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Speaker 1: Happy Monday. Th week end is now officially over, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to show you some live shots this morning
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Speaker 1: of some of our highways and byways which seemed to
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Speaker 1: be for the most part smooth sale in this morning.
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Speaker 1: Here's Hartford and Brookfield Roads, essentially wet, but a temperature
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Speaker 1: right now of twenty nine degrees in the Granite City,
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Speaker 1: so we're, you know, right at that freezing point. Please
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Speaker 1: drive carefully. Yeah, there's Brookfield, Hartford. We're showing you it's
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Speaker 1: the high spot of the interstate. And Bethel right there
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Speaker 1: on eighty nine and of course Exit ten in Waterberry.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to v Trans for getting these live pictures available
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Speaker 1: to us, so just go easy, man, can't say that enough.
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Speaker 1: Drive carefully. We'll give you the forecast here and tell
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Speaker 1: you what to expect today from Roger Hill twenty nine
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Speaker 1: again right now in Barry. Cloudy today across much of Vermont,
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Speaker 1: some snowshowers possible, and we're gonna warm up about thirty
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Speaker 1: five degrees tonight. Kind of the same story down about nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Cloudy tomorrow, lower forties. Wednesday forty five, mostly cloudy and
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Speaker 1: fifty with rain on Thursday. A perfect weather forecast to
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Speaker 1: catch a movie. It is five dollars Mondays over at
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Speaker 1: the Paramount Twin right here in Barry. Any movie, any showtime,
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Speaker 1: get over there. I think obviously the Twin Theater. If
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Speaker 1: there's two, you got your choice between the between the
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Speaker 1: two of five bucks. Get some popcorn. Going Capital Theater
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Speaker 1: in Montpellier. They've got five dollars Tuesdays, so pick one
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Speaker 1: and get the family out and catch a movie if
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Speaker 1: you can. Donald Perry on the birthday List today, along
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Speaker 1: with Marcel Gravell, who's going to be joining us real soon.
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Speaker 1: On the air as we get geared up for thunder Road.
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Speaker 1: Nicole Rosenboom, Jamie Lee, Shane Butler, Morgan Watkins, Chris Miller,
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Speaker 1: Rick Narcross. Happy birthday to each of you. I hope
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Speaker 1: you're off to a great start. I hope it has
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Speaker 1: been a productive weekend for you. Maybe you were doing
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Speaker 1: some spring cleaning, maybe you got out and you know,
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Speaker 1: went roller skating or whatever it was that you did
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Speaker 1: this weekend. If you traveled, I hope it was a
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Speaker 1: safe travel for you. Welcome back to the week Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to work, whatever it is that you're doing. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for taking Aired out along with you. Jody Emerson is
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Speaker 1: on the curvy couch this morning, of course from the
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Speaker 1: Central Vermont Career Center. I'm so happy that you're in here.
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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome back. How are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm good, Thanks for having me back.
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Speaker 1: Jad, Yeah, what's happening? What's new? We have a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about. First of all, you know the fact
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Speaker 1: that I'm following the Central from my Career center. I
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Speaker 1: see a lot of stuff popping up on the feed lately.
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Speaker 1: We got some students that are getting some high honors here.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Last week we had our National Technical Honor Society induction.
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Speaker 2: It was great. Twenty nine inductees this year, which is
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Speaker 2: the highest I've ever seen, so good work to those students.
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Speaker 2: There are some pretty high bars to get into that
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Speaker 2: and they've been doing that including community service, so it's
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Speaker 2: always great to recognize that.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to see if I could pull them up
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Speaker 1: on the screen here there, there we go. I got
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Speaker 1: them on the monitor in there. Twenty nine, So that's
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Speaker 1: more than what average.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say this is my fifth year of being
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Speaker 2: at CBCC and the first year there were twenty five,
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Speaker 2: and every year since there's been a lower number until
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Speaker 2: this year when twenty nine. So great job to these students.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it Isn't it refreshing to hear that there are
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Speaker 1: kids that are so actively pursuing a trade and frankly,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter what the trade is, just the
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Speaker 1: fact that there's something that they want to do, that
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Speaker 1: there's something that they're interested in, and damn it, they're
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Speaker 1: going to do it and they're determined. I think that's
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Speaker 1: so great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great again as always wishing we had more
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Speaker 2: space to allow more folks to do that. We definitely
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Speaker 2: have more applicants than we can take in, but it's
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Speaker 2: so wonderful every day to walk through those programs and
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Speaker 2: to see students who are pursuing something that matters to
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Speaker 2: them and thus they're really engaged in their schooling, which
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Speaker 2: is great.
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Speaker 1: You just had speaking of enrollment and whatnot, you just
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Speaker 1: had like an admissions thing that.
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Speaker 2: Was Yeah, we finished up first round, accepted one hundred
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Speaker 2: and ninety four students in that first round, and that
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Speaker 2: doesn't count co op, so we would already be over
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Speaker 2: two hundred with the co op students and we're in
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Speaker 2: second round now, so those students will be visiting next Friday,
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Speaker 2: April third for their shadow interview, and so we'll accept
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Speaker 2: some more probably out of that. We do have some
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Speaker 2: programs that are full with a weight list already for
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Speaker 2: next year. The highest two we're Automotive and Exploratory this year,
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Speaker 2: followed closely by electrical and cosmetology and plumbing and heating.
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Speaker 1: I love to hear plumbing, heating, Electrical, I love to
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Speaker 1: hear that there's that that trade is something that people
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Speaker 1: still want to get into. My god, we need it
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Speaker 1: so badly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all five of those programs are full with a waitlist,
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Speaker 2: and then we have some others that are right behind them,
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Speaker 2: building trades, Cosmetology, I already said that, culinary, so already
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Speaker 2: filling them up for sure, welding, welding, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the other one that's either full or just
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Speaker 2: one seat left for that second round.
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Speaker 1: So Automotive is pretty much right at the kind of
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Speaker 1: the top.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was top this year. They had over seventy
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Speaker 2: applicants for sixteen seats.
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Speaker 1: Okay, jeez wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So these are students that are graduating from U from
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Speaker 1: or or getting into getting into high school everywhere, and
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Speaker 1: they want to they want to come to they want
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Speaker 1: to come to the central my career center.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have six sending high schools, okay, and then
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Speaker 2: there are some students who apply from outside of that
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Speaker 2: region because we have a program that their regional technical
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Speaker 2: center doesn't have, and so lots of students who are
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Speaker 2: generally going into their junior or senior year trying to
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Speaker 2: access these programs.
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Speaker 1: What what do you what are these schools.
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Speaker 2: The any schools? Yeah, we have Cabot, Harwood, Montpellier, Spaulding,
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Speaker 2: twin Field, and U thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Cabot, Harwood, Pillier one more.
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Speaker 2: Time, Spaulding twin Field and you thirty.
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Speaker 1: Two, twin Field and You thirty two.
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Speaker 2: We often have students coming from Randolph, Williamstown, Northfield, Danville
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Wow, so there's there's a pretty good line absolutely, Or
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Speaker 1: are some of these kids, for lack of a better term,
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Speaker 1: kind of aging out before their number is up.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure some of them are. And there there aren't
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Speaker 2: a lot of options for kids who are really wanting
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Speaker 2: to the trades and wanting to get into it sooner
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Speaker 2: than later. So if they don't, if they don't get
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Speaker 2: into our program and they want something hands on that's
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Speaker 2: maybe related to building trades, The only other option really
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Speaker 2: is youth build. There might be able to go to
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Speaker 2: you know, job corps, but that's pretty far away and
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Speaker 2: it has some different expectations around it. So while they're
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Speaker 2: in high school, this is the best if they know
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Speaker 2: what they want to do.
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing youth built everywhere. They're doing great things.
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Speaker 2: Yea, they are.
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Speaker 1: All over the place. I mean, it's just it's unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The last time I had you in here, I think
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Speaker 1: it was the last time we were talking about the
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Speaker 1: the vote for the bond vote for the the the
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Speaker 1: possible new construction of the central from my career Center
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Speaker 1: up on Baptist Street in Graniteville, which was voted down.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember i've had you before the vote or
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Speaker 1: after the vote, But regardless, that was that was a
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Speaker 1: property that in a space and a design and a
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Speaker 1: dream that was seemingly in some ways almost too good
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Speaker 1: to be true. I mean, it was so beautiful the
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Speaker 1: idea there that the mock up that was created for
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Speaker 1: that was. What was the vote on that? Do you remember? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: It was close, but not close enough. I think that
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Speaker 2: what I remember I've blocked out that obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: what I remembered is if maybe a thousand people had
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Speaker 2: changed their vote, we'd be okay, or if we had
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Speaker 2: had you know, two or three thousand more voters go
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Speaker 2: out that had said yes. And there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of support. I think that we know folks support career
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Speaker 2: and technical education. Those that voted it down didn't vote
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Speaker 2: it down because they didn't like CTE. They voted it
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Speaker 2: down because taxes are crazy and people are worried and
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Speaker 2: now with the price of gasoline, for example, like you
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Speaker 2: can understand why folks don't want to maybe invest in
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Speaker 2: that even though it is an investment in our future
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Speaker 2: in this community because if we keep growing the workforce,
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Speaker 2: we build that tax space as well. But so we yes,
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Speaker 2: we had that happen, and we gathered up all of
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Speaker 2: the feedback we could off of front Porch, Forum and
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Speaker 2: Facebook and different entities and kind of summarize that to
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Speaker 2: try to get out what do we need to do.
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Speaker 2: And the reality is you can never communicate enough. There
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Speaker 2: are too many people who don't know what's going on
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Speaker 2: at the Central Vermont Career Center or what we do,
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Speaker 2: who we are, and so we need to figure out
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Speaker 2: how to communicate that better. And we also realized that
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Speaker 2: we needed to drag people back through some of the
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Speaker 2: steps that we had taken, like this had been going
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Speaker 2: on since twenty eighteen, and folks weren't paying attention the
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Speaker 2: entire time, and then when we got their attention, it
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Speaker 2: was with a big number. And so we put together
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Speaker 2: a work group some of the people who had been
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Speaker 2: on the Facilities Committee and some folks who weren't, and
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Speaker 2: some that had spoken out against it, and brought them
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Speaker 2: in and went through all of the different possibilities that
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Speaker 2: we had explored in the past and a couple of
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Speaker 2: new ones, and they basically looked at six different options
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Speaker 2: and narrowed it down to three, and those are out
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Speaker 2: with cost estimators now, so that the work group can
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Speaker 2: get those costs back and narrow it down to the
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Speaker 2: one that they'll propose the board move forward with. And
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Speaker 2: so the Granite Street and Graniteville Baptist Street option is
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Speaker 2: still on the table. There's an option again of thinking
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Speaker 2: about if the state really wants regional comprehensive high schools,
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Speaker 2: then U thirty two should still be back on the
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Speaker 2: table as a potential site. So that was the second option,
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Speaker 2: and then the third is a multi campus option keeping
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Speaker 2: us partly at Air Street and Spaulding High School and
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Speaker 2: another site, and so there's two possibilities for that could
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Speaker 2: be more, but generally we're looking at what would it
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Speaker 2: cost to build a smaller center second campus at that
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Speaker 2: Baptist Street in Graniteville, or to purchase property on Vine
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Speaker 2: Street where there is a previously a church school was there,
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Speaker 2: So there are buildings there that could be renovated, and
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Speaker 2: what would that cost us to renovate instead of building new?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Vine Street, Yeah, that's I can't remember what that
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Speaker 1: was called, but I think.
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Speaker 2: It was Central Vermont Academy made Academy.
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Speaker 1: Yes, nice building, I mean, not massive, but nice infrastructures
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Speaker 1: right there.
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Speaker 2: There's some classrooms there, there's a small kitchen there, there's
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Speaker 2: a gym.
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Speaker 1: There, gym yeah yeah, yeah. So wow. So those are
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Speaker 1: basically the the three things that we're looking at right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the three that we're looking at right now.
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Speaker 2: We really had to throw the idea of an empty
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Speaker 2: school building when schools merge together off the table because
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Speaker 2: you can't cost that. We don't know what building we're
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Speaker 2: looking at and what it would need, so there's not
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Speaker 2: much we can do unless something actually comes available. So
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Speaker 2: I think there's these three options that we're going to
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Speaker 2: be able to look at or that hold off again. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and if we do that, what are we going to
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Speaker 2: do for the kids who are wanting access and we
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Speaker 2: just can't provide it right now?
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Speaker 1: Sure, this is why I absolutely love having you in here,
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Speaker 1: because when you come in here, Jody, I always get
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Speaker 1: a lot of comments and interaction from the community, and
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Speaker 1: I just love that connection. Donna's asking if the LNA
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Speaker 1: program is going to be.
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Speaker 2: Returning interesting good timing on that ask. We have a
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Speaker 2: meeting with Central Vermont Medical Center today to talk about that,
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Speaker 2: so hopefully fingers crossed. I mean, the problem has been
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Speaker 2: we haven't been able to hire anyone. We've offered that
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Speaker 2: position a couple of times and gotten turned down every time.
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Speaker 2: So hoping a new partnership with the Central Medical Center
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Speaker 2: will allow that to happen.
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Speaker 1: So maybe do we ever meet LNA's Wow, I mean, yes,
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Speaker 1: the demand is so high and.
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Speaker 2: Our students and medical professions, which is another program that
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Speaker 2: I think only has one more seat left. They get
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Speaker 2: a CCMA, which is clinical medical assisting, which is slightly
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Speaker 2: one step above the LNA. So they do come out
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Speaker 2: with that, and many of them with phlebotomy as well.
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Speaker 1: Wow, LNA one of the one of the toughest jobs
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Speaker 1: on the planet.
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Speaker 2: So true, So true.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't be in LNA for ten minutes, maybe.
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Speaker 2: Ten minutes, but probably not more. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's a tough job.
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Speaker 1: You're cut from a different cloth man, if you're an
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Speaker 1: l and A. I have so much respect for me.
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Speaker 1: Oh and and just to witness the countless LNA's that
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Speaker 1: just attended just to both of my parents, countless, you know,
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Speaker 1: just we're talking about mom and dad, two people. I mean,
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Speaker 1: what was it, one hundred l and a's over over
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Speaker 1: the course of a couple of couple of years. It
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Speaker 1: would be my guest. I mean, it's it's unreal. It's unreal.
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Speaker 1: Some great comments coming in. John Kidder says, I'm a
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Speaker 1: product of building trades, running a successful business in Vermont.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Spencer Whitney and Don Merchant. My teachers were great. Awesome,
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Speaker 1: that's I mean, you know, Dwayne saying, hopefully everybody uh
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Speaker 1: blocks out the new Resource Center. Also I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what that means the new Resource Center, but also says uh,
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Speaker 1: we fostered a kid that wanted to get into the
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Speaker 1: culinary program and couldn't tried several other programs and couldn't
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Speaker 1: get it. Pretty sad when a student can't get into
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Speaker 1: a career Resource Center program.
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Speaker 2: Agreed.
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Speaker 1: You know, when when somebody really wants to do something,
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Speaker 1: we as a community have to have the conduit to
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Speaker 1: make that happen. We've got to we've got to provide
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Speaker 1: the opportunity for them to do something, no matter what
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Speaker 1: the trade is. Yeah, you know, and cosmetology has always
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Speaker 1: been kind of popular, very and you know, I see
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Speaker 1: and I can't remember her name, but I see one
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Speaker 1: of the students that's graduated from the cosmetology department and
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Speaker 1: has started her own business. She's got a spot and
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Speaker 1: a salon going and everything. It's freaking awesome.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so many of our students are out there. I
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Speaker 2: think one of the things that we're gonna highlight in
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Speaker 2: the future is our alumni. We're not doing a good
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Speaker 2: enough job with that. We started an alumni wall at
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Speaker 2: the center and so there's a couple of postings on
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Speaker 2: that wall and we've been putting that in our newsletter,
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Speaker 2: and we need to do more and so we're thinking
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Speaker 2: what kind of alumni event should we have. How do
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Speaker 2: we get information on our alumni and get that all
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Speaker 2: together so that we can really celebrate.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's the testimony right there. Yeah, I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: the proof in the pudding. To be twenty something years
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Speaker 1: old and to have your own business with customers and
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Speaker 1: learning all that is involved in business, which is far
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Speaker 1: beyond the spot treatment and far beyond the cutting hair.
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Speaker 1: Running your business is massive. But man, I mean that's
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Speaker 1: the lifeblood really of our state. Yeah, we got to
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Speaker 1: get killed to learn their trade, graduate start their own
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Speaker 1: business or be you know, an apprentice or an employee
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Speaker 1: for plumbing, heating, electrical construction, whatever it is, automotive whatever.
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Speaker 2: We just got offered a time grant from the state
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Speaker 2: to get a recording booth for our digital media arts
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Speaker 2: videography so they can start doing that the podcasting and
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Speaker 2: you can. You've been a part of that, helping to
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Speaker 2: get that up and running and offered up space to
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Speaker 2: share with our students so they could learn from you.
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Speaker 2: So that's been great too.
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Speaker 1: That's so that that makes me feel incredible. That's so
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Speaker 1: exciting to hear that.
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Speaker 2: Ask got the news last week.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Can I come.
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Speaker 2: Once we get it, Yes, you can probably help us
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Speaker 2: set it up.
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Speaker 1: Oh thank god, I would absolutely love that. That is
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Speaker 1: so cool. Joe Waltsworth, who doesn't know Joe Waltsworth, He says,
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Speaker 1: my hat's off to the Career Center for partnering with
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Speaker 1: Vermont District six to bring EMT and paramedic training to
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Speaker 1: our youth and area providers. It was great to work
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Speaker 1: with you, Jody and your staff.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe. Yeah, so awesome to work with them
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Speaker 2: and to start providing that District six and District eight
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Speaker 2: training for EMS. We have a paramedic program on site
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Speaker 2: right now, so that's been great.
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Speaker 1: These kids take this stuff so seriously, I mean like literally,
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Speaker 1: like really seriously, and I love that. You could just
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Speaker 1: see the look in their eye. Ye, And they look
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Speaker 1: up to Barry City, Barry Town EMS, EMT's paramedics, fire police.
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Speaker 1: They look up to those folks, and they.
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Speaker 2: Those ride alongs that they get to do with EMS amazing.
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Speaker 2: They come back grinning ear to ear, no matter what
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Speaker 2: they have experienced, they just love that and it's been
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Speaker 2: it's been wonderful.
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Speaker 1: Well it's real life, Yeah, it's real life.
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Speaker 2: Next year we get an early childhood education program. So, Wow,
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Speaker 2: thank goodness that's coming back, because we certainly need childcare.
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Speaker 1: Amen to that. You know I said to you when
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Speaker 1: you were giving me a walk through a little tour
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Speaker 1: a while back. I think I said something to you
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Speaker 1: to the effect of, shame on me for not having
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Speaker 1: stepped foot into the Central Vermont Career Center in a
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Speaker 1: very long time. I think the last time I was
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Speaker 1: there was the beginning days of Froggy one hundred point
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Speaker 1: nine when I worked there, Wow, which is early two thousands. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and then and I had forgotten it. And to walk
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Speaker 1: through and to see what's in that building right there
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Speaker 1: on airstream. I mean, some thousands of us drive right
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Speaker 1: past that campus all the time every day. We know
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Speaker 1: where Spaulding High School is, we know where the football
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Speaker 1: field is, but we've never walked through the Career Center.
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Speaker 1: And man, I'm telling you right now, if you haven't
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Speaker 1: done that yet, you're really missing out. You have no idea.
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Speaker 1: You will be stunned at one of the most important
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Speaker 1: parts of our community that's right under our nose all
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Speaker 1: the time. I mean, it's really impressive in there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, give us a call and we can set up
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Speaker 2: a time for a tour.
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Speaker 1: But you guys have you've had an open house and
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Speaker 1: stuff in the past.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, every fall we have one the Thursday before Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: We have open house every year, and in the spring
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Speaker 2: we have trades Fair and if it's nice out, we're
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Speaker 2: out in the parking lot with all sorts of different
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Speaker 2: folks from our industry partners, and the student projects are
22:58
Speaker 2: out there and students are going from station to station
23:02
Speaker 2: and checking it out and sometimes interviewing and getting jobs
23:04
Speaker 2: with folks. Yeah, so that's coming up next month. Well
23:08
Speaker 2: not next month May.
23:09
Speaker 1: Here's another. Here's another great excuse if you want to
23:16
Speaker 1: step through those doors. If you need a haircut or whatever,
23:20
Speaker 1: you can get a haircut from the cosmetology students.
23:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, give them a call. They are accepting appointments.
23:26
Speaker 1: Do you know the number off the top of your head?
23:28
Speaker 2: No, I don't, All right, I'll send it to you though,
23:31
Speaker 2: and you can put it on.
23:32
Speaker 1: Is it the four seven sixty two thirty seven.
23:35
Speaker 2: If you call that number, you can get transferred in there.
23:37
Speaker 2: But there is a direct line for the cosmetology.
23:40
Speaker 1: What do they charge it for a haircut?
23:41
Speaker 2: Come on now, Oh goodness, you're really testing. Come on,
23:44
Speaker 2: but it's less. It's probably a little less than your
23:47
Speaker 2: salon that you normally go to for any of the services,
23:51
Speaker 2: and they's still a fee for the products that we have.
23:54
Speaker 1: Do you get to tip the student.
23:58
Speaker 2: No, we can't do that. Any tips would go to
24:01
Speaker 2: the student Activities fund and so that helps support any
24:08
Speaker 2: field trips that they might take or scholarship at the
24:11
Speaker 2: end of the year. So those are the sort of
24:12
Speaker 2: things where the money can go.
24:14
Speaker 1: See, I would be perfect, perfect guinea pick for this
24:17
Speaker 1: because if I went in there, I'd be like, look,
24:19
Speaker 1: do whatever you want, and if you screw it up,
24:22
Speaker 1: that's fine. Really, yeah, doesn't bother me at all. Just
24:27
Speaker 1: if you screw it up, just shave it down.
24:30
Speaker 2: My hair's so curly that I can go in there
24:32
Speaker 2: and get a haircut and no one would know if
24:34
Speaker 2: it if it was straight or even anyway. So it's
24:37
Speaker 2: all good. It's a great place.
24:38
Speaker 1: To do it. So the cost estimating for these three
24:43
Speaker 1: possible opportunities to expand the programming and get more kids
24:51
Speaker 1: into the central for my career Center, this is something
24:54
Speaker 1: that's happening right now.
24:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we made sure that we took all three
24:59
Speaker 2: options and we equalize them as far as programming and space,
25:03
Speaker 2: and then sent that out to the folks that did
25:06
Speaker 2: the cost estimating for original bond vote. It's P and
25:11
Speaker 2: C out of Massachusetts. They do this across New England,
25:17
Speaker 2: and so we're expecting about four weeks and we'll get
25:20
Speaker 2: the estimates back and then the work group can come
25:23
Speaker 2: back together and really identify which which one will they
25:27
Speaker 2: move forward and recommend to the Facilities Committee of the board.
25:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there may not, there may not. There may
25:36
Speaker 1: always be a waiting list for some of these programs.
25:41
Speaker 2: There may, yes, But if.
25:43
Speaker 1: We could get that waiting list from six or seven
25:47
Speaker 1: down to two or three, that would.
25:50
Speaker 2: Be I love you saying six or seven. I wish
25:53
Speaker 2: that it was really I think we have some waiting
25:56
Speaker 2: lists of ten and twelve right now. Yeah, just from
26:00
Speaker 2: first round.
26:01
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, those.
26:03
Speaker 2: Students can apply at other centers. So they may be
26:06
Speaker 2: applying at Green Mountain or River Bend or Randolph. So
26:10
Speaker 2: once they've been denied or waitlisted with us, they can
26:13
Speaker 2: apply elsewhere.
26:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Your guidance counselors at Spalding are doing such a
26:21
Speaker 1: great job by saying, by making sure that everything is
26:26
Speaker 1: on the table, that students early on at Spalding understand
26:33
Speaker 1: that in just four years, which is a flash, that
26:38
Speaker 1: they're going to be out of the traditional high school
26:42
Speaker 1: setting and you have options, You have different roads that
26:48
Speaker 1: you can go down. Where I went to school, it
26:53
Speaker 1: really wasn't the case at all. Yeah, and I wish
26:57
Speaker 1: it was.
26:57
Speaker 2: School counselors are really good about helping students to understand options.
27:03
Speaker 2: Some of them are still a little bit in the
27:05
Speaker 2: old mindset that you can't go to college if you
27:08
Speaker 2: go to the career center, and that's not true. In fact,
27:10
Speaker 2: a lot of students get a jumpstart on college at
27:13
Speaker 2: the career center. I mean, our kids coming out of
27:15
Speaker 2: medical professions are getting eight credits of anatomy and physiology,
27:18
Speaker 2: you know, so across our programs they're getting credits or
27:22
Speaker 2: they're getting industry recognized credentials, and that actually gives them
27:25
Speaker 2: a leg up in some places. Yeah, it's making sure
27:28
Speaker 2: that you get in all of the required coursework before
27:31
Speaker 2: you get to us so that you're not messing out,
27:34
Speaker 2: and sometimes it can be hard to do that dual track.
27:37
Speaker 2: I think our governor talked about it a lot. He
27:39
Speaker 2: was college bound, but he also was interested in the
27:41
Speaker 2: trades and he did both and sometimes scheduling gets in
27:44
Speaker 2: the way of that and can be a barrier, sure, sure,
27:47
Speaker 2: but not always. And so we want to make sure
27:49
Speaker 2: students know that it doesn't close a door if they
27:52
Speaker 2: enter the career center.
27:54
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many students that, as you well know,
27:59
Speaker 1: that are just like I've got to do. I can't
28:06
Speaker 1: just sit and be told or sit and read and
28:10
Speaker 1: learn that way. I need to learn by doing. I
28:14
Speaker 1: actually need to get my hands in it, get my
28:17
Speaker 1: hands dirty or whatever's that's something that's like really big
28:25
Speaker 1: right now. I mean I hear that everywhere. I hear
28:28
Speaker 1: it everywhere.
28:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the way we've always done education across
28:33
Speaker 2: our traditional public schools isn't working for more people than
28:38
Speaker 2: you know, there were always some people that didn't work
28:40
Speaker 2: for and now it's getting harder for it to work
28:42
Speaker 2: for everyone. And doesn't mean that it can't. It just
28:45
Speaker 2: means sometimes we have to let go of something that
28:48
Speaker 2: we've done for a really long time and so we
28:52
Speaker 2: keep doing it right, but it means we need to
28:54
Speaker 2: transition a little bit in education across the board to
28:58
Speaker 2: make sure that we're engaged students because they're more likely
29:01
Speaker 2: to be successful in the things that they don't like
29:04
Speaker 2: that maybe they're reading, maybe the math. Yeah, if they
29:06
Speaker 2: can see the connection to the things.
29:08
Speaker 1: They do, like absolutely, Yeah, I mean, you know, it's like,
29:13
Speaker 1: and I know kids who say kids they're now adults
29:20
Speaker 1: who have had i EPs and have had real, real
29:25
Speaker 1: struggle in school learning the basic core curriculum. But they're like,
29:30
Speaker 1: put a wrench in their hand, or give them some
29:34
Speaker 1: clippers or whatever it is, and they take off, take
29:40
Speaker 1: off and are very successful with what they're doing.
29:43
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Across our Sandy school, twenty percent of students are
29:47
Speaker 2: on plans. At CBCC, forty percent of students are on plans.
29:50
Speaker 2: Some of them come off those plans while they're with
29:52
Speaker 2: us because they've found something that works for them.
29:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about directing and redirecting and getting getting each
30:00
Speaker 1: student on the road where they're going to flourish and
30:04
Speaker 1: be the most successful whatever it is.
30:07
Speaker 2: Yeah. A former colleague of mine once said that success
30:10
Speaker 2: builds success, and that is so true. Once you start
30:12
Speaker 2: feeling successful, you get stronger, you're willing to try more things.
30:17
Speaker 2: It definitely builds And if you have not had a
30:21
Speaker 2: lot of success in education, it's really hard to keep
30:24
Speaker 2: going and be motivated to do all those things. But
30:27
Speaker 2: if you can find some that can build a little
30:30
Speaker 2: bit and you can find some more, success builds its
30:33
Speaker 2: own momentum exactly.
30:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, comment here, there's always a long talk about building
30:40
Speaker 1: facilities or yeah, building facilities, budgets and taxes. What about
30:46
Speaker 1: faculty staffing trades teachers are very different from general education teachers.
30:53
Speaker 1: Do you have people wanting these positions? That's a great question.
30:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have. We have a great staff at the
31:01
Speaker 2: Central Vermont Career Center and yes, they come from industry,
31:03
Speaker 2: the majority of them. All of the positions that we
31:06
Speaker 2: had opened for next year are about to be filled
31:08
Speaker 2: tomorrow night at our board meeting. So super exciting. We
31:11
Speaker 2: have great applicants this year. As if we're growing. Though,
31:15
Speaker 2: if we're building and we're growing programs and maybe duplicating,
31:19
Speaker 2: it could be a barrier in the future because a
31:22
Speaker 2: teacher makes less than someone in industry, and so they
31:25
Speaker 2: have to really want to contribute to the community and
31:29
Speaker 2: grow the field to leave that higher paying industry job
31:33
Speaker 2: and come into teaching.
31:35
Speaker 1: Wow, well said, what about this leather working class that
31:43
Speaker 1: I'm seeing? What's that all about?
31:45
Speaker 2: One of our instructors for Exploratory. Tim Hannond does some
31:49
Speaker 2: leatherwork on the side. You might have seen him at
31:51
Speaker 2: the craft show up at the Berry Auditorium this year.
31:54
Speaker 2: He was down in the basement with some of his
31:56
Speaker 2: leather work, just doing a little intro class. We're trying
31:59
Speaker 2: to start building our adult education programming and opportunities. We
32:04
Speaker 2: actually one of the hires that we have for next
32:06
Speaker 2: year is an assistant director of adult Ed to take
32:10
Speaker 2: on some of that planning for adult education, because our
32:12
Speaker 2: day staff has been trying to do that and I
32:15
Speaker 2: think we'll grow it better with someone whose focus is
32:18
Speaker 2: solely on adult ed and start building programming for folks
32:21
Speaker 2: and hopefully get into some work with apprenticeship programs as well.
32:26
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's experienced hands on leather crafting in a welcoming environment,
32:31
Speaker 1: perfect for beginners, no experience necessary, just bring your curiosity
32:36
Speaker 1: and the course starts up in three days on March
32:41
Speaker 1: twenty sixth. Wow.
32:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean kids come in there on program preview day,
32:48
Speaker 2: it's the first day they're even in the exploratory classroom,
32:51
Speaker 2: and they usually can make something coming out of there.
32:53
Speaker 2: So I have no doubt that Tim's going to help
32:56
Speaker 2: the adults who are interested learn something and walk away.
32:59
Speaker 1: With do we know what the what the cost is
33:02
Speaker 1: to sign up for this? Get on c c V
33:06
Speaker 1: t CC dot org. That's right, that's the way to
33:09
Speaker 1: do it.
33:09
Speaker 2: These are things I don't have memorized.
33:11
Speaker 1: Dad uh slash adult education. I love that. I love this, this,
33:17
Speaker 1: This is fantastic. Our community really supports what's going on
33:25
Speaker 1: over there on Air Street and would love to see
33:27
Speaker 1: things expand our community is was was also, I think
33:38
Speaker 1: from from what I read, uh just a little uh,
33:42
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of sticker shock, I think
33:48
Speaker 1: with regard to the proposal to to build the new
33:52
Speaker 1: facility up up in Graniteville there on Baptist Street, and
33:56
Speaker 1: concerned about their their taxes as as we've talked about.
34:01
Speaker 1: But we should also say that you guys did a
34:04
Speaker 1: real great job to transparently show the different towns and
34:11
Speaker 1: how what the price tag would be for their taxes
34:15
Speaker 1: for this.
34:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I think it's really difficult and we
34:20
Speaker 2: had to use current The funding for CTE is a
34:23
Speaker 2: little different than all of our sending schools, and so
34:26
Speaker 2: that's hard for folks to understand. It's based on a
34:28
Speaker 2: six semester average of the number of students that come
34:32
Speaker 2: from each sending school and then split amongst their towns.
34:37
Speaker 2: So people were very confused about the difference costs across
34:42
Speaker 2: different towns. And that's why it is if we do
34:45
Speaker 2: go to a foundation formula, or if there is a
34:49
Speaker 2: different way that career and technical education ends up being
34:52
Speaker 2: paid for out of this legislative session, that could change
34:55
Speaker 2: those numbers. I think a lot of folks were hopeful
34:58
Speaker 2: that there would be school construction funding and I don't
35:01
Speaker 2: think they're going to solve that this year either, but
35:03
Speaker 2: certainly if that was available, folks would be more willing
35:07
Speaker 2: to support it. If we could have identified and gone
35:10
Speaker 2: out for some grants faster, I think that would have helped,
35:14
Speaker 2: if we could know what the offsetting funds would be.
35:19
Speaker 2: And it's hard to which comes first, right you don't
35:22
Speaker 2: want to put the car before the horse, and we
35:25
Speaker 2: need the community to say yes, we support this before
35:28
Speaker 2: we can apply for the grant. But we need the
35:30
Speaker 2: grant for folks to say they support it, so you
35:33
Speaker 2: can't really win in that case. Yeah, for sure, but
35:38
Speaker 2: I do think people support it. I think that even
35:41
Speaker 2: if we don't get a new building somewhere that we're
35:44
Speaker 2: going to try to find a way to expand in
35:46
Speaker 2: small ways, and that may be revisiting the schedule, looking
35:50
Speaker 2: at how do we how could we use spaces more
35:54
Speaker 2: than once in a meaningful way and still support the
36:00
Speaker 2: of kids in their projects. Also, how might we expand
36:04
Speaker 2: into another building close by that if there's one available
36:08
Speaker 2: that would allow us to duplicate some programs. The state
36:13
Speaker 2: really only allows one new program a year if it's
36:17
Speaker 2: brand new. But if you are duplicating a program, it's
36:19
Speaker 2: something you already have and it's successful and you can
36:22
Speaker 2: show that you have interests, then you can expand as
36:26
Speaker 2: many times as you want. And so those programs where
36:29
Speaker 2: we have those wait lists make the most sense, which
36:31
Speaker 2: is what we did with electrical. So next year we
36:34
Speaker 2: have two electrical programs.
36:36
Speaker 1: Has there ever been any discussion with the city about
36:40
Speaker 1: maybe utilizing some of the some of the space and
36:44
Speaker 1: maybe some of the empty classrooms that are up there
36:49
Speaker 1: at the adjacent to the Barry Auditorium. I can't remember
36:53
Speaker 1: the name of that building that's break attached to the auditorium, but.
36:59
Speaker 2: No, no. I think what we tend to focus on
37:04
Speaker 2: is the fact that our lab spaces have some very
37:07
Speaker 2: specific needs and so finding the space to do that
37:11
Speaker 2: and not wanting to be spread across all at very city.
37:15
Speaker 2: I mean, we saw what happened to Burlington Tech School
37:18
Speaker 2: when they had to close down and they were in
37:19
Speaker 2: five sites and four. You can never be where you
37:24
Speaker 2: should be that day. Not that it's impossible. We have
37:29
Speaker 2: explored potentially putting baking arts back here on Main Street. Yeah. Wow,
37:37
Speaker 2: everybody loves the cupcakes and cookies.
37:39
Speaker 1: Right literally everybody. But it's nice that it's nice that
37:47
Speaker 1: your budget just passed, Yes, not a couple of weeks ago,
37:51
Speaker 1: not long ago, and that there's some positivities. There's some
37:57
Speaker 1: forward motion here. You guys are in very much in gear.
38:01
Speaker 1: There's stuff happening.
38:02
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and there's little micro expansions within what we can
38:07
Speaker 2: do within our current confines. So we're trying to find
38:10
Speaker 2: ways to get more students access and to figure out
38:15
Speaker 2: how we can live within the space that we have
38:17
Speaker 2: and kind of shuffle things around and try to make
38:19
Speaker 2: it work, while also looking sort of outside and nearby,
38:22
Speaker 2: what might we do to maybe duplicate some of the
38:27
Speaker 2: construction trades so that we can start building a house
38:30
Speaker 2: out of the Center again.
38:31
Speaker 1: Which has been done. That. Wasn't there a connection with
38:37
Speaker 1: Habitat for Humanity not long ago?
38:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, we worked with Habitat for Humanity last year our
38:43
Speaker 2: building trades program did I think this spring we might
38:47
Speaker 2: be collaborating with the local American Legion to help them
38:51
Speaker 2: with a kitchen rebuild. And there should be another Habitat
38:55
Speaker 2: for Humanity coming up. I think we're two years out
39:00
Speaker 2: from the next one locally, and I think that might
39:03
Speaker 2: be Plainfield.
39:04
Speaker 1: Wow, I would I'd love to see that happen.
39:07
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, those are great partnerships.
39:09
Speaker 1: That I'll run over there. I'll run over there with
39:13
Speaker 1: a camera. I would love to see that.
39:15
Speaker 2: Okay, that's so cool.
39:17
Speaker 1: Uh, Joe's just reminding us. It's it's Alumni Hall adjacent
39:22
Speaker 1: to the Oh, thank you very auditorium there. Tip of
39:27
Speaker 1: the hat to the the recipients of the Heritage Automotive Challenge. Yes,
39:33
Speaker 1: so cool.
39:34
Speaker 2: Second place finish this year. Great job, and we had
39:38
Speaker 2: we send two students who compete, and we have one
39:41
Speaker 2: alternate that goes and our alternate got to compete too
39:44
Speaker 2: because another school didn't send an alternate and one of
39:48
Speaker 2: their kids didn't show up. So our kiddo just partnered
39:51
Speaker 2: with that student from another center and they they participated too,
39:56
Speaker 2: So it's great, so awesome.
40:00
Speaker 1: Was telling me and I know that you're going to
40:05
Speaker 1: jog my memory here about that there was some competition
40:11
Speaker 1: where they would they would travel and put together something
40:14
Speaker 1: for the av department where they would go and like
40:17
Speaker 1: compete and get an award.
40:19
Speaker 2: I can't remember what Skills USA. It's coming up. That's
40:23
Speaker 2: the first couple of weeks into April and a bunch
40:26
Speaker 2: of different competitions across different program areas. Our videography team
40:31
Speaker 2: has been gold in Vermont many years in a row,
40:36
Speaker 2: so exciting. And then they if they win gold, they
40:39
Speaker 2: go off to Nationals, which for the last few years
40:42
Speaker 2: has been in Atlanta, And this year it's actually going
40:45
Speaker 2: to be earlier. Normally it's after school gets out, but
40:47
Speaker 2: this year it's going to be I think in the
40:48
Speaker 2: beginning of June. So if any of our students win gold,
40:51
Speaker 2: they'll get to go to Atlanta in June.
40:54
Speaker 1: Have we been in the past.
40:56
Speaker 2: We have certainly been to Atlanta. We've had our videography
41:00
Speaker 2: students go, We've had a cosmetology student go, and I
41:04
Speaker 2: think there was one other program that went in the
41:06
Speaker 2: last five.
41:06
Speaker 1: Years, so Skills USA. That's all of the programs or
41:11
Speaker 1: most of them.
41:12
Speaker 2: So there are a bunch of competitions for most of
41:14
Speaker 2: the programs that students can sign up for. So there's
41:17
Speaker 2: some that are programs specific, and then there are some
41:19
Speaker 2: that are like leadership specific, and so students can opt
41:23
Speaker 2: into those or program teachers and it's always great if
41:27
Speaker 2: you finish for a second or third in the state.
41:30
Speaker 2: There's some amazing scholarships that go along with that. Sometimes
41:33
Speaker 2: there's tools, it depends which competition it is.
41:38
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm just looking at some of the
41:40
Speaker 1: some of the photos on your Facebook page here of
41:44
Speaker 1: some of these students baking the building trades here. It's
41:50
Speaker 1: just amazing. I mean it's they take this stuff like
41:53
Speaker 1: so I just love the fact that it's you know,
41:57
Speaker 1: they're not just doing it because they have to do it.
41:59
Speaker 1: The looks on their their faces are like, I'm doing
42:03
Speaker 1: this because I love this, and I just think that's
42:06
Speaker 1: so cool.
42:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, And all the programs have an Instagram page, and
42:09
Speaker 2: some of them are taking pictures every week and some
42:12
Speaker 2: you might get caught up every month with so many
42:15
Speaker 2: great photos there as well.
42:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need, you know, just to echo this again,
42:22
Speaker 1: we need more of our youth to be learning a trade,
42:29
Speaker 1: learning real, real skills that they can use in their lives,
42:33
Speaker 1: whether they're working for somebody else or to start their
42:36
Speaker 1: own business. Man. We need that more now than ever.
42:40
Speaker 1: We sure do, especially right here in Verma.
42:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, we need to grow our young tag space.
42:48
Speaker 2: We need folks here.
42:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, big time. John saying that habitat is in Northfield.
42:55
Speaker 1: Now Joe's saying firefighting and ems went like ten years ago.
43:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just have ams. There's no firefighting component with it.
43:06
Speaker 2: I want to say it most more five years ago,
43:08
Speaker 2: but Joe's probably going to remember better than I am
43:11
Speaker 2: because I wasn't involved in it. Then.
43:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is all. Is there anybody that you want
43:18
Speaker 1: to give some kudos to at the administration or anyone
43:22
Speaker 1: up there at the Central From my career.
43:24
Speaker 2: Center, the administrative team is great, the staff is amazing.
43:28
Speaker 2: We are so excited to Tomorrow night is our March
43:32
Speaker 2: board meeting, and we have two new members. So we
43:36
Speaker 2: have a new appointee from Washington Central and a new
43:40
Speaker 2: appointee from Harwood. So we'll be welcoming those two a
43:44
Speaker 2: board and you know, reorganizing like every other board has
43:47
Speaker 2: done in March after Town Meeting day and then be
43:51
Speaker 2: up and running. So it's exciting to welcome new board
43:54
Speaker 2: members and get them to see the facility and to
43:59
Speaker 2: return eight of our board members. That's great because they
44:03
Speaker 2: really know what's going on and what's been happening, and
44:07
Speaker 2: they get to approve those hires tomorrow night, so that's great.
44:11
Speaker 2: So just I work with a wonderful group of people,
44:15
Speaker 2: and we are so well supported by our board, by
44:19
Speaker 2: our community. The entire staff is great. I just feel
44:23
Speaker 2: incredibly lucky to work at the Central Vermont Career Center.
44:26
Speaker 1: They're there because they really truly love what they do
44:30
Speaker 1: and they love to reap the rewards of seeing kids
44:36
Speaker 1: actually learning what they're what they're being taught, and then
44:42
Speaker 1: taking those those skills and putting them to use. That's
44:45
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, there's nothing better than that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, and some I mean I think about
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Speaker 2: we have a couple of teachers who are alumni from
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Speaker 2: the center and they came back because they wanted to
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Speaker 2: make sure that they could do that for other students
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: That is so cool. So board presentation with some of
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Speaker 1: this cost estimating when might that happen.
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Speaker 2: I we were originally scheduled for April. I don't think
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Speaker 2: we're going to make the April deadline, so I think
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Speaker 2: it'll be May. We'll see what we can do. In
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Speaker 2: the meantime, the Facilities Committee is working on what potential
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Speaker 2: short term options are there, so that'll probably be on
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Speaker 2: the review for April and then May we'll be able
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Speaker 2: to see what the work group recommends and see where
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Speaker 2: the Board takes it. There are a couple of opportunities
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Speaker 2: in the fall if we decide to pursue another bond vote.
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Speaker 2: There's an August primary, there's a November midterm elections, so
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Speaker 2: there are things happening where we wouldn't have to get
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Speaker 2: all the town clerks up and running for an extra day,
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Speaker 2: but we could tack onto some elections already happening. If
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Speaker 2: we decide to move forward something, and right now I
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Speaker 2: do not know, but possibly a bond vote, Possibly a
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Speaker 2: bond vote in November. Possibly, Okay, I think that's more
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Speaker 2: likely than in August, if there's a decision around a bond.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little snug, it's very very snug. Very yes, listen, Uh,
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Speaker 1: I always love having you in here. There's always so
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Speaker 1: much to talk about, but we're watching, we're listening, we're
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Speaker 1: paying attention to what you're doing over at this central
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Speaker 1: from our career center, and Jody, you guys are You're
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Speaker 1: all doing such such great work there and I appreciate
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Speaker 1: you coming in here and getting us caught up. You know,
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Speaker 1: I know there's there's a lot of activity, but I
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Speaker 1: wasn't aware of this until I chatted with you this morning,
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Speaker 1: of what these options are. And yeah, it's great that
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Speaker 1: you've communicated it to our community.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it shows up in the times our
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Speaker 2: guests from time to time, and some people see that,
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Speaker 2: but not everybody. And so again it's it's what is
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Speaker 2: the best venue for communicating these things? And I don't
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Speaker 2: know that we found it yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, great job. Thank you so much for coming
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Speaker 1: in here this morning, and get back to work.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: I got some kids waiting over there for you.
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Speaker 2: They're not waiting for me, they're busy.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Shody, thank you. All right,