 So Tom we're in the middle of a bit of chaos here at the outside the hall of the at the main shuttle mechanic association What's going on up here? Well, we are building four bathrooms to service our ballroom and the third floor of this facility Which is being done by? several of the unions in in Maine and what kind of improvements are they making they are They removed one old bathroom that had a step to it and they are installing four new bathrooms One of which is ADA, you know the Compliant, so we can handle handicapped, you know patrons and why were these improvements needed? Well, we had one bathroom on this floor for our ballroom, which has a hundred and sixty occupants and it just created some Challenges for the users and now we'll have new bathrooms and you know with you know modern fixtures and It'll be a great improvement to the amenities for the ballroom and The work is being done under a special arrangement with some of the unions describe that a little bit. Well, we initially talked with the electrical unions Don Barry and Alan Shepard and they came in and installed some additional receptacles in the ballroom we had basically three receptacles for a 3,000 square foot Ballroom and they added about 12 more and during my discussions with Alan and the electrical union. They have talked about Rewiring the mezzanine, which would be the fourth floor and the fifth floor Which is you know, woefully inadequate in terms of outlets and receptacles in the course of that discussion I told him about our need for bathrooms and he said well, you ought to talk to John Napolitano he's the president of the Maine State Building and Construction Trades Council, which I did and I told him about our need and he said, you know, they've been looking for a project where they can work together and This is a perfect project and the mechanics are very similar and Indirection to the you know the unions and so they jumped on the opportunity and this is what we have Well, the demolition we had to come in and demo the walls here So the the laborers came in the cabinets came in and did some demo along with the laborers came in and didn't Move the lot of equipment and did some demolition then we had the electricians have been moving on along They had to move the wires out and we won the new we run new wires And a new service here as well as the plumbing as well. We had to take out the remove the old bathroom run some more drain line vent lines in domestic hot water and In water lines and put the new fixtures in so we're getting there. We're not there yet, but we should be Another week and you're using a lot of apprentices for this work. Is that right? Well, we have apprentices that are coming in working with our program here working with our contractors our signatory contractors the apprenticeship program for the The electricians have been down here working with their coordinator Alan Shepard the carpenters have come down They've both they've had both dirty men and apprentices down here as well as long as well as the pipe fitters And the plumbers in the pipe fitters and the laborers as well What is the benefit to the apprentices for doing a work like this? Well, it's good experience for them and it's on the job experience in the community experience The main shower mechanic association started out to help apprentices. So 200 years later. It's sort of come full circle here You're exactly right. It's great. It's an opportunity for the apprentices to work in a building that is 170 years old and Which presents its own challenges most of the The trades today work on newer newer buildings and this is an historic building in this, you know National historic register and having this opportunity is a great learning experience for those apprentices Would you have been able to do all this work without the contribution from the unions? Well, we would we would eventually have done the work We just wouldn't have been done it been able to do it in such a timely fashion You know the value of the work being done here is probably 50 or $60,000 And you know, we're us, you know, we're a venerable old organization We're 200 years old, but we certainly aren't cash Flush to be able to afford something like that without a major fundraising campaign So it came at a great time for us and they were looking for opportunities to put their apprentices to work