We are obviously an NBA show and we will talk NBA in a moment but we're also a sports show and sports taking an absolutely awful turn last night so we want to send our positive thoughts if you pray are inclined to do so do that as well to Buffalo Bill's safety Jamar Hamlin who collapsed on the field last night in what is just some of the worst images that sports can offer unfortunately and shams it wasn't just the NFL community that was obviously reacting to this in real time but the NBA had a bunch of games and those guys were finding out about what had happened as games ended and I understand there was just a lot of a lot of outpouring of feeling from them as well. Yeah there was a lot like you said Michelle obviously our continued prayers are well wishes with Jamar Hamlin his family and just you know that that site that we saw we you know players gave their immediate support throughout the NBA whether it was Diamond Mitchell after scoring 71 points the Ron James had another big game 40 plus points he offered his condolences right after his game Clay Thompson had a big 50-point game he gives his condolences and then dozens and dozens of more players on social media and Michelle just a quick update from two people close to Jamar Hamlin he remains sedated and he will have a tube for his breathing in his body through his throat for the next few days and so our thoughts of course will be with him throughout his recovery and we're going to keep praying for that. Absolutely I think sports fans and fans everywhere will be watching the story all day every day until more information comes out for us we are going to take a quick break right now when we come back it was a huge night in the NBA and a lot of points were scored and we will talk about every single one of those points when we come back. Welcome back to run it back guys there was a there was a lot going on in the NBA last night and we have we have to start with Donovan Mitchell what is happening with the points in this crazy league season high 71 points led the team over the bulls by the way to Martin Rosen had a measly 44 no big deal it was an overtime game of course Mitchell actually scored or assisted on 99 of the 145 points that is the most since you guessed it Wilt that name has come up a lot lately this season so far Chandler your reaction when you saw this result I mean this was crazy this was one of the greatest individual performances ever and the history of the NBA and you look at this kid this is the most points in the last 17 years since Kobe the eighth most of all time it's just an elite company just to think about all the legends and all the players to kind of play in this league and and Donovan Mitchell is now no matter what else happens he's he's in that group and it's how it happened to a such an exciting game he did it in so many different ways they were down 21 points and without their two of their three best players with Robert and Moby out this was super impressive and this just kind of shows you that Donovan Mitchell was on another level he's really helping this team possibly get home quarter van engine a really tough conference he also had 11 assists like the guy it was just 2234 from the field he did it so efficient so excited and this was again this is one of the best performances I've ever seen greatest cab of all time Eddie I don't know Marcus I like to set up the first 70 point tennis this game of all time which doesn't even sound like a real thing you you'd be hard pressed to do this on 2k if you were if you were being a ball hold the whole game this is insane I looked down at my phone during the nets in Spurs game yesterday I couldn't believe the numbers on the screen and there was still more time left on the on the on the scoreboard so it was just nuts to watch this and kind of see those types of shots he was making he was was he 22 of 37 from the floor like I know he made a lot of free throws I bet he's pissed he left four free throws on the floor because he could have had 75 of you know look you can try to minimize it and say he had overtime he had extra five minutes he did this in a close game within the flow of the offense score 56 points in the second half and overtime like you cannot minimize this this is one of the greatest performances of all time there's no two ways about it Luca had overtime and we celebrated that and that was five minutes ago by the way that's how quickly we've outdone ourselves here but not to be dismissed or ignored Robin Lopez also had a night last night so let's not ignore that he wanted to get out of the way right away combined for 72 with Donovan Mitchell last night hashtag historic game indeed look we're in New York right now and shams there was just a collective cry if you really listened last night into the streets of this great great city because we all know how the off season could have maybe sort of had Donovan Mitchell becoming a nick and then of course that didn't happen how should Nick's fans feel this morning I mean I'm sure they feel they feel they might feel terrible um you know Donovan Mitchell wanted to be a nick I think he he's spoken about it publicly privately there was definitely reporting that I did during that moment but I reported right after that trade to Cleveland the next final offer was RJ Barrett two first-round picks two second-round picks another young player like Emanuel quickly they only needed either Quinton Grimes or another first-round pick to get a deal done and they essentially from what I was told refused to give up another asset Donovan Mitchell ends up in Cleveland for that haul that they ended up with with lorry marketing uh multiple first-round picks swaps etc so Cleveland just outdid them got Donovan Mitchell and right now he's performing like kind of that franchise centerpiece we all thought uh he's just the third player in the last 25 years a score of 70 or more points all were shooting guards Devin Booker Kobe Bryant and then Donovan Mitchell last night yeah this could this could go down as one of the dumbest non-trades in the history and you know it's like I like I like Grimes I like RJ Barrett a few chance to get a franchise young cornerstone stud like Donovan Mitchell and you just don't do it because of a reason you know you like the way the kids mesh with Grimes and you like your picks like I'm sorry that is so so wrong and so bad and they gotta feel you know like damn we really missed out on this kid especially after a night like last night yeah look you know this is a hometown kid this is a sure shot all-star probably an all-star starter and you could have had this in the garden you could have had him doing this and maybe he's not scoring 71 with on the right conditions but you have your franchise player that you've been searching for for how long if you're the Knicks you know you had a few years of mellow and then you go back beyond that you've been searching for this guy for decades and yes it was the hall a lot of course it was a ton it was a lot of draft picks you would have to give a starter level players but he's that good and he's showing that all season long he showed that in the playoffs before I'm not sure what the reservations were but I know the Cavs are thanking them for being for being a little reluctant to make that trade and they're going to ride that straight to the playoffs look the 71 points most since Kobe with with the 81 shout out Jalen in 2006 but it feels like the seal of huge points games has officially been broken do we think we'll see Mitchell Mitchell specifically flirt with 70 again Chandler I mean yeah it's it's hard to say a lot of guys can't get there I mean you look at clay last night you look at tomorrow like these guys get hot and at the clip that the three-point shot is taken now and how many times these guys are getting to the free throw line I think we're going to continue to see these explosive scoring numbers um you know and and I think they're not going to stop anytime soon and the most impressive part is how efficient Donovan did it last night like being 22 of 34 from the field and seven of 15 from the three having 71 points that is insane that is very very hard to do and you look across the board a lot of these other guys last night had unbelievable games and it's not even close to what this did this dude did in a close game in a win at home it was very very impressive and they got an absolute stud and Donovan Mitchell I feel like you're so wired after a game like this I don't imagine you fall asleep anytime soon Eddie look and on the other side of thing the bulls I mean it wasn't a bad game they just happened to be on the wrong end of what was a historic night but they almost won it in regulation so give me a silver lining Eddie I mean it was only an overtime because of miraculous play another purposely missed free throw that worked out I feel like this never happened before that we've seen like four or five in the last two weeks uh you know you you come away feeling strong they were able to compete with this team on their home court and it took this historic performance to beat them and and and Donovan had to keep this up until later overtime uh you know yeah you you feel like you're playing much better ball since Shams kind of blew the whistle on them a few weeks ago and you feel like you're training upwards problem for them is your Brooklyn coming into town tomorrow and you know that's not going to be easy out and it goes from there so it doesn't let up in the Eastern Conference right now so the bulls can't arrest on yeah we compete it they have to actually start winning some of these games the silver lining for the bulls is that they've won five of eight but like last night there was a screenshot I saw a couple screenshots last night Donovan Mitchell kind of committed a lane violation on that free throw I'm not gonna lie the ball was still in the area he got five listen it was a great play but I did peep that online on Twitter so listen for the bulls I'm sure they're gonna look back at that I think Billy Donovan even spoke about a post game that we're gonna see that in the referee report after the game where Donovan Mitchell committed a lane violation on that free throw so that's an unfortunate luck you know showing for the bulls they've had a couple of those moments this year where even the other night DeMar DeRozan was fouled on a potential game-winning attempt you know but those those things are part of the game shout out to Donovan Mitchell sometimes you got to get luck too it happens sometimes a little karma kicks in for whatever reason all right next game Hawks seconds away from beating the Warriors that would have been our fifth straight parlay win selfishly but Mr. Devin Chenzo with the other plans clutch three we go into overtime Clay Thompson ends this thing with 54 then we go into double overtime Kavon Looney Kavon Looney is the guy that got it done steals the deal in double OT uh Chandler we'll start with you because you're the one that ruined our parlay do you regret betting against Clay and the Warriors last night I mean this was we the Hawks we now that I took them in my parlay I'm had so many opportunities just to close this game out and this is just the consistent struggles that the Hawks have this is the level of maturity that they have they can't finish a game and Trey actually played very good last night he meant to hit some big free throws he had 30 points and 14 assists but yeah these are the type of plays at the end of the game where you you gotta lock in you gotta get a rebound you gotta box out and I know Nate is showing this film over and over again uh because these are the little plays that add up and that caused losses just like Chicago last night like yeah Donovan did he did create a lane violation there but you gotta box out one of the guards behind him has to get in there and avoid even bringing luck into a play so this was a great game it was exciting Clay Thompson it's good to see him and you know what he had an extra pep in his step last night he was hitting step backs he was going off the dribble he got a 39 shots I don't care how many he made that is hard to do in a game and takes a lot of conditioning just even get those up and to make 10 threes in a game is a special special performance and this is what they're gonna have to do they're gonna have to have nights like this unfortunately to keep staying afloat from either him or Jordan pool uh while this basically their whole team is this this is a big win for them and it was a really really exciting game and and I'm happy to see clay kind of you know putting up gaudy numbers like this like we've seen in the past yeah this is a fun game I don't know if it was a classic there's a lot of mistakes late guys look tired uh jacking up some ugly shots of Dejante Murray and Trey young and Trey got an offensive rebound on a long jumper and just threw a shot a three up and Trayman space for some reason it was a lot of curious play out there but you got to love the performance from clay hit a big shot at the end of the first overtime off the dribble which isn't necessarily his forte and it's just a little bit of poetic justice they get sent into overtime off of the three offensive rebounds and then they lose in double overtime off another offensive rebound Kevon Looney one of the more unheralded pieces of this dynasty right they trapped him in the first round they've had him for three rings and he just seems to come up big in each playoff run I remember the Celtic series last year people were wondering if he could even stay on the floor because he was slowing them down and he ends up playing big in the last three games of that series a ton of offensive rebounds I mean he's he's one of the gems of of this dynasty which is you know a little tough to say when they draft the Steph Curry they drafted Clay Thompson they drafted Trayman Green but this is how you keep your run going you take your end of the first round picks and you pick somebody as vital to your team is Kevon Looney so it's dope for him to have that moment one of the few guys on that team with a buzzer beater under his belt now and uh you know big night for them and as they get closer and closer to Steph Curry coming back they're creeping up the standings and they're looking like the words we thought they were going to be before they had the little rough stretch uh in November and by the way while we're on Looney he's he's so valuable because he's available this guy played every game last year and he's played every game this year like that is really really hard to do and he's not going to show up a lot in the box scores but like last night 14 and 20 you bounce that is so so necessary for this team that's just hoisting threes and doing what they do in this style they play so yeah i'm with Eddie you know Looney is a is a huge piece going forward for them yeah Looney's always been just an amazing yeah he's been an amazing veteran player for them i mean even when the whole Trayman pool thing happened Kevon Looney was one of the guys on the front lines as far as leadership perspective but i mean for me it was great seeing Clay Thompson make and take clutch shots again he's been telling everyone all year publicly privately he's going to figure this out he's going to turn it around he got off to a really slow start and i think you're seeing those averages come back the shooting percentages come back and i think the one silver lining you can probably take from Steph's absence right now is that Clay Thompson is getting a lot more usage he's getting a lot more looks the balls in his hands a lot more they don't really have anyone else to turn to besides him and pool at guard then you got Kaminga and Draymond Green playing a vital role as well but listen Clay Thompson is one of the greatest shooters of all time you know him, Dame and Steph are the only players in the NBA that have scored that have hit nine or more threes for at least 10 games so Clay Thompson one of the best shooters ever i think that gets overlooked a lot you know what's funny about Clay Thompson too is because he's he has been more vocal this year than ever i'm clearly listening to the outside noises but he seems more relieved when he has games like this than even the fans do as if he's convincing himself i'm officially back Chandler from what you saw last night and we know how much time he has lost in the last few seasons does it look like he's officially back back okay are we there i i mean i don't it's tough still because going through injuries like he's went through you need games like this for your own confidence and you can tell how vocal he's been he's been with the critics and with media it starts lingering and you start having those doubts and i don't care who you are when you miss that amount of time and you struggle the way he struggled coming back nothing feels as good as him going out and doing this and yeah you could say he took some bad charge he was inefficient but the fact that he still has that mental space to take these shots and the fact that he's making a lot of them is super super huge just for his mindset for his confidence moving forward and this is a great opportunity with those guys out where it's him and jordan bull nobody else on that team is going to score a lot of points nobody else on that team is going to take the shots that those guys take and this is a great time for him just to build that confidence to build that endurance and nights like this go miles for clay thompson's future i just love that he's able to back up the talk we were kind of laughing at him all of us on this show people everywhere else were like yo come on clay like you're crying you're whining but he's able to back it up he told Charles Barkley yo i still got a lot left in the tank and he's showing us that performance last night was incredible it was vintage clay is one of his best games of his career which is crazy to say after all he's been through with his injuries and just kind of just getting through the mentality of that and it's exciting to see that the game is a little bit more fun when clay thompson is out there being clay thompson we know and love and and so it was great to see last night well said i i thought of a Mitchell didn't play last night i this this is he's leading the show yeah i remember when i was hurt and i came back i had like 25 one game and i thought i was the man because i was like back this dude just had 54 points like that is that is that is really really impressive yeah i'm telling you it's it's the the points thing right now is just out of control i want to go to the atlanta hawks for a second because shams you had the reporting on nape mcmillan and sort of what seems to be the uneasiness and internally the i guess the drama that is going on as far as this kind of a loss wot in it does this do anything for the confidence within that in the ranks of that team it doesn't help um you know there were a couple moments down the stretch there where you know rotationally they didn't like on the last play where divan chenzo had that three they had john collins who was leading the team in rebounds i think at that point at 12 rebounds um he was on the bench uh for that play uh where you need a rebound you need to secure that moment so just little moments like that of course are going to be something you look at as a coaching staff you look at as a roster moment so you could have back but these this road trip that they're on right now is going to be a tough trip um this is definitely not one that they wanted to go on especially after an l to the lakers they want to win that game against the lakers on friday um especially given everything that's going on but right now this team just got to pick it up and try to get a w because that's what that's they really need that right now yeah this loss is almost more frustrating i think than any silver lining you're playing a team where you're pretty much fully healthy um and this team is not and you had multiple opportunities to win this game this is a game i don't care who they are they're missing a lot of their players this is a game that alana hawks should have won last night and they made a lot of mental mistakes they made a lot of physical mistakes and this is this is a game that's going to be tough to swallow this is one that they should have had um and with all the drama and all the noise surrounding them this is only going to hurt them and and i don't see silver lining in this loss at all man i guess that was just me trying to be positive in the new year i was trying to see a silver lining for them but i guess not all right fine uh moving on lebron again just another ho hum 40 plus points for lebron james too many points what is going on he had 43 leading the lakers who went over the hornets that the play of the game oh good that's happening uh play of the game the reverse aliyu um who by the way i'm not sure you guys know is 38 years old channeler how surprised like at this point we've talked about how old he is and what he's still capable of doing what do you feel when you watch him doing this i feel like he's 27 i feel like he's i feel like he's which age is just a number of michelle it doesn't really matter hey but uh yeah this guy the thing's looking like that is not a normal dunk for a 27 year old let alone lebron james and the fact that he's doing this is still doing this at this clip in front of michael love it that eddie said last night michael jordan's game like you know he was gonna ball that was a great pick eddie um and he's with 500 points of kareem and he is just ripping off chunks of those points every single night um and he's making us somewhat believers in the lakers that if they can find a way to get anthony was healthy this is a this is a tough this is a tough out so games like last night it would the shots he was taking or the step backs the one-legged fadeaways the the way he was doing it last night was really really nuts yeah i don't think he can be overstated how ridiculous this is it's not even the age at this point it's the fact that he's played 20 NBA seasons and he's still at this level he's averaging 29 points a game this season he's eighth in the league in scoring he's also adding adding eight eight assists on top of that eight rebounds excuse me and so he should not be performing at this level at at this point in his career it's the best 20th season we've ever seen which doesn't even sound real uh and the crazy part is like it looks like he could keep doing this for a while i know he was joking about playing until brawny comes around or playing until he's 45 or whatever but it really looks like he could do this for a few more years and then even tell off into like a role player level after that if he wants it's absurd that he's doing this every night and and darvin ham was speaking last night about letting him carry the team and him taking care of his body and that's all great and fun and dandy but yeah you'd love to have anthony davis there to carry a little bit of the load and lighten it a little bit for them i know it's not translated into a playoff spot just yet they've won a few games here in last week but it's it's still it's funny like chandler mentioned if we don't have that 71 point game maybe this is the story of the night or maybe it's still 54 from clay but it's it's almost like we're desensitized to the fact that he's doing this every night and i get it we've been dealing with this guy in his story for 22 23 years and it's almost old but it is ridiculous that he's doing this at 38 years old 20 years into his career and he does not look like he's stopping anytime soon well it's it's baby steps eddie you know the liquors are creeping up on a on a playing spot so it's it's going to be baby steps especially without ad seems like he is still a ways away but to me this is just lebron's greatness i think you just at this point like you said you become desensitized to it he has these big games especially at this age but the back to back 40 plus point games i mean it's unreal what he's doing at his age and so um we'll see when ad is going to be back on the floor but at this rate he should be passing kareem's record by mid february-ish so uh we'll see exactly when that'll be yeah i mean at this point i was gonna ask you eddie because if he if he averages 30 he's gonna catch him he's gonna catch kareem in about 16 games so i don't know which unlucky team is gonna get to host that moment but yeah are you excited to watch that eddie i mean as a fan of the game yeah i hope the runner-back crew gets to go and watch this from somewhere close give a nudge the fandal but no it is amazing it's one of those records that you know it's not like 756 and you just run it off the top of your head and know what the record is but you know kareem scored the most points ever you know it's a big deal and you didn't think this was ever gonna happen again i remember when like lebron was younger it was like yeah maybe he could get to x them out but he's he's a past first guy so he's not gonna get there but he's this far in his career and it's within his sight and he'll likely do it you know without injuries this year uh there was a stat last night and it was uh nobody over 35 years of age has scored 40 and back to back nights besides two guys it was it was lebron and it was mike and you kind of just love to see those two names on a list be the only names on a list but yeah this is walking history and we're seeing it every night and the big game is coming up soon and i i i look to them giving a coordination kind of like they did step last year and it's going to be a sight to see i can't do the math i can't even figure out which team could possibly i'm trying to figure out the three team window in there to see who it might be but do you i mean look he is very aware of what is going on at all times and he loves the drama does he get that extra point like does he do a hook shot is he gonna try to do something like that to make it just uber iconic i mean chandler i like that's not out of the can we bet on that like i feel like there's a chance i don't honestly he's going to do something and it's going to happen sooner than later this guy he's healthy he's on a mission as much as he's saying he doesn't care about that he is i pretty much i would all i'd be playing for if i was him right now my team's gonna play less and the more i score the better chance we have to win so i am if i'm him i am gunning the next 484 points until i break that record yeah i'm calling bs and when he told the fan still think he's gonna cry i think he's gonna do it yeah and by the way it is all he's playing for chandler for the record i just want that that's all they're playing for right now fact well we've run out of time that's unfortunate um no i'm just kidding we have to talk nets shut up eddie just ahead of time i want to go ahead and say that there was another game last night um 12 straight for brooklyn and they look good i know you left the game with slight concern in your heart edward oh can you please tell us how you could possibly have had that after last night uh i didn't i mean i know they play the Celtics next week and they play the pelicans this weekend so i'm a little concerned about those i'm actually concerned about the pools game as well but uh what i what i liked about last night is they took care of business they they blew out a team that they should have blown out they did the same the other day and charlotte and to me that's the marker of them really hitting their stride they were squeaking these wins out earlier this month against teams they should have been running away from and now they're actually handling their business got a whole quarter of garbage time for the guys to rest and like i mentioned last week kairi looks amazing like he looks outstanding out there and it's not even just the dunk it's his ability to make the three off the dribble him using seemingly only doing layups with his left hand but he just looks free on the court and he's unstoppable and then you have kevin doing whatever kevin's going to do you know i was uh we were laughing with kevin after the game because he missed i think his first three shots and then he didn't miss again after that for the rest of the night so it's like he was all frustrated missed the layup and and he was chirping at us on the sideline and then he ends up never missing again because he's amazing and he wasn't even didn't look like the best player on the court because kairi Irving was ridiculous that dunk you know we've been kind of teasing him about what he's going to start dunking again we haven't seen him dunking forever and he's been saying oh i can get up there still and that was the loudest i've heard bar plays since i've been coming there for the last few years it was it was insane so uh it was nice to see them take care of business tough little road trip on the way now and then and obviously the boston game next week to really prove themselves but yeah look they're creeping up on the one seed and uh it's it's going to be interesting now going forward for them depending on what they want to do with their roster how they want to improve and and where things go yeah again and when you have kade and kairi playing at a clip like this and then you get 18 from tj warren at 16 from curry uh i i still think they got to get joe harris going he has really been struggling but yeah the nets are now they're having fun and if the first month or whatever the season wasn't there and all that drama wasn't there we would just be looking at the nets right now like a real contender and they've had a great season so as long as that is in the past and they continue to to grow and play at this level and do like like like eddie said nights like this bury them like get out fourth quarter or get your guys out and get ready for the next game um and and kairi is on another level right now he has really stepped his game up that i haven't seen him do that dunk like that and and years just going 139 points like the nets look really really tough they look motivated and they're having fun i mean i i had my bold prediction last night was i think the nets come out of the east if as long as kairi doesn't wake up one morning and decide to do a kairi thing i i just really you know what's fun about being a fan of a team when they're on a winning streak like this and eddie i'm gonna go to you first on this one because i don't know if you agree with me is you literally for a split second in your mind you're like what if they just win every game here on out like that could happen right like so i asked you this they're at 12 straight right now what where do you see it ending do you see it ending i mean i definitely got asked yesterday what the record was and and if i remember the 27 from the heat and all of this stuff and it's cool to look forward and and see that and you know i'm i'm hearing combos about it's harder to get tickets now and and they're they're more expensive on seat geek and all this good stuff so yeah guys are definitely looking ahead and and i think you know if they get through this road trip and they come home and they're looking forward to that boss again next thursday then you then it starts creeping in then it starts saying okay can we push it to 20 do we go from there what is the record that 33 that's that's that's tough to get you know it's tough to even think about that you're only at 12 you're not even halfway there you're barely a third of the way there but yeah i mean if they get through this road trip and and who knows what Zion is he's gonna play and then brand an ingrow and and it's always tough to go to miami on a sunday night and then you know who knows how the weekend's gonna go on miami but uh yeah they're looking like one of the better teams in the league right now and then they're tough out for everybody every night out and that's how you get a win streak going yeah like we said this is this is it's they're not going to win every game right they're going to have an all right they're going to get one of those guys that would be incredible if they did but again when you have chi and you have kv playing at this level saw a quote last night ben Simmons that it was easy last night and i'm like if he's saying that and then things and it's like and they're rolling so i'm happy for them i feel like all their their bad stuff is in the past and this is really really impressive what they're doing and again when you have two guys are top five guys like like katie and kairi anything is possible yeah look the team is confident like you mentioned they're having fun you can see that they're having fun the kairi dunk when yuda hits the three guys are running on the court they're excited they're enjoying themselves and i think again to contrast this with earlier in the season they walked into that back to back against the pacers in november like okay this is where we turn our season around we're a better team than them we're going to win these two and we're good well they lost the first one and yeah they won the second one but they got their coach fired in that second one as well so it's just an entirely different approach they weren't overconfident last night like they were against the pacers but they were in good spirits and and they feel that they're just a better team than the other teams in the court when they walk out there and it shows they showed up with a focus last night and they jumped out to an early lead and they kept that lead going the entire night that they did indeed it was tough it's like oh man maybe the first nope it wasn't it wasn't at all shams thank you we shall see you bright and early tomorrow as it is Wednesday and for us we're going to take a quick break right now when we come back how about yonis maybe an mvp kairi all-star for sure and staff an underrated crash talker we shall discuss and run it back to turns grizzly's breakthrough band's got to get it in gets it in for clark bounces for marant marant downhill to the rim plays it up too strong ballgame warriors win it marant didn't get enough body control to lay it in warriors win 117 160 that's too soon that's just too soon and too close in that moment chaneler I look Steph Curry should be a great trash talker I have no idea is he underrated as a trash talker yeah he is but it's it's like a friendly arrogant banter it's not like a physical i'm going to fight you i'm going to punk you it's more like i'm the best player on the court you can't stop me i'm going to hit this shot i'm going to dance and do things like that and it's funny because he's such a good dude with such a great reputation but a lot of like he gets the benefit of a lot of a lot of other players would do half the stuff he does people would hate that people would try and like you know foul them hard and they would not let you dance like this on my court so it's the way he does it it's a gift it's a very good delivery it's it's it's harmless but yeah he definitely does talk a lot and celebrate a lot where if i'm having a bad game or if he's doing what he's doing usually and they're dominating us i'm pissed off he's right there it's kind of hilarious that we get this you know quietly legendary moment we didn't even know happened and it's him going this is fun right this is but we're talking about a guy who you know he's literally caught the squat it pantomime dropping a deuce on a court so this is not the friendliest basketball player of all time very sneaky part about this uh about this moment he wasn't on the court for these defensive possessions so he ran over from the sideline to let them know that yo you're going down but no i think he's definitely underrated his trash sucker and i like him i like secretly got this edge to him because he's that he's that good and he should he should let you know that he's really that guy when he gets that chance but yeah him being defensive sub dog makes it a little bit more funny amazing i love that clip hilarious too because he's just like he's dropping and they're like team conversation he's right here yeah like i feel like somebody else maybe not job but somebody else that's just too much in my personal space in a moment where i need to take a second like i would have pushed him or something but it's that babyface that babyface buys you so much equity it's just like oh he's sweet meanwhile just as you said dropping deuces on your court if drake mon had come up and done that it's a fight it's just a scuffle yeah 100% yeah no one's buying that first of all get out of my space hey and there's that all right we're going to do a little you buy in that we haven't done this in a minute and so i'm happy to be back doing it first up we got to do some honest here he's averaging 32 almost 12 rebounds over five assists a game right now on pace to be the first player with a 30-10-5 season since MVP rush chandler are you buying his MVP chances this season i mean he's definitely right there and obviously the value of him on this team and the season he has and the efficiency he's doing it at and he's just a dominating force the way he gets downhill um the way he reads the line it's really impressive it's just tough because i have yoke it's in front of him i have tatum in front of him i have kevin durant in front of him and i have luka in front of him it's it's tough um he's having a great year he's always going to have years like this he's just an unstoppable force that's always going to put up great numbers he's he's going to be efficient he's if this guy could ever get a consistent three-point shot i don't know what would happen but listen if they happen to go on a huge run on a heater here and win 20 out of in a 25 out of 30 and they separate themselves as the best team in the east yeah he's right there but i just think right now there's a lot of guys and a lot of other teams um that are ahead of him yeah there's a reason we talk about MVP every day on this show because it's such a crowd at race right now and it's sliding every single day and we have yeah kevin durant on a 12-game win streak but we have a yokich is doing in denver as well we have jason tatum doing he's doing as the one seed still and and you know somebody like yonis gets lost in this show even though he's putting up legendary numbers that never seen before uh and then we talk about voter fatigue he's one of the guys who suffers from that as well you know i said when he won mvp and defense player of the year in the same season i'm like man he might have the average 40 to ever win this award again and he might he just might mess around and do it it's stuff for them right now they're they've only won four of their last 10 games they're a little bit of a rough patch they're trying to wait to see what's going on chris middleton but he's up there he's always going to be productive he's always going to be in the conversation and like channel said a big january we talked about him as the mvp going into the all-star break it's just a crowd afield and it's tough to really give out that award today but that's testament to those guys and their performances so far this year i love how healthy the league seems to me as far as the fact that we have this many people really realistically in the mvp race the the rush year the mvp rush year i feel like we've got a little bit spoiled and again probably a little desensitized has it taken the shine off of what could be a 30-10-5 season is that what's happening here we're not that impressed we just we talk about the numbers all the time and these guys are just putting up these crazy numbers like that is a stat is an mvp and you know 10 of the last 20 years 15 the last 20 years if you look at that stat next to the you know the mvp that won it so it's like eddie just said there's so many guys that are doing this now and on good teams and and and the reason that those teams are winning are those guys and you look at a guy like yoke itch and and luke and katie and tate and those guys are doing the same thing they're doing but they've had these loud performances next week yannis gives us 60 and then 45 and then 15 he's jumping now kd and like you know i mean so it's going to go back and forth all year long um but it's going to and then by the way joel mb is not even on here and i think they're for a good reason really you could you could blindfold me right now and point to any one of these five guys and i'd be okay with all of them winning in mvp yeah and you got somebody like donovan mitchell donovan mitchell having a great season on a winning team just scored 71 it's testament to a beetle just said a lot of a lot of good health in this in the league this year knock on wood i know stef curries out i know a couple guys are out but we're seeing a lot of superstars and we didn't get that the last few years for whatever reason so yeah we've been lucky to have that and we're getting we're getting rewarded for it with these performances i'm knocking on all of the wood because i want people to stay healthy it's just so much more fun to watch all right enough with the mvp talk we we we spent a lot of time on that there are other awards that we need to discuss and yannis's team might might very well be in the running for one of those bobby portis averaging 14 and 10 six man for the bucks this season first in rebounds and double doubles off the bench eddie buying him as a very deserving six man of the year candidate yeah absolutely and he you know when you watch him he plays so free like he plays like he has the ultimate green light which is kind of funny because if you remember bobby portis earlier in his career it was just not the player he was and even when he had the thing with miratik in chicago people were wondering how long he was going to stick around the league he found a really great spot for him here and they give him the freedom to do whatever he wants on that court and he's rewarded them a great play a great playoff performances in their finals run they gave him a big contract and and yeah that's ten rebounds off the bench is tough and and yeah he's one of those guys you gotta wonder about him for this award and it's it's a long time coming from him because he's been a key contributor for that team for quite some time and so yeah it'd be more than deserving of winning that yeah i mean yeah he's so important to the team when he watched him play he's that muscle he's that physical presence he posts up he gets offensive rebounds he knocks down threes he's having a really really good year i don't even know who else would be in it i mean like westbrook maybe uh bernic mathrin but the the importance of this guy and what he does he's a starter on a lot of teams milwaukee's having a great year they're gonna get home quarter advantage um but but bobby portis is definitely in the running for this award if he continues to play the way he's playing like a sixth man why are we giving a grace and allen to shout out right here you know why because every once in a while yeah the port is shot also sometimes you just gotta remind the world who's punchable and then you just show a grace and allen villiola right there and then the world says thank you very much really high on the list that guy oh not you know he is my whole list and he has been that clip shows bobby portis's value too because if someone's gonna meet it with grace and allen bobby portis is right there right i feel like the list of people who are willing to take a shot at grace and allen is very very very long and getting longer by the day all right kairi erving eddy are you ready for this this is the big mystery as we get closer and closer to all star weekend because will he or won't he we obviously know how kairi erving started the season a lot of chaos right but since then averaging 26 five just under five assists a game shooting 49 percent from the floor 36 and a half from three and he's played in 26 of the next 36 games so far so i'm gonna start with channel on this one are you buying him as an all-star yeah and keep doing it he's gonna be an all-star starter like i put jaylin brown and donovan michel as my two guards earlier in the season but i mean you can't sleep on what he's doing he is making us forget all the nonsense off the court that you know he has brought to the table this year um and he's a huge piece obviously kd is as well but he's a huge piece to the success and the turnaround that this team is having i mean you just said his numbers he's shooting 50 percent from the field 38 from three and and he's hit huge shots for them in the fourth um he's letting kd you know kind of rock and they're going yin and yang back and forth uh i think if he continues this you put him and donovan michel as not only all stars but starters yeah john ghan has had found a great balance for kevin and kairi a lot of these past couple years you know they occupy a lot of same spots on the floor they like to do a lot of same stuff people are wondering like how is that going to work that's early second quarter and that fourth quarter has been kairi's domain and john ghan has unleashed him with the offense and and in a lot a lot of ways it's made been Simmons better with that second unit as well as they start those second quarters and he's able to come off the ball he's able to be a facilitator when he wants to be and he always has an escape valve with kairi i think he's a starter i said that when we did our list of a week ago and i yeah it's going to be a convo all the way until it's announced whether it's michel uh jalen or kairi and it's it's a tough decision to make you know one of those guys has to miss out and come off the bench but they're all three deserving of being all stars for sure and i told kairi yesterday you might have to win that jerry west award this year he's looking clutch and you know i don't know if he'll get the votes i don't know if he has the good the good fortune to get all the votes from the from the media at this point but he he liked that he liked hearing that he'd be the first guy to win that award so he's in that like he put himself in that berry bonds room where like yeah you did stuff but people aren't going to vote for you for a variety of other reasons so it'd be interesting and it also just shows you how good and talented this dude is that he was in and out of the lineup dealing with all this stuff he's not with the team and then the minute he gets back to the team like all right game on like let's go i'm still kairi erring and i'm going to dominate the game tonight so it's hats off to him and honestly this is he's had a fantastic year and and again he's a critical piece of them going forward and he's kind of making us somewhat forget about what's going on i mean it was crazy when i'm reading that three that's a 17 and three since he came back and he only missed 10 games that that period of time i mean even last night when jack bond was talking about he's really only been on the job for two months it felt like an eternity so i was a little bit shocked by all of those numbers like okay um we gotta talk playoff because i this is that why not speculate right the dallas mavericks right now on a nice little run i hate to admit it as his first man uh seven game win streak they beat the rockets last night they won eight of their last elevens right now sitting in the four spot in the west so eddie as the lock for home court are you buying the mavericks so the teams above them are the pelicans grizzlies in the nuggets the teams right below them are the kings and the clippers and yeah i could see that i i i could see them passing up the pelicans they look great i mean you gotta remember this is this team had one of the top five defenses in the league last year when they had all their guys and and they figured out a way to play great defense even with luke and as much as i joke about yokich's defense luke i actually will get out there and try and get physical guys reach and and try to to be disruptive so they've shown they had playoff potential with this roster and what they can do in the playoffs they shown they can win a ton of playoff of regular season games as well definitely see them as a top four seed going forward especially as they get maxi cleaver back that might take a month or two but they're only going to get better as this season goes on and as they all get more well-defined in their roles luke has been amazing like we said he's an mvp candidate and by the end of the season he might be the runaway mvp with his numbers so yeah i got him up there for sure really a lock channeler i know you like the mavericks but a lock i don't i don't know if it's a lock i'm looking at the standings i they're better than the kings and they're better than the trailblazers and i think depending how quick the warriors the suns and the clippers can get healthy i think those three teams have the potential to be better than the mabs and finish stronger than them but yeah when you have luke doing what he's doing and those other guys that we always talked about was the tim hardaways dinway those guys if they can keep giving him 15 to 25 a night and and finding a you know a robin to his batman yeah to say a lock i don't i don't know i i don't think it's a lock but i think they're having they're gonna be right there you know what i don't know who's keeping track in a notebook of all the things we say um but i'd like to go ahead and put it down the mavericks finished seventh in the west i just i just had a vision it's one of those visions i can't help myself so yeah write it down danie uh taking a quick break when we come back it's time to start another streak with our parlays or we just eliminate chandler from making guesses and we continue to be on a hot streak when we return america's number one first book just got even better because you can now bet on horse racing directly in the sportsbook app not only can you place bets on live horse racing but you can watch horse races live right from the app we make it easy to bet on horse racing with races going off every five minutes free picks and easy tutorials to help you learn about horse racing bet on horse racing today directly in the fandall sportsbook app or learn more at fandall dot com slash horse racing well it's that time of the show where we show how genius we are uh this was our parlay from yesterday gone we almost continued the streak chandler what's that you about this i mean we lost by half of a point but it's you and that's what makes it on brand so i love it so it was it was a while watching that late because it just it looked like they did it right hit the freak don't look like it was over there's also not a worse feeling than you both hitting and mine being the last game to either win or lose it i hate i'm gonna start great really to be honest honestly i haven't missed yet but you know i don't want to brag about that too much um the good news is we can we can start another streak right now and we're gonna try to so eddie kick us off your leg is what i got the kings with the points actually more than i picked this morning so i'll take the three points they just beat them last week at home they're coming off a tough loss in memphis they're going to utah i got the kings beating them again okay okay uh yeah i'm going with somewhat of a layup here i'm going bucks just to outright beat the footage which you know pretty self-explanatory keep it simple chandler keep it i like that i need to get back on the board yeah you start back at the bottom and build back up okay i'm gonna go uh oakland city playing boston tonight i decided to go shagill just alexander under 29 and a half points that is which happens if you would wait your 20 bucks you could possibly win 69 hey um i feel good about it guys streak starts today again yes yes yeah no i hope it's $70 that's 69 i know we that's gonna do it oh my god we're gonna be 12 yes that's gonna do it for us we'll be back tomorrow morning it's time to go take a nap be safe


then at the end of the year we go through and recalculate based on salaries of each department, their proportionate share. We allocate a portion of what we've already had posted to that administrative budget to each of the individual accounts. And there are several accounts within the budget that we do that with simply because it's easier for us to pay them out of one budget and allocate them at the end of the fiscal year. That's really the highlight, the revenues as I said, there's a little shortage in the line I didn't call intergovernmental activities. That's where we get monies transferred back and forth from the various sections of various funds back into the general fund to support some of the things that are paid out of the general fund on behalf of all the other intergovernmental funds. But again, like the benefits section, that will occur basically at the end of the fiscal year prior to audit purposes and would show up in my final report on the unaudited fiscal year activities which I do each September or October. That pretty much sums it up. It's probably the easiest of all the financial reports to give throughout the year. The next one will take place in sometime end of January 1st of February. That'll be for the six month period but will encompass the start of the seasonal occupation or seasonal portion of the year. The one that's more critical of course is that third quarter report because that then takes in the bulk of the fiscal year including the winter season, which as you know in Vermont is the most critical one in the one that costs the most and is very critical to what our operations may end up with. Are there any questions? No questions for Dr. Kicers? 25% of the year is over, 25% of the year is over, where did that go? Oh. What's that? Where did that 25% of the year go? Yeah, I can't believe it. Well, think about it this way, we're already two months beyond the 25% of the year so it's time moves on very, very quickly. But I can say as I've said before and it's always good to say and I would not like to say anything different but that the budget is being handled very, very positively, very, very, quite correctly. And so that's always a, for a financial person like me, it's always a nice feature. Thank you for your work. Thank you all. Thank you for the five minutes. Any questions from the public? To the senior hearing none, we appreciate your time, Dr. Kicers. Thank you. Thank you. Item I, Approval of UVM University of Vermont and SNAP Fitness Letters of Intent. So I guess just a table said a little about this. We had a conversation about a month ago at this point about the use given the wise leaving, you know, Bryan Community Center, the use of that space and heard some interest from you of maintaining the partnership with University of Vermont and keeping that important community partner here and having a public space option through a fitness studio. So this is the kind of execution of that interest in two letters of intent from SNAP Fitness and UVM. And we have representatives from both here tonight as well. Yep. And if I can just say quickly, first of all, thank you to them for hanging out through what was a pretty robust meeting here, but also oddly enough, I think reflective of the amount of back and forth and work that we as a group have done over the last couple of months. We did, I wanted to just acknowledge publicly, we did send council some information today about four o'clock. These negotiations were literally going on up until the end of the day, Friday. And we were working on some of those details this morning as well, just to get those to you. So Carol has that, I emailed the council earlier today. There are some changes to the, in particular, the UVM forward looking lease that I highlighted in the memo to council. But I think what this does for us is it deals with UVM's retroactive use of a portion of the YMCA space, which is great. We've been sort of holding that off because we were trying to deal with both pieces, looking back and looking forward. That's been great. They've had, I think, a good experience staying put and are certainly excited to see some company in that big empty space. So I feel pretty confident that, as I mentioned in my memo, that letter of intent, I think, reflects the intent of a retroactive lease. And then two leases for moving forward, one with SNAP Fitness and one with UVM. So, again, looking at those details, I think the SNAP letter, as you see it, is pretty reflective of where we're gonna be. UVM's, we had gotten an initial draft and that's what I included in the package for you all tonight. But we have negotiated some updates to that, which were spelled out in the memo that went out today. So, and again, those were negotiations that were going on until pretty late in the day Friday. So I don't know if it's easiest to just field questions, highlight any specifics. Certainly this budget, building budget is a complicated one overall. So there may be some questions sort of beyond the scope of just these leases that you all have, but happy to field questions as they come. Yeah, I think that's something that I had asked for an advanced disability meeting is just that we have information on hand to ensure that we're entering into an agreement without a full budget. In front of us, which understandably, I think we need to hear a little bit about the holistic impact to the community center budget and what this does in comparison to what the former rents were and what it. Yep, yep. No, and I had gotten that question in advance. I was baiting you to ask it there. So, you know, I think it's fair to say we've known straight along that we're in essence subsidizing the expenses of this building out of the building reserves. That's been the case certainly for as long as I've been here and for longer than that, really since the building opened, it is not cash flowed to a point where we've been able to get to a break even. We have definitely approached closer and I think that with these leases executed and the space fully filled, which is again how we're budgeting, we're anticipating on July one that we will be at full tenancy. We're budgeting optimistically there. There's really minimal impact to the bottom line with these arrangements as prescribed. So, currently with the vacancies that we've got, we're subsidizing that building to the tune of about $5,700 a month, which is obviously not a sustainable approach. We will have an opportunity to go back with this retro lease and capture some of that difference, but looking forward to fiscal year 19 as a comparison, again, if we're at full tenancy under the terms of this agreement, that subsidization number drops down to about $2,800 a month, which is obviously a much better number, still big, but kind of more in line with where we've been targeting to get this budget, which is about between a $20,000 and $30,000 annual operating deficit. The question is gonna come up, why didn't you charge more rent? You've got an opportunity with new leases coming in and I think that the short answer is that the market's not gonna bear that based on that building. We've retained a professional commercial real estate broker, Esther Lotz, who's been helping us out through the process and the number that we got to the $14 all in per square foot is really what I think what I would advise the market is gonna bear and probably honestly at the top end of what the market's gonna bear for what that building is at this point. I think the piece that's not necessarily gonna be captured in an operating budget that I think does help us make some strides in that building is that we are bringing two tenants to the table that are willing to make some pretty significant investments in the building and as you all know, we don't have a lot of fluid capital down there so I think this is an opportunity that we may be dealing with some operational loss but I think over time it allows us to get some work done on the facility that we've needed and then modeling out the other piece that is reflected here is some annual increases which we've not traditionally had in our arrangements down there. So it does allow us I think to keep pace in ways that we've not been able to over the last five or six years. I don't know if that answers the question if you want a more different way of quantifying that. I think it's financially we're gonna end up in a very similar place as to where we were when the why was the lease holder. Yeah, by my math and Angela is not here to correct me which is probably good but by my math it ends up being about two to $3,000 of difference at the end of the day all in on the building's budget so it's really a fairly it's about a 1% difference and it's pretty negligible. In terms of we're gonna be collecting $2,000 less in rent than we were with the why? Correct, correct. So reason being that as we've gone out to establish the market rate that is a number that is slightly less than what the why was paying all in before. And I guess another sort of argument against the wise rate is that clearly that didn't stick so maybe there were other factors but I think that tells us something about the fact that that rate was perhaps off. It was all that was pre calculated years and advanced with step desktolators with the city subsidizing several years in the beginning deeply, deeply, deeply subsidizing. So that was a complicated arrangement. Yeah, it wasn't just a straight line number. I'm appreciative of the fact that I think we put you in a very impossible situation as staff to suddenly become building managers and leasing specialists. So I wanna acknowledge and appreciate Esther for your work with Ray too because I think that's an expertise that again, it's pretty unreasonable for us to expect that to just be on staff as an innate character. Not an engineer, not a martial real estate broker. Yeah, yeah. How can you get leaves out of leaves? So I guess I would just, I wanna give other people plenty of opportunities to ask questions about the leases. I just going up 40,000 feet again. This is what we asked and it was late in the meeting in case people didn't catch it, but I know that there was a lot of back and forth and extremely appreciative all the time and energy that went in on your behalf and also on the party's behalf. So I know you guys, UVM's represented here as a snap fitness and I think this arrangement represents us really it's adding a great, continuing a great partnership with UVM with a service that is really important to a number of people that live here in the therapy realm. And that's critical, but we also retained the very public aspect of the body of the building in general and allowing for a gym, which a community as densely populated as we are with 75,000 people to not have a facility where people can go and take care of their health is totally unacceptable too. So I think this does represent and I appreciate the ability of everybody to get to that place where we're having this conversation to meet the best needs of the public while also providing a great, continuing a partnership with UVM that provides a great resource to the community too. At some point in life, we all will probably need, although if we spend enough time at the fitness gym, maybe we won't need as much of the aquatic therapy on the back end. Other questions and sorry, I didn't mean to hijack it with the higher view if people want to ask questions on the lease side or anything of the array. The journeys of review of the lease. The letters of intent, yes. I've looked at that with Bob DePama. Yep. You know, I think the terms that you've written, those are, that's a public document. Unless anybody has specific items that they're concerned about, I'll open up the opportunity. We do have it listed as a possible executive session. If there's anything that folks feel at this point in time that they would like to ask in confidence as part of a negotiation, that would be an opportunity we could explore too. I don't see the need to call for a motion on it, but if somebody wants to change minds on that, are we okay? Good. Okay. Good, we're good. Any questions, concerns from the public? Great. So with that, I would entertain, you guys got anything else we need to? No, I just, I want to echo your appreciation and I think there's an opportunity for something pretty special here. It's a really unique partnership, the three of us getting together and I'm super excited to see how this goes. I think it's going to be a really cool opportunity for us to test some waters that haven't been tested before, so very when you ski of us, I feel like. Yeah. We're excited to continue to have you and we're very excited to welcome you. Yeah. And so with that, I would entertain a motion for approval of the University of Vermont Snap Fitness Letters of Intent. Some motion by Brian Sweeney, second by Brian. Corgan, any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. In those opposed, motion carries. Do we want to ask for lease signature authorization? That was the motion that was included there to authorize the mayor or manager. Letters. To move to a lease, because this is the letters of intent, but now to move to a lease signature. You're fine by charter if I sign it without them designating that. If you want the city manager to sign it, I think we have to do that to a vote. No, I think we just wanted to be able to move on that in between the meetings. We changed the charter last time. Yeah, great. All right, move. So anyway, thank you for being here. All right, excellent. The power. Yeah. What's that? The power. No, just the, you know. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for all your work on that. We appreciate it. Thank you all. And with that, we'll reach this evening's final item, which is item J, approval of the AFSCME contract. So we've talked about this contract a couple of times in executive session.  So this is the, after many negotiation sessions with AFSCME, we agreed to language. It has been ratified by the union and is just awaiting your approval for full implementation. And just as a reminder, this is a three-year contract. It exists from July 1st, 2016 through June 30th, 2019. There are some significant changes included in this contract that are summarized on the front page. So more definition on overtime expectations, the creation of a safety committee that hasn't historically existed in the city, which is a huge liability for us. And the union is on board as a partner in that. The creation of a grade and pay scale, the creation of promotional opportunities based on competency, not just job vacancy, which will add value to the city as well as the employees. And then finally, of course, wage rates that we believe will be better enable us to attract and retain excellent employees. And we got permission from the union to actually advertise the current positions at this agreed to rate ahead of time. And as a result, are seeing more applications. So we believe it's already working. So the financial implications are for FY17, the retro, about $15,000. And this year in FY18, $7,000. So we believe we can find that through vacancy savings. So no additional money is needed. What do you believe the financial impact will be to the creation of promotional opportunities based on competencies and not just vacancies? And nuts, I'm sorry, can you say it again? It says in here, the creation of promotional opportunities based on competencies, not just vacancies, you said. So that bullet about the creation of promotional opportunities based on competencies. So the concept there is that right now the structures are, there's an EO1 and EO2 and an EO3. EO3 is kind of like a form and supervisor. The primary difference between an EO1 and an EO2 is that an EO2 has a commercial driver's license, a CDL license, which is needed to drive the big trucks. Historically, it has been that you could only become an EO2 if an EO2 left if there was a vacant position. What we are doing with this contract is saying any EO1 that wants to get a CDL and demonstrate capacity to use all the equipment can be promoted to an EO2 pending that demonstration. The advantage for the city is it gives us far greater ability to run crews so we can deploy staff differently. We can get more done with the staff we have because more people can operate the equipment. There may, if everyone decides to do it over time, I don't think that will happen in the next couple of years. But if over time it does happen, there would be a financial impact. I still think the product the city would get from those employees outweighs the financial impact risk. It also is a promotional, going back to workforce development, it's saying we're gonna pay you for what you're able to do, what you bring to the job, not just what bucket you happen to be in because somebody's in an EO2 position for decades. I also think it addresses that challenge we face with having a contract out for some of our plow services because we just don't have staff to run trucks. Other questions, comments, concerns? We've seen this one a few times. So does this mean you're basically gonna start negotiating the next contract because this goes through 20? This one goes through June of 2019. So we have a year off maybe on this one. FOP expires on June, but that's good. You want them a little off cycle so you're not double negotiating as we've been doing. Other questions, concerns, comments? Questions, concerns from the public? So seeing and hearing none, after a long and winding road, I've entertained a motion for approval of the AFSCME contract this morning. So moved. Second. Motion by Eric, second by Brian Corgan. Any further discussion? Hearing is saying none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. And those opposed? Motion carries. And with that, I've entertained a motion for adjournment. So moved. Motion for adjournment. I just can't believe I'm not in the eye yet. Motion by Brian Corgan, second by the colony for the discussion. Hearing is saying none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. And those opposed? Motion carries. I could not, the meeting is adjourned. I could not make out that verbal cue. I heard something down there. Was that it? Yeah. Yeah. Please adjourn. Yeah. I need an apple. I can't.


Income tax 2021-2022 tax software example itemized deductions overview. Get ready to get refunds to the max diving into income tax 2021-2022. Lesser tax software as you don't need tax software to follow along but you might want the form 1040 which you can find on the IRS website irs.gov irs.gov our starting point here single filer Adam Smith living in Beverly Hills 90210 100,000 W2 income the 12,550 standard deduction 87,450 taxable income mirroring that over here on our equation 100,000 we got the standard deduction 12,550 87,450 taxable income letting the software do the calculation of the tax on page two of the 15,15 plug in that into our worksheet with the 15,15 back on over to page number one and prior presentations we looked at the income line items up top we looked at the adjustments to income which you could also think of as the above the line deductions the schedule one deductions and the reason they call them kind of adjustments to income instead of a duck deduction even though in essence they are basically the same thing they're decreasing the kind of income amount here or the net income is going down in essence they call it that because basically this line item the adjustments to income is usually the one that will be used when we talk about phaseouts related to things like deductions and credits when we look at these deductions down below which are going to be the greater of the standard deduction or the itemized deductions these then are not going to be included in the subtotal of the adjustments to income so they're not going to be included in that kind of phaseout calculation that is applied to many credits and and deductions so that's one way or one reason you want to keep these distinct another reason is that these items up tops the adjustments to income or the above the line deductions the schedule one deductions don't have that same comparison that need to be taken with the standard deductions and the itemized deductions in other words many times when people think about the deductions they think about some kind of itemized deductions so things that will come to people's mind are things like jumping over to the schedule A medical and dental expenses taxes paid state tax possibly property taxes interest paid like mortgage interest gifts and charities which is typically or mainly and traditionally although there's an exception on the schedule A casualty and other itemized kind of deductions over here and note if I go back up to the form 1040 you only get those deductions if you're able to itemize and you would only do that or itemized deductions are greater than the standard deduction that would be basically the general rule so you want to keep those things in mind when people bring up like their medical expenses or these do I have to track that kind of stuff well are you close to the standard deduction if you're not then you're not going to get a benefit from it because you're not going to be able to itemize this is also something you want to keep in mind as a tax preparer to see how complex the return are and determine whether you want to focus on more or less complex returns more complex returns will typically be higher income individuals which will typically have to itemize the deductions will be involved in them and you'll have more tax planning more data input that cannot just be automated us more simplified returns possibly you can automate the process a little bit easier and drive your whole process with basically data input forms 1099s and W2s for example I could might be a little bit easier to do that so keep that in mind now just to consider these itemized deductions if I go into the itemized deductions schedule a then the if I look at these and say well what's going to be the big one that's going to push us over note that if they're already itemizing then all the itemized deductions matter so if they're itemizing and they they ask you about the medical that they're still kind of this this this 7.5 that they have to clear on the medical so they're still kind of a question as to whether the medical is going to be beneficial we'll talk about that later but in general you might want to check out if any of these itemized itemized deductions apply once you're over a certain threshold and already itemizing because it's more likely that you'll get a benefit from them and if you're not able to itemize then the question is what are the things are going to push you over to being able to itemize the big one is usually going to be the interest in terms of mortgage interest that happens with the home purchase so the home purchase when you talk about a home purchase you're not talking about the purchase price of the home you're talking about the loan amount and not just the loan amount with regards to the deduction but the interest related to the loan amount so the higher the loan is and the higher the interest rate is at any particular point in time of the interest rate that someone qualifies for then the more interest they're going to pay that's going to be the deductible component here and that could be a significant amount there's limitations to it we'll talk about it more later but that's going to be the main thing so you're going to ask someone do you own a home and if they do it's likely they got a mortgage on it and it's likely they're paying significant interest and it's likely that that's going to be increased there if they're a new client you could ask them straight out do you itemize right do you own a home those are going to be significant factors the other thing related to owning a home is you've got property taxes so property taxes up top the other big one that could be a deductible item up top and and those are the two things that often push people over to being able to itemize now you also want to think about this from a planning standpoint so someone was to ask you whether or not they should purchase a home or something like that then you have to be kind of comparing the benefit that they would get from the added components to be able to itemize or not you could basically run projections in order in order to do that because this person right here for example if this was all they had for the itemize deductions before they purchased a home and you compare that to the standard deduction of the twelve thousand five fifty they're getting a huge amount of standard deduction over and above what they what they currently would be getting you know if they're if they would be itemizing so so even though the itemize deductions might push us over in this case to twelve thousand five fifty it's not like you're getting that whole amount like let's say that that was fifteen thousand it's not like you're getting that full amount of the fifteen thousand because you were already getting twelve thousand five fifty and you had no other itemize deductions right so you got to look at that difference to see with a true impact on the taxes would be so to do that we got to compare that to the standard deductions if they're single twelve thousand five fifty marriage you double it to twenty five one hundred head of household in between then at the eighteen eight hundred so you can also say well if there's added conditions like they're over a certain age or have conditions like blindness or something you can go to page four of the ten forty s or well you've got those other deduction limits here which are the single if one of those conditions apply fourteen two fifty and then fifteen nine fifty you can mirror that on the tax software by saying if they were single and they had the single plus the one condition there's where you get the fourteen two fifty and so on there so you can kind of use their worksheet to do that married filing joint if one condition applied twenty six four fifty two and because they're married so now there could be four conditions that could apply so you can you can mirror that here and say okay what if I had married filing joint plus two of these this times two or two conditions met twenty seven eight hundred so there's the twenty seven eight hundred and so on and so forth just to get an idea of the comparison there going to go back to the form at ten forty so let's add let's just add a couple of the most common kind of itemized deductions and look at the comparison here so if I go back on over and say okay let's go to my schedule a let's check it out let's go to the schedule a deductions and let's go down to the interest and let's say the interest was was let's say the interest was six thousand let's say seven thousand mortgage interest and point seven thousand and let's say the taxes on the property taxes on the property we're going to be let's say six thousand here on the property taxes so then if I go back on over so now we're at the thirteen eight seven nine thirteen eight seven nine seven nine which we could see on the schedule a which is now populated if I go down to the schedule a now now that you're you're in the area of being able to take the deductions then some of these other things might apply then you might have unlocked the capacity to possibly get some more medical to go into those and see if you can get a benefit from them that off the state taxes to could be something that would now be applicable to you in addition to the real estate tax that we put in there and then the seven thousand here could be applicable but still you really only up to the to the thirteen eight seven nine and before this point in time that's what you that's what you've kind of unlocked now before you were already at the twelve five fifty so it's not like you can't really say well now I got a deduction due to the due to purchase in the home of thirteen eight seven nine because you really only got the difference of the thirteen eight seven nine and what you got what you got automatically before which is the twelve five fifty that's the kind of thing you gotta you gotta consider when you're trying to figure out you know the tax benefits of like a home purchase or something like that you gotta get a little bit more nuanced than just saying yeah I get to deduct all the interest yeah you do but you might not be getting a benefit from the whole thing so that's the general idea now if you if you change this let's have them get married now so if we had married people going to marry jumping on over and say Adam is going to get married to Eve madam I'm Adam and then they get married so we're going to go back on over so now they're married filing joint same one hundred thousand the income of course could go up possibly but we're going to keep the baseline at the one hundred thousand and now we've got the the twenty five one hundred so now we've got the twenty five one hundred and there if they had the same amount of itemized deductions they're no longer going to be taking the the itemized deductions because obviously the standard deduction is higher at this point in time that's why you want to keep an eye on the what the standard deduction is and the standard deduction increased greatly a couple years ago and in an attempt to simplify the tax return and I think that that worked for a lot of people because again the itemized deductions are going to add a level of complexity and typically they're going to well in any case so now of course the itemized deductions over here are not being applied out because they're less than the standard deduction we can imagine a situation where these itemized deductions were increased over that threshold in order to be able to itemize in that instance so that's the you know the general idea thought process you want to be thinking on this when you look at our formula over here then we can mirror this say there's the hundred thousand let's bring it back to single let's bring it back to single and say I'm going to go okay let's bring this back to single single they didn't get married cold feet happened and they didn't get married you're just checking it out and so now we're going to go down so now we're at the thirteen eight seven nine if I was going to mirror that over here we could say okay there's the one hundred thousand there's the standard deduction was at the twelve five fifty and then we're going to look and compare that to the itemized deduction so that's going to be schedule a itemized deductions the big ones like we said was the interest which I think we said was seven thousand and then we've got the the property tax which we I think we put at six thousand now that would add up to the thirteen thousand but we also unlocked the capacity to deduct some portion of the state tax which I'm not going to get into at this point in time because it'll be dependent on your locale you might let the software do that calculation for you or at least help you out we'll talk more about it later but that gives a little added complication whenever you're you're kind of doing the itemized deductions with this because every time you make a change if you're using state income tax taxes then that could change the level of the state income taxes so in any case eight seven nine so we'll say eight seven nine eight seven nine and so that totals up to the thirteen eight seven nine so we're gonna say alright there's the thirteen eight seven nine that pulls over to page one of the form ten forty and now we can see this comparison taking place here and we're only gonna take the one that is higher so we're taking the itemized deduction because we got our if formula or logic test formula so now we've got the one hundred thousand AGI minus the thirteen eight seven nine gets us to the eighty six one twenty one mirroring that on the form over here there's our one hundred thousand minus the thirteen eight seven nine getting us to the thirteen there's the getting us to the eighty six one twenty one that's what they said it was over here right and then page two calculating the tax at the fourteen six nine six so we're gonna say this is fourteen six nine six nine six so that's kind of a thought process that you can go through and plug that information into your formula to get an idea of what's going on a little bit more intuitively and a more transparent Excel worksheet so in future presentations we'll go into some some more detail about these individual categories with the schedule a but just remember that you're generally thinking what's gonna be the big ones what's gonna be the ones that are gonna push people over to itemizing usually owning the home interest and the related property taxes


I chose to study Salmonella for my research because I'm a microbiologist, a professional, and Salmonella is one of the leading causes of sepsis, and globally it's just a problem in gastroenteritis, food poisoning, but because it's a leading cause of invasive disease in sub-Saharan Africa and particular lineages have been described, we felt that it was important that we also characterised the Salmonella that we have in the Gambia, to look out for these particular strains that are described in sub-Saharan Africa. The implication for treatment is that it is important that we know what is, what most resistant antimicrobials are, so that those are not given to patients when they present to the clinic. I am very excited about this project because it's the first project that is looking at Salmonella at the whole genome sequencing level. We just published an article that although we find low rates of multi-dog resistance, antibiotic resistance, we have found that we have multi-dog resistance. So we have gram-negative organisms that are resistant to more than one class of antimicrobials. Although the rates are low, but it's interesting to know that we have resistance to different classes of antibiotics. Yes, research has really improved me as a scientist, so the research has improved my critical thinking skills, my cognitive thinking, and it's made me realise that it's not just enough just sitting on the bench and seeing that this patient is infected with Salmonella, but it's important to know what is going around in the surrounding. So you know if a patient has Salmonella, what is the likely type of Salmonella that this patient has was coming from the part of the world that we've come from. We are very resource limited, so resources we don't always find enough resources to really look at each patient in detail. So it's important that we have an understanding of what is going on in the surrounding to help clinicians to give the right treatment to the patient at the right time. So data that comes out from my unit is actually used to inform decisions in the policies across the country, from vaccines to clinical care to public health decisions. So this research actually will be of great public health significance I'm a mother of four, so that alone is a huge challenge. I work full time as well as do my research. So the dynamics are quite different from probably someone just focus on their research and not on other things. So having to do full time research, work as a microbiologist, overseeing a full microbiology lab in my unit and also involved in research, it takes a lot of dedication, it takes a lot of commitment and yes I sacrifice a lot of my time to be able to do this because it's something that I have passion for. So I see patients on a daily basis, I test their samples but I feel going extra mile to really look at what is going on in our surrounding is really, really important.


Over the past 24 hours, the price of Hetera, H-Bar, has risen over 8% to about 8 cents. This continues its positive trend over the past week where it has experienced a 20% gain, moving from 7 cents to its current price. As it stands right now, the coin's current price is 8 cents. The chart below compares the price movement and volatility for Hedera over the past 24 hours, left, to its price movement over the past week, right. The wider the bands are, or the larger the grey area is at any given moment, the larger the volatility. The trading volume for the coin has increased 20% over the past week, while the overall circulating supply of the coin has increased 0.13% to over 33.58 billion. The HBR Foundation, along with Arcax, a digital asset exchange, shared collaborative strategies to amplify their partnership further on Tuesday. The additional broadening of the partnership now embarks upon amalgamating support for H-Bar staking. Moreover, the collaboration also sets its sights on backing further tokenization projects. H-Bar, the native cryptocurrency of the Hetera network, appears to be portraying an upward movement following the extension of the partnership. The announcement of an extended collaboration, accompanied by H-Bar's price surge, fueled speculations within the broader crypto market. Broadening its crypto offerings, Arcax further amalgamates support for the Hetera network and the Hetera token services, HTS, into its products and services. This comes after the recent integration of HBR in the exchange's crypto spot market. Furthermore, as a result of this partnership, Arcax now backs up staking for Hetera, H-Bar, alongside trading and custody. Arcax, the institutional-grade crypto custody service that launched this year, is also a merger with the BCW Group, a Web3 enterprise. Intriguingly, in collaboration with the Web3 firm, Arcax empowers users holding H-Bar and custody to earn passive incomes through staking. Moreover, the Hetera network plays a crucial role in Arcax's tokenization ventures, bolstering it with the help of Toco, Hetera's tokenization engine. Launched this year, the engine pivots in tokenizing interests in the Aberdeen Dollar Multi-Billion Market Fund, available in USD, GBP, and EUR within the Arcax ecosystem. Furthermore, Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Arcax, stated that as an FCA-registered platform, the firm prioritizes credible technologies. Integrating support for Hetera's network enhances the firm's capabilities, and Aberdeen, a significant Hetera governing council member being the most prominent external shareholder, further strengthens this partnership. The H-Bar price noted a surge of 8% reaching 8 cents. Moreover, the weekly upswing recorded by the token equals 20.4%, accompanied by a monthly upsurge of 38.5%. What's intriguing is the sudden jump recorded by the token today, which comes after the announcement mentioned above. Crypto Market enthusiasts appear to be eyeing the token extensively, as it noted a surge following the announcement. The extended collaboration and staking support bode well for Hetera H-Bar. However, it must navigate the competitive landscape and maintain its technological edge to sustain growth. The success of its tokenization ventures and the adoption of its network will be crucial in determining its future market position. Hetera Crypto is a public network for a decentralized economy that enables people and businesses to build powerful dApps. Hetera Hashgraph has a unique consensus system called Hashgraph Consensus to secure its network. This system has a rotating governing council of up to 39 diverse organizations from up to 11 different sectors. The Hetera Hashgraph token, HBR, has a maximum total supply of 50 billion units. Out of this, almost 7 billion were in circulation as of January 2021, equivalent to around 14% of the total supply. Hetera publishes regular reports detailing when the next wave of H-Bar tokens will be unlocked. These reports can be viewed here. According to Hetera's resources, the two project founders each have a coin grant of 2 billion H-Bars, equivalent to 4% of the total supply each. These tokens are vested over a six-year period. Other senior executives at Hetera that joined prior to 2018 have coin grants of between 250 million and 300 million coins. These tokens are vested over a period that ends in December 2021. Hetera raised funds through an ICO in August 2018 and opened its mainnet to the public in September 2019. During the ICO, investors could buy the platform's own utility token, HBR, at the best price possible. Hetera H-Bar is the cryptocurrency of Hetera Hashgraph, a platform that offers an alternative to blockchain technology and strives to be faster, efficient and secure. They are responsible for guiding the Hetera code base, making platform decisions, and running the initial nodes on the Hetera public network. Hetera Crypto uses a proof-of-stake, POS mechanism that lets H-Bar users stake their resources to support the network. Currently, all Hetera nodes are controlled by either Hetera or the governing council members, but they plan to change to a permissionless system in the future. The Hetera Crypto H-Bar chart is showing bullish behavior. It performed well last week, last month, and over the last three months by 52.12%, 23.24%, and 22.59%, respectively, confirming a strong uptrend. However, if the demand for the HBR token remains high, the asset price could bounce back from the current level. The next goal for the H-Bar price is to reach 9 cents. However, if the H-Bar crypto price fails to stay above the 6 cents level, it could decline further. The demand for the H-Bar token remains high. The asset price could bounce back from the current level. However, if the H-Bar crypto price fails to stay above the 6 cents level, it could decline further as well. Hetera is rising steadily as it sustains above major trend EMAs. The RSI is rising smoothly, implying that the asset is gaining momentum and could mark new peaks. Thanks for watching till the end. Don't forget to subscribe for more updates.


Coming up today, YouTube has more viewers on mobile alone than any cable channel and opens their sixth creator space in Berlin, plus they continue their 10th birthday celebration with a tribute to animals. Hello and welcome to YouTube News for May 6, 2015. I'm your host Alex and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around YouTube platform. First up, YouTube CEO Susan Logitski claims YouTube has more viewers on mobile alone than any other cable channel. YouTube's ongoing growth on mobile is just one part of the continued upswing. Logitski said the number of viewers on the site is up 40% since last year and watch time is up 50%. Many of these viewers are coming to YouTube via smartphones and tablets, where watch time is up 90%. So congrats YouTube and we wish you even more success this year. Next up, speaking of growth, YouTube has announced it's opening its sixth creator space in Berlin, Germany. And it's holding its first event on Thursday, May 7th. Are any of you guys in the freedom family in Germany? And are you looking forward to checking out this new creator space? Let us know in the comments section down below. And last up, YouTube turned 10 years old back in April, but it will be spending most of May celebrating the things that make YouTube great. It looks like they'll be sticking with an alphabet theme, so on May 1st the letter was A in the spotlight, with YouTube celebrating animal videos. May 2nd was the letter B, so they celebrated beauty videos. I think you guys get the idea. If you go to the YouTube Trends page linked down below, you can see what each day the theme is and partake in the fun yourself. Anyways guys, that's it for me this week, tuning in next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. Thanks for watching. First up, Google recently revealed its earnings for the first quarter of 2015. And in order to explain the larger than expected drop from its ad prices.