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The $149 MILLION question for Central Vermont - Jody Emerson, Central VT Career Center · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: P S S S S S S S S S
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Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go headfirst into a new week.
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Speaker 2: We got Game three of the World Series tonight. I
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Speaker 2: it tonight in my new little puzzle table and a
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Speaker 2: World Series tonight. Yeah. I'm not a fan of either
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Speaker 2: one of them, but I always tend to kind of
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Speaker 2: go for the underdog. I would love to see the
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Speaker 2: blue Jays win this thing, just because the Dodgers have
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Speaker 2: won enough and the Blue Jays have and in what
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Speaker 2: thirty two years something like that. It's so nice to
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Speaker 2: have you on board. Thank you ever so much for
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Speaker 2: tuning in this morning, getting your work week started with me.
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Speaker 2: We've got some cloudy skies and I'm hearing about the
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Speaker 2: rain that's supposed to be coming in what Thursday, Friday,
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Speaker 2: more steady on Friday, which is Halloween. And Lily asked
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Speaker 2: me this morning, is Halloween going to be canceled or postponed?
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Speaker 2: And it's a resounding no. We'll alter the costume, we'll
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Speaker 2: get the umbrella out, We'll do whatever we have to do. Rain, snow, wind,
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Speaker 2: whatever Mother Nature brings, we will be out on Halloween
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Speaker 2: night collecting candy. Why because we haven't collected enough candy
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Speaker 2: lately with all the trunk or treating over the last
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks now. And I have, admittedly I have
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Speaker 2: snuck a few twigs without anyone knowing about it, and
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Speaker 2: a couple of full size Reese's peanut butter cups too.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. This is what dat's do. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: a lot to get to this week. Our community calendar
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Speaker 2: is so full. This past weekend was amazing. No matter
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Speaker 2: what you did, where you went, the weather was on
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Speaker 2: your side for the most part. Nichael's Haunted Grounds on
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Speaker 2: Saturday night was incredible. But there was just so much happening,
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Speaker 2: so much happening Maulaween on Friday, it was It was
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Speaker 2: just a busy, busy weekend. Got out on the dirt
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Speaker 2: bike with Lily yesterday with Bogie Brothers doing some dirt
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Speaker 2: bike trick or treating, which is was my first time
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Speaker 2: doing that, which was interesting and fun, a lot of fun,
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Speaker 2: a little cold, little damp, but but for the most part,
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Speaker 2: it was an incredible experience with Bogie Brothers yesterday, so
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Speaker 2: We have some great guests lined up for you this week.
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Speaker 2: Already it's packed full, not only this week, but also
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Speaker 2: next week, and I think even the weekend after that.
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Speaker 2: It is just so busy right now. If you have
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Speaker 2: seen the world lately, you probably know that there's a
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Speaker 2: huge ad in there that says vote in November fourth
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Speaker 2: with a huge color ad for the Central from Our
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Speaker 2: Career Center. This is the Central from My Career Center
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Speaker 2: that could double capacity and train the next generation of
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Speaker 2: builders and nurses, tech pros, electricians going forward into our
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Speaker 2: future here in Central Vermont. Jody Emerson is with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. She's the executive director of the Central from
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Speaker 2: My Career Center, the existing one right now over at Spalding.
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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome. I'm so glad you're here.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: You're back, you came back, and I'm glad. I really
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Speaker 2: enjoyed our previous conversation that we had a couple of
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Speaker 2: weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: I think when you were maybe a month ago. It
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Speaker 3: was great.
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Speaker 4: I should have known about the twigs and receis though
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Speaker 4: I could have brought you some.
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Speaker 2: Do you have plenty?
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Speaker 3: I do?
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Speaker 2: Do you have copious amounts over there?
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Speaker 3: We have some I don't know about Kopias.
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Speaker 2: You ever put some some twigs on some vanilla ice cream?
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Speaker 3: I have not tried that.
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Speaker 2: Try it. It's amazing. And anyway, yeah, I want to
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Speaker 2: I want to thank you for coming back. We had
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Speaker 2: a great conversation a couple of weeks ago. November fourth
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Speaker 2: is coming up really really fast.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be here a week from tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Is it a week from yeah, next Tuesday, a week
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Speaker 4: from tomorrow, or get there.
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Speaker 2: A week from tomorrow? All right, how are you feeling
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Speaker 2: about this proposed new central from my career center? There's yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'll let you answer that first.
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Speaker 4: I if you're wondering how I'm feeling about how the
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Speaker 4: vote will go, I really don't know.
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Speaker 3: I really don't know.
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Speaker 4: We definitely have had more negative feedback in recent weeks
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Speaker 4: than before, and so I feel like people are really
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Speaker 4: feeling the crunch with costs and that's coming out those
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Speaker 4: and so it's really hard to tell. Is it a
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Speaker 4: vocal minority, is it a majority? We will find out
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Speaker 4: in a week from tomorrow. Well, actually we won't find
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Speaker 4: out till November sixth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the main message in my conversations with
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Speaker 2: you both on the air and off the air, very
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Speaker 2: much off the air, have been stressing the importance of
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Speaker 2: just getting out and voting.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, people need to let us know. Like this has
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Speaker 4: been in the work since twenty eighteen, it's gotten all
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Speaker 4: the way to concept designed, to a location picked, and
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Speaker 4: the next step is do we keep moving forward? And
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Speaker 4: this is up to the voters across our eighteen towns
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Speaker 4: and we need to hear from you. And if you
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Speaker 4: don't vote, then you can't complain about it later. So
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Speaker 4: come on out and let us know. Do you support this,
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Speaker 4: do you support expanding access for students and building this
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Speaker 4: new center or are you feeling like it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I love CTE and this is not the time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That was one of the things that
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Speaker 2: I've heard is should should we wait a little longer
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Speaker 2: for this?
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Speaker 4: I've heard that a lot, And honestly, again, we've been
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Speaker 4: working on this since twenty eighteen. I haven't but it's
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Speaker 4: been an ongoing process and right now is when our
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Speaker 4: eighteen towns that send to us have a voice in this.
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Speaker 4: I can guarantee that the Central Vermont Career Center School
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Speaker 4: District will not be a school district when the restructuring
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Speaker 4: happens in Vermont. So either will be part of a
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Speaker 4: regional district or will be part of a new single
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Speaker 4: cte district or something that we don't even know what
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Speaker 4: it's going to be yet, and that new entity will
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Speaker 4: have to get up and running and we'll have to
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Speaker 4: set its priorities and figure out.
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Speaker 3: What steps to take.
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Speaker 4: And so if this doesn't move forward now, it goes
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Speaker 4: on a shelf and we have to figure out other
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Speaker 4: ways to you try to find access for kids.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in my opinion, I feel that you have a
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Speaker 2: very balanced insight to all of this proposal, that there's
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Speaker 2: you're you're well spoken with with communicating both sides. I think,
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Speaker 2: so anyway, which is so important. I mean, we could
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Speaker 2: well list off some pros today. I think the the
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Speaker 2: obvious con is the price tag. And this is this
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Speaker 2: is not a small endeavor here, there's a price tag
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Speaker 2: that is huge. I think you told me last time
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Speaker 2: that I had you in here, that the original idea
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Speaker 2: is that this was going to be landing somewhere between
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty and two hundred million dollars, correct,
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Speaker 2: and that you were somewhat happy quote unquote that it
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Speaker 2: was under the one hundred and fifty million mark.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's interesting because if you watch the posts online
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Speaker 4: where people are talking about it, there are questions, why
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Speaker 4: does it cost one hundred and forty nine million?
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Speaker 3: What is this?
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Speaker 4: We did break that out a little bit more in
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Speaker 4: our FAQs so folks can see it, but it's actually
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Speaker 4: like one hundred and twenty three million for the building.
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Speaker 4: There's the rest of the design costs. There's the permitting fees,
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Speaker 4: there's buying the land, there are buying the equipment that
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Speaker 4: goes into the building, and then moving everything from our
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Speaker 4: current location up to that. So it's the package deal.
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Speaker 4: It includes every legal fees. All of that is the
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Speaker 4: one forty nine million. So and we built in kind
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Speaker 4: of a buffer for expecting things are going to cost
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Speaker 4: a little bit more. It was a cost estimator out
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Speaker 4: of Massachusetts. I think that did the estimations and projected
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Speaker 4: what will it cost in twenty twenty seven to build this?
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Speaker 4: Because that's projected start date for the building is in
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Speaker 4: spring of twenty seven, to finish in the summer of
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Speaker 4: twenty nine, so that we can open the doors fall
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Speaker 4: of twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I've been asked and maybe you have two this
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Speaker 2: one for nine doesn't include the salaries of the staff,
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Speaker 2: the administration, plus the added cost that are associated with
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Speaker 2: these salaries for added administration, bigger career center, more teachers
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Speaker 2: in there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So when we people were wanting to know how much
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Speaker 4: is this going to cost me in taxes? Right, So
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Speaker 4: we just took the one forty nine million as if
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Speaker 4: we're bonding for all of it, and said, Okay, if
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Speaker 4: we paid for it for thirty years, same exact amount
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Speaker 4: every year, here's how much it would look like this
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Speaker 4: year if we were paying it back this year, which
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Speaker 4: we're not. We haven't borrowed it, just to give people
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Speaker 4: a sense. And then when people ask for that additional piece, well,
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Speaker 4: we have a five point one million dollar budget right
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Speaker 4: now for our center, and it would add three point
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Speaker 4: one for staffing and all the supplies and the project
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Speaker 4: budgets that we would have. So that's another I'm going
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Speaker 4: to say, I'm not remembering it correctly, so I think
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Speaker 4: it was twenty nine to one hundred and sixty seven,
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Speaker 4: depending on.
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Speaker 3: Where if you stack.
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Speaker 4: So we're just stacking that on top of our current
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Speaker 4: model for six semester average. And I've also gotten a
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Speaker 4: lot of questions about why does it cost so differently,
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Speaker 4: why doesn't every town pay the same amount. It's based
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Speaker 4: on the number of students that each sending school sends
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Speaker 4: us in over three years time that sixth semester average.
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Speaker 3: Because we're a tuition base, so we have to.
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Speaker 4: Put everything into that tuition and so that's why, and
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Speaker 4: the clas of towns are different.
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Speaker 3: So all those things impact that.
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Speaker 2: I want to get to a couple of the comments here,
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Speaker 2: but also stay on the track that we're on. We
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Speaker 2: need to use space in existing schools, spread the programs around,
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Speaker 2: doesn't need to be under one roof. Cost will rise
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Speaker 2: as it always does. Also, we can't find teachers now
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Speaker 2: to fill our jobs. Any reaction to either one of those.
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Speaker 4: We are fully staffed right now. So I understand that
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Speaker 4: concern in some spaces, whether their centers or schools. I
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Speaker 4: also understand that there may.
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Speaker 3: Be space available in schools.
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Speaker 4: I know when we ask in our current location, we
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Speaker 4: cannot expand any further at Spaulding High School, at least
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Speaker 4: that's what I'm told. Yes, maybe there's an opportunity to
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Speaker 4: open some things in other schools. We're considering that with
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Speaker 4: potentially bringing back human services. Is there a way we
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Speaker 4: can partner there are empty buildings that people have wanted
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Speaker 4: us to renovate and put students in.
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Speaker 3: There's other logistics to that.
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Speaker 4: So right now, sending schools are responsible for transportation to
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Speaker 4: the center. How do we make sure that they're able
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Speaker 4: to get their kids to all the places they need
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Speaker 4: to or that we can then get them from the
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Speaker 4: Spaulding High School campus where we are located, to whatever
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Speaker 4: other buildings that they need to get to and make
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Speaker 4: sure that they still get the at least the minimum
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Speaker 4: hours in each week for their programming.
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Speaker 3: So it's not impossible.
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Speaker 4: It's complicated, right and trying to make sure that you
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Speaker 4: have supervision and all those spaces that you have enough
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Speaker 4: adults that are background checked. All of that could be
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Speaker 4: and any renovations are going to cost to so there's
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Speaker 4: lots of complications. It's not impossible. It's if that's what
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Speaker 4: you're telling us on November four, that we need to
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Speaker 4: consider again because we have looked at that there is
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Speaker 4: no one building that's big enough for what we want
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Speaker 4: to do with the spaces that we need for our shops.
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Speaker 2: The timing is never going to be right to ask
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Speaker 2: Vermont's people for one hundred and forty nine million dollars.
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Speaker 2: But what I think we both have heard is that
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Speaker 2: the timing now is worse than ever before. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we just got to comment here about the government shutdown,
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Speaker 2: snap benefits getting caught, what's happening with medicaid. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the list goes on. These are inflation is up. The
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Speaker 2: report just came out last week. This is a people
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Speaker 2: are feeling it hard.
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Speaker 4: Is it going to cost less in five years? Is
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Speaker 4: it going to cost less than ten years? When are
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Speaker 4: we going to find a way to make sure that
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Speaker 4: the students who want access get it and then then
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Speaker 4: they can also take the jobs in our communities that
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Speaker 4: need them, and they can also create families here. I
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Speaker 4: was at a conference last week and representative from snap
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Speaker 4: on Education was there, and he talked a lot about
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Speaker 4: the fact that we can't meet the demands of the
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Speaker 4: workforce need now and by twenty thirty, if things don't change,
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Speaker 4: the death rate is going to exceed birth rate, and
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Speaker 4: this problem is going to continue and we're just not
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Speaker 4: going to have people in those jobs that we need.
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Speaker 3: People.
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Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I'm hoping that as
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Speaker 4: I get older, that there are nurses, that there are
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Speaker 4: empts that the plumbers, and like, how many times do
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Speaker 4: I look at front porch for him and say, h
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Speaker 4: vac TECHSI needed or electrician needed? Does anyone know someone
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Speaker 4: and plumbers needed? Sometimes right after the vote, no post,
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Speaker 4: is anyone have a good plumber that they could recommend
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Speaker 4: that could get to me today? Yeah, it's it's a
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Speaker 4: difficult time and I can I have empathy for everyone
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Speaker 4: who's trying to pay their bills. We're all trying, and
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Speaker 4: at the same time, we need to say that this
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Speaker 4: is important to us and recognize that we're taking a
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Speaker 4: leap of faith to build our community stronger, not to
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Speaker 4: tear it down.
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Speaker 2: We've all heard the conversations about how important it is
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Speaker 2: to keep from honors here. I was in a conversation
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Speaker 2: with someone about this proposed career center and we had
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Speaker 2: that conversation about Vermont needing to grow its its workforce
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Speaker 2: and but what you just said it just getting people
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Speaker 2: to learn these trades with the hope of them then
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Speaker 2: putting some roots in Vermont and stay and put and listen.
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Speaker 2: There's always going to be a negative Nelly out there.
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Speaker 2: There's there's always going to be that person that says,
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Speaker 2: you know, well, how do you how do you guarantee
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Speaker 2: that they're going to stay here. They come into the
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Speaker 2: tech center, they learn the trade, they graduate, and then
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Speaker 2: they realize, I can't afford to live in this state.
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Speaker 2: I'm taking my skills, my knowledge as a graduate of
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Speaker 2: the Central from our career center, and I'm getting the
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Speaker 2: hell out of here.
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Speaker 4: It can happen so far as statistics show that the
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Speaker 4: majority of students do stay and they're employed in the
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Speaker 4: career area of that they came to study with us
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Speaker 4: and where they learn the skills. But yes, there are
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Speaker 4: some that leave every year. Some leave for college, some
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Speaker 4: leave for other opportunities. Sure, and some of them also
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Speaker 4: return after college or return after they've had the chance
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Speaker 4: to chase a dream potentially, sure and come back. And
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Speaker 4: we can't make any guarantees obviously. Yeah, I can say
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Speaker 4: there's a high percentage of students in CTE across the
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Speaker 4: state who stay in our state, but I can't guarantee
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Speaker 4: that every student will do that.
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Speaker 2: Of course, of course. Yeah. I mean there's some comments
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Speaker 2: coming in here, and I know that you'll go back
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Speaker 2: and read them all here at some point. But it is.
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Speaker 2: It's very obvious that we need to grow our skilled
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Speaker 2: workforce here in Vermont. Look at that we're coming off
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Speaker 2: of two devastating floods in the span of a year.
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Speaker 2: Everyone hears that we don't have we don't have enough contractors,
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Speaker 2: and if you're lucky enough to find one, you're going
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Speaker 2: to be on the wait list for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's a new roof or whether it's foundation repair
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Speaker 2: or whatever it may be. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 2: it's it's not the greatest forecast with regard to the
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Speaker 2: trades right now. In some trades, I'm sure it is.
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Speaker 2: I mean I just met a young student who just
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Speaker 2: recently graduated from the cosmetology department and is working for
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Speaker 2: someone else but has aspirations to start up her own
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Speaker 2: hair salon, which I mean, there it is, Yeah, there,
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Speaker 2: it is right there. That's great.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Or whether it's somebody who you know, We've got to
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Speaker 2: comment here, you know how how important it is for
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Speaker 2: for folks to graduate with these skills and then maybe
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Speaker 2: learn some basic business outlines to be able to create
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Speaker 2: their own business with those skills your entrepreneurship or yeah,
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Speaker 2: of course, or work for someone else but either one,
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Speaker 2: either one. You know, I'm just I'm just seeing these
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Speaker 2: comments here. They're they're they're coming in pretty hot and heavy,
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Speaker 2: which is good. We want that. Uh. Brian says, well,
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Speaker 2: I got six guys out here with leaf blowers cleaning
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Speaker 2: up before spring in Vermont. That just doesn't happen early
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Speaker 2: voting has.
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Speaker 3: It's been going on for a while.
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Speaker 2: It's been going on for what a couple.
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Speaker 3: Of weeks, at least a week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, have you had a chance to get a
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Speaker 2: feel for.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: I think that's it's like the curse, and the benefit
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Speaker 4: of commingling is that we don't get account from individual towns. Ever,
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Speaker 4: So on November sixth, every ballot gets brought into the
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Speaker 4: very odd and they all get thrown into the machines
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Speaker 4: and tallied up, and we'll find out overall which was
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Speaker 4: the majority vote, which was the minority vote.
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Speaker 2: Senator Andrew Perchley, Yes, has a quote on your ad
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Speaker 2: here that says, strong schools built strong communities in a
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Speaker 2: new career center is the next step forward. Giving students
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Speaker 2: real opportunities to learn and work strengthens us all. There
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Speaker 2: are plenty of folks out there, and you've chatted with
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Speaker 2: them who are like, look, if we don't do something now,
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Speaker 2: we got to start planting some seeds here or worse screwed.
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Speaker 3: There's definitely been region wide.
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Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about Barry. I'm talking about region wide.
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Speaker 4: Sounds like it's countrywide, maybe worldwide, but it's definitely countrywide,
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Speaker 4: and it's definitely an area of concern. And if there
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Speaker 4: are other ways that we can keep building skills, we
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Speaker 4: need to look into all of them. I just want
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Speaker 4: to repeat that I have not heard anyone say that
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Speaker 4: they do not think career in technical education is the
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Speaker 4: wrong way to go. I think everyone wholeheartedly agrees that
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Speaker 4: this is a good option for students, and it's not
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Speaker 4: about career or college to both. It's access to anything
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Speaker 4: that that student and individual will find purpose in and
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Speaker 4: grow in and support our communities.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 4: Knowing that it's really comes down to the cost. And
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Speaker 4: one of the things I've been talking about is if
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Speaker 4: we get a positive bond vote, and I don't know
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Speaker 4: that we will, but if we do, we're not going
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Speaker 4: to just throw a little party and say Okay, let's
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Speaker 4: go borrow that money. We're still going to keep looking
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Speaker 4: for how else could we fund this? So the folks
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Speaker 4: who have reached out about micro if you keep reaching
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Speaker 4: out to him, because I've reached out to him and
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Speaker 4: no response yet, maybe if a bunch of us do,
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Speaker 4: maybe there's some money there. Maybe there's some other organizations.
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Speaker 4: There's definitely some federal grants we're going to go for.
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Speaker 4: So there are other ways. I've had people call me
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Speaker 4: with what if businesses said every oil change, your car
25:51
Speaker 4: dealer said, every oil change, tack on five bucks to
25:54
Speaker 4: help pay.
25:55
Speaker 3: For the career center. I don't know if that's a
25:57
Speaker 3: better way.
25:57
Speaker 4: I don't know if sponsorships are a way that we
25:59
Speaker 4: can do that. Yes, but we're not done exploring. This
26:03
Speaker 4: is just the way that public schools have to go
26:05
Speaker 4: about asking for money first, and then we can go
26:08
Speaker 4: about looking for how do we offset that so we
26:12
Speaker 4: don't have to borrow so much so it doesn't cost
26:14
Speaker 4: our taxpayer so much that way. Either way, I feel
26:17
Speaker 4: like there's a cost to it, and it's an investment
26:19
Speaker 4: in the community.
26:21
Speaker 2: Tonight, you're going to open your doors over at the
26:23
Speaker 2: Central from my career center at what time?
26:26
Speaker 3: Five o'clock?
26:26
Speaker 4: So from five to seven pm we'll be offering tours.
26:29
Speaker 4: I'd say about every fifteen minutes tonight. Yeah, we want
26:34
Speaker 4: people to inform their vote. Come see where we're operating
26:37
Speaker 4: out of, see our spaces, talk to some of our teachers,
26:41
Speaker 4: talk with staff, and really think about is this where
26:46
Speaker 4: you need us to grow? Is there something else? What
26:49
Speaker 4: other ideas do you have? But also just come and
26:51
Speaker 4: see the space as it is. This is not taking
26:54
Speaker 4: the place of our open house. We'll still have that
26:56
Speaker 4: November twentieth.
26:57
Speaker 2: Okay, what will be the difference.
27:01
Speaker 4: The difference is that we're going to it's going to
27:03
Speaker 4: be like Skeleton Crew tonight, but we're going to be
27:06
Speaker 4: taking folks through. You want to see the center as
27:08
Speaker 4: it exists, now, we'll take you through.
27:10
Speaker 3: We're also have.
27:11
Speaker 4: Our Digital Media Arts program will have a setup for
27:14
Speaker 4: alumni to come in and if they want to be
27:16
Speaker 4: recorded talking about what program they were in, the experiences
27:21
Speaker 4: they had, the impact it had, and where they are now.
27:24
Speaker 4: We're going to be recording that for use in the
27:27
Speaker 4: next week, but also beyond that, as we look at
27:30
Speaker 4: how our career center can support students.
27:33
Speaker 2: What's the So again, five o'clock tonight, five to seven,
27:38
Speaker 2: and I'll admit the first time I stepped foot through
27:46
Speaker 2: the Central Vermont Career Center was a very long time ago,
27:51
Speaker 2: very long time ago, and then most recently within the
27:55
Speaker 2: last I don't know, a couple of months, and I
28:00
Speaker 2: was really like, I think I even said something to you,
28:03
Speaker 2: maybe to Carlos that I was like ashamed with myself.
28:09
Speaker 2: I'm like, my god, it's I just everyone should be
28:17
Speaker 2: familiar with what's inside that building. It's not just Spaulding
28:24
Speaker 2: High School. I mean, there's a lot of really impressive
28:29
Speaker 2: stuff in there that we all should see and be
28:34
Speaker 2: aware of. We live right here in this community. If
28:36
Speaker 2: you haven't been inside the Central from my Career Center,
28:42
Speaker 2: you really are missing out. Take the fifteen minutes and
28:46
Speaker 2: come tonight. I think you're going to be pretty impressed.
28:52
Speaker 4: And then come back on November twenty at that open house,
28:54
Speaker 4: because then the students are in every program.
28:56
Speaker 3: You know your way around.
28:57
Speaker 4: You can go get some food down in Culinary and
29:00
Speaker 4: then check out what students are doing. I think one
29:02
Speaker 4: of the great things that we'll be able to showcase
29:04
Speaker 4: is there's a lot of equipment that we can take
29:06
Speaker 4: with us too. Right, everything in the welding program, which
29:09
Speaker 4: this is the second year of that program was bought
29:12
Speaker 4: with the intention of being able to move it and
29:14
Speaker 4: duplicate it so that we can have twice as much
29:17
Speaker 4: space and that way we can support all the students
29:20
Speaker 4: to weld individually at the same time.
29:23
Speaker 3: But right now we have eight.
29:24
Speaker 4: Booths and we have the air system that can hold sixteen.
29:29
Speaker 4: So we've done some preparing for that new center potentially
29:34
Speaker 4: to make sure that we can give more students access
29:36
Speaker 4: and so come check out what we have going on.
29:38
Speaker 2: You've had students working with Habitat for Humanity.
29:43
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, our building trades and electrical programs and maybe
29:46
Speaker 4: our plumbing program, but definitely building trades in electrical worked
29:49
Speaker 4: with Habitat for Humanity on the Hill Street house last year.
29:55
Speaker 4: The walls of that house were actually built in the
29:57
Speaker 4: center and then brought to the State House where they
30:01
Speaker 4: were assembled on the lawn and then brought back and
30:04
Speaker 4: put together.
30:05
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I want to talk about how many students
30:10
Speaker 2: you have approximately right now at the Central Vermont Career Center.
30:15
Speaker 3: We have approximately two hundred and twenty.
30:17
Speaker 2: Okay, And is there a wait list?
30:21
Speaker 3: There are some programs that have waitlists.
30:24
Speaker 4: At this point though, we're beyond the safety training, so
30:27
Speaker 4: we don't tend to take in any new.
30:29
Speaker 3: Students during the school year.
30:32
Speaker 4: Every student in every program is required to do a
30:35
Speaker 4: safety training that's specific to that industry, and so once
30:38
Speaker 4: we get past those, it's really hard for a student
30:41
Speaker 4: to come in after the fact and try to catch
30:43
Speaker 4: up on everything they've missed.
30:46
Speaker 2: I see in your ad here more than one hundred
30:49
Speaker 2: and fifty students are turned away every year due to capacity.
30:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, so four hundred and eight students applied last year.
30:57
Speaker 4: We have two hundred and twenty students. We can fit
30:59
Speaker 4: a few more than we have. We have two programs
31:02
Speaker 4: that are a little under in world right now. So
31:05
Speaker 4: we do have some programs that students just didn't apply to,
31:08
Speaker 4: or we filled them during the applications and then students
31:12
Speaker 4: over the summer changed their mind. But on the flip side,
31:15
Speaker 4: we have programs like automotive medical Professions, electrical plumbing and heating,
31:19
Speaker 4: and building.
31:19
Speaker 3: Traits that we have a wait list for.
31:22
Speaker 4: We had more than the number of students we can
31:26
Speaker 4: accept into the program apply we have. Some of them
31:30
Speaker 4: are at Randolph Tech this year because we didn't have
31:32
Speaker 4: space in our program, so we partnered with Randolph to
31:36
Speaker 4: see if they could get them into their program, so
31:39
Speaker 4: we tried to provide some access that way.
31:41
Speaker 2: Are kids. First of all, I think it's fantastic that
31:48
Speaker 2: so many youth are interested in going down a road
31:54
Speaker 2: and learning a trade. That's freaking awesome. I wish that
31:59
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity like this when I was in
32:04
Speaker 2: high school, which wasn't here. But man, the stuff that
32:11
Speaker 2: that that I could know and and do. I could
32:19
Speaker 2: go on and on and on about my lack of
32:22
Speaker 2: plumbing skills and carpentry skills, but I think that's fantastic
32:28
Speaker 2: that so many want to go down that road.
32:32
Speaker 3: It is and we need them.
32:34
Speaker 2: And it's we need them. Yeah, these are lucrative careers,
32:40
Speaker 2: quickly lucrative. The demand is high. Are students essentially, for
32:52
Speaker 2: lack of a better term here, aging out, like by
32:55
Speaker 2: the time that their numbers up to get into the
32:58
Speaker 2: career center, they're too old.
33:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's hard to say too old. But juniors
33:05
Speaker 4: and seniors are the students who generally apply to our programs,
33:10
Speaker 4: and so if they don't get in as a junior,
33:12
Speaker 4: they have another opportunity as a senior if they choose
33:15
Speaker 4: to try again. And then if they don't get in,
33:17
Speaker 4: they graduate and then it costs money. Right So, under
33:21
Speaker 4: the system that we have for education, students can attend.
33:25
Speaker 3: While they're in high school.
33:27
Speaker 4: An adult can only get into our program after we've
33:31
Speaker 4: had filled all the seats we could with high school students.
33:34
Speaker 4: If there's still seats available, then an adult could get
33:36
Speaker 4: into the day program.
33:40
Speaker 2: Comment here that you guys need to add a dental
33:44
Speaker 2: hygienist program.
33:46
Speaker 3: That's the second time I've heard that in two weeks.
33:49
Speaker 4: So it used to be Essex Tech has it and
33:52
Speaker 4: Randolph Tech had it briefly and they don't have it now.
33:56
Speaker 4: And so yes, we will have one more round. We're
33:59
Speaker 4: in the comprehensive look needs assessment right now. That's something
34:02
Speaker 4: we have to do every year because we receive federal
34:05
Speaker 4: funds from Perkins and that Carl D. Perkins Act, it's
34:09
Speaker 4: the fifth iteration of that Act, has some pretty rigorous
34:13
Speaker 4: standards that we have to assess ourselves against, and we
34:16
Speaker 4: have to look at labor market data. We have to
34:18
Speaker 4: look at what our students want, what students who don't
34:21
Speaker 4: attend our center want, what community and industry partners need.
34:25
Speaker 4: There is a community survey out there. It's most recently
34:28
Speaker 4: been in our newsletter. We'll make sure we have some
34:30
Speaker 4: posters up tonight for folks to just scan the QR
34:33
Speaker 4: code and fill us in with information. I'll make sure
34:37
Speaker 4: I get it to you too, JD. But we need
34:39
Speaker 4: to gather that information every two years, so there will
34:42
Speaker 4: be the opportunity to shift some of that programming, especially
34:45
Speaker 4: the new programming, if we need to. And if you've
34:48
Speaker 4: heard any of the times when we've talked about it
34:50
Speaker 4: at forums. The second floor where there's exploratory, all of
34:54
Speaker 4: those are flex labs, so they can shift into whatever
34:57
Speaker 4: we need, and many of the other programming will all
34:59
Speaker 4: s so be flexible so that as things change. We
35:03
Speaker 4: know AI is going to take some jobs, right, but
35:05
Speaker 4: it's not going to take all the jobs. And so
35:07
Speaker 4: as jobs shift and we start to realize what what
35:11
Speaker 4: are the new skills that folks need and what is
35:14
Speaker 4: the where are our students landing in the workforce, we
35:17
Speaker 4: can shift our programming for that.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to ask about technology, and you know,
35:24
Speaker 2: all of these careers, all of these trades are I
35:32
Speaker 2: think every single one of them is affected by some
35:35
Speaker 2: form of technology. I mean, things are constantly changing, improving efficiency,
35:41
Speaker 2: whatever it may be even if you're you know, in cosmeantology.
35:46
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just always technology that's that's there on
35:50
Speaker 2: the forefront. You've got to learn it, you've got to
35:52
Speaker 2: embrace it. Now another comment here and it's from Glenn,
36:02
Speaker 2: and this one's been asked before, and we talked about
36:04
Speaker 2: this the last time you were on how long is
36:06
Speaker 2: it going to take this new building? To build this
36:09
Speaker 2: new building and actually use it and just remind folks
36:14
Speaker 2: once again exactly where it is. Oh, okay, so where
36:19
Speaker 2: it would go.
36:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, the timeline on this building is that if we
36:22
Speaker 4: get a positivete this November, then we would move forward
36:27
Speaker 4: with the engineering designs and a project manager and it
36:31
Speaker 4: would break ground in I think March of twenty seven
36:35
Speaker 4: and be done in May of twenty nine and open
36:38
Speaker 4: doors fall of twenty nine. So there's still some build
36:41
Speaker 4: up that we need to do in potentially other locations
36:45
Speaker 4: up to that point to try to get more kids
36:47
Speaker 4: access in the interim. And the location is in Graniteville,
36:53
Speaker 4: so easy access for a lot of our buses coming
36:56
Speaker 4: off of the Interstate to just get off Exit six,
36:58
Speaker 4: go straight down, right back up, and it's not in
37:02
Speaker 4: a flood zone.
37:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember you mentioned that last time. Yeah, eight
37:08
Speaker 2: hundred hours each Central from Out Career Center students spends
37:14
Speaker 2: practicing their skills during the school year. This is right
37:17
Speaker 2: off here your site here. Ninety nine percent of students
37:21
Speaker 2: understand that CVCC is preparing them for college and or employment.
37:27
Speaker 2: Three hundred and thirty college credits earned across six programs.
37:32
Speaker 2: Ninety six percent of parents value the learning experience CVCC
37:38
Speaker 2: provides to their children. One hundred and thirteen students earned
37:42
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty eight industry recognized credentials, and almost
37:49
Speaker 2: twenty seven thousand hours of Central from Out Career Center
37:55
Speaker 2: students spending in co op positions with local BUIS businesses
38:01
Speaker 2: just in the calendar year twenty three twenty four. You've
38:06
Speaker 2: also you also just had a huge press conference and
38:10
Speaker 2: there's some collaboration in partnership with District six. And tell
38:18
Speaker 2: me about that. What's that all about.
38:20
Speaker 4: It's really cool. Over the years, emergency services programming outside
38:24
Speaker 4: of CTE has been in career technical education has been
38:29
Speaker 4: for adults that at their fire station or at the
38:33
Speaker 4: local shop, they do their trainings to be re certified
38:37
Speaker 4: or certified in the first place. If you're interested in
38:39
Speaker 4: joining and so they approached us and basically said, hey,
38:45
Speaker 4: what if you provide it here in the space where
38:47
Speaker 4: you're already doing emergency services training, and you offer it
38:50
Speaker 4: for adults and we won't have.
38:52
Speaker 3: To travel so far. So folks who are interested in.
38:55
Speaker 4: Getting their paramedic we're having to travel many hours to
39:00
Speaker 4: access their courses. We'll be offering that on site at
39:04
Speaker 4: the Career Center starting in January, and so there's opportunities
39:08
Speaker 4: for folks to come in and get their certifications and
39:10
Speaker 4: trainings at our center with the same staff that they
39:14
Speaker 4: might have had for instructors before. We're using the funds
39:17
Speaker 4: that are available to District six and District eight from
39:20
Speaker 4: the state and federal grants, and we're going to provide
39:24
Speaker 4: that training in our center. And one of the things
39:26
Speaker 4: that's great about it is they don't have to buy
39:28
Speaker 4: the equipment that we already have. We don't have to
39:30
Speaker 4: have the redundancy, they don't have to be using their
39:33
Speaker 4: firehouse for the training. We have a classroom for that,
39:35
Speaker 4: We have everything set up. So this allows folks to
39:39
Speaker 4: come in and get certified or re certified in our center.
39:42
Speaker 4: We are transitioning over to taking that over so there's
39:45
Speaker 4: some that were scheduled already some training, So there's one
39:48
Speaker 4: at I think Norwich University next month that's going to
39:53
Speaker 4: stay because it had already been scheduled, but we're transitioning
39:56
Speaker 4: everything over to the Career Center so that all the
39:59
Speaker 4: training can happen for District six and District date and
40:03
Speaker 4: other folks that might sign up of their space.
40:05
Speaker 2: That's got a lot of people applauding. I mean, that's
40:10
Speaker 2: really great.
40:11
Speaker 4: And it's a pilot, so if it works in our region,
40:15
Speaker 4: it might be something that happens at other CTEs across
40:18
Speaker 4: the state to support emergency services and there's a definite
40:21
Speaker 4: high need there.
40:24
Speaker 2: This is something that robots are just not going to
40:29
Speaker 2: be able to replace. So cool.
40:35
Speaker 4: I'm holding this because it just wants to fall.
40:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I want you to, and I'm going to
40:41
Speaker 2: play this here. The last time I had John, there
40:47
Speaker 2: was some really impressive photos. Can you kind of walk
40:56
Speaker 2: us through this a little bit? This is all like
40:59
Speaker 2: a virtual ah.
41:01
Speaker 4: Yes, So this is a virtual tour of the three
41:04
Speaker 4: D concept. It doesn't take you into.
41:07
Speaker 3: The shop spaces.
41:09
Speaker 4: Which I think is a little unfortunate, but at least
41:11
Speaker 4: it gives you a sense of what the building looks like,
41:14
Speaker 4: and you can see that the base would be made
41:16
Speaker 4: of granite, which isn't like Honor Graniteville.
41:19
Speaker 3: We're there.
41:21
Speaker 4: You enter the doors and there's the administration to the right,
41:24
Speaker 4: and to the left culinary, baking, arts, and cosmetology. Those
41:28
Speaker 4: are where we get customers, so they're in that first
41:31
Speaker 4: set of doors, and then you come through and this
41:33
Speaker 4: is our flexible open meeting space, so this allows us
41:36
Speaker 4: to have a cafeteria there and any presentations and school
41:40
Speaker 4: wide events. This hallway is the Health and Natural Sciences hallway,
41:44
Speaker 4: so you can see there's program spaces. They have classrooms
41:47
Speaker 4: and their lab spaces, and then there's this flexible space
41:50
Speaker 4: in between that allows them to collaborate across programs. This
41:55
Speaker 4: upstairs part is the one I was talking about with
41:57
Speaker 4: all the flex labs. This is our exploratory programming ninth
42:00
Speaker 4: and tenth graders, and each of the lab spaces can
42:03
Speaker 4: be altered to fit whatever they're studying at the time,
42:06
Speaker 4: So that's really exciting for us to think about what
42:09
Speaker 4: they might be able to study across our center. All
42:11
Speaker 4: those different pieces. We're back into that central location in
42:16
Speaker 4: the middle where the cafeteria, the auditorium, all of.
42:19
Speaker 3: That in one space.
42:21
Speaker 4: We'll go across the top and on the left you'll
42:23
Speaker 4: see that there's the business it and then there's digital media, arts, videography,
42:28
Speaker 4: and graphic design, and then we move into the construction trades.
42:31
Speaker 4: And by opening up the space and plumbing and heating, electrical,
42:36
Speaker 4: and building trades all next to each other, we can
42:38
Speaker 4: have more students, we can have more programming, we can
42:41
Speaker 4: have an outside workspace that we don't currently have to
42:44
Speaker 4: build a home. You also see there was advanced manufacturing
42:48
Speaker 4: and welding there, and then straight ahead is where the
42:51
Speaker 4: transportation segment would be with automotive and potentially diesel or autobody,
42:56
Speaker 4: depends what we come out of our comprehensive local needs
42:58
Speaker 4: assessment identifying as needs for this center. And then the
43:02
Speaker 4: building is supposed to be a net zero so that's
43:04
Speaker 4: why you see there's on the roof the solar panels
43:09
Speaker 4: and there's gonna be geothermal, so it's it's meant to
43:11
Speaker 4: be a net zero building. Our programs are not net zero,
43:14
Speaker 4: welders are not net zero, but the building will be.
43:21
Speaker 2: This is really, uh, that's really impressive to see that
43:27
Speaker 2: it's amazing. And again this is in upper Graniteville.
43:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, Baptist Street.
43:33
Speaker 2: And can you give us just a little idea of
43:38
Speaker 2: exactly where that is.
43:41
Speaker 4: So if you drive past the old visitor center for
43:44
Speaker 4: Rock of Ages, I don't believe that's open anymore, and
43:47
Speaker 4: kind of go up around the corner, there is a
43:49
Speaker 4: the road takes a sharp left to go through Graniteville,
43:53
Speaker 4: the village, and if you go straight instead of taking
43:56
Speaker 4: that sharp left, that's Baptist Street. And there are actually
43:59
Speaker 4: on that twenty seven acre piece of property. There are
44:01
Speaker 4: three access points to it, which is what makes it
44:04
Speaker 4: a wonderful opportunity for us. We're using about half of
44:08
Speaker 4: it for the building. We can use some of the
44:10
Speaker 4: land for natural resources and for our other programs, but
44:13
Speaker 4: there's also a potential to maybe find alternate uses.
44:17
Speaker 3: For that space.
44:18
Speaker 4: There's the Hartford Career Center bought land long ago that
44:23
Speaker 4: they've basically been their building trades has built a house
44:26
Speaker 4: every two years around a cul de sac, And so
44:29
Speaker 4: is there an opportunity for us to do something like that?
44:32
Speaker 2: Just got a question if this goes down, will there
44:35
Speaker 2: still be a program? It's baulding.
44:39
Speaker 4: We don't have any plan to close our current space,
44:43
Speaker 4: so we would still keep this going. We just were
44:46
Speaker 4: looking for more access for students, so we would be
44:48
Speaker 4: looking at how can we expand to make sure that
44:51
Speaker 4: the students who are interested can access CTE.
44:55
Speaker 2: How would that space be used the current space?
44:58
Speaker 4: Ah, if we leave, that's a good question. I think
45:01
Speaker 4: Barry Unified Union School District is thinking about that. I
45:05
Speaker 4: think they've got someone who's talking with them about the
45:08
Speaker 4: use of all their buildings and how they might transition
45:12
Speaker 4: or use spaces differently.
45:14
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
45:18
Speaker 2: Would there be additional trades added to the current curriculum, yes,
45:26
Speaker 2: can you do? You have that off the top of
45:29
Speaker 2: your head.
45:29
Speaker 4: So there's some that are assumed in that design, and
45:35
Speaker 4: it could change based on the comprehensive local needs assessment.
45:38
Speaker 4: But if I'm trying, I'm going to walk through the
45:40
Speaker 4: hallways to think about that. So animal science bringing back
45:45
Speaker 4: early education, human services bringing back natural resources.
45:50
Speaker 2: Animal science, that tech.
45:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the next the business it would be new.
45:58
Speaker 4: Advanced manufacturing would be new, so we'd be able to
46:00
Speaker 4: duplicate double our electrical, our plumbing and heating, our building trades,
46:05
Speaker 4: our automotive, our medical, professions.
46:09
Speaker 3: And then that diesel or autobody would be new.
46:13
Speaker 2: Wow, what what what do we do? What do you?
46:20
Speaker 2: What are you going to do? If this vote doesn't
46:23
Speaker 2: pass on November fourth, do we go back to the
46:27
Speaker 2: drawing board? What happens at that point?
46:31
Speaker 3: I don't get to make this decision.
46:33
Speaker 4: So the board gets to make this decision, and they're
46:35
Speaker 4: the ones that got to make the decision about moving
46:37
Speaker 4: forward with this bond vote too. And so we have
46:41
Speaker 4: moved our facilities meeting from November four to November sixth
46:45
Speaker 4: so that we will have the results of the vote
46:48
Speaker 4: to identify just that what are the next steps? I
46:53
Speaker 4: can imagine that there's a range of possibilities. We could
46:58
Speaker 4: further explore some of the things that other folk have
47:00
Speaker 4: talked to us about. We could consider a second opportunity
47:05
Speaker 4: in March.
47:06
Speaker 3: We could just say, let's wait.
47:08
Speaker 4: And see what happens. I don't know what, I don't
47:11
Speaker 4: know what the board will decide to do.
47:13
Speaker 2: Got a lot of a lot of time, a lot
47:15
Speaker 2: of hours put into preparing for this and showcasing this
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Speaker 2: to the community to show them what not only what
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Speaker 2: this would look like, but what it would do long
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Speaker 2: term for our region. Hillary's asking who is instructing these
47:37
Speaker 2: these courses. Teachers are hard enough to come by in
47:41
Speaker 2: the state, which is a real valid question here. But
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Speaker 2: then you know, it would bring in more people, more instructors,
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Speaker 2: more teachers to help our economy, and maybe we could
47:58
Speaker 2: get some workforce that'd be great, dialed in a little
48:03
Speaker 2: better than it is right now.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, we would have to go through the process, the
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Speaker 4: hiring process, to find out if there would be a
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Speaker 4: difficulty in that. I can tell you that I've had
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Speaker 4: outreach for almost every single one of those programs of
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Speaker 4: if you open that, I would love to come and
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Speaker 4: teach there, and I just say, great, it's wonderful that
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Speaker 4: you're interested. We would have a rigorous process for hiring
48:26
Speaker 4: an instructor, as we do always.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is there anything else that we're missing here?
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Speaker 4: If you have not seen the ad that the Digital
48:38
Speaker 4: Media Arts students have done, that that one is just
48:42
Speaker 4: near and dear to my heart because it's our current
48:44
Speaker 4: students who created that video, with current students in some
48:50
Speaker 4: of those programs, and also some old footage from previous students,
48:54
Speaker 4: and it's just great to see that our students are already,
48:57
Speaker 4: you know, doing that editing process and working with across
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Speaker 4: programs together.
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Speaker 2: Carlos is doing such a great job with digital media
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Speaker 2: arts there. I mean, he's just so impressive, so impressive
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Speaker 2: what he's doing. I'm gonna you're gonna help me find
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Speaker 2: that so that I can post it up here and
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Speaker 2: show people what they're doing here. And again they'll be
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Speaker 2: there tonight.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, five, five to seven tonight tours. There's also a
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Speaker 4: forum for Barry City at the Aldridge Library on Wednesday
49:34
Speaker 4: night so that you can learn about the other bond
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Speaker 4: items there. It's not just a career center that's on
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Speaker 4: the ballot for Barry City, sure, so that that has
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Speaker 4: an opportunity. I think that's five to six thirty on
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Speaker 4: Wednesday at the Aldridge Library.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to be on WDEV.
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow, So thank you JD for having me today and
49:56
Speaker 4: give me a little practice before I.
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Speaker 3: Show up there.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you. I'm glad you reminded me that great
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Speaker 2: people over there and they're going to take obviously very
50:04
Speaker 2: good care of you. And you know what, here's the thing.
50:08
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about having a bad hair day.
50:12
Speaker 3: That's true. I didn't even check the.
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Speaker 2: Hair was great today, but I'm just saying that's radio.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and callers will be calling in and so if
50:23
Speaker 4: you didn't get your question answered today and tune into
50:26
Speaker 4: wdev at I think ten am tomorrow and call in
50:29
Speaker 4: and maybe we can answer it there and I'll take
50:31
Speaker 4: a look at all the comments.
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Speaker 2: Rob Roker it's going to be the host of that. Yeah,
50:38
Speaker 2: very very smart guy. And I think there's a good
50:43
Speaker 2: amount of understanding of what the what the concerns are
50:49
Speaker 2: for this, but also which I think are quite obvious,
50:52
Speaker 2: but also what the long term residual effects of this
51:01
Speaker 2: new career center could be for decades and generations.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not just for our high school students, right,
51:11
Speaker 4: adult students as well. And how else can we support
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Speaker 4: the community with this center?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, great point. Thank you so much for coming.
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Speaker 3: In here, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: I'll be watching, I'll be listening and paying attention, as
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Speaker 2: I know so many others will. Thank you again, Jody
51:30
Speaker 2: very much.
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Speaker 3: You're welcome.
51:31
Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody. We'll be back tomorrow morning
51:35
Speaker 2: right here where you are now aired now podcast. Be well,
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Speaker 2: God blessed,