Good evening and welcome to town meeting televisions continuing coverage of town meeting 2022. And today we're going to do a deep dive into one of the ballot questions facing the Burlington city of voters city voters today I think is the 11th of February, sometimes it's hard to keep track. And many people in Burlington may have received their ballots and are wondering how to vote on the ballot questions of which there are five. And we're going to look at number four, which is the pledging the credit of the city to secure the indebtedness for public improvements within the downtown Tiff district. And this will focus on the main street area and today we have with us Brian pine who is the director of CEDA community and economic development office, who'll be telling us about the financing aspect of this project. And Laura we lock was a senior engineer at the Department of Public Works will be talking about the project that is being contemplated to be funded with the Tiff Tiff funds. So welcome both of you thanks for joining us. I'll just remind folks that they can call us if you have questions at 862-3966. We'd love to hear from you we have time for a few. Once we go through the presentation. So Brian why don't you help us unpack that ballot question number four that the Burlington voters will be voting on. Thanks for the opportunity really appreciate it. Tax increment financing is a rather arcane municipal finance topic that it may put folks to sleep but we'll try and get through this and give folks at least an idea of what it is we're asking on the ballot. The, the question is essentially asking if the voters will pledge the city's full faith and credit toward the repayment of a bond, which will be issued in other words, sent sold to investors, investors who invest in the bond provide the city with the cash the city uses those funds to pay for the cost of the rebuilding of Main Street all the way from Union Street down to Battery Street. So that's like in a nutshell what this is however, what is unique about tax increment financing is, rather than raising taxes to pay the to pay the bond back, which is done annually or over over a period of years. The tax increment financing is a state state program that allows the municipality to define a district an area of the city, in which the revenue comes from the growth in property values. Not by raising taxes but by seeing values grow, and that growth is captured to pay back the bond. So, however, in it in the state policy says, in the event that that growth never occurs, and there's not sufficient growth we call that increment. So you have nothing to capture, you need to go to the voters and explain to them that this has happened, and then they will have to you'll have to dip into your municipal tax revenue. So this is sort of a failsafe or a backstop, or like a guardrail to keep us from defaulting on the bond. That's essentially what this is. I would say that Tiff in Burlington has been operational since 1996. All the work on the waterfront was financed with Tiff tax increment financing, and a number of projects in our downtown which we'll talk about in a few minutes. And we've never missed a payment and a single payment in the eight districts in Vermont has ever been missed and so that that authorization that's on the ballot is required and is critical. So we needed to go back to the taxpayer to cover that debt service that payment so mortgage payment think of it like as on a monthly basis. And what would be the basis for increasing the value, the differential incremental value that the city can recover to pay back the tip what's an example. Yeah, example is that in 1920, I'm sorry, 2011 when this district was created, the taxable value of all the properties in the district was 170 million. So that's the baseline. Nothing changes with that revenue so that that property value generates revenue that covers the schools at about 6568 cents every dollar, and the balance goes to fund police and fire and streets and all the, you know library and parks and rec and all the other city services. Those, those funds continue to flow to the taxing authorities of the schools and the city, and it's the difference the growth in value so as property values go up within that district. That's what's recaptured for the purpose of paying back the bond. So I'm going to get a little detailed here because I think it's important not to gloss over this 75% of the incremental growth is that is intended for the schools is captured for TIF repayment. The other 25% goes to the state of Vermont to the Education Fund 100% of the portion of taxes that goes to the city flows to repay the TIF debt. And then after the original taxable value is, is, is covered so I think it's, it's important folks to know that we're all the original taxes that flow from the properties in the district, continue to flow to the taxing authorities of the schools and the city, and it's the increment the growth in value so growth and value would be a great example would be when you take a property that is a surface parking lot and instead you put a building on that parking on that parking lot. It has a very low value because that's a that's what's called a not the highest and best use so in urban terms you want to build up your downtown to support your tax base so you don't have to continually go back to the, to the homeowners and raise their taxes but instead, you're driving values in the downtown to cover the cost of municipal services so the goal here is to is to use this financing. And I'll say as an aside or perhaps I think it's an important point. If we had sufficient revenue to pay for these costs these infrastructure costs, we wouldn't be going through the complicated system or generations of having to use tax increment financing, we'd be using these resources, but really as a city we have very few options for how to fund big infrastructure projects like this and so that's why Burlington and and seven other municipalities for Ron have decided that in their downtown to promote a healthy vibrant economically thriving downtown. So that's what we want to do. We want to make sure that all of these costs are needed, but rather than ask today's taxpayer to pay for it through their taxes, we want to capture this growth and value in the district. So example would also be for instance the Cathedral Church, which is no longer functioning as a church, when that goes on the tax rolls, that generates new value that wasn't there before that is all increment that's 100% increment because that's a tax exempt property. It's a taxable values in the district. So of that 150 million that was evaluated. 170 yeah 170 and 2011. What's that number now today it's to 285 is the value of that district so the values have gone up quite a bit. Yeah, okay, so we can capture that increment that growth to fund and payback the bond. Thank you so much. So why don't we go to Laura and have her tell us a little bit about what the voters would be in what we would be investing in, and what the voters are being asked to secure in effect. Yep, thank you. The next project that we put in front of the state of Vermont is Main Street, as Brian described from Battery Street to South Union. It is a complete streetscape reconstruction as well as revitalization of our underground utilities, which would include the 130 year old water main and the sewer that's in there, as well as the services that go to different properties. There are opportunities for public amenities, public seating, pause places, street lighting, and really importantly, management of stormwater and being able to kind of regrow our street ecology with the street trees, and providing them infrastructure to to grow and thrive in a hard scaped downtown. So are you I'm not able to see the slides. Are you showing slides. I haven't started that yet. So, right, it'd be great to see some pictures. And I imagine, I mean one of the things we're talking about before is that people are concerned that the construction will be hard for businesses to handle. And I just wonder how disruptive is this kind of construction, especially, you know, underground utilities, water mains and things like that. As we skip through a whole bunch of things we do have images to talk about the TIF districts that Brian mentioned, and some of the facts that we can go back to and a little bit of a graphic to help describe TIF if questions go in that direction. And of course, and just to say people can go to the city's website and see this presentation also. Absolutely. Yep, it's available in a few locations in different forms. But the fundamentals of a great street is working to rebalance our right of ways for the uses of today and tomorrow. Main Street hasn't had a significant construction project in decades to the point that there's not really a living memory inside the city the last time it's the main street has been reconstructed. So the purposes that we were or the rebalancing that we will use on Main Street. Sorry, my husband's trying to feed my dogs. We'd rebalance it for dedicated clear pedestrian spaces, provide better opportunities for transit, still keeping the existing vehicle uses and available parking on sides of every block, but also providing a dedicated separated space for there would be opportunities for new public amenities within these spaces, creating new spaces for for public gatherings for other activations of side businesses, really based on what the community needs are and we have started our outreach process for Great Streets and it's and the work that was done to date which we're seeing on the screen was back in 2016 and and the city did pause to construct our other Great Street St. Paul Street we worked on City Hall Park which is also a lot coordinated with this effort. And I'm now restarting Main Street. The fact that you haven't heard about it for a few years is okay. We are working to gather people build up momentum, you know we had 20 people in our first public meeting and since then I've already met with three times that and there's still a lot more outreach to go and as we go we're going to collect people so that we can keep people informed, grab their voices, understand what these other spaces can be. So when you say people, who are those people. Yep. So we started with a community level neighborhood meeting reaching out to with mailers or a six by four block of the downtown circled around Main Street we've reached out to businesses both along the Main Street in the downtown corridor we've met with waterfront business owners. We have met starting going through some of the NPAs so far and this recently this week we met with a youth group through the Burlington downtown high school and by far those those youth leaders have provided more new ideas to this opportunity on Main Street than I've heard in the entire time. We have other outreach plans looking for BIPOC groups, seniors differently abled as well as an organization that helps with refugee and immigrants and that outreach. Can't happen until April based on their availability but it's still within the window of time that we're looking to collect feedback. So you're talking to people who would be users of the street and businesses who people own businesses on the street. We are we are looking for for that. We're looking for any Burlingtonian. This is Main Street. This is your community street. Whether you live on the super far end of North Ave or, you know, the extreme end of Queen City Park Road. This is Main Street. This is Burlingtonians Street. So we want the ideas we want to understand what brings people to this street and what will continue to bring people. And how long would this project take? Nope, you're hitting on all of our slides but we can we can stay here so people can see the image. We're looking for a pretty aggressive face on our design schedule so we would work through the concept phase from now and through about May. Transition into more of a hard functional design engineering side and then look to start construction in the fall of 2023. So a year and a half or so from now to start work on the six blocks. Construction work is going to take a minimum of two years. And then another component of the project. I just want to skip ahead two slides. That is the ravine sewer that's an approved project. This one's a little bit more of an unknown and really could could change the schedule of the South Union when you ski end of the project potentially. Can you go back a slide so we can see some of the changes that you're thinking about. Yep. So this highlights Main Street's existing conditions. You know, as we mentioned that it really hasn't been touched in a really long time. There's a lot of deficiencies you know Main Street has some of our widest tree belts and the trees are not thriving in this existing condition. There are different looks and feels of each block but some of them are really unactivated and only dedicated to two uses. There are some significantly deteriorating surfaces. There are a lot of accessibility challenges interfacing between the public way and the private storefronts and and doorways that exist on Main Street. And there are challenges with our underground utilities that are are coming to fruition whether we do this project or not. And there's 130 year old 16 inch water main that goes up Main Street. That's a really old water main. There's no living person alive that would have ever seen that construct. And that's scary. It transmits water up to the reservoir. And we know, you know we've seen that fail actually in our lifetime on Main Street, big emergency dealing with the water main breaking. The water main not not as much actually that's the sewer. That's one of those really large excavations up near the Gateway Block Memorial that's been the sewer. That's okay ground. Okay, also still scary and on the agenda. Okay, so what kind of, what kind of opposition have you been getting to to this like what I guess the better question is what concerns, do people have about the project, and why would the people not want to support this. We present it to every NPA. And there's been a few people asking questions about the impact on on taxpayers. And I think the important piece to you know we, we are, we are a city officials here to provide information and not advocate a vote one way or the other. But a real important fact is that TIFF is the only tool, the only financing tool to pay for this, this type of infrastructure without raising taxes that we know of there's no grant funding. People think oh just go get some federal grants, there's no grants for this type of project this is a, this is a local locally funded project and so the only tool that we have available in our toolbox to really do this type of substantial complete rebuild of our main street six blocks of that street is this funding source so this is why TIFF is so so timely right now it's also that our deadline to do this incur this debt is next year by the end of March. So we're looking at a pretty short timeline to kind of before our before our TIFF district closes in terms of taking on new borrowing for new projects so that's an important piece. I think is, if I can add on is it's also helpful to separate voters are being asked to vote on the funding source and not the concept. The concept is just starting to take input to to reshape the vision that's being shared on the screen right here this was the 2016 proposal that we did take feedback on and we're we're collecting that now. And it's really the voices that we hear from now until May that will reshape this image into what the community wants, but we need to have funding to continue forward and that's, that's all that that request is allow us to continue to develop the vision of the community to what Main Street can be. I think that you make a very important point and people also vote on financial questions based on their broader concerns. So for example I can imagine somebody thinking what happens to, you know what impact is this massive construction have on the businesses. You know, over a two year period. And what could the city do to mitigate those effects, right. Absolutely. Laura Laura has some stuff. We can't say we're going to do it all but why don't you list some examples of ways that we're going to try to mitigate the impacts at least what we're looking at. Yeah, so, so we've, we've already taken a lead from you know some of the recent large streetscape reconstructions that have happened in like Waterbury and Barry and and they are challenging to get through and the biggest things the businesses have been asking us is just to ensure that there's really significant communication that they have a good understanding about how pedestrians are going to get to their store where clientele that needs kind of a quick pickup and drop off or a shorter distance to get to their storefront depending on the service that's being provided. So the outreach is a really huge component. And it's, it's one of the lessons learned from St. Paul Street. And that is another really large component so that people can find where they're going. The other opportunities, you know, we've heard some other communities like Middlebury who who were successful in being awarded a grant to help with business advertisement marketing, still encouraging people to come to their downtown. And so that's one of the strategies as well as you know some other more creative ones that we need to vet that we're working on so that, you know, this can be the easiest, you know, reconstruction of this street, but like the other images showed something's going to have to happen whether we pick out pick away at it over 20 years or you know, we do it in a shorter window of time and come out with a greater street in the end. Laura, you said you heard some really innovative ideas from young, young people that you work with is any, any of those ideas stand out for you. I loved that one of the youth members asked about you know, can we put a basketball court or or some sort of other you know, more recreational oriented infrastructure in our nearby with this project. You know, and it caught me a little off guard thinking that there are some parks that are pretty nearby but there's none that really had strong recreational facilities. They also talked a lot about wanting pause places, both for themselves but they thought even bigger outside the box into the entire community. I think that families would need a place to pause that other differently able to people would really enjoy a place to pause. We talked about the ecology on the street recognizing that the trees aren't there just for our stormwater which you know from BPW I think about that but the shade shade to allow people to pause. And then lastly they hit on really finding a way for for younger, even younger than them community to interact with the street and find it fun. And then a statement came out that families will really make the street feel inviting and there needs to be a way for families to exist on the street. It looks like you're planning potentially less street and more sidewalk area, which does provide for a safer interaction. I'm thinking whizzing bicycles but I can mention it. It's the idea is to make it a safer thoroughfare for pedestrians and humans. And, and also easier for cars to navigate by changing the parking and some of the transitions that that are evident in this image. Yeah, we should also probably just mentioned that in 2016 the voters approved or was it 2015 Laura 2015 2015 voters approved a $10 million TIF bond for a variety of downtown projects I just want to go over what we have spent the money on today I think it's a slide perhaps before this. It is the other direction maybe. Yeah. What we've done with that money already just to say here's where your money has gone. It's, we spent just over 5 million on these projects here. So the complete rebuild of St. Paul from Maine to maple. Along the great streets design major repairs to the marketplace garage to save sort of that piece of downtown infrastructure. The rebuild is the term for contaminated sites and the bar the city owned parking lot that is now student housing for Champlain students was remediated so it was cleaned up using TIF funds in order for that development to go forward and the stormwater upgrades that were associated with city hall park was redone have all been done with existing downtown TIF there's also Laura there's a slide that shows sort of the six blocks and that we already have voter approval for for two of the six blocks. I think it's going that way yeah there it is right there. So if you look at that line that big thick that's main street that is sort of pink or orange coral colored there in the middle of it is the darkened area that's the part that voters have already approved. The, the approval that we have from the state of Vermont runs the entire six blocks. And that's the Vermont Economic Progress Council which reviews municipalities and they oversee our TIF program if you will and they've said yes to that but you need to get your voter approval, and that's what we're facing that's we're bringing to the voters in this ballot. That's a recap I think it's important we've been talking about ballot question number four before the Burlington city voters, which isn't really a question to approve TIF financing for a project that contemplates the upgrade of main street from the battery street to Union. So, just to clarify, as Laura Wheelock senior engineer at Department of Public Works has said, the vote is on the financing question, and the design work and the community input and feedback is happening now and the design will happen following the approval of this, of this ballot question. So I want to thank you both Brian Pine director of CETO and Laura Wheelock senior engineer at Department of Public Works. Thank you for bringing up that slide if you have more questions on this ballot item or any of the town meeting 2022 ballot questions, please go to Burlington VT.gov. And of course stay tuned here to town meeting television self named to celebrate democracy and local democracy and all of its forms so thank you for watching and thank you for joining us. Have a great weekend. Thank you, thanks for having us. Bye bye. Welcome back to town meeting televisions continuing coverage of town meeting 2022. Today we are with two citizen advocates walk safety advocate Tony Reddington and advocate Michael Long, who are interested in talking about ballot question number four before the Burlington city voters and the ballot question number four pledges the credit of the city to secure indebtedness for public improvements within the downtown tiff district. And that would be this question has to do with financing improvements on Main Street, which is part of the tiff district in Burlington, between Union and battery street. We've heard from city officials about what that proposal is. Tony and Michael have some comments and questions that they are raising concerning that we wanted to hear from them. So why don't we start with you Tony, and you can tell us your view of ballot question number four before the Burlington voters. You're muted. So let's get you actually I was going to go first Lauren. Okay, great. Thanks, Tony. I'm Michael Long, and I'm here to talk about a tiff. I have a little bit of a different perspective than, than Brian does. I've in fact I've had kind of a revelation about tiff over the years as as Brian noted, the first tiff district was established on the back in 96. And I was supportive of tiff in those days, because tiff seemed kind of like a magical financing tool that we could borrow a lot of money and make a lot of great improvements on the waterfront which we all enjoy have enjoyed for many years and it wouldn't raise our taxes. It was kind of a win win, borrow money, don't have any more taxes to pay, and everything is great, kind of like free money. So over the years, I started to wonder about that. And I discovered that there's a lot more to it than than free money and that that claim that your taxes don't go up is not really accurate. So from my perspective now, tiff is a public financing tool, but not a really good or an honest one. When somebody's when we when we see something that seems too good to be true. Often we find out later that it is too good to be true and that's been my experience with with tiff tiff does damage, even when it funds worthy projects. We can fund great things but it's not the right way to fund them and there are there are other ways Brian suggested it's kind of our only alternative. But I think just a straightforward. If you want something you bond for it, and then you and then you pay for it. That's the right way to do it because tiff hijacks attacks revenue stream and tended to support schools and city services, and uses those dedicated dollars for other purposes, and whether they're worthy or not that's not the point the point is schools and city services are suffering. We should support and fund worthy projects but not use tiff, because it strips revenue away from those other things that we need and continue to need. So, the basic that there are two false claims that tiff rests on the first one is that your taxes won't go up. And the second one is that tiff debt is paid back by tax increments that is new taxes that didn't exist before and so we didn't have them before. We're not really losing anything when we take that stuff we didn't have before and use it to fund tiff projects well taxes must go up because tiff debt is paid back with tax dollars. If more tax dollars are needed. If we have tiff debt, then if we don't have tiff debt, that's a tax increase. In fact, it's it's somewhat ironic that on the ballot for town meeting day this year, we have a tax increase of five and a half percent that we're being asked to fund and also if we weren't all already paying back tiff debt, we'd have more money to fund city services and we wouldn't need as much of a tax increase, or maybe any any any at all. The, the so called increment is also it's it's it's it's a it's a deeper issue than to say oh, it's an increment and now we're going to use that increment because the increment goes far beyond new taxes from new development. The way that it works is it every year after you establish the baseline year, the original taxable value than Brian alluded to that earlier. I want you establish the base tax value every year after that, any increase goes becomes part of the increment. And for instance, I have a house that I've lived in since 1983 and back in 2011, my taxes were about $6,000. Now in 2022, there are about $12,000. If my house were in a tiff district. Half of those tax dollars $6,000 would be going to the increment. It's not because I developed it or put an addition on or anything like that, just taxes go up. Every property in the tiff district and the downtown area and the waterfront area are places where there's a lot of valuable real estate. Every dollar that goes up on any property there becomes part of tiff and that rob schools and city services of revenue that they would have otherwise they're they're having to exist on revenue from 2011, but it's in 2022, and lots of things have gone up. The YMCA is another example and Brian alluded to the cathedral, which is a property that may be coming into private ownership so the YMCA was a tax exempt property in 2011. The YMCA has zero value on the tax rolls. Now, it's worth more than $3 million, and it pays over $80,000 in taxes, but all of those $80,000 go to tiff. You want to fund tiff projects and it seems like something you want to celebrate, but those are dollars that could be going into schools and municipal services, and it would make it easier to fund those things and, and, and those tax rates would go down as a result, if we had the windfall of the 80,000 from a exit exempt property, going into the tax rolls suddenly. So, the, the, the result is that tiff bleeds more and more dedicated tax dollars from schools and essential city services with each passing year as expenses increase over time. And new development makes greater demands on schools more, more students to educate in new housing that's built, and so forth. Ever larger and larger sums and a greater proportion of those sums from the tax base gets diverted to tip so from my perspective, it's a horrible public policy creates a huge revenue stream for the politicians like to have, but the detriment of schools and city services, and it's, this is a view that we see in from the joint, joint office of the fiscal office it studies for the legislature legislature and I do a screen to share. Oh, I just want to say one thing, we have about 10 minutes left so I just wanted to make sure Tony had some time. Okay, let me, let me move, move on to Tony then and I won't go on to that screen thank you. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Michael. You're welcome. Tony Reddington. Thank you so much and I'm going to put on my little slide show here. My name again is Tony Reddington I live on in Ward three very near on St. Paul Street very near the high crash location at main and St. Paul, where we've had a fatal crash in the past. I responded very immediately when, when this ballot item came up, and a short presentation was given at our neighborhood planning assembly to three last month. I'm on the steering committee there and have been for for a better for about a decade. And I basically feel we should vote no on item four. It amounts to a $32 million blank check to make changes on seven blocks on main street from North South Union at the Jason to the Edmund school to battery street. And for those seven intersections are on the Vermont high crash list, but you wouldn't know it if you were involved in the public discussions over the last several years in fact, as a practical matter. There's no public discussion, a public involvement ended in 2016, seven years ago, and six years six years ago. I haven't to be at one of those meetings and I pointed out to then a planner, make and tell who's now director of planning that in the presentation, after seeing the whole slideshow there was no mention of safety, and her reaction was oh gee I guess we forgot that. Well I think they did, but they forgot a lot more than just safety. There never was an advisory committee. Our NPAs had a pointed people to like for Brian's community development program we've appointed people to the North Avenue quarter study. The rescue corridor study the rail enterprise project, participated in that the Colchester Avenue studies and so forth. But there was never any advisory committee on the on on on Main Street. And yet, it's, it's the, yet our NPA has borders. The seven, excuse me five of the seven intersections between South Union and and the Union Station. So there never was involvement really of anybody. And by the way, NPA one eight NPA six and even NPA five that's a block away, all have direct connections and concerns about the street, not just NPA two three which is down down and over then. Public Works priority. That's a real concern. We've had, we got four high crash intersections, including the one at South, at South Winooski in Maine is the number one highest crash locations in the state of Vermont, yet you didn't hear a mention of any safety issue or or crash problem on any of these intersections in the hour presentation, a couple of weeks ago from the public works and the, and the consultants climate change, a whole hour presentation of by a public works and the results, the words public the words climate change never came up, but we have a city council that said that climate change is a public public health crisis equity fairness to the King Maple neighborhood that that work that that's at the border of two of the high crash locations. We have a public works is going to have a policy of the city council that says racism is a public health emergency. Any discussion of equity by the by the proponents of this. This really well not even thought out process. No, public wants public works basically wants a blank check and without a vague without even a vague plan and a record of never addressing issue at a single one of the 20 high crash locations on the state list. I just want to mention that we have five downtown roundabouts in Vermont. The high crash, the high crash intersections all 20 in Burlington average 1.4 injuries a year real safety problem. The five downtown roundabouts in Vermont in Manchester center month the middle where they average one injury a decade. This is the one in the middle of Manchester center. How about a gold dollar right I was talking. There's been discussions of two alternatives for serving transportation up through from the waterfront to UVM. One of them is a condo right from Union Station right at the end of Main Street straight up UVM to Davis Center with a possible stop at the marketplace. Why wasn't this looked at why isn't it studied where is the leadership in our city. Nice picture, but we all be looking down at the marketplace from this vantage point. North one is keep on this one of these plans. This, this shows that in the one is key quarter study. They did look at the first, the highest crash location intersections state of Vermont. They looked at the gateway intersection to our downtown. The South one is key and Main Street, they came up with a roundabout that easily fits within there. And in fact actually I think it's a little too large is very very smaller. How about light rail. The city looked at light rail, rail study in 1990s and it chose to two basic roots as a priority. Through the from the waterfront through the through the marketplace and up to either up either Main Street or College Street to the UVM and eventually on to University mall. Now we're looking at this for the $32 million we're talking about here. If it was worthwhile, we could fund more than the city share of either one of these projects of gondola or a light rail project. There's a light rail car, which by the way you walk on to and can have a coral for bicycles. Going on to the costs. The high crash intersections, including the one right here at main and St. Paul Street. The one woman was killed in a T bone crash there, a worker at inner 30s from dealer dot com, we are talking about serious injuries and serious costs in regard to all these high crash, these high crash locations. The second line here is the number of intersections for high crash intersections on Main Street. We're talking about eight injuries per 10 years to per year per intersection and $15 million per decade in injury and suffering and economic costs. So, let's say this in terms of the highest crash intersection that averages at South, so at Main Street and in the South. That averages seven at point five injuries per year. And during it, basically economic costs come down to $40,000 a year. Compare that again to the four downtown month here, but roundabouts in Vermont, we have one injury a decade. In comparison, the public works department knows these numbers that refuses to deal with safety as a priority. Our city plan 2011 says investments in transportation. In transportation investments, safety is quote unquote critical. It's not and has not been as a matter of policy. It's got to change because we, we both in the United States with 21,000 excess deaths and Vermont, who contributed to the 15% increase in headdust in the last, last decade. We must change and I think that we the first place the stage to make this change is to require that there be prior planning that we, we vet all of the intersections and that we make safety the biggest key item on any rebuilding of Main Street. So, thank you. I just have to clarify one thing, which is the reason that that unfortunate woman was t boned was because of a drunk driver not because the failure of the intersection isn't that true. No, that's that's actually not true. Yeah, they've been around about that intersection, the car that hit her, but I don't know the person was was actually joined, but I do know that he was being chased by the police, which brings up a question, why was he being chased by the police. But the point is, no, the, the, you bring up a good point line plan, and that is that we must begin to recognize that speed is what kills on our town or city highways. And Chapin Spencer says all the time all we have all these 25 mile an hour streets, we're going to add more 25 mile streets, the 20 intersections that are high crash in Burlington are mostly 25 mile an hour streets, but they don't have the physical characteristics to slow traffic down to not 25 we should in most cases in our downtown areas old North and South and so we really want the speeds down to 20 miles an hour. That's the new goal and the new paradigm that was announced by US Secretary of Transportation beat Buddha judge just last month. So no, the, the, the, I'm, I right now, and able to walk just about everywhere without going through a intersection from where I'm living into the various long church street. I didn't realize until I moved here down to this particular location, what a blessing it is not to have to deal with a single pushing of a button, we're waiting for cars to clear looking for cars as I'm going across worried about being somebody blown a red light or So no, we need to start replacing the as most modern communities and even in the United States and countries that are way ahead of us and safety, start retiring our traffic signals but most importantly, in this case we haven't even we haven't even wanted to look at these intersections to look at safety. So, and also just to clarify, and then Michael if you have a closing comment but just to clarify so this battle question number four is a question about to financing. It's, it's primarily a financing question. And you Michael have talked about the fact that you think that tiff misrepresents its financial benefits in that the incremental the difference between the 170 million that this tiff district was valued at in 2011 and the 285 million that it is valued at now diverts money to these improvements that could be diverted or funneled to school and other city services. Is that correct that that is correct and I think what what is misrepresented often in promoting tiff as a viable and responsible tool is that the notion that those new that increment is all brand new money. And therefore, those other services aren't being compromised in any way, but they, they really are being seriously compromised in California they did away with tiff because of what it was doing to schools. And in lots of places, it's a very controversial and that's kind of a checkered checkered history so I just really realized recently that the way that every dollar of increment goes goes to tip so what you can see is, again, you're, you're, you're working with 2000 2011 dollars to fund those things and in the case of education, it's hurting not only local schools, but schools all over the state because that those those ed fund dollars go to Mount Piliar and then they're redistributed to schools everywhere and Burlington is better able to to provide those dollars and many other places so so everyone suffers from it in that respect. Thank you for clarifying that and then Tony just to make sure I understand this ballot item does describe how the dollars would be used in terms of streets great streetscape improvements stormwater utility. But your position is that it has not been spelled out adequately prior to people voting on the money. What I'm saying is, and the reason I object to this project isn't the streetscape, the pretty pictures are nice, everybody likes the walkway and the bicycle path and so forth that would do. No problem with that. The problem is you have not attacked the basic problem along the street which is speeds at intersections that are not protected in any way, and the speed management probably means roundabouts, as an example in the city. So my objection, you know, I can think of all my but I also look at the alternatives such as the condola left and light rail I think it'd be better investments quite frankly than fixing up Main Street. But the point is that that we we are refusing in this city, we have 150 injuries a year, one a week as a pedestrian a bicyclist to a car occupant. We've given no consideration to investing in the type of infrastructure which is available and routine and now accepted to stop injuring and killing people on our streets. It's the dead bodies. That's the issue. Wonderful. Thank you for clarifying and I really appreciate both of you taking time to lay out your, your questions and concerns about this number four ballot question before the Burlington voters. I think that is to pledge the credit of the city to secure indebtedness for public improvements within the downtown diff tiff district up to $32 million. I think that is the correct number. Somewhere in there between 25 and 30, and that that is going before the voters on March 1. And thank you so much. Be sure to vote your ballot city of Burlington people have come in the mail yesterday or today so there's made as easy as possible. And thank you so much for watching. And I hope you stay tuned to continuing coverage of town meeting 2022 here at town meeting television. Thanks for watching. Thanks.


Is anybody really shocked? The youtube team keep it clean what's going on it's engraving here with another video and in this video Jamison hensley who has been very active on social media recently. Well, he always is but jamison hensley Um, he dropped some bombs this morning at 6 a.m So he had this article either prepared or he was up super early But it was an article on espn.com and again shout out to jamison hensley He covers the Ravens for espn.com. But there was an article that talked about upcoming free agency What these teams are expected to do? and who they're expected to pursue and who they're not expected to pursue And of course, uh, he went through every single position and we're gonna go with some more positions later on but Right now we're gonna talk about Uh, one of every Ravens fans favorite positions to speak about every single year wider receiver and Let's just read the article I see what our god jamison hensley had to say He said the game plan The Ravens biggest needs is adding to a wide receiver group that ranked last In the nfl and catches And and receiving oh So it wasn't enough to just rank in the at the bottom and catches they ranked in the bottom and catches and receiving yours so Let's just keep going The expectation So this it doesn't mean a set in stone He just said the expectation Is baltimore won't won't pursue a number one wide receiver like alan robinson or kenny gulliday Is anybody shocked is anybody surprised is this news to anybody? It shouldn't be if it is it surely shouldn't be Because that is the Ravens That's that's not a move that they do That's not them And as much as so many of us was oh man alan robinson perfect fit perfect fit He would be great here for the ravens. Well, let me rephrase that he would be great for the ravens The ravens wouldn't be great for him Now success wise. Oh, yeah They can pitch you on success. Hey, we you see you see what we've been doing You see we keep getting to the playoffs. You see we making progress We won our first playoff game in a little while It's been a little minute, but we've been making a play. Oh, you see we get we we got the formula to get there And the formula has been working, but once we get there Then some things change a bit, but that's what you can pitch alan robinson. Oh, you can be like you can be the change we need But you know, yeah But anyway, the ravens are not expected to pursue an alan robinson or kenny gulliday or a number one Wide receiver and that is no shock to me and it should be no shock to you at all at all Again ravens, they don't do that. They don't fork out the big money When it comes to free agent wide receivers. It's just not something they do Now with ravens come in that for free agent wide receivers They wait on cap casualties And they'll wait to that like second or third tier free agency But anyway, let's um, let's continue reading the article it says Signing one or two wide receivers from the second tier, perhaps kory davis sammy walkins or aj kree Now look, man, I'm not laughing at these wide receivers. I'm not laughing at that Um, well, I'm not laughing at their their careers. I'm not laughing at their skills because hey, they're in the nfl I'm not I'm talking about them for living for what they do and all the that they've accomplished But what I'm laughing at is that this is just this is what we've been talking about like All season Especially aj gree aj gree the signing aj green would be so raven That would be so raven but the the the funny part to me And I don't know in part. This is just from somebody in the comment section In the comment section on twitter, I forgot where it was But somebody made a comment about kory davis titans wide receiving kory davis And I know a lot of titans fans like, uh, okay, if we lose kory davis, uh, we don't care. It's not a big deal We don't miss not a problem If he goes to the ravens, uh, okay, he'll just he'll be there. It's not a big deal. But somebody said, um I think it was a titans fan that said they were like when's the last time you heard? Oh, man kory davis He was great for us in this game. Oh man kory davis made that game changing play in this game Oh, man, we really needed kory davis in this game And I just I just thought that was funny when they said that that was it Of course kory davis He was certainly being upgrade to what the ravens have but again The same question that I opposed to you all And I opposed it to myself too like even if the ravens do get or whoever they get at wide receiver Whoever they get at wide receiver. How are they going to be used and are they going to be used to their strengths? Whatever receiver we get are they going to be used to their strengths? Again t martin keith williams. I think that's what they came to help with That that is their biggest task in my opinion To help greg romans offense use these receivers more to their strengths Continuing the article Signing one or two wide receivers from the second tier perhaps kory davis semi walkins or aj green would boost the ravens passing game at a lesser cost brian said he won't be returning. Well, yeah, we we knew that before brian even said anything So that was no shocker there and sneed isn't likely to get re-signed And after sneeze comments the other day Yeah, we kind of figured to figure it as much So no surprises here There's gone. That's not not much production right there Uh, sneeze leaving. Um, that's quite a bit more production in theirs, but still like Yeah And all along I figured devon duvenay is there to replace sneed. He he's there to be The the sort of upgrade for sneed. Um, and of course need he got much more experience in devon duvenay Um, so with devon duvenay, I think he's there to be that slot guy Um to be possible third down guy Well, but they gotta get him involved in the passing game. You can't just every third down. You can't just run a jet sweep You you can't do that. You can't run a jet sweep every third down Because there's gonna be it's not just gonna be third and ones not gonna be just third and twos It's gonna be some third and fours third and six is third and seven third and eights Is is so you can't just oh uh, uh, devon duvenay is coming on the field. All right Hey, haha jet sweep time. Let's do it. All right. Come on. Come in motion, baby. Let's go There you go so Devon duvenay that you just You gotta get these guys involved use them to their strengths strengths And Just don't try to make them something they're not You saw them in college.  Oh, I envision them doing this I envision them doing that and there's nothing wrong with that but at the same time Let's start by using them to their strengths Some of the biggest examples that that I'm reminded of and that I think of when it comes to ravens Just trying to change something trying to change somebody and not using them to their strengths matt elam Matt elam and I know a lot of y'all do not like hearing that name and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for bringing it up But matt elam box safety in florida box safety physical guy What they have him do try to replace a read put him at free safety roman Not greg roman, but roman afield because I know some of y'all here roman No, I meant roman the backfield That's not him camele career What was he? Oh past rusher He's a past rusher What do they have him do? Oh, let's let's let's put him an inside linebacker Why didn't it work? Oh, well, hello Keenan Reynolds He was a quarterback. Well for navy, I believe What they have him do they had him play wide receiver And I mean that there's a much longer list of players that we can go over to Um, but we we could save that for a whole another video But my point is that I just Whatever the ravens do with whoever they get Let's just use them to their strengths team. Keep it clean. I love y'all and I really appreciate y'all y'all keep being strong We have


Ravens is time to wake up man. Hey look, it's it's February 13th. Super Bowl is over. It's done It's it's a wrap. It's finished and I'm already hearing reports that the Eagles offensive coordinator is on his way Flying to Indy already so he can be officially announced and introduced as their head coach So they moving already they moving already. So Ravens. Hey, it's time to get stuff shaking, baby It's time to get stuff shaking.  Whatever you gonna do It is time to get on it ASAP cuz the clock's ticking, baby The clock's ticking and I put this video out extra early just so y'all could see it extra early Sometimes I feel like y'all be watching but anyway Good morning team. Keep it clean. How you doing amazing Super Bowl last night It was a great game from start to finish and again like we talked about last night Didn't like the call didn't like the call how it officially ended the game But it was the right call It was the right call and it's like you never want to call to change the game But he did hold them and if like, you know, if had that been the Ravens Anybody saying it was a bad call had that been the Ravens. Yeah, no nobody would be saying. Oh, that's a bad call But anyway, um, good morning. We up Hopefully Steve Bishotti Eric DeCosta and John Harbaugh. Hopefully y'all are up too. Can we up? We awake Try to sleep in a little bit, but It just don't be working. I even took some tea last night to help me go to sleep and help me stay as didn't work Hardly ever works, but anyway, that's beside the point Ravens. Hey, it's time man. Anyway Ravens, uh, their script might be flipped just a bit Because of course the the report came out yesterday that they were interested in Talking to Eric B enemy who just man this I don't know what it is, man This dude gets credit for nothing. Nobody ever gives him credit for nothing Anytime, it's a nice play. Oh, it's Andy Reed. Anytime. It's a nice something always Andy Reed and I Hey, you credit Andy Reed now, but the enemy don't be getting nothing. No kind of credit for nothing Now I know Andy Reed did prop him up last night. He said that in the second half He said that was a B enemy calling the plays and stuff down the stretch And was it well is he trying to get a third round pick or something like that? No, but I mean, I'm sure he He feels like air B enemy is on his way out. That's what it's seeming like But we won't know till we know but anyway the report came out yesterday that the Ravens are interested in talking to be enemy and also to Brian Johnson the Eagles QB coach now specifically with the Eagles QB coach and we touched on this briefly yesterday But just to give everybody an update with him He could have two opportunities for promotion to offensive coordinator That ain't got nothing to do with the Ravens One of them would be if he went because you know when coaches come from a team like that They're current Eagles offensive coordinator is gonna be the head coach of the Colts when they go to a new team They like bringing some of their boys on with them like they like putting some of their own step They're previous staff.  So with Eagles offensive coordinator I Want to say Steve in that the last name is just it's not clicking right now I know it starts with a s is like Sarkinson or something like that.  But anyway With the Eagles offensive coordinator getting ready to take the job in Indy he could be like look Brian. Hey Use my QB coach So I want you to be my offensive coordinator, you know how we run things in Philly or how we ran things in Philly Let's run it over here with Indianapolis So that and that happens all the time it happens all the time So it would not be no shocker like I always thought that um, I obviously didn't work out this way But I always thought that like if Greg Roman wants to get a job as a head coach somewhere If somebody was gonna be like, hey, Greg wrong. We want him to be a head coach I always feel like he would he would have taken James Urban with him Because Greg Roman's offensive coordinator with the Ravens James Urban was a QB coach I feel like they would have went off together But anyway, um So that's one opportunity that he would have Brian Johnson But then they also are talking about how he could end up staying He could end up staying with the Eagles and he can get a promotion right there So you ain't got to go to no situation where it's unknown at the quarterback position with the Ravens You ain't got to go to no situation where you just you don't know what you're gonna be provided with with the Ravens You could stay right there and get a promotion You still with Philly you had a lot of success with Philly and you could be put into an even better role Uh going from or not even necessarily better role, but a more prominent role going from QB coach To offensive coordinator. That's big promotion. That's a significant promotion So that could be something that he gets offered and it's like, oh, that's like Not an offer you can't refuse, but you know, Philly gonna take care of him if he does that if you get a promotion So it basically what I'm saying is it's not looking like it's going to be uh, Brian Johnson to the Ravens I don't even think they're gonna get a chance to even interview. I just I don't see it happening. Um eric b enemy that is A likely interview is nothing set in stone, obviously, but it is a likely interview. Um, because He's open He's open like that. He ain't flying on no plane to go be no head coach right now Which is unfortunate because again, he's been there for five years Two Super Bowl no two Super Bowl championship wins three Super Bowl appearances Uh, and the the lowest that the offense has been has been five That's that's the lowest rank that the offense has been since he's been there Okay, of course Andy Reeve been there too, but it's since eric b enemy been there that lowest offensive rank is five So that says a whole lot.  So what does he do? What what what does he do? Well, what does eric b enemy do says a lot of people feel like he does not call the place. What does he do? He ain't a qb coach He ain't a wire receivers coach. He ain't a runner backs coach His title is offensive coordinator. So he got to coordinate some type of the offense, right? And again, it takes me back to what I said before people uh They tripping out because they said, oh, yeah, eric b enemy don't call all the plays, but QB coaches don't call plays They don't be called no plays But people be wanting them.  So you you want somebody that you know doesn't call plays versus somebody who you're not sure if they don't call plays or not anyway, um My guy, uh, jt, he he brought out some good points though about eric b enemy whenever the the chief's players Whenever they speak About well, what what do you owe your success to like they always they always ask travis calcy every single interview Hey, why why are you so wide open? Why are you so wide open?  It's weird and I told my guy jt.  I don't know what it is, man I have no clue But it's just it's a weird dynamic that I just I don't know about Maybe I got I got a hook up with somebody who's a cheese fan and asked them like hey What is going on with that? Well, like what what is that? Because they obviously would have a lot more insight than I would or we would um, but at the same time Uh, I like what uh, odell beckham jr. He tweeted about something last night And he said that uh, the giants he said, oh, he said uh, he got traded From or that he said they traded him away, too That was right after codarius. Tony Have made that was either after his touchdown and I think that was after his uh, 65-year-old punt return in a game last night But odell beckham jr. Tweeted. Yeah, he said that they traded him away, too And he said it's all about situation All about situation And that's true that that is so true Being in the right situation can it it can change everything everything Take for instance players that get drafted say for instance a quarterback that gets drafted say for instance johnny man zeal So if johnny man zeal would have went to a different team His career could have possibly worked out so much better And that's the first example that I thought of but he went to a different team His career could have worked out so much better, but you know the browns they it's been a rotating do it quarterback for the longest For the longest even Baker may feel too even though we're burned out like they gave him a lot though They gave Baker me for a lot, man They gave him a lot to work with a lot of evidence and stuff and it just didn't work out. Well, anyway Is it situation makes such a big difference? Because you could be the right person, but in a wrong situation But now you look at eric b enemy. He's in a good situation over there with kc He's in a great situation over there with kc, but if if i'm eric b enemy then I'm not getting credit for anything If if i'm not getting credit for anything. I'm not getting respect for anything. It's been years Of me not getting respected for anything like anything Every time you hear people talk about something they like you hear two people talk about something with the ravens Like oh, it was a really nice run play. Oh, man Greg roman was on it Greg roman. Whoa, what a great design by greg roman. What a great play designed by greg roman You hear people talk about the chiefs They say they had coach they say andy reed and we know andy reed plays a big part of that now we get that But you don't never hear them say eric b enemy Like when you're watching ravens games, you don't never hear nobody say, oh, what a great play designed by john harbaugh No, you don't do that You gotta do with that. I mean he he got a part of the game playing or whatnot But the design and all that setting up setting all that stuff up. No, man He let his coordinators do that But with eric b enemy as a coordinate. They don't say nothing about him like nothing Nothing So it's crazy, but if I put myself and eric b enemy shoes and yeah, I'm part of a team and I know people like oh Well, the grass isn't always greener. It's not always greener And while the grass is certainly green over there with kc as a man You want to be respected for your work that you put in You you you want to reap the benefits of the work that you put in And granted they they do nothing, but went over there with Kansas City But when when you like think about like hey, I played a part in this I played a part in that I did that that that that and that You want to be respected for it and you want to be like so to honored for it You don't get that though So I could not blame him it would not be Because a lot know a lot of and I've said it myself before because initially I thought that like man If if eric b enemy went from offensive coordinator with the chiefs to offensive coordinator with somebody else That'd be a lot of remove it really wouldn't It would not it would not be a lateral move because He would be the offensive coordinator He it would be him It wouldn't be oh, especially if it was with the ravens because you know Hop on you gonna be calling no plays Hop on Hey here hop on cause the place here's the headset. What no who you think you are who you think I am buddy?  That's for my old C's and my DC's But yeah, man, if he were to go to the ravens He would be calling all the plays there all of them all of them So whatever happened good bad happy sad up down left right whatever happened It would be him it would be on him the credit would go to him So it's not a lateral move. It would not be a lateral move for every enemy to become a an offensive coordinator now, of course, uh head coach Like his name last year. I don't think so so much but years past His name had just been floating around these head coaching opportunities. He's been having interviews too but nothing happened Nothing happened and it's not like to be a head coach.  You just got to display good leadership You know every enemy from like back in his like vikings days and stuff anymore. The eagles with nothing eagles with the uh the chiefs I can show he could be a leader But he just didn't get the opportunity so I guess you Gotta make a different move got approached up differently I'm not sure if the interviews went bad. I'm not sure if they were looking at his resume and like I don't know what it was, but it's just it's it's it's just been this weird dynamic surrounding eric b enemy for years So when it's this weird dynamic surrounding you and if you if you really are trying to move forward or move up or whatnot It's like, all right Let me approach this differently and it sucks that it got to be that way It really sucks that it has to be that way for him. It's tough It's very frustrating and speaking from personal experience because You personal personal experience In the workforce You could be putting in all this work for something you could be a big part of something And you you just not getting the credit for you deserve. Oh, I remember that in my previous job before we started doing this for a time I'll never forget because it just It it changed the way that I looked at the and it was just such a Tough experience and a frustrating experience Because it's like man, and then you apply for other jobs and stuff you apply to get a promotion And You don't get it.   You move differently Because you see things differently and you realize hey, okay. Yeah, life's not fair and it's unfortunate It's very unfortunate but You move differently now and you got to do some things differently. You got a Yeah, you got you got to put a little extra work but It is what it is the end result is uh, what matters the most um, so hopefully with eric being to me, um Things things a workout for whether it's with the ravens or not I hope that it is with the ravens, but whether it's with the ravens or not, but anyway, um Ravens we uh It's it's time It's time. So the time right now is 8 50 a.m. Depending on how the internet wants to act right now Y'all see this video. Maybe like Probably like 9 30 because my internet just be so slow, but um, anyway, uh It's time we need to be seeing reports say ravens brought this person and ravens scheduled to interview with this person Ravens talking to this person That's what we want to see today today needs to be a very busy day for baltimore So we're gonna see how they act. We're gonna see what they do and who they talk to and really who they don't talk to Because hey, this is gonna be a very busy weekend in f.l. Super Bowl's over It's time for guys to get higher ravens Wake up


Hi everyone, my name is Denea and I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Welcome to today's summer reading program, SRP for Short Baby Time. We'll be singing about the color of the day and have some fun. But don't forget, at the end of the story time, there'll be a code to add to your Beanstack SRP. Before we start, I'm going to let you know what I'll be using today. I'll be using a scarf and bubbles. So keep those handy and I'll let you know when we'll be using them. We'll be doing the hello song. And in the hello song, we're going to wave and sing hello. We're going to bounce and sing hello. And we're going to clap and sing hello. And we're also going to blow a kiss and sing hello. Can everybody blow a kiss? Good job. Okay, we're going to start. We wave and sing hello. We wave and sing hello. With our friends at story time. We wave and sing hello. And now we're going to bounce and sing hello, okay? We bounce and sing hello. We bounce and sing hello. With our friends at story time. We bounce and sing hello. And now we're going to clap. Let's clap our hands for our Beats. Use your hands too. We clap and sing hello. We clap and sing hello. With our friends at story time. We clap and sing hello. Good job. And now we're going to blow a kiss. Can everybody blow a kiss? We kiss and sing hello. We kiss and sing hello. With our friends at story time. We kiss and sing hello. Good job, everybody. It's time for us to do some stretches. So let's get our babies ready. Let's put them on their backs. Or they can be on your laps. So we can get their arms. And we're going to stretch their arms up high. Bring it out wide. Bring it back up. Bring it out front. Bring it out wide again. Good job. And give them a hug or a tickle. Now we're going to get their legs. And we're going to bring it out front. We're going to bring it up. Out. And we're going to stretch your legs out.   Or a hug. Good job. Now we're going to do our head, shoulders and toes. We're going to do that twice. We're going to point out the body parts first. So let's point to their head, to their shoulders, to their knees, to their toes, to their eyes, to their ears, to their mouth and nose. Okay, let's start. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Let's do it again. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Good job. Okay, so I'm going to put my baby away for a little bit. And we're going to do twinkle twinkle little star. So you can either have your baby on their backs or in your lap and you can do the motions. You can either open and close in front, or you can kind of just put your arms. So I'm going to do the motions. So we're going to twinkle twinkle little star and we're going to do the song twice. Okay? Yes, twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are. Good job. Let's do it again.  Twinkle, twinkle little star what you are. Good job. Okay. So now we're going to go riding on an elevator and we're going to bounce our baby and we're going to bring them up one by one when we're going to count one, two, three, four, five down, down, down, down, down. Okay? So this one's a fun one. Okay, so let's do our little bounce. Okay. Let's go riding on an elevator elevator elevator let's go riding on an elevator one, two down, down, down, down, down. Okay, let's do it again. Let's get our bounce on. Let's go riding on an elevator elevator elevator elevator let's go riding on an elevator one, two, down, down, down. Good job. We'll be singing a song about the color yellow. I have my yellow hat on and the word yellow is in the color yellow. So in this song, we'll be spelling out the word yellow and like the early morning sun, when the day has just begun, we're going to spell out the word yellow and it spells yellow and it's to the tune of if you're happy and you know it. So we're going to sing the song twice and hopefully you'll sing it with me the second time around. Okay? And are you ready? Okay. Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow like the early morning sun when the day has just begun. Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow. Let's do that again. All right. Let's get a little sway on. Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow like the early morning sun when the day has just begun. Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow. Good job. All right. We're going to be doing hickory dickory dock and with this we'll be bouncing our baby and then when the clock strikes the number, we're going to lift our baby up once and as we go one, we're going one, five, four, three, two, one. We're going to be doing hickory dickory dock and we're going to be bouncing our baby and whenever the clock strikes we'll be lifting up our baby to the time. So for the first one go one and we're going to lift our baby twice two times and to three times and four. When the mouse runs down we bring our baby back down. So we're going to start hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down hickory dickory dock good job let's do it again hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck two bong bong the mouse ran down hickory dickory dock okay now we're going to pop our baby up three times hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck three bong bong the mouse ran down bring our baby on down hickory dickory dock let's do it again in five four three two one we're going to be doing hickory dickory dock and in this one we'll be doing a bounce with our baby and every time the clock strikes we're going to bring our baby up back up and back down and then we'll just do that again four times okay so we're going to start hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one bong the mouse ran down hickory dickory dock okay oh wait in five four three two one so okay we're going to be doing hickory dickory dock and in this one we're going to do a bounce with our baby and when we do a strike we're just going to sway our baby and we're going to do this four times so every time the clock strikes we're going to either sway nope in five four three two one we're going to be doing hickory dickory dock and every time the clock strikes we're going to bring our baby on up and then when the mouse ran down we're gonna bring them on down. So when we have our baby up we're gonna kind of just sway and then we're gonna count. Okay so we're gonna count up to four. So let's start. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one bong. The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock. Okay so we're gonna do that again. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck two bong bong. The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock. Good job. Let's do it again. Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck three bong bong bong. The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock. Okay this is our last one. We're gonna do it four times. Okay when we have our baby up. Okay Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck four bong bong bong bong. The mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock. Today we'll be reading Row Row Row Your Boat Together by Nozzy Crow. You can repeat after me when I'm done reading a part and then when we're done reading we'll sing the song. Okay let's get started. Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream. Row row row your boat. Gently down the creek. And if you see a little mouse don't forget to squeak. Row row row your boat. Gently down the river. And if you see a polar bear don't forget to shiver. Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. And if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream. The end. Today we read Row Row Row Your Boat by Nozzy Crow. And now we can sing it together. Let's get our arms moving and we're going to start rowing. We're going to do Row Row Row Your Boat. Okay so let's start. Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily life is but a dream. Again. Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream. Good job. Now it's time for us to use our scarves and we're going to do two songs for our scarf songs. Okay so if you don't have a scarf you can use maybe a face towel or burpee or something very light that you can wave in the air and to do peek-a-boo. Okay so let's start. We're gonna do Where's Baby. We're gonna do this song twice. Okay let's practice. One two three peek-a-boo. Okay. Where is baby? Where is baby? There he is. There she is. We're so glad to see you. We're so glad to see you. Peek-a-boo. Peek-a-boo. Good job. Let's do it one more time. Let's do peek-a-boo. One, two, three. Peek-a-boo. Okay. Where is baby? There he is. There she is. We're so glad to see you. Peek-a-boo. Peek-a-boo. Good job. Now we're gonna do our popcorn kernels. So let's wave our scarves in the air. And we're gonna put it in the pot. And we're gonna make that pop. Okay so we're gonna sing this song twice. Okay. Popcorn kernels. Popcorn kernels in the pot. In the pot. Shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them They puff. Good job. Let's get our hands ready for, if you're happy, me know it. So let's rub our hands together really fast. And let's start. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. Stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. Stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. Stomp, stomp. If you're happy and you know it, shout, hooray, hooray. If you're happy and you know it, shout, hooray, hooray. If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it. If you're happy and you know it, shout, hooray, hooray! Good job. Okay. I hope you have some bubbles ready because we're gonna do two songs about bubbles. And the first one will be, we'll be counting one little, two little, three little bubbles. And the next song is a really cute song about a bubble landing in our hands. Okay, so let's get our bubbles out. All right. Let's blow some bubbles and have them floating all around us. Now let's do our little counting. We're gonna sing this song twice, okay? We're gonna start. One little, two little, three little bubbles. Four little, five little, six little bubbles.  And let's get some more bubbles. All right. We're gonna count again. Are you ready? One little, two little, three little bubbles. Four little, five little, six little bubbles.  That was really fun. So now we're gonna sing another song about bubbles and the bubbles that's gonna land in our hand. Okay, we're gonna sing this song twice. I'm gonna make some more bubbles for us. I'm giving you a chance to blow some bubbles too. Okay, so we're gonna do. Hello bubbles, hello bubbles. Come and land, come right in the middle, right in the middle of my hand, of my hand. Goodbye bubbles, goodbye bubbles. Time to go, time to go. I give you with a blow, with a blow. That was really cute. Let's do it again. Let's make some more bubbles. And then we're gonna sing our last song about bubbles. Okay, hello bubbles, hello bubbles. Come, my bubbles, time. I hope you enjoyed today's story time and I look forward to seeing you guys again soon. But don't forget, there's a code at the end of the story time to add to your Beanstack Summer Reading Program. Keep reading.


Hitting record on this one is painful only because like last episode changed the show for me I liked solo leveling up until now, but number 11 really just I don't know man I'm so intrigued by the world and everything and this entire like I guess castle with the red knight Igress Igress it took it to another level especially the animation But it's just built up so much intrigue already in this first season for how everything works and not They did a great job, but it's time to hop into number 12 It is called a rise today from solo leveling drop a like on this one. This will be out quite a bit And now let's get into this bad boy My brother back to it No, you don't have to beat them all you could look while you fight. It's a white stone. It should be findable Tidal wolf title is still wolf assassin bro is so far beyond that at this point He's using them against each other His knuckles.  It's his negative thoughts Him it's him Dude He looks so different like I know we've gone through these changes and whatnot It's like in a very short amount of time like I didn't realize how different he actually looked until it was like side-by-side like that He's that retired There's didn't we see ginshu like the very first episode Clearly bro, they're all traumatized from it You Do is judge you I was that bad I hardly recognize you too, son Like his hair is a his facial shape Again He never even like we never even saw the negative thoughts toward himself when he was the weakest he seems like a very positive guy still I Will be honest you didn't get a little ego Like the Junji ito eyes time for round two that would be crazy if this season ended with him just starting over Wait, what penalty does he incur the quest ends Wait, they who's day transfer to the penalties of the desert. Yes. Yes. I just run for five hours. Oh My gosh that actually saved him not doing his chores saved him Yeah, good luck.  Yeah, good luck. Why would it say that? He's too injured for potions what oh now he gets like one. Oh I'm under if this is like to exaggerate how strong he's gotten how he used to just run from it We're back.  No shot. No mana. That's insane Yeah, that's right Watch him just get sent right back to the dungeon once he's he leaves this So that blade is stronger against armor. So now he doesn't have to use his bare hands to crush armor. Yep He is going back in. Oh, no way.    Could he just drag every mage to him and kill him Like nothing baby, so he still hasn't healed right cuz he said he had to like naturally let it like region Are we ready to admit that song may be to OP already wait it was made up of all of this but bust all That's sick. It just regresses to all the individual nights Four and a half hours. It's over. It's over. Oh shoot More advanced cost of the points I've earned based on my performance It's just picking for him. There goes the angel of death follows with corpses the stench of blood remains pro Are we the villain? Craves great power emblaz'd his own trail without relying on others solo It's my furniture about a sword floating Necromancer like raised the dead does he want that? Yo, I don't know doesn't sound like some style Yeah Uh-huh not like one that would make others fight for him. It even said solo. I guess cuz they're his troops. Can he respect? Well, how does he rejects it? It said are you sure the game it seems like it really wants him to the system I'll say Who has he come across? Oh those were necromancers.  We're gonna have a talk A necromancer that does fight on the front line, huh?  Choy is the guild master. So he's the only one about Choy, right? Progress to a higher class Seeded survival time bonus point. Oh nice. He got bonus points for not using the stones the stone was an escape How many wait, how many bonus points class? Wait what?  I'm gonna see what he can do shadow Direction extraction. Thank goodness A command word arise So they were souls in there. They're not just empty armor. Oh No, he likes a little too much.  Oh my gosh Are they just automatically under your control? I guess if you beat them, bro He was already strong. This is just like more of him egress was literally stronger than oh it failed You have three strikes Okay, it's a sake in a commanding way don't know dude. This is actually catching one a cow Pokemon What's going on a song bro your king's return Oh he has to now Oh no, bro, we more than ready for the demon castle now Like to envision occasionally dude Yeah Trying to become a new guiding light To be born this very moment Okay, so the chairman's not totally not in the dark But like he's assuming that someone insanely powerful like some could just pop up out of nowhere Dang bro, and that's it. Oh my gosh very ominous from the chairman though I will say because I don't know we don't we still know much about him I still like I said don't know if I should even be rooting for like the the S ranks and the chairman Like I don't know who's corrupted who isn't I don't know if jinn hoes dad Like the construction company is is going in with the right intentions I don't know so it's hard to be excited for something or Hesitant because I don't know who to trust still but I love that aspect of it again. There is a post-credits scene So dude what a finale. Holy. I like I like that I mean the necromancer was not even remotely my guess because I don't know like you guys said like a job change in like RPGs is like you changing your class basically which makes sense But necromancer like why I said wasn't even remotely the first get wouldn't be the first guest because like he said He's very up close and personal. He has been this entire time and necromancer is the complete opposite He I like how he's like I could be I I could be one that doesn't just sit back and fight like with my troops And in that case he could be insanely powerful because to have troops like egress someone that was stronger than him on his side Fighting with him bro. Let's watch this post-credits scene Well, they made it to the island Oh, what do they find? What's an ant? What? What a rise it said a rise. Wait, what screen was that? Oh, was that just like the end that entitles me the answer evolving Okay, I feel like that plays into how they're like how they're like Hunters can't become stronger or weaker, but the animals the beasts are like they need someone like sung to be able to handle it Do he seems genuinely afraid? That's terrifying. Oh my goodness Well, it's just inevitable at any point for like I guess like the chairman and like the S screams S ranks to learn about song Affirm to become much more popular because of how quickly he's power-spiking because if is it called core I co you are this core one if core two of like this season if it's still technically season one or season two Um if this much happened in these 12, I can't even fathom how strong song would be in 12 more Like everything happened very quickly. We didn't really get this whole game to start even until the second episode So when in 10 episode 11 episodes inherently he has become like Someone that I don't see like how anyone could beat him Like I think I heavily underestimate right now how strong S ranks are in and of themselves But bro, maybe I'm just biased towards songs seeing all this and I guess his determination too I really don't know who could take him down Especially now that he has a gris and just like an army basically a small army But an army guys that has been it for my reaction to the end of question mark season one for solo leveling I cannot wait to see more this show has really snatched my freaking brain, bro I'll see you guys next time. Peace base


Hi guys, it's Monica. I am a little bit late on this, but I am going to give you my four-year retinae update. Oh, yeah, four years. I can't believe it's been, it's actually been over four years that I've been using retinae. So if you're interested in hearing about my journey, stay tuned. Thank you so much for joining me. I've had a few of you reach out to me and ask me to do this update. And I think because August was such a difficult month, July was a difficult month, actually the whole summer was, you know, not the best with my dad passing. I just think I haven't really been in the right frame of the mind to do this. But this morning I got a, and I think I might have mentioned this in a previous video. I'm not too sure when this is going to be published, but this morning, which is Saturday, I'm filming this Saturday, September 19th. So this morning I got a notification, yesterday I got a notification actually that one of my very early videos that I filmed nine years ago had a comment. And it was a comment from one of my YouTube fellow content creators, actually Mary Ellen, after 60. And she left me a comment on that video and it was to the tune of like not being able to believe the difference between them and now. And I was like, I looked at it and I went, wow, look at me, nine years younger, but I look so much older. And then a little bit later, I think it was like maybe about four or five hours later, I got another comment on that video from another lady on YouTube here who said basically the same thing. And that inspired me to do this video because I had been feeling kind of like, you know, blasé and all that. But that really inspired me. So first of all, let me tell you, hocus pocus, makeup does a lot. It really does. So over the course, even though I'm 66 at the time of this filming, but over the course of the last five years, maybe four years for sure, maybe about five when I started to do more makeup, yeah, I was, I always wore makeup. I always wore mascara, but I never wore eyeshadow because I had horrible hooded eyes. You can never see my lids.  But I always wore a little bit of foundation, a little bit of lipstick and mascara. And that was really about the extent of my makeup. And it's also the extent of my skincare was washing. Sometimes I would use a, you know, moisturizers and stuff like that, but I really didn't do much of anything with my skincare my whole life, including sunblock, which is the number one anti aging or slowing down the aging process tool you all should be using is sunblock. So anyways, I'm going to superimpose that video either here or here, some of it so you can see it along the side. Of course, my hair was shorter. I was talking real estate. I wasn't talking beauty or anything of that nature. I was just talking all about real estate. I think my weight might have been a little bit about the same. I'd go up and down and wait in the last few four years. My weight was really good for a while. But then this last year, my weight just spiraled again. You know, it started to gain weight. I'm trying to really curb that. I'm trying to get back, you know, on track slow process for me. But my weight had everything had fallen by the wayside with, you know, when you have a family member that's sick, even if you don't think you're stressed, you're stressed. So anyways, I'm hoping to be back on track. I will never do keto again. I will always do low carb of some sorts, but I can't do pure keto. I think pure keto contributed for me personally. A great part of my hair loss journey was, I can't blame it 100% on keto, but I think keto's probably sped up that process, which is not a good thing for me. So what have I been doing?  I use my Retin-A almost most every night. Probably, you know, on average, at a minimum of five times a week, sometimes six times a week. But I use my Retin-A, I use 1%. I currently have the 1% cream, Tritinoin, 1% cream that I have. I have used 1% gel. I've used many different variations of this. I buy my Retin-A overseas at ReliableRx. I will link all the information below. I am an affiliate of that. I became an affiliate because I really believe that every woman should have the opportunity to be able to afford something like Retin-A, because it is the gold standard. It is the tried and true. You're going to do all these other things to enhance this, but this is the big guns. So anyways, I will link that below. It makes it affordable. I've never had a problem using them entirely up to you whether you choose to use my link or not. But I use my Trentinoin that I get from them and I also use the Hydro Canone. This is the Trilumia. I can never say it right, that I also get from them. And this is for the dark spots. So obviously, I'm not going to use this and this at the same time. One is going to be used then offset because this has a good amount of Trentinoin in it as well. If I'm using this one night and next night, I might work on my dark spots, which I have right about here. I might really work on that, but I might use this once or twice. And I'm not going to, if I use this on the dark spot, I might use this on the rest of the places in my face. I'm concentrating on my upper lip area.  So I'm doing my Trentinoin and at night, I still use my Olay Pro Retinol Eyes. I have one more of these left and then I will try to buy. This is the UK version. This is just what I use for my eye. I mean, there are many other retinol products that you can use around your eyes, but I do use this. I tap it on and I go right up to my open alone above, right below my eyebrow and all around my eyes on both sides. And I use this at night when I do my Trentinoin. I put this on as part of my whole routine. So I definitely, these things have stayed with me and they're my tried and true. What I have changed lately is that I have incorporated using the New Face device and I've already talked about the New Face device. I'm going on a month of using it now and I'll tell you, even though, I mean, you can have the New Face, you have to get a Conductor Gel for it. They do have one. It is pricey and there are many people that have or have mentioned off-brand products that are different. I think you have to do your research because what you put on your face might not be the same thing that you should be putting on your body, you know? So when you're going to buy a replacement Conductor Gel, and I'm still searching for one that I like, this one is the one that I got off of Amazon. This is Pure Aloe Vera Gel. It doesn't have a whole lot of additives or anything of that nature. I like it, but it's very waterly and I wish that it was a thicker consistency. This dries pretty quick, but the New Face device, even though it's too soon, and this was, I should full disclosure, this was sent to me in PR, it's too soon for me really to swear up and down, but this has been a game changer. If I've only been using it a month, I use it currently a good six times a week every single morning. I do my morning routine, you know, do my whole face. I do that. When I get up in the morning, I wash my face. I've had my Retin-A usually the night before, so I'm not gonna, you know, do anything. I'll look at my skin, does it need to be exfoliated? How does it look when I get up? If I have to do an exfoliation, I'll do a number of different exfoliation products that I use, but after my skin is clean, I go into my red light therapy. I have the Trophy Skin, the, and I'll link it below, it's the red light where you can lie down. I've shown it many times and you have this cover that comes over you and I put it on my right on top of my face. I lie there for five minutes. My eye shot, I have eye safety goggles on, my eye shot. Lately, I've also been doing it for my hair. I think I was watching Penn Smith Skincare and she was talking about using that for her hair or for hair loss, for hair thinning. So I've been starting to incorporate that yesterday and today, so it's too soon to really know if that's going to help, but I've been, I've been incorporating that. So I get up in the morning red light therapy after I wash. That's my routine. Face and this morning and yesterday morning hair as well. When I'm done that, I will normally, depending on the time it is, but I'll normally go into, I'll put on my serums. So I normally will put my vitamin C serum. I've been using a lot of different vitamin C's, but I keep going back. The one that I repeatedly go back to is going to be my timeless. I just really like this. I also like open formula. These are the two vitamin C's that I've used that I like. Open formula, very good vitamin C, timeless, very good vitamin C. I keep it in the refrigerator. I put it all over my face. I let that dry into my skin and then I go into the bathroom and I'm going to use this device. I'm going to do the new face. Put the conductor gel or my aloe vera right over that and I know that I have my vitamin C on underneath it, but that's okay. I think this, the micro current of this while it's stimulating my face muscles and hopefully lifting my gel that it's also helping to sink some of my product in deeper. So that's the major change was the new face. I still use my trophy skin. Everyone always asks me about this because I don't talk about this one a lot. I still use my trophy skin. I put the little filter in here. I keep it in this container and I will, this is my deep exfoliation. I only do this maybe once a month and I go into my really troubled areas and I exfoliate where I have those troubled areas. I love this. Almost every morning I use my spatula that I also got from trophy skin. My microdermabrasin system I bought from trophy skin. My spatula I bought from trophy skin. My red light therapy was sent to me in PR, so I just full disclosure on that, but I use the microdermabrasin maybe once a month, maybe a little less. I have been wanting to incorporate on a regular basis going back to derma rolling and I want to work on work on going back to derma rolling my scalp particularly and also certain troubled areas, my upper lip. The areas that I am going to really, that I have a lot of trouble with so I want to go back into incorporating that in there. I kind of fell off the bit on the off the wagon on the derma rolling so I'm going to go back and do that but that's pretty well the procedures or the routine that I have. My nighttime routine sometimes I'll do my red light therapy again at night, sometimes. I have not done the new face twice a day or anything else twice a day but my red light therapy I've done that at certain times if I just feel like I'll lie there at night and certainly if I miss the morning of it I'll do it at night but that's my basic routine. It's like nothing super complicated but I'm hoping by the video I showed and I'll link some of my earlier videos and you can see my weight has gone up and down you know full transparency, the fatty you are, the full of your face looks right.   I'm going to try to find that middle line you know what I mean? I'd like to take off 20 pounds that's what I'd like that's that would be my goal right now and I have a wedding coming up in Atlanta in March so it was postponed from this year because of COVID so I'm going to make that my goal I'm going to lose that 20 pounds then I'll fit back into a lot of my goal. I'm a big girl I'm never going to be a tiny petite girl never ever ever and 20 pounds lighter I still look good when I get beyond that I look sunk and sick and not good I just want to be healthy so I think retina and the changes in my skin especially when you look at that earlier videos the biggest changes for me that I've noticed is my forehead. I noticed my forehead I mean you know I still have those lines and I have lines I still have them but I noticed that my forehead is a heck of a lot smoother my lines are not nearly as deep as they were and the same thing with my eyes I probably have more eye wrinkles today nine years later I probably have more eye wrinkles they don't look as bad as the ones I had back then you know I can see the lines I can I've lived you know I can see the lines and um and when I smile and I look at the the lines I treat those areas you know I'm treating those areas so there's a couple of different things that I'm doing you know the other thing that I probably shouldn't mention because it goes hand in hand with my nighttime routine and my daytime routine for the longest time now I've been using CBD oil on my face and I use the Makoo CBD oil I love this CBD oil I have a link below I have a coupon code but with Makoo if you sign up for their newsletter they frequently have specials and some of the specials are like 50% off anything so that is a fabulous fabulous price when Jay and I were up north camping was last year I had bought a bottle of Lazarus Naturals CBD tincture and I bought that and it's not as and I've talked about this comparing to the Makoo the Makoo is a a pretty formula you know it it smells it does have the woodsy smell but it's not as strong where this is a little bit more stronger smelling and not quite as clear I don't know if I'm making sense I'm all out of my Makoo I have to order more but since I have this open I like to I don't want to have too much product I don't want things to go out of date I've learned the lesson the hardware is stocked up back up back up back up and then all of a sudden after the second backup I'm using something different and I'm like oh my god what am I going to do yeah so CBD oil whichever one you want as long as it's you're happy with the quality of the CBD and the amount of CBD in it and you feel comfortable with the lab reports use whatever you want I think that's I think that's a huge huge thing is to have a good CBD and I will use that as a moisturizer I've been using on my eyes and this is even naturals this is a really nice eye gel I keep this in the refrigerator along with my my vitamin C I keep that in the refrigerator and I will just tap that around my eyes in the morning and it's a cool soothing eye gel I really like it but I've got a number of different eye creams a number of different eye products some of them that I really like some of them that you know that are okay I've stuffed that for you know your dark circles I really like this a lot this is you know 100 pure this is their caffeine eye cream I get my Olay is my favorite so I have a lot of different eye creams and products and all that that I try but I have my core basics that I love in my routine not much has changed probably other than the new face and maybe different variations of products so anyways I'm at the time of this filming I am a 66 year old grandmother yeah I'm okay with being 66 obviously I have no choice um life has its ups and downs as you all know but I am all for slowing down the aging process as much as possible so that's what I'm doing and I will call it anti-aging for sure so anyways that's my journey that's my four-year update thank you all so much for watching I appreciate every single one of you please thumbs up the video please leave me a comment and I'll talk to you in my next video