that this could be a historic election also in terms of dynasties versus upstarts, dynasties versus dynasties layers because we're getting any number of children of politicians trying to again vie for the highest office in the land when in fact the evidence has shown that this doesn't really lead to development. And this is empirical evidence po, not my personal opinion. So I would really like to see upstarts, young politicians, alternative leaders emerge not just at the national level but hopefully at the local level also. Parami po dynasties layer din ng 2019. So baka po dumami pa this coming 2022. So this is something to work for not just to hope for and truly that's hopefully a message for the young people. Thank you, Dr. Kornashon. I'm sorry, Dr. Dean Mendoza. Sorry. May final words pa tayo. Re-final words mamaya. But anyway, maybe we can call you a political economist perhaps but another topic for another day. Dr. Ella Tianza kayo po just to ask you the question about how to reach voters who are not on social media at challenges. Thank you Pia for that question and kung pagbabasihan natin may COVID man or internet, social media or wala every vote counts kasi yung basihan natin bakit kayo merong election. It's not just an exercise that we do regularly. Panahon ito kung saan mapapingkat natin yung bottom up functions ng elections for accountability legitimacy and people becoming the centerpiece of the political process but it's also an opportunity for voter education. So sisigunda hang ko yung sinabi ni Sir Lito na importante ang networking ng mga national candidates with local politicians pero sana hindi lang kasi nakikita po natin di ba ng trend in previous elections may mga pumatalon dyan formally nag-gumit sila sa mga kandidato dadalhin nila sa local level tumatalon sila so dapat matibay ang mga networks with local politicians na mga national campaigns and candidates pero important irein ang volunteers and grassroots at the local level kung saan ang labanan ay hindi sa social media kung di yung kahit may mga limitations may restrictions dahil sa health protocols dahil sa pandemic importante yung mas creative na pakikitungo at sabi ko rin kanina the personal is political papano yung mga campanya na national ay madadala at the local level at relevant dun sa pamumuhay ng mga tao lalo-lalo na yung nasalabas ng social media so important eng makapag-connect dun hindi lang sa pangamagitan ng mga local politicians kung di sa pangamagitan mga volunteers and grassroots organization. Salamat po. Thank you so much to everyone on our panel to end our Q&A session we're going to be asking each of you to give your very brief parting words some of what you already said sounded like parting words but we wanted to give you that opportunity. I will give you a moment to think about that as we flash muna our zoom panel evaluation poll on the screen and this is for the participants today so please look at your screens very well and please take a moment to answer a quick poll of just five questions to show our panel our very great appreciation they've graciously taken the time to stay with us for three hours they have very very hectic schedules as you all know so please fill in the questions I won't read them anymore medyo ubusang oras natin but like I said ubusang oras but I'm sure you all agree this was a master class in Philippine politics and this is something that I'm sure many of you were very very happy to be part of so parting words natayo so let's begin with attorney Tony Abad sir attorney Tony Abad you have to unmute yourself sir okay well with respect to the first question strongly agree second question also strongly agree the third question spoke clearly yeah I strongly agree first the panelists used appropriate language yes I agree the panelists contributed to the perspective oh yes I agree okay attorney Tony so yung parting words punin niyo for the participants for the audience well in so far as the audience is concerned we have more than 300 participants so my goodness gracious I didn't know that it was going to be this big in any case at least this particular program that was thought of is something that should be remembered for always because we learned a lot of things from what has already been said in connection with our election thank you very much for having this kind of program the university of the Philippines is really something that cannot be compared to do anything except to do the best things in life thank you thank you very much attorney Tony Abad bumubuhos ang thank you dito sa chat ng zoom and well like you said attorney Tony goodness gracious great box of fire okay final words brief final words from J.Y. Dela Rosa J.Y. thank you very much for having me today may final words magparehistro dahil extended our registration and most importantly magpabakuna sa mga kapoakobataan laging sinasabi na tayo ang pag-asa ng bayan pero ilang salin lahin ngayon kaya ngayon na 28 million strong tayo 18 million ang registrado ang botanteng kabataan ng 2019 2022 mamili po tayo talaga ng kandidato na 29 na mag-represents atin dahil dapat nga yun ang kabataan ang pag-taguyod ng bayan and lastly on a personal note not speaking on behalf of the senator I hope everyone will be voting for someone who have utmost respect with human dignity and human rights dahil sa tingin ko ang mga kandidato na walang paggalang sa dignidad ng tao at di po dapat tipot ng mga Pilipinas Maraming salamat po. Thank you so much J.Y. Dalarosa bumubuhas pa rin umoulan ng pasasalamat sa mga organizers and speakers ng webinar na ito Lito, sir Lito Banayo final words from you? Thank you, thank you Pia and thank you to all the panelists I learned a lot from this encounter but instead of giving final words baka ma-repeat ko lang yung sinabi nong iba. Let me just address very briefly some issues. One bakit ako na in a point ni Presidente Duterte na chairman or de facto ambassador to Taiwan ay nakais ko? Well I made this very clear to the president total number one six years without re-election ang Presidente. So hanggang doon na lang ang aking service yun sa kanya and I made it very clear. Number two going back to Dr. Ron Mendoza's statements and beliefs which I also believe coming as I do from a region whose growth economic potential has been stunted by traditional dynasties. Sinabi ko rin kay Presidente Duterte na kung patatakbuhin mo ang anak mo it will not fly because transposing local dynasty into the nationality will not be acceptable to the people. So yun lang yun sinasabi na dahil ako nakais ko enabler but it's ko as a humble person who went through the ranks straggled in has a vision for the country. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Thank you for those parting words and the additional information that you gave us. Attorney Gutierrez. Well thank you Pia for hosting and thank you to the Philippine Communication Society and TVUP for the invitation. I agree kay Dino Ron yun sinabi niya kanina yun sinabirin ni Dr. Achenza and some of our other panelists na this is going to be a historic election. It will be historic though not just for the stakes not just because it will determine probably where we will be in the next decade or maybe even longer but because it will really involve I think a clash between old ways of doing things in terms of a campaign old ways of doing things in terms of of the entire perspective on politics and newer hopefully more hopeful more participative ways of actually approaching the same thing. The VP Lenny has banked on the strength of a people's campaign and I think that's consistent with who she is what her track record is and we hope that ultimately we will be proven right in that particular bet that we are making. One last reminder before I sign off political campaigns have this tendency to look at voters as passive recipients of the content they produce the messages they churn out.  Kailangan natin yung mabas, kailangan natin makinig kailangan natin mag-aral at kailangan natin kumilos para dun sa magiging outcome ng election na ito and I reserve yung last thank you sa over 400 people who attended this webinar I think that's an encouraging sign that people are invested in these elections they want to learn more they want to participate more actively and hopefully, masustain natin moving forward. Thanks to all the other panelists I learned so much from you Thank you attorney Barry Dr. Dennis Coronachon Salamat po kami po sa PPSA we are looking forward to having more fruitful engagements with the Philippine Communication Society and the media practitioners as well as the political strategists. Now a key takeaway I think in this forum is that it's very clear that these elections going to give us a new experience and if there's anything I think it could break it's capable of breaking the barriers that have been set in place ever since by traditional politics so this is a liberating moment I think for the voters kasi if anything I think this is the best chance for us to have an impact when it comes to choosing truly effective leaders it's true that we can give solutions to our problems. Now I do hope that the result of the 2022 elections is not a mere expression or mere result of the best campaign strategies I hope this will be an expression of the truth of the people people's will. So thank you very much Thank you Dr. Cornishon Dean Ronald Mendoza sir Thank you Pia and thank you to everyone not to repeat myself from what I thought was the closing earlier but I just want to reiterate this election will be very crucial for our country, for our economy and I dare say for our democracy for the very reasons that many of us agreed agreed on already it strikes me on a personal note that all the leaders represented in this meeting today and in a better Philippines a more stronger democracy they may even be part of one political party espousing very much the same values and the same policy reforms if I'm just listening to what all three have been speaking about human rights human development empowering the youth engagement better governance faster and more responsive governance all of these things are actually coherent and it's unfortunate that we are all somehow forced back into values not really the policies but values of what the leaders stand for and I believe that's going to be part of the choice for 2022 it's not just that they listen to science and evidence-based policy making and the history represented here seem to be very keen on that but it's really going to be about values yung mga hindi represented dito sa forum today medyo yun ang medyo kailangan natin tanungin anubang values ang nilerepresent mo kung you know you're part of a fat dynasty you're part of a history that is rife with corruption and so on and so forth so I hope that's really what voting population especially since the young people will be a bigger and bigger share of our voting population this decade thank you again for the chance to join today I learned so much thank you so much Dr. Dean Ron Mendoza and you know just to add to that there's this very interesting comment on the chat from Jeremy Montibon I hope you don't mind my reading this he says and I quote we fight for different political colors thank you all finally Dr. Ella Atyansa final words from you ma'am thank you Pia to short messages number one definitely COVID-19 is a big challenge for all of us in this elections but it's also again an important opportunity because for the first time we see larger groups of people who are speaking directly losing their patience kasi nasa kong baga ramdam na ramdam hindi lang yung pandemic kundi yung atekto ng pandemic sa ekonomia, sa mental health at sa maraming bagay so in that sense opportunity perhaps for a lot of us to push for better ways of conducting elections pushing for electoral reforms prioritizing citizens and voters as important and transforming the way we look at citizen and government relations not only during campaigns not only during elections but actually through the entire political process sabi kong a kanina political participation is not just voting in elections may marami pang feedback and communication mechanisms na importante sa atin and second we should thank you to our organizers I always learn by being part of this I'm able to actually check the concepts and theories that I teach because I listen to practitioners I validate my observations based on the experience of different practitioners so I thank the Philippines Communication Society and TBUP for this we should have more of this and we should actually think of how we can popularize and share what we're doing here what we're discussing in different formats so that we can reach people who are outside social media perhaps translating this into different languages and maybe transforming bits and pieces of this into podcast and messages in radio and TV programs thank you thank you so much doctor atin Ella atin and I wish there were so many ways you could say thank you we can say thank you by saying Marami salamat Merci beaucoup et cetera I know this is a very crucial time for all of you and we do appreciate so much your wisdom and the energy you poured into all your presentations into this webinar today like I said Karina I call this a master class it's so unique the best three hours of my time this week and now we're sharing the evaluation poll results Karina we asked the participants to fill in this evaluation poll and of course as we can see a great percentage of our viewers have given very high marks to our panel now as mentioned earlier we are launching our post test so you can assess your progress in knowledge and understanding acquired from this webinar all right Mentimeter poll 93 pa rin ang nagsasabing social media is their main source of information dahil magiging face to face campaigning primary source of information and then followed pa rin by online media and traditional media as was the trend earlier at the same time and then your word cloud can we show very quickly lang your word cloud natin economy corruption education followed closely by public health pandemic et cetera now we're going to keep this post test open in the background so that we can proceed with our program well close the program it is now my distinct pleasure to introduce to you the chairman of the national forum on communication and democracy series he's also a board director of the Philippines communication society many of my shows for so many years please welcome Dr. Dante thank you Pia thank you for your superb handling as moderator I'll be very brief we have heard we have heard this we have heard six experts and as everybody has said he has been a very substantial substantial sharing and in summary for example we will I got some impressions the first one is we will adjust if not we will master the pandemic during these elections it is not a one way game the elections according to Lito this is very challenging but according to Bari social media is not the be all or end all in this campaign but we need to sustain this conversation when we started very well with Tony Abad saying that the freedom of expression should not be restricted minimally another way of saying is it should not be we should go on the election should go on in spite of the pandemic and we are expecting a high level of engagement he also said something about the importance of this election and then Dr. Ella has emphasized for example that elections build legitimacy you know this thing about legitimacy we legitimate government not by bullet but by the ballot so we need these elections so this pandemic did not dampen the enthusiasm of people for elections according to Dr. Ella and Dr. Ron introduced that people saying now the elephant in the room is the pandemic it has changed the way we live now it will change the way we vote so the elections will be will change this country according to Ron election will be put to a test despite and not because of the pandemic so these elections we are moving through as somebody has been said this is historic and our democracy will be put to a test it is good that these elections have not been postponed that in the middle of this pandemic the show must go on and everybody is saying that this virtual campaign I think it is Dr. Dennis who introduced the phrase the virtual campaign in these elections will be the next battle zone and so the battle will be won we will handle social media and Dr. Dennis gave a good comparison between the traditional and new methods in this campaign now it is also said that public image is very important in these elections because there will be less house to house campaign there will be less handshake and so you go to social media for public image those of us in marketing and those of us in communication this is what we call political branding so we need as everybody is saying that we need maximum disability and we will convert likes or views or followers into votes according to Dr. Kurovashon these are his memorable phrases and then we are actually looking at forward to 80% voter turnout which is the goal of the Comilec now and Lito and Lisa we were together in Balakanyang so this is actually a forum among friends and the three doctorate people the three PhDs have given us a good framework theoretical, conceptual and operational framework now the question the first question asked by Pia post to Barry when if Lenny wins Sabine Pia will he be like Harry Rocky to which question Barry has immediately responded I have no I have no ambition to be like Harry Rocky that is a mouthful I think they came from the same UP College of Law now how about unity talks the unity talks between Lenny to Bredok and Iskong Moreno has backed down and so what comes next it is good that the two was the three Barry and J.Y. and Lito we were together in Malakanyang in that campaign by Pinoy so the exchange was very friendly after the unity talks back down everybody came everybody Lenny has moved forward to having her own campaign the question is will there be another unity talks it looks like that is no longer a great prospect after the announcement of Lenny according to Barry there was overwhelming response to the declaration of announcement to go for the presidency but Barry said it took us by surprise it took us by surprise and then Pia asked about the color pink and Barry gave an explanation the color pink is now almost universal of course we knew beforehand that Iskong Moreno according to Lito has the color blue and white now in terms of the large of volunteers the task now according to Barry will be to sustain the vigorous response of the volunteers from multiple points of view to fuel the spontaneous campaign response now the third of Lito came in and Lito has given us a picture of how a veteran political strategist he is he was with Arab he was with Pinoy and he was with everybody else but he concluded that we should not rely on machinery it has proven time and again that machinery alone will not win the election and he told us that the Iskong Moreno campaign is using science they are using the survey and they are using FGD so much like what we do at the UP Mascom and the other Mascom departments of the universities represented here and on the basis of those survey findings on the basis of FGD findings they craft their own messages and they craft their own strategies therefore Lito said that Isco is not crafting his campaign not against someone or not against this or not against that but it will be a fresh initiative from Isco Moreno who came from the masses who will address the concerns in the findings of the research instruments and he explained also that Isco has chosen to read it all because he has given the powerful signal that he is very much concerned with the healthcare needs of our people now we heard from YB or JY that first of all Grayspo is not running for president but see he declined saying who Grayspo will be supporting so this is now a case where there are two spontaneous responses their different approaches and it is good that they recognize the fact that these elections will be different these elections will be challenging but these elections also will be as Dr. Ron said will be historic and it will define our present and our future and the parting words of our people are very encouraging Bari Ducharis talk about fresh hope and the new terrain in the campaign fresh approach at the final of this campaign when you are boxed into the vicious cycle of trolls and being controlled by new media and then to harness the spirit of volunteerism in the case of Lito they are saying that this is a new approach Isco Moreno represents a new approach to the campaign and his record as mayor of Manila will be shown also and be demonstrated in the next one in the next leadership challenge this is good that the contest is friendly as attorney Tony Abada said there was no argument there was no quarrel this is a contest among friends and then everybody has shown the value of these elections that it will legitimate the leaders that will come not by the bullet but by the ballot and then we can move forward the Philippine communicative society led by our VP Nanny Pernia and directed this presentation is directed by Gigi Alfonso we are we have mounted this seminars on the theme communications and democracy by what we have right now it looks like democracy will be in good hands and so may I thank everyone may I thank once again Pia for that superb handling of this moderation that moderation and then would like to look forward to the program on political issues one we would like to thank our team here and we would like to thank all the participants that have made this a very successful webinar and may I say because of this all is well for democracy in the Philippines thank you very much thank you very much sobrang salamat ko Dr. Dante Velasco for that on point synthesis and the only thing to add is amen so we're now going to share test results for our viewers and as you can see in your screen so there is this distinct increase in knowledge and understanding of the issues based on these post test results those who have actively participated will get the most out of this interactive program like we said this webinar is a part of a series of the national forum on communication and democracy in 2022 PCS will have a webinar every second Wednesday of the month until May next year so please pencil that in to your calendars next month we're going to be featuring truth in political PR and advertising with Christian ENS Geroff ANC a colleague of mine in journalism as your host and moderator so please stay tuned for updates in the PCS website or Facebook page now this formally of course closes the third national forum in democracy, Philippine elections 2022 we look forward to your company again every second Wednesday of the month like we said 9 to 11 a.m. actually sumobran na tayo sa 11 dahil nga sabi ko master class ito however just a little bit of a reminder if you have not done so yet please emphasis on please para na ako silang plaka please register to vote no more excuses at you know and by the way tas na nga ng kamay mayro pa bang hindi registrado dito sa forum sa mga bata dito siguro naman registrado na kayo lahat at kung hindi pa please remember ang social media ay hindi polling precinct at bukod sa tanong na registrado na ba kayo bakunado din po ba kayo we have this little public service announcement lang po just to remind you of the importance of vaccination please roll mo kong malalim niyang hiniyesin mo ha mula ka magpasuk ngayon malap ko may disinfection mo siya sa grocery ah gan ba wala rin kayong pasukahabong patinong isang araw sana makabalik na ako sa terbaho oh siya siya di na muna kitay store buyan at mukha ng malalim hiniyesin mo magpabakuna na kayo ah ah wala ang problema po mahang mo lang ako e dahil malo ko kayo magpapabakuna ako the future especially the next 6 years is in both your arm kung saan kayo magpapabakuna and in your hands you need your hands to vote whether you're going to write it in a ballot or key in your vote in the elections in May 2022 after all don't we all love the same country I'm Pia Antiveros I was so honored to be part of this on behalf of the Philippines Communication Society let's strengthen our country's democratic foundations our country's democracy through communications afternoon everybody


Okay, welcome to Monday, March 20th, 2023, meeting of the Montpelier Design Review Committee. I will let committee members and staff introduce themselves. Benjamin Cheney, member. Meredith Crandall, staff. Steve Everett, member. Martha Smirsky, member. Liz, member. Okay. At this point, we'll let Meredith review the remote meeting procedures and process. All right, so I'm going to be sharing my screen. Most of the stuff on the screen is for anybody who is watching via Orca Media, but there will be bits of information for everybody who's on remotely. There we go. So for anyone who is viewing this Design Review Committee meeting via Orca Media, you can participate in tonight's discussion via the Zoom platform through either video or telephone access options. To join the meeting through the internet, you can type this link into your web browser, and it will bring you right into Zoom, and I'll get a little notification to let you into the meeting room. Or you can call in using this phone number and when prompted, plug in this meeting ID, and again, I'll let you into the room when I get prompted. If anyone is trying to access the meeting and has problems, please email me at mcrandallatmontpillier-vt.org. I will be monitoring my email throughout the meeting. For those attending via Zoom, please make sure that your Zoom name includes both your first and last name so we know who we're speaking with, and note that turning your video on is optional. For everyone attending, please keep your microphone on mute when you're not speaking, this will reduce background noise. Please also keep the Zoom chat function just to troubleshooting their logistics questions. Anything of substance should be shared verbally. In the event the public is unable to access tonight's meeting, it will need to be continued to a time and place certain. All right, I'm going to hand everything back over to the chair. Anyone else has anything to offer at this point? Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. And I'll second it. All in favor of the agenda, speak your names. Ben. Martha. Steven. Liz, you're on mute. Yes. Okay, the agenda is approved. We can go to our first application for Five East State Street, owner Tim Heaney, applicant Alyssa Kipirana, I believe, is someone there. Yep. Hi. Go ahead and describe your application and sign for us. Sure. Yeah, so I am the new tenant at Five East State Street. I own a company called Vermont Dog Eats, and it's an organic dog treat manufacturer. And in addiction to the kitchen and production space that we've opened there, we're going to be opening a retail space up front this spring. And so what we've applied for is a sign that's going to be coming out above the door on East State Street there. And in the forms that I submitted, it kind of shows you the outline of the sign itself. So it's a two foot by two foot sign that would be approximately eight feet off of the sidewalk. So the standard clearance that's needed for that space. And there will be a metal bracket coming out of the brick there right above the doorway. And just for design review committee members that are here, I do have the paint chip for the sign. It's a slightly greener color than what shows up on that print out. So if anybody wants to look at it, it's color is dream I can fly. I can pass it around if you want to see. Oh, you're softly. Welcome, Mary. Alyssa, I noticed in your application that you said that you were projecting that you were anticipating putting lighting in, is that correct? Correct. Yep. So there would be probably one track light just pointing up at the sign from under. Okay. So had you talked to Audra about the lighting yet? I don't believe so. Okay. So lights can't point up. They can point down. Or lights, because this is a projecting sign, they do kind of backlit, so it would have to point down. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. And the light was something that was going to be after the sign anyway. I was going to be doing them simultaneously. So yeah, but you can get, if design review gives you sort of pre-approval parameters, then you don't necessarily have to come back here if they give you guidance on the fixture, as long as what you propose later for that light comes within those bounds. Gotcha. Then we can issue that permit without having you actually come back to the hearing. Okay, great. And one other question. I noticed that your application says something about the Zutano sign. Do you anticipate or are you projecting that you're going to change that at all? No, no. That was simply in reference to the other signage that's on that existing building. Because in the form it needed to, it asked essentially what other signage was currently existing on that same building. So it's around the corner from us, but the Zutano sign is the only other one that's currently up there. Okay. And you don't intend to put a sign up there as well? No. I'm assuming that you were looking to do lighting for a single fixture pointed at the sign aimed up East State Street as opposed to the other direction. Right. And I would recommend two things. Because of the snow that comes off of that roof. I would probably stay away from a goose neck hanging out. I would put a very small, a very small, like a small can spotlight that's mounted towards the, if you see the hood exhaust for the bakery. I would put it on that side of the sign aiming back. And again, I would use the smallest fixture that you can find tight to the building. It's not a large sign, so it won't take much to put a flood ball then to eliminate the sign. The other suggestion, and I'm not sure I see it on the application, is that the mounting bracket that mounts onto the building, the attachment needs to be in the mortar joints of the brick and not into the brick. And one suggestion that's at your option is that I saw the color you're using if you wanted to use that same color family and go darker, the darker your background against the white lettering makes the sign more readable from a longer distance because of the contrast. Right. And again, that would be at your option, but it would be definitely more readable from a distance. Yep, that's a good point. You also might think about putting a black line on the circumference of your sign. That depends, right? Yeah, make it look a little bit more finished. At your option. And my question goes to the lighting, which is more how you intend to get the wires to the fixture. I don't know if you've thought about that. If that's a surface mounted conduit that's coming from somewhere or whether there's a hole being drilled through the brick or how that was going to work out. Yeah, that's something I need to talk through with our electrician just to get a better sense of how that might work. Well, and we could, I mean, we can always, she wasn't necessarily applying for the lighting for this permit. So if the committee really wants to see those potential solutions, the light could come back. For a separate permit. And they're ready. That might not be a bad idea. Yeah.  I'm going to, Liz, do you want me to pull up a Google view of the side of the building for you so you can see as well? Oh, yes, please. Okay. I did look at the materials earlier, but. Yeah, this is something I added. So it didn't quite show that I realized at the last minute that this wasn't a view that was in there. And so I printed it out to bring in, but I didn't have something to send around. Where am I? There we are. It's not the best view because of the light pull, but you've got some varied brick here. And with that little bit of the, I don't remember what you call that word. Oh, hold on. It's not sharing screen, huh? That would help, wouldn't it? I'm looking at it, not showing anybody, right there. So this is the door that it's going for. And so there's just some, you know, how the lighting gets wired in is a question. Right. And embedded in that question, this piece of paper is really pointing out the fact that we're interested in not having your bracket obscure the kind of soldier bricks over the over the doorway, right? Well, at the bottom, at the bottom of the sign has to be eight feet above, right? And this is probably, then it's, it probably can't go there. We probably have to go around where the brick changes or where it looks like the mortar changes. Yeah. So it's like a six, eight door to what's the step up. Yeah. There's a little bit of a step. And then it's probably close to eight feet where those you think so top of those bricks is. Okay. It's good for her to have it in mind anyway. Yeah. Probably nobody smashed it with the any mounting screws should go in the mortar. Yep. Steve mentioned. Okay. And I assume this is being centered over the door or is it justified inside? Nope, centered over the door. So are there any other recommendations? Again, we indicated a small black can light can be installed. Take to the building pointed back at the sign for illumination. Close to the building as possible to avoid falling ice or snow. Applicants option, if she chooses to use a darker color and the same color family for more contrast with the white lettering. And then again, mounting hardware to be attached in the mortar joints on the brick face. Were there any other comments, suggestions or recommendations? Hint straight. Hint straight. Oh, that's right. Option to add perimeter. Hint straight.  I don't think the ice and snow issue on that side of the building. I know it is closer to the bakery, but looking at this, this roof is either flat or pitched the other way. That roof pitches down towards the sidewalk. It kind of doesn't both, but it doesn't have the ice and snow issue. It has the ice bars up top, but this, no, but they're back here over there in the flat part. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm aware that the other roof can come off, but it's not the pitch of the, if it's over the doorway. Yeah, it's here. It's not the pitch. Yeah. So, I mean, they could maybe do a gooseneck there more. You could. There's still stuff that comes off of there.  Like we did not that long ago. You get, and it starts to melt. It does come over the edge. I mean, you could use a gooseneck, but be prepared to replace it. Right over. You noted also that the bracket would be above the soldier course. Right work, right above the door. The vertical bricks. Yeah. Yeah. Did you want to put that in as a recommendation that the bracket for the sign needs to be above the soldier course, above the door? We could, although at eight feet it will be anyway, but I can. Okay. Just to be sure. I can just reinforce that. Thank you, Liz. Okay. That's added as well. So we, again, we added the, there's an option to add a perimeter pinstripe around the sign in the same color as the lettering. And then again, the mounting bracket should be installed above the brick soldier course. And I can go through, there's a set of criteria that applies to the signed. And I can go through that criteria size, location, design, color, texture, lighting and material of all exterior signs within the design review over Lake District shall be compatible with the building and structures of the site and surrounding properties acceptable where appropriate signing shall respect the original sign placement and signed bands on historic structures. This location is acceptable. If a building has multiple tenants, there shall be consistency and placement and size among all signs acceptable. It is recommended the sign placement be centered over building entries acceptable. Sign installation shall minimize damage to character defining materials on the building. The attachment and location of the sign is acceptable. In masonry buildings, fasteners shall be in mortar joints acceptable. Sign design color and topography shall respect historic precedents where appropriate and shall be the appropriate scale for existing and new buildings acceptable. Sign support structure shall be compatible with the building architecture and must not be overly complex or dominant in and of themselves acceptable. Lighting fixtures for signs on facades of historic buildings shall not conflict with or damage the building's architectural integrity or cover or impact character defining architectural features acceptable. Lighting fixtures for signs mounted on all building facade shall be designed with appropriate housing shielding and photometrics to ensure that there is appropriate lighting levels and illumination that focuses on the sign panels exclusively acceptable. All in favor of the application with the recommendations and options speak your names. Ben. Martha. I'm a yes. Steven says yes. Liz, yes. So the application is accepted unanimously. So, Elisa, I will scan this recommendation from and email it to you because they did make some recommendations that would be like permit conditions. As long as you're okay with those, I'm going to have you sign it and then send that signature page back to us and then we'll be able to issue the permit for the sign. When you're ready to do the light, get back in touch with Adra and me because we'll have to do an administrative site plan report. And then depending on how the wiring's run and everything, you may have to come back to design review for that, but we'll see what ends up happening with the electrician. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. Awesome. Thank you, Elisa. Thank you and good luck with your new business. Thank you so much. We can move on to the next application for 89 Main Street. Owner Doug Netty, applicant. Is it Jaeger or Jaeger? Netty. It's pronounced Jagger, like Mick Jagger's easiest way to remember. Sorry. Tricky spelling. No, it's not you. It's my entire life spelling that. Well, thank you for your flexibility and describe your application for us. Sure. So we have a new tenant looking to occupy part of the first floor of 89 Main Street. Part of our fit up is going to include a new exterior entrance to help people go in and out of the building. We're looking to, we're planning for the future. We're having this entrance have two doors. One, if you go up one on the left, one on the right. So it can access multiple spaces. So in five, 10 years should this tenant leave and we want to subdivide it again. That space can be broken into smaller sections and we can bring even more retail life to East Day Street. The space itself is a couple steps up and then inside the building. So we'll be building a insulated cube essentially inside the building. We'll be pouring new footings, cutting concrete and pouring some new stairs and then adding one recessed light for safety and visibility at the top of the inlet. So this has an alcove sort of like the tattoo parlor does? Yep. That's exactly what we're trying to copy essentially. Same idea to just allow another way into the building. For retail especially, it's challenging for some people to go into the main entrance, the down hallway and find where you want to go. And we think just long term for the building it'd be great to have a new exterior entrance, which just gives even more life to that street and then just draws more people into the building. You anticipate any signage at this point? I do anticipate new horizons. I believe they have applied for a permit to do interior construction, putting a sign above the entryway. So that's for one door then the other door. Actually a mirror gold is looking to expand a bit. So we see them taking the other portion of the inside to where that door leads. So if you go up and then take the door to the right, that leads to mirror gold. I don't know if they would add another sign or just keep their primary entrance and use that as a secondary entrance. But that hasn't been signed yet. So we're still not sure who's taking the other space. Yeah, we haven't heard from... I don't think we've gotten a sign permit from New Horizons yet. That's I think pending. Yeah, they're still... That's exactly how they want to do it. And they're still in the early new business early stage of you know, work inside. I know that. So I know they're... I think they're permits pending from what I've talked with Gavin about. Everybody's looking at the plan so... Yep, I see that. And if you have questions, feel free to... I can't pull things up on the screen if somebody needs to look at something closer. In general, I think it's good to break up the side of that building and provide more track since down East State Street. A couple of questions. Could you explain exactly where the wood siding is going? Yep.  And then next to the aluminum storefront doors, so where the wood siding is going to be, it's just going to add a nice little accent there. And just kind of break up all the brick and add a nice refined feel was our kind of goal. Well, the other question I have is about matching the existing brick. Have you tried to find brick to match yet? We haven't gone that far into matching it, but getting as close as possible is definitely a goal of ours and matching the mortar also is a goal of ours. Well, I haven't done, but what I plan on doing is going, the entrance to Marigold was an add-on later. And I was looking at that, and they did a pretty good job of matching the brick and then also matching the mortar. We're going to try to save as much brick as possible from the exterior and try to reuse that. But there may be a need to use more, to make more and buy more brick. We're just not entirely sure if we're yet. Because the existing brick has been down there for about 40 years. Yep. And I can't believe that building's that old, because that's all right. See, if you can't match the brick, and they have been in a bunch with the old brick, if you're going to be able to see that very easily. And I suggest putting some kind of a divider in the two different kinds of brick are not woven together. Yep. That's a great thought. Or just whatever. Have a course of bricks and divide the two. I think you're going to really have a hard time matching that using the old bricks would be great. Yep. I think we're going to try to save as much as possible. And if it's not possible, so if you have a straight on view there, we might have the, you know, we might have that back wall as you walk up the stairs, continue that wood accent. If we run out of brick, it could be a potential solution for us. Let me try and go to where that view was. Of what the new. How long do you anticipate that the construction will take? We're still in the early stages of just getting some quotes for the concrete cutting, but once we move, I don't expect taking longer than a month. You can open, you know, cut the concrete in a day or two and just start working on pouring the new footings, foundation, concrete, and then framing it and doing the enclosure itself won't take that long. We've reached out to some companies to get beds on the storefront aluminum doors.  So that's, that could contribute to when we start the project and when that's completed. So I'm actually looking at the front here. It does look like they're using the exterior wood at the back as well. So that wraps them. So I think we should have plenty of old brick to use to finish off the edges, do the top part, and then infill the other door there and replace that with a window. Yeah. So do you see this, Eric? They've just pulled up. Sorry, I was wrong. Where they'll need to refill with the old brick, they're going to here and appear where they've filled in what's currently a door with a window, but they'll need to fill the top.  Plenty of brick. I think it's a good idea to save the old. Yeah, reuse it as much as possible. It might be a little hard to clean with that hard mortar on it, but by the way, to get enough to do this. Not as trying to replicate the brick as much as possible. And I'm not trying to be an ad for anybody, but travel trades between Winozki and Essex Junction was able to match some 100 year old bricks that we needed. And they matched it exactly. Wow. They're probably as good as you're going to find to match what you have. If you take a couple of samples, they must have a hundred different brick styles in their yard. Yeah, the bricks are easy to match. It's a big brick yard over there. Writing that down. Does anyone have any comments, questions or suggestions so far? Okay. And the describe the lighting that's going inside. Is that overhead above? Yep, it's overhead. One recessed, I believe. I have a material sheet here that specs it out. The recessed can light with a flood in it? Yeah, that's, let's see here. Should be on that. It's small. It's on here. There's a little, I zoomed in on it, but yeah, it's yeah, I had to pull it up from the original, but I don't have that on my. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, it's just a surface mount, down light, just around circle light. It has super low profile. I don't think you're going to see it other than the lights on the street. That's fine. Okay, we can go ahead and read through the criteria for the project. Exterior design and materials of new construction or alterations of existing buildings shall be consistent and compatible with the characteristics of the existing building or other properties in the district. Additions and alterations to non-historic non-contributing structures shall respect and be compatible with existing patterns and setbacks found in adjacent buildings. New additions on non-historic and non-contributing structures that overshadow or diminish the historic character of the adjacent contributing structures prohibited. That's acceptable. Existing buildings shall be recognized as a physical record of their time, place, and use acceptable. Alterations to buildings call for by public safety accessibility and fire codes shall be designed to maintain the character of the construction materials and features to the maximum extent feasible, acceptable. Proportion, compatibility of relationship between width and height of facades as well as relationship of width to height of windows and doors acceptable. Rhythm, visual patterns established by the alteration of solid walls and openings, windows and doors, and the facade of a building shall create a rhythm acceptable. Architectural features including but not limited to cornices, windows, shutters, fan lights, and tablature, trim, and other forms of molding or character defining, detailing, prevailing on the existing building shall be considered in the alteration of a building acceptable. Outdoor lighting fixtures, structural design of outdoor lighting fixtures shall be compatible with the architectural design and function of the building incompatible with the neighborhood acceptable. All in favor of the application, speak your names. Eric, Ben. Martha, Emma, yes. Liz, yes. And Steve says yes. So unanimous five to nothing in favor. Thank you all. Thank you because there weren't any tweaks to the plan at all. We will get this, we have this, so I just need the lumen output on those two lights, those recess lights, the one that's there already and the new one. And then we'll be able to wrap up that administrative site plan report and get this out the door to you. Great, I'll work on that. Thank you. Awesome, thank you. Does everybody have a chance to take a look at the minutes? Yep. Any comments, questions, suggestions, changes? Yeah, on the February 21st minutes, if you take a look on the bad sides, it looks like there's a sentence missing. It goes right from Michael Mulcahy was present to 32 inches high, 32 inches wide. Looks like we have a sentence or something missing. Yeah, or the part of the sign. Yeah, I don't know what happened there. I think it's just supposed to be that sign will be. Well, but I will double check on that. Yeah, I think we need to see what exactly it says. Yeah, no, well, because usually, I mean, this is, there's usually a brief description of the proposal. And so I will fix that. Yeah, they're back to you. On the March 6th minutes, I make a motion to accept them the way they are. Do I hear a second? I'm going to abstain because I wasn't there. You've been all second. All in favor of the March, the six minutes, speak your name. Martha, Eric, Eric, it says you were here. Steve. You were there on the March 6th one. On the March 6th, yeah, I was there, but not for the February. Right. So we're voting on the March 6th. Well, I just, well, I vote yes. Okay. Then that, that makes. We're on February. We jumped ahead. That makes four of us in. So that's approved. Anyone have any other business or anything else to add? If not, do I hear a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. All in favor of adjournment, speak your names. Eric. Ben. Steve. Martha. Liz. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all for coming. See you in April.


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelleo. I read this, well I listened to this book on Scribe. I did read some of it because they have the text version. Also if you'd like to check out Scribe get a free month free and my kids get a free month free. Also there's a link down there in the doobly-doo for you to check it out. You can't use it if you've already gotten a free month trial. But if you want to, and they didn't pay me to say this, not a sponsor, but if you want to try it out help out my kids. I appreciate it. They get unlimited books and audiobooks and so do you for a month. Try it. You don't have to keep it. You can get, I think you can cancel as soon as you start the trial so you don't have to worry about forgetting to cancel and then you still have the month free but I could be wrong about that. Make sure you check before you do it. Anyways, so this book is retelling, not really a retelling but a repurposing of the Pied Piper mythology. In fact that was my favorite part of the book. For those of you here for the TLDW too long didn't watch. I absolutely loved this book. It was very creepy. The characters were really good but we'll get into that more. But if you wanted the TLDW there you have it. I loved it and I suggest you read it. So the plot here is, I want to say this but I don't want you thinking that I think Pelleo ripped anybody off. It is this book is very John Connolly like the Charlie Parker's supernatural thrillers. It's a police procedural meets supernatural horror and I absolutely love that aspect of it. There is one thing I want to mention before I get on with the review and that is a weird phenomena. Maybe it's a phenomena. I tried to think the best about people but there are several reviews on Goodreads that I read once I finished this that talk about how much they didn't like the Wikipedia articles or the Wikipedia article-esque aspects of the book and I didn't notice any Wikipedia or Wikipedia-esque aspects. I don't know if they're talking about how much the author goes into detail about the surroundings or the place that the book is named after. It's called Children of Chicago. I expected Chicago history and lore and all that and as someone who's never been to Chicago I found all that stuff fascinating. But anyways it's just it's weird that so many reviewers mentioned Wikipedia and I didn't I didn't get even a sense of that throughout the book unless unless they were Wikipedia articles in there that I didn't catch because I was listening to the audiobook. If there are I'm sorry I missed it but I don't remember anything like from Wikipedia this date or whatever. I didn't notice any of that and the history of the town is no different than like John Connolly going into great detail about the places where he sets his books. So I had no problem with it because I'm a big John Connolly fan. So this this book revolves around a detective named Lauren who's looking into a murder case and there are okay let's go through I think the easiest way because I don't want to spoil anything for you guys. Let's go through my my three things I look for in every in every book whether it be horror or anything characters pacing and dread characters amazing in fact the best part of the book I feel other than the history in the lore so I guess second second part second my second favorite part is the main character of Lauren and how the book ends I'm not going to spoil it for you but I yeah another thing I'll say before I get on to the pacing and the dread is there's with this but there's there's a lot of very very subtle subtle creepy things that I enjoyed and I don't think that has to do with the pacing or the dread even even the dread we'll talk about that more in a second why I say that but there are so many there's one scene in here in particular that happens that I'm going to say it's Moe and it's in a restroom it stands out as probably one of the one of the creepiest scenes I've come across in a long time I would put it up there with Marisha Pacelle's night film and the scene on the bridge in that book anyways so let's go on to pacing I didn't feel this book lagged whatsoever in fact the author's descriptions of the city all that so it's very very well written that's why that's another reason why I'm sitting here going why are they mentioning Wikipedia articles because there's more places to get you know history than Wikipedia but anyways the authors have been doing this since the beginning of since the beginning of writing period or storytelling so I don't understand that but the with with the pacing it really moves along even during the sections where the author is telling us about this the city the history of the city the terrible and good things the culture the art all that stuff I felt that it was engaging I had a lot of fun reading it now I did read one article that mentioned that the author might have got something wrong I can't speak to that I've never been to Chicago I don't know anything about Chicago but in the book which is a fiction book I I believed what the author was selling that made me gullible gullible or naive I don't know but I'm not gonna judge a city based on a fiction book if that makes sense but the book blew right along I had a lot of fun with it I can't think of a single time when I wanted to put it down the I think I read it the whole book in three settings sitting or not really sitting because I listen to audiobooks when I walk and then during my cool-down time either that or when I exercise so but it was a total of three times I listened to it and I never wanted to stop listening to it I just had other things to do and then when I couldn't listen to it I would read the text version which is very miniscule I maybe read three maybe three chapters in the text version and that was just because I like to judge the the the text against the the actual audiobook and I didn't find any discrepancies like sometimes you'll find errors in the in the text that you can't of course here in the audiobook I didn't find any of that stuff but I didn't read the whole physically read the entire book I listened to the entire book next up is the dread the dread here is off the charts especially when you realize that this is a supernatural thriller I asked before I even read this I asked people on Twitter is like is this book horror or is this just a police procedural because the I feel the description was kind of vague on that like it could be one thing it could be another which which I appreciate because I don't normally read descriptions but I heard it being called a police procedural and I'm not too into that I like the Charlie Parker series because it's about a private investigator and not you know just the the day-to-day routine and all the I'm not a big fan like CSI and that kind of thing I was worried that's what it was that's why it took me so long to read I'm happy to say it was it was it was nothing like that it was much more fun than just reading a by-wrote you know descriptions of like you know the detective stuff there's a lot of character work here but the dread keeps mounting and keeps mounting and keeps mounting it just keeps going man until the final end and I was that that ending that bravo and more than a golf clap I want to full on applaud it I I love books that end this way and again I will state the scene with Mo in the restroom one of the scariest scenes I have had the pleasure to read slash listen to whatever so bravo to the author and her amazing debut I am super excited for anything that she writes from here on out but have you read Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelleo if you have then please let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it you hated it you felt meh about it if you felt any of those things describe how you felt in detail or why you felt those things so that we can have a discussion but until next time I have any you've been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later


Tachilain here on Y254 on this beautiful Saturday afternoon after very cold Friday today seems that the sun is out there and people are actually enjoying the sun and here in the studio we're here to talk about everything that has been happening in the world of sports and let's go a bit rugby on everything that has been happening in the Tokyo Olympic 2020 and joining us to talk about everything when it comes to matters rugby is a kikichi combo the director youth and innovation at the Kenya Rugby Union Malimu welcome to Y254 welcome to the Tachilain thank you thank you Banozora and good to see you again yeah it's been a hectic year it's been a hectic year and it seems that it has been not a good olympics for us we can say yeah okay for the area that we participated but we are anticipating as the time goes by there are more events coming up and you know where we are strong yes hopefully we'll be able to do well yeah I've seen 800 as you have we still have steep edges for women yeah I know trophies we are sorry we'll be getting some medals there yeah we hoped that we'll start with the 10 000 meters yesterday but it was not it never happened for us in that one but as Malimu said we've got many more getting on to the semifinals of the 800 meters and we'll be hoping that when it comes to the 5000 and 1500 also steep alches those will be our gold medals but let's talk about rugby and everything that has been happening there Fiji world champions again when it comes to olympics seems they got a knock a knock of how to win the olympics medal yeah they have been systematic and when you see the Fiji and rugby and the population in general they have accepted that Akiragbi is their game the whole population and they also they have having a very good structure developmental structure it's made them to go the way while they won in Rio and same time the next so this olympic again they have won against New Zealand you've seen the the women also rugby also going to the final losing to New Zealand I can see men losing to Fiji and also it's a revenge for the women in New Zealand also winning so that seems a very good structure and when you look at the Fijian players you can see the likes of Serevi the magician then coming in of Jeritwai carrying on now you can be able to see the Relangu also these are very good players you look at Osaya they are also very good players and that tells us the structure the Fijians are having and they seems they have mastered the game of the seventh game of rugby yeah a big one for Fiji they are congratulations to them and winning that one but let's bring it back home here for the Kenya the Shuja and also the lioness on our performance we lost our three matches in the pool one against Ireland what can be our biggest lesson from this year's olympics okay well the way I look at it they have improved as a way to enter into Rio and find that we've been having that consistency you know seventh it's been our game and seems players have also been an athletic nation we've been able to do well because of the version of the game but this time round we've seen the way they were playing but there were some areas actually that probably the coaches would be able to look and be able to improve especially on the Shuja probably on the breakdowns and all that but it's also about the structures and the development which the Kenya union now is putting on to see that now people first the other players see the captain also now calling it done it now with a plate for the nation we say thank you for the captain actually andromone so now just been a journey for him in drug yeah and you've been one of the captain of winning Singapore seven for the first time that that leg in 2016 and so he says fine let me also now give it out to the others players and we can be able to see the young players who are coming up like Olindi performing well in that game of island that shows us the prowess that Kenya rugby is putting in place so it's a lesson much improved as we went down to Rio and probably as we go next now in 2024 we'll work out to qualify and then we want to do it even the lioness you see how they played yesterday against Japan winning 27-5 and going down today to Canada but see now the margin as it was in Rio it's much improved but despite that we even heard five girls who are not training they were in isolation because of the covid issue but now coming in the last few days and we're only having seven players in the camp and they can be able to do that now it's almost a factor that affected our performance in Rio but we expect we come back we'll be able to focus on and correct as we've put structures in the development structure big one there because also we understand that we had the oldest squad in these years olympics meaning that these other teams the young guys were very too fast for us yeah well you know when it comes to the games about the experience probably we had the oldest squad and most experience remember 1999 when the Fiji actually Fiji were rated out in the when the world rugby and people said they had the oldest squad they cannot go to run kina Serevi but they went on to to win that to win that championship in to 20 299 so uh what what what we are saying that uh it's just luck and probably the game was also changing in terms of uh what they are people were kind of putting on a lot of uh involvement in terms of technology and all that yeah so uh as the others bow out uh probably it's probably multiple i mean a factor this time round but now we're also going to look into that and that's why you see the coach what he was doing is trying to integrate the young guys and the old guys as they bow out we already have our structure but this time round as we satisix showed that kenya actually had the the oldest squad and the most experienced squad which could have actually uh probably won yeah but luck was not on our side on this they are this time from my own point of view i'm of their idea that our teams were also affected by kovid 19 because we were almost a year out of no competition yes they are they were in camp and training but missing kenya cup matches did these affect these uh these boys and girls because now these these guys were not in farm competition going on to this competition yeah yeah it does because what normally happens with any competition is about the coach and we have players who are coming up and they are graduating from from one level to another and uh when we have those kind of competition the coach can be able to see which type of player it probably is not playing well and there's another player who is playing well so it really affected remember rugby has not been played from 2020 march yes yeah we just came back recently and there was a lot of interruption with the kovid so it it's played a big a big a big disadvantage on our side and also not having played the seven circuit seven circuit normally it's an area where coaches also go down and they select players based on the competition but having lacked that seven competition we also have zafari sevens actually which we invite foreign teams to come and be able to gauge our players and the coach can also now be able to see which players is probably a meeting around 80 percent who is doing 100 percent who is doing 60 percent then i can be able to have his squad also and that's also we normally have a team b that's a developmental side also playing but not having zafari sevens that also hind that also having the development side from playing because normally when they play you can have two or three players also from the middle side replacing the guys in the 80 yes so it is about is it it was not really a big disadvantage for us the kovid issue but having the camp and the government also coming in support knock it was and also having the the rugby afri competition south afrika and at nisha you see that was another factor that also was able to uplift our preparation for the olympics yeah it was well big one there for us when it comes to the olympics roba rosoro here for the touchline on social media is at y254 hashtag touchline and we are giving you everything that is happening when it comes to matters sports a big one there for kenya let's bring it back home here and we've got one game that will be happening today kcb rugby we'll be playing against top friend akuru at the kcb sports club ruah raka from 3 p.m. and then i two matches in pala strutmolios that was supposed to happen at in pala from one that game has actually been postponed and then mamba and nondescripts also just to be a doubleheader there but the game has also been postponed and now we'll be watching the defending champions kcb go out against top fry at the ruah raka grounds from 3 p.m. big news also that came out this weekend polo dera the chipu coach also resigning no i think uh be able to uh okay well information okay probably i've also seen it and uh we probably the board chairman will be able to be reacting with but i have not seen as a board on that area of our discussion but i have also seen it on the social media social media circles yeah sure wow big one i think the information will be coming out probably soon yeah yes and then kcb top fry big game at 3 today yeah yeah it's a big one coming up and it's it's also it's advantage for the funds not who are waiting to have a watch their matches on the tv that is a mamba mamba and nondes and in pala and strutmol but that one has been postponed but that should be set another day when they will also be able to enjoy the matches but this one's a big one kcb also working hard probably to to probably to maintain to to retain the cup um cabra is also playing well and we've seen for the few matches they have played yeah so we expect a big match ahead but today probably kcb the way i've i've seen the rating kcb and and and strut many and akuru yes well kcb might be having a upper hand but now with preparation how it is normally coaches how they prepare their team anything can happen yeah yeah so but i think it's a good match also it's it's good to see the trackbees back under people playing rugby it's good for for the players also briefly because we we didn't uh bad scalp uh boys performed also very well yeah yeah winning uh that was a big one for for kenya defending champions again so expect for them to work rugby junior trophy yeah they representing africa probably full goes well we'll be hosting they will be what rugby will be announcing probably next year uh the host yeah and kenya had placed um to host the the championship so we might be able to get it and then i think that will be okay also a big plus so that people can watch it home last year we played in brazil and so how the boys play they played well and some of them have graduated they are playing for simbars yes yeah simbars also qualifying for the next level uh competition we expect for the world cup uh coming up in france in 2023 so we are on course and uh coaches will be preparing the team for that oh yeah sure to our plan is also they are also working out playing to play against colombia for world cup we find that's before now they go for for three pay charge yes so we expect them will be hosting colombia here in iroby so we expect to be that come this august uh to be in 20th and 24th on august okay i might not be able to know that it but in august yeah so we expect and client is to do well to win against colombia then uh we go for three pay judge and work out to qualify for the world cup simbars did well in france you saw we were able to play in france but for the first time you see now that initially we had not gone for the repair but this for the first time so that places where we are now in in africa with the ratings kenya being number two abia in south africa so our agbis on track well thanks a lot malim we leave it there till the next time but next time we will be talking about how we are going to win those medals but these boys from the bus cup they are showing a lot of promise yeah when it when it goes forward and actually get to world rugby junior trophy there it is the touchline here on why two five four let's go for a short commercial break when we come back it will be all about the fund zone and everything that is happening in football considering that every cost have lost five two to spain in the quarterfinals of the olympics


Hello everyone, this is EKB news reporter Shelby Porter here. I'm currently in front of Belfry Elementary School here in Toler. As you can tell the creek behind me is very high There isn't water in front of the school However, for those familiar with the area of the old velocity market, there is a little bit of water in the roadway But not as much as usual at last check the river was at 32 feet And again, like I said earlier the flood stages 38 They are planning to close the floodgates when the water reaches 35 or 36 feet so as of right now officials are on standby to Look at the weather and see what it's doing The river is currently rising earlier at When I did my first live report. It was around 11 the water had crested to 29.75 and right now it's at 32 So like I said, it is rising even though it is not raining anymore The rain is expected to pick back up I think around three or four this afternoon So we will continue to keep a watch on it and keep you updated us as we can as you can tell behind me Like I said the creek beside Belfry Elementary is very high There's not water in the road in front of the school However, in front of the old velocity market, there is some standing water in the road So be very careful. Please. Please. Please. I cannot say this enough. Do not drive through water You do not know how the road condition underneath the water is and so please do not drive through the water please do not try to Go through it in any way and for the areas that are prone to having water on the roadways It's likely that there is water on that part of the road. So please be careful Please, you know do not drive through the water I cannot stress that enough the water the river here on in tug fork is at 32 at last check The flood stage is 38 so once the water reaches around 35 or 36 feet they will close the floodgates in South Williamson So just stay tuned to the EKB news Facebook page EKB TV and the radio stations of East Kentucky broadcasting and we will up update you with information as it becomes available


and welcome to the session. This is Professor Fahad in which you would look at CPA exam questions covering the purchasing cycle. The purchasing cycle is covered in the auditing section of the CPA exam as well as an auditing graduate or undergraduate course. I do cover the auditing cycle as well as all other accounting cycle in my auditing course. So if you are looking to learn more about this topic, purchasing, revenue, inventory, property, plant and equipment, equity, expense cycle, they all covered in my auditing course. So in this session, I'm going to focus on one section. But if you need more review, please check out my auditing course on my website where you will have detailed explanation about this topic. As always, I would like to remind you to connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. YouTube is where you would need to subscribe. I have 1700 plus accounting, auditing, tax, finance, as well as Excel tutorial. If you like my lectures, please like them, share them. If they benefit you, it means they might benefit other people. Subscribe to my YouTube, connect with me on Instagram. On my website, farhadlectures.com, this is where I have my courses. And my auditing course will cover this topic way in detail as well as other courses as well. I do also have a CPA auditing section on my website. So in case you need to supplement your education or your preparation for your CPA exam, if you want to add 10 to 15 points or what I ask you to do is check out my website. So let's take a look at the first question. And the first question asks, how many different documents are generally involved in the purchasing cycle? So simply put, what I'm trying to test here is, do you know what the purchasing cycle is? How many documents are involved? So what is the purchasing cycle? The purchasing cycle is from the time we purchase and until the time we receive the material. So what are the documents that are involved in this process? Let's assume you work in a particular department at your company and you want to purchase, let's assume a laptop or an iPad. What do you do first? First you have to fill out a purchase requisition, purchase requisition report. And what's this purchase requisition report? It's filled out by you and you're going to need your manager's approval or the head of the department approval that you need that iPad. Let's assume you are buying an iPad. That's what you're buying. So that's one document, purchase requisition. What's going to happen is this. Once it's approved, this document should go to the purchasing department. So the purchasing department will fill out a purchase order. So what's going to happen? The purchasing department would look at the request and they would say, yes, main source is requesting an iPad, main source supervisor approve the iPad. It must be a legitimate purchase. Now we are ready to make the purchase. Therefore they will send the order to Apple because we're going to buy an iPad from Apple. Now also what we do, we're going to prepare a report once we receive the iPad. So who's going to prepare this report? The receiving department. So the receiving department would prepare a receiving report. So once we receive the iPad, they would say, okay, here's what we received. We received an iPad. They'll have the description, the item number, so on and so forth and the details. So notice one, two, three. Are we done yet? No, we still have one more report, which is four. And that fourth report is what Apple invoices. Apple will send us an invoice, a purchase invoice, asking us to pay, to pay for the bill. So those are the four documents. We need a purchase requisition, a purchase order. When we receive it, a receiving report, then the purchase invoice. Once we have those documents in order, in order means we have all of them. And in this particular order, the reason I said in order, because the next question they're going to ask you about the order of these document, then you have a valid, legitimate purchase, and we can put them all together in a voucher system and submit them for payments, submit them for payments. So let's take a look at these, this question. Put these documents in the order in which they appear in the purchasing cycle. Well, we kind of did this question already. So but this is how you would approach this question. Well, if you know that the purchase requisition is the first document, if you already know this, immediately you could eliminate C and D. So if you know the purchase requisition is the first document, then you're ready down to 50-50. Then after the purchase requisition comes the purchase order. Once it's approved, now you can ask them to prepare the order. The purchasing department will, will prepare the purchase order. So this is the purchasing department, the purchasing department. Also you have to know which department is doing what. This is the purchasing department, receiving department. You have a receiving room or a receiving department, prepare this report, receiving room, room or department. The purchase invoice usually goes to the accounts payable or to the accounts payable to update the record. Then the purchase requisition is the person that's preparing the report, whoever that person is. So once you know the purchase order comes next, A is the answer. Then comes the, then they, then you receive it, then they invoice you. Therefore the answer is A. The answer is A. Let's take a look at this question in a purchasing cycle that uses a voucher system, good internal control, dictate that which of the following department should be responsible for signing the check and mailing the check to the vendor. So who should sign and mail the check? Well look, should the accounts payable, the voucher payable, signs the check and the answer is definitely no. Why? Because payable is accounting. Accounting should not have access to cash. So once we eliminate B and D, we're down to A and C. So it's the cash disbursement. Now the cash disbursement usually it's the treasury person that signs the check. But the question becomes who mails the check? Do you sign the check and send it back to the voucher payable, to the accounts payable department and ask them to mail it? No, that's bad. Again accounting should not have access to cash. Therefore as soon as you sign it immediately, as soon as possible, you mail it out. Therefore the answer is C. And this is basically proper internal control. So the check should never go backward, go to the accounts payable department. The voucher payable or the accounts payable, they put all these documents together. They put all these documents together and they send them to the cash disbursement, to the cash disbursement, to pay the bill. And the cash disbursement, don't send it back to them. They sign the check and they send it out. Let's take a look at this question. To provide to provide assurance that each voucher is submitted and paid only once. In order with examine a sample of paid voucher, so they're already paid and determine whether each voucher is what. So we want to make sure that we only paid the voucher once. We only paid the bill once. Okay. One, supported by a vendor invoice and a purchase order with that. That's a good practice. We want to make sure that each payment is supported by a vendor invoice and a purchase order. But is that really for payment purposes? No, that's for authorization. That's if you want to make sure they were properly authorized, we examine this. So one is not an answer because it doesn't serve our purpose, the paid. So if one is out, C is out, A and C are out. We're only left with B and D. So you want to find out if two is correct, if two is correct, the answer is B. If two is incorrect, it doesn't serve what we want to do. Then the answer is D. The voucher is stamped paid by the check register. Yes, once we stamped it, once we write on it paid, something like this paid. And if it's right, you just initial paid MF. I paid it, Mansour far had paid it. That's who said it's paid. Once you stamped it paid, then that's it. Then hopefully, not hopefully, the purpose is if somebody else get their hands on that voucher, they're going to see it's paid. Therefore, we don't pay it twice. I would say two is a good answer. Okay. So we need to determine whether each voucher is stamped paid by the check signer. So once you sign, once you pay it, stamp it paid. So no room for mistake. Well, there is room for fraud. Somebody could, you know, write another check again, but that's not, that's not by mistake. That's fraud. That's different for a good internal control, stamp it paid. So this way, if somebody sends another check, it's easier to kind of determine whether it's fraud or by error. We will tell them, look, didn't you see it's stamped paid? Why did you pay it again? Okay. So that's part of it because they can claim. I did not know it was paid. Well, it was paid. Don't pay it again. Let's take a look at this question. An auditor vouchers a sample of entries and the voucher register to the support and documents. So here you're going backward. You're looking at your entries, at your journal entries, and you're going backward to find support and documents. Which assertions with this test with this most likely support. Okay. So what are we looking for here? So let's assume we said we paid someone, we made a payment. So if we make a payment at the end of the day, we debit accounts payable, we credit cash. So this is what we're doing. Let's assume we are looking at this voucher at this entry $200, $200. I'm sorry, I'm laughing because at some point I still remember when I was doing audit, I would do this and sometime I would select payments like and one time it was for toilet papers. So I wanted to make sure that indeed they purchased toilet papers. So what I do is you will take the entry then you go backward to see why did we make this payment? Do we have support and documents? I still laugh about it that it was a toilet paper. It's something that came to my mind now. It came to my mind now. So what are you doing when you do so when you're going backward? You're looking at the accounting record and going backward for support and document. You want to see if this transaction actually exists. If it exists, then that's fine. If it's exist, then keep it. If it doesn't exist, if it doesn't have support and document, then we have an issue. So existent or occurrence, one is definitely a candidate. So I'll take out B and take out D. Or what I have to find out if to serve this test, completeness. Is this a completeness test? And the answer is no. The opposite is completeness. Completeness is when you look at the documents and you go forward to make sure it went all the way to the journal entry. This is what completeness is. So you want to make sure the difference between existence, occurrence, and completeness in all these terms. So the answer is A. And how do you learn all of this? Well, you either learn it in college, good for you. If not, go to my auditing course on my website, farhatlectures.com, where I have plenty of explanation about these topics. This is what you need, my auditing and attestation. The good thing about my website is once you subscribe, you have access to everything, especially additional CPA resource material. Look, CPA is a lifetime investment. Take it seriously. Don't shortchange yourself. Study hard. Good luck. 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Welcome back to the ITU headquarters here in Geneva, which is of course hosting the AI for Good Global Summit. And here on the first day, we're in the afternoon session, I'm very pleased to have Nicholas Davis with me. He's Head of Society and Innovation for the World Economic Forum, who of course have Davos under their umbrella organisation. So tell me, Nicholas, what have you come here to achieve or listen to? Why are you here? We live at a really important time in history in terms of the development of a range of emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence is probably one of the most obvious and transformative of them. And so the discussions here today represent this moment where we can start to talk about the potential impacts, not just on the people who are lucky enough to live in Geneva or come to a conference in Geneva, but the impacts on the vulnerable populations, people, citizens of developing countries around the world and indeed the environment and future generations who don't have as much voice or say in the kind of decisions that are being made by the companies, researchers and individuals who are developing artificial intelligence today. How can you legislate big data? I don't think it's about legislation. It's much more around a range of governance ideas here. So governance are ripped broadly.