Hey, we are live. All right. Did you find out what that tree was at the UU church? No, I never made it over there. I'm sorry. It's okay. And drove by it a dozen times. And I was always on my way rushing to get somewhere else. I never stopped. All right. It doesn't look like it's El Cobra though. It has a different. Butting. Butting structure. You know, pattern. You know, Julian's coming in and Stephen Mabee. Maybe. Oh, that could be. We want to mute everybody. Just have them. Non-committee members. To avoid. Past couple of them. Well, I'm only letting in people. I know to be involved. Okay. Go ahead, Julian. Could I get promoted? Am I on panelist? I did promote. Okay. Great. Perfect. Recording. A couple more people would be. Have a quorum. Hey, Sarah's here. Okay. Hi. We need one more person to have a quorum. Julian's here. Although he's. Doesn't have his camera on. I'm in the car driving home. So I will go home shortly. Great. Britt and Dennis can't make it, but hopefully Shashana and. Ellen will be here. I miss somebody else. No. Shashana will be on soon. All right. Alan, we just, we need to just keep waiting till we get the quorum. Yeah, we can't. We're not supposed to hold a meeting if we don't have a quorum. Okay. We will keep waiting. Sorry, everyone. So quorum is based on how many official members there are. Yes. So for. Is a quarter amount of the seven. Okay. Path to Angeles cannot make the meeting. We have such important business that we have to have it be official. Yeah. Alan says she'll be right there. All right. So we will have a quorum. I'm going to ask David Matavozian to explain. What, what's your connection to the meeting? Hi there. I was here last meeting. Mostly as an assignment because I'm a student at UMass, but this time I'm just interested in what's going on around Amherst. Great. I remember you now. Yeah. Okay. I will promote you to panelists and. And we have a quorum now so we can start meeting. I just reminded everybody that this meeting is being recorded and will be. Available to be viewed. After Friday. From this week. On the time web page. Okay. Welcome everyone. Let's see. Grab the agenda real quick. So announcements and public comments. Any public comments. Stephen Brooks or. David. Okay. Then we will take. Hours. Hours and approve the minutes. Julian is still here. Listed is here. He's driving. Yeah. He's actually disappeared. We don't have a quorum again. No, we do. We do without him. Okay. So never mind. And he'll be in soon. So all in favor of approving the minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Sarah. I wasn't at the last meeting, so I'll abstain. Okay. So who's the fourth one. No, we actually don't really have three of us here. Okay. So we'll wait on that. I can take hours though. Anyway, Sarah, how many hours. Two. Ellen. Same with me. And I probably have 10. Julian's back. How many hours, Julian. Okay. Good. All right. So once again, welcome everyone and. Let's see. So after that. We've approved the minutes we've taken the hours. Chair's report. I got an email from the Girl Scout troop that helped us a few years ago with the planting and they're eager to help us plant in April. So I'm looking forward to that very much. I hope you are too. Let's see. I have not heard from Pat to Angelus about. Having a liaison with the town council, which we agreed to last meeting. I had a question about a tree in front of the Unitarian church, which Alan and I couldn't identify, but he hasn't stopped by to look at it. So I'm waiting to get that back. The sustainability festival we're doing. April 20th, I believe is the date. And we need to decide if we want to do a demonstration, have some kind of demonstration. We've had that before. Alan, you've done something in the past or the committee could do something. Pruning or a planting demonstration or something. Is that something people are interested in? I see Sarah shaking her head. Yes. So like demonstration of how to plant a tree. Anything tree related. We could do a demonstration. We could bring leaves and do an ID thing or whatever. We'll have our booth anyway. And people will come to the booth and get info. But if we want, we can also be in the demonstration area. Okay. I think a demonstration is a great idea. Pruning is a great one. Planting. I suppose if there's a tree nearby to be planted, we could do a planting demonstration hard to do. If you're not actually putting a tree in the ground. But I think pruning is definitely a useful skill that we can show. Okay. I mean, it usually happens in the. The demonstration area, but I suppose it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. Pruning is a great idea. Pruning is a great one. Planting. I suppose if there's a tree nearby to be planted, it might be a good idea to do a pruning workshop. Yeah. Alan, you're good to that. Yeah, I think it's a good idea. I mean, the. Historically, very low turnout for. The. Training. Area there, the center area we broke off and people can do demonstrations. Unless it's something really flashy. To not hear a lot of people, but it's still good to be there and do something. Is it, are there a lot of kids? There are a lot of kids going through, you know, if it's advertised as a child event. You know, so they publicize it and say what's happening. You know, at what time of day at the demonstration area. So it's really great. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea at the demonstration area. So really publicize it as a. Children's event. You might get some people because they're always looking for things to do with your kids. Yeah. You know, you may get a good turnout. Something we could do with leaves. We could glue leaves on kids or have them glue leaves on paper. You know, something like that would be kind of one and silly. I was going to talk about this later, and it was a. Professor Ellen would. Pickle thorns activity book. It's all about urban trees. And supposedly this is a big success. It's been a big hit. With kids. And I have never seen the. This is a real character, I'm going to be picking those up hopefully tomorrow. And I'll have a better idea. What we could maybe we could integrate that into something. Yeah, that sounds great. And that could be the prize too if you successfully. Glucin leaves on a paper you get a book. Yeah, that's a good idea. I just realized we don't have a secretary. Can you take minutes? Okay, hold on. I got a switch. I'm still at work. So, yeah. If this time is difficult for people, we can change the time. I've brought that up. It's difficult now that it's nice out. But. Well, I missed the whole beginning. So. Okay. So the key is to get people's names. If you look at participants, you can see the names of the people who are here. If to click on. I've just done this weird screen mirroring mirroring thing that I cannot see. Don't worry about it. I'll figure it out. I can actually take a screenshot of the. People that are here. Okay. Okay. So I'll have the names I can add them in later. Okay. Shashana is here. Okay, good. So all right. Does someone want to grab a book from Alan and then try to come up with a plan for some sort of event that would incorporate the book. Sure, I would be happy to. Okay, great. And the woman's name who writes the book is Ellen would pickle thorn. The name of the character character. Okay. So let's see. Professor Ellen would. Prickle thorn. Okay. I was just going to do a Google search on it. Search. Good. Right. So sustainability festivals, April 20th, we will have a booth. We'll have to figure out who can staff it and when, and then maybe we'll do something if we come up with a good idea for a demonstration time. We all, even if you're not at the meeting should be reading the minutes and. You know, I noticed after everyone approved the January minutes, I was going back in and noticed that we had the wrong. The wrong date in there for something. So I did correct that before I sent them into the town website, but it'd be good to really check the minutes. Good when you get them. Okay. There's some webinars coming up urban forestry magazine. Does anyone else read that? No. You read sometimes. So it comes. Yeah, it comes every month. No, four times a year now it used to be every month from the state department of environment and conservation. DC, DCR conservation recreation. And it's a great, great newsletter. It has a lot of good information. And it's a great, great newsletter. There's an eye tree class that's going to be happening. And a couple of other ones that look good. So I will send the link out and maybe put it on the website. Or maybe posted on Facebook. Actually, Shashana, if I send it to everyone, please post it on Facebook. Okay. It's just, it's called the citizen forest. Yeah. I highly recommend reading it. And there's also other events that we can do to learn more about forestry. And street trees in particular. So I will pass that out to everyone. Alan, you'll probably talk about this, but the mass tree warrants and forest association meeting is coming up March 21st. Yes. Something now. It's some, it's in North Hampton. It's the Western mass chapter. We have. We have alternatives to petroleum. Based. Tree care items. So like one is. Non petroleum based like barn chain oil. Fluids and oils and things to use on machine equipment. They're all non petroleum based. Certified to be used with the type of equipment. And then the other one is using a battery powered equipment. Non petroleum powered equipment in the tree care industry. The main presentation for the evening. Is actually sort of advanced first aid refresher. So it's going to be, you know, Stop the bleed sort of things. Turn it, how to use a tourniquet. Things that if you work, you know, and around Shoenery. And tree care industry. Things do that are beyond first aid. Just until the ambulance gets there. So. Hi. I'm sorry. I just have two questions. I'm just catching up. Did we designate where the second Saturday planting is on April 13. That's on the agenda. Yeah, I thought we decided that. Yeah, South Amherst Common. Yeah. Okay. What's your other question. Alan just attended the Western mass chapter of what. So that's, that's what's coming up. It's an upcoming evening. The Western mass chapter of mass free wardens evening is a dinner meeting where we have talks. And it's a, it's open to anybody in the green industry, citizen committees, free wardens, three care people. The date again, March. 21st. At the blue bonnet diner. In North. Yeah. All right, I'm caught up. Julian and I have attended in the past and you get to meet some other people from other three committees and people working for different tree companies and some interesting stuff that happens. Julian and I both spoke at it actually one time. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I know. Shawna, you were going to meet with the South Amherst library. Did that happen? Yep. Yeah, we set up a thing. We had a meeting with a couple of people. And they picked out some stories that we could read. That would be like, you know, tree appropriate that we could do with kids to make it like a kid friendly event. And I was planning on bringing snacks and inviting people to read poetry about trees. And I've made a event on Facebook that if you guys are on Facebook, I'm going to show you some of the things that I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you some of the people that. Are going to say that they're going to go on Facebook. The more people will see it. Like, even if you don't plan on going to say that you're going to go. And then we'll make it better. Well, it's also good to have a big crowd. We can plant more trees. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just done. Sure. Yeah. So. As we're planting trees or is this taking place before after? How is. How we work in that? Well, I have. Like this would happen. Like. Like a whole thing would happen with the, the tree. There's like this one tree that's supposed to be for the, the retired person. Right. So.  It's next.  So the last tree replant will be. The noon at the 1130. At the months of library sort of. I think that's good to do it toward the end. Cause the Girl Scouts are coming to help plant trees. I don't want them to get sidetracked into something else. Um, But it's great.  No noon. Do we want to say so 1130. 1130 something like that. Yeah. I think that's great. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks for Shawna. Um, we might as well, um, I don't think, let's see if I have anything else. Oh, the table. Um, The Mary Maple table, uh, the library is going to take it, but they don't want it until. Um, the new library is built. So we're talking to Brit about this. She suggested maybe we can, um, have it go to town hall. But we need someone to go talk to town manager or somebody at town hall and get that figured out. Does anybody want to do that? I could go do that. Great. Thanks. Okay. And, um, yeah, Ellen, you were going to make a plaque for that. Yes. Okay. So before it goes anywhere that, that should be done. Okay. Good. All right. And I think that's all I have for me. Uh, Julian vice chair. Hi. Yes. Um, could I get promote panelists on my computer? I just joined in. Okay. I did that once, but here I did it again. Good. There you are. Sorry about that, everybody. Um, anyway, vice chairs update. Yes. To what you said, the sustainability festival on the 20th. Um, I understand that. Um, it's on the 20th or the hours 10 to four. Is that correct? Um, I don't know the hours. Yeah. Right. There's a set up time really going to be there a little earlier set up. Okay. Sounds good. Um, So that, and then the other thing that I was going to share in my vice chairs report. Uh, you mentioned something to Henry. Um, it was with the towns. Uh, Oh, I think it was the towns. Oh, right. No, it was the town. Uh, I was wondering when, if we'll be able to get all the stumps ground on the south Amherst common before it goes through. Good question. Um, so we have, um, we just took down a dead nori maple. We have a, another tree. It's an almost going to be coming down. Possibly another nori maple. Um, I would like to think we will be able to, our stumps ground is still not functioning a hundred percent. Kind of works for a while and decides it doesn't want to work. Uh, some kind of computer issue that they. Manufactured the sales. Folks that sold it to us. Can't seem to fix. They don't. Can't find the problem. So, um, So I think we can do that. Awesome. Thanks. Um, I think that's all I have. I have something for social media though. Okay. We'll wait on that. I guess. Um, yeah. Okay. The treasures report, Sarah. Yes. Uh, our current balance is $9,355 and 29 cents, which is no change going back to September when we, um, stopped our plantings. Um, There's a $48 incumbrance on the account, which is dedicated to Amherst nurseries. Um, I guess their bill came in $48 less, or we were expecting more trees. They weren't able to get something to that effect where we have essentially a $48 credit that's tagged for Amherst nurseries that hasn't been. Cashed in. Um, So, um, I think we often have the $48, not no longer be encumbered is for Allen to just send an email. Um, saying this. No longer needs to be. Dog-eared for Amherst nurseries. Um, and then that will be taken care of. So just a simple email letting them know that that's. No longer needs to be. Put aside. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Reans comments in the background. Yes. I apologize. Alan tree warden's report. Oh, just, I guess. Updates of the ceilings at order. They'll be here. I believe the first week of April. For our day for our, for a month. There were trees at order. They'll also going to be here in April. I'm working out. I'm going to get the date when those ceilings. Sorry, the bear root plant stock will be available. That's the meeting. That's for the tree nursery. Yes. Great. I'm meeting with the consultant. A contractor who is doing the North. Amherst common renovation project. And they're, they're using the same nursery that I bought the. Bear root stock from Bigelow nursery. And so I'm just meet them to go tag the trees that are going to be installed on the common. At the big, at the nursery in April. So I'm trying to coordinate. The arrival of the bear root. Tagging the trees and then bringing the bear root stock back with me. So. Let's see. And we talked about the. If I can interrupt. The witch hazels are also on order. They'll come in sometime in early April to me. They'll be ready for. Yeah. We talked about the booth. Coming up with a plan. The booth was something I wanted to talk about. We also have to. Come up with a schedule of events for over a month. So. Because we need to do the proclamation. And we need to. You know, have that as part of the proclamation. So. I think the town council can. Publicize it as they do their proclamations. So if we can, at some point during this meeting, come up with. Dates and. Happenings that we will forward on to the. Town council for their other day proclamation. Let's see. I think that was all the. I just, in general, we have been very fortunate this winter. We've continued to. Do a lot of tree work trying to get caught up. Finish clearing a lot of C click fixes, which is the work across the stone we have in town. I'm down to eight C click fixes. One of them I have to wait till the trees and leaf. Because it requires us to prune a honey locust tree, which. Is much, you can do a much better job when it's in the leaf, because it has concealed buds when they're not in leaf. And it's just difficult to tell what's dead and what's alive. On a honey locust that's never been proved in its entire life. So. That one will be here till leaf. It's been great getting caught up. And I don't have any tree hearings lined up. We've got a busy construction season. We've got a lot of sidewalks being renovated, lots of road projects going on. I don't have any. Word on in the project I've seen that's going to require trees to be removed at this phase. So. They are starting some work on Belch 10 road from. Southeast street down towards colonial village. And there are no trees currently involved in that. Part of the project. When they do the rest of Belch town road, which is not currently funded, there will be some tree impact. Most likely. As they try to improve. The sidewalks. And then in that whole road. So that's coming. That's about it. Thank you. So. So, I'm going to go back to the social media update. Yeah, absolutely. So basically on that front, I've contacted Instagram. To get the. Other account. That looks like ours that we used to use removed. And they have not gotten back to me. So I've contacted the followers who still follow that account. So. Some of them are starting to remove their subscriptions there. And move them over to the other. Current account. And as the planting season gets started, I will start posting more. Great. Thank you. Shoshana. Yeah, I posted about this meeting. I posted about, I made that event. For the second Saturday planting. And I feel like maybe I shared some other stuff, but I don't remember specifically right now. Great. All right. Yeah. And don't forget everyone that we should. You know, click going on the event that Shoshana created. For the April, April 13th. Yeah. All right. And speaking of April 13th, we're on presentations and discussions. The first one is the second Saturday work days. So I'm looking forward to that one very much. Alan, is it where we set for locations? Well, we have locations for April. May is going to be rambling road. June. Was going to be North Hampton road. And that's about as far as we've gotten. Okay. I meant though. Locations. If you have any specific location trees, have you cited all the trees are going to plant in April? Oh, in April, I'm sorry. I have, I have cited all the trees. Around the common and Jason. And you staking them. Do you have the little sign we used to put on the stakes? I'm going to be putting the stakes out and marking for dig safe. Either this week or next week. So I can print out more of those signs. I can put them on the stakes. You know, a week before. Great. Put them on the stakes. All right. If you need that, I probably still have it somewhere. The original. I think I have the, I have the. You know, the file, I can print it out. Great. Great. And do we need to be worried about. Lawn mowers crashing into these trees that we're planting. Yes. Is it possible to put. Plastic in the tree? Is that too much work? Yeah, I should invest. We've talked about this in the past with the committee. Invest in, they do make a. Plastic. It's a PVC kind of twist wrap that goes around the trunk of the tree. It's very flexible. It does. Protect the trunk quite a bit. From string tumors. Not a hundred percent, but it expands as the tree expands. It's very flexible. We're not a big fan of attaching anything to the trunk of the tree. When, especially when they're young, because it. The trunk is actually often still. You know, photosynthesizing in the younger trees. And they need to breathe and holding moisture. There's not good. But. You know, some of them. Especially where there's a. Landscape company managing. Yeah. We've lost about six trees. Country corners. Yeah, I, I tend to put. Hardware cloth, like just make a little. You know, cage around it. But maybe that's too expensive. I don't know. It's. It's time consuming to install those. We've been doing a lot of planting and we have to wrap them for. You know, We've been doing some. Rabbits and deer and stuff, but it's a, it takes a lot of time. Yeah. But if we have enough help, that's a, it's a good idea. I think. I don't like those plastic ones. The plastic gets brittle and breaks and they don't expand. So the tree grows. You have to really have to remove them. Yeah. But put them on for a few years. It'd be a great thing. Is that something one of us could buy a roll of hardware cloth? Or is that something you would need to do, Alan?  I think on the vulnerable ones, I think we should do that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And Brooks, if you show up on the 13th, we'll put you to work on that side of things. Not like I'm an expert, but yeah, I'll, I'll get it done. Great. Good Sarah. One question, one comment. Do we need to approve funds for, from our account for Alan to buy this material for the plantings? Should I pull a form? I could use the, the new tree fund money. Capital money. Which wouldn't require that. Okay. And it's, it's a pretty minor expense. I. It is. I'm thinking so. Okay. We'll just do that. Okay. All right. And second, I don't think I'm going to make the April planting, which I'm actually really bummed to miss because all of the activities and the Girl Scout troops sounds really fun. I'm hoping that I will be able to make the sustainability festival on the 20th, but we're doing a major home renovation project and the house isn't going to be habitable for like a month. So I don't think I'm going to be able to do that. I don't think I'm going to be able to do that. I don't think I'm going to be able to do that first. I think so. Remains to be seen. I'll be in touch, but I'll try to attend as many events as possible, but probably not that first planting. Okay. All right. Good. So after the June planting. Oh. Do we do July plantings? I forget. What we do anymore. We have, I mean, we just, um, it depends on what July is going to be like. I don't remember what happened last July. I don't think we did. Maybe did a work day. July. I don't remember. But if it's not too hot in this regular precipitation, July's could be a day. You know, planting. Okay. And we should schedule the plenty of at least those two trees on station road. Okay. That was requested. Yeah. Do you think we can do a whole planting in that area? Or should that just be a. Something couple of committee members do separately. Can we do that right during the while we're on the common? I don't know where on station road. The trees are, but. Right across McGrath Park. Right across McGrath Park. Excuse me. It's like a misty, misty meadows. You mean Stanley. Stanley street. Yep. What did I say? I said, Stanley street. Sorry, sorry. Okay. Good point. Yeah. I think, I think we'll have enough to do in South Amherst without adding that in. Yeah. No, because I thought you were on station. That's why I said that. Yeah. So Alan, do you have to. Site those sites or can I. Can someone else on the committee go do that? Yeah, those locations are going to be the same location. I think we're planting them where trees had died. Previously. The trees that we planted. Six years, seven years ago. So we, we don't need to do dig safe. We shouldn't need to know. Okay. Well, if you can, if we can figure out of time, I'll check in with the woman who was here last month and. species for that. Or was that up to me again? I don't remember. That was up to you. Okay. Yeah. I can look very quickly, see if it's in the minutes. Okay. Great. Consider resilience of tree species when selecting trees. That's the only thing we have about that. Species. Shade trees, definitely. Yeah. Okay. All right. So we'll revisit that or. You can contact me sooner if you have that info. Next on the agenda is. Arbor day plans, speaker and demonstration. Okay. So we're going to move on from the April 20th. Sustainability for sustainability festival. Although we don't have to do a separate event. We could combine them. I was in communication with. One of the members of the immerse. Sustainability committee. Where it was called. They came up with the climate action plan for the town. And I wanted to talk about. The kind of green infrastructure component of the town's climate action plan. And I did hear back finally. And. They are interested in talking. But we're. He's a professor. The committee member that I did hear back from is a professor at Hampshire college. And. We're having a. Okay. So at some point, yeah, if we're going to send stuff to the. To the town council, we'll need to. Get that information. Unless somebody else has an idea. Somebody who wants to talk. Oh, I have bad news on that front. I watched a rerun meeting of one of the town council committees. And they did not approve our request for. A liaison. They approved it for a bunch of. Committees, but ours was not among them. I think they tried to basically put them in order on which ones they liked better, et cetera. I'm not sure the exact details. Okay. All right. So anything else on Arbor day. Anybody want to write something to the. Hampshire Gazette. About trees. And Arbor day. Doesn't have to be a committee member. Brooks or David. Would you write about. Sorry, go ahead. Sorry, that was me. Sorry. I apologize. I was just asking, what would you want. The article to be about. Arbor day, you know, sometime in April would be great if we could. But it's the editor or op-ed column or something. The importance of trees, essentially, it's, you know, it's tree centric. However, you know, the importance of trees in the community, interesting facts about trees. I could try. That'd be great. Okay, that's good. Just volunteering. I realized that Stephen, you're here. I think for the South Amherst tree library tree, but we haven't heard from you. And we were talking about that. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. So I'm a member of South Congressional church and. Part of the buildings and grounds team. And we're having our big 200th anniversary celebration with a culminating in a week long celebration, June 30th, July 7th. And we, we came up with the idea of we want to plan a tree to commemorate our 200th anniversary. But since I emailed you a while ago. So we're going to do that. Our little green committee, which is a subcommittee of our celebration. Said we've got some volunteers that want to donate some trees and we want to put them out in our back meadow. Which faces the Pelham Hills. We have a lot of apple trees out there that are sort of dying. So we're going to replace three of those trees. And we'll probably plant them this spring. And then we'll dedicate them in a ceremony on July 7th. So I think that's what we decided to do. Great. If you need any help with the planting or advice, then. Let us know. All right, I appreciate that very much. We'll be in touch. Good. Thank you. All right. Back to the agenda. That's not the agenda. Sorry. I'm sorry. Mary maple table. We already talked about the town tree inventory. To me. So the, the RFQs came back for. Requesting someone to, to. Submit a bid for doing the inventory. The lowest. Bitter. Two. Is a Arbor pro. They're actually there. They've done a very nice presentation. They've done some inventory work for city of spring field. I did call the city forester there and he gave them. You know, good review. Davy resource group who did the past inventories. The town. Was. Not the lowest bidder. And I don't see any reason not to go with Arbor pro. So. I think we're going to have a sign of contract with them. Before the end of the month and get them on board. And get the inventory done before June. So. Great. Good. And they're going to produce a final report that's going to, you know, do an analysis of all the trees that are inventoryed and all the, the benefits they provide to the community. Include new planting locations. Stumps. You know, tree conditions, species. Pull in yards. So it should be pretty good. Awesome. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Uh, printer urban forestry management plan. Still working on it. Okay. Yeah. The tree inventory. It's going to be a large part of that plan. So. There's a lot of. Work I can do before them, but once the report is done, a lot of that information is going to get plugged in. To the manager plan as far as, you know, where we need to spend our time. To improve things. Great. Next on the agenda is updating the town website. So we're going to go ahead and do that. And then we're going to go ahead and do that. And then we're going to go ahead and do that. And then we're going to go ahead and request a tree page. It still doesn't have our policy listed there, but I will talk to him about that. And try to get that done by the next month. Next meeting. Hopefully he'll be there then. All right. Environmental justice neighborhood planting. Anything new on that. Are you mass interns at the bridge? She's not here. There's nothing new on state level initiatives. At least I haven't done anything yet. No, nothing yet. Okay. And the solar bylaw group. Anything to do on that? No real updates. The council committee hasn't, it hasn't gotten. In front of their agenda, but it was listed on the carryover memo from the last council. So it will be for discussion eventually. It's just a matter of when they get to it. Okay. And then the only other thing, Shonda, I don't have your hours listed. So far. And I'll check with bread and Bennett about that also. So that's all I have. Anybody else have anything, any other comments? Stephen or David or. Brooks. I had one question. When we originally talked. About the trees that are available for planting. But does, does the town have trees that can be planted? And do you have an inventory of trees that are available for planting and what species are they? Um, We don't have our own trees. We buy them for the plantings we do. We are starting a talent nursery. But again, those will be trees that we plant. We don't have trees that we give out. We don't have trees that the sustainability festival. And those will be a little tiny seedlings. Yeah. We can't really afford to just give trees to anyone. Right. We do. If it's in a place along the road, we will sometimes use our funding and bring a tree. To plant. But we try to coordinate that within the plantings we do on the second Saturday of the month. Okay. Thanks. Anybody have anything to add on that? Nope. All right. Well, thanks everybody. And, uh, short meeting. Hopefully, uh, next month we'll have a lot more to talk about. We'll all be there. Good luck, Sarah, with your house and. Thank you. And Ellen, please get the minutes to me soon. The power that preserves. Yep. Great. Thank you, everybody. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


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We got a rookie base Otto Redett Merz Angels No, Doug. I'm not you know what that comes at like what anything in the ballpark Redemption Freddy Freeman Braves five-star autograph jumbo prime gold foil parallel That'll be awesome to 10 for the Braves Congrats Jumbo patch Otto Reds rookie base Otto Ronnie Dawson Silver signatures Braves Tom Glavin 10 of 25.  Royals rookie Otto Jackson co are numbered five at ten on the gold five out of ten Jackson co are Padres base Otto Blake Snell Brewers base rookie Otto Aaron Ashby is green parallel rookie Otto wonder Franco 10 of 15 sweet card Tampa Bay Going to Steven W Congrats buddy. Thank you for joining. All right. We still got Over well over halfway to go here redemption base Otto Red Sox rookie Jaren Duran and Brewers Robin Yount Otto 15 of 75 Brewers on the Yount Reds rookie Otto Ronnie Dawson number it's 47 out of 50 Reds on the Ronnie Dawson and pirates rookie base Otto O'Neill Cruz Solid hit their pirates Yankees rookie Otto Louise heel 11 of 15 nice card Yankees low number rookie Otto and Reds base Otto 20 Perez the legend 20 Perez. Oh, yeah, I do. Can you see up a plan? Oh Redemption five star base Otto rookie Red Sox Jaren Duran second one of those and Philly Steve Carlton Otto 75 75 Phillies are the Steve Carlton. All right halfway Astros rookie Otto Jake Myers and Golden graphs Yankees another Don Mattingly 13 out of 20 Very nice gold Don Mattingly Royals rookie base Otto Jackson co are and silver signatures Lee Smith Cubs 16 and 20 Nice looking card there with that blue parallel silver ink with the Cubs Looks good. There we go. Lee Smith base rookie Otto Braves Kyle Miller Kyle Muller, excuse me each row Mariners Otto one of five always loving each row True legend, that's an awesome card Steven N with Seattle each row to five Never gets old pulling each year. Oh, Otto You're pretty cool God diamond backs rookie Otto Stewart Fairchild 62 of 75 Yankees baseball royalty Otto Mariana Rivera six of 15 These are such nice designs. What a gorgeous signature the purple background on the baseball royalty with the gold ink Yeah Yeah, that's sick Joseph J with the Yankees Just an insanely nice Otto with that with that gold ink Most of time it doesn't look super great. I guess Moe is the exception Greated everything. All right, Reds rookie base out of 27 Tion and gold Otto Nationals Vladimir Guerrero eight out of ten expose going to the Nats on this one Vlad senior Yankees silver signatures are all this Chapman number 35 out of 40 base rookie Otto Bobby Whit Jr Royals There he is Tyler. There you go, buddy Bobby Whit Jr. Let's go Bruins. Let's go Bruins Bruins and magic tonight y'all Devils Yeah Reds rookie base out of 27 Tion. It's like the fourth son Tion But they're so annoying. Yeah, they're in there pretty tight Silver signatures Ozzy Smith 19 of 25 Cardinals That's another signature that always looks great Ozzy Smith silver Like Got rookie Otto Joe Ryan twins Likes to sign on the photo rather than the autographed line there and guardians Jose Ramirez Otto number 30 out of 50 Five-star Joe. I prefer triple. There's a product, but for price. I think they're about the same Triple threat just has more to it. I think So I think there's there's that allure to that But if you want like it just an on-card auto great design, you know nice thick card here at five stars fantastic Jose Burrios blue jays Otto Golden graphs Paul Molliter one out of 30 nice hit twins Twins Paul Molliter Goldink Royals Golden grass Whit Merrifield 11 of 15 base rookie Otto Padres CJ Abrams Go Padres nice solid hit there Twins rookie base Otto Curtis Terry red socks no more Garcia para Otto 51 of 75 nice no more Marlins rookie Otto Brian de la Cruz 29 out of 50 both on card and it needs your sign like a while ago and David Wright Otto for the Mets base So Abrams stole Padres as well angels rookie base Otto Reed Detmerce and Pentamorous penmanship Otto Orioles Eddie Murray 23 of 25 Nice Murray Come on. Let's see a cut auto. Come on Mariners rookie base Otto Cal Raleigh big dumper Orioles Eddie Murray 11 of 75 on the Otto here to Eddie Murray's nice cards White Sox rookie Otto Gavin sheets Cardinals Nolan Aaron Otto Otto number 39 out of 50 purple parallel on the Nato Cardinals and one more makes everybody for joining. We'll do a quick recap after this Orioles golden graphs Whit Merrifield 18 of 25 other golden graphs Merrifield and Astros base Otto on the back Andy Pettit Andy Pettit with the Astros So you had Andy Pettit and Stroze with Merrifield Royals Nato Cardinals Gavin sheets White Sox Eddie Murray Orioles Cal Raleigh Mariners Eddie Murray Orioles Reed Detmerce angels David Wright Mets Brian Della Cruz Marlins No more Garcia para Red Sox Curtis Terry twins CTA Abrams Padres Whit Merrifield Royals Jose Ramirez Guardians Joe Ryan twins Tony Santi on Reds Lee Smith Cubs Jackson Kohler Royals Don Mattingly Yankees Jake Myers Astros Steve Carlton Phillies Tony Perez Reds God's Louise Heal Yankees O'Neil Cruz pirates Reggie or not Reggie, but a Ronnie Dawson Reds Donnie Matt Don Mattingly baseball baseball Don Mattingly Yankees Donnie baseball Mattingly Yankees baseball auto Robin Yacht Brewers Luke Williams Phillies Aaron Ashby Brewers Jackson. Koar Royals gold Blake Snell Padres Really nice Cal Ripken jr. Redemption green parallel auto for the Orioles their Orioles as well Five-star auto Jaren Durant a couple of those redemptions Paul Muller twins Jose Barrios blue J's Tony Santi on Reds Ozzie Smith Cardinals Rollish Chapman Yankees Vlad Guerrero going to the at the one of the Nationals via the Expos to 10 Stuart Fairchild D-Bax Kala Muller Braves Joey Votto Reds Curtis Terry Twins Reed Detmer's Angels Ronnie Dawson Reds got Tom Glavin Braves Joe Ryan twins Emanuel Rivera Royals Barry Larkin Reds Randy Aros Arena Rays Jackson Reeds Brewers Byron Buxton Twins Move on Red Sox Large new bar Cardinals Jason Veratec Red Sox Riley Adams Nationals a Bobby Wood Jr. Rookie Auto base there Magikarp Mariano Rivera Baseball Royalty auto to 15 Yankees love the design on this This signature looks good every time each year auto to five for the Mariners Wander Franco Rookie auto to 15 for the Rays Braves Freddie Freeman five-star jumbo patch card foil Card gold foil parallel Redemption for the Braves there Freddie Freeman I'd be the 10 with the jumbo patch and Button Relic Auto Buster Posey one out of five. There you go Giants. That's gonna do it. Thanks again everybody got triple threads coming up


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping one box of 2022 top definitive baseball for Travis U. So good luck here Travis. I mean I don't, I can't necessarily sit here and like disagree with that take Jesse. Like I think, I think Lamar is much, Lamar is much better in the regular season. I think obviously, you know, time has shown that Borough is better than the playoffs as Lamar has won one game in the playoffs. AS for the year. No, he lost in his rookie year. He won one and is not the year we went 14 and two the year after. He ended up winning one. Which is brutal dude. So brutal that we didn't win a game in the playoffs that year. Starting off we've got Anthony Rizzo going to the inks 24 out of 30. There you go Travis.  Love me some res. All right we've got going to the A's. That is Matt Olson 15 out of 50 on the one colored jersey card. Matt Olson. We've got 26 out of 40. That is Dale Murphy. Nice Hall of Fame hit there. Hatch auto going to the for the Braves. So used to group breaking out. I'm like, oh going to the Braves with one box first. There you go Travis. We've got nice one here. Five out of 25. That is JD. JD Martinez. The the old Red Sox. The old free agents. There you go Travis. We've got this is nasty. Got dual. Four out of 10. That is Trayman Cini and Ryan Mountcastle. Dude that's sick. Love the patches on that. Might be an all-star patch on the top right and game used in the bottom left. That's nasty. Feels so bad rooting against Trayman Cini now though. Nice one there. We've got eight out of 25. That is Tom Glavin. Hatch for the Mets dude. Jackie Robinson Daypatch. That might be a Jackie Robinson Daypatch actually. That's a good point. Yeah that's a very good point. That's sick. Nice Tom Glavin there. We got rookie Otto coming up next for the Pirates. 22 out of 25 is Ronesi Contreras. Probably the actual center patch of the 42 out there somewhere too. Yeah honestly those are so nasty. One of those. Oh really that's awesome. Nice Ronesi and to finish it off we've got autograph of Rod Carew. Rod Carew. Nice one there as well. That'll do it for your box. The definitive there Travis. Congrats on the hits man. We will get those right out so you appreciate it buddy.


Short Story Press presents Sergeant's Heart, written by Natasha Janssen, Short Story Press, narrated by Ella Lynch. Chapter 1 It's the 9th of July. This is unbelievable. I didn't miss one day, Celeste said, looking at the pregnancy test results. Well, honey, if God has a plan for you then there is nothing you can do to change it. Mark hugged her from behind and gently kissed her on the side of her head. And here I thought we're going to have an extended honeymoon. Well, at least until you leave for Afghanistan. Look on the bright side, Cupcake. By the time I get back you will be ready to give birth. You mean by the time you get back you would have missed out on all the morning sickness, swollen ankles and me just being hormonal? Yes, I'm going to miss out on all the joys of pregnancy, he grinned. Men, they are all the same. Celeste and Mark Adams married two months before. Initially they were planning on having their wedding just before Christmas, but unfortunately duty called and Mark was informed that he was drafted to Afghanistan in September. Although they were not planning on getting pregnant any time soon, the unplanned pregnancy was not a disappointment. I know we didn't plan this, but to be honest I am happy. At least while I'm away I will know that part of me is with you, very close to your heart. Oh, honey, that is so sweet.  Two seconds pregnant and already her hormones are crazy, he said teasingly. Very funny, Sergeant Adams.  Yeah, don't remind me. At least seven months, they said, but it might be longer, he sighed. This is not fair. You will literally come home shortly before I give birth. If not while I give birth. It sucks, I know. That means I have to start preparing for the birth before I leave. What? You'll see, he grinned. Mark dressed and left in a hurry without telling Celeste where he was going. She was confused because she couldn't think what he could possibly have in mind to prepare for the birth. She had to talk to someone and that would be Dinah, her best friend. Hello, girlfriend. Guess what? She said when Dinah answered the phone.  Oh please, you're in bed with a hangover. The last time you were in church, cell phones didn't exist. Okay, so I'm a heathen with a hangover. What's up so early in the morning? Guess. God help me. I am not awake and don't have the strength to guess. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


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Good afternoon everybody. While we wait for everybody to take their seats, I just want to thank everybody for coming this quarterly crime briefing first one of the year. You're going to first hear from the mayor and the police commissioner, then the chief of crime control strategies. So we'll take some on topic Q&A and then after that we'll reset and we'll do our off topics. All right? You'll get a quick briefing from Chief Shell before we do the off topics on the incident in 5-2, then we'll take the off topics, all right? Thank you. Thanks so much Commissioner Shepherd and thank all of you for being here. And again, we want to just really thank the men and women of the New York City Police Department and just really send out a positive thought to the family members. Jonathan, as you know, we buried Jonathan on Saturday and the entire department in the city are still dealing with the impact of losing a young officer, dad, husband. We want to continue to lift this family up with prayer as they go through a very difficult time. And I think that we all know that I say over and over again we came to the office, this administration focused on three things, public safety, revitalizing our economy and making the city more livable for working class people of this city. And we're going to continue to accomplish that and I coined the phrase that public safety is a prerequisite to our prosperity and we see it every day and we hear it every day from the public. A few days ago, we went through our subway system, Chief Shell, Deputy Commissioner Daughtry and Deputy Commissioner Shepherd to communicate with everyday New Yorkers. And I said, I'm at the briefing, there's a stark difference in the subway system from what I saw January 1st, 2022. Campments and campments are gone, even though I've been sleeping along the tracks and in the system, you do not see that presence. We have more to do, a lot more to do, but we are clearly moving in the right direction. And this city is going to continue to rebound and today is a real indicator of that. And we are very clear, not only with all of my deputy mayors, but this police department. We know the biggest challenge that we are facing, I say over and over again is three areas, recidivism, recidivism, recidivism. There are too many bad people who are doing bad things to good people of this city and they believe they have the right to do that.  The second is severe mental health illness. We're seeing it on our streets, we're seeing a correlation between some of the actions that are taking place and how it's impacting those who need assistance. And we're hoping our partners and colleagues in Albany would assist us with giving us the teeth we need in Kendra's law and other actions. And lastly, these random acts of violence, they're clear. When I left Officer Jonathan's funeral and traveled up to the Bronx where a two-year-old baby was shot the day before their birthday. These random acts of violence get in the way of the good work we're doing. It sends a signal that this is a city that's out of control. In fact, the numbers show it is not out of control. This is the safest big city in America. And the numbers reflect that and the movement of the police department continues to reflect that. And sometimes I feel that some people are disappointed that this is the safest big city in America because it can't drive headlines. We're the safest big city in America and we continue to become safer and safer every day. It's clear to us that while we are dedicated to protecting the people of this city, we're going to continue to focus on those dangerous individuals who are committing far too many crimes. And today, I'm proud to announce that overall crime continues to trend downward in New York City and is down year to date. Homicides are down double digits this year, shootings are down double digits this year, burglaries are down double digits this year, and car thefts are down double digits this year. And this is a big deal and it's a big numbers that we're looking at, particularly when you look at car thefts. It's a problem that cities are wrestling with across the entire country. You'll see here in New York what we're doing is working. The work of Commissioner Caban, the incredible leadership team you see here today, Chief Magery, Chief Shell, Deputy Commissioner Daughtry, are really focused on going after those crime problems and bringing these numbers down. And murders were down over 17% through the first quarter of 2024. Student instances were down 26% in March and nearly 19% for the first quarter of this year. And we know that coming out of the pandemic that car theft skyrocketed, particularly driven by what we were seeing on social media, KIAs and Hondas and Hondas, those numbers have shown a real improvement. We took action. Commissioner Caban met with the team and stated, we need to revitalize and reshake up how we dealt with car thefts. I remember being briefed by Deputy Commissioner Daughtry on how there was a lack of connectivity of going after car thefts and making sure we focus on them and not a one-dimensional approach. Everything from using air tags to going after the areas where cars were dumped, we saw a comprehensive approach to addressing the problem and the results are decisive. The comprehensive plan to compact car theft, we announced this past fall, that has deployed more officers and embraced new technology has delivered great results. We now have a dedicated patrol car in each precinct that is working to identify stolen vehicles 24-7. We have enhanced training for patrol officers and we are also working on the DMV to notify owners of specific vehicle makes and models that are being targeted for cars. You're seeing a collaboration that has never been witnessed before with other agencies on city and state level. We identify that KIAs, Hondas, Hondas were victims of car thefts. We went to the Department of Motor Vehicles and became proactive to inform people that your car is one of the number one target areas. We looked at the areas where the cars were being stolen from, did those communications and told them what are ways to protect a huge investment as a car investment and the results have been clear. Following our efforts, car thefts will continue to go down and we're going to continue to lean into this area. The first quarter of this year car thefts, GLAs as we call it, they were down 10%. This is not the only transportation crime that is moving in the right direction. After we surged more than a thousand additional officers, Commissioner Caban spoke with me in January and stated, I see a problem in our subway system. We need to respond immediately and that's exactly what the commissioner did. We spoke with our OMB director. We surged a thousand additional officers in the subway system in February and the results were produced right away. We introduced technology in the subway system like cameras and data-driven officers deployment and we're going to continue to do that to make sure that there's a holistic approach to solving these problems. There isn't a one size fits all. If we do this just by surging police officers, we're not going to get the results we need. We're going to surge police officers, we're going to use technology and we're going to call on the other parts of the criminal justice system. Public safety is not just police. Public safety means the right laws, the right judges, the right prosecutions and the right education to the public as they move through the city, through the system. Transit crime was down 15% in February after we made that movement and an additional 800 cops being used correctly. And as we leave the month of March, we may have entered March as a lion, but we're going out as a dove. We're down 24% in March. We're down in crime in the subway system, folks, for the first quarter. We're down, we're down 24% in March. We're down in February. Can we please stop saying we're up in crime in our subway system? We are not. We're down in crime in the subway system. Bringing transit crime down overall for the year 2024, that's what we've done this quarter. And let me repeat this again. Transit crime is down. Our public transit system, especially our subway system, is the lifeblood of our city. I said it over and over again. And New York is safe on our subway system. I'm down there talking to the passengers, communicating with them. And many of them keep saying over and over again as we move through the subway system. They say to me, Eric, can people stop saying we're unsafe down here? It's the best subway system on the globe. And we're the safest on the globe. It's an ongoing effort. We have a lot to do. We're not turning back. We're not going to take our feet off the gas. We know that we want to continue. We want to get rid of those six violent felonies on our subway system and focus on passengers having a great experience in our system. And I'm really proud to introduce this technology that I called about in January of 2022 of identifying guns that people carry on our system. We call for it. Many of you ask me over and over again, Eric, when are you going to come up with this technology? We came up with it. And what happened? Y'all started complaining about it. I mean, you can't win for losing. This is great technology. And we're going to iron out the kinks. If we don't get it right the first time, let's say they have a 70% hit ratio. That's 70% we don't have. This is great technology. This city is leading the way in introducing technology on how to make this city safer. And we're going to keep doing it. That's our goal and that's what we're going to accomplish. And so I want to thank again the men and women of the New York City Police Department for placing their lives on the line every day, running towards danger, making sure the city is safe, risking their lives for New Yorkers. And that was a constant reminder that we saw when we looked at Stephanie and her family as they buried her husband and a father. And today's numbers are a reflection of that. You know, the most profound thing that I saw when I looked at that tape with Jonathan was killed and heard him say, I'm shocked. I'm shocked. He knew he was shocked. And he still wrestled the gun out of the shooter's hand. He still was on the ground fighting. Although he was shocked, these are the men and women who protect this city. And we owe them a debt of gratitude. And we should rethink that all the time. This is not about politics. It's about public safety. And what this team has done all day or night, producing the product and making sure the product keeps our city safe. And I got their backs. And I'm going to fight hard for them. I don't want to go to another funeral where we lost a police officer or we lost a member of the city. It hurts a lot. It hurts a lot. And I want to thank you, Commissioner, and the men and women who are up there, up here serving our city. Turned over to the police commissioner. So thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. And always thank you for your support. On behalf of the men and women of the New York City Police Department, we know you're always here for us. And we appreciate that. And good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of the executive team and the entire New York City Police Department, thank you for being here. And welcome to one police plaza. We're here today to go over the crime data for the first court of 2024 and to update you on the work our officers are doing to keep New Yorkers safe. But first, I want to thank everyone. For my law enforcement partners and elected officials. To police departments and people that showed up across this country. And also for the incredible compassion and support they showed the Diller family last week. Four days ago, 10,000 mourners came to pay their final respects to Detective First Gray Jonathan Diller. Detective Diller was murdered by a career criminal who carried an illegal firearm and thought nothing about pulling the trigger. He was murdered during the work that we asked him to do. Fighting crime, reducing violence, and ridding our streets of illegal guns. And John was good at it. And the men in one of the NYPD are honored to continue it in his name and in the name of all we have lost. You will never forget our solemn vow to Jonathan and to his family. We will work hard every day to uphold his remarkable legacy. Now turning to the data. Major felony crime is down in five or seven categories year to date. Including reductions in murder, rape, burglary, grand larceny, and auto theft. This work has led to a 2.4% drop in overall major crime for the first quarter of the year compared to last year. Furthermore, both shooting incidents and victims continue their citywide declines in 2024, extending the downward trend we've seen over the past few years. These reductions in murder and shootings are extremely important. But we know that we still have work to do. I've said this before and it bears repeating. The only acceptable number of shootings in our city is zero. That is the goal. And the work of our sector cops. FIOs, gun violence suppression division, detective bureau, community response teams, and many others is laser focused on ending gun violence. In the first three months of 2024, we are moving in the right direction. Three of the five New York City boroughs saw a reduction in shootings. And your officers took more than 1,500 illegal firearms all four streets and out of the hands of violent criminals. Add this to the ready incredible work that's been done to this administration began and it's more than 15,000 gun seas. Every gun we take makes our neighborhood safer. This intensive work will continue to drive reductions in violent crime. In recent weeks, our transit system has been in focus. As New Yorkers rightfully demand safe subway trains, platforms, and stations, we must make sure that our subways are safe and that our riders feel safe, too. So after upticks in some crime categories at the beginning of the year, we amplified our uniform presence at turnstiles, on platforms, and on train cars. We stepped up enforcement and we're exploring various new technologies to keep our riders safe. And today, I'm happy to report that major crime in transit is down 23.5 percent for the month of March, driving an overall crime reduction of 1.1 percent for the first quarter of this year. The turnaround happened in a very short time period, but it didn't happen by accident. It is the direct result of the hard work and unmatched dedication of your NYPD officers. There is no doubt that this work makes our city safer. But if we're going to keep that momentum going, we have to deal directly with an issue that has troubled the criminal justice system for years and that has widespread recidivism. Major felony arrests in our city are currently at a 25-year high. They are up another 11.1 percent for the first three months of the year, and they've increased in every New York City borough. Arrested housing are up 17 percent year-to-date. And arrests in our transit system are up nearly 60 percent. So what's happening here? Of course, there are several things going on. We have seen one factor become very clear. In many cases, we are arresting the same people over and over again. When it comes to committing crime, the risk just don't outweigh the rewards, and the lack of consequence makes it easy to reoffend without a second thought. This is incredibly frustrating to law enforcement. It's hugely unfair to law-abiding citizens and has a negative impact on both actual and perceived public safety. This is a serious issue, and it's past time that we start taking it seriously.  They want a system that holds people accountable for their actions, and they deserve a system that is focused on the rights and needs of victims. For our part, the NYPD will continue to do everything we can to keep our community safe. We look forward to work with all of our law enforcement partners and together with the people we serve to get it done. Now I'll turn it over to Chief Michael Apache, who will get some further details on the numbers. Chief. Thank you. Good morning. So again, just to expand a little bit on what the Police Commissioner said as far as the data for the first quarter of 2024, we talked about shooting reduction, 56 less victims this year compared to the same quarter last year. But again, when you look at 2022, let's not forget, we were down 416 victims for 25%. So if you look at the first quarter of 2022 compared to this quarter, 113 less victims, that's a 37% decrease in shooting incidents. We talked about decreases in burglary, 500 less burglary victims, but we also know that that 500 probably tripled or quadrupled because there's many people that live in residence or commercial locations or use a commercial vehicle. Last year, 2,000 less burglary arrests. So again, we're building on it. So what does that say? We could be down another 2,000 burglaries and we were already down 2,000 burglaries last year. Let's talk about shoplifting. Shoplifting in New York City has been, you know, front and center for three years, four years now. When you look at shoplifting arrests, we talk about recidivist, and I am going to talk about recidivism now. 7,000 shoplifting arrests in New York City, 7,000. When you look at the 7,000 arrests, we have identified 550 people that account for 44% of all the shoplifting arrests this year. So that's over 3,000 just tied to 550. Let's look at these 550 career criminals. Not shocking, arrested 23,000 times. That's a disgrace. It's a disgrace. It really is. 23,000 times. Let's look at them. 42% convicted felons. It's not easy to get convicted of a felony. 42% convicted felons. How many people? Three quarters are walking around the streets right now and all of them are committing a shoplifting offense as we speak. Let's look at a symbol of a broken system. Let's look at a symbol of a broken system. And I will be talking about this perpetrator, but I could talk to you about many more. This is going to be perpetrator, career criminal Emmanuel Santiago. He is a convicted, violent predicate felon for being in possession of a gun in 2014. He also has six additional misdemeanor convictions. He also has an extensive benchmark in history. So let's start in July of last year. And unfortunately, this is a common theme. In July of last year, Mr. Santiago already have been convicted of carrying a gun, gets arrested for another gun. He gets indicted. He is indicted, arrested. Another gun already haven't been convicted of it. Two weeks later, he walks out the door. He had a stay for a warrant in another jurisdiction. Two weeks later, he walks out the door to start committing crimes in the Bronx, mainly the Southern Bronx, mainly in and around housing developments. So here we go. In September, he steals a vehicle. Again, not one victim. How many people needed that vehicle to go to the school, to go to work, to go to a store? He walks out the door, no bail set. Let's keep in mind, he's already been indicted on a gun. He's already been convicted of a gun. He walks out the door. Not shockingly, he doesn't go back to court and he bench warrants. Well, we arrest him again. This time for dealing crack cocaine in the Bronx. He walks out the door, no bail. Again, if we're counting, this is the second felony he gets arrested for while out on an open, indicted gun. He bench warrants on that also. On March 8th, he gets arrested for a misdemeanor. What's he doing? He's walking around the streets of the Bronx, waving a box cutter, which keep that in mind because he commits a couple more crimes just like that. He gets arred odd for that misdemeanor. On March 13th, the NYPD arrests him multiple times, makes an arrest, and he gets arrested for multiple offenses. He gets arrested for grand larceny. He's in possession of, he's in a car where he's obviously in possession of, so he gets a stolen car, so he gets arrested for that. He also gets arrested for breaking into an off-duty member of the service's vehicle where he takes police department property. And then he gets arrested for three burglaries, although all three of them get downgraded to petty larcenies. So now, let's just put this in perspective. He has, right now as we stand, seven pending OCA cases, right? He has six open, he has six other dockets, three of them felonies, four of them misdemeanors. I just looked at this individual this morning again, and Chief Kenny's warrants squad is presently looking for this individual, because he's wanted for two other very serious crimes in the end of March where he breaks into a storage container. He's confronted by an individual, and he then slashes that individual. So he's now wanted for a felony assault and a burglary. He also is wanted after an investigation by the squad for breaking into another vehicle, stealing property, and allegedly using the credit card of that property. So if you can't think of a better person to show a broken system, these career criminals are leveraging the current system. The NYPD is making a 26-year high in these types of arrests. 26-year high. Over a thousand gun arrests for the first quarter, just like the last three years. Average of those, you've got to go back 26 years to get the same average. Career criminals, recidivists, they know about bail reform. They know about judges not giving a bail. They know about the burdensome of discovery. This system has shifted in their favor. That's what has changed. Do you think this individual will be walking around the streets? These are not victimless crimes. These are not victimless crimes. Do you think he'd be walking around the streets before the change? No. And small change is good, but not this change, not a change that is for the recidivists and not for the community and the police. Thank you. Do me a favor, Chief. Yes, sir. Pick up your mic. Pick it up. Pick it up. And drop it. That's called dropping mic moment. Got it. In last quarter's briefing, you said that there were 700 more victims of domestic violence in 2023 versus 2022. Where do we stand now that Q1 is under our belt this year? Yes. I can't hear it. Yeah. Who's the question? Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So we do see still another increase in our domestic violence incidents. Not as substantial as last year. It is something that, you know, there is no other agency that is more proactive in trying to prevent domestic violence. You know, we have a whole domestic violence team that falls under the Chief of Department. Every single Comstat, we talk about victims of domestic violence and what, you know, we could do to prevent and ultimately, if not, bring a good case to the DA's office. And there are many, many programs, you know, that the NYPD are front and center involved with Safe Horizon. Obviously criminal justice centers across the city. But yes, we do still see an uptick in domestic violence and we are obviously front and center and concerned about it. Do you have the year to date numbers or Q1 versus Q1 less? So I do. Sorry. We'll get back to you. Yeah. I mean, it's up 5%, approximately 100 victims, 90 victims. And again, we see upticks in the assaults, both the misdemeanor and the felony. Thank you. You're welcome. How are you? Good. For you. Thank you. Okay. You've often talked about the six felonies in the subway. And the other day you said people don't want to hear that there's just six felonies in the subway. Yes. There's a lot of, you know, fighting disorder, you know, people throwing food, people getting into it. Is that quantifiable? And how do you attack that? You know, we're talking about data here. How do you quantify that? And how do you attack that disorder in the subway? Because people are very bothered by that. And it is. And we saw when we were on the system two nights ago, this guy was on, I don't know if that was a pit bull. What kind of dog was there? Pit bull. It was a pit bull? Bull master. Yeah.   And so what we've witnessed over the years is just an erosion of just a proper etiquette to ride our subway system. And that erosion has just continued and continued and it became an anything that goes system. And now we're taking this corrective action of what is expected. We were at 125th Street in Lexington Avenue. Uniform officers were there. We were all standing there. And the guy, people were walking through the gate or attempting to walk through the gate so frequently. And one guy told us, well, this transit is free. It hasn't been free for weeks. No one was taking the initiative of saying this is the expected behavior on our system. We are now taking that initiative. We had offices that were there that was correcting the behavior. We were not correcting behavior on our system. And people just tended to believe that everything goes, you know? So does a police officer go up to the guy with the dog and say, like, you have to leave? Yes. That's what we're doing. We're no longer being this passive, let's just sit back and just whatever happens, we don't feel we can take actions anymore. The person who carried the gun that shooting that we saw on the A train, he didn't pay his fare. We're finding over and over. Bill Bratton had this right when he first took over the transit police. He said the person that you allow to not pay their fare, they're going into the system to commit a crime. And we moved away from that. And now you're seeing offices being extremely proactive, those quality of life issues. You're not going to do things that offend the other passengers and make the passengers feel as though the system is not safe. And that is where we're at right now. Now, people sometimes push back and say, well, you're being heavy-handed. We're not being heavy-handed. We're saying here's the expectation. And I push back on anyone who tells us that the public does not feel comfortable when they see a uniform officer. I don't even know where that logic comes from. You know, you're on a train at 2 a.m. in the morning and that officer standing next to you in that car, that's comfort. Your child rides that subway and that officer's there, that's comfort. So that numerical minority with that voice, that people feel police should not be on the subway system, that is not what everyday New Yorkers feel. Welcome, guys. Box five. Hi, Mayor, Police Commissioner. How are you? Good. How are you? So I know we've heard from you and the Mayor in the past about recidivist, but hoping to hear from the police commissioner about what would you like to see on both the city and state level when it comes to recidivist in order to tackle and keep them locked up. And then also, according to the police department's rolling report, there was a historic surge in assaults in 2023, which neared 28,000 for the first time in the city's publicly recorded history. So I'm hoping to get your comment on that as well. Thank you. As far as your first question, I would like to say there's a lot of tentacles in the public safety ecosystem. And our chief shows that numerous times when we're all working together, it works right. And you see that in the numbers driving down crime. But once again, it has to work out right. Chief LaPetre gave an example of someone who shouldn't be out, who's out committing crimes over and over again that has to stop. So what specific proposals? What would you propose to Albany in order to keep that from happening? Would the lawmakers do the laws? I'm going to concentrate on making sure our city is safe. That's my job. That's what I'm going to continue to do. Right. And I think that's what people get mixed up. When we think public safety, we only think police. We only think that Commissioner Caban, the numbers are showing the historical high and arrest of violent felons. Then he turns it over to us, us being the city hall, the lawmakers, and he's saying, Eric, here's what's driving the crime. They brought it to my attention. We have a recidivism problem. And so if we just focus our lawmakers, focus on how do we deal with those repeated offenders? That's what we should be looking at. We have to focus on two areas that will totally change the city. Focus on those with severe mental health issues so that we can do involuntary removals and the wraparound service that they deserve. There's nothing bad with taking someone off the street that does not realize they should not be on the street. That's humane. And the second is looking at our laws that are causing these repeated offenders to walk through, come through the system, and lastly, you can't legislate. Judges stated this person should not be on the street. What Chief LaPretruy just raised, you arrested with a gun in July. We're not even a year. And you're back out to the point that you slashed someone with a razor. So the other parts of the criminal justice system, they must play their role. The judges must play their role. Our prosecutors must prosecute, and we can't in a day prosecute with paperwork. They need to be prosecuted, which they want to do. All of my DAs would like to do that. And so we're hoping our lawmakers look at the recidivism part of this. That is the focus that we want, we think, are important. Recidivism, people with severe mental health issues, that will really assist this police department in bringing down the problems we're facing. We have time for one or two more on topic. Tony, the staff in New York Newsday. For either the mayor or the police commissioner, I think by every indicator you've talked about today, particularly for the subways, crime is down, the frequency of crime, be it 100,000 riders, a million riders, is really small in terms of the frequency. But do you agree that the impact of crime on subway, where you're in a subway car, you're a rider, in a confined metal space with a wacker with a gun or a knife, fighting is something that really is somewhat indelible for the riders and probably very hard for you to overcome in terms of perception? Well, first of all, it becomes challenging when someone writes a story saying, homicides are up 150%. That's a problem, you know? It becomes a problem when you have these issues where someone is shoved to the tracks because we're not able to use the tools we need to get that person to help that they need. And so, we're clear. When we speak to passengers on the system and we engage with them, they're very clear. Stop these random fair beaters that are just hopping this term style while I'm swiping my metro card. Deal with people who are dealing with severe mental health issues that we're seeing yelling on the subway station, screaming, doing things that make us feel unsafe, and going after these violent offenders. Passengers are knowing exactly what they want and we are in alignment with the passengers. And let's see how police, they want to see their police. They want to see them welcoming down the train station. I've never heard one passenger say, I don't want to see police. Never. And so, that is what we have to do to deal with how people are feeling because you have to feel safe and you have to be safe. We are winning on being safe. Now we have to win on feeling safe. Good afternoon, Mayor Adams. How are you? Good afternoon. So, we're hearing a common thread, obviously, about the subway. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. It's a perception versus reality. I think Juliette Papa got to it and so did the gentleman from the newspaper. And you've addressed what is being done on a nuanced level to address the disorderly conduct. But overall, this is a perception versus reality problem. It is a perception versus reality problem. Not just with the major crimes, but just with all the random videos that are online. And I think also it may be part of the fact that this has actually been happening in the subway for decades, but people are seeing it now, right? So, is it realistic? How realistic is it? And what else can be done to fight that perception because it's still there, despite it, you know, the subway crime being down, the largest biggest city with, you know, the safest large big city, but the perception is still there. And that seems like it's going to be the hardest thing to target. Is it unrealistic to think that the city can actually bring that perception down? Because that is the perception, right? Right. No, well said. And I think you hit it out the pocket. If we go back to, I don't know if it was March of 2022, I committed to cardinal sin and said, perception is playing into this.  Oh, you had a touch. It's not reality. I said it back then. I always knew from the days of being a transit cop, the perception can override this. So these guys can bring crime down to zero, but if you don't feel safe because you see this disorder going on, then you're going to say that, hey, we're not safe. And so what we are doing, what this team is doing is making sure our offices are visible. When we hear from rioters and we say, what makes you feel unsafe? They say, we want to see our police officers. We want to go after those quality of life issues that they have been ignored. You know, you should come up to 125th Street and Lexington Avenue and watch what was going on there. People were just saying, we don't have to pay the fare. We can do whatever we want. And now these officers are changing the course of what is expected behavior on our transit system and really what's expected behavior in our city. That's where we are at right now. What's the expected behavior? And that's why I keep saying, citizen, severe mental health, random acts of violence. And those random actions that we're seeing on our system is playing on exactly what you're saying. So we know that if we have a clean, safe system, if we deal with the severe mental health, that's what our scout initiative is important because we have to engage them, get them off the system and give them the care that they need. And then we have to go after with Chief Caban and Commissioner Caban and Chief of Transit, Kimper's doing. We're sent to our offices the days of walking past disorder. Those days are over. We are not, we are going to correct conditions and we're going to correct behavior. So if you, it used to be, if you're on patrol and you see someone laying on the platform, soil clothings, yelling and screaming, officers, they don't want to engage them because then if they engage them, someone takes a picture of them engaging them, then they blame for doing something wrong, then everybody turns their backs on them. I'm not. I'm sending you out there. I'm your general. I'm sending you out to fight a battle and I'm going to be with you when you fight that battle because every day New Yorkers want that cop to correct that condition. Our cops were afraid to correct conditions because they created conditions that they became scrutinized from what they did.  And our cops are doing tremendous work. We are engaging these acts of lawlessness in the subway system, our cops, every single day. Let me give you some data and maybe give you an understanding of just how focused and how dedicated our cops are. And I'm talking about just the first three months of this year, over 4,800 arrests in the subway system. It's up 53% versus last year. Now these acts, these lower level if you will, acts, disorderly acts that weigh heavily on our writer's minds, which I believe is what we're talking about, whether it's fare evasion, smoking, disorderly behavior. We document them on tab summonses and C summonses. Tab summonses, 48,770 so far this year in the subway system. C summonses, 1,666 so far this year. Fare evasion, our focus on fare evasion, I hear this all the time, you've got to stop the fare evaders. Over 34,000 fare evasion contacts are ready this year. What do I mean when I say fare evasion contact? That's either an arrest or a summons for fare evasion. So we are focused. And again, to the biggest point, we are engaging these acts of lawlessness at or near historic highs in the subway system and we're going to continue that way. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So this is very important with what the chief said. Your question is just so important. We're not going to always have to do this. We're not going to always have to do the fare evasion, the quality of life. We're not going to have to always do this. We're going back to 84 when I was a rookie transit cop. Commissioner Bratton understood we have to stabilize the system because we came from an era where no one thought our system could be safe. And so the bad people, the bad guys, would just do whatever they want. So we're at the place of stabilization.  People are going to respect that and they're going to stop doing it. You cannot come into the system and just be a slash worker where you cut people pockets and take their items. People felt as though there were no rules. And so what we're doing right now, we don't want to have to do tab summaries. We don't want to have to do a restful fare evasion. We need to stabilize the system and say the days of ignoring your fellow passengers are over. The days of disrespecting people who are riding the system, those days are over. That's what we're doing. And once we do that, then we no longer have to worry about these problems that we're facing. You know, we walked into a place where no one was prosecuting fare evasions. No one was making, offices were saying, well, why am I arresting this person when they're not going to be prosecuted? And it's a repeated offenders. And so even the businessman started to say, wait a minute, this person's not paying this fare. Why am I paying my fare? We became a pandemic of disorder that we are now correcting the sins of the past. And you're seeing a difference. And people now realizing, and offices are now realizing, we are no longer going to allow anything to go in our system. And let me tell you something blows my mind that you have this small, loud, numerical majority that are saying that you should allow this to happen. If you stop shoplifters, you are criminalizing shoplifters. If you tell people they can't do fare evasion, that you are hurting the poor. No, the poor are swiping that metro card. We have allowed philosophical, theoretical people to get in the way of the real life of keeping our city safe. And we're not going to succumb to that. This city is going to be safe as it is, and we're going to respect working class people that are doing the right thing. Ms. Jones going to Dwayne Reed, she pays for her shampoo.   And that's what we hear. They said, this can't be happening. Hey guys, how you doing? How's it going? Good, good. A couple of different things. You mentioned that there were 550 for shoplifting. Is there a big number that encompasses all seven major felonies? And of that number, what role does mental health play? And secondly, the New York Post had a story that talked about how felonies, there was some internal document where felony assaults were supposed to be worse last year than they were this year. Is there any comment you guys have about that? The second question, I don't understand. Some statistics that were finalized, I guess, in Q1 that were applied to 2023? This is how I'm going to explain it. So every year, the Comstab book has to close because we have to report our uniform crime data to the FBI. Investigations continue. So a person who might be not a victim of a crime, say a good example is lost property. Somebody lost their wallet. We documented on our complaint report. Weeks, sometimes months later, they were compromised. Their credit card was used. Their checking account was tapped into. That now is a grand larceny. Same thing as a simple assault. We go to a simple assault. We don't observe any substantial injuries. It's not articulated that there's any substantial injuries. It's a misdemeanor assault. Are we interviewed by the detective squad a week? Not even days later, but sometimes it could be a week later. Now they went to the hospital and now they have a fractured nose. That rises to an assault, too. It happens every single year. Every single year, we have a few hundred complaints that rise and we also have a few that go down. So it's nothing but that. I know we still had a few hands in there, so why don't we take a couple more on crime? Thank you. I'm just curious on the subway issue. You're throwing out stats, but I wonder how many, do you have an assessment of how under reported and not reported crimes are? You talk about officers not always affecting the stops regarding turnstile jumpers. I myself have seen incidents where people don't bother reporting incidents and it just seems to many riders in car after car, station after station, events are happening and perhaps they're just not being reported at the same rate because it seems nothing has really done about it. What kind of fare evasion is still happening, you're saying? You can go down the litany. Let's have an honest conversation. You can't be at every fare gate and stop every fare evader. We can try and again, let's have another fare conversation and we're talking about this every single day and I don't see a response from anyone in this room. We are arresting people every single day over and over and over again. Is that clear? Does everyone hear what I'm saying? Where are the consequences? We could have so many less arrests and so much less effort in such a safer subway system if there were consequences. You've got to ask these other stakeholders these questions. We hear, I'm here, I'm available every day. I'm accountable, I give you the answers, but I get the same questions every single day. Is that it? Yeah, I mean... Jonathan, to answer your question, from what I understand, you're saying that our cops looking at crimes and not... You're talking about your phone? Yeah. Yeah. Same thing with the storm. So we ask, listen, we respond when they respond. We even publicly state if anyone's a victim of a crime, report it, we have cops throughout the subway system. I'm sure everyone in this room sees them. We're on platforms, we're on trains, we're in mezzanines. You can call 911, you can go through 311, you can walk into any precinct to report. You know, we encourage people to report anything that they say. We can't force them, but we encourage it. John, I talked to you about this before, and we talked a lot about this issue. And I know you're not saying people losing faith in their police. They have faith in their police, but they may be losing faith in the overall system. And I think that's what Chief Kemper is saying as well, is that there are plenty of other stakeholders that we got to spread this out and ask these questions to. Because as you see, the cops are doing the work, and people have faith. And when we were on the train the other day with the mayor, myself, Chief Shell, Deputy Commissioner Daughtry, people were saying to the mayor that they appreciated, they see a difference. However, they want to see consequences for the actions that they're seeing, whether it's in the subway, the stores. As you know, we've done retail stories together for years. And the common theme there was recidivism and no consequences. That's the same thing we're dealing with right now. Next question? I was just wondering if I could get some additional color on the 7,000 shoplifting arrests that were mentioned from Q1, first confirming that number. But is there any nexus to the illegal smoke shop problem, which I know has been persistent, or is there any nexus to migrant crime, which I know the NYPD began tracking more closely some time ago after officers were assaulted? So is there any nexus to that, if not any more color on what those shoplifting arrests look like? Those shoplifting arrests encompass three categories, either a simple petty larceny, a grand larceny, or a shoplift, but then becomes, that the mayor touched on, violent, where it then rises to a robbery. So it's one of those three categories for approximately 7,000 arrests. Last year, we made over 20,000 of these arrests, substantially up from the year prior. And again, when you look at the 7,000 arrests, you're talking 550 people that have done more than 3,000 of them and almost half are convicted felons. So that's an issue. With 75% of them walking around the streets, there's nobody more, and to the police commissioner and mayor, the task forces that they put in place, there's nobody more up here today that talks to retails than me. They are struggling, and they are fed up with the system. It's broken. It's broken. You want to talk about misdemeanor prosecutions? There aren't. There can't be. Check out the discovery law. They have to, you know, when you have an agency, the NYPD that's at a 26-year high for major arrests, that's what the prosecutors have to focus on. Unfortunately, they can't focus on the misdemeanors because of the burdensome discovery laws and the short time frame. The short time frame that that all has to be certified. The types of businesses, though. Is it the illegal smoke shop? No, let me jump into the smoke shop. Just as the data I do have in front of me. Just for the 2,466 smoke shops we have in the city, just calls for service of the 4,800 911 calls, 368 of the 4,600 involved some sort of loss. As to what was an actual loss, I don't know. I'm just giving you 911 calls for 2,500 stores over 4,800 911 calls. Thank you for that. Kelly, how many of you have one? My question is to the recidivism. Mayor, you had put out some priorities when it comes to Albany this year for their budget. Are you speaking to them directly about changing some of the laws that they put in place? What do those conversations look like? And everybody's mentioned it here, the perception problem. You're looking to invest in those gun detector machines. Is it time to change that strategy from investing into those machines into instead investing into some training of all the cops that are in the subway system, better training them for engagement versus taking the route of going of these gun detectors and continuing to search cops in the system? We have engaged in repeated conversations about recidivism, and we continue to do so. And it's a multi-prong attack. It's dealing with those recidivists who are having a disproportionate number or a high number of crimes, and we continue to engage in that. Second, part of the issue, as you look at the case that Chief LaPetrie laid out, judges have some of this power right now. They have to utilize the power. How do I have someone out on a gun arrest after a gun conviction come again, allow them to go out on their own, don't come back to court, have a bench warrant.  I mean, the pattern is unclear. So we want to correct and modify the recidivist, but we also have to use the powers we have right now. And if we're not utilizing the powers we have right now, that's a problem. And so the judges must be part of the criminal justice system conversation. Dangerous people should not repeatedly be part of the revolving door. And let's talk about the technology. I am blown away that we do not see how impressive it is to have something that can see in a non-intrusive way if someone is carrying a gun. That is just beyond imagination to me that we are saying, don't use a device that can, in a non-evasive way, determine if someone is carrying a gun on our subway system. We should do one or the other. If we're able to have a camera that can use this technology to determine if someone is carrying a gun, we're going to use it. If I can stop a person from carrying a gun from entering our system, that's a huge W for this city. And we're going to use it. And training our police officers, we have the best trained police department on the globe. They are being trained. They know how to do their job. They're doing their job. Chief Kemper just raised. He just told you the level of enforcement that we're doing and how we've been successful in doing it. So this is not a lack of training a police officer. They know what they needed to do. They just needed a mayor that's told them, you can do your job. That was what was missing. They got a mayor that says, you have the right to do your job what the public expects from you. But we are not going back from using technology. And each time I hear somebody complain about it, I wonder if they're carrying a gun. Any of y'all packing? This is an amazing technology that I call for. We got it. And we're going to expand it. This is a great moment for our city. Yeah, Kelly. Chief, Professor, you just remembered last year and this first quarter. Yeah. Again, well over 4,000 gun arrests last year. For the last three years, we've averaged over 4,000 gun arrests. Quick math. Obviously we're right in that same line. We have 1,000 for the first quarter. And you got, again, you got to go back 25 years to get numbers comparable, approximately 25 years. You got to go back a long time. Let's put it that way. All right. So they're grabbing pistols more than ever. And that's a very, very dangerous job, but they're very good at it. All right. So we'll reset the movement. Sure. You want me to stay? All right. So I'll touch that right now since you just asked the question. Yeah, Mike. I don't know if you...