What's poppin' people, welcome back to another video. Thank you guys so much for the support. If you're new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell, and also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. In today's video, we're gonna be talking about how to catch 15 times more bass, any time of year, any location, I'm talking ponds, I'm talking rivers, I'm talking big lakes, I'm talking stock ponds, I'm talking pressured ponds. Any fishery, you're gonna be able to catch fish on these techniques. I'm excited to talk about this today because a lot of you guys have been asking about more tip videos, so I was like, you know what, we're gonna hop into one today. We're gonna be talking about a few different rigs in certain ways to fish them, and also color selections, I think that's very important. I know a lot of you guys are probably avid bass fishermen, but there's one thing I figured out about bass fishing, or fishing in general, is there's so much information to learn. Like, you could be one of the most experienced fishermen, Kevin Van Dam, for instance, and listen to a random person's video and end up learning some tips just because they might fish differently than you do. So in today's video, we're gonna be talking about a few things that helped me catch more fish that I can possibly share with you guys, and you can go out on the water and catch even more fish. So now we're gonna go ahead and rig up on my rod. This is actually a Mott Crush by Luz. This is the older rod, this is the newer reel, the newer and improved. You guys, this isn't on the market yet, but let me tell you, this is a bad freaking reel, and by bad I'm really good. I love the color on it, it's just slick. We'll talk about that in another video. That's not the video to talk about it, but if you guys are wondering what pound line I have, this is 15 pound fluorocarbon. I use between 15 to 20 pound. Me personally, I'm not the biggest fan of 15 because I tend to break off a lot. I like using 17, I'm a big fan of 20 as well if I'm flipping heavy covered, but we'll talk about that in a minute. But I'm gonna get a standard EWG. This is actually a four rod. These are Stout Wide Gap hooks by 6 cents. If you guys wanted to get a discount, you can. I'll pop my code up on the screen. We'll be talking about some of their products in today's video as well. We're gonna go ahead and tie this up on this rod. And if you guys are wondering what type of knot I rig up, it's a basic uni knot. And if you guys wanna learn how to tie this, I actually have a video on my channel. If you can just go to YouTube and type in like kicking the bass on best fishing knot, you can go watch that video and learn how to tie this knot. But it has proven one of the strongest knots out there. Wet my line, sent you tight. Grab the pliers, cut my tag in. We're gonna be rigging up the first bait and we're gonna be teaching you how to throw it. This very basic bait, probably all you guys already know about this. But let me tell you, this is a bass fishing slayer right here and it's very basic. Like I said, it's actually the Zoom Super Fluke. So let's talk about this and let's talk about how to catch some more fish on it. Because like I said, everybody fishes differently. We have some Pearl White Zoom Super Fluke right here. And then we have some Pearl White Super Fluke right here with the chartreuse tail. So let me, let's talk about this for a minute. Depending on where you're fishing, dirty water, clear water, whatever it is, this is the rules that I live by. Cloudy conditions, clear water, I like to use a basic Pearl White Fluke. If it's sunny and clear water, they make a color called white ice. It's white on the bottom and then it has translucent on the top and it's got some glitters in it and it's really sparkly. I like that and on a sunny day in clear water, they seem to eat that a lot better. But that's all an experimentation. When you go out on the water you're gonna have to figure out what color they want. But cloudy conditions, I like Pearl and then on the sunny days, I like that white ice color. So now let's talk about dirty water which is today I'm in the rivers. I fish a lot of rivers out here in the Savannah, Georgia area. I'm in South Georgia. There's a lot of dirty water. Now let me tell you something I've found that's very good out here. A lot of you guys that live around here already know are gonna watch this and go out on the river and try it. But go try it, you'll catch some fish. So this is actually the Pearl White Fluke with chartreuse on the tail. Let me show you this. In dirty water, I've had a lot of luck with this one. You guys can tell right there, basic Pearl White Fluke. It's just the tail is dipped in chartreuse. Dirty water, this thing slays them, especially if you're in really muddy water. I just seem that I catch a little bit more fish on it. Like I said, you can go with the basic Pearl.  But there's something in the back of my head that tells me they love this little chartreuse one. I just think I catch a lot of fish on it. I don't know if it's something mentally, but previously I've caught a ton of fish on the white and chartreuse and dirty water. That's something to keep in mind. So I'm actually just gonna take one of these Pearl White Fluke right here. Very basic. I'm gonna take my 4I-EWG. You can also rig this on a three-yacht. These are just what I had. I'm very basic when it comes to fishing. So when you rig this thing up, you're gonna stick the hook. You got the fluke right here, you got the hook right here. You're gonna stick the head of the bait through the hook, just like that, okay? Now we're gonna break through the bottom once it's rigged all the way up right there, just like that. Now we're gonna slide our bait up the hook, as you guys can tell. Once you get to the top, we're gonna rotate the bait where the top is on the top of the hook. And we're gonna slide that bait all the way on top of that eyelid right there. Boom, just like that. So now you're free. So this is what you need to do right here to get your bait perfectly weedless. So what I usually do is I'm gonna take my fluke and I'm gonna lay it next to my hook.  Right here, where this back aligns to the bait, that is exactly where you're gonna wanna penetrate the point of the hook. So right here on the end, it aligns right there.  All right, that's where I need to penetrate it. Boom, penetrate the hook through the bait, just like that. And now we're gonna do, so you have this little point. Last thing you wanna do is have this out because at the end of the day, if you're throwing this around some grass, if you're throwing it around lay downs, any type of cover, you're gonna get snagged. So you wanna make this weedless. Now we're gonna push the point of the hook into the bait. By bringing the bait up, sticking it into that hook. So right there, you got a weedless fluke right there. Weightless and weedless. So this bait is gonna go perfect through any vegetation. It's gonna go through the cover, great as well.  Like I said, if this hook's exposed, you're gonna be hooking all types of cover. You're gonna be hooking that vegetation. You don't wanna deal with that. So you wanna bury that hook in the bait. And that's what's gonna keep it weedless. So this is the rig that we're gonna be using today. What I love about the fluke rig is it's almost a moving bait and a slew of moving bait at the same time because there's multiple different ways you can work it. It's very versatile.  Some days I wanna throw it out there and just leave it there. So let's go ahead and hop up here real quick. By the way, we're gonna be talking about multiple different baits today. This isn't the only bait that we're gonna be talking about, but I wanted to demonstrate this one first. So let's go ahead and hop up here and give this thing a cast. All right, so we have a rig right here. We're gonna be casting out and we're gonna work it one specific way right now. And this one's very basic. A lot of you guys are already gonna know it. So the spot that we're fishing right here, we got a bunch of cypress knees laying down in the water. We also got some lay downs, you know, just basic cover that's laying along the bank. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this fluke, we're gonna cast it right up on that cover. Cast it up there, we're gonna twitch it back. So I might give this thing a couple pops. One, two, let it pause. One, two, three, let it pause. One, two, let it pause. One, two, three, and continue that process right there. That's a very basic way to work a fluke. If you guys didn't know, this is pretty much a soft plastic jerk bait.  Let it sink. And you can pretty much play with your pause. If you want to pause it for 10 seconds, you can pause it for 10 seconds. If you want to pause it for two seconds and pause it for two seconds. That's what I like about the fluke and more importantly, that's what I love about fishing because there's no rules to fishing. So that's a very basic way to work a fluke. All you guys probably already know that, that fish are fluke, but that's very basic. Now, the way that I started fishing a fluke, especially in tough conditions, right now that you guys are watching this video, you guys might be watching this a different time of year, right now. But what I'm putting this video out is summertime right now. It is very hot. There's fish and there's bass, especially largemouth. They love lay-downs, they love cover.  So those lay-downs that are in the water, those bass are gonna tuck up right against that in the heat of the day. So it's very important to target those things. So what I'm gonna do is if I target a nice lay-down along the bank, I'm like, man, that really looks like there's gonna be a fish there. There's a good piece of cover. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my fluke, I'm gonna toss it out there, and I'm gonna let it hit right next to that cover, and I'm just gonna let it sit. I'm not gonna move it one bit. I'm just gonna let it sit like this. Every once in a while, I kind of barely lift my line just to feel that there's a fish on there. Barely lift my line, maybe pop it a few times. Let it sit. Lift up a little bit, make sure there's not a fish on it. Pop it a few times. Let it sit. Now I'll be like, all right, there's not a fish there. I'm gonna reel back in. Now there's another lay-down. I'm gonna throw that lay-down. Boom, repeat the process. Let that bait sit there. This is one of the best techniques for when the bass are super finicky, they're not super aggressive, they don't wanna fish anything. That's why I say a fluke is an awesome bait. It's very versatile. Because you can't do that with a lot of baits. You know, a lot of the baits you either throw in, you reel in, you can't really do much with it.  And I'm gonna tell you, I don't see many people do that with a fluke, but I'm telling you, throw your fluke out there, let it hit the cover, don't even move it. Just let that thing sit. And if there's a fish on that cover, he's more than likely gonna eat that fluke. And if he doesn't, you move on to the next lay-down. So that's one of the best ways that you can work a fluke. It's a very versatile bait. Go out there, give it a shot, throw it out there on some of those lay-downs, and just let it sit.  And that is fine. You know, this fish might be a little bit more active that day, they might wanna chase something. But let me tell you, next time you're on the water, try out that little technique, throw your bait out there, just let it sit, dead stick it completely, check your bait every once in a while, give it a couple of little sporadic pops, just in case the basses nose down at it. I'm telling you, that'll help you catch some more fish. Let's go ahead and talk about the next rig. All right, so we talked about the fluke, we talked about how it can be a great bait to find those bass, you know, work it a little fast, but it can also be a great slow-moving bait by just dead sticking that on the cover. Especially in the summertime, this largemouth love wood, they're gonna tug up against those lay-downs.  So I'm telling you, it can be very deadly. And another bait that would be good for that is also just a standard trick-warmer. Rig a standard trick-warmer on straight-shank hook, do the same thing, just throw it on cover, dead stick it, don't even twitch it, don't move it.  Don't even move it, you'll catch just as many bass as if you're throwing this fluke. So now we're gonna talk about the next rig. This is a basic Texas rig. We talked about this in plenty of videos, but there's a couple things that I wanna talk about that you guys probably won't know. So right here, I have a basic one-fourth ounce lead weight on a four-eyed EWG hook. You guys are probably asking, Noah, why do you use lead weights? Well, out here on the river, Ogichi River, Savannah River, there's a lot of mudfish. If you guys don't know what a mudfish is, it's like a dogfish.  And let me tell you, they're aggravating. And when you're out here trying to catch bass and those things are just biting the heck out of you, it can get annoying because you'll break off a ton of rigs, therefore I use, you know, regular lead weights instead of tungsten because I lose a lot. So it saves a little bit of money. But you can go with the tungsten weight as well, it'll also be a little bit more sensitive. But for this video, I'm just using a basic lead weight, a standard three-eyed EWG. Those are in the Stout Y Gap hooks as well. So when you're throwing a Texas rig, there's a couple of different baits that you can put on it. And I think they all have their time in place. We're gonna start off by talking about the clout. And a lot of you guys already know about the clout. We've caught some big fish on it. But let's go ahead and talk about colors. A lot of you guys always ask about colors. Noah, what color should I throw? There's so many soft plastic colors out there. When and why should I throw this bait? Okay, so we have two colors right here. I keep it very basic. Guys, you're gonna learn one thing about me when it comes to bass fishing. I keep stuff very basic. So we have two packs of six-inch clouts right here. Two different colors. Let's talk about the first one. So if you guys are fishing clear water, you know, it's not too dirty, it's not stained. It's not super chocolate milk muddy water.  It's got a good bit of visibility. I would suggest a green pumpkin, a watermelon, or like a watermelon red. Those are the three basics in clean water.  They love a light pink. But any colors like that, your green pumpkins, your watermelons, your watermelon reds, your morning dawns, those are gonna be good in clear water. That has a lot of visibility. And that's what I have right here. Basic green pumpkin clout, very basic. And this fish will munch that thing up in clear water.  No, this color right here, green pumpkin, I believe will work anywhere. Dirty water, clear water, anywhere. But if I was gonna throw it anywhere, it'd be clear water. But let's talk about the dirty water color. This is one of my favorites. We have a few colors. This one is actually called Dark Water Bug. It kind of already explains itself. As you guys can tell, I only have one left in the package. But let me show you this color right here. This is my favorite one. These are also my sixth sense. Like I said, if you guys wanna go check them out, I'll drop to the link down below. But this one actually has half black and half purple with blue flake. This is by far my favorite dirty water bug of all time. They're a dirty water color of all time. I've used it a ton on Texas rigs. And this one right here just catches them out here on the river. This dirty water bug is my favorite color. But what are some other baits for dirty and stained water? Some of the colors I like to live by, you know, June Bug is a great color, great, great color. I mean, when it comes down to it, if there's a clear water color that everyone knows about is either watermelon red or it's green pumpkin. And if there's a dirty water color, it's either black and blue or June Bug. Those are two of the basic dirty water colors. June Bug, black and blue, you got June Bug red, that's really good. You got this dirty water bug, which I just absolutely love, one of my favorite colors. You got black and red, black and red kills it. Let me tell you, it's the same as black and blue, just with red flake.  If you're fishing stained water, chocolate milk, use these dark colors. There's actually a color that me and my buddy Bradley love to throw. It's actually called Sapphire blue, I wanna say. I mean, it's just that bright blue that also works amazing in dirty water. And we've caught a lot of good fish on that. But let's go ahead and rig this bait up. It's gonna be basic like the fluke. So we got our EWG hook, we got our Sanko. We're gonna rig it right through the head of it.  Boom, just like that. We're gonna lay it, figure out where we need to penetrate the hook. Boom, bury the end of the hook. You got yourself a weedless Sanko right there.  Boom, right there. And so let's talk about where you wanna throw this bait. So this bait's gonna be really great around cover. If you're fishing cover, if you're fishing grass, it's gonna be great. Now let me tell you, if you're fishing a lot of ponds that are very shallow, there is a way that you could catch a lot more fish. You need to take this one 4,000 ounce of weight off. So it's just weightless. You got Sanko and EWG hook. If you're fishing really shallow water or a bunch of slop, that will catch a lot of fish, especially in ponds. Weightless Sanko just kills it. You could also throw a wacky rig that'll catch a lot of fish as well. But if you're fishing cover, a deeper water, right there, just put that little bullet weight on there, you're gonna catch a lot of fish. So let's go ahead and throw this on some of these laydowns. We're gonna talk about how it would work this bait. All right, we got our Sanko right here. We're gonna talk about a couple of different ways to fish it. Very basic, man. Very basic.  You're gonna let it hit the bottom. That's very important with this bait. It's a bottom bait, so you're gonna wanna work this thing on the bottom. Like that fluke, you don't have to wait till that hits the bottom. That's somewhat of a moving bait. It's something that a fish would chase. If you're fishing any worms or crawls, you're gonna need to work that on the bottom. So we're just gonna throw it out there. There's a couple different ways to work it. Very basic way that almost everybody fishes, a Sanko, a Texas rig, a shaky head, any sort of bottom bait, just basically hopping it on the bottom. You know, just kinda, just like this. Making sure you're keeping bottom contact, making sure that bait's on the bottom, and just hopping your bait. Very basic. And that, you know, that can catch fish.  You know, that summer bite, super hot outside, those fish are just not wanting to eat anything. Now this is when I'll throw my bait out there on that cover, just like I was talking about with that fluke. Let it sink to the bottom, and I don't even move it.  That's called dead sticking to bait. Let me tell you, there's gonna be days where you're gonna need that technique.  That is a great way of catching them when they're really finicky. And then there's one more way that I do. Personally, there's not a lot of people who fish it like this. A lot of people will fish it like this when they're bad fishing and when they're trying to get a basses attention to eat a bait. I'll throw my bait out there on the tree. I'll let it hit the bottom. And then this is what I'll do. Instead of just straight up hopping it or dragging it, I'll actually hold my line to where there's no slack in my line. And I'm just gonna hit the back of my rod, just like that. And what it's gonna do is that worm's gonna be on the bottom. Since I have no slack in my line, when I hit this, what that worm's gonna do is just gonna be like this, fluttering at the bottom.  But it's gonna keep that bait in the same spot. And when you're hitting this, the tail is just gonna wag. Let me tell you, that is a killer way as well. If you guys can't catch any fish, go try that. So next time you're on the water and you don't have many bites, throw it out there, work it the way that you normally would.   Go try that. And if they're not biting that, go try what I just told you. And if they're gonna bait out there, work it very slow, pretty much dead stick it, but hit the bottom of your rod. So what that's gonna do is say we threw it out there and we're dead sticking it. That worm is just on the bottom, okay? And that bass just comes up and he's just looking at that bait. But he's not doing anything. Once you start to hit your rod and that tail just starts moving, that could create a reaction on that bass. Bass are predators and they react to movement. If that bass starts to see that worm moving and it does something weird, he's gonna go and golf that bait. So that can be a great way. You know, if they're not eating it while they're dead sticking it, start playing around with that. Give it a little bit of movement, not much, give it a little bit. And that would probably help you catch more bass. Since we talked about a couple of baits that you need to be throwing to catch more fish, if you aren't throwing these baits, you need to go out there and throw them. Are these gonna catch the biggest bass in the world? Maybe, okay?  That's why I love these and that's why I wanted to talk about them. So now since we talked about some of those baits right there, one thing I would like you guys to do is drop a comment down below on what other tip videos you wanna see. We're gonna go ahead and actually go fishing with these baits and catch some fish. So I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the video. Hit that freaking like button. Drop some tip videos down below. Let's go ahead and get it started. That's not a bad one. That's not a bad one at all. This is a... Oh, I might be... Whoa. What happened? I just lost one at the boat trying to mess with your behind. Mess with my behind? Bro, you just got a whole chatter bag. You could have had to double up, Bradley. Oh my God. That's a pretty fish though. Look at the colors on them. Okay. Here we go. My first fish boys and girls on the fluke working back in this little creek. See if we can catch some more. That was good. Bradley had to buy the same exact time and missed them. We've got three bites right here. That's a bass, bro. I skipped right under that tree. That was crazy. That's a good one. Right there, guys. I skipped that fluke right up on duty. That was really cool. Blew up on it like a topwater. That is a pretty bass right there. That's a beautiful Ogichi one. That's a good one, Bradley. That's one that you need.   That was a really cool bite. Skipping that thing up on the tree, that was so cool. Beautiful markings. That's what I love about these fish in that tannock water. Beautiful colors.  Get a little up close release. Come on, Bradley. Double up before it leaves my hands. Beautiful fish. Look at the markings on that. You can't see the lateral line as much, but it's pretty colors. There it goes. That bite was really cool. Yeah. You have a fish. No, you got a dang good one, too. That's a good one. That's two pounder. Dude, that's a good one. Yo, that was funny. You literally picked up your rod and it was just going. You almost went in the water.


So in November a huge investigative story hits the news namely the Panama Papers you may recall that and they revealed How big companies like Apple or people with power and money use offshore the offshore tax industry to evade taxation? That's why this talk is important because Vavoida is here now from the open knowledge Foundation Who will explain to you everything you need to know about? International international taxation and why this should concern you as hackers, please give an applause to Vavoida. Thanks Yeah, good morning. Let's again. Thank you for having me here so early And I will try to make this talk although the topic is like really a dry and boring as Exciting as it can be for taxation. So I work for the open knowledge Foundation I do normally open data policy and transparency stuff and I will present today why taxation is a perfect two-word issue and it's a world-wide two-word issue and how it connects to internet CCC and technology and also how we shape the society with it. So how we got here I'm from Austria as normal I have two colleagues with me That's Max Kasi and Daniela Platsch from Vienna and Harvard University and we're trying to change something in that area and The talk will have three parts. So it's like the status quo Intro and fun examples how you make Tax loops working for your company Then the second part is why is that the policy and the history and the third one is then what you can do about it? politics and the future So I got into the topic reading about an article about Exxon mobile Which is the sixth largest company in the world by market cap and revenue And especially Exxon mobile Spain. So they had like 2009 and 2008 one employee Earning 44k a year and making 9.9 billion net profits in these two years So to understand this that's like a fact of a hundred twelve thousand From his income to the profit for the company and as I like well That's basically like this John Doe from Spain is the stock on office capitalism There's nobody else problem in the world who is outperforming this guy for two years And that's basically just done through like making use of our tax holes So the takeaway is like some corporations pay not so much corporate taxes And it's a lot of dough in Germany We say it's a button guilt and at the end of the day if you have a billion here billion there pretty soon You're talking about real money And other people say there are only two things for certain in life. That's death in Texas We would like to add that's like a certain certain in life And that's inequality and while some discussing about reducing the taxes we also want to talk about like reducing the inequality and this will be to talk about and Where everybody can agree on it. It's like the tax rates are too damn high But you should also consider the taxes are always helping finding public goods like schools transportation and so on So in German you have like Steuer Steuern or Steuern it's like what kind of society we want to have and How to contribute it versus to pay for it in which direction we are moving if you see that it's like basically get tax Being input and you want to achieve Social goals or like similar economic growth with them So the formula basically is if you have a tax revenue at the top if CT for example The company pays less taxes then somebody else has to pay more taxes or you have less tax revenue to fund those public goods And this talk will mainly about like the legal optimization There's a lot of illegal stuff going on like in Germany of like the comics Taxivation which is Steuer Hinterziehung or betrug which adds up to 12 billion or you have done like the regular Swiss tax Fun in Germany like in and evaded so like 1.9 1.8 billion we're also like says Swiss bygarde caught finding the leak for in Germany and There's the famous quote from Bob Obama from 2016 was it a but all of this is legal But that's exactly the problem. So we basically say legal illegal Sheisegal we're living in a time where we need to discuss about that because we have Basically as Andrezen horse that said soft is eating the world. So either AI robots May eat the jobs or not and we're in a round of discussion should we have like a universal basic income or outcome and This is the trend which is unique. So you have like the last decades like basically two download slopes that's like the trend of corporate income tax as share of GDP and that's like the tax rate by itself and That's like causing some issues so the corporate tax rates basic rule is that the less profit the less taxes you pay and You try to pay the taxes where the tax rate is lower so when you're thinking about that and since we're here you can always thinking about like hacking the tax code and You have like your hackers working 24 seven for the four big Accounting firms, which would be price water scuba earnest and young KPMG and Deloitte and not only like they are hacking Actively some of them are also making like the smart move and are writing back to us That means like they are like involved in the process of writing the tax code the law Where they later will exploit it? So there's a lot of cyber going on a lot of dough for the US that means like there's two trillion US dollars overseas And annually there's like around 60 billion adding on top of it for the European Union. We are talking about somewhere round 50 to 70 billion a year like where I come from that's like a sixth of the schnitzel of Austria or that's like another But there's like 10 Berlin airports and The OECD calls it in a base erosion price shifting report a reaches There's other reports like from Texas this point net Saying that's up to like 500 billion annually and why this is happening That's basically part of it increased in the last decades because we're moving from a economy really based on the real goods to Intangible goods and that means like patents trade marks and so on and You can see that really nicely and how the mark top five market cap changed from 2006 to 2017 so you had like 2006 you had like X and mobile channel latex Microsoft British Petrol and city group which means banking energy and industry and then 11 years later You have like basically like five tech companies and those tech companies the valuable stuff They're doing like software code and so on can easily like jump from one server to the other compared like if you have like BP like a oil refinery. So that's like makes it way easier to move something around if it's just digital and The most famous tech so loophole was the double Irish dots sandwich And that's basically what you need for that. You always need like two Irish companies Then you need a Dutch companies then you need like a company somewhere in the Mermuda's or what you call like offshore financial center And you'd transfer them the money around so there's like the Chinese version because it doesn't matter much It's just about the flag So you start like somewhere in the US then you have like some offshore company who holds like the patents or the intellectual property stuff which gives it to one Irish company and Basically, you go then to another Irish company who has here like sales to the customer So the customers are paying in here Then they pay like some money to the Netherlands company then they pay the money to the Irish company Then the Irish company pays it to the Bermuda company Same stuff here feel like a little bit more detailed and it's the same stuff like going around here so it's always basically two Irish companies one Dutch company some company in a Tax-Aven and in that process what is happening really reduce the corporate tax rate to almost like a nothing And that's basically trained among the big companies pretty much everyone does it So it's Microsoft Apple Google Facebook Amazon Starbucks also the German company SAP or Indie tax, which is the Spanish closing company and I want to point out one example. It's Google. So basically Google has a worldwide revenue in 2014 46 billion and When you take it down to the UK, it's like a tens of it's 4.6 billion and on this profit of 10 billion annually worldwide They paid somewhere around 2.3 billion But in the UK they only paid like 30 million and that's because they're using like this Dutch Irish sandwich to pay less Profits on the revenue in the UK and then we're going to take a look like where Google got famous in Europe Lately which is the digital news initiative That's like 150 million. They are using to spend on news organization. That's what it basically can call them like peanuts Because that's basically less than what they save in one year just on the tax Paying in the UK loan Same goes with Apple. So Apple is sitting right now on a cash of pile of 250 billion and it's partly due Because the same system or they had like a tax rate of just zero point five 0.005 percent 2014 To put that in relation. It's like two thirds of a schnitzel the GDP of Austria of like eight million people Or two thirds of the depth of Greece or twice the GDP from Berlin or 50 airports and so The European Commission Wanted to force Ireland to tax Apple higher, but of course they refused it because that's partly their business model taking less corporate taxes and The tap was last year 18 billion and by December 17th This island was forced to collect 13 billion from Apple because it's like about Competition we will see how that end up. I hope somebody collects that and 2014 Ireland was scraping their infamous double Irish tax Sandwich loophole and everybody was like woo-hoo Finally, but then they also replaced at the same time called something like patent box or knowledge development box So it's the similar stuff a different name and a little bit less dodgy But it will keep like tech companies and pharmaceutical companies Ongoing doing the tax scheme another great example is an investment opportunity from Switzerland Hungary and the Netherlands So that was general electrics on the 21st of December 2015 at 12 o'clock the Dutch sold the general electric Swiss to Hungary for like a 40,000 Franks and now a later to sold it again in different directions for 6.4 billion So there's like 60 minutes effect of 167,000 in order to understand that that's like you upgrade your old modem to a six gigabit line Or you upgrade your floppy disk to a 230 gigabit hard drive Or you work only 1.5 hours in your whole life And That's why did they happen it's basically they were selling some rights for 8 billion and with the tax difference from Hungary to Switzerland in Instead of paying 18 percent taxes. They only paid 2 percent taxes saving 1.4 billion Swiss francs in one hour And there are many more example like that, especially from Luxembourg Madeira is like a European island tax haven Ikea is a hilarious a tax example But I don't want to bore you and I want to go quickly through what happened on the reporting side So 2013 there was offshore leaks which was the first big Reporting addressing that issue Then a year later you had like Luxe leaks addressing Luxembourg Interesting there was like it happened right after Juncker was like Getting the head of the European Commission You can read that up in the German Diplo cables the slides online and it's everything linked And it was like about 28,000 pages on like more than 500 ruling on companies how to get like special deeds in Luxembourg And then you have to understand why this important So every country in Europe basically just trying to lower the corporate tax rate in order to attract the businesses And he's now a head of the European Union, which exactly should avoid that and 2016 two years after the reporting There was actually four times more special deeds in Luxembourg then we had the Panama papers that was a done Made available by whistleblower. We don't know who it is John Doe. The reporting started 2016 and it was mainly about Mossack Fonseca which like was one of the service providers. It was the biggest leap in data journalism 11 million documents and 2.6 terabytes and One of the consequences or not consequences happened afterward. There was like the six is over this year in Malta where Daphne, Kuran, Agalicia her car got bombed and Then in November the paradise paper came Same like almost similar to Panama papers difference was in different company. It was Apple by Applebee and It was like in 19 tax year station and it was like high profile cases. So this leaks in papers Dramandus work really amazing and I think it helps a lot of moving the discussion forward I just want to remark it the system the systematic place behind it Were known before that so it's I would say it's like don't hate the player hate the game I hate the enablers and the enablers are literally like those who are writing the law or like politicians So sum it up It's like a lot of dough butts and gild and we are going to the second part. How did that happened? So over the last century we had basically three deals how to get taxes done It was like source country based arms length pricing and collateral treaties So by source country based it means like you tax where the production is happening. So if you have a car company in Germany It just happens there arms length pricing when it's getting more company You have a car company buying parts from Austria then it means like you have two Separate units and you priced them where they are so what you need there and that's important Is like you have to find out a price and that finding out a price paying for the Austrian company if it's like a regular product like Some carpet it's easy because you have a market on there and you can't make up The margins like ten or a hundred times more if you do it with digital stuff The question is like who knows how much is it is the Google algorithm worse? So you can't price this because there's no market on it the same goes with trademarks one famous case was like the Nike swoosh So with real goods if you have competitors, you know what the pricing will be with tangible goods It's difficult to figure it out So they're treating the national subsoil as independent companies and making market prices for this So then they were moving why these are the problems? So basically on the source country based corporations can move the production from a to b Let's say you have a car company. You can produce in Poland Cheaper than in Germany then you move the production over there So arms length pricing you can make up the prices and shifting profits around that's basically the case what happened with Google and the Bermuda's so out of nowhere Google headquarter for like algorithmic stuff isn't the Bermuda's and Then the third is a bilateral treaties and on bilateral treaties You pay a bunch of lawyer really good money to figure it out How do I exploit the different text treaties that would be the case with the double Dutch are double Irish Dutch sandwich? And so we have done two scenarios which adds up to assert making prices to shift profits We are counting move the actual production and now that the kick saying the really big part is like it leads to tax Competition between countries because you want to attract those companies and that's basically this graph where you see like from the 90s to 2016 we have a different countries Germany, Ireland, France the Lowering the corporate tax rate. So Germany started out with 60 ending up with 30 here Ireland was once up at 50 and is not 12 percent So that's the business model attracting US companies and getting less corporate taxes compared to the European neighbors Same goes with The US used to be stable a long time There's also like the difference between a statutory corporate tax rate and the effective the effective is lower That's basically what to really pay and since we got a new president in the US You can see like this is the historic chart from 1980 like a century it used to go up before and after the Second world war then it was stable a long time and in December it was announced that it will go from 35 down to 22 So you have like then an international competition for tax rate So the question is like what can be done about that and one of the proposal among others is like you Put something in like a sales based apportionment tax that means that you require from the multinational companies that they report the global profit and sales and taxing in in the country you multiply the global profits and By the share of the global sales happening in that country which want to tax and then you text the percentage of this number The question is how can we get there or what we can do about that? Well one thing is you can always pray about and pray that Braing will help changing tax structures or you can laugh about it when you remember like ExxonMobil Saar Starbucks Ikea The picture came from regular economics because that's part of the problem Because they would told us it will trickle down and what means trickle town is like one of the most important things in my opinion Is that you realizing what trickle trickling down means? and that's basically when you take a look at this chart so like in the 1980 it started like you see like the change in share of income So you have like the top 1% again of all over 120% then you have like the top 20% raising a little bit like a rough 25% and everybody else is losing out that means that and the other job that is like you have from 45 to Zero five the productivity gains and It used to align like pretty much up like we're real wages So everybody got their fear share of that but somewhere here it's split it ways We have like productivity gains, but the real wages are stagnant So you should ask yourself what happened to this pie? where did it go and So this also leads them to create two classes like those working for this company Taking the shi out of it, which is not always the case if you take a look at for example workers leaving the Google Blacks They also have like two differently Working classes and those who are not and Remember this like adds up to almost like a hundred you appear each year you've been citizen each year on the conservative estimate and That brings back like everybody's complaining about like the the governments don't have money anymore But if you add that up you get like for the since the financial crisis roughly around 5% so you would have in instead of 90% That GDP ratio only 85% So when you go to offshore wells The estimates from took man with John I can recommend he's like a student of Piketty Who made that calculation based on the Panama papers that on average you have like 10% of the GDP? hiding in the tax havens Germany for example is like right here with the round. I Think it was summer 15 you have Spain with somewhere around 10 and then you have freeze which is striking out at 35 or something like that and Why this is important because normally the discussion right now is like about some tax haven sitting somewhere on some islands But as you can see here you be talking about Switzerland, Hong Kong USA, Singapore on the sixth place you have On the fifth place you six place you have done Luxembourg and on eight you have Germany So the framing of that the only effects like this tax havens on some small island eyes would say it's not completely Correct and you can see the difference cool. So Panama and discharge From tax jet tax justice network only comes in at number 13 and you have like swiss land, Hong Kong So this is basically the problem you have to attack. It's not so much about like This completely dark money laundering illegal money It's like a lot of stuff happens like right in your face known to everybody for decades So although the leaks were amazing It was nothing new and you have like other cases like in Germany the comics Which I around like for more than 15 years and nothing is changing and that's the sheeran of the tax havens given Started out with swiss land which used to be number one now Asian tax havens coming up But the issue is like you have still like buff 30 or around 30 percent European tax havens and Why this is important because some countries try to do something about it and when they do something There's this case with the Ukraine where the people in Ukraine trying to find out where their money went They got stuck in Germany because we couldn't provide them the information because you don't have like beneficial ownership in Germany There's initiative called open ownership trying to solve that and that's like once you have a weakest link where you block information Know who is the owner of the company? You can't get any further. So this one has to be addressed and Positive note is to see at this abyssal. So there's like some progress going on on December the 70s There's a new anti money laundering director from the European Commission. That was the first step after the Panama Papers Basically, it means that all those company registers in Europe has to be within the next 18 months Figuring making entry in the registry, which is available to the public That's good in one way again. It's not addressing like those company like Apple because it's like legal another step would be like the European Parliament elections 2019 and You have to remember. This is a political question. So years ago when we had like the US own crisis Mario Draghi Super Mario the head of the ECB Stepped up and basically said Whatever it takes will fix it and I think for taxation that needs to be done as well and basically we need structural reforms That we avoid like having a situation like this again at the I'm okay. I'm landed on the taxpayer and One part of that it's like a framing issue you should see it like paying the taxes when they're spent well as a positive thing and in the United States there was a long discussion about if you call a tax death tax or a state tax the conservatist label is death tax because then you frame it better badly and on the person who is dying and The opposite way would be like it's a state tax because the person is gone some is left over and it's about contribution to the society another thing is like this whole shit is like really boring and I'm really Sometimes think it's part of it like it's boring and complicated to keep you falling asleep So you should get familiar with certain things like too big to jail when it comes to Justice I will be gone you will be gone like how incentives are split up in banking sector and One of the stuff I always recommend is the big short It's like a movie about the financial crisis Which I think is brilliantly done and explains the things which normally sounds like really complicated completely easy And you should have a Europe or a world which exists in the Brexit of tax already another the purpose of tax optimization itself and When you remember the opening keynote from C straws, he called like old slow ai's Corporations and I think it would be easier to regulate those corporations on a tax level Compared to a tech level because the framing and the time. It's not that crucial Which led me to the one crater when you have corporations are people Why don't we have a corporate desk penalty for companies and that was the case with my land? It was the equity hex data leak and insider trading This fall so we have a certain responsibility to be there successful because there's no alternative and Just want to say remember this isn't rocket science. It used to be there and see it like it's natural reality We need a level playing field and for global corporations to like local companies or Mini shops because they pay basically pay nothing and so you divide up the problem while you have a natural reality It's the speed or what you can transport. He it's the just like the dfm easier money flow And so come to the end that's like the idea is like solar punk taxation solar punk is like something How does a sustainable civilization look like and how can we get there and I think taxation is probably one thing We will be stuck in the near future. So we think it should think about it to have like this two scales Lined up so we end up in a nice sustainable civilization So the takeaways like things changing because of intangible goods and technology three ways our companies pay less taxes somebody Probably has to pay up Take up the bill. It's more than 0.5 percent of the European GDP and That was me Remember the logo and tight the tax crews firmly that was this. Thank you so much It is lights online and if you have any questions after or next to the Q&A Just contact me at at Favoy or Walter at single net We have time for a very few questions If you have one and wanted to be lucky to be one of those please line up at the microphones But please signal angel are there any questions from the internet? Yes, they are go ahead How will universal basic income deal with too big to fail as in how will we deal with the company hood as bad yet? We are so dependent on their contribution to universal basic income that we can't punish them in any meaningful way Can you maybe rephrase the question?  Well, I think the too big to fail phenomena is one thing you normally at the certain level you should split up company that he was done to the Delcos years ago to oil companies years ago and One you once you come to the situation that you have too big to fail then you basically In games here we have a leverage. We have seen that in banks You could let them go down because if they would have go down that would be a systematic risk and you couldn't bear that risk That Would be my answer to that independently from universal basic income We go maybe we since we started a little bit later. We go until five past So we have time for I see how the questions fit in microphone number two, please Hello, I have two questions There's now alternative to Bitcoin called the cash and Monero and the advantage of those two Cryptocurrencies that it's basically untraceable Compared to Bitcoin. So my question is in the future if many more companies are gonna adapt adopt this Untraceable cryptocurrency and start paying for example the employees with it. How? How you gonna manage to tax those people or corporations and The second question is a moral reflection on the state of the European Union the EU was created and has opened the borders in 1992 and I'm part of a region from south of Belgium where everybody goes to Luxembourg to fetch their gas Because it's cheaper and it's still the case because we do have different member states that has very Different fiscal laws that and a deal level. There's no legislation Us in the US. There's no legislation to harmonize those fiscal laws And it's actually a Unanimity what is what is your question you asked one question and maybe you answer that we don't have a lot of time So in the in the US, there's no fiscal There's fiscal competition between the states the same is in Europe And I don't see with unanimity in the Council of Ministers that it's gonna change in the near future The what you mentioned earlier Luxembourg Malta Holland apparently blocked this 17 December initiative, so I don't see with unanimity like at some point one country like Luxembourg say Fuck off, and then we can't make any progress so the first question with script occurrence is I think The leverage on the state like so basically if company a and that company decides to go to see cash and making their Transactions anonymously good luck with that because then basically The tax system strikes back I don't think there's like unless you'd want to go completely on the ground There's no chance that you can avoid that. Maybe they have a certain advantage from the speed when they implement it But you will not be able to Provide the books you need for a tax audit and then they get you on something else if they want to get you They always get you even if everything else is fine The second one. Yes, the European has a competition the question is how far you want to let the competition go and That's the same thing with Yonka. I mean Yonka did a phenomenon job for Luxembourg when he was their finance minister and Premier minister, but it hurt like other countries So at the end of the day what you do in politics you have to find a solution to get a how you deal with it The first step is that Ireland has to basically being forced to take the money from Apple because it's like Not fair competition to everybody else and then and that's a question the society has to ask you You can go down to see your corporate tax if you say that you don't need it There's some people arguing for that and at the end of the day Somebody has to pay the bill or you basically say you privatize everything and you don't want to have a government It's like on the one side There may be a middle ground you have to find a solution how you make your revenue and This is one part where you clearly see a trend that the revenue from that area goes down and maybe has some Implications, I mean we're living in Europe Which is halfway falling apart and partly because of that reason because with a erosion of the tech space and At the end of the other people getting blamed for that which they didn't cause As I said, it's a political question We I'm sorry We run up with our time microphone one you can reach for voida by Twitter or by email I'm sorry, I will be around here if you yeah, so you can go directly to him and ask him Thank you for coming here for this talk and please give a warm round of applause to avoid out. 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What's good y'all should put Ross back here again with another video. So let's check out Jonathan Coachman on why he would never return to WWE. This should be a very interesting one. I know Jonathan Coachman had a history with WWE. At one point he was one of the announcers on Monday Night Raw. So it should be very interesting to see why he would never want to return. Obviously, he's been doing good. You've seen him on ESPN and other shows. So he's doing fine without WWE. But it should be very interesting to see what would be the reason why he would never return back to the company. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Let's get right into this one. Everything is branded. Everything I do is branded and that I did learn from Vince. That feels like it's right out of Vince McMahon's playbook. Yeah. Do you still keep in touch with Vince? Not at all. So that, like you're saying you've closed the door and going back to WWE. It won't ever happen. What specifically happened? Ever happened. So I went back in 2017 and I kind of instantly knew this is not really where I need to be, where I want to be, but it was a nice bridge between ESPN and what the next full-time thing was going to be. So in my personal life, I was moving to California. So I didn't really know what I was going to do next. And so I went back and it was fun, but the people I worked with on the shows, A, I don't know what it was, but didn't really want me to be there. So when I switched to the pre-show, that was fun because that was just once a month I had to show up and that was cool. But then I missed, and part of the reason this is so Vince, when they called me and they said, Hey, we'd love for you to come back. I said, I'm already doing golf. So I had five events already booked. And I said, I'm missing the shows that week. Oh, no problem, no problem. Until it was a problem. I missed one show in 10 years in my first run. I missed five shows in the first seven months of my second run. But I think everybody would agree. And the schedule has changed now. They were running people into the ground. Nobody should be working 52 weeks a year. Nobody. They shouldn't be having new shows 52 weeks a year. Let's be honest. And everybody inside WWE says it. They just don't want to admit it, but no company should work that way. Yeah, I will say this, man. If you are trying to be in WWE, even if it's just on a backstage personnel type situation, producer, whatever the case is, be prepared to work because they be working people like crazy. I think there's a crazy stat. I think Michael Cole is only missed like maybe one or two, like Monday night Rawls or Smackdowns. Like he, he's barely missed any work, any time off, like when it comes to like actually supposed to be on the show, commentating and stuff like that. Like, which is crazy. And it shows the testament to his, you know, his, his will to, you know, wanting to be, you know, wanting to still be on the shows. Like, you know, you got to want to be there to do that for that many years. And only miss like one or two shows in like 20 years. That's insanity. So I do believe him on that one. Like they commentator doesn't matter, you know, ringing out or whatever the case may be, you're going to be working hard and long for WWE, man. But for me, what it was, I'll just be honest with you, Chris, is they came to me and they said XFL 2020 and Vince needs somebody there that he trusts that can do it the right way. So California to New York every week to do the pre-show and because they hired a lot of people that never worked for him before. So I trust Vince implicitly. Like I've done so much for him with him, everybody knows that. And so you turn in invoices, right? Well, I didn't turn mine in right away because I'd worked for him for 20 years. He had always paid me. Sure. Right. So COVID happens and I have a fairly large check and I hold on to it for a couple of days. I go put it in the bank. It bounces. Wow. It bounces. And so I called or texted a high executive there and I got a response. Oh, that's a lot of money. I said, I agree. I agree. I said, can you just call Vince? Let's take care of this quietly. No big deal. Yeah. And. Ghosted me. Wow. Absolutely ghosted me. And, you know, Vince has the amount of money in his back pocket. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it really hit me hard. And it wasn't the it wasn't the money. It was the the process. You know what I mean? That and I said that I'll never forget, Chris, I said there one day and I'm sitting there going, man, they really bounce to check to me. Oh, I did get a second text. It was like, oh, that's another company. I don't think there's anything we can do. What? So basically telling me people I'd worked with for 20 years. Oh, that's the XFL. It's not the WWE. There's no but the same guy owns the two. Yeah, he said he owns both. I mean, everything was a crossover. So that to me was a complete slap in the face. Of course. But some people there just don't care. And I'm not going to name names. It's not my style. But even to this day and anybody that watches this interview will agree with me because it's true.  And I had literally done everything I had ever been asked to do. And this is how you're going to treat me. And literally, they didn't care. They did not care. And I even gave it months because they were going through. Remember, there was no shows. The companies losing money. I felt for all of that. But then eight months later, when you start advertising, biggest year we've ever had financially, making all this money. And then you can't make things right. So again, that's why I've never really talked about it. I've mentioned it in a couple of interviews. But at this point in my life, I can't work for people like that. For sure. I cannot work for people who do not care about human beings to the point that in a spot where you really need it, because we all lost our jobs during COVID. And that's when you're going to decide to go, well, let's just turn our back on a guy who's been loyal for 20 years. Like to a point, the things that I've done for that company really bad would blow your mind. Would blow your mind. I was 100% loyal. But they were not loyal to me. And that's it. Damn, bro. Hey, man. Yeah, nah, that ain't it, bro. That's not cool, bro. That's not cool at all. If you work hard for someone you deserve to be compensated, I don't give a damn if it's quote on quote, not the same company. No, the same person owns the company, both companies. So he should be compensated correctly. That's messed up. Not even a lie to you. That's messed up. Don't know if he was ever able to get that situated because they owe him money. What you mean, there's nothing you can do about it. What? They owe him money.  Pay the person that you asked to do something for and have been loyal to you.  And you guys got to remember that. Try to find a situation where you can work for yourself or become your own boss if you possibly can.  You can be there for 20 plus years, never miss the day.    You got to watch out for people like that. You got to watch out for companies like that. Not every company is like that. There are some companies that care about their employees and they show that in their gratitude and what they do for their employees as well. So if you're in a situation like that, keep that as long as you possibly can. But for those who out there are trying to work up the ladder, always be mindful of yourself first before the company. Because at the end of the day, when it's all said and done, you're a number to them. And they will replace you if they need to.  I feel bad for Jonathan Coltrane. And I am in a grudge.  Hell no, that's messed up. But comment down below, let me know how y'all feel about Jonathan Coltrane's situation. Do you agree with his standpoint on never going back to the company, even if they did pay him later on, whatever the amount was? Which is, do you still agree with his decision to say, nah, I'ma chill on WWE going for it? But I appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on the channel. Roll it to 150K. And I'm still here on the speedy YouTube Wrestling Champion World. Please hit that like button and see you on the next one. Peace.


ria are isn't within our bailiwick but our job is to evaluate those criteria and our road network and come up with what we think is the fairest map understanding that what the future holds is anybody's guess last two questions and maybe you can take a stab at it is there an order of magnitude sense of the administrative relief winnowing it this much is it $10,000 or $100,000 that's sort of a curiosity on my part that would inform a decision on this that basically is what it comes down to is there any sense of timing or relationship damage if we just sit on it well as far as winnowing goes there's actually more than what it was before map 21 that's irrelevant we have an approved NHS now Jeff's point is a very valid one if there's a federal formula funding question and it's tied to miles why the heck would we shorten our miles there's absolutely in answer to Jeff's question there's absolutely no indication at this time that there's any plan changes in NHS funding that's what we've been so collaborative with Federal Highway on this we've had lots of conversations back and forth the staff in particular has really really gone all the way to Washington DC to ask to say what does this mean for funding we have been asking a lot of those questions that was the first question because it's a non-starter if this is going to take funding away from our region that was just staff level like I wasn't going to bring something here that was going to do that and I think the other we're focused here on the NHS but really the federal pot of funding that comes to Vermont I think we know has been flexed a lot to do a lot of different priorities in our region in particular with regards to transit and other roadways town highway bridges other things in our region so I think I think a 20 year vote or something some display of confidence that we're going to still as a state Burlington, not put Burlington in an uncomfortable situation where they may get some weird federal highway requirements to do some improvements that they weren't really planning on yet also so we're trying not to have it be used as a punitive thing against municipality Justin it's a double-edged sword it's local control verse sort of being dictated from Washington short of some new pot of money that directs towards it because if you've got the ability to flex locally, but I mean statewide you get to make your own decisions to a late degree if you don't then you've got to deal with what's coming down from the mothership in DC now that said I agree with Jeff's point if Trump and company were to come up with something that they're only going to focus on a narrow piece which all indications are if they ever do come up with money that is how they're going to do it will it fall down on this you don't know so you sort of administrative burden is only one piece the other is how much flexibility and some of it is to flex money outside of Chittin County if they feel that's where the need is others it would be to take and do other roads within Chittin County because we don't really feel we need it there we want it there so there's a lot of soup going on there without one straight answer to get to it questions or comments if not that's got a point of order something that non-municipal members can or cannot vote on I'm sorry this should have been noted on your agenda as MPO action or MPO business and so yeah for Tom you heard that this earlier in the training but so it's municipalities but our non-NPO members certainly have the ability to weigh in on the discussion and everything else just because they're non-voting doesn't mean we diminish their value of their hahahaha jason jason could you put up the language that the recommendation is as it currently is it different yeah there's the reference to the downtown transit center so this is the current staff recommendation which is a little different than what was in our packet is their motion to adopt the staff recommendation you got that Bernie alright any further discussion all in favor say aye aye all opposed you guys have it thank you very much folks now Alaney you're going to be doing the presentation performance measures report thanks well you got a little taste of performance measures there in the discussion on the national highway system the good news is you don't have to take action on this tonight but you will next month pay attention um so we talked about this um back in February came to the board performance measures and targets specifically related to safety and we took some action at that meeting and I want to give a little bit more background and a primer on that because it's kind of a complicated new thing related to transportation so it doesn't hurt to get another refresher on it but there are some new deadlines coming up for some new performance targets and that's where Alaney is going to take over and talk about those because she's been working with VTrans on those so a little bit of background first a bit of a refresher from when I was here back in February so I'm going to give you a background on this this is a national thing it came down from the federal government and the federal law and they established the national goal areas um but the MPO will have to take some action specific to um some of the targets so we're going to talk about those in Alaney in more detail and you've already taken some related to safety and then how the law that was passed back in whatever was 2015 2012 that kind of laid out the groundwork for performance management subsequently there was a lot of rulemaking if you're familiar with the federal process a law gets passed and the bureaucracy kind of takes over and spends several years writing rules around that so the rulemaking related to the measures is some target setting and set the deadlines and I'll talk a little bit on each of those transportation performance management goes back to 2012 it was reiterated in 2015 those are the two federal transportation bills Jason talked about math 21 that came out in 2012 um the legislation itself established these goals in these various areas that are listed here in the last bullets on the page safety infrastructure congestion system reliability et cetera they don't all apply to us because of our population size and air quality and Eleni will get into the details in terms of which don't apply to us later on um which to apply to the NHS yes that'll come up um infrastructure and system reliability Eleni is going to talk about that more detail in a minute so the rulemaking that came in after the laws were passed talked about the performance measures in more detail and it went into a lot of detail on the rules and responsibilities of the parties that are involved in this specifically and this applies to pretty much any transportation related planning activity the agency of transportation at the state level the MPO and the transit provider are always listed as a group of three to coordinate all their activities as they do in planning activity they do here in setting transportation performance measures and targets as well so the three of us have been talking about this for a little while and the rule is the regional planning commission as an MPO has six months after the state sets a performance target in one of those categories for us to do one of two things agree with the target that the agency set or come up with our own and that applies throughout each of the targets we'll be talking about we dealt with safety already and I wanted to rehash that a little bit right now the first was the V-trans targets that the federal regulations that were related to safety V-trans that targets for those five year average items throughout there we had numbers for each of those and we talked about this in February and I think I've got a slide later on if you want to see what they are but they established those last August we had until February this past year to accept them, agree to them or set our own agree to the V-trans targets and we did that in February 18th that's where we are but we're about to move on now we have these other areas where performance targets are being set at the state level and I think this is probably where Eleni wants to take over because you're the ones coming up I'm just going to talk about the new measures and targets Peter just talked about the safety measures that were accepted the targets accepted back in February in the winter and spring of 2018 we collaborated with V-trans and we met with them NFHWA to talk about targets for the other categories that applied to Vermont and not all categories applied to Vermont as Peter mentioned and I'll go through this the first category that we met about infrastructure condition measures and this talks about the percent of the interstate and non-interstate NHS that they have good or poor condition for the pavements and the percent of NHS bridges in good or poor condition and there is there was a target deadline for V-trans for these measures and that deadline was back in May of May 20th we actually submitted the targets a little early than the actual deadline so now that started our clock which basically is 6 months 180 days after the submission so we need to either accept V-trans statewide targets for those measures or just set up our own and we have draft staff recommendation at the very end about that of course this board will decide that so real quickly this is basically the V-trans target so the column to the left that talks about the interstate and non-interstate NHS to the right so as you can see again we talked about percent of pavements in good condition on the interstate and the non-interstate NHS that's the first row and then underneath in the green and then underneath you can see the percent of pavements in poor condition so see if I can use this one here so you can see the miles on the interstate how many miles we have and that includes I believe also ramps not just the main lines so and the non-interstate NHS so this is the target that V-trans came up with in collaboration with the CCRPC for the interstate 35% of the interstate should be in good condition right now we are down to 27.1 for the non-interstate again we are a little low but the important thing here is that the penalties only apply to the poor condition measure not the good condition measure so basically here is for the poor condition they provided the federal maximum which is 5% the target was set slightly below that and we are actually doing pretty good on that on the interstate for this one we are a little bit above the target on the non-interstate NHS again the FHWA provided a 10% maximum the target is 9.9 up to 11.2 V-trans is hopeful that we changes in our NHS another changes another paving that they are doing that that number is going to come down now the penalty is this if for three consecutive years V-trans does not meet those specific targets then we talked about that V-trans has this ability to flex funding from one program to the other program that has the NHS funding it's the NHPP it's the national highway performance program I believe or something like that so V-trans has had the ability to flex and it did flex over the years up to 50% of that program into the surface transportation program which actually the money goes to all federal aid roads so what the federal government is saying if you're not meeting those two targets then more funding needs to go towards improving the condition of poor pavements on the NHS so more funding is going to go to projects that they're just going to go in that direction so that's a penalty the other category that has a penalty also I need to point out it's safety so we talked about that in February when we presented the presentation on safety but this is the penalty here and I also want to point out that in your packet you received a draft report we started writing a draft report about all this because we want to have everything in one report so in that report we have descriptions about what is a good and what is a poor condition on the pavements so the next one is bridges I think we are actually doing pretty good in our bridges so the targets again the bridges are for the whole NHS they're not separating interstate versus non-interstate NHS so right now the NHS bridges classified as in good condition is 47% and the target is 35% and again the poor condition we are in good shape for those the bridges also have the same sorry what's the category between good and poor fair and there is there is an explanation of what fair is in that report too we want our roads to be fair so so there is we don't want to be inclusive yeah so moving on so that's the NHS condition category and those measures were under the NHS condition this is the NHS system performance which is the system reliability measures and there is broken into two measures well two categories subcategories and total of three measures system reliability which basically breaks down to the percent of person miles not VNT, person miles on the interstate and the non-interstate NHS that are reliable and there is a very very long explanation of how we get there I'm very happy to talk to any of you individually about all the equations I'm very happy to go through all the equations I don't want to do it right now but very happy to do it if you're interested afterwards so that's the first one so those are the two measures under the system reliability under the freight movement and economic vitality category we have basically a similar measure for the track travel time reliability but that's a little bit simpler because it's an index VTRANS again had a target deadline we work with them to come up with statewide targets the deadline was May 20th slightly earlier so then our deadline is now early November for those measures okay so to set up the travel time reliability targets VTRANS and a lot of other DOTs used a research data set called NPMRDS oh there it is it's right there I don't even have to remember it so they use this data source this is I believe a free data source of you know like travel data on the interstate and non-interstate NHS that we have access to so we were looking at it and we just evaluated it for children and counting so what this chart is telling us so VTRANS looked at the data we looked at the data together and basically they looked at data for each month so this measure is basically the percent of again the percent of person miles travel on the interstate that are reliable so they looked at this data and this is the data for 2017 and this is over a course of a year by the way that target so they look at that data and they came up to 99.6% all the miles on interstate were reliable so any seasonality to it? yep you can see the seasonality so basically VTRANS this is the target so 90% they set the target this is the 90% line so everything my point was the 90% line isn't a 90% line adjusted for every month because if you look at February and December those are snow months so if there's a time base for this they don't have the same crap in Florida that we do you're absolutely right that's why I think we set it up down to 90% and not up here because we're going to have January and sometime November that our months are going to be below the target but we felt as an annual target or monthly target? no it is not it's an annual target it's over a course of a year but VTRANS has the ability and I need to check this that they can change this target because the problem with these data is that we don't have enough historic data to go backwards to see what was happening so we have 2017 now we're going to have 2018 and moving forward so we're going to have the ability to look a little bit more into the historic data right now it's an annual target so it would be safe to say on a national level they're worried about congestion because they don't have here this is really irrelevant to us we have rushed 5 minutes so anyway this is basically the end so this is the seasonality you can see that in February and December in 2017 our interstates were not that reliable but it not affect our total numbers here so we're still meeting the target we don't want people traveling faster on those snow days anyway is there a minimum target set by the government, federal government for that? there is a minimum threshold level that was or no they do not have that is not so this is the NHS travel time reliability on the non-interstate NHS so that makes sense that our target is going to be less here and our year to date data indicates the same because here we have principal arterios we have roads that are not as reliable as our interstate so I think we took that segment out between Manuski and Burlington hmmmm that's a lot helps a lot huh? bring compliance when VTRANS was tracking NHS was it did include those map 21 green roads from the previous map? they did they did and I have a slide afterwards but when we actually looked at our children and county numbers we saw that non-interstate NHS data is not really reliable for our county we did not make much sense to us so we need to kind of investigate a little bit more about that specifically in the county because we have a lot of non-interstate NHS here versus the rest of the state so that's something that we're talking to VTRANS and ZOE and other people there to figure out if we can purchase additional data I mean how do they collect the data? is it somebody on an iPhone? cell phone data with a location tracker on and that kind of stuff so you turn off your location tracker you're not in the same sorry you're not reliable so moving on this is the VTRANS interstate track travel time reliability index which is slightly different now it's not the percent it's more like, again you need to think of it as it's how reliable is the and this is only for the interstate by the way how reliable is our interstate for tracks traveling throughout the year and as you can see here very clearly our interstate is not very reliable for the winter months so we just I mean it is Vermont and that's what we expect so basically this is a target that I believe that VTRANS is going to keep looking as we're getting more data as we're getting more years into this data we have more historical data and we might just come and change these targets so moving on to a preliminary staff recommendation to you and I'm happy to discuss this next month too is that we are recommending that the board adopts the VTRANS statewide targets for all the measures that we presented before that is relevant to Vermont and the reason for that we don't see any practical policy or funding benefits or implications whether we set up our own targets or not at this point there is a lot of extra work for the RPCN coordination that is required with no clear benefits at this point and very importantly for two measures for the pavement conditions on the municipally owned NHS which are pretty much the class one time highways we don't have enough historic data for us to actually set up targets because VTRANS only started collecting non-municipal NHS data for pavements only in 2017 so we have no historic data there for us to allow us to do that and the bullet after that talks about this data unreliability that I talked before is like when we looked at that data set, the research data set we felt that we need more work and maybe we need to purchase more data to understand it because it was not really reliable for our non-interstate NHS in June and County and the other, the last bullet says that the board can actually in the future can decide to set up targets for this, for the MPO area so you're not being precluded in the future of doing that could you clarify that a bit more sure the very last one you just talked about if we set these standards are they for a current time before we can change them or can we change them next year for some measures we can change them next year safety is a yearly target for all the other measures there is a two and four year kind of schedule for these targets so as we receive more information and more historical data and we understand where this performance you know, management effort is going from the FHWA side and the vitron side you can choose to do that in two years or in four years for all the other measures except safety, safety you have the ability every year and then the report actually talked about how we're doing in County but it sounds like you're not quite, you're using the data you have but you're not happy with that data I presented just because I presented the targets the targets that you saw in that table is basically the same targets the statewide targets that vitrons had so I did not want, I mean you did not approve of those so I'm just showing what was approved and submitted until now which is only the vitrons targets I think you've got the tables in here if we adopt these this is how we stack up and it looks like most of them are meeting there's just a few that we're not but those are the ones you're talking about the data but if we adopt the statewide targets so we are, you know, we're clear if we adopt the statewide targets then, you know, we are not looking at the MPO areas separately the MPO area is attached to the state it is, I look at that but wouldn't we sorry, this is the point in conversation we're still having wouldn't we still be asking vitrans for Chittin County data and looking at that for all the measures every year just to kind of say where or what's the point of performance measures if we're not going to evaluate performance against them so we would get that data for our county but in terms of how vitrans reports to federal highway it's a statewide measure then it's not really calling us out differently because we're unless you adopted your own unless we adopt our own so if we adopt the statewide targets that vitrans created for the whole state then our area is included in the statewide that's what my point was but you're right, we're going to be receiving all the data for the MPO area we're going to be monitoring the data and we're going to be coming back to you and presenting that data and you can decide if you want to move forward with separate targets at some point separate targets if there's some this over the last this year or the last six months or so most of the value having a target would probably be bully pulpit we don't have control of the money or we can't directly transfer shift some of the things but there could there may be at some point some value in having that if you decide but I think we're kind of we're so early in this process that it seems to make sense right now is the primary difficulty that we don't have enough observations we don't have enough data at this point but it's also we don't really see the value of actually setting our own targets at this point we might in the future when we have more data if we don't have enough observations why would we set targets based on bogus data that's what I do on revenues I don't know what I'm doing on this we're using the best data that's available and we can get at a reasonable cost to do these analyses but one of the things that we anticipate is over time additional data will become available we'll start using the better data as these performance measures go over time and that data would also be available to the NPO and that happens so the hope is there's really going to be a much better refinement of the data the quality of the data is going to be enhanced there's so many data sets that are collected at the national level when you really look at them and really drill down in a small state like Vermont they aren't particularly helpful the statewide average we feel like it's a reasonable amount like the household employment survey we have 1200 households that rotate through 800 every month as part of a national sample it's great but as for a state of Vermont it still sucks so just real quickly these are the measures that are not really relevant to Vermont congestion reduction environmental sustainability because of our size and also because we are in air quality attainment status which is great so and the reduced project delivery delays there are no measures right now they're probably going to be developing measures in the future and then at that point we're going to be looking at targets are we waiting on the we're making on that rulemaking we are waiting for the rulemaking on that the next steps is to present this to the TAG and the TAG will review and recommend to the board we're going to come back to you in your next meeting in October October 17th to us for your recommendation but I gave you a sneak preview of what we're going to be recommending I don't always know that in advance sorry yeah and so that is the end of my presentation well just don't put Charlie in the position having to edit so any further questions comments we'll have a chance to revisit this next month next item is chair slash executive director report one thing I would like to do at our annual meeting in June we had announced some service awards and the members who received those awards weren't there to actually receive them so I think that they're certainly entitled to some recognition and a fine certificate suitable for framing for 10 years of service to both the MPO and the RPC was Jim Donovan from Sherlock thank you for your service for 20 years of service with the MPO and the RPC some guy named Michael Bryan and that's a good name we're at the annual meeting then here I'll take it back and then also 20 years of service with the MPO and the RPC Andrea McKinney just a few quick notes to share with you one it is you may see or if you haven't seen yet you will see I'm asking to get on each of your select board agendas so we've done maybe four or so so far and thank you to those towns and I'm also sending our annual town report or municipal report along with that so take a look at that when you get a chance and I appreciate it if you are able as Jeff mentioned just traders that are there anyway that's good I was in Richmond and Huntington this week last week and another town I can't remember oh Sherlock you don't have to go water I've forgotten the town I'm going to go home soon commission on Act 250 so they had their last workshop in Burlington last week a few of us were there and quite a few people were there I think they probably had about 80 people in the room so that's good and I think I'll just use that to kind of make a note that they are coming up with recommendations at some point at the end of this calendar year I think December 15th is our deadline and I think we've been having some conversation at the executive committee about probably asking for interest in being on an ad hoc committee of the RPC to react to their recommendations so if you're interested in that just let me know after the meeting or send me a note or Chris a note so that would be good and then they also in those workshops they've offered to give us the materials to run a similar workshop if we wanted to do that if there was a small group or a couple small groups of the board that wanted to do that I didn't want to just say no so I'm bringing it to the table let me know if you're interested in that they're looking for comments by October 10th or 12th something like that so you'd have to let me know soon if you want to try to get together and do that or run through their workshop so Governor's cabinet for a day you probably have seen in the media the governor brought his cabinet to different counties around the state I believe Chinty County is the last county that's coming to next Wednesday we're not last we're not last I think you're in the middle somewhere I heard that I apologize I was putting all kinds of emotion on that take the best for life that's the way I was thinking about it but so there may be some opportunities and the agendas are clearly getting put together by different state agencies because the governor comes but then each of the agencies also does their own tracks and so there may be multiple things going on and I'm not sure where they're going to land and which agency is going to land where the commissioner of public service is going to come here to meet with us probably that afternoon if you're interested in that let me know I think we're going to meet with secretary Flynn that morning to review probably the long range transportation plan and transportation issues I'm not sure where that will be I think I would say 9.15 I think that morning if you're interested in that let me know and so anyway in an agency we may get a heads up as to where they will be sometime that day but it's a little chaotic at the moment building homes together we haven't talked about that lately there's going to be a press conference on October 10th to kind of give the lightest status report on that I'll share that information with the next board meeting if you don't come to that and we'll share the announcement on that press conference there's going to be we're holding another housing convening October 29th Regina just sent that notice out a couple hours ago so if you were on that list and then finally just planning see legislative breakfast we're working on a date in early December that hopefully won't conflict with the bankers association this time and I think Emma's working that out so stay tuned I'm hoping maybe at our November board meeting we'll actually get a chance to have time to talk about preview the substance of what we'll talk about at the legislative breakfast that's it you have a number of committee reports and minutes in the packet are there any members items or other business yes Jeff I just want to make a pitch for you to invest the 45 minutes to come get the MPO orientation there's a lot of alphabet soup there's a lot of things that we'll work program particularly if you're a municipal member and you have a responsibility to vote just announce we're going to have two more one next month and then one at the November meeting 45 minutes you get fed and it's good information pizza tonight well I'm going to make the pitch if we can't get people to come I'm going to suggest that we up the ante on the dinner any other questions hearing none is there a motion to adjourn second all in favor say aye opposed thank you very much have a good evening well for your patience


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