire our colors Boy Scouts [Music] you may be seated veterans when the music begins our students will greet you and will dismiss you by rows to the auxiliary gym where you will have your picture taken all of our veterans are widows and our families of our veterans and widows you are all invited to stay for a luncheon provided by Brown County Schools which will take place in our auxilary gym thank you so much for being here today happy Veterans to everyone [Applause] high school students I suppose don't you are dismissed to five a lunch or fifth period class I suppose danger dismissed to five eight
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good morning big Hollow today is November 13th is the 56th in school this is WCAG news I'm Sophie ohms and I am Charlotte today for lunch there would be chicken pot pot toss salad carrot sticks blueberries and milk tomorrow for breakfast there'll be hard-boiled egg animal crackers fresh apples sunset juice and milk instruments on that question was how many these are it in the word Tennessee the answer is four and the winner is ivy and Miss Jacobs class come to the office to pick out your prize today's fun that question is in what board game when you would have played a visit on the castle on the way to the cusp remember to write your answer neatly and include your name in class we have a special announcement this week good afternoon teacher sister remind you to check your pickup list and we do have Spanish club this afternoon thank you today please welcome mr.
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summers hmm mr. summers we have a couple of questions for you of course one what is your job at the color I am a fourth-grade teacher - what did you want to be when you grew up when I grew up I wanted to be a professional baseball player professional basketball player and a teacher all at the same time I only got one of them though where are you in any clubs or sports in school yeah when I was in high school I played basketball and baseball duh bears if you've seen mr.
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summers in the hall please give them a silent hello thank you and now we will observe a brief period of silence to reflect on the anticipated activities of the day 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 pallet to have it to Tuesday and remember kindness counts every day everywhere thanks for watching
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good morning miss hallo today is November 14th it is the 57th stay at school this is WBT news I'm Catherine I'm Cameron today for lunch therapy French chose six yogurt cucumber fresh potato apple juice and milk tomorrow brothers breakfast there'll be Cheerios cereal graham crackers oranges I will use her milk we have no friends selling celebrating birthdays today if we missed your birthday happy birthday go to the office and pick out your book residence fun fact fun fact question was in what board game would a player visit the gumdrop Mountain on the way to the candy castle the answer is Candyland the winner is Josh team play-doh come to the office to pick out your prize today's fun fact question is in the movie ratatouille what is the name of the little chef remember to write your answer immediately and include your name in class we have a special announcement this week is anti-bullying week today is turning your back on bullying day wear your clothes backwards with pride tomorrow's show your school pride day where blue and white or a big hollow spirit t-shirt and now we have now we will preserve we will observe from these pure silence to reflect that it is ready activities of the day please answer the pledge 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 but why do Wednesday and remember kind of counts every day everywhere thanks for watching bye
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at 12 minutes after approval of the agenda add anything to the agenda associations so I'll call for a motion to approve the minutes are the agenda so moved second favour high post approval of the minutes everybody had a chance to look at the minutes from last meeting a October meeting they're not in front of us right I think we all saw them yeah I moved to approve the minutes okay here a second second all in favor aye opposed now we come to the top portion of our meeting where we have room for public input there's anyone in the audience who would like to talk to us for up to three minutes about something related to energy they can approach the podium and give us their name seeing no one moving will close the public input and move on to energy report as far as the greenhouse gas inventory goes we've been waiting some time for DT to give us some of that data bad news we might have to wait a little bit longer until January they said they'd have it ready for us the good news is that we'll be getting 2016-17 in 18 so I went ahead and talked to him about wrapping them all together I figured if it was a tedious process if they can get us all the information or the last couple of years that would help we also have a new staff person a temp who's helping me out say a girl in ER so she might be coming actually to one of the future Commission meetings as well so that means we would be able to update the inventory and update the dashboard another thing as far as the dashboard and I know there was a question John that you had about the dashboard and so Missy Stoltz is currently looking at redoing basically our web presence so trying to figure out how best to get our message across and updating it on a number of different fronts as far as external news have we yet or will we with the updates take into account the U of M Ann Arbor whatever was there was an adjustment that we need to make based on the splitting out of those two entities and the transfer of the Pfizer property yeah so we'll probably be doing a presentation of the Anarchy Energy Commission similar to what we did with the 2015 numbers and with that we'll be taking an account some of the I guess information that we've gained since doing the original right so that that update then in early 2019 will encompass all of that when we compass all of it including so 16 17 and 18 numbers for the community okay okay external news Jail reas annual meeting is December 8th 2018 at the freight house and epsilon E Michigan it occurs from 9:30 a.m.
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good morning Mahalo today is November 15 it is 58 minutes cool and this is WBZ news hi I'm Sofia and I'm Cameron today for lunch there will be pizza did burst steamed broccoli sliced red peppers fresh melon and milk tomorrow for breakfast it will be a breakfast the breakfast table graham crackers fresh graves rubles in real we have some friends over in birthdays ray my least uh can't and miss Glover please go to the office pick out your birthday book yesterday's fun fact question was and is me and then Disney movie ratatouille what is the name of the little chef answer is Remi the winner is Rosie team Kuato come to the office to pick out your prize today's fun Beck question is Stratos Cyrus and cumulus and Nimbus are all titles one remember to write your answer neatly including name and class we have a special announcement this week are we are celebrating no bullying today is Friday why do you stand up your boy no in fact I'm dead you will be getting a new time for your backpack we have a special guest with us welcome miss Bowen we have a couple of questions next hello what is your jump epic hello I am a third-grade teacher where did you grow up I grew up in South Holland Illinois what did you want to be when you grew up always a teacher I used to play teacher I used to ask my teachers for dittos and dating myself and extra worksheets to take home and I used to have a desk in my basement and chair set up and I would pretend like I was teaching kids where were you in any clubs sports or activities when they were in school I like to try different things even if I wasn't the best of them I like to try different things so I did a volleyball tennis softball and they also worked on the school newspaper and Student Council when I was older so I tried different things most most important bears or Packers the picture catch all right we're gonna find you up [Music] please do I'll give you a silent hello bear and now we reserved a brief theatre silence to reflect on c-span activities every day 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 have a frightening Thursday and remember kindness comes every day everywhere thanks for watching bye
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[Laughter] and some junk as well but really the reason I want to talk about champ is just to let everyone know just in case we don't know is that the chat programmer stacks work now this year being implemented or cleaner across the district in the past we only did it on a new basis but I wanted to come out and say thank you to a TPU staff especially in your teleport for working with us and making this a reality because now we can say here in Azusa that every fourth grader that attends is you Susan you know school district gets a nine week college and career-ready program that includes mentoring it includes a college trip and includes a mock graduation and so I just wanted to again thank you thank a P for the great partnership and I think that's that's really an awesome for for our case here in Azusa thank you very much I'll keep my comments very brief exponent saying that I started my official first day here in a scissor on Thursday and I have to tell you every single moment right at the toe mic picked up this microphone to speak I've enjoyed royally royally enjoyed every interaction every conversation you can really tell the heart and the the real affection and care that every individual I come across with has for the students in the community of Azusa and like I said in my response comments on on Wednesday I am deeply honored and humbled by this opportunity and I look forward to continuing the good work that we're doing here so thank you very much [Music] introduce yourself no we're gonna get to that in a little bit but please real quickly if you can before you get to your update okay hi I'm Jackie Sanchez I attend Gladstone High School I am a senior and I was given this position because I'm also the ASB president so it just kind of came with the position yeah that's my first board meeting I guess yes so from Gladstone High School on November 13th but if program will be at Northrop Gruman from 7:45 a.m.
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to 3:30 p.m. and it looks like a pretty packed schedule with some good keynote speakers if anyone make that I think it's about $20 is that correct to register well that being said I know that is our speaker today Trent's keys could be doing a workshop at that meeting about how to organize volunteer solar projects and communities and it's part of the morning session so all right and mark I know you also had other news as far as the LRA oh we do it here yeah so grea gives out a series of awards and they're giving out a number of awards this year but I wanted to highlight one here because the Energy Commission endorsed this one so the I'll just read this this is the write up for the award 2018 Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association Business Leadership Award GL Rea business leadership award is awarded to businesses that have significantly further d'marco transformation for renewable energy in Michigan at their annual meeting in December GL Rea will make two such awards first is to mark Haggerty president Michigan Solar Solutions second is to Jeremy's n project manager manager oak electric incorporated starting in December 2017 both local electric and Michigan solar solutions at their own expense assumed the responsibility for making sure Ann Arbor's home owners who had paid for solar panels through geo stellar solar Club program received their promise of raise or were otherwise made whole after jiho's tellers untimely and costly demise oak electric and michigan solar solutions outstanding leadership efforts restored traced trust and faith in in arbors local solar small businesses the solar industry the Energy Office and Ann Arbor's climate action plan related solar initiatives all of which are paramount to the success of the city to an honor and uphold Paris climate agreement goals Michigan solar solutions in Oak electrics demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurialism outstanding business leadership and most importantly honor and integrity in this effort they are credit to the solar energy industry in Michigan and to the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association in outside of that the only other thing I had John I know that there was an article from the New York Times that you wanted me to did you hi I have a - you can read it as well or I can't either way okay I'm taking chairman fo Yards place of youth announcing reports and things like that so I think this is a general interest to commissioners as well as everybody in the audience so this is an article in The New York Times today and it's reporting on a report that the International Energy Agency issued on Monday it issues a World Energy Outlook 661 pages long I won't read 661 pages but I will read the the end of the article it says climate goals out of reach even with the impressive recent gains for renewable energy the world is star far from solving global warming global carbon carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.6 percent last year and our on track to climb again this year the report projects that emissions will keep rising slowly until 2040 one reason carbon free sources like wind solar and nuclear power aren't yet growing fast enough to keep up with rising global energy demand particularly in places like India and Southeast Asia that means fossil fuel use keeps growing to fill the gap for this to change nations will have to enact sweeping new policies like investing in energy efficiency to slow demand growth curbing methane leaks from oil and gas operations and developing carbon capture technology for existing fossil fuel power plants and cement factories governments will pay a key role the report notes that the world invests 2 trillion annually to its energy infrastructure and 70% of that is directed by state-owned companies or regulators that tells me our energy destiny destiny will rely heavily on government decisions the next two decades and I think that applies certainly here in the United States at the federal state and even at the local level so something for us to keep in mind as we go forward we have our work cut out any other energy news okay moving right along next on the agenda we are honored to have a presentation on the epsilon e fire station solar system taking my day for really a presentation that was going to explain what we did they made you should introduce yourself because you're also on closed-circuit TV and there's other people in the room that I hate so I'm uh I'm Dave Donsky I started solar MC back in 2005 and we basically went from zero to about a megawatt actually just atom at 1.15 megawatts of power in the last 13 years and so one one of the and then and kind of my philosophy has been and you guys know who's been up on the roof with me is no meetings just just doing and so uh you know my philosophy is is the the barrier to entry is the cost and so how can I get the cost down and there's several different ways money one way is to use volunteer labor and that's kind of kind of in my model I'm a engineer by trade I play with computers that work for a company called crank and so on my hobby I I've been designing systems finding friends and just kind of making it happen for people in my neighborhood and right at the beginning we were able to put two and a half kilowatts on our City Hall using volunteer labor and and getting is that what that was with a gram so I'm gonna assume everybody here knows solder power 22 uh a quick refresher on solar power everybody knows how it works all righty so I forget what did we do this 2016 2016 first page in fact max is our fire chief from the planning and we talked for maybe about a year about you know whether or not this was an acceptable idea to think about and it wasn't and then the idea was how do you how do you make it work right and so if you we think we picked the number we looked at his electric bills and we picked the number of just 50 kilowatts what would it take to put 50 kilowatts on this roof right and that's less than what they would need to be on a percent solar power and if you and I'm just gonna run through the numbers real quickly here and this is this is a way to kind of I kind of visualize it if I called up one of these contractors it's about three dollars a watt to put 50 kilowatts on a roof that's $150,000 right so you can go I'll try and find $150,000 and make that project happen if you could get volunteer labor and you know help on permits and things like that you could probably get that down to near $2 a watt okay so now and now your dad $100,000 and then the real clever thing we figured out how to do by luck actually is monetizing the tax credit so there's a 30% federal tax credit out there that homeowners can take advantage of so if I put solar on my house cost me $15,000 and do my taxes I get five thousand dollars back so I save 30% on this municipalities nonprofits can't take advantage it so there's a company there's many companies but we use Chart House energy in Muskegon and so instead of buying the material in this case from McNulty McKay for for like $100,000 I would we're gonna we're gonna be $2 a watt so we're a hundred thousand dollars so instead of buying that material for McNulty McKay for $100,000 we leased it from chart house energy so chart house was able to buy the same material and instead of selling it to us he leases it to us and he does what's called a pre buyout lease and so we pay him seventy thousand dollars we have the panels on our roof we get full value we get all the electricity we don't own them he owns them for six years and at the end of the six years than we owned them and the reason he holds title to the panel's is because then he writes him off his taxes he collects the 30% federal tax credit and then passes that on through us so we got one from a hundred fifty to a hundred now we're down in a neighborhood of seventy and then we got lucky we had a person give a donation of twenty five thousand dollars and in the end I think the city kicked in like thirty thirty five something like that so that so thirty-five was the end number so he started a hundred fifty we're down to thirty five so that that that's how we were able to do and we put on 50 kilowatts it took us one day to do it we had the volunteers they'd there's a I don't know how much time do I have I don't know I don't want to blow your budget here I know if everybody's seen this I think I'm just going to go through this two-minute video because this kind of explains it all I also have friends with drones so this video was made for free so this is the fire station it's two levels a hopper level and a lower level it also has a tower so we put a time-lapse camera in the tower these are some of our volunteers I want you to notice that we have a not a guardrail but we have cones around the edge with yellow flagging to alert people the edge of the roof the installation is done with these this is called a you know rack ballasted mounting system so there's there's no penetrations and the roof is a new roof you have these little baskets and you basically put in a number of concrete blocks into there to hold the panels onto the roof which is wait it was kind of fun I mean it was it was kind of crazy we had about a dozen volunteers and I think we finished it in 8 hours or something like that and what was nice was I was there all the volunteers didn't show up at one this is the original project so I would show two three Cabala do it and it's very repetitive and so once once you show a couple people how to do it boom they're off I said you know start here go that way and then I grabbed another group of people train them start here go there so it was it was very easy to to train and there's no there's no electrical work here this is all just nuts and bolts and mostly a lot of lifting the material was fought from mcnulty mckay through chart house and they delivered it on ballots and we were lucky that the fires the firemen and our Department of Public Services was able to use their equipment to push it all up on the roof so between fire trucks and front-end loaders they got it all up on the roof and then once it was all done there is an electrical box called an optimizer that goes I don't eat some of the panels so I was able to hang or another volunteer and I were able to hang these electrical boxes but we didn't know why or anything together and then as part of the deal we hired John Weidman who's actually in Ann Arbor here who officially took the the power from the panels and ran it into the building and connected it to their electrical system so that's how it was and then we did that for two years and then he says well we're saving so much money let's buy some more so about a month ago we bought another 52 panels had some more volunteers show up and and that was two hours maybe guys were trained experts $6,000 first year for the first year so up to three years we'll get $18,000 and we bought the extra 52 panels so you took the savings to buy the second round you know council agreed with that and they are very very very supportive I think anyone faster they went faster well cause of the $25,000 yeah so chart house you didn't use them for the second round we did I hope you thought your match came from the cities we didn't have a donation for the second did you have a someone do a structural analysis of the roof to make sure we really putting on that extra ballasted load I know her we work with I've worked with truck kokum and he's he's an inspiration for me before I believe he looked at this roofing it's a big concrete for us it's not but you're right you do put a couple of tons up there what was the biggest berry I mean it's fantastic yeah I mean from kind of a little sight to appears when I did the first one at City Hall and I went to the mayor and today you know in mind if I do this he says knock yourself out now if you can do it do it so so that's how this is all kind of a snowball you actually that's been it's been very nice so so I kind we kind of warmed up with with Ipsy slowly we've had some small ones and then we did their dps we on their truck port we did both of the community centers and in all these cases I'm either monetizing something or I'm getting a donation or something and so by at that time this project comes along they're all like what do I sign so there's really no barriers to do this they do have pictures I mean it's a flat roof this is what the inverters look like so initially there were three inverters so there's a the initial installation was 176 panels which is a lot of panels and I don't know how many blocks a couple hundred concrete blocks so there is a lot of movement of material and then the the end the expansion was 52 panels so the original system all that power got wired in Khandwa and I actually volunteered my own time and helped John with the with the conduit runs and running the wires and then all of it goes into the building and then these are the inverters that convert the DC to AC and it was and that's their electrical service there's the panel's so you mean you could see there was a quite a bit of work again a lot of credit card surrounding right hmm okay that's the rack that's the balance yeah the record so how much wind can one of those panels take before it it's scoots across the roof so company does all this for you so you know rain you tell you in Iraq what you want to do they know what the zoning laws for this area so we designed for a hundred mile an hour winds and a 25 mile an hour snow load and we tell them what kind of panels and they do what they do a pattern actually we iterated about three or four times because there's a lot of obstacle stuff here and the lower roof and then they would say okay what the panels out like this and but it's kind of funny they give me a little map is two panels here one two blocks here one block here three blocks here and it makes a little bit sense basically there's more blocks on the perimeter and fewer in the center but you follow the map in theory right it's their problem blows off the roof it's our problem it's but it's underneath them this is a 15 degree angle 10 degrees huh you skipped up the important picture dang cough right there there is our Chairman Apple Yahoo chairman up living instead of being up on the roof we're all eating in the same time so the firemen get a lot of there are these middle clips that that go on the corner of all the baskets and so there's a lot of it sembly work and this was all done on the floor the second time we did it on the ground but you know those guys right there probably did that for a couple hours I think do you have to clean off snow in the winter no we we don't worry about it because Michigan gets what's called four hours of peak Sun and that includes snow snow cover so this is basically zero maintenance although I will say that yeah I will say that I was a little not impressed with solar edge which is the company we use for the app for the inverters and the optimizers because we've had six of them fail now yeah and we had to we had to fail actually we had three fail right when we started and then when I went to fix those three but they're real good I mean I got replacements within a week so there's not it's just a hassle yeah so three failed right at the beginning and then it was kind of ironic cuz I went and got him fixed and I read pared the system and then two more fell out but then after that they were good for a couple years and then there was one more that I just fixed actually two days ago but luckily on this roof it's a piece of cake to swap them because it's not you know underneath because you can see this is this comes from you know axle when you order your system they designed this and they give you all the facts on the wind load and everything else and then this is the map that we would follow to say how many blocks going in each basket or does the energy I'll go into the building this is all that meter so all the energy does go into the building consume what they do what they what they need and then any excess right and it does chart house handle that no Charles in this particular case they're out of the picture they're basically just leasing us the majority okay I have worked on other projects if you want to talk about those is uh where he actually did the whole installation without any volunteer labor and it costs more but then he was able to structure it this is for the the truck pork I can show you pictures of it so instead of so we bought everything from chart house we gave him a down payment and then he structured payments for six years so in our case with the firehouse there were no payments we made the one payment upfront and then there's no paintings we don't own him but we don't make any payments and then after six years beyond for the the truck port we put down a down payment and then we're gonna make payments for six years and he structures the payment such that the the payment is ninety percent of the value of the electricity that I would have bought from from the Power Company so if I would have if I'm spending a hundred dollars every month with DTE he structures the payment so that I pay nineteen ninety dollars to to chart house for six years and then so that that was that way there was no volunteer labor than he did everything and in that case then he's monitoring the system and he's he's actually guaranteeing that we're making the power and and he does his billing based on what the inverter is is producing calculation $9,000 a year savings 25 years I thought was it six oh now with the additional take me less to lose nine so that's $225,000 over twenty five years and you're paying roughly four hundred forty five thousand two chart house because that's $9,000 year times five years which is a net savings or net income to you guys somewhere in between a hundred and fifty and one hundred and eighty thousand is that near the numbers you would work with there are two sons we make no payments we we paid him was in over fifty thousand sixty thousand dollars up front okay and that's it one-time payment and then we were then we're saving this six thousand every year okay in the in DPS truck port project but after five years you don't pay right we calculated it after County years we because I'm paying electricity anyways so I can't I had to come up with this sixty thousand dollars they actually of that sixty now twenty five is a donation okay so that then ours is like 35 yes over the life of the system how much money cash do you so how how would the city of epsilon D come up with a hundred thousand dollars to hand you over you know if you went to them said I want a hundred thousand dollars or something else how could you what's your prospect of you be able to get that this is one way to generate that hundred thousand dollars yourself yeah let's I know so I guess the Fifth Avenue energy right so I remember when we did the the second Ray Wayne myself and and Chuck was there I had talked to you a bit about this and and you said something to the effect that you couldn't understand how any city could not do this and I I assume that's based in part on the fact that this makes money for you and you wouldn't be able to get that any other way I'm gonna answer your question in a different way so if this is such a gray of this is you know money falling from the sky why isn't everybody doing right and the reason is is because it's it's a return on investment on a typical home it's seven years to get your money back you have to come up with an upfront payment which is like the a used car you know and then and then you have to wait seven years I've gone to many businesses inside epsilon E and say why don't you do this it's a positive return on investment and the guy at Michigan ladder says Dave you know I can buy a new milling machine it'll pay for itself in a year you know why am I even gonna think about this I even went to st.
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Joe's I actually got a meeting with the head of facilities at st. Joe's hospital and he pulls out of the binder he says you know one year pay back to your baby back so that's why people don't just jump at that because it's a seven year payback we got it shortened not by the techmount accent detector you need to have that already but by having a donation in there that's shortened it to five so to check that's the sweet spot for a city five years high I don't know anything about finances of cities by the way that for the residential systems the payback in Ann Arbor is even higher because because we this the City Assessor assesses taxes which is a back another roughly 50% me so that's actually another motivator for your fire station is because that doesn't affect your correct profits so this would be one way or a cheap way to get more solar inside of Ann Arbor because instead of forcing people to the stacks just tax this property tax you sidestep that whole issue if you could put it on all your nonprofits and yeah um has this bottle been discussed at all with epsilon E public schools we have a lot of public school high school students here and in the audience and using volunteer labor I would seem to me that this would be a model that would be great for public schools doing the same thing they could also go to chart house they have students that could help out with the labor with a little bit of supervision [Laughter] no that's very good so we have Adam school has a small array I was actually actually in the ecology Center had a program a couple years ago they put solar on schools and Adams was one of those we got another donation that helped us put it on why high school in that case we still didn't have the students help students gets a little more tricky because they're the younger more inexperienced and prone to accidents but I know chart house just did a project at Bloomfield Hills High School and there is a video of of the kids literally you know building the array so if it's if it's a ground mount and I'm and I would recommend a ground mount for school because then they can interact with it but if it's a ground mount then the kids aren't climbing ladders and it's it's so much easier for them to just put it up if I can ask question did you do anything liability why is this the city require waivers from volunteers or what did you guess I was kind of surprised there I've worked on past projects for the city and they do have a standard indemnification form that you can sign I don't know why we didn't use him on this one mostly it was firemen and public works people and so David and I guess chief as well how how have other fire departments around the country looked at this project what kind of feedback have you gotten from other people who've looked at this and we're curious about it in I know you did an article I think a fire magazine firehouse magazine that that's another reason to do this is to and that's kind of my my a planning model I'm gonna talk about that a meeting is you know you do something and then you talk about it then you get money and you do something again you talk about itself so we were able to get published in a national magazine to kind of show off its Lanie's fire department as you know being cool so that's another motivating so is that for another fire departments to think that you guys are cool or do they think you're nuts no no Charlie uh Tardos has done two other fires yeah and then didn't you say Augusta Township culture do you consider this a resiliency project where if you know there would be a supply issue from DTE that it I'm sure know so you don't you don't have any battery backup Bernie oh they have a generator set and a transfer switch so okay they lose power they're going to switch over the generator in there okay solar panels will be dead you could I'm not sold on batteries yet there's a flavor of that around some fire station our emergency centers for community sorry Bo there some fire station are designed emergency centers for some communities and mostly small community so to get our tornado coming out and there's no more power they designed as fire station with solar panel or some other type of power system but they have batteries with it so that's that would be a good application for for this fire station and I think they start to to have grants designed for that if it's the design Emergency Center for the city not an electric vehicle charging have you looked at their does it have a capability to do that are you that one doesn't but I actually just finished the project where the inverter comes with an l2 charging plug on it so you can charge things with that uh you reminded me of another point was they just got a new roof and we kind of were unfortunate that they did the roof before we did the solar because I learned that chart house will also include a new roof in a solar project so there's this tax credit out there which from what I understand can be interpreted loosely or in different ways and char house has done several projects where they've put a new roof on the building and put solar on at the same time and then called the new roof part of the solar installation and and III would I would sleep at night with no problem because you would never put solar on up on a crappy roof right you'd want to replace the roof and so you could definitely see the motivation for replacing the roof it's part of the solar project what that does is that now gives you a 30% discount on a new roof and what that basically does is gives you free solder and chart house has done this on another project of mine where the guy was going to replace his roof he had a quote from a roofing contractor he gave at the Chart House and chart house says I'll do the same thing with solar basically took the 30% off on the on the rear off and was able to apply the solar you know fit the solar system within the cost the savings of the 30% so if you're doing any missed' municipal buildings that we have a new don't need a new roof you'd be dumb not that put solar on at the same time because it'll just save you money I actually talked to a tax consultant about that and he said to be sure about doing that and not getting any negative repercussions from the IRS what you should do is include something with the roof that for example increases the r-value where you add some insulation or something like that and then you're safe for sure yeah yep so I think Josh if we looked into something like that I mean it certainly doesn't hurt also to increase the insulation to a lot of these roofs on these buildings are poorly insulated and then if you can wrap that all up together and get the the tax write-off on both the roof and the solar then and solar faithful would be the same way too if we did it on a house of worth it they should look at their roofs potentially too so that makes Dave's point on batteries a little less attractive yeah they're not fully DC and a few DC charge them your array just got a lot bigger because you're doing two things at once but here in our expansion we were going to John Weidman was gonna bring he an elevator to move all the material to the roof and I had so many people that that's what I think is funded so push everything aside this was fun I mean we had the mayor we had the chief up there we had city council people up there we had teenagers we had one guy I think it was like 7 years old some other guy and we had a real good sense of community Wayne did you have a good time did you have a good time I mean so building community right all of that you know good stuff and so before John could show up with this elevator you know actually that's my neighbor there he says well let's just carry him up you know and boom there we go before we could get the elevator there we already had all the material up on the roof just by people handing it over and then this is a U of M student is this she was kind of funny she came at like noon and we're done and I was like well we can I'm done screwing around with these optimizers I started doing some wiring and so I helped her or she helped me you know do some wiring so I mean from a student perspective there there's a good view of kind of the crowd that we drew and I'll say half of them are probably from Ann Arbor we had people from EMU wits and EMU professors their neighbors and with a turkey if you ever look at this you look like you got here's another one and we're working on us on a SunShot challenge I think you guys are too and this is chart house again it's cool so here's a building in a low-income is like the meeting house a community center for a local income housing project and they built this building from scratch and so not only did he include the roof but he included some of the structure he says you know some of these two by fours are part of the solar installation and then he used a little bit of his own money and we put solar we put 20 kilowatts up on this roof and it was it was beautiful because we hired four people from the housing project and trained them how to do solar and then brought them up on the roof which we trained them this is Leah we're a little better here we have we had ropes we did fall training you know these are these guys and they were they were doing it so we trained local people we hired them we paid them a living wage and then we were able to put the solar on on a low-income housing building and save that money so that it's all good and then and then it's always good to have friends with drums and then like a month later we did it again we went back to our dPW's truck port we had five kilowatts on there from before we ripped it off added 20 kilowatts and here's here's we trained another four people on how to install solar and they're up on that roof installing so that'd be another aspect you know if you don't want to use volunteers maybe you can make a jobs program out of this the Train people land and hire them to put it up on your roof and if you work with char now so you can we can fire fire house versus some other city building if we had to if we better if we have in a numbering of five buildings we're looking at put solar on I mean look at the one with how we prioritize the one with the worst ruff the one with the worst roof because you want to monetize the tax credit and the on the roof okay and then look at solar exposure on the list which is nice is looking at public exposure so one problem I have with the fire house is uh nobody can see it unless you look at it so this is why I like I love this project that we just finished coming in 105 panels it's a it was a church it got bought by a friend of mine you turning it into a performance space but that's a that's a 1012 pitch makes it a little more exciting I wouldn't put volunteers on no on that roof but that's that's beautiful because everybody coming in on Washington Avenue now on cross street or whatever tries right by you all right so I know it's also you you've talked about the training you do training for other fire departments or others on charter house did all that tournament yeah they they they that's his model is he wants to find local people train them how to do this and iron and what about training for inspectors and things like that absolutely inspectors so what this is a way to figure out how to look at John's house next time better and some like I've seen some inspectors that I will say some inspectors don't know what they're doing for our Sol Sol smart Gold Award I actually held a training session for the building department to educate them in solar so you have any advice for us just do it okay all right guys let's go you know just get a quote that's that's where you start get a quote if you if you're gonna attack a building with a bad roof get a quote for off get two or three quotes for the roof get two or three quotes for the solar figure out what your budget is talk I keep saying chart house but I think Nova consultants can monetize this tax credit too and I'm sure there's other companies that can do this and get monetize the tax rate find out what the bottom dollar is and put out a notice then you know to the city it did a resident to say let's do this and you could help get up on the roof did you do any education for the community about this project this project we did a bunch of projects where I was doing ribbon cuttings at the end of each project and that's good and I over the 12 years I've done 250 solar presentations and I've reached like five thousand people face to face and that's so that's that's the maybe that's why we're so good nipsey is because I just keep talking yeah every Rotary Club Kiwanis Club live right then several in the library just trying to just keep getting that message out there talk about reading one thing we did as far as firefighters because we get all of those and firefighters all know to fight fire when there's those type of things you know I mean things happens so one of our captain took us training and training other fire department as far as the safety concern that there is you know where to shut up the power before you put some water on those things okay excellent well thank you that was a very wonderful presentation you're doing fabulous work be careful on those roofs putting in everything 2019 introduce this resolution for so we can follow on to this presentation a proposed resolution that we all have to have and look at for a month or so according to our bylaws so I'm introducing this tonight and it's essentially it's - I can everybody should have a copy of this [Music] so let me just run through this quickly then I'm proposing a resolution that would require Ann Arbor emergency management and renewable energy plans give priority to solar installations on emergency responder buildings whereas climate change risks are regional in nature and pose special challenges to local communities such as drought deluge and rain bombs and related toxic substances overflow release heat and cold extremes and related social unrest and whereas in December 2012 with the passage by the Ann Arbor City Council of the climate action plan the city of Ann Arbor committed to an ambitious multi strategy vision to address climate change by reducing its community-wide greenhouse emissions 8% by 2015 25% by 225 and 90% by 2050 relative to the year 2000 baseline carbon dioxide equivalent emission levels and we're a City Council unanimously reaffirmed local commitment to climate action in resolution are seventeen to 38 resolution committing the city of Ann Arbor to adopt honor and uphold the Paris climate agreement goals and whereas an IRS hazardous mitigation plan recognizes that climate change poses special risks to local emergency planning and response noting that quote all of Ann Arbor including current and future buildings populations infrastructure and other assets is vulnerable to severe winter hazards and quote all of Ann Arbor is vulnerable to extreme heat including all current and future buildings infrastructure and populations and whereas emergency planners typically rely on three approaches to emergency power utility generated power from fossil fuels in accordance with a Michigan emergency management plan to Michigan public service Commission's energy related emergency planning preparedness response and recovery responsibilities and three on-site backup emergency generators and whereas because of their regional Nature climate emergencies often involve a disruption to utility power and large-scale regional regional emergencies pose competing recovery demands on utility systems the Michigan Public Service Commission and backup local generator capabilities and whereas many communities are adding on-site solar generation as an emergency power option to augment utility power and portable generators and climate emergencies and whereas emergency responders such as police fire and ambulance ideal candidates for solar installations on building roofs carports and adjacent grounds where solar power can be stored in battery packs used to directly charge electric vehicles power communications and medical equipment provided emergency street lighting and power from mobile emergency power stations resolved because of the special emergency response duties emergency responder buildings should be given priority for solar installations in Ann Arbor renewable energy and emergency management plans as a way to address both climate change risks and to augment traditional power approaches during climate change-related emergencies that disrupt the power so I'm proposing that we consider this and address deal with it at the January meeting because the December meeting is a planning meeting thank you or you said you'd send it out already so you'll finish it'll be attached then to the minutes or something okay great thank you as far as housekeeping if you guys see the meeting basically we're just going to be similar to say I've been asked to make sure to keep record of attendance for next year keeping two missing three different meetings commissioners are supposed to not miss more than three so something starting in 2019 will definitely be keeping record up so do you want a thing that might change is if we have joint meetings yeah some discussion going on about having one in January or February because the administrator would like to talk with both Commission's and I'm not sure whether we'll have separate force them to come to two meanings yeah sure sure okay so do you guys sure I'll entertain a motion to pass the energy Commission's planned meetings for calendar year 2019 so moved second second from mr.
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to 10:00 a.m. on November 16th the zero Renaissance rally will be at 11:35 a.m. on November 17th is the banjo hobby tournament and on November 26 to November 30th the best buddies Christmas crafts and raiser will be held on December 4th the hips field trip will be at Northrop Gruman from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on December 4th College's knowledge will be held everyone turns under 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and in on December 6 the campus cafe Aesthetica will be in room 1 parent Center from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on December 7th 8th the biology field trip will be a this is a Pacific referring to 1 p.m. and on December 11th the workability field v will be at the LA Zoo from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on December 11th Citrus College Career Center will be from 10 p.m. to Tolkien [Music] thank you and I didn't think I feel like crying too but I do you're an amazing leader instead an example of courage and compassion and always dedication and gentleness while steadfast in what education is their intent working together dealing with it whatever you just can't the district and how important it is and now our solvable problems are if people work together as a team and how intractable problem was already they don't and you would have helped us be a good team helped us be an effective sea you have guided you have asked piercing questions you've asked very thoughtful questions we have counselors that live right in this area that work side-by-side with the counselors and families just up and walk through those steps to go to Jesus of you with this partnership students are able to get a minimum scholarship with us guaranteed admissions also it opens up opportunity for the staff of the district where they can receive tuition discounts as well if they're looking forward to continue their education that also opens the door for their families parents women is we hair education we also hit thank you so much for coming in and taking the time to talk us about it it's really I've one things that we tracked every year is what colleges are accepting our students and we've seen a great increase in I've seen the number of kids being accepted by your school children I have a son that's that's a junior and my daughter graduated with the Masters good stuff go first wait a second any other comments mr.
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