{"utterances":[{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6400.07,"end_sec":6405.64,"similarity":0.83,"text":"appear and talk a little bit about what's going on at the park commission i think i'll start with","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6400s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6413.37,"end_sec":6420.36,"similarity":0.753,"text":"the most recent appropriation from the city council out of the free cash to make some improvements to a few of the fields and playground areas and in melrose we greatly appreciate","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6413s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 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meeting we had representatives in the community who have advocated for the inclusive park appear before","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6444s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6460.09,"end_sec":6484.97,"similarity":0.813,"text":"the power commission we are clearly going to listen to what they want for equipment and accessibility in the city right now we are bringing in manufacturers of this inclusive playground equipment and we're going to put together a plan to most likely put this project down at the warren street park which is on warren street off of franklin street excuse me sir just","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6460s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 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park so along with creating a better environment at Lebanon Street we recognize the need for girls softball to have increased access to fields and we think that's a pretty good","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6585s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6614.38,"end_sec":6618.6,"similarity":0.748,"text":"destination for it so those are the easy ones and based on some of the public","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6614s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6619.61,"end_sec":6628.43,"similarity":0.716,"text":"comment and uh I think the the the bigger question I think going forward for the community is 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I've been looking at this problem for","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6629s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6675.28,"end_sec":6683.27,"similarity":0.727,"text":"20 years. We first started to take a look at this in early 2000. So what we have","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6675s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6684.27,"end_sec":6695.04,"similarity":0.768,"text":"finally been able to do is make a little bit of progress on the West Knoll field.","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6684s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6695.66,"end_sec":6706.52,"similarity":0.788,"text":"We had Weston and Sampson do something that we had hoped would have been completed in 2018 which is dig some test pits and look at the soil and look at","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6695s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6707.13,"end_sec":6727.85,"similarity":0.778,"text":"the water levels at the West Mill field to see you know what's going on there and what can be done Joan Bell has made valiant efforts as has the DPW and the city's green team for better than 15 years to try to grow grass in that field and it's proved impossible and we really needed to get below the surface to see","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6707s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6728.79,"end_sec":6749.09,"similarity":0.748,"text":"was going on with it what was what was happening over the past couple of weeks was Weston and Samson the city's engineers who the city engaged in 2018 for a feasibility study actually you know got into the soil and gave us some","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6728s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6749.91,"end_sec":6854.93,"similarity":0.778,"text":"information for the first time to really understand what's happening down there there and and I'll get into that in a minute the next phase of the project is to really grind that information and figure out what it means to us right I mean I think you know clearly Zero Waste Melrose and there are other community members that feel that it should be a natural grass field and we have community members that think that it should be a turf field and the power commission you know we'll go through the process and listen to weston and sampson and take a look at our alternatives i think you know we looked at this same problem five years ago we looked at the problem 10 years ago we looked at the problem 15 years ago and we won't find an engineering firm that will come out and tell us that they can build a natural grass playing surface that will allow the use that a turf surface will allow and it's just you know and and we talked to weston and sampson about that at our recent meeting so that clearly when we're limited in our field space and this might be the only viable field for boys and girls soccer boys and girls lacrosse a carryover field for field hockey the ability to play middle school football flag football on a surface i mean we're talking about thousands of hours of programming and kids that are going to be used that are going to be using or or in need of a field and you know and and a solution if there was an all grass solution that could could handle that use you know we would be for it I understand what Sarah Westmoreland was saying and we'll continue to listen to what Weston and Samson","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6749s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6855.58,"end_sec":6879.43,"similarity":0.765,"text":"and will report back to us. Interestingly, as someone who's been involved in this particular field for almost two decades, we never really knew it was under there until about two weeks ago. And we're still gonna learn what that actually means. 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ongoing issue so um we will have a meeting","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6930s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6943.24,"end_sec":6959.06,"similarity":0.728,"text":"i think with western and samson in the next couple of weeks when we get their information and their recommendations as far as what their analysis means for a grass surface","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6943s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6960.71,"end_sec":6986.61,"similarity":0.761,"text":"a turf surface what the compensatory storage and flood storage issues are there and And what it means for permitting and what permits we need and what the approval process is for either project, we'll definitely discuss it at length at the Park Commission meeting and we'll be more than happy to report back to, you know, the Boyd of Aldermen.","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6960s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":6995.61,"end_sec":7046.7,"similarity":0.772,"text":"Because, you know, one of the opportunities that this meeting this evening gave me the opportunity to speak about on behalf of the Park Commission is that, you know, for the first time in 40 years, the City of Melrose is coming, I'm sorry, the Park Commission and members of the City of Melrose are coming to the Boyd of Aldermen and the Mayor's Office to ask for an investment in high school athletic facilities. and i just want to you know give a brief history on that so uh and and my hope is along with airways melrose and user groups in the community here that we start a real discussion about what the what the children in the city need as far as build space goes we should have had this discussion in 2017 and 18 and we we were clearly sidetracked along with you know the rest of the community many different fronts because of a whole host of issues none the least you know the fact that we've been shut down as a as a community for 18 months but uh the members of the power commission","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=6995s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7053.25,"end_sec":7064.35,"similarity":0.772,"text":"in nine in around the year 2000 got together and we looked at a community that had the worst athletic facilities in the middlesex league fred greenfield was unusable morelli field had 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The Daphne gym, the floor was dead. The Maracu gym was a disgrace. We had no hockey rink to play in. And it was a bad situation. And on top of it all, the city had","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7065s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7078.78,"end_sec":7107.96,"similarity":0.704,"text":"no money. An override had been tried and failed. And we were left trying to figure out, you know, how do we fix this situation? So one of the areas that gave us an opportunity to correct the situation was the passage of the middle school debt exclusion and along with the middle school you know there were members on the Park Commission myself included that you know advocated that we should push for more than just a new middle school this gives us the opportunity to renovate the Daphne gym","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7078s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7108.83,"end_sec":7112.78,"similarity":0.688,"text":"or essentially replace it and renovate the Mark Kruh gym and the","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7108s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7113.65,"end_sec":7138.63,"similarity":0.715,"text":"Initiative was successful and the athletic portion of that middle school Athletic piece was probably six to eight million dollars by the time was done, but the kids got Basketball courts for high school basketball. 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So what we're seeing in Malden is just on it, you know, there are crushed walnut shells that they're using, there are other natural type of fill material that they're using. It's anticipated that in the next several years, Fred Greenfield will be replaced, the service will be replaced, and that the rubber fill will be removed and replaced with something that is more environmentally safe,","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7489s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7562.96,"end_sec":7568.65,"similarity":0.697,"text":"Yeah, it's a great question, and it's one that the Park Commission raised.","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7562s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7572.29,"end_sec":7604.77,"similarity":0.722,"text":"And we felt that we would listen to the parents who or pushing for this, and I think that the feeling was was that they would like one place for the 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the field was basically closed you know for the entire spring season we i'm also aware of the cancellations that occurred at morelli and you know we're digging and we're looking into this and and um i think you know i i personally was under the initial impression that with all this rain the old pond mitigation project where you can lower the pond uh maybe you should have started a little","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7876s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":7909.63,"end_sec":7929.71,"similarity":0.664,"text":"bit earlier and that would have alleviated some of the flooding but as we looked into it we don't think that that's what's going on in morelli where the swale is in left field and i think joan and i and the power commission have discussed getting somebody to get into that area to see if you 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uh","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=7930s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8063.74,"end_sec":8068.83,"similarity":0.657,"text":"yeah I think you know I can't read into their website or their past work I can","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8063s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8069.45,"end_sec":8087.48,"similarity":0.749,"text":"tell you that I think that when Weston and Sampson is speaking with communities about playing services that the two main with three main issues that they're dealing with our most communities built their playing fields and not the most ideal areas most communities don't have enough playing space and most","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8069s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8088.14,"end_sec":8145.15,"similarity":0.76,"text":"communities acknowledge that the way to optimize playing surface time is with turf you can play in it when it rains you can play in it the minute the rain stops you know you can play in it 12 months a year you know 24 hours a day if you wanted to so I think that you know that's what it comes down to and I you know and and I personally haven't seen in Middlesex League or or beyond recently any communities that are really doing anything but turf and I think that that's probably the main driver you know I mean we could spend and the city has spent in the past two three hundred thousand dollars trying to crown that West Noel field over there they put the swale in they tried to alleviate the flooding the El Pond drainage brought you know project all those efforts were always going to help grow grass in that field and they just haven't and I you You know, and I think that,","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8088s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8146.0,"end_sec":8162.05,"similarity":0.701,"text":"I don't think it's by Weston and Samson's design. They get paid to design the system and they don't get paid on the construction. All right, so I think that that's just the, for the community needs and the issues that the communities are facing, I just think it's been the more viable solution.","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8146s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8201.77,"end_sec":8206.56,"similarity":0.636,"text":"And I think it's a fair question and we can certainly talk to Joan because I know that","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8201s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-08-16","video_id":518,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 16th 2021","meeting_id":3672,"start_sec":8207.18,"end_sec":8236.69,"similarity":0.722,"text":"it was brutal this spring, you know, it was brutal at the Morelli Field, it was brutal at the West Knoll, I know that there were issues at Lewis Monk and I can tell you, you know, quite honestly that the person who carried that weight around the most was Joan, right. She was dying that she couldn't get those fields open for the kids. So I'll definitely ask her, and you know, with climate change and everything else, it's probably something that we should start to track.","url":"https://vimeo.com/588320061#t=8207s","page_url":"/video/518"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":3635.7,"end_sec":3666.73,"similarity":0.983,"text":"Hello, my name is John McLaughlin. I'm on the Melrose Park Commission and thank you for the opportunity to appear here and fill you in a little bit on what we've got going on at the High commission level with the upon feasibility study. Really? That what we wanted to do is just that kind of introduce ourselves board members and give you a basic review of what some of the options we're considering.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=3635s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":3667.32,"end_sec":3718.11,"similarity":0.93,"text":"WHEREAS not looking for any decisions tonight. WHEREAS just actually looking to open the lines of communication as we take the next step in the project. This is my third project in Melrose with construction in the floodplain down around El Pond. We know that the compensatory storage issue looms down there. Really, what we want to do is have our consultants, Weston and Samson, about to take a look at what the grading is going to look like under the various options, and try to make a determination if we are going to add fill to the land that would require compensatory storage and start to with the conservation commission in the event that we would be looking for that kind of relief.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=3667s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":3718.81,"end_sec":3746.94,"similarity":0.904,"text":"So again, it's communicative this evening. I think Jean will give you a basic layout of what some of the options that are being explored are. And I really look forward to I think Paul Moore is gonna work with us on this committee and just keeping the lines of communication open so that you guys know what's going on on our end and I feel like you'll be kept in the loop.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=3718s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":3747.58,"end_sec":3750.45,"similarity":0.745,"text":"With that said, Gene, take it away.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=3747s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":5614.52,"end_sec":5653.05,"similarity":0.913,"text":"Eugenia, if I may jump in again, this is John McLaughlin. What we can do is I was involved with the construction of the middle school way back when, and we had done at that period of time traffic studies to take a look at the need for parking and the traffic flow around the facility. So I think at least to go back to some study information that we had 15 plus years ago, we can pull that traffic study out that was filed as part of the middle school construction plan and at least share that with you so you can take a look at it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=5614s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2021-02-18","video_id":607,"video_title":"Melrose Conservation Commission February 18 2021","meeting_id":3442,"start_sec":6002.92,"end_sec":6025.24,"similarity":0.931,"text":"Commission. And if I can jump in real briefly, I would just like to reiterate, we expect this process going forward is going to be an open line of communication between this particular group, the Power Commission and the Conservation Commission. So we're going to look forward to your input every step of the way and we'll certainly react to your questions and concerns as we're doing it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/516268252#t=6002s","page_url":"/video/607"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1119.38,"end_sec":1122.38,"similarity":0.721,"text":"I'm here. I'm not muted, I don't believe.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1119s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1149.88,"end_sec":1189.13,"similarity":0.9,"text":"So technically speaking, the PixLot system doesn't have any infrastructure costs. It's automated and it doesn't require an operator when it's installed in the facility. So there are no ongoing expenses. The school system as part of the curriculum may choose to have students or adults engage in broadcasting, which is an overlay that the software provides. But if you just decided to take the crowd noise as the backdrop, the camera would turn on at the time of a scheduled event and there's no cost associated at all.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1149s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1203.38,"end_sec":1226.88,"similarity":0.903,"text":"So that there was the city's technology officer coordinated with Pixalot and they believe with some minor tweaks that the infrastructure already exists to hook up the system. The installation is part of the camera cost on their end. So that once the camera is in place, there's no operational cost, which is one of the tremendous advantages to the technology.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1203s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1232.63,"end_sec":1237.26,"similarity":0.841,"text":"I think the wire is already there.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1232s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1260.19,"end_sec":1306.44,"similarity":0.917,"text":"Well, so the software technology has encryption protection. The latest data that I read, they've got about 3,000 of these systems installed in the United States. It's an electronic technology that follows the action of the players on the field. It doesn't pick up anything off the field. And the image that's captured is no different than what's captured by MMTV or game film that's being shot on the sidelines by coaches, and there's not, so it's the same, it's the same image that you would see if MMTV or MHS productions videoed a game from the top of the press box.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1260s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1326.58,"end_sec":1347.2,"similarity":0.912,"text":"evaluated to do this work my knowledge picks a lot is the vendor in the country that is doing this right now they've got the technology we've vetted out their process we've seen the product the finished product there was no reason to","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1326s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1348.39,"end_sec":1370.27,"similarity":0.907,"text":"to go find another vendor because I don't think one exists that can do what they can do number one and number two that this is the technology that most districts that are looking for this are using right now I think that I believe Joan Bell the Park Commissioner for Mount Hood I did reference checks with several districts on on the technology and their feedback was all positive mm-hmm","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1348s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1411.68,"end_sec":1427.18,"similarity":0.898,"text":"maintain this equipment the equipment is under a five-year contract that picks a lot maintains if there's any problems or issues but really other than a problem that would crop up there's really there's no maintenance to them okay and","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1411s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1449.28,"end_sec":1478.14,"similarity":0.908,"text":"uh generally speaking the schedule is submitted to uh pixelot which is also nfhs network they get the times and the dates they program the software to turn the streaming on just prior to the start of the event and end it approximately you know 10 minutes after an event is supposed to conclude and i think that they're uh","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1449s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1478.96,"end_sec":1510.84,"similarity":0.911,"text":"their intent is to just stream the games. If there's a special event, they can also be streamed. So for instance, if this technology was in place in the month of July and parents were not allowed to attend graduation, you could ask for a special event that's outside the subscription network and the parents could watch live stream graduation. So basically it's a scheduling issue. You schedule when you want the camera on and when it and it shuts off at the end of the event okay um that's","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1478s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1559.66,"end_sec":1585.76,"similarity":0.887,"text":"Okay. If I could jump in, I can tell you from historical perspective, MMTV's involvement in broadcasting games historically has ebbed and flowed with the motivation of the people that were there and it was never live. So my, when my children were at high school age, they had a very strong presence to videotape and","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1559s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1586.44,"end_sec":1610.07,"similarity":0.899,"text":"replay football games, basketball games, and hockey games. And then the individuals that were interested in that moved on, and now you don't see it done very often. I think the high school production tries to do a couple of games in each sport a year. So MMTV doesn't have the capability to live stream anything technologically right now it's","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1586s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1897.7,"end_sec":1904.08,"similarity":0.821,"text":"streaming technology of the cameras, correct? The software at Watch Home controls it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1897s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1943.34,"end_sec":1954.18,"similarity":0.853,"text":"us well you could go to the streaming it's a streaming channel and I suppose that if you logged into the streaming channel and you couldn't see the","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1943s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":1964.72,"end_sec":1997.04,"similarity":0.899,"text":"the schedule now that there's an option for the school to schedule so the athletic department could also schedule my understanding of the technology is if it's not scheduled to stream it doesn't stream it is scheduled the stream it does. I suppose that Ipsalot may have a better answer as to how are you certain that it's not streaming when there's an event on and we could certainly ask them that question. It's not something that personally I was very","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=1964s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2008.89,"end_sec":2078.29,"similarity":0.91,"text":"be filmed and broadcast they could be so you know what we we anticipate at least on frederick field is that um that if we have other melrose groups that would wish to see a streamed event like a pop on a football game on sunday we'd certainly be amenable to it i think that one of the key pieces of the technology is that outside of the high school sports network there's no charge for the service so if you had the band competition on fred greenfield or you had a graduation you had an award ceremony in the one of the two gymnasiums those do not cost any money they're streamed you just tell the software when you want the cameras to turn on and when you want them to turn off so um so that you know so that so the subscription uh is for athletic events at the high school level but the but the software can run continually so any event that's in one of these uh spaces that contains a camera can be streamed and and would you confirm","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2008s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2084.84,"end_sec":2117.42,"similarity":0.906,"text":"we thought ideally fred greenfield is a is a good location for it um we think that the new Gymnasium that has boys and girls basketball and volleyball at all levels is a good location for it. And the Makru Gym, which has some limited freshman and JV activity, but it does have the varsity wrestling program, would be a great spot for it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2084s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2118.73,"end_sec":2144.11,"similarity":0.908,"text":"So, and, you know, it's really available anywhere. I think, you know, personally, I think that this is a technology that's going to come along very quickly. The boys and girls high school hockey programs are now playing at the Stoneman Arena. We've talked to the Stoneman Arena. They're amenable to putting a camera in over there.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2118s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2145.61,"end_sec":2151.36,"similarity":0.857,"text":"But it would be outside of the scope of our conversation from the school committee standpoint.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2145s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2152.11,"end_sec":2194.33,"similarity":0.91,"text":"A different facility. But I think that if you get a chance to look at the YouTube, you'll see the sports that are currently running on it. You get a sense of the technology. It's very convenient. It allows grandparents who are uncomfortable coming to an event because of a health risk, even when this is over, to watch the game. My son, who would dearly love to watch Norris High School football games on Friday nights, would be able to turn on his laptop in Virginia and watch the game. So it's a very powerful technology for people that are interested in streamed events from high schools.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2152s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2354.86,"end_sec":2535.69,"similarity":0.897,"text":"thought about this issue at the Park Commission the Recreation Department certainly Joan Bell has had a conversation with us if there are limit limitations to the spectator issues uh well because of the pandemic in the fall that it that the fred greenfield should be the varsity location for fall sports that play on a playing surface including football and boys and girls soccer i know several years ago in the event that you're referring to um soccer did have a limitation on the use of fred greenfield but the park commission and Joan Bell would argue that that was as much to do with the stubbornness of the soccer program as it was with their ability to gain access to it. In the past several years, they've had a lot more access to that field for games if they work around the schedule with us. The boys and girls lacrosse team also play on Fred Green field during the spring. So I think that, you know, there are two issues here. We've got, you know, the accessibility issues dealing with the pandemic And then we've got the longer-term use of the facility. And we also have a feasibility study out right now that would turn the Westside Mill into a soccer field, you know, a full-purpose field, but really be the home venue for boys and girls soccer. And at the appropriate time, a camera could also be placed in that facility. So I think that I understand your points and your concerns, but I think they're all addressable on the on the other activities as Ed and I have conversed. And as I emailed the school committee, at least to answer some questions that Jim McAndrews and Margaret had, that a nonprofit foundation that I run would donate the technology, which is a portable camera and a laptop, to the school system, the tripod, that would allow streaming for any event anywhere in the high school complex, including the Center for Performing Arts. The fixed camera does not work that well with that type of production right now, particularly with the plays where there's a lot going on. But Pixalot does have a streaming service. There's no charge for it. We would donate the camera equipment, and there would be a complete ability for the school system to put that camera across the street at the Knoll, in the Performing Arts Center, at the awards night, in the Learning Commons. So the accessibility issue is not really an issue.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2354s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2643.72,"end_sec":2676.74,"similarity":0.901,"text":"just kind of curious about that angle of it so from my perspective and I think that the city attorney would answer more of that question than I can answer I think that it is that it's it's a smart technology with an electronic eye that follows the content on the field and i've seen them because we've seen demonstrations of it there's certainly the ability from from the eagles perch that this thing sits on to pick up the peripheral crowd that's around it so i think that you know if something happened in that","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2643s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":2677.55,"end_sec":2763.18,"similarity":0.917,"text":"uh the context of that that i think um that you know there'll be a record of it I don't think that it differs very much from the exposure that already exists because, you know, a lot of these games are already filmed. The ones that are broadcast for MMTV are certainly filmed at multi-angles. So I think, you know, whatever your concern is with that, I think it runs through with the pick slot, although there would be more, obviously, there would be more events recorded. But the technology does pick up the periphery of the game, certainly, while it's being recorded. And they are, they are, they are permanent recordings. As a matter of fact, one of the great pieces of it is, is that, you know, right now, there are certain sports that pay for film, so that the coaches can go back and look at the film, whether the athletes can upload the film to their huddle account for recruiting purposes. This actually allows the ability for any sport that's on there for the coaches to go back and replay the game film and for the athletes to take their highlight reel and send it off to the college. So it definitely has a – it's got a hard record, and, you know, I think – I'm not sure about the legal issues. It's above my pay grade, but I know the city's attorney is joining us here. She may have some comments.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=2677s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":3167.7,"end_sec":3190.26,"similarity":0.917,"text":"And I think their experience leads them to try to put it in the best location. I was introduced to this technology actually at Malden High School. They've installed them at their basketball arena and at their football field. And I know the athletic director over there.","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=3167s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":3190.86,"end_sec":3227.24,"similarity":0.905,"text":"And it was a cooperative effort from both parties to figure out where the best thing is for this. But it's basically center of the facility to get over the crowd's head. And I don't know if you've got a chance to look at the cameras, but the camera actually has five angles that it shoots continuously to get 180-degree panorama. so that I think that it's it's pretty straightforward where you want the camera to be and unless there's some type of circumstance that prevents you from putting it there it's kind of obvious the reason why it's kind of a","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=3190s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":3243.49,"end_sec":3255.55,"similarity":0.852,"text":"put a cover over them during that you know during the winter time we envision it at fred greenfield to be mounted on a post at the press box level","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=3243s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":3256.31,"end_sec":3271.93,"similarity":0.901,"text":"because i think that's what they typically do you know and i think it keeps it away from hands um but uh i think like i said it's a cooperative effort between the installers who who work by","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=3256s","page_url":"/video/750"},{"person":"mclaughlin-john","date":"2020-06-25","video_id":750,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee - June 25, 2020","meeting_id":3173,"start_sec":3306.93,"end_sec":3332.43,"similarity":0.882,"text":"don't affect it i think you could certainly do it i you know you know so i'm thinking about the press box probably easy to do uh the the new gymnasium if it was outside the press box that sits behind the stands it would probably be easy to do in the mall and put theirs uh you know probably too much of an effort to try to cover it you know it's 15 20 feet above the above the stand","url":"https://vimeo.com/432830567#t=3306s","page_url":"/video/750"}],"next_cursor":"u|2020-06-25|750|3306.93"}