Statistics and Excel. Election polls. Statistics example part number two. Get ready, taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds and looking forward to a smooth, soothing Excel. Here we are. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us. But that's okay, whatever.  Like our CPA six-pack shirts. A must-have for any pool or beach time. Mixing money with muscle. Always sure to attract attention. Yeah, even if you're not a CPA, you need this shirt so you can like pull in that iconic CPA six-pack stomach muscle vibe, man.  Yeah, as a CPA, I actually and unusually don't have tremendous abs. However, I was blessed with a whole lot of belly hair. Yeah, allowing me to sculpt the hair into a nice CPA six-pack like shape, which is highly attractive. Yeah, maybe the shirt will help you generate some belly hair too. And if it does, make sure to let me know. Maybe I'll try wearing it on my head. And yes, I know six-pack isn't spelled right, but three letters is more efficient than four, so I trimmed it down a bit, okay? It's an improvement. You can start from a blank worksheet in the prior presentation or you can continue on from here with a blank worksheet if you so choose. If you do have access to this workbook, three tabs down below. Example, practice, blank. Example tab in essence, answer key. Practice tab having pre-formatted cells so you can get to the heart of the practice problem. The link tab is where we started in essence from a blank worksheet, practicing formatting cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. So let's just recap what we did last time and then we'll continue on this time. So we are imagining we're trying to put statistical information into Excel that would mirror poll results where the population of the poll is actually, meaning the actual population results for the entire population we're imagining is 60% for candidate A. So then we wanted to think about how we can mirror random or sampling to go towards that conclusion. So we then use the function of random between 1 and 100 and we did 10 samples of 150 using our random generation tool. Anything that has a result of 60 and below, we imagined for candidate A any random generated result of over 60, we said we're not for candidate A. We then used our random sample generator to then make hard coded numbers that we could then test out and look at the results of those 10 samples of 150. We're going to use the same concept here, but now just practice making a larger bucket, taking this out not just to 10 samples, but let's do like 500 samples. We did a whole bunch of samples and then we can basically make a histogram about the results, the percent results of our samples and see what that starts to look like if we did this over and over again. So we're basically going to build this as though we're on a blank worksheet and just basically do it again, just make a bigger one here. Alright, so let's make a skinny AC. I'm going to put my cursor between the AC and the AD and drag that in a bit. I'm going to call this sample. Let's say this is sample 1 and then I'm going to put sample 2 and then I'm going to copy that. I'm going to select both of them, but I'm going to go all the way out to like 500 so I can see it's counting up. So I'm going to go all the way out here a whole bunch of times just to note that we can use an Excel, test things out with a relatively large amount of numbers. So we'll just bring this all the way out here and it's going to count up a little bit tedious, but much easier of course than if we were trying to do something like this by hand. So we're almost there. Let's bring it up to 500. There it is.  That's wrapping the text. Then I'll center it over here. And now let's bring it down to like 150 again. So I'll say one and two and then we'll bring these down. Let's make it just like 75 on the number of people this time, but we'll do it 500 times. So let's bring this down and put it to 75 this time. So I'll say 75 just to switch it up. Let's make it like 80. Let's make it 80. Sorry for the confusion. So there's the number of samples that I'm going to have. I probably should have moved that over. Let's actually start our random thing over here. So the random result I'm going to say is equal r, a, n, d. And I want random between, random between. And then once again the bottom is going to be 1, the top is going to be 100. Between 1 and 100 and enter. So we got 33. So because that's below 60, we're imagining this would be a 4, the candidate, a result. I'm going to copy that all the way down, fill handling it down, and we'll copy it all the way down to 80. So that looks good. And then I'm just going to select this copied area and I'm just going to right click and copy it like that. I'm going to paste it over the numbers. So I'll just use those numbers to kind of see how far down we were going. And I can right click and paste it. Just normal. And it's pasting the formulas. So you can see the formulas are being pasted. I'm going to continue to paste it, you know, all the way across. So I can keep on. I lost it though. So let's copy it again. I'm going to copy this whole thing. Now this time, instead of me going down here and using the fill handle to drag it to the right. Because I can copy the entire formula, what I want and I don't need to like see a trend line like I did up here. It's easier not to use the fill handle, but possibly just to copy the entire column of numbers. And then I'm going to select the first cell of every of every column all the way out to that 500. So it takes a little bit to get there. But we'll get there, man. We'll get there just one step at a time. Actually, this is like one step at a time, but really fast steps because we step really fast. We're fast. And then we're going to right click and paste it and boom. So now we've got this whole data. Let's go ahead and put a table in this whole thing. I'll put my cursor in any cell, not selecting more than one cell. I'm going to the insert tab up top table group, adding a table and then it's selecting from a D. Let's say let's see a D one to 81. So let's select the whole thing and say, OK, tables has been entered.  Sorry, that's a movie line. They always made me laugh. OK, so now if I then click on any of the whole thing, then recalculates. So now let's copy this whole number random number generator thing and paste it on another section of 500 columns, but one, two, three only just so that we no longer have the formulas. So I'm going to copy this whole thing, putting my cursor on the whole column of AD and copying all the way to the right until we get to the 500 cells that are way over here. So there we have it to TI and then I'm going to right click and copy and then I'll scroll to the right this time instead of so I can just scroll to the right. Scroll to the right. I probably could have done that holding shift or something made a little bit easier too, but and then I'm just going to put my cursor down and move a few tabs on over and then I'll put this in the TL column. So I'm going to right click and paste it this time one, two, three just the values now before I'm done. I also am going to paste the formatting right click and paste the formatting one, two, three. So there we have it and then I'm just going to add my blue. Now another way you can do this is I might select the top the top column. I want to select the whole thing and I might then scroll to the right and then all the way down holding down shift and then select the bottom column. Notice what that did it selected the whole range with just two cells and it's a little bit faster possibly sometimes than scrolling over there. So then I'm going to or like holding down the click and then dragging right so I'm going to go to the home tab font group and hit the bucket drop down. I want that blue. If you don't have it, you go to the more colors standard and you make it that blue or you can make it another blue. If you if you want to switch things up, you don't have to make it that blue. It's not a critical component to the problem. I'm going to put the borders around the whole thing. Border in it. Okay. And then let's scroll on down and let's put our our calculations at the bottom. So the calculations are going to be I'm going to say the percent for a. So let's get let's say this is for a the number for a and I'm going to. So I want to take everything in this column that is 60% and below and say that those count those. I want you to count those because those are the results that we are imagining are for candidate a. So to do that little bit tricky same same formula we did last time. I'll try to do it all with the keystrokes this time. So equals count shift nine up arrow for for the and then a hold on not count. Just count if count if shift nine range because we're looking at the range here up arrow. Starting the range holding shift and control all the way to the top holding down just shift down arrow one time. There's our range we could see it in the formula bar up top scrolling back down so we could see a little bit more clearly down here though. And then we're going to say comma what's the criteria the criteria is going to be less than or equal to so we have to then because that's. Text I have to put the quotes around it less than or equal to in the quotes and then we have to put an and. To connect it and 60 and that should do it so less if it's less than or equal to 60 is what that's saying alright and then if it's so we got 50 there if it's not a. So I could do I could do you know 80 minus it could be equal to 80 minus the 50 but I'm going to do a similar formula so we can practice our formulas equals. Count if bracket shift nine up arrow hold twice holding down shift and control up arrow to the top holding down just shift down so that we just have the data. And then we're going to say comma to the next argument the criteria is that it has to be. Quote quote greater than and I don't need an equals this time great greater than 60 so we're going to say then. Greater than 60 and close it up boom okay something I have to put an and I need an and to connect that out okay and then boom so there we have it and so the total. Should add up to 80 equals the some shift nine up arrow holding down shift up again adding them up to 80 and then font group and underline let's take a look at the percent. The percent for a so that's going to be the 50 divided by the 80 so this will equal to up to the 50 divided by up to the 80. Enter it's at one we need to percentify that cell you better recognize the percentify hometown numbers percentify it. And then we're going to go down here the percent the percent for B is going to be the 30 divided by or over the 80 equals up up up to the 30 divided by up up the 80. Then we'll percentify so we can recognize home tab numbers group percentify and then let's put an underline while we're here fonts group underline. And then the total percent total percent is going to be equal to the trustee some it should come out to 100 this is just a double check number some in the 63 the 38 comes out to one. We need to percentify so we could recognize number group percentify. Okay let's copy the results across so we come out to 63 38. So we and we think that the actual results are around 60 which would make sense because we took a random generated thing between 100. So you would think it would come around come out if we sum them up around 60 percent around would be 60 or below. So if I select these items and I copy them and and let's use the fill handle to drag it across. I could copy them by the way to but either method is probably just as just as good because I have to go all the way to the right anyways to like 500 cells which is way over to the right here. So we're just going to let it run there. Notice how it slows down to the end kind of helps you out. So there we have it. There's our numbers. Let's make this whole thing. Now I shouldn't have done. Let's make it all blue for the bottom bit. Make it all blue like has been our custom for the bottom bit here for the results that we're currently on. We want results. What does that even mean? Means he gets results. McGarnacle. Okay. It's taken a long time to get to the right. There it goes. Finally and then home tab fonts group drop down dark blue and then and then we'll border it in the white for the letters. Okay. So if we look at these numbers here the percent for a you would expect them to be kind of hovering around the 50% right. So now let's take this entire this entire I'm sorry hovering around the 60%. Let's take let's take this entire data set and make it a vertically aligned data set. So I'm scrolling scrubbing to the right. So I want to take this percent for a and make it vertical. So I'm going to select this whole thing again. Are we really going to do this? Yeah, it's not. We're going to do this again. We're going to take this whole thing. And by the way, it might be a little faster if I select these and then I scrub to the right. And then I'm going to scrub to the right scrub to the right scrub to the right scrub to the right and then hold down shift and then boom. So that takes the whole thing a little bit faster. Control C for copy or right click and copy. And then I'm going to go up to the top here, paging up to the top. I'm going to paste it out here somewhere. Let's put it in AMU.  I don't know. It's the AMU. So and then let's paste it just 123 pasting it 123. And then I'm going to copy it. I'm not going to format it yet. I'm just going to right click and copy and then paste it in AMT right click and paste it special though, special pasting transposing the numbers. Transpose, por favor. And then let's percentify it while it's highlighted. Home tab numbers percentify. There we go. And then I'm going to delete all of these. All of this stuff. This is no longer needed. You have served your purpose. You will be deleted. Right click and don't know. Okay, I'm going to go to the home tab font group and make this black and white. So this is the expected value, which we think is 60% point six, and then we'll percentify it so we can recognize it. Number group percentify. And this is the difference difference, which is going to be equal to the 63 minus the 60. Now to get that 60 to copy down, I'm going to say equals the one above it. So that it copies it down and then I'm also going to percentify this cell. Home tab number percentify the difference. I need to percentify it home tab number percentify. I'm going to copy this down one time to get them even. So now I've got those two. Those two even I'm going to select these two now and I could just right click and copy that or I can put my cursor on the fill handle and drag it down. Let's copy it because that'll be so I could copy this instead of using the fill handle just to see because I'm copying formulas all the way down. So it should work because it's not like a trend kind of thing that we're doing so that I can go all the way down. There's 500 of them down here. It's kind of a lot. And so then we're going to say right click and paste. So there we have it. Let's put some headers formatting home tab font group black white. Let's center it and then now we can see you know that we're going to have some above and some below in our data set. Let's go all the way to the bottom and let's say I took the average of the whole 500 results. So now I'm going to say this is going to be the average equals the average control or shift nine up arrow holding down control shift up holding down shift down. There's our formula up in the formula bar and enter comes out to one until we percentify at home tab number group percentify to recognize. And then I'm going to add some decimal. So it's not exactly 60% but it should come out pretty close. You would think given the fact that we had you know samples of 80 that we that we summed up to 500 and did that 500 times. Right. So let's let's go all the way up to the top again and and let's make a history. Let's make this blue and bordered home tab font group will border it will blueify it blueify it to beautify it. There it is. And and then maybe make this black and white. I don't know. All right. Let's make a histogram out of our percentages now. So now we can I can select this whole thing. I could select all my data. I'm going to say control shift down and then shift up so I don't pick up the average down there. And then I'm going to hold down. Let me do that again. Hold on. So control shift down and then shift up and then control backspace to get back up to the top. You could just drag and select it. But I'm just trying to emphasize some of the keystrokes that might make a little bit easier if you're using a lot of data. So then we can go to the insert tab up top and charts histogram. His togram is a gram about his toe. Okay.  So you can see here that that it all the results kind of hover around somewhat what we would expect. Right. We would think it'd be around like all of our results would be around 60. You would think right because because that's the actual population center. And so you could see we as we build more data, you would expect the results to be looking something like this. You would see some results out here somewhere. Notice we did. You know, we've got these results of 41 and these results out here, but you would expect them to start to populate a shape looking something like this, given the nature of the data that that were put in together and the center point being being the actual center point being of the population being the 60. So when we randomly take a bunch of samples, 500 samples in this case, and and look at the, you know, the average results of all of them, we start to get the shape of a histogram like so. So we'll just remove the title now and you could change the size of the buckets down here. Remember, if I click on these items, this is the default that they gave us with the number of bins being 15. So you could go down here and say, well, maybe I want the number of bins to be 20 or something like that. And it'll start to change the data set. If you bring it down to 10, you're going to get a different look and feel. If you go back to the auto, then you've got the auto automatic buckets. So that's the general idea. We'll do a couple more examples with our with our data sets in future presentations.


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We're going to go ahead and get started. I had a request for us to start because someone said that they didn't want to miss the season four opening of Duck Dynasty tonight. So we're going to get you all out before that. I want to thank everybody for being out here tonight to join and participate in the District 7 community budget input hearings. Your attendance tonight reflects that the budget process is very important and kind of just a quick snapshot of the budget. The budget is balanced. It was presented to us back on August 8th by the city manager and tonight we'll be an opportunity to look at the proposed budget to see how it aligns with our values here in District 7, what's important to us like streets and drainage and curbs and sidewalks, animal care, solid waste services, everything that impacts us on a daily basis from a city perspective. We have city staff on hand that's here tonight. I want to thank them for having all hands on deck tonight to answer questions and really to be here in support of y'all because y'all's input is extremely important so that I can take that back to the city manager and to staff so that again it's a budget that reflects our values here in District 7. I also want to thank the St. Paul community for hosting us tonight. I want to thank Father Charles and Mary Dabila. Thank you so much for hosting us tonight. And I also want to thank my wife and our two boys for being here tonight as well. My wife runs our checkbook at the house like a hawk so she is here tonight to help us as well and to help me so but I want to thank them so much for being here and they're in the back table. But we're going to kick it off. I want to turn it over to Assistant City Manager Carlos Contreras who's here tonight on behalf of Cheryl Scully City Manager but is prepared to answer questions and to kind of lead us into the next aspect of the of tonight's budget input here. So thank you with that Carlos. Thank you Councilman. Good evening everybody. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you for coming out Cheryl. Apologize she can't be here. She's still the Councilman. Councilman left early. They're still busy working over there but she sends her requests. I'm Carlos Contreras. I'm the Assistant City Manager. I have a number of our staff members here with us. My colleague Gloria O'Fallow, another Assistant City Manager back in the back over there. Maria Diego-Mes, our budget director who is principally responsible for all of the hard work that's going into our budget preparation. We also have a number of city staff members that are here as Councilman indicated, directors of departments and assistant directors. They're here to assist with the discussion at the table and I'd like to have them introduce themselves, tell you what departments they're with. So if we can start at this table right over here, go ahead. My name is Natalie Balderoma. I'm an Assistant Director with the Human Resources Department of the City of San Antonio. Hi. I'm Kathy Donnellan. I'm the Assistant Library Director. Hi. I'm Richard Bartinas. I'm the Interim Assistant Director for Public Works. Hello. I'm Assistant Chief Rowe Brayden for the San Antonio Fire Department. Good evening everyone. My name is Geraldine Garcia. I'm the Assistant Chief for the San Antonio Police Department at the Operations Bureau. My name is Richard Keith. I'm Interim Assistant Director at the Department of Human Services. I'm Josephine Valencia, Assistant Director with the Solid Waste Department. I'm Nikki Ramos. I'm the Assistant Director of the Parks and Recreation. Is that everybody? Okay. We're going to need a staff member to sit over here, Maria. We'll shelf and get someone to sit up at this table here. We need someone at the front table. Okay. This process tonight is in preparation for the Council's adoption of the city budget. It was created on August 8th. The city manager did propose a budget to city council. And this process is very important, as the councilman said, to make sure that the budget reflects the values of the community. And that's what we're trying to do here tonight. In 2006, we began the process of holding budget hearings in each of the 10 council districts. And that was done after the budget had been proposed to kind of get feedback on the budget. And they're very popular and very informative. And a lot of the issues that were important to community members were then included into the finally adopted budget. In 2000, last year, we tried something a little bit different. We broke that up and we held five budget hearings throughout the community before we proposed the budget. So the budget that's being proposed in many of you. Did anybody attend any of those today? Thank you very much for doing that and coming back. A lot of the feedback that was provided to us has been included in the proposed, in the manager's proposed budget to council. I think you'll see that. This process is, again, to get some more feedback so that all of this information can be jotted down and provided to council when they make their final decisions. As the councilman indicated, the budget is balanced. We were required by state law to do so and it is balanced again this year without a property tax increase recommended. So for this evening, we will have a short video that talks about the proposed budget. So you'll be able to hear that. So that's a very short video. After that, we're going to ask you to write down five service areas that you would like to see either continued or enhanced in our budget. So five items that you think are important in their priority services for the group. Because the budget is balanced, we need to probably offset that with some either reduction in services, some cuts, or some additional revenues. So we're going to ask you to identify three cuts that you would make or three ways that you can raise revenue to pay for those priorities. So we'll do that at the end of the video. And then we're going to ask someone from each of the, a citizen from each of the tables to stand out and report back to us. Okay? So why don't we start with the videotape? Hello, I'm City Manager Cheryl Scully. The fiscal year 2014 proposed budget is balanced and allows the city to continue to provide quality services to the community while making the tough decisions to keep the city financially sound. The fiscal year 2014 proposed budget focuses on reducing administrative costs and prioritizes public safety, street maintenance, sidewalks, and drainage improvements. The proposed budget reflects policy direction from Mayor Castro, City Council members, and valuable input from the recent community budget hearings held in June of every quadrant of the city. This video was developed to provide a summary of the fiscal year 2014 proposed budget and to enhance understanding of city services and how they're financed. It also highlights areas where the city has been able to recommend budget cuts while maintaining quality service levels to meet community needs. Over the next few weeks, the City Council will carefully consider the proposals included in the proposed budget. Mayor Castro, City Council members, and I look forward to your input prior to the adoption of the city's budget. On September 12, 2013, we appreciate your interest in the City of San Antonio's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget. We are committed to keeping San Antonio financially strong and to making San Antonio a dynamic and healthy community for you and your family. The city is committed to continually improving services for residents of San Antonio and nurturing an environment for future growth and prosperity. Each day, the city's workforce is in the community, working to maintain city streets, protect you and your family, preserve the beauty and integrity of your neighborhoods, and offer services and programs that can enrich the quality of life for all residents. The fiscal year 2014 proposed budget is balanced as required by law and does not include a city property tax rate increase. The general fund, which is the city's largest operating fund, totals $989 million, less than 1% higher than last year. The budget is transparent and reflects City Council policy direction and valuable input from the community. In June of this year, five community budget hearings were held across the city to obtain service priorities from residents before the proposed budget was prepared. Following the community budget hearings, City Council annually establishes priorities and the proposed budget recommendations reflect that input. This year, the high priority services identified are public safety, streets, sidewalks and drainage as our city core services. Your city budget is more efficient and since 2007, the city has reduced the general fund budget by nearly $88 million and has eliminated 1,633 civilian positions with no layoffs. During the same period, the city added 307 police officers and 167 firefighters reflecting community and City Council priorities. The FY 2014 proposed budget reduces 13 million in the general fund and a total of 279 positions in all funds. In the general fund five-year financial forecast presented in May of 2013, revenues were projected to increase at a slower pace than expenditures, necessitating adjustments to be made to the budget. The proposed FY 2014 budget presented to the City Council on August 8th is balanced and reflects the City Council priorities of no city property tax rate increase, budget reductions and some fee increases. Included in the budget are five million in proposed revenue adjustments in the general fund, primarily in EMS transport fees, hazmat inspection fees and recreational fees. The proposed budget also maintains the city's financial reserves at 89 million or 9% of general fund appropriations. With the efficiencies added in this year's proposed budget, general fund expenses increased less than 1%. One of the top priorities recommended by the community and the City Council is public safety. The police department has applied for a Communities Organized for Public Service hiring grant that will allow for the hiring of additional police officers for three years. The budget includes 307,000 for a city match if the grant is awarded in October 2013 for 10 officers. 1.3 million is also included in the budget to add more police in-car video and other equipment. The fire department provides quality fire prevention and suppression, emergency medical service and rescue operations to city residents. The proposed budget enhances these efforts by adding three full-time hazmat inspectors to improve inspections as well as 3 million for the replacement of two hazmat trucks and other fire equipment. Improvement and maintenance of streets and sidewalks continues to be a high priority for residents. The proposed budget continues funding the infrastructure maintenance program at 54 million. This amount includes 35 million to improve streets and 8.5 million for sidewalks. This is 2.5 million more than in 2013 and 4.5 of the 8.5 million will go to improve sidewalks to schools. 3.5 million will be used for drainage improvements and the final 7 million is for pavement markings, alleyways, traffic signals and bike facility improvements. In 2012, voters approved a 596 million bond program that includes city-wide improvements for streets, bridges and sidewalks, drainage and flood control, parks, libraries and public safety facilities. During fiscal year 2014, many of these projects will be designed and approximately half will begin construction. The FY 2014 budget includes 1.25 million for initiatives to revitalize and improve neighborhoods throughout San Antonio. This amount includes the Renew SA program, C-Clovia and the FitPass program. Also included is funding for animal care services to continue to perform 26,500 spay-neuter surgeries and maintain a 75% live-release rate. Code continues to be a priority in 2014 and no service reductions for code enforcement are recommended in the budget to ensure a continued focus on improving neighborhoods. San Antonio senior centers provide daily health, fitness and nutrition support to residents 60 years and older. The FY 2014 budget continues to make these services a priority and includes 1.5 million in funding for the expansion of senior centers in districts 2, 6 and 7. The 2014 proposed budget includes 3.5 million dollars for economic development incentives. 1.75 million is dedicated for inner city incentives and 1.75 million is dedicated to city-wide initiatives. A key piece in developing the city's budget is making decisions to maintain a strong financial position while providing quality service delivery. The budget reduces 13 million by streamlining services focusing on community priorities and reducing administrative overhead. On average, non-public safety departments in the general fund reduced cost by 5%. This year's budget reductions include leveraging technology and process improvements in municipal court to reduce the time customers spend at court by 30% while reducing costs by 914,000. The budget also reduces 1.7 million in administrative overhead which includes a 50% reduction to travel in other line item budgets as well as 11 administrative positions. The city will also achieve savings by transitioning services provided at the link centers to existing facilities including development services one stop, select libraries and other city facilities. Service modifications totaling 1.3 million include realignment of parks landscape and sanitation maintenance schedules and consolidating 10 open play community centers with low attendance with other full service centers in close proximity. The budget includes a change in the outdoor swimming pool program that is anticipated to save 310,000. This proposal expands the existing 6 day per week operation of outdoor swimming pools to a 7 day per week operation by limiting the number of days each pool is open. Delegate agency funding is proposed to be reduced by 5% consistent with the average reduction of non-public safety city departments. Funding for Haven for Hope, however, remains at the FY 2013 budget levels. This proposal saves 630,000.  The budget includes funding to support a subscription curbside recycling program for organic recycling and adding two additional neighborhood drop-off collection centers. An increase to the solid waste monthly rate of 50 cents is recommended in the 2014 proposed budget, raising the cost to $19.93 per month. Now that you've learned about the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, we want to hear from you. We encourage you to attend any of the community budget hearings. There are five area-wide community meetings held across the city and two at the city council chambers. As required by law, the city budget is scheduled to be adopted by October 1st. The city's new fiscal year begins October 1st. Visit the city's website at www.sanantonio.gov to learn more about the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget and the public input process. You can watch this video again on TVSA, the city's government access channel. As you can see, the city's fiscal year 2014 proposed budget is balanced and continues to provide the community with services and a strong financial position. I saw chief Hood walk in, the fire chief walked in. He was on the phone, but he was here a few minutes ago. Also, for those people who just walked in late, what we're going to be doing next is identifying five areas that we would like to see improved or continued, five service areas, and then three areas. Chief Hood, thank you for coming. Just wanted to say hello. There he is, our fire chief. And then three service areas that you would like to cut or areas where you think additional revenue can be obtained. So let's start with the hard stuff. Let's talk about the cuts. So if you'll start with the three areas that you say would like you like to cut or areas where you'd like to raise revenue, and then we'll go to the five where you would like to see increased. Thank you very much. 25 minutes. Okay. All right. So let's go ahead and get started reporting out. That works every time. Okay, so we're going to ask you to do is to designate somebody at your table, preferably a resident, a non-city employee, and to stand up and talk about first the cut, actually what you would like to add and then what you would cut. Please identify the table that you're standing because we're taking down all this information and we're going to compile it and give it to city council. So we need to be sure and get this accurately. So where are we ready to begin? Who's going to begin first? Back in the back? Okay, we've got somebody back over there. Please identify the table that you're at and then please report out. Oh, they were raising their hands. They were raising their hands. Just pick somebody. How about the table right here in the middle? Here we go. Let's go with them. All right. So if we could just thank you very much. Okay, this table right here. Just let's just go with what you got. How about that? Okay. All right, here we go. Table number one and she nicely brought the book over and we went through every department in the budget trying to understand where we could cut. And let me tell you, we had a devil of a time trying to find where to cut. Even though there are things we would like to increase, we looked at it. Parks and rec, we think there could be some more economies and parks and rec. We think that some of the agencies that support it possibly could be cut. We're not going to single out anyone, but we think kind of take a look at those. We did not list where to cut. Because we were still talking about it and wanting to listen to what other people were cutting, but that's where we stand. And we also find out that there's an awful lot of overlapping from one department to another one. Okay, so if you can talk about what services you would add. Yes, go ahead and report out to both, please. Okay. Because we went through it carefully, we kind of decided as a table, we would actually be willing to have small, emphasize small raise in taxes or fees if we could accomplish more in the city towards the things we would like to add. Our second one was our libraries. We feel like we don't really want to cut them a day a week or get rid of the bookmobile and the other things we have to do. And even though you said you weren't cutting Fire and Police, if that grant comes through, if the grant doesn't come through, you're not adding. So we put Fire and Police in as something that we want to support. Great. Thank you. Okay. How about this table right here? We've got a volunteer right over here. Good evening, everybody. We were really busy and we had kind of a diverse table, so we discussed a lot. Table number two. We're going in order, I guess. We would like to see them revisit the health benefits for all the city employees because some pay a lot, some pay a little, and some don't pay at all into this project. So we'd like that revisited. And definitely, we're still fighting this streetcar thing. I don't know if we can still do anything about it. But we, everyone at this table seems to feel like that is not anything that they are concerned about. They would like to see it cut. We also want to have no tax abatement for developers and developing projects. And we had a fourth one and it was the, we don't want to see Fiesta expanded. A lot of extra money will have to go into this project including we have to pay police time and a half for more days. And yes, and although we all like to party, we think 18 days is a little too long a party. We did come up with a couple of things that we thought might raise revenue. We would like to see them try and collect delinquent taxes. We would like to see them raise the liquor by the drink tax. A one-eighth of a cent someone figured out at this table would raise how much? Anyway, I think, pardon me, it would double it.  Okay. And the third thing that we came up with to raise revenue was we considered adding more restaurants at the airport. We're making it nicer. We're trying to expand. We want to look better if you go to any other major city like Dallas, they have a Chili's and they have all sorts of restaurants. They all bring in revenue, including liquor by the drink. So, I don't want to keep up on this on this subject, but it does bring a revenue and it's people don't seem to mind paying an eighth of a cent more. Anyway, those are extras and are things that we want to keep. Keep our library budget and if you look at my table, we have happy seniors. So, we said anything that pertains with senior services, we want to maintain whether it's senior centers or whether it's the Y senior projects or any project that includes things where seniors can go. We comment that the library has had such a tremendous increase during the summer because everybody's so hot and that's a place to go where it is cool and you can find something to do and you can find new friends there. It's a playoff. Drive Kathy, we find friends there. Okay, that's all we wanted to do but we did want to raise extra revenue. Well, certainly great feedback thus far. I really believe tonight we found the solution to the balanced budget here in District 7, so we'll tell her jobs done. The next group that we're going to ask to present this group here. Good evening and thank you for coming out and being among us. At this table, table number six, we came up with three proposed reductions for the budget. Human services we need to shift that to community resources. We have too many departments that we need to combine. Eliminate some of those positions and I'm sorry, if you got to go you got to go. We the people, the senior citizens, the veterans, the children and the animals need the money the funding. We also talked about parks and recreation, how that department is one of the biggest consumers of our budget as well as, you know, the police and EMS and fire. Of course we can't touch those, but we can't touch parks and recreations. We need to combine some of those positions and eliminate the ones that we deemed unnecessary or redundancy. We also talked about public works, so we're updating them and reducing the overhead with community initiatives and I'll tell you why. Too many things are being, too much money is being spent out there for doing the same thing, redundancy. If you didn't learn anything tonight think about this, too many times we're doing things twice, three times, we have to eliminate that. Public works and Sims need to be combined. One builds them and the other guy and deal with them and they don't know how. So that's important and that's what we had for R3. Of course we also mentioned street cars. 40 million a mile is unacceptable. Okay. We want to talk about our improvements in the budget. For sure we want to enhance the senior citizen services, job training, same thing with the youth job training. We need to have happy people working. We just can't be having a good time all the time or not getting any services either or poor services. We talked about animal care services. Brook City base needs to be rebamped and somehow their management system needs to be reviewed. There's a lot of animals that are being abused out there and no one is doing anything about it. Everything to them is going as planned. But we need to have better insight more reporting so that people that are in animal care services do their job and not just hang out and have a great time. We talked about apprenticeship programs for the high school kids that think it was cool to drop out now they realize here in life they probably got a family or two and they don't have a job, no education. We need apprenticeship programs not only to prepare the high school dropouts but those that don't seek a higher degree but want a skill. This will provide skilled workers skilled educated workers and dedicated workers we need to have that done. Understand that to me the most important thing in family is family although right now it's been proposed that out of the 10 family crisis response teams they're going to reduce it down to five. We don't need to reduce that to 20. There's people out there that are being abused and they need help if you reduce that the counselors to to five from ten you're hurting the city of San Antonio so please think about that and of course we want to keep the library services and cultural art support and also solid ways. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Zavala. You have this table here? Okay. Hi my name is Manuela Salais and I live in District 7. I'm a retired school teacher so that's why I was selected for this job. Reductions. Reduce total amount used for abatement, incentives and additional scrutiny of management. We have a lot of companies that I agree come into San Antonio to build San Antonio but in this building of San Antonio they get a lot of free rides and a lot of us thought that that was one of the places that we should reduce the abatements. The next one is explore other options for the streetcar installation that won't require street reconstruction. One of the gentlemen at our table said that it seemed like they were going to dig up the street in order to do the rails and his suggestion was that since they were going to do that that they should try another alternative to see how they could still have the streetcar but in a different manner that they would use them to where they didn't require to reconstruct the streets. The other one was to explore options for reduction in public benefits. Actually, we just said that some of the benefits for the policemen and the firemen are to be reviewed to see if maybe they could come out with a better reduction in the benefits they get. There was an argument about the fact that it is a job that requires a lot of safety and that they bring a lot of there's a lot of things that happen within their jobs that can cause them problems physically and possibly mentally. I taught school. I could have brought home the same disease and I know I brought the mental part home. With that we want that reviewed and also for the city employees. Improvements workforce development with Project Quest we have one of the ladies that was sitting here and she was telling us about how they train, work with people educate them in order that they can find jobs with good salaries. And that's one thing San Antonio needs jobs with good salaries. The parks we talked about the community centers that were being closed and we talked about the new ones that are being built. In our case in District 7 for the senior citizens I gladly approve of that. The pools somewhere along the line we read that some of the pool hours were going to be combined. I for one think that a lot of kids like I was telling them when I taught I was amazed that the kids that had never been to McDonald's amazed at a kid that hadn't been to a movie but what during summer they talked about all they did with the swimming pools. So I think swimming pools should be open as much hours as possible. Increased parking meters revenue. I don't know if I'm for that but that's one of the things we've added. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Elias. Thank you so much. Thank you. This group here Mr. Rodriguez. Thank you. My name is Charlie and this is my friend Hugo and we're from Table 4 and we had a highly spirited discussion about all of these things at our table and we were unable to come to a complete consensus. This is what we're going to report on our cuts we felt that bicycle programs get a disproportionate benefit for what they contribute as far as taxes and fees is concerned. They need to be cut. On increases sidewalk expansion is one of the main things that it really covers a lot of the safety of our children in this city and along with street maintenance it's a very important part of what we need to concentrate on is making sure that our sidewalks are adequate and safe and well maintained. We want to increase the library budget. The library budget is one that is historically and traditionally neglected and it shows and if anybody uses the library you go down there over a period of time you'll see the deterioration it's not really anything that jumps out at you but over a period of time you'll see that it is a bit neglected and there was one more in which we talked about three different programs which come under one department I'm going to go ahead and report on that one because we felt like that was pretty important and I think we did reach sort of a consensus on it police protection the first program under police protection that we talked about is a CRT program which is a domestic violence program that one needs to be really looked at very carefully we also felt like we needed to increase police funding for better patrol and response times especially in some of the outlying areas of the city continues to grow and we didn't feel that our police department is growing with it and finally to increase the technology that is available to the police department such as traffic cameras and things of that nature that's it, thank you very much thank you Mr. Rodriguez, thank you excellent, thank you so much thank you for being here table 7 good afternoon everyone I'm with table 7 my name is Miguel these are some of the topics that we discussed we had a very somewhat debate scrutinized the budget by some of the people here in our tables how we could eliminate positions to somehow be able to balance the budget and some of the things that came up in terms of them contributing more to their health plan as well as their retirement also looking at fees to cover some of the costs for some of the programs that exist out there in other areas we had priority areas streets of course are very important public safety is a concern someone voiced the fact that they never see the police department in their neighborhood so faith safety becomes a big issue then of course we decided that human services in terms of delegate agencies were very important senior services after school programs of course training for people to go into the workforce such as project quest to make sure that people are able to go into and find a job where they're able to make a living where they're able to provide for their family am I missing anything did I cover everything okay we had a limited presentation here but our point came across what our group was hoping to voice next we're going to go to table table 11 hello everyone thank you for being here my name is Frank I live down the street here by Maverick elementary we had our heated discussions within ourselves but it's all fine because we're able to air out where we all come from we're all diverse we have different interests we have different values for our city so we approach our cuts kind of in that manner individually and then we kind of voted on it pretty much as it probably you all did too on cuts streetcars came up first you know whether we can do anything about it now or not but that was the first thing that came up second one was city employees or elected officials travel expenses they seem to be spending a lot of money on travel and we feel that that's one of the angles that can be cut amongst the city government within itself as far as employees or how they operate probably on a daily basis or their annual conventions in that type of stuff but that was the second one that came up third is fire and police pensions it wasn't so much cutting it but putting a stop to keeping it from increasing any more than what it is we feel that there's other cities in the United States that kind of got in a big bind in keeping pumping money into pensions whether it's for the government employees whether it's for fire safety employees that seems to be a big weight on the city expense and the taxpayer expense which tend to in the long run reduce our I guess benefits that we get from our taxes otherwise like streets and sidewalks and that type of stuff so but on our added the table voted that adding more to the spay and neuter side of the ACS rather than to rather than to build more buildings and hire more people we feel that that's one of the angles that we can that can be attacked at this issue that we have citywide because there's a lot of catch and release programs out there and that's I'm assuming that that's helping the city so that's one angle that we thought and me personally I thought that up front in this issue is to educate people more on the ownership of pets before you before you acquire a pet make sure you're going to it's going to be an expense on the family an expense on your budget so if that's put up front to a young family because the little one wants a little puppy and the little puppy becomes an issue a year later two years later now they don't need it they don't want it not a puppy anymore and it becomes all our burden so that's educating up front I think it's where the concentration should be and this bait and neuter would hopefully stop that issue that we have in reducing it and then third youth services through delegate agencies youth services very important by myself like I was telling you on the table that I grew up with a boys club here in San Antonio and they were very beneficial to us but they operated in a different manner but still in all it kept us off the streets on Saturday mornings rather playing football baseball whatever sports they were available to us but I'm a person myself I coach here for 16 years youth baseball here in St. Paul's and Roseville Park so I know what youth programs are they're very good very beneficial a lot of the kids benefit and you don't see the results of it until they're like 25 30 years old because I run into some of the boys and they're doing well and hopefully it had to do with being a team in along with other people and learning life lessons of that sort so that was it thank you oh I'm sorry number two library hours I got carried over library hours that was an issue that we feel that it's also beneficial to youth I understand that there's new libraries coming up that are going to the computer automated type of system so hopefully that will help but again I can only speak for myself and growing up in the west side every Saturday morning one of the library trucks used to go and they used to park there in the old Empire Plaza parking lot I don't know if anybody even knows what that area is corner of ratings or Zamora Street I grew up in that area and Saturday mornings I was there and for that truck being there my reading would have been failing at school because I think that helped me personally and a lot of other kids used to go there on Saturday mornings so library hours are important libraries are important overall so that's our three issues that we figure that we can either add or increase in funding or maybe just focusing more on our services with that thank you thank you Mr. Fonseca thank you next we'll have table eight for here this one some of our funding priorities are adult literacy programs keep funding for them also the fire department don't make any cuts in that department including benefits keep low fees low fees for dance music class community centers a lot of these people would not be able to afford a race which is what the parks and recreation department wants to raise the fees for everyone and a lot of these people would not be able to afford these races and as it is these kids and adults bring free entertainment services and their music to the community such as at the Arneson theater the market square also support the expanded senior centers keep crisis response team at a current level we feel that a lot of people suffer domestic abuse and gentlemen was talking that a lot of these people feel that talking to a counselor has been a life changer for them cuts, tax abatements and economic incentives to companies that do not yield the benefit to our city bonus pay for executives is a cut that we could have and reduce city manager staff and gentlemen was talking that a few years ago the city manager has six people under her and now she has eight additional revenue source require developers to build new parks and sidewalks open county school libraries and playgrounds to public more city county partnership higher outside agency to study the city to get rid of any excess staff in our city okay thank you very much I think we have three more tables to go right here in the back over here and I can't see the table number so identify your table where is councilman councilman where is councilman by my mind hey councilman I work with a wonderful group of men who are very vocal about their frustrations with the city but before we go into that they want to say thank you for your service with the military reserve and thank you for being our councilman because you do it for free so thank you for minimal pay so thank you councilman thank you councilman thank you councilman okay our three lesser priorities maybe reducing the number of trips on the recycling maybe cutting it down to every two weeks as a way of saving there and then basically our alleys that was kind of a debate but if it's there's already a city ordinance out there that's basically with the residents if you know the residents takes care of their half and we're thinking of maybe enforcing that ordinance and if the alleys not really being used why resurface it maybe cut down there and also no need for paving let the maintenance hold the residents responsible for the maintenance of the alleyways unless it's an elderly couple then maybe make the exception there maybe get the associations involved to see if they can help out with the elderly the senior citizens in their in their neighborhood the third lesser priority was libraries basically this is stemming from the cost of bringing in new libraries the cost that's going into building them the purchasing of the property so one of the things that our table came up with was library consolidation partnering with school districts and schools in the neighborhood to maybe combine the libraries there to kind of kind of get a dual use with the schools and the neighborhood yeah so basically reducing the need for new libraries and especially since we're going into higher technology maybe looking into more of a technological way to kind of get out the reading with the computers and iPads and laptops going that route and the ebooks promoting more ebooks so that was one area now our five top priorities are police and fire drainage and infrastructure senior services park maintenance and code enforcement those were our five top priorities that we thought that maybe they should be considered to be maintained and funded at least for this next fiscal year thank you thank you very much do this table report yet? this table are here table five hello my name is Sandra Claymoren and we were table five I really enjoy our discussion because I believe we had a really good representative sample according to age we had youth in our table we had middle age and we had seniors and everybody had ideas but at the end we all kind of summarized it into this the big thing that we all agreed on around the table was that we needed to add to economic development and bottom line it's basically investing in human capital and the way we define investing in human capital would be to first you start at a small age like Girl Scouts so you build future leaders through investing in programs like Girl Scouts and other youth programs then you advance to a more advanced stage you need to educate and find people skill training and that's where we're talking about project quest coming in here and developing people from leaders to skill labor we went to college and arts again investing in education and furthering people along and then finally we ended up in the senior services and that's investing in basically our seniors in the community and at the end helping them with services a lot of seniors that were saying that there's a lot of problems with the facilities and healthcare caretakers so that's how we define investment in human capital throughout the ages to define basically investing in economic development once you go through that process really you develop people that will have jobs and will bring you know taxes they will get taxes and that gets back to the community so it comes full circle that's how we saw it other areas that we thought we would like improvement of course would be infrastructure we're referring to drainage we're referring to streets sidewalks traffic and then we ended up also going further into libraries parks pools again for the enjoyment of children and recreation you know the kids enjoying the parks and libraries to further again education so this is what we were thinking of enhancements or investments and then I'll pass it along for her to define I believe the cuts and increases good evening I'm Serena Medina and I represent the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas and Table 5 so we had trouble talking about reductions on what to cut and what not to cut so our reduction was no tax abatements for low-wage jobs which basically means when a company comes into the city normally the city gives them a tax abatement and sometimes those companies do not pay the people who work for them very good money they'll pay a minimum wage and they end up just staying in that one job and not really going anywhere also reductions for self-funded organizations or projects so saying like some museums are funded by outside organizations like HEB or Walmart or things like that and but they're also getting city money to fund them also so maybe they can have their own self-funds and see how far they get that gets them and maybe the city can contribute a little still but not as much as they are we also talked about other ways we can invest in revenues which we said an increase in solid waste fees would be fine we also did talk about increasing our property taxes but for the benefit of the community so basically if we want to fund these programs we want to fund the libraries we want to fund all this stuff we should be willing to pay a little more to get that funding done and we also talked about increases in the environmental fee thank you very much I sure wish I was that courageous when I was your age to be able to get up in front of people and talk we have two more tables actually this one right here they did they don't want it right they want it table nine we had a very good discussion on the cuts are first reduce expansion of roads to outlying areas because it is cost effective number two, reduce expansion of sewer and water lines to outlying areas and number three reduce development incentives outside of 410 enhancements number one, don't cut library hours number two, network of safe protected full size bike lanes connected to multimodal transportation stations number three, childcare facilities after school programs and at risk youth services number four increase resources for complete streets including sidewalks and the number constructed within the city number five, increase resources for physical fitness and health programs for families related to the SA 2020 great, thank you very much one more table right here table 13 we're subscribing to the three B's of public speaking be brief be accurate and be seated for our reductions we had libraries we think with the technology out there today that maybe libraries could be further reduced we also suggested for reductions the trolleys and street cars to maintain or to increase we felt public safety should stay on that list as a priority we think they're doing a great job we looked for more bulky and brush pickups to help obviously keep our neighborhoods in great working order sidewalk program is also a big plus we've maintained and we have one person at our table that would like to say thank you for her new sidewalk and our final one, lighting for downtown around the majestic theater it's a little dark at night and some additional increased lighting would help more people take advantage of the majestic theater and we'll be seated thank you very much okay, I think we got everybody I'm pretty sure we did thank you very, very much on behalf of the city manager mayor and council, thank you for coming out this information as I indicated earlier will be provided to city council and they'll have that, the benefit of that information as they consider the budget walking in a few minutes late, we'll still the city council deputy city manager Eric Walsh back there in the back, he's still working but thank you Eric for joining us and councilman if you want to just close it out before I do that I just want to tell you that residents will also have an opportunity to provide additional feedback directly to city council at citywide public hearings beginning at 6 p.m. in city council chambers on Wednesday, August 28th and Wednesday, September 4th two more times at city council chambers you can come in, please provide your input there, there's also two more budget hearings one tomorrow night and one Tuesday night count that is on Wednesday there's going to be a B session devoted specifically for public input it'll be at city house chambers, chambers, okay councilman thank you Carlos, again I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight I found this to be very effective very impactful some of the things that I heard are reducing redundancies in the way we do things trying to find more resources for our police and fire so we can look at areas that we can cut where we can be more efficient certainly a lot of good input was gathered tonight our job continues we got to take this back to city staff and the rest of my colleagues to ensure that we have a budget that reflects what we want to see District 7 and across the city so again thank you all very much for coming out and like Carlos mentioned we have a couple more opportunities on the proposed budget and then adoption of the budget will take place September 12th but I encourage you all to email us call us, call our office and continue to give us your feedback again thank you so much for coming out thank you all again


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Like it's been a long time. I mean, this is a huge change. Oh my gosh. You're adrenaline in my body right now. Do it, do it, do it. Oh, I love this feeling. Show me the braids, show me the braids. Oh my gosh. I'm just jealous because I want to have this feeling.  Like that adrenaline.  It already looks so cute. Oh, this looks so good. 18 inches were cut off. So now she's just getting a professional cut and I cannot wait to see what they end up doing. And it looks like they're giving her kind of like a rounded, layered, shaggy, bull cut moment and I'm here for it. There's sunlight, there's sunlight. Oh, oh, it's giving. Wow, wow. She looks like a different person. For me, this is more than just a haircut. It's just me further confirming who I am. It's a really big deal for me, you know? I've been growing and changing so much. I have really, really grown into my skin and who I am and my confidence. And you look phenomenal. Oh, I'm so excited for you. You look so cool and so much more grown up now and just like mature. And I feel like this was such a good thing for you to do. Yeah, I can just see you, you're glowing. You're so much happier. I'm so excited for you. Yay! This video is by Becca Summer. I'm going to attempt to cut my own hair. As you can tell, my hair is pretty long just from this bun. Yeah, it's really long. This is not even five years ago. This is like 10. This is what?  And what we're going to do today is we're gonna do this. No. Maybe another one or another one. We're taking off a lot and this is what I have. Oh, this is huge. We have a mirror, hair cutting scissors, super long clippy and I bought those rat tailed combs. What we're going to do right now is make the initial cut which is going to be kind of short. This is going to be so difficult to do. I mean, she has so much hair. Like a lot, a lot of hair. And doing this bob on your own hair with all this layering involved is going to be really, really difficult. And I'm picturing a very jagged, not great. Cut coming out of this. I feel like this isn't going to be great. And I'm going to put it in like pigtails. So where this lies, I think I want to make it like that length. Oh, wow. We're going to stick to this and then we'll like thin it out later. And I kind of want it to be an A-line style. Hopefully you can see this in that angle too. Okay. I know that's high, but I'm going to just drag it down. So I believe she's following my haircut tutorial. She's doing exactly how I've taught you guys how to do it at home. So it should turn out pretty good.  I think I want it a little bit lower. Just to be safe, you know. That's pretty good. Oh no, wait, she is doing the back correctly. Oh, oh, this is going to be cool. This is going to be great. We're doing it. The big chop. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. I cannot wait to see the outcome of this. So excited. I'm just going to bring the two sides forward. Take a deep breath. We got this. I really hope this isn't focused because they only have one shot. Just get rid of it. We don't want to see it anymore. The long hair thing is cute, but I just feel like you're going to rock this bob so much more. Right now the hair is definitely wearing you. There's a full on jacket, like a full on puffer jacket on your head. It's just hair. Oh, no going back now.  We haven't even got to like the big chunky sections yet. We're going to go in this one. This one's going to be like a hot minute to get through, you know? No turning back. Oh, I want to see the outcome so bad. Oh God. This is so much more, oh my God.  Give me that. I want to make hair extensions. Wow, that looks so much better than this side. That's wild. Okay, so she's bringing it up a lot shorter. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I wanted it to be shorter. I really did. I feel like it was two in between like long and short and like, let's bring it up. And I feel like she's doing a really accurate, good job for doing this to herself. It's kind of actually crazy to watch. And she's adding layering. Yes. Guys, layering is so important.  It's so important. You got to get those layers in there. Else it's just going to look like a blob. Like a really like heavy on the bottom blob.  I feel like she could do all the edge moment, some really bright pieces around the face. Like it would just change up her whole look. Oh, and I love a good change. Ah! Whoa! So I love it, first off. And it just feels so nice. Here, hold on. Let me get my hair. The legend. Oh my God. Oh my God. I can't believe that was attached to her head. Can't even see it. It looks like it's about like a foot and a half. So yeah, I don't really know what else to say. It's shorter and I like it. This cut looks so good. I could cry. Oh, it looks amazing. Wow. I'm obsessed with this cut on her. It is three billion times better than what she had before. She actually like has a hairstyle now and isn't just like wearing her hair or her hair wearing her. I'm so happy for her. It looks incredible. I couldn't have asked for a better result. If you've always wanted to chop off your hair but are too scared to do it, like just do it. It'll grow back. And like you might have a mental breakdown for a day for like two days or two weeks.  But like honestly, it's just a fun change, do it.  That's all for today guys. Make sure you check me out everywhere else. Here are all my social media handles. You can also check out my hair care, my hair color line, link down below. Or go to xmonohair.com. That is all for today. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.


And you know you think back, Mike Socia for the amount of years that he's been with the Angels, I mean the longest tenured manager with one team, when you think about other sports and what their coaches, head coaches have done, similar position and success and we bring this up because Mike Socia's contract is up at the end of this year. Wow, you know I sit there with Bill Belichick and I had no idea he had been there that long. 19 years, a 10-year contract, I think he said history of that contract as a major league manager. The team is not reacting right now. I don't know what's going to happen here because most great managers have already talked, extension before the season, so he could be at a no man's land right now if this team doesn't get any better. And once again that one manager's out there, Joe Girardi with World Series Championships without a chance. And interesting that Mike Trout, who's we know is outstanding, has been to the post-season just once and now his seventh full season and it doesn't look good at least at this stage of the season for the Angels. We saw Machado with the slide, we know he's a free agent at the end of the year, a terrific young player that it seems like every day a new team pops up. We heard, okay, is it the Diamondbacks, the Phillies now more recently, maybe the Dodgers and Cubs willing to trade for him. They both are, they both want them. And Chris, I wonder, maybe tonight's game at Dodger Stadium, winner gets Manny. What do you think? They just compete right there at Dodger Stadium, the winner gets to trade for Manny. The Cubs seem loaded in that area. The Dodgers have turned her if he's healthy. Well, yes. And but with the Cubs, Chris Bryant now has been out at least for a period of time. You could play Manny at short, maybe Addison Russell becomes a part of that trade. He could play short to help Seager out for the Dodgers. Exactly. And then again, when you think about these two teams, I love this, Frank, because we're seeing rivalries build. We love rivalries in our game. They give our game texture. And we've now seen the Cubs and Dodgers play back to back NLCS's. Each team has won one of them. And now you wonder if they're going to meet again. And if Machado could be the swing piece that makes whichever team gets them, the NLCM. Well, you look at a superstar that's a frigid next year. He is the number one blue chip game changer. Whoever acquired this guy has a superstar on our roster that really can help them get to the pen. Yeah, but I think both the Cubs and Dodgers pitching may be more of a need, but certainly Machado would be a nice help. His name possibly being talked about for trade discussions. Yes. I checked with a source on this last night, Chris, and was told just starting. So there have now been some teams that have seen enough of him in a reds uniform to say, I'm interested. And it would not surprise me at all if one team it's calling is the team you're seeing him face right there, the Atlanta Braves. The Braves have had a number of pitchers sort of been in and off of the DL of the last month or so. Harvey is some insurance. He could be at least. And from talking to Scott Boris, his agent, he's really, Scott mentioned the coaching. The fifth been good there. He just needed some more repetition to get his stuff back in line, get the command back. It's been a good relationship for him with Danny Darwin, your former teammate there, Frank, Interim Pitchett, coach of Cincinnati. So it's been a different Harvey and a better one of late for the Reds. Well, for me, it looked like he's gotten back in his shape. He's got his focus back. He's pitching very well and he's starting to believe in himself again. We know how great this guy was a few years ago.  He's picking it back up now. I'm happy for him because it was really tough for him to leave New York and everyone thought he was out of baseball or in triple A. He's back competing very well at the big league level. And wherever he's traded, you don't think he should be traded to New York? No, don't go back to New York. New York is not for everybody. But I'm happy for Matt Harvey. He's really, he's really looked in the mirror and picked his career right back where it was. At age 29. Yep. Some arm left there.


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Welcome back to the channel everybody. Today, we're going to be reacting to another one of med school insiders videos, which I forgot the name of, so hold on a sec. Is it possible to enjoy medical school? That's the video we are going to be reacting to, so let's go ahead and get into it. Now I haven't actually seen this video yet, but I'm hoping it has something to do with kind of work-life balance in medicine. As I always talk about, it's very important to enjoy your life outside of medicine, which is why work-life balance is so important, and that's something I always talk about on this channel. So I'm hoping this video goes into that, but let's get into it. So before I get into this video, huge shout out to Kevin Duvall over at Med School Insiders for always crushing this content. Kevin is my boy, now let's get into the video. I forgot to record.  The immense volume, complex physiology, and sleepless nights are a recipe for misery. So far, very accurate. Dodger Duvall, MedSchoolInsiders.com. I know I'm not the only one when I say that medical school was my favorite four years of schooling. Sure, high school was carefree and relatively easy. College was all about exploration and growing independent, but medical school offers something unique. This I could not agree more with. I had fantastic time in high school, more so a more fun, funner, fun, a better time in college.  I have made lifelong friends that I talk with every single day, go on trips with and just met some exceptional people that I wouldn't have met otherwise. College was fun. There was certainly more free time and more partying, but the subject matter of classes wasn't always focused on areas of interest. This is accurate. So there was a, I mean, a ton of free time in college.  College is just full of free time. I didn't even realize it while I was in college. Even as an athlete studying, I still had a ton of free time and those who weren't in athletics even had more free time. The partying, however, was very much so ramped up in college, less so in MedSchool, but still there, other than you might think. Medical school helped me discover what I was capable of and grow into the person that I am today. This, this is huge. MedSchool pushes you beyond your boundaries that you don't think you are capable of. And it helps you grow and realize that you can do stuff that you never thought you would do. Pretty crazy. As a college student, you have to deal with GEs and other mandatory classes that have little to do with practicing medicine. This got college, I swear. I've always said, just streamline college. Like, why do I have to take, I don't know, some of the classes I took are so ridiculous just to, like, fulfill the requirements. Like, why? Change it. If you're doing medicine, why do I need to take a pre-Civil War literature class? Like, I don't care. I'm doing medicine. But in medical school, just about everything you study is highly relevant. Yeah, that's the key. Okay, I'll stop pausing every five seconds, but I like what he's saying here because once you get into medical school and you know you want to be a physician, everything you're studying is relevant. Regardless, if you're not going to use it later on becoming a physician and a certain subspecialty, you're still studying stuff that's going to help you throughout your entire career. And sure, you'll enjoy some classes more than others, but that's expected. I loved cardiology, neurology, and GI, for example, but I was less enamored by Reno. Yeah, I totally agree. There are some subjects in med school that you're not going to like or be that interested in, but you still have to know this stuff. My least favorite block, pathology, 100%. I don't know how. I can't do pathology. It was so excessive and it was so different than anything else. I just did not like pathology. Obviously, not many people do, but we need pathologists. They're very important to what I do. I do biopsies, give them to pathologists, and they tell me what's going on. So what am I even talking about? If your school has mandatory class, that's generally just a half day after which you can spend your time however you please. If class isn't mandatory, many students opt to skip, self-study, and unlock even more free time. This is key. My school did not require you to attend classes. Some of them were mandatory, but not all of them are mandatory, which means an entire eight to five day of the lectures I could watch at double speed and get done within half the time. So if I really watched all the lectures, I could be done by 12 or one and kind of outline and then be done by five and have the rest of the evening to work out and do whatever I wanted versus sitting in the classroom from eight to five and then going home and doing all that stuff and not having any free time. So you really get that opportunity to kind of make it your own. And I think a lot of med schools don't have mandatory class, which is good. I have many fond memories of studying with my friends in the medical school after class, bumping hip hop late into the night, studying for anatomy tests in the cadaver lab, and even the occasional late night shenanigans when we felt mentally fried. It was kind of funny. We had a ping pong table in our med school, so we would have random times. We got obsessed with ping pong or table tennis. I don't know what the correct term is, but we would like finish studying. And then my friend Julian and I, especially we would always go play ping pong till like 1 a.m. Sometimes maybe 2 a.m. While we're in the library, it was just a fun way to break it up and get a sweat on a mid study. There's something magical about studying hard with friends, having a shared struggle and maintaining control over your schedule. That's the thing. That's how you kind of build these friendships, because you're bonding over this incredibly stressful four years. And I don't know what it is, but when you're like misery loves company, so when you're with these other people and you're just enjoying their company and also miserable as well, it's kind of fun in a weird way. It's hard to explain. You'll be surrounded by interesting and impressive individuals that you can certainly learn from. See, this is one of my like mottos too. I always say if you want to be successful, you have to surround yourself with successful people. And in medical school, you meet these people from all different walks of life who have gained success in their own ways and are on the path to become more successful as an incredibly intelligent physician. So you want to kind of surround yourself with them and you meet interesting people and it's crazy. It's good. It's fun. Unlike college, not everyone is going to be your age either. You'll have many non-traditional classmates with prior careers and families who are now pursuing a passion. This is very true because there were many people, I was actually older in my class because I obviously didn't go to medicine straight from college. And some of my best friends are probably four years younger than me. We used to joke around saying they're like 18 years old, but nonetheless, you meet people from all different walks of life in different backgrounds. And because you're with people with similar life ambitions and goals, you'll make many close friendships that will last a lifetime. Yeah, like I was saying earlier, I talked to my friend group from med school every single day. We have a group text every single day. We talk about whatever it's not even medicine related, but it is nice because all of us are in different subspecialties and we kind of run things by each other when we have questions. So it's nice, but also they're just good friends. Given the tight time constraints, you'll find yourself pushing your own productivity and efficiency. Building systems to get more done in less time, that will help you throughout your life. This is true because you push yourself so much and you're so efficient and so productive in that finite time you have to study and learn all this material. I think this kind of helped me going forward because I'm in fellowship now working 80 to 100 hours a week, but I still find time to make these YouTube videos and keep pushing here because I'm efficient at what I do and I can be productive and efficient at the same time. And I think I learned a lot of that from being an athlete and also med school when I was trying to drink from a fire hose. It was during these four years that I became who I am today. I developed authentic confidence knowing I could accomplish whatever I set my mind to. I grew more efficient, productive and intentional with my time and energy. You really do find yourself and gain confidence in med school and that's even further built on in residency because as someone who's about to be attending, your confidence grows throughout residency and you just know how to handle certain situations and become ready to kind of do it yourself and be the sole person providing for those patients. I explored dating and what I wanted in a life partner. Yeah, let's not forget, well, I guess I met Andran in residency. But a lot of my friends met their significant others in med school because again, that bond that you're going through in med school, you develop close relationships with each other and they stick for life. And a lot of my friends married their classmates. Shout out to Red and Christie. I love medical school and I hope it can be a phenomenal experience for you as well. Alright, so that ended up being a very optimistic video about med school and how it kind of opened your eyes and helps you grow as a person. I could not agree with more everything Kevin said in this video. Shout out to Kevin for making another incredible video. It wasn't really much about work-life balance, but either way, it was still a good video. So on that note, I'll see you all in the next video. Make sure you smash the like, subscribe button, follow me on Instagram and Tik Tok. And yeah, see you in the next one. See ya.


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