Good evening everyone. Welcome to the nice common council meeting Before we call the meeting to order we always ask our city clerk to read the quote for the week. Thank you The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot Call the 50th regular meeting of the common council to order. Please call the roll born here both Gisha Hannah here Heidemann Kittlesen Clowness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflaige Ryan Smith excuse Vanderwheel excuse for hassled and wongamon 14 present forms present Woman born with your leaders in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Vice President born Next time my agenda is approval of the minutes Thank you, Mr. Mayor, I would make a motion to approve the minutes motion in second under discussion They're being done one favor say aye any opposed Motion carries minutes are approved Confirmation of mayor's appointments the target McLean Thank you, your honor. There's two of them hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration Mark safest to be considered for appointment to group health insurance committee as the employee representative for Mead Public Library with the term expiring 430-08 signed by the mayor in motion to confirm President Hannah thank you, Mr. Mayor. I make a motion to confirm the appointment second motion in a second to confirm under discussion Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, your honor. I just would like to address the resignation of Ernest or maybe most of us know him as Mike Kepler. He had knee surgery and and it is made a little bit more difficult I served with him on this On a capital improvements commission and and his absence from the city on committees because of his illness will be sorely missed And that pertains to the next appointment confirmation Thank you old man. Gisha. Oh, sorry Any further discussion? Not all in favor say aye. Any opposed motion carries appointments confirmed David clean and David gas to be considered for appointments of the redevelopment authority to fill the unexpired term of earn a stem Kepler Whose term expires 430-11 signed by the mayor and I need a motion to confirm Motion to confirm second motion in second and those nice Words that all of the dishes said applied to mr. Kepler in this case. This is where mr. Kepler is being replaced any discussion There being on all in favor say aye. Any opposed motion carries Appointments confirmed Next item on the agenda as we have a proclamation for mr. Mr. Louise Urbina. Would he please come forward? Just just Mr. Urbina mr. Louise Urbina is the the founder and the Trainer and you could say director for the local boxing club Mr. Urbina has done just an incredible amount of good not only to the community and putting back a shabuigan on the map in terms of Boxing but also in helping a lot of children a lot of youth that That have benefited from the discipline that he teaches through the art of boxing He's just been an outstanding citizen for the city of shabuigan. I wanted to recognize him today Proclamation whereas Louise Urbina is dedicated to serving the youth of shabuigan County and whereas Louise Urbina organized the shabuigan boxing club in 1999 with with his own garage serving as a gym and whereas in 2001 he used his own money to purchase Equipment and rent space for a gym and what is known as the Epco building and whereas Louise is more than qualified to act as a coach and trainer for the boxing club is he enjoyed a very successful amateur boxing career that included not less than 186 bouts Whereas Louise has won eight golden glove tournaments and a national title and Whereas in addition to being a volunteer coach and trainer for the boxing club Louise employment is as a trainer mentor for youth at risk within shabuigan County and Whereas Louise and his wife gale serve as foster parents to children with disabilities And had given will over 50 children a temporary home now. Therefore. I want Perez by the power vested in me Do extend my personal thanks to Louise Urbina for all his contributions to the youth of our community and in making shabuigan County a Destination for amateur boxing. Mr. Urbina. Thank you for all the good work. You do like to say good evening everyone. I Just got a couple of people that I need to thank thank, you know, thanks for making this happen I got Dave Michael Larry Samet Doug cook Thank you from the pole the field house at triple play Paul Wagner and Charlie Rasky Dr. Curtis Hancock for his help at the commission Dave Lubeck the shabuigan press Joel Stefan from the beacon And the blemish review Harry Grusser City TV channel 8 and don't boo Since he's the state champion 2007 champion and also 2007 Golden Glove champion and right now. He's competing with the top opponents at the nation right now Okay, so don't go comes from the shabuigan boxing club area Thank you all the next item Next item on the agenda is a presentation of certificates of recognition to department of public works employees needles frangers and the bear billman Are they here? Please come in So I thought I could be wrong They see now I know I can see here this This recognition here again, we talk about mr. Rizal be not having just a wonderful heart and wanted to help out in the community do things that are really great in Shabuigan we have a lot of good kind given people they give in all forms in this case We had two city employees who gave just by their nature of their good heart Systems that was critical at that time and this certificate of recognition is presented to bear billman In recognition of coming to the aid of Angelina doctorie who broke and sprained her ankle while playing with two small children at Romer Park on October 24th 2007 while spreading wood chips with fellow employee Neil Sprangers You assisted in transporting her to for medical attention and watching her children until a neighbor could arrive this doctorie Doctorie was most grateful because both her husband and father-in-law were out of town and had no one to call Because of your compassion response you became family for this thankful very thankful citizen a commending for your efforts and issue this certificate of recognition Again, it was two of them that did the did the volunteer work for this lady And this was presented to Neil Sprangers in recognition of coming to the aid of Angelina And I hope I pronounce in this last name correctly Doctorie who broke and sprained her ankle while playing with two small children at Romer Park on October 24th 2007 while spreading wood chips with fellow employee bear billman You assisted in transporting her to medical attention and watching her children until a neighbor could arrive This doctorie was most grateful because her husband and father-in-law were out of town and had no one to call and Because of this compassion you also became family to this very thankful citizen. I commend you in your efforts and I don't want to say anything. Thank you very much appreciate it. We're proud to have you as a place of station boy Next item on the agenda is a lecture to board of waterworks commissioners president Hanna Well, thank you, mr. Mayor. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than one more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list The balloting continue until one candidate receives a majority second motion and second any discussion on that motion All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed motion carries. Are there any none? Are there any nominations? Do you want me to do I need to formally nominate these two gentlemen? Okay, okay? Art Stewart and Mark Hines Both have submitted their resumes and letters of interest to us. So I would make a motion to nominate each of them second motion and second to nominate mr. Art Stewart and Mark Hines as candidates for the off for the position or office of Elected Board of Waterworks Commissioner. There was a motion and a second all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We will proceed with the election Alderman will be handing out ballots. This is an open ballot There's a space here for you to sign and then there's a space below for you to Print which person you would like to have as the new commissioner It would either be art Stewart and you have these names on your desk Or it would be Mark Hines. So please print the name of the person you are voting for on here The candidates mr. Stewart and mr. Hines would any of you like to address the council? No, it's one up and see only one is here. Yeah, okay Okay, then let's proceed with the election then. Thank you Orman you have elected as a new water Water commissioner art Stewart. Congratulations. Mr. Stewart. Okay? You'll proceed with the agenda next item is public forum Henry Capitulo Mr. Capitulo, can you give me your home address, please? Yes, that's 1619 North 38th Street, and that's in the town of Sheboygan Okay, and you will have five minutes sir Okay I'm here to discuss the necessity to have open and transparent government several months ago I had the opportunity to meet with several alderman to discuss the benefits and perceive disadvantages Of open government and the free flow of information to the residents of the city of Sheboygan Why is it so important for individuals within a community to have as much information about their elected officials? What their elected officials are doing as it pertains to raising taxes giving tax breaks to developers Undertaking new services that will commit additional tax revenue and selling or giving away of city property The answer to the question is the building of constituents trust as it pertains to their elected officials in the latest poll The president's favorability rating is 33 percent the congressional favorability rating is 36 percent According to these figures it seems that the general public is somewhat dissatisfied with with how things of the two entities are conducting their business My observation on the openness and transparency of city of Sheboygan government is that it seems to pick and choose When it wants to be open and readily disseminate information to the general public on pending issues For example, when the Walgreens wanted to when Walgreens wanted to build a new store on North Avenue and Calum and Drive The city was quite willing to listen to the residents to find in the area to find out how they felt about the construction of the Walgreens store I remember reading various articles in the Sheboygan press that the city planning commission held several public meetings To ascertain the wishes of the residents of the area. In fact Walgreens had to make various Reservations to their initial plan in order for the planning commission to approve the building of the Walgreens store It is just is it just a coincidence that the new construction projects require the city planning commission to hold public Hearings before any plans can be approved through the city of Sheboygan Another example of just the opposite was the city of Sheboygan approving the city of Sheboygan fire department to take over the ambulance service for the city of Sheboygan and thereby committing hundreds of thousands of tax dollars For future spending if I recall the poll that was conducted by the Sheboygan press Showed an overwhelming opposition to the city taking over the ambulance service Why was this issue treated so different than the building of the Walgreens store as it pertains to public input? Could it be that the city Was required to hold specific public hearings for the building of the Walgreens store Could it be the requirement of the city to hold public hearings that garnered the concerns of the neighborhood residents? I truly believe that what was that was the deciding factor on permitting public input my recommend recommendation to the alderman That I met with and previously was as specifically to require the city of Sheboygan to hold public hearings as It pertains to the city of Sheboygan raising taxes giving excessive tax breaks to developers Undertaking new services that will commit large additional tax revenue dramatically reducing specific tax Pacific City Department budgets in a manner that will adversely affect the public safety and well-being of the residents of the city Sheboygan and selling or giving away city property Even by holding public hearings that would still not obligate the city to do what the residents of the city are expressing If it feels that their actions are for the better good of the community One of the things that the public hearings would accomplish would be that the city would have to make a substantial argument to the residents of Sheboygan to support their particular stand on specific controversial issues By doing so the city would be obligated to disclose information on specific items that they wanted to act on as it pertains to the aforementioned items for example To show the lack of public disclosure Here are some of the issues that have occurred during the initial construction of the police department building I found out that the city of Sheboygan asked the county for the granting of an easement for an adjacent land So that the city could construct the proposed communication tower It is my understanding that the county was not willing to allow the easement and told the city that they would have to buy Additional adjacent county land for the construction of the communication tower in the location that the city wanted I believe that the city has purchased or is going to purchase the additional land This information was obtained through an open records request to the county It is also my understanding that the city asked the county to access some of the utility infrastructure during the initial construction Of the police department building and the county denied the city's request That is why the superior avenue construction occurred It is also my understanding that city asked the county to allow the city to have access to their highway department entrance So they could have additional access to the police department building Yes, but the county denied the city's request You may say well, these are just small issues that really do not seriously affect the construction of the building the police department building Yes, you may be right But what it does show is that the relationship between the city and the county may be strained Is it not hard to understand why the county was not willing to grant the city's request when they Had to find out that the city was going to be taking over the ambulance service And thereby putting the county in a somewhat delicate situation since they are responsible for the remainder of the county residents and They were made aware of this through the media as the general public How hard would it have been for the mayor and the council president to meet with the county administrator and the county board Chairman to inform them on the issue of the city taking over the ambulance service This should have been done just out of professional courtesy to the county and their elected officials Not only should city residents be made aware of such important issues But other entities that are going to be affected should also be informed By being more open with controversial issues The minute is up. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much That's it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Mr. Capetillo for addressing the council Next item on the agenda is mayor's comments Just wanted to share some brief thoughts with you with respect to the budget and the Taylor Heights study that we're presently working on the budget continues to be a very difficult one We felt that the when the finance committee met in special session the issue of Balance in the budget and coming up with a with a fairly good budget Was was over apparently it's not we have found out from the state that the the revenue that we were expecting from the assessments on manufacturing actually Went down to the tune of about two three hundred and thirty thousand dollars approximately That is revenue that we were Expecting and quite frankly An assumption was made that we would get that revenue and this is how we put our budget together We're not in this we're not unique to that a lot of cities had done the same thing They had budgeted what they had been getting before Someone found out just like we did Thursday late Thursday or Friday morning that Folks you're not getting that money how the assessments went down so the The matter with the budget I will have to handle that where we're we're looking at some options To come up with an additional three hundred thirty thousand dollars for in order to keep the budget where was that and in order to have six additional police officers and a captain of CID and in order to have The the same level of service now in every department I believe maybe one or two may have cut a little bit, but the major departments Probably works.  So you're not cutting At the core of what people perceive to be incredibly important to shaboy and To the contrary you've been very responsive to the people of shaboy And when they when they've asked for more police presence out in the community, you've been very responsive to that to that plea And I commend you for that When we are responsive to issues like that that cost money My job and the finance department to try to find out where that money is gonna come Luckily, I've had some very good assistance from the finance committee this year You've done remarkably well and helping me out. I appreciate all of you all women doing that The budget is not done yet. That's the bottom line So we will have to make some changes somewhere in between here and November 26 The week before November 26th. There is a special meeting of the council To have a public hearing and then on the on the November 26th When you actually approve the budget and there will be a special Hearing for that too if people would like to address the council then If any of you have any questions regarding The situation it says now and you need further information feel free to call me and be glad to sit down with you and talk to you The other issue is a Taylor Heights study as you know Walmart moved from the Taylor Heights shopping center so to speak After that different businesses have been moving out the area is in dire need of help We have not been ignoring that we have not been just letting it go by and not doing anything about it We Paulette Andrews through city development and myself have been thinking about that quite a bit and you the council Approve a bid for a consultant to work with us to see what we can do to help that area develop It there's good. They're going to look at an array of things traffic lights lighting Maybe you reconfiguring entrances and exits and how do we put the right mix together there of all the businesses it could Conceivably come there. How do we create that right mix there? And at the same time create the right mix at dovetails with what's already at the mall because a mall Just being close proximity to that area plays a huge part in that the mall Starts to decline that area will to the traffic the volume is not there The bottom line is Hallerman. We are working on it. Paulette has put together an administrative team We'll be looking at that. There will be public hearings on that too Just as there always are when we do critical issues like this when we deal with critical issues There will be public hearings There will be a stakeholder input was referred a stakeholder input the people who live there in the neighborhood will have ample opportunity and time to express our concerns to us and We'll take it from there I will keep you posted as to how the situation develops and again if you have any questions in the meantime feel free to call me Okay. Thank you very much. We have a question all one bulk. Thank you Your honor just before we move down I want to make a statement about this Sunday being Veterans Day The last time I spoke it was Memorial Day and that holiday is specifically for Veterans who have given their lives in the service of the country this Sunday Veterans Day originally was about Celebrating the end of World War One and has now become, you know celebrating all veterans So I know that Alderman Heidemann and Alderman Ryan are former veterans and I just want to take this moment to Make sure the people out in TV land know that Sheboygan appreciates its veterans and this weekend is the weekend to say so Absolutely. Thank you sir Very well put Next item on the agenda is a hearing to rezone property located at 24 04 North Avenue from class SR 5 suburban residential 5 to class urban commercial classification. Is there anyone that would like to address the council? Is there anyone that would like to address the council? Is there anyone that would like to address the council president Hanna? Thank You mr. Mayor. I would make a motion to close the hearing second motion is second to close hearing under discussion There being none all in favor say aye. Aye any opposed motion carries hearing is closed Consent agenda president Hanna Thank You mr. Mayor. I'd make a motion that all Rows be accepted in place on file and that all our seas be accepted and adopted second motion and second under discussion All in place Thank You your honor on item number 15 that seven Public Works recommending filing a document regarding Ken Herman as difficulty with crossing the streets in Washington Is there anything that you can give me? I know it's been met with and it's been Also held on on table for a while like to know any resolution for it. Thank you Thank you. I'll McLean is all in my hair. Thank You your honor. Yes This issue has been addressed it was addressed in public works and in public protection and safety and they have worked on Fixing the the button so that it's lower so this gentleman can touch it. He's in a wheelchair and I believe the issue has been taken care of Thank you all in my hair all McLean is Thank you anything else Under discussion consent agenda There'll be no more discussion. Please call the roll Warren Gisha Hanna Heidemann Kittleson Clayunas Manny Meyer Montemayor Rin Flesch Ryan for hassled and Wongamon 14 eyes motion carries communications and petitions 1520 and 21 to be referred the port of officers to 1522 by the city clerk Submitting a petition from various people in the surrounding area of North Avenue and Kellerman Drive and other parts of the city Stating that they support the Walgreens development of at North Avenue and Kellerman Drive and asked that the council approve the project President Hanna, thank you. Mr. Mayor. I would make a motion to accept and file Motion and second under discussion President I'd just like to thank all the Citizens for taking time out of their schedules to express their concerns Also like to thank the folks at at Walgreens for working so hard to to come up with a compromise and acceptable Development thank you president Hanna Alderman bulked you wish to speak Okay Any further discussion on that being done All in favor say aye Any opposed motion carries 1523 by the city plan commission recommended vacating a portion of North 24th Street North of North Avenue All in what the mayor? Thank you, your honor. I moved to accept and file the RO and the ordinance be put upon its passage Motion and second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll bulk Gisha Hanna Heidemann Kittlesen Clioness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan for hassle Wongamon and Boren 14 eyes motion carries 1524 by city plan commission recommended amendments zoning a property located at 2404 North Avenue from class SR 5 suburban residential 5 to class Urban commercial classification and passing the substitute ordinance Alderman Montemayor Thank you again, your honor. I moved to accept and file the RO and the substitute ordinance be put upon its passage Motion and second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll Gisha Hanna Heidemann Kittlesen Clioness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan For hassled Wongamon Boren and bulk 14 eyes motion carries 1525 we will hold for 1526. I mean 1546 Hold 1525 for 1546 1526 lies over to November 26 1527 through 1545 to be referred Resolutions introduced three 1546 by Alderman bulk and Ryan authorizing entering into contract for obtaining EMS bill in collection services for the fire department And we will take 1525 along with that Alderman bulk. Thank you, your honor. I would move that We suspend the rules with regard to 1525 1526 motion second to the span. Is there any objection to suspension? There is none. Please proceed Thank you, your honor. I would move to accept and place 1525 on file and to put 1546 upon its passage Motion and second under discussion There is none, please call the roll Hanna Heidemann Kittlesen Clioness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan Excuse me for hassled Wongamon Boren bulk Angisha 14 eyes motion carries 1547 by Alderman Hanna Boren and Gisha authorizing entered into an agreement between the city of Sheboygan and Kmart Regarding the payment of unpaid personal property taxes president Hanna Thank you, mr. Mayor. I would put the resolution upon his passage second motion and second under discussion Attorney McLean as I would suggest that there be suspension of the rules I think this is just coming in for the first time suspension and it's Regarding an expenditure Second motion second to spend any objection There is none. They had the motion to put the resolution upon his passage stands any discussion There is none. Please call the roll Heidemann Kittlesen Clioness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan for hassled Wongamon Boren bulk Yesha and Hannah 14 eyes motion carries 1548 and 49 lies over 1550 and 1551 lies over to November 26 1552 and 1555 to be referred Report of committee 6 1556 by public works Recommended filing documents submitted a communication from the family resource centers of Sheboygan County Incorporation Incorporated requesting an extension of their present lease and approving a six-month extension to the lease all the Meyer Thank you, Your Honor. I moved that the RC be accepted and adopted Motion and second under discussion There being on all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries 1557 by finance Recommended filing documents submitted an agreement from Kmart and certain of his subsidiaries and affiliates regarding 2001 and 2002 Personal property taxes president Hannah. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I would move that the RC be accepted and adopted Motion and second under discussion There being on all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries Report of committees 7 1558 by finance recommended and or endorsing the early retirement incentive program With the caveat that the department's involved with the early retirement incentive program will repay over five years principle and interest to the special assessment fund president Hannah Thank You mr. Mayor. I would move that the RC be accepted and adopted second motion and second under discussion Turn the clean. Thank you, Your Honor. Just as a clarification The last sentence it reads city departments comma police fire streets and sanitation cemetery in park It's my understanding that Should be the intent is that it's the following city departments police fire streets and sanitation cemetery in park and not all city departments Is that the understanding of the committee? Okay? Any other questions? There be no more please call the roll Kittleson Clowness Manny myer Montemay or Ryn Flesch Ryan for hassled Wongamon Boran bulk yes, sir. Hannah and Heidemann 14 eyes motion carries 15 59 by finance recommended filing RC number 226 0708 by public protection and safety who met and reviewed the recommended 2008 budgets of the police department and the fire department president Thank You mr. Mayor. I would Make a motion the RC be accepted and adopted second motion and second to accept and adopt under discussion There being none, please call the roll Clowness Manny Myer Montemay or Ryn Flesch Ryan Excuse me. Thank you for hassled Wongamon Boran bulk yes, sir. Hannah Heidemann and Kittleson 14 eyes motion carries 15 60 almond handed you want to hold that? Or do you want to? Okay, president Hannah all in all in born vice president born excuse me Thank You your honor I needed a clarification on this from city attorney 1560 came before the last finance committee meeting and it came to the council tonight without recommendation Because there was three of us at finance It was a tie vote between all of them Gisha and myself and all of them Hannah abstained I See no reason why we should call another council meeting to address this because at the finance committee meeting both of the Proposals for the health insurance were on the table and it came forward with no recommendation If we call a special council meeting We're going to have the same two plans on the table again that came forward with no recommendation I see no reason why we can't go ahead and discuss this tonight There's a good there's going to be no additional information if we call another council meeting later this week We already have the information and I think most of the older persons have had a chance to to study the issue and discuss it tonight Are you all vice president barron? We're referring to possibly have an action on that About having action on that tonight. Yes It was that we dealt with if I'm thinking what you're thinking we dealt with that. It's a procedural matter There's no document other than that and the document for the council is that there was no recommendation There is no resolution attached to that before council acts on any on anything There has to be a document in this case. The only document here is That the finance committee made no recommendations. So as a report of committee That's all you can act that on if you if we are to act on any issue that deals with numbers or money and Things of that nature there has to be a document. So that's where the special meeting would come in. It's procedural Trim clean your honor. Thank you. Oh my born. That would be my opinion also. There's there should be Some document here some resolution or something to act on other than just Committee report that's making no recommendation. I think if there had been a resolution somewhere in the council packet here to act on one Plan or another I think you could act tonight, but because there's no Nothing before you for action by way of say resolution I Don't really think you it's appropriate to take any action on something that's not before you In the future you may want to Vote to make no recommendation but pass the document forward to the council for action And it was just that little piece that wasn't put in there Make a motion not to take any action, but we'd send this council this document to the council for action. So that may be Almond rehearsal Thank you, your honor is not the document the no recommendation. Isn't that that not the document itself? It there has to have been instances in recent years where documents have come back with no recommendations Where there have been stalemates as long as the document is attached to it no recommendation But the document gets forwarded to the council for action. Could you clarify then on documents that are pulled from committee? Where again, there would be no action taken no recommendation from a committee which happened not that long ago Yet we acted on the document, but there's a document before the council Right though in that case. I think there was a resolution that was in committee that pulled pulled out of committee And so he had something to act on here. You've just got a committee report and I think I Don't know what the plan is or what the The recommendation even of the group health insurance committee Formally is it's not spelled out. There should be some resolution That the council has in front of it to act on so it's clear what plan it is your Acting on okay, I apologize, but the RC in front of us here is number 231 0708 And even though it's not stapled or copied to the back of this document We've we vote on reports of committee all the time and the report of this committee is that there is no recommendation So it seems like we're maybe splitting hairs here Doesn't quite follow for me, I guess looking at past precedent with similar situations We is not the report of the committee that there is no recommendation that is the report That's our votes on we vote on reports of committee all the time So wait, I guess you could accept the report of the committee that there's no recommendation You could do that, but that's not Action on a health insurance plan Why is the document not attached then I guess let me ask the obvious question Because the finance committee made a made a Made a motion not to make any recommendation They did not say we make a motion not to make a recommendation and forward this document as far as the council for approval Before the full body, so what's the But it wasn't it what's it's not what's on that was on that report of committee So what what is the future of this document then if it goes? It's in committee with no recommendation That's it. That's it. That's all it is a reporter committee is what committee did or did not do in this case What they did is they made no recommendation that comes to us as a committee report that the finance committee made no recommendation But it did not include in that motion that although it's not making a recommendation We're still forwarding the document before us to the council for full action That's all I think Madam city clerk maybe just to clarify a little I think the confusing part is This document is an RC which is just a report of committee in order for the council to take action The action document would have been a resolution The resolution has to be drafted with the actual plan. There is no resolution with the actual plan. That's why An RC is just a report of committee The resolution is an action document for council the council has to draft an act or action document That's what's missing It's confusing to a lot of people all of it. Yes, I'll remember hassle Was that the intent of the committee then that it proceed in this fashion? That it come out in this way can I ask the chair was that the intent of Resistive to snafu a paperwork snafu that we're experiencing president Hanna Thank You mr. Mayor the intention of the committee Was because we were split I had to abstain because of my wife's employment Because of that our intention was to push it forward to the full common counsel for them to act on it, so All the person for hassled is quite correct Our intention all along was to have action tonight But that wasn't part of what the was moved in second and voted on what you voted on was not to take any action And it's confusing to a lot of people, but that's that procedural I could make the second McLean one further thing I would suggest if we're gonna have a special meeting that a resolution be drafted by someone Expressing whatever intent you want And have that submitted to the clerk so that that get on the agenda so that I think it's important on a Major change on a health plan that it be done by resolution so it's clear that what the plan is and that the council is Acting on that plan Okay, we have one more old man bulk. Thank you honor So how what would that document look like since there was no there was nothing resolved that evening there was no Arrival at a decision What would be forwarded? President Hanna as chairman can put together what his intent was in the form of a document a resolution brought before the council for action Which will be properly posted Or all in case that's right Just to follow on your please continue, but but the committee we have Option a and option b and we were unable to arrive at a decision on which one to recommend to the council So then by doing that both come to the council and we discuss it here And maybe this is procedure. Thank you your honor Maybe this is procedural as well Would it be appropriate and may I ask Chairman Hanna of the finance committee that perhaps we call there's going to be a special council meeting why not call a special finance meeting and actually have more than just the three of us there and Perhaps hash this out to get a recommendation Yay or nay out of that finance committee meeting to give some clarification of the issue once it hits this floor you can You'll have time to call a special meeting of the finance committee for Wednesday I would could already post the special meeting of the common council for Thursday Or it could be and we can have that document there Sure, we can do both of them with all of the issues you wish to further discussion Just that thank you your honor. I just that I think It was just Alderperson hander all the person born and myself with all the person and chairman Hannah having to abstain We have some very valuable members that I respect the input from all the members of our our committee And I I think if we're even sending it as a no recommendation, it would be nice was a little more recommendation No recommendation of all of us for on such an important issue versus just the bare minimum Thank you Thank You mr. Mayor with that I would like to make a motion to refer this document back to the finance committee Motion in second to refer 1560 back to the finance committee preferably a special meeting Was our second to that motion Who wants a credit Under discussion we have all my ring flesh Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you mr. Mayor Actually, I think with the document in hand the report of committee saying simply in committee We spoke and had no decision this can be filed the issue is still in the committee as long as it's Posted that it's going to be discussed in the finance committee While we're doing a sense at this point we'd be sending back a document saying that they had no recommendation Which they're already fully aware of so I think actually we can go ahead and just file this document because The issue is still at hand within the committee and they still have access to post that and create a resolution to come back to council So that's what we were trying to do All of them Ryan in that case your honor I will withdraw my motion and make a motion to file to get this over with this Motion second I think there was already motion the Florida file under Motion in second for to file 1560 I'm going to turn off all the lights under discussion on the motion 1560 to file All in Kittleson, thank you, mr. Mayor, then I just need to this is just procedural and And are we a lot? We still need to abstain those of us who need to abstain should still abstain even if it's a procedural No, I know to file this document. I don't think requires any abstention if you have any conflicts. Thank you Okay, I'm in Kittleson Okay, we there's a motion to file 1560 all in favor say aye any opposed one day 1561 through 1564 lies over to November 26 for part of committees 1565 lies over 1566 This is the the Trust funds where where you were moving some money to pay for the for the We borrowed some money to pay for the trust fund to pay towards the trust fund There may be a better alternative a better fiscal alternative and we want to have some opportunity to review that other alternative We'll bring that back at next meeting two weeks is plenty to look at the options and then bring it back next council meeting Jewish to speak president no, I was gonna say okay 1566 by finance recommended entering into contract for the purchase of program and services for the city assessors office president Hanna, okay, I would make a motion that the sorry That the RC be accepted and adopt second motion in second to accept and adopt and put that resolution upon his passage The resolution upon his passage and the second is okay with that. Okay, 1566 under discussion I mean on please call the roll Manny Myer Montemay or rin flash Ryan for hassled Wonka men Warren bow gisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson and Clowness 14 eyes 1567 This one. I think instead of holding we should refer refer to the special out to the finance committee Like to make a motion all of them Ryan Mr. Mayer I'd like to make a motion to refer this back to the finance all right motion in second under discussion There is none all in favor say aye. I any opposed motion carries Ordinances introduced 10 1568 lies over 1569 and 1570 to be referred Matters laid over 11 Resolution 1433 resolution number 120708 by all the persons Hannah and Warren Clowness Bulk and Gisha authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2007 budget establishing appropriation for meat library vacation and sick leave apps severance From vacation and sick leave from reserves Establishing review and appropriations for the internal committee public relations Establishing revenue and appropriations for contributions for Independence Day celebration and Establishing revenue and appropriation for funds received from federal federal drug forfeitures Wow, that's a mouthful President Hannah Thank You. Mr. Mayer. This is a lot easier I'd move that the resolution be put upon its past second motion and second under discussion For being non, please call the roll Meyer Montemay or Rinflaich Ryan for hassled Wongamon Boran, hi, Bulk. Yes, yeah, Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness and Manny 14 eyes motion carries 1448 RC number 2 2 2 2 2 0 7 0 8 by the special committee on risk management submitting a claim from Brian and Laura Balman for alleged damages to their vehicle when a city garbage truck sites wiped the vehicle and Recommending paying the claim in the amount of 907 dollars and 15 cents Alderman Meyer. Thank you, Your Honor. I move that the RC be accepted and adopted Motion and second under discussion There being none, please call a roll Montemay or Rinflaich Ryan for hassled Wongamon Boran, hi, Bulk. Yes, yeah Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny and Meyer 14 eyes motion carries other matters authorized by law 1571 lies over to November 26 Other matters attorney McLean 1572 is an arrow by the board of waterworks commissioners regarding An update on its April submittal That will be referred to finance 1573 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting communication from Dr. Elizabeth Strute requesting an encroachment at 2010 South 9th Street for the purpose of building and maintaining a retaining wall That will go to city plan commission 1574 is an ordinance granting Elizabeth Strute her heirs and assigns privilege of encroaching upon described portions of South 9th Street That will be referred to city plan commission also 1575 is an ordinance granting Elizabeth Strute her heirs and assigns privilege of encroaching upon described portions of South 9th Street for That different purposes than the prior documents. I'm sorry. Excuse me. That will also be referred to city plan 1576 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting communication from David Lutzky Requesting an encroachment for the purpose of building and maintaining a chain link fence and would also go to city plan commission 1577 is an ordinance granting David Lutzky his heirs and assigns the privilege of encroaching upon described portions of North 2nd Street and Lincoln Avenue For the purpose of building and maintaining a chain link fence and that goes to city plan also 1578 is a committee report by the municipal court advisory committee Submitting the monthly Financial report and that lies over 1579 is a resolution Authorizing a transfer of appropriations in 2007 budget that will be referred to finance the motion to adjourn Motion second to adjourn all in favor say aye Any opposed and adjourned


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, find the general solution for the following differential equation. Given differential equation is, dy upon dx is equal to 1 plus x square multiplied by 1 plus y square. Let us now start with the solution. Given differential equation is, dy upon dx is equal to 1 plus x square multiplied by 1 plus y square. Now let us name this differential equation as 1. Now separating the variables of equation 1, we get dy upon 1 plus y square is equal to 1 plus x square dx. Now integrating both the sides of this equation, we get integral of dy upon 1 plus y square is equal to integral of 1 plus x square dx. Now we will find out this integral with respect to y and we will find this integral with respect to x. Now using this formula of integration, we get integral dy upon 1 plus y square is equal to tan inverse y plus c1 where c1 is the constant of integration. Now we will write this equal to sin as it is. Now we will find this integral. Now using these two formulas of integration, we can find this integral. Now we know integral of dx is equal to x. So here we can write x and integral of x square is equal to x raised to the power 2 plus 1 upon 2 plus 1. And here we can write c2 where c2 is the constant of integration. Now this further implies tan inverse y is equal to x plus x cube upon 3 plus c. Substituting c for c2 minus c1, we get this equation. Now the required solution of the given differential equation is tan inverse y is equal to x plus x cube upon 3 plus c. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


Operation Warp Speed. If you think about us, Operation Warp Speed, where they distributed billions and billions of dollars to drug makers buying these drugs in advance. The only good part of Operation Warp Speed, which is really good, right, which is really good that the Trump administration did, is they sped up FDA authorization. But by buying all the drug in advance, they're the only ones buying the drug. And again, the laws say they're the only ones who can buy the drug. Operation Warp Speed. So it's bad enough that we are now going to be stuck in six months of ineffective, horrific distribution of a vaccine. It's bad enough that I, who would be willing to pay a lot of money to be vaccinated, cannot be vaccinated until some government bureaucrat, some government official, decides that my random numbers come up and I can be vaccinated. I'm not in the age group. I'm not in, I don't have any pre-existing conditions. I'm not suffering enough. I don't have enough need. And if I'm not going to get vaccinated early, so I have to wait. I can't travel. I can't do all these things. I have to wait until the summer when the vaccines available to all of us. And yet, so that's bad enough. That's bad enough. I mean, if you don't believe, I'm just going to comment on something. If you don't believe that COVID exists, you really don't know what you're talking about. I mean, just talk to doctors who are actually treating patients who have it. Just talk to people who work in emergency rooms. Talk to people who work in hospitals. Talk to people who actually experience what this virus does to people. And look at the science. Look at the fact that we, even though some people claim there's no such thing as COVID, and yet we have the genome of the COVID vaccine. We have its genetic makeup mapped out perfectly. And indeed, we had that genetic makeup, and this brings me to the, we had that genetic makeup. It's not an appeal to authority. It's an appeal to people with experience. It's an appeal to people who actually know what they're talking about versus your completely arbitrary statement, which has no basis in reality or fact. To say, go and talk to doctors who are actually experiencing this firsthand is not an appeal to authority.  It's just stunning to me the ignorance that has been in the inability to think that has been revealed by this virus. That is the real virus in our culture is the virus of inability to think. Hospitals are empty. Hospitals are empty, guys. Just go, go visit. And I see you down here in Orange County, which is, which is relatively, I mean, okay, I'm ignoring him now. All right. So it turns out, it turns out that when the Chinese, when a particular Chinese doctor in January, understood what corona was, how contagious it was and how dangerous it was, that a brave Chinese doctor actually put out the DNA of the, the corona virus up. He basically distributed the exact sequence of the DNA of the corona virus. This is in early January, stunningly, stunningly. Within two days after the genetic sequence of the corona virus was made public, by the way, this doctors disappeared since. Two days after the genetic sequence had been designed, had been put out in public. Moderna had a vaccine. So on January 13th, on January 13th, before there had ever been a case diagnosed in the United States. Moderna already had a design for a vaccine, mRNA1273. The Moderna vaccine design took one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease was transmitted from human to human. By the time the first American death was announced in February, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institute of Health for phase one clinical trials. So think about this. We now have, I don't know, you can argue about how many people have died, but officially 250 plus thousand people have died. We've shut down the economy, suffered short, but deepest recession ever. Millions of people have out of work. Millions of businesses are probably shuttered for good. Hundreds of thousands of restaurants will never open. It's still ravaging our population. It's still going on. And yet, a vaccine was available in February. Now there's a really good article in this if you're interested in digging the details. It's actually New York Magazine, not somewhere you'd expect something like this. New York Magazine, a piece written by David Wallace Wells just this week. It's titled, We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time. So while people were dying, while in New York City emergency rooms were packed, doctors and nurses were frantic. Just talk to those doctors and nurses and ask them if the hospitals were empty. There was a vaccine. The vaccine was undergoing FDA required trials, randomized clinical trials to prove that it's safe and efficacious. Trials that took nine months, 10 months. In the meantime, people are dying and we're playing a trials. Now what would have happened in a free market? In a free market, a drug company could sell a vaccine on January 14 and you could buy it. And neither one of you would go to jail. In a free market, the vaccine would carry a label that said this vaccine is untested. It has not been proven safe or effective in clinical trials. And you would sign away their liability and you would accept the risk. Once you take it, you're now enrolled in a massive trial because everybody who takes it would be monitored and you would have this massive trial. If there were side effects, they would be the drug company as part of giving you the drug would want to monitor you. They would get information. And while this trial, this massive trial, because a lot of people take it particularly after New York, what we saw in New York and in Italy, people would be taking this, the drug company would be improving the vaccine because they'd have all this information. They wouldn't be running these and maybe on the side, they'd also be running a randomized trial because some of the private rating agencies, the equivalent of an FDA, the private FDA would require that in order to get their certification. In the meantime, they would sell it off certificate. All that real-world testing would provide a lot more data. Their data would be applied. By the way, one of the things I didn't say about the vaccination before, the 90-year-old who got this vaccine, it's fascinating for a couple of reasons. One, 90-year-olds were not in the test group. That is, the vaccine has not been tested on 90-year-olds. Indeed, very few old people were in the test groups and yet there are the people getting it first.  The last people you want to give this to are older adults, but anyway, that's a sight. Now, the drug company could release the vaccine. We could all choose to take it. We could all choose to take it and we could all take the risk or not. And we always have the option of not taking the vaccine, of staying home, of locking ourselves away or taking the risk of getting COVID, which I think a lot of young people probably would. But imagine a world in which we had that option. Imagine a world where we could choose whether we take the vaccine, how much risk we take, what to do once a virus hits. I mean, if a drug company sold something they knew was unsafe and ineffective, they would lose billions of dollars, they would be sued and they would be completely destroyed. Completely destroyed. If you look at these trials that Moderna and Pfizer and other companies have put out, the side effects would be minimal. There are side effects, but they're relatively small. You could have saved millions of people's lives across the world. And yes, there would have been a risk that one of these vaccines was bad and somebody got really sick and some people died, but they're dying anyway. And more people are dying right now. Many, many more people than would die from a bad vaccine. The idea that we need to be safe, safe in front of risk of disease, safe in front of before the risk of death, safe from what exactly?  That's how drug companies would make money, is by killing us or by giving us something ineffective. But this is, again, altruism. Altruism leads us, altruism leads us to distrust business, to distrust science, to distrust anybody who's doing the work. Altruism says that sick people, that altruism says that businessmen, profit seekers are going to like cheat steel. They're going to do really, really bad things. So imagine if we'd been using the vaccines since they were developed. Again, no recession, no lockdowns, no shutdowns of our lives, and no 250,000 bodies just in the United States. Now, the FDA approved these vaccines super fast, but way too slow, way too slow. The FDA is the federal death agency, because it has on its hands the deaths of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Because it didn't allow, allow, that's the kind of world we live in, allow us individuals to take risk that we choose to take in order to get a vaccine on our timetable. And maybe our doctors would have advised against it, who knows. But that's our decision, not the governments, not the central planners. So the benefits of FDA protection are the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. That's the benefits. So the costs of FDA protection are unbelievable. We never talk about the costs. Nobody is interested in the costs. And I'm not even talking about all the other diseases that the FDA is involved regularly in having people killed by not letting people take drugs. And of course, I'm not even talking about the other alternative that has existed for months, which is home testing, cheap, quick, fast, easy. Home testing, which the FDA has still not approved, not the kind of home testing that would make a difference. The FDA stood in the way of every significant development here. And I'm not blaming the FDA. It's the whole system. The whole system is geared towards preventing us from making choices for ourselves and from benefiting from the best advancements in healthcare. And you should be outraged. We should all be outraged. Fortunately, I didn't know this, that the vaccine was ready. The vaccine was ready, at least mapped out, not in production, but developed within two days of the release of the genetic code. It just stupefies. And again, where are the free market advocates? Where are all those free market economists? Where are all the believers in the freedom of the individual? Where are all the capitalists who should use this as an opportunity to demand these laws be changed? That the FDA's mandate, even if you want an FDA, if you need an FDA, you don't. The FDA, by definition, violates individuals. But the FDA mandate could be left just to make sure that companies are not selling drugs committing fraud. It could be an agency that just is involved in making sure it's not committing fraud. An aspect of the policing. Where's the outrage by the free market world? Instead of advocating for conspiracy theories around COVID and around elections and around all the other BS, where is all the outrage and where is all the advocacy for true liberty, for true freedom? Let people decide. And if you think corona doesn't exist, then fine. In a free world, it doesn't matter. You suffer the consequences of your own beliefs. By the way, Milton Friedman, Milton Friedman won't be horrified by you using his name to advocate this nonsense. Horrified, but so be it. All right. Not a lot of super chat questions. So now's your opportunity. Ask about anything, vaccines, corona, anything you want. Just put a dollar amount next to it and I will get to it. We've got a few questions here I will cover. But let me see something. Yeah, I don't think any of them were $20 questions. So I'll just do them in the order received. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. We've got many, many more people watching the show that have pressed the like button. So please press the like button. This is one of those shows that I hope you will consider really sharing because this is the kind of issue where we should be at the forefront. And when you should be brave enough to let the people in your universe know where you stand. This is the kind of issue where we can make the free market case on a relevant issue right now. It's not political. There's nobody in the political space. Nobody in the political space. Nobody in the political space who is advocating for these ideas, not left, no right. So it's not TDS or anything like that. So it's time to advocate for your ideas. It's time to advocate on particular issues. And it's time to show the world how a free market would handle a lot of this. And a free market that would have never been a pandemic. In a free market that would have never been a recession. And it would never been a pandemic because we'd be vaccinated for it. Or enough people would have taken the vaccine that it would have never spread the way it did. Because the science we have today is stunning. It's amazing. But we don't get a benefit from it. Because government monopolizes it. Because government controls it. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect. Not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. 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One of the most important things you can do when writing programs is to name your variables well. What does that mean? Let's say you want to take a person's age in years and convert it to an approximate age in days. You could write code like this. Y refers to 37, which might be their age, and then D refers to 365 times Y, and then print whatever is in D, and there's your answer. That works, but it's really not satisfying, because what does D stand for? A large program doesn't stand for days, deposit, debit, discount, who knows. Just a single letter variable name is really not what we'd like. Your variable name should be descriptive. Try this on for size. Years refers to 37, days refers to 365 times years, print days. That's a lot more readable, and the intention is much more clear. Quick word of warning. Python is case sensitive when it comes to variable names. Upper and lower case are not the same. If I try this, years refers to 37, days refers to 365 times capital Y, years. It'll say capital Y years is not defined, so those are two very different variable names. By convention, Python variables start with lower case letters and consist mostly of lower case. What happens if you have a multi-word variable name? What if I wanted to say age in years equals 37 to be even more descriptive, because there could be many uses of years in a large program? It won't let me do that because you can't have blanks in variable names. How is that problem solved? Programming languages have evolved two different ways of solving this. One of them is to make a single variable name with all the subwords being capitalized. I would write age capital in capital years refers to 37, and then age capital in capital days refers to 365 times age in years, and print age in days. This is called camel case because the mixture of upper and lower case, the up and down, resembles the humps of a camel, supposedly. Go figure. You'll find this as the convention for programs written in Java and JavaScript. For programs written in Python, the convention is to separate the subwords in a variable name with underscores. So in Python, age underscore in underscore years would refer to 37, and age underscore in underscore days is 365 times age in years, and print age in days.  If you decide to do it with camel case, the first example, great, as long as you're consistent. If you decide to do it the way most Python programmers do, which I believe, by the way, is called snake case because it looks like the segments of a snake lined up one after another, I'm fine with that as long as, again, you're consistent throughout your programs. Moral of the story, variable names should be descriptive. Why refers to 37? Not descriptive enough. Years refers to 37? That's good. Age in years, 37, also descriptive, but please don't go overboard. Age in years as of current date of program, please don't do something like that. When you use names that are descriptive, other people who read your program later on will thank you, and other people refers to perhaps you six months from now when you haven't looked at the code. Future you will thank past you for using good variable names.


Hey guys, welcome back to come again TV. We're all geek culture collides today We're taking a look at the pop television ash versus the evil dead number 395 Ash final figure. So stay tuned All right guys, welcome back to come again TV. We're all geek culture collides I'm Shannon and today we're taking a look at the pop television number 395 ash versus the evil dead ash final figure I am a big fan of evil dead My wife introduced me to it Probably about eight years ago, and I've been hooked ever since We just finished watching seasons one and two of ash versus the evil dead on stars I don't really want to subscribe to stars just for that one series. So we're gonna wait Hopefully it'll hit Netflix soon But until then Let's take a look at this ash of final figure as you can see here There's a nice display image of ash right here on the corner Display side there with his car in the back, which is just as much character as he is In fact, they should do a Vinyl figure of the Delta 88 Great car built like a tank. It's been through a lot It's just as much a star of the evil dead as ash himself. So there you have 395 ash 396 is Pablo 397 is Kelly 398 is Ruby Speaking of ash and Ruby Coming up in the near future right here on come again TV I'm going to be doing a Complete story episode of the comic book mini series Zena Versus ash That's right. Ash went into the past and met up with Zena Gabriel and Bruce Campbell's younger self Atollicus the Prince of Thieves Or no the King of thieves. I'm sorry the King of thieves Robin Hood is the Prince of Thieves Atollicus is the King of thieves. So look forward to that guys It is pretty funny and they did a sequel series to it as well. That's coming out that just recently came out I can't remember the name of it, but I'm gonna have to get it because Ash versus Zena was a lot of fun Collect all the ash versus evil dead pop super stylized vinyl figures stars and Funko So let's go ahead and open this guy up now one thing they could have done is Did a chase figure of ash? Let's go ahead and lower this down from season two of Ash versus the evil dead where he has his robotic hand No boomstick It Has the anus of that corpse wrapped For those of you guys who haven't seen it in season two of ash versus the evil dead Ash and Pablo aren't or no ash and I think Kelly I Can't remember who's with Ash It was one of the others was they were in a morgue and one of the deadites came to life and Stuck ash's head into the anus of a corpse It was the most hilarious five minutes in all of evil dead history Because you see ash dumbling around with this butthole over his It reminded me of mr. Bean with the turkey If you guys can picture that So anyway his head does Rotate all the way around just like all pops Nice detail the chainsaw for his hand the boomstick You got his Holsters first boomstick right there Got some graying in the sideburns He's been in battle. He's kind of damaged around the eyes got a cut there his Blue shirt which in the original it was a jean shirt now.  I Really like this figure. I kind of wanted it for myself, but uh My wife hijacked it. She wanted it. So I ordered it for And there's really no sense in ordering to No, no real point to it we can combine our collection whatever I can look at it whenever I want So it's still cool So there you have it guys pop television number 395 Ash versus the evil dead ash Vinyl figure. I hope you guys enjoyed this review. I hope you guys are over watching Ash versus the evil dead. It's the most fun I've had watching a show in a very long time and in season 3 ash is getting a daughter fully grown daughter So I'm looking forward to that looking forward to seeing how they're at They interact with each other. So anyway guys if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to hit the subscribe button So you don't miss out on future videos Also, let us know what you think leave a comment down below. I'm Shannon for come again TV. Take care


The sounds of cats purring can be soothing and part of a healing process. For this week's Community Spotlight, we show you how 1,000 purring cats can be helpful. Everyone deals with loss differently, and for Susan Sparky-Kedzie, she used those difficult times as the inspiration for her book, A Thousand Purring Cats, after having conversations with her mother that sparked an idea. I was feeling silly, and I said, well, Mom, you know, I think you just need 1,000 purring cats to come to your door, and she's laughed and didn't understand where that was coming from, so I explained, and she said, I think there's a book there. Sparky hosted a soft book launch at the Headwater School of Music and the Arts in Bemidji, where her family and newfound fans gathered for her accomplishment. Happy Captain to you. The book sounded interesting. I like to support the arts and the community. It's a beautiful day, so here we are. I didn't know Susan prior to this, but she's a great lady. It was a four-year process for Sparky's vision to come to life, and each illustration in the book tells its own story. Last year, she received a grant from the Region 2 Arts Council to help complete the second half of the illustrations. It's about emotional healing, and so that's kind of a heavy topic. So I wanted to make it lively and playful, and so the text is lively and playful, and so I wanted images to sort of amplify that. When Sparky Ellingson considers herself a cat lady, she came out to support Sparky and left with a copy of the book. I looked through it last night. I read part of it, and I just thought, I need to have this and take it home and read to my cats. When she is in writing, Sparky spends her time as an art teacher. She hopes her book will connect with children and teach them about the healing process. I liked how it had lots of pictures, and very well drawn. I like how it's all the same. That way someone loves you. Sparky plans to have a hard launch for her book in November. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Hey, welcome to DeskLadyAda. Hey, everybody, and welcome to my desk. It's me, Lady Aida, hacking away. It's been so rainy this weekend. And so we got a lot of hardware done. We didn't get as much sun. So let's jump right in. Let's go to the overhead. We'll talk about some of the prototypes that we've been working on. So last week, we talked about the seesaw stem of boards that we've been working on and the prototypes that we've been putting together and getting them working. So this is the first one I wanted to get working, because this is the one I get in the most tech support questions about. A lot of people have, well, this is a Raspberry Pi computer over here that it's connected to. But a lot of people have single board computers like Alwinter, RockChip, Omega, Pi, Onion, Orange, Banana, Sorbet. And they want to use Neopixels, because we have a Blinka library, and Blinka lets them use all sorts of I squared C devices. I don't know if I have any I squared C devices on. Actually, it's weird. I usually have like 15, but I don't have any I squared C stuff on my desk. But they want to use sensors, accelerometers, and temperature sensors, and light sensors, and all that. But then they also usually want to run Neopixels. And the problem with that is that Neopixels, they're really easy to use because they only use one GPIO pen. You only need power, ground, and green is data. But you need to have very specific timing. And on the Raspberry Pi, we actually take advantage of the PWM subsystem. And we DMA it, or we use SPI and DMA it. So it's like a hack, because it's very hard to get bit banging working on single board computers, because you don't usually get to use the CPU for that whole 10 milliseconds you need to spit the data out. And also, there's a lot of new chips that come out that don't have Neopixel. Like, every once in a while, there's a new chip from Renaissance, or NXP, or whatever. And somebody has to write that Neopixel driver. That person tends to be somebody to eat a fruit. But also, a lot of contributors as well. However, it could take some time, or maybe it's buggy. And so there's people who are like, I just want a way to control a strip of Neopixels from any single board computer, even if it's not a Raspberry Pi. So this is our little dev board that does that. So this is a Neopixel driver and uses seesaw. So it's got an AT Tiny 1616, which has 2K of RAM in it. And that means it can buffer, because you have to buffer the entire Neopixel strip at once before you write it. And you need three bytes per pixel. So this basically can do 500 plus pixels. And here I have it connected up to, it's not 500, but it's 165 or so LEDs. They're very high density. This makes it easy, because I can keep it on my desk. And I can make sure that it works for long strings without having, like, 5,000 meters. And so this is being controlled, even though the Raspberry Pi technically can drive pixels directly, this is going through I squared C. So this is the I squared C IO connected to a Stem IQT port. And then it's sending the seesaw commands, basically like the data and address, and then whatever data it wants to put onto the Neopixels. And every time you set a Neopixel color, it sends an I squared C command. And then the internal buffer get updated. And then you say, OK, show the data. And it sends all the data out on the Neopixel port. So it's got pre-soldered terminal blocks here. And there's three outputs that are connected to my Neopixel. I just have them plugged in. And then this is the power input. So there is a power pin here, but this power pin is 3 volts. And that should be for the sensor logic. You'll need a separate power supply for Neopixels. Why? Because you're never going to get the amp or two that you often need over these thin wires and over this connector. This is really only rated for 100 milliamps or 200 milliamps. You just get something connects. And you could put an amp through it. Doesn't mean you should. You can melt this connector. So there's a separate terminal block input for power. And it's labeled 5 volt in, ground, and then ground signal and 5 volt out. So the 5 volts and ground are just connected together. And then I have this connected to a USB power supply and give me two amps. And then this is the demo. So let's go to the computer real fast. And I can show. So the code is here. And so this is using Blinka. When I have the green demo going, it makes me transparent because of the green screen. And I tell it how many Neopixels there are. And then when I instantiate it, I use seesaw. And I tell it the I squared C address. And you can have multiple I squared C addresses. This has, like, I think, three or four jumpers. So you can have tons of these. And then these are the animations. And then you instantiate it through the seesaw interface rather than with the direct pin. But the good news is, again, this works on any chip that has I squared C. Trade-off is it's not as fast, right? Because there's nothing faster than just doing all in RAM and blending it out. So just as a reminder, don't forget you can group config.txt. In config.txt, you can set the I squared C speed. Because most microcontrollers, you can kind of instantiate I squared C to whatever speed you want. Usually 100 kilohertz or 400 kilohertz. And you do that in the system. Or sometimes per device, like with Arduino, you would say, I want to connect to this device. And I'm going to use this speed. You can set the frequency dynamically. You can't do that with Linux. But what you can do is in the I squared C parameters, here you can set the baud rates. Or here I have it set to 1 megahertz. And the teeny core for the IT Tiny 16 is, like, works great at 1 megahertz. You just have to make sure you have good pull-ups for something like that. But as long as the cable's fairly short. Now remember, the I squared C cable can be short. And then the neopixel strip can be quite long. It works pretty well. So that's one board. And I've sent that off. And I think it'll be really handy for people. Because, again, I get so many requests. Like, can you please port neopixel to this? Instead, I'll be like, you have I squared C. Here you go. It's like six bucks. Add this. Add on. OK, so that's one demo I did. And yeah, it's like, I'll figure out exactly. You can do the math. And basically, every time you write a pixel, it takes six bytes over I squared C. So if you're wondering, like, how long does it take to write the strip? It's, again, it's not ideal for very, very long strips where you want to do very complex animations.  OK, back to the overhead, please. OK, the next board that I was working on for Seesaw is this little game pad. This is actually very similar to a feather wing that we make.  And so I also ported this to the ATtiny816. It's got six buttons. And I'm kind of digging these. These are kind of tall, but they're nice and soft. So you can kind of, like, press them all at once without hurting your fingers.  And then this is an XY thumbstick. So this we have to solder in. It's not surface mount, although, you know, ironically, I just press fit it in and it kind of works fine. And then you get a couple of pull-up resistors. One of the things I really like about the ATtiny816, instead of the Sam D09, is, yes, it's not as fast. It doesn't, you know, whatever. But it's about the same price or cheaper. And you don't need a regulator because it runs from three or five volts, no problem. And you don't need a level shifter because the iSquad T can also work either way.  So there's actually a little, my favorite AP3602 switch cap, loose converter. Not very power efficient, but boy, it does not take a lot of space because you only need the chip in one capacitor. It's very inexpensive and just gives you like a couple milliamps of five-volt power. So what's interesting is that this is actually running at five volts so that the logic output is five volts, but then the iSquad C pull-ups are to 3.3 volts. And that works just fine for us. And that way, you know, if this is three-volt logic here, this gets boosted up, but you still have three-volt iSquad C and five-volt NeoPixel output. Also means that this chip can run at 20 megahertz, which is a little bit nicer in case, you know, I want to have fast responses to iSquad C. Okay. Sorry, that was all stack pop. All right, back to here. Right, so this one's running at 3.3 volt logic. And then, you know, there's always a project where I'm like, I just want to add a little like as controller. And I know that we have like the Wiimote Classic, but sometimes I want something maybe, you know, very small and very simple just to add a little bit of a control interface. So this connects over iSquad C, you know, to access joystick, you can have two address pins. And then also uploaded this with the C-Sauce software. So go to my computer. So on my computer, this is the code for connecting to it. Let me see if I have the code that I programmed into it. Okay, this is the code I programmed into it. You know, I tell it the peripheral code. So this is the code that's, it's like Arduino, but it's compiled to run on the chip on the little gamepad. I tell it the peripheral address. It's got two iSquad C address selection pins. It's an interrupt pin. And then I config the analogical converter. Every time you add a peripheral, it takes more flash and RAM because I have to manage those commands. So I don't turn them on unless I need them. In this case, I need the ADC. And then it runs the C-Sauce peripheral code. And then on the gamepad side, I have the pin definitions.  So here you can see, you know, 16102-65. So these are the Arduino pins that I put here nicely in the schematic to help me connect with, like P before, what does that really call them? I kept looking at this diagram until I'm like, okay, I'm gonna put it in the schematic. Then it connects over iSquad C. It turns on pull-ups for all of the GPIOs, which saves me a bunch of resistors on the board. I don't have to do that. And then it can read the two analog inputs for the XY. And then it does a little bit of hysteresis.  There's always a little, sometimes it goes back and forth one or two digits. So as long as it's been, it doesn't print out the, it only prints out if there's been a change in the X and Y. And then it prints out every button that's been pressed. It reads all the buttons at once. It reads like it does one bulk read of all the buttons over iSquad C. So it gets like one four-byte array with up to 32 IOs. And then, you know, checking whether the button is zero, the button bit is zero, it knows it's been pressed. So let me see if I can. Okay, so I actually have that running right now. Let's see if it's still working. Okay, so here I'm pressing the little buttons on the... There you go. As I press the little buttons, it's like, okay, select, start. And then when I move the XY, it knows that something's changed. So you've got X and Y cornered. So another little handy breakout board, I think will be great for using with seesaw. Okay, so that's what I've been working on my desk. So next up, we've got some news from the fruit, from about Michael Patheon's tenure. A few things. So first up, you've been in the middle of your redesign.  And I think that goes in with the 10 year celebration of MicroPython, you could pull that up and talk about what's been going on. Yes. And then we'll also talk about some of the things that we've been doing, the RP2040, and that'll bring us to the great search after that. So there's an anniversary. Yeah, there's an anniversary. So it's 10 years of MicroPython, you know, I'm zooming in, but of course, I downloaded this poster from micropython.org. First off, I didn't know that there's a new Ambic Apollo-based Pie Board D, which is pretty cool. This is a Bluetooth low-power chipset that Sparkfund is really into, that I think they call it the Artemis. I think it's the same family, but I'll be honest, I haven't used the chip very much. So if it's a different version, I apologize, but it's apparently very, very low power and it does Bluetooth low energy, so that can be very cool. You know, they talk about historical things, you know, micropython is now supported within Arduino. The, you know, Raspberry Pi Pico chip was a really big deal. The suggested programming interface for that board and that chip is micropython. The chip itself was designed specifically to make it really easy to use with embedded microcontrollers. It has just what I like to call a s-ton of RAM. Most Cortex M0 microcontrollers come with 1632K of RAM and with micropython and then circuitpython, which is based on it, of course, all the instructions have to live in RAM, like you load the code dynamically. And so 32K of RAM is like really the bare minimum to kind of get anything done. You really need at least 128K to have a good time. And the RP2040 comes with 264K plus a really wonderful bootloader that I keep seeing people love. Don't forget, micropython has GitHub sponsorship and who are some sponsors of micropython? Mr. Lady, Ada, could you? Well, just on related to this, I was emailing with Damian and we helped get the word out about their sponsors on GitHub and they were able to hit some of their goals. But Adafruit is a financial sponsor of micropython and will continue to do it. And we also will help get the word out. If you use it, there is a way to sponsor on GitHub. And then there's large entities like Lego. We also reached out to some other companies that have used micropython. We said, hey, like this is how we can show that open source can work. And we have a flavor of micropython, circuitpython, and there's lots of other variants. So we had said, hey, let's continue to build off of each other, do the whole skateboard thing where we're just all doing tricks to push the state of the art. And so far, so good. I think it's probably one of the best success stories of a community. And that also led to more chip support, more people being able to use it, and just overall, more projects. A good time. Yeah, more projects. Don't forget, you can sponsor, and part of that sponsorship might be requesting features or board support. If you give them money, they're way more likely to be able to do it because it does cost money. Engineers are well compensated as they should be that takes cash and while hugs and tweets and likes are always appreciated, they also really could always use a couple bucks. So throw them a couple dollars. If you love using the free and open source and very liberally licensed micropython core, we do, because we love it. And on this topic, part of the 300 redesigns, and of course, featured here in this newsletter is the RP2040. And I thought, yes, that's me. A lot of these boards that are flying out in this is Adafruit. Yeah. I'm actually up to like 312 now, I think as of yesterday. I was like, I hit 300 last week and I was like, I kind of did another little bit of a push. But you're seeing a lot of them in the new product section on Adafruit. Some of them are hidden revisions. You may not notice that they've been revised, but silkscreen, if the silkscreen gets updated, that's a good indicator. All right, so speaking of RP2040, let's go to the great search. Where is search with DJ King? The great search brought to you by did you key in Adafruit every single week?  Or in this particular case, in this particular week, one of the keystone, could I say keystone? Keystone. Fundamental? Yeah. It is a fundamental force of nature now because we've been able to do so much with the chip, and we were thinking, oh, did we do a great search with RP2040? Turns out we didn't. So now, no time like the present. Okay, so let's go to the overhead real fast. I'll just show off like a board I've been working on. So doing a lot of board designs and a lot of them are featuring the RP2040. We talked about this chip a lot, but maybe you got to this video from Google and you're like, what is this chip and where can I get it? So this is a microcontroller that does need a couple of accessories with it, like it needs a Q-Spy flash and you'll want a USB port to go with it and a crystal and a lot of capacitors and then a boot button and a reset button. But other than that, it's a very well integrated chip that has a microcontroller core. It's got a dual Cortex M0 running at about 133 megahertz, but like you can really overclock it to like 250 if you feel like it and we do that all the time. It's got four analog inputs, which is great. It has two PIO machines, which allow you to control more complicated devices that aren't just iSquared CSPI. It's got iSquared CSPI and you are built in two of each, but like you want to drive NeoPixels or maybe you want to like BitBang DVI or USB host or you want to do I2S, all these things you would control with the PIO machines inside the RP2040. That's kind of their innovation. It's very cool. NXP also has this thing called FlexIO, but basically a lot of times engineers have to BitBang with a microcontroller and it has like auto BitBanging devices. Super neat. There's also PWM outputs and lots of timers. So it's a really cute microcontroller and it's very inexpensive. Do note that of course you have to add an external flash chip, which will add 50 cents and a crystal and that's gonna be another 20 cents or so USB, maybe another 10, 20 cents. So a total of bill of materials costs about a buck, but you get 256K of RAM in that. Sorry, 264K of RAM with that, which is a lot. And a lot of my controllers in this price range do not come with more than eight or 16. So it's, even though it's not a very powerful core, it's only a Cortex M0, not an M33 or M4. You get a lot of RAM and a lot of flash in exchange and these powerful peripherals that may make up for the fact that it's not like a super ultra hyperpowered Cortex M7 or something. Okay. And then it's going to my computer and nothing, the reason we were on this topic was that MicroPython is one of the recommended programming languages. The RP2040 was designed to be very easy to integrate and then also easy to run. You can run Arduino on it. You can run PicoSDK, which is CMake CC++. There's also, I think Rust ported to it. That's probably Golang, Lisp, a lot of other languages. It's, you know, because it's ARM Cortex, a lot of stuff is going to compile very cleanly to this core, as long as you just have the peripherals you need to get your work done.  Is this affected by the silicon shortage? Actually, it kind of never was. It was available all through the last two years, which made it one of our favorites for redesigns.  The key thing you may want is the RP2040 chip itself, which is available under SC0914, but you just Google for RP2040 and the chip is right here. The price was originally a dollar a piece, but thanks to good price competition, it's now available at 70 cents a piece. What a good deal, 70 cents is pretty amazing. Usually that's what you would get for an 8-bit microcontroller, like an 8051 core, but here you're getting a dual Cortex M0 with a ton of RAM. However, you know, if you're going to use this, I will say you might want to check out, first off, they have great documentation, but we also have, if you want like a ready to go, I don't even want to look at schematics. We've got a whole bunch of RP2040 feather boards that you can use as your basis. They're all openly licensed. We've got like the Feather RP2040, which we published basically when the feather with the RP2040 came out. It looks like this. You can do, it kind of has a little bit of everything. It has a NeoPixel and battery backup and STEMAQT and boot switch and, you know, flash memory. So if you want to just kind of use this as your basis to make sure there's a lot of little power supply things, you just want to make sure you get right. You can use, you can use this Eagle CAD file and of course you can import that into CAD. We have many, many more boards as well. So like this RFM board and this DVI output board, if you want DVI output. The other option is though, and, you know, one thing that Raspberry Pi kind of, they like to make interesting decisions is that they also have the Pico boards and let's see, this is probably under a Val boards.  There's a few of the compatibles, but the original is like the RP2040 Pico. And what's interesting about this is it comes with these cast-related pads, which make it very easy for it to be pick and placed or hand placed onto a PCB and then solder directly onto the circuit board. And there are people who do this because once in a while you're like, I don't want to have all the components and I want to like do the arrangement. I just want to like place this on a board and I'm ready to go. I can move on to the Russian design. So this is actually available in cut tape and tape in real. So you can get a real of 480. And actually when we get them to sell in the Adafruit shop, they come like on a big reel and we have to cut them out. So you could send this to a board manufacturer and have them pick and place it onto your design. There's a couple of pads that are on the bottom. You'll, you know, there's, on the bottom, there's pads. See if it's documented here. Let's see, this is the pinout. So yeah, so this is the mechanical layout. And on the bottom, there are these test pads and these test pads are the boot pin because that's not exposed. And I think, yeah, the USB minus and plus. And so if you want to have an external, separate USB connector elsewhere, you out them out. The LED, in case you want to have the LED indicator be also available somehow in the boot select pin and that's how you enter into boot loader mode. So those are not brought out on the cast-related pads. They're brought out only on the test points. There's these test points here. This is the USB test points and these are the LED and boot test points. There's also three cast-related pads here for SWD for debugging and in-circuit programming. But you may be like, ah, you know, I don't want to solder it directly on. Well, there's also the Pico H and the Pico H, it's a little bit of a hack because it's like, why is this such a long thin board? So this board on the bottom, it has this like structure with all the pins brought out so you don't get the test pads, right? So you're not going to get the boot select and D plus, D minus, but this is something where you don't have to solder it directly on and you can plug it in. And if you're like, well, what's an easy way to have this plug in, this is the same as a 40-pin 0.6 inch sockets, sorry, which are called an IC socket. So the two by 20, I'm sure there's more than these but these are some like really quick ones. You can get an IC socket and have this plug in. So instead of, you know, because you're like, well, I don't want, if I don't want to permanently solder it in, why would I get it with pins? You can get a socket and then have it plug in directly that way. So it's removable in case like you want update to like a Pico W, which they have with wireless or if the Pico gets damaged. So a couple options for you for manufacturing but still my pick of the week is the RP2040 chip, just the chip itself. What a good deal, 70 cents and they've got 85,000 available at Digi. How can you say no? Where in the world is that part I need? Search with Digi. That's the show for this week. Thank you everybody for hanging out and more. We'll see everybody during the week this week, full schedule of shows, new products, sneak peeks. We're going to keep shipping up and source hardware. We're going to keep publishing code. We're going to keep doing all the things to hopefully make our little corner of the universe a little bit more open, a little bit more shiny, a little bit more blinky, a little bit more fun. So we'll see everybody later. All right, thanks everybody. Bye bye. Good night.