2014 2015 Common Council, but please read the quote for the day There is a value to having common goals and the only way to create them is to listen to each other before we push our Own agendas or dismiss the opposition Thank you very much the clerk. Please call the roll for the meeting. Yes, there are 15 present David van Akron is excused Next we'll go on to the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Next we'll go on to approval the minutes from our last meeting Alderman Hammond. Thank you, mr. Mayor I move to approve the minutes back it. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? See none Just a voice vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes There are no resignations and no council appointments Next is a presentation I've asked Denise Cornell from the Sheboygan use sailing club to join me at the podium some years ago when the Marina project was started the Sheboygan Development Corporation wanted to see that there were some Attributes some things put into the land park that would really benefit the community and one of those items that we raised $1.2 million for at that time was the use sailing building and People in the community got behind that We purchased optimist thingies and they were on their way to teaching the youth how to sail and This proclamation kind of recognizes that investment of time and effort over the years because when we put that building up We really didn't know what would happen and it's just amazing way their program has expanded So this proclamation is presented whereas the origin of the use sailing Club can be traced back to the mid 80s when members of the Sheboygan Yacht Club recognized a need for a sailing program and focused on the youth in Sheboygan and Whereas the Sheboygan Yacht Club set up the youth committee for the purpose of establishing a non-profit Organization to provide sailing lessons and in March of 89 the Sheboygan use sailing club was formed and Whereas collaboration between the city of Sheboygan the Sheboygan Development Corporation and the Sheboygan Yacht Club Resulted in fundraising and construction of the youth boating center, which was completed in June of 1994 And whereas the Sheboygan use sailing club is thankful for the major support Received from both windway capital and the Bratz family foundation for their generous fleet of boats and donations and Whereas the Sheboygan use sailing clubs mission is to assist youth and adults in learning how to sail water safety at a reasonable price and Cultivate an appreciation of our natural resources and birthright the waters office Sheboygan, Wisconsin Now therefore I Mike van der Steen by virtue of the office vested in me as mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hear Right proclaim that the city of Sheboygan express its best wishes to the Sheboygan use sailing club on the occasion of its 25th anniversary Denise is currently involved in the leadership of that group, and I'd just like to offer you a chance to see a few words, Denise We certainly appreciate your proclamation. I am the president of the Sheboygan youth sailing club And we did just celebrate our 75th. I'm sorry 25th year this year and had a nice event on on Saturday to Celebrate again our 25th year We've had a lot of we've been blessed with very generous community to be involved with and the city's also been very supportive of us So we'll keep up the great work and congratulations. Thank you Next is public forum Yes, we have one this evening Jim Smith and Jim can I have your home address, please? 6314 South 18th Street, okay, and you will have five minutes. Thank you I'm here to represent Advanced Disposal on the item 5.3 on the agenda for this evening I want to comment a little bit about first of all, I think there are a couple very good Responses that you got to your your request And I think that we can agree that it will be more costly to deliver the Waste and recycling streams to the Sheboygan falls transfer station that's opposed to ours here in Sheboygan and Mr. Director put together a very nice analysis and one of the spots I would like for him to revisit on here is where he highlights total additional distance to MSB, which I believe is a shop down here on New Jersey per week per truck and He's taken one trip to the disposal site and consideration Not the two two trips that are normally made to the deliver waste and recycling to the transfer stations And he's also only taken into consideration one day as opposed to the five days in a week His estimate of 624 miles per year is actually 6,240 miles per year and don't need to beat on that topic any but Combined the additional mileage to deliver waste and recycling to the transfer stations. It's about a 12,000 mile per year more mileage and I've been in the waste and recycling industry for about 30 years although. I'm new to the Sheboygan area Garbage is garbage no matter where you are in the in the world actually and My experience shows that it cost about a hundred dollars an hour to operate a truck You drive a truck twelve thousand miles and probably an average speed Some of it will be highway of about 30 miles per hour It's going to take about 400 more hours a year to deliver the waste stream and recycling streams It should boy can falls as opposed to Sheboygan At 400 hours a year and a hundred dollars an hour. That's about forty thousand dollars and That number is about the difference and our two two proposals for the bid so On top of that the cost being fairly fairly equal that way I would like to address a couple other items which are we are a local company. We are managed locally We are right here. You can reach out and touch us any time for any any need any questions any comments I think we've had an Extremely good relationship for the last five years and I would like for that to continue We also have 45 employees who support the local economy local Organizations they to donate to the city and many charitable Organizations here in advance disposal has a proven track record of giving to many police department activities To fire department activities to supporting many of the city Events that go on an annual basis as well as Helping with many organizations the YMCA many charitable Organizations here in town, and I just wanted to share that with everyone Thank you for the time and thank you for the past five years. It's been a good relationship I believe for both of us. Thank you. Thank you, Jim Thank you next we'll go on to mayors announcements I want to remind everybody that trick-or-treat for Halloween is going to be coming up on Halloween Friday the 31st from 4 to 7 be safe out there and Tomorrow at 6 o'clock. There's going to be a presentation on balancing Wisconsin's Transportation needs a community presentation at the senior activity center by move Wisconsin Alliance So just wanted to make you aware of that Next we'll move on to the consent agenda that include items 2.2 through 2.1 3 2.6 will lie over rather than be included in for passage Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor and move to accept and file all our O's Accept and adopt all our C's and put all resolutions and ordinances upon their passage second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes Item 3 is reports of officers that will include items 3.1 through 3.6. Those all be referred to various committees Item 4 will go on to resolutions Item 4.1 is a resolution by Alderman Heidemann authorizing the emergency repair and reconstruction of the sanitary sewer main on South 10 Street between Ashland and Mead Avenue Alderman Heidemann Thank You mayor first. I'd like to make a motion to suspend rules Second thank you for that motion and support on suspension All those in favor of suspension, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed under suspension. Please go ahead Yes, then I'd like to put the resolution upon its passage Second thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion for passage under under discussion We discussed this at public works What it happened is that that portion of the street is starting to sink and while we have a contractor in town We want to be able to get that that company to come in and do the work while they're here Saving us some money. Thank you for that information. Is there any other discussion? See none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage. I think somebody has their mic Something Motion passes item 4.2 is a resolution by Alderman Donahue Dassler boron Hammond and Vanderweal authorizing represented employees of I FFA local 483 and ATU local 998 the opportunity to participate in the city's qualified high deductible health plan in 2015 Alderman Donahue. Thank you mayor. I would move firstly to suspend the rules Thank you for that motion and support under suspension all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed under suspension. Please go ahead. Thank you, and then I would move to put the resolution upon its passage Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? See none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 ayes Motion passes Items 4.3 through 4.5 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 5.1 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred R.O. Number 119 of 1415 recommending denying a beverage operators license 0 5 4 6 based on his failure to accurate reveal all relevant convictions on the application his record of violations Related to the license activity and his record as a repeat law Violator and his failure to cooperate with the committee Alderman Vander wheel Thank you move the RC be accepted and adopted second Under discussion is Kenneth guest get you this evening He is not we did invite him on two separate occasions, and he did not show up Thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage 15 ayes Motion passes item 5.2 is an RC by law and licensing who has referred R.O. 119 of 1415 recommending denying beverage operator license 0 5 4 1 based on his Failure to accurate reveal all relevant convictions on his application his record of violations related to the license activity His record is a repeat law offender Alderman Vander wheel. Thank you. Move the RC be accepted and adopted second Thank you for that motion in support under discussion is Casey will go here this evening is Not we voted 5 to 0 to deny the license Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage Motion passes item 5.3 is an RC by public works to whom was referred R.O. Number 144 of 1415 and resolution number 75 of 1415 Which recommended entering into a five-year contract for the transfer of residential solid waste and recycled materials alderman Heidemann Thank you, mayor. I'd like to accept and adopt this resin put the resolution upon his passage second Thank you for that motion and support the item is before us for discussion Okay, I'd like to call director people up Because we might have some questions from some of the individuals that were the individual that wasn't there at DPW, okay? David people would like to step forward Did you have a question to direct to them alderman Heidemann? Well, I guess one of the questions that I have is there was a statement made by the gentleman from advanced disposal I'd like to get a correction from David or See what he thinks about that statement. Thank you In regards to the return trips to the MSB he is correct It really should be doubled that figure which adds another 624 miles on to that figure so for simplicity purposes the total extra miles to transfer to Sheboygan Falls We'll round it to 8,000 Excuse me approximately miles adding approximately about another thousand dollars in in fuel costs that we would have so Reducing the overall savings from the contracted tipping fee amount from around forty one eight To about thirty two thousand annually thirty two thousand seven hundred. It's still an annual savings in terms of direct costs in response to the time is We've experienced We used to have a contract with waste management Five years prior to this last contract where we hauled to Sheboygan Falls Did not feel and have any impact in terms of time delay that impacted our labor costs Our labor costs are a fixed item in our budget so if they're transporting to and from that's part of their their time to do their job and There is also some benefit With our new trucks to get run on the highway It helps with some of the the regeneration for emissions control So there's factors in either way But the bottom line with the two proposals is is cost savings to the citizens of Sheboygan That's why we have a five-year contract. We go for proposals to see what the market bears This is no way we have an excellent relationship with advanced very high quality Great work, but at the end of the day when we got proposals We look at cost the cost to our budget and the cost to the taxpayers of the community and our recommendation is to Interim contract with waste management Thank you Alderman Warren Thank You mayor Director Bebel the mileage figures that you're quoting and mr. Smith quoted is that for four trucks making two trips a day I had heard that Mr. Smith's were five trucks doing two trips a day. What's what we now have four trucks on our routes We used to have five. This is true. We still have five trucks Tunnages have come down the last over the last when we had the contract five years ago We were about a thousand tons annually more of garbage pickup than where we're at today So our actual tonnages have come down Which has been good because it's also lower to our overall costs or kept our costs flat Given the fact that with inflation We've been able to hold the line on our garbage cost But yeah, it is it we're at four trucks a day Thank you. Thank you Alderman Bellinger Thank You mayor Director Bebel I was unable to attend the public works meeting But I do appreciate the summary that you put together. It was very helpful to go through In read and I appreciate the the clarification on the mileage my concern is should the city at some future date point in time within the next five years decide to privatize or contract out the garbage with the private hauler would there be anything in The contract the five-year contract regardless of who we go with that would be a financial Disincentive to do that or penalty to the city should should we do that? Right now. It's in the proposal stage So when we finalize the contract and that would that language in terms of if the city at some point during the five years Would make the legislative decision to privatize garbage that that could be written into the contract So either one who we choose this evening would have that up front and know that and then that would be again let out for Proposals at that point and competitively be bid Alderman Hammond. Thank You mr. Mayor Director Bebel just a quick question given the Updated numbers you just provided you may not be able to do us up top of your head. So I apologize for jumping us on you But what is the actual savings then to the city if you use the 8,000 versus the other numbers? It ends up being right around $32,000 annually Versus there when you when you strictly went on the cost basis without factoring the trips. It was around forty one thousand dollars Difference between the two Thank You moving on Alderman Bellinger Thank You mayor so It's a negotiation negotiated Claws that would be put in and so what what would happen then should we decide as a legislative body to? Contract garbage out then with the existing contract be null and void or would that would that be up to the negotiation and the language It's that's put into the contract I guess I would like to have the city protected as much as possible and have that avenue open and not have you know language You know be so prohibitive to us financially to preclude us from looking at that option correct if if we go back To the either proposer who has decided this evening and we ask for that language to be added and they come back and say Sorry, if you do that we're gonna want a penalty clause Well, then we're gonna have to come back and talk about that and bring it back to this council for authorization Or or or if they say yep, that's fine. We don't have a problem with that We'll probably bid on that work when it comes available at that point That's fine if you want it out after two or three or even one year Okay All lemon-borne Thanks, ma'am, but that language would be in writing correct. That'll be part of the process. Yes, it will. Okay. Thank you Any other discussion Thank you, director Bebel Item 5.3 then is before us with the clerk. Please call the roll 14 eyes one no Motion passes Under ordinances item 6.1 will lie over Going on to matters laid over Item 7.1 through 7.6 are before us Alderman Hammond Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I moved to accept in a thought it except in file And that would include items 6.0 or other 7.1 through 7.6 Thank you for that motion and support under discussion Alderman Thank you, ma'er. I'm not seeing any document under the 7.1. I'm sorry the document is not under 7.1 It's our 0122 1415 it's right up here Julie on the screen Okay, so 7-1 Is there a separate document for that or 7-1? Well, there's there's six separate documents And we're taking them all in one motion All the RC's there's all the RC's that the committee's brought back I think she's indicating pardon the interruption that there's the attachments not on the four dots Okay And 7-1 actually had the garbage fee in it did it not was the garbage be not part of 7.1 No 7778 Is there any other discussion? Alderman Boren Yeah, if you could repeat that I didn't hear that back here what you said about Oliver and cost question about the garbage fee being in 7-1 I thought I heard that it's somewhere else, but I didn't hear where Alderman Hammond. I believe 7-1 is the unreserved fund balances and Summary of our outstanding debt as of 1231 20 or 1231 2014 The garbage fee would be the revenue or be revenue and that would be contained in 7-7 and 7-8 Thanks, you're welcome Any other discussion? Okay, we're voting on the motion including items 7.1 through 7.6 Clerk, please call the roll Back up and who made the motion 14 eyes 1 no Motion passes Item 7.7 is resolution number 65 of 1415 by Alderman Hammond Bellinger Carros and Donahue ordering the 2015 budget appropriations for City of Sheboygan funds Alderman Hammond Thank you. Mr. Mary move to put the resolution upon its passage second. Thank you for that motion in support under discussion Heidemann Alderman Lussard Yes, thank you. I believe it's appropriate to bring this up once again regarding the broken windows Syndrome that I've talked to you all about the sent out paperwork. I'm proposing that we add 25 thousand dollars to the budget and Also offset it by 25,000 to pay for a part-time code enforcement officer With the report that we have gotten from Chad We are I believe I could ask him exactly what the figure was but we're over a hundred thousand in extra funds in That department and I believe that with the citations that can be written and The city can and be better inspected because of the new construction our code enforcement officers are out doing new building We don't have as many out there checking our code enforcement And I believe it will pay for itself We won't be paying any benefits and it it will I'm certain the revenue will be higher That's why I'm asking to add 25,000 to and then remove 25,000 with the part-time code enforcement officer Thank you for that amendment. Is there a second? The amendment is before us for discussion Alderman Boren Thanks, ma'er. Thanks for bringing that forward Alderman Lussard I think that didn't we already vote on that in 7.2 or do we have to vote on it again to appropriate the funds I Think that's tagged on at the end of documents 7.2, and I think we voted on that already Alderman Hammond, I think Alderman person Lussard had a part-time clerk or Personal we voted on a part-time clerk is part of The public protection and safety budget. I just need to guess a clarification. You're looking to hire code enforcement officer, correct? Correct. This would be two different another additional position. So this would be an amendment to the the current budget Can you maybe explain or? Sheriff that's okay. How are you going to pay for this again? Wasn't following that I'm sorry. I believe that will be able to be able to finance this and I know that it shouldn't be an revenue generating department, but there is The ability to go out and check all these buildings that and of houses and apartments that are in the Sheboygan area That are not being attended to now because our building inspecting Department is is Taxed so we have one inspector checked checking Part-time the north side. I think if we can add to it in a year-round position a Part-time code enforcement officer the funds to be able to take care of his salary will be generated Very quickly in just the code enforcement violations. I Think that if we do not Hire an additional help to this department. You will see a definite decline in the amount of revenue We are going to see next year in our code Enforcement department So I believe that it's going to not only help our city clean up our city and maintain the city to which we have Would grown accustomed But it will pay for itself Do you have any follow-up? Will you finish the aluminum side? Yeah, okay. Thank you Alderman Carlson Thank You mayor up. Could we possibly ask Chad to come up here? I have a few questions for Chad. Would you please join us? Please go ahead. Thank you, sir Don't mean to put you on the spot but could you give us an estimate of how many outstanding tickets we have right now and what's kind of the Collection rate you could say Why can't speak to the collection rate once we issue the citation that gets turned over to municipal court into their system How many do we have outstanding right now probably well, we issued 650 some orders to date and Sighted about 290 Parties I would say we're getting about a 50 to 60 percent compliance out of those So I You know, I don't know if I don't know where the collection is that I can just tell you what I see on our end I don't know that I'm really answering your question, but I don't know what the collection rate is That's really a municipal court question. Okay, and then I know you made a comment about it within PPS But what's your opinion on having another? Code enforcement officer out there This is really a decision of yours But I think that I've said this before is you know good better and different as the building industry picks up our Two inspectors the north side and the south side inspectors that have typically done code enforcement are now busy doing commercial building inspections so That leaves it to one part-time one full-time position the housing inspector But when the electrical specters on vacation he fills in for that So, you know, I think is it needed probably and that person be busy definitely when we've had a seasonal person in 2009 they were able to Fulfill a lot of orders on properties and make a difference, but it really comes down to financials Anything else all them in Carlson? I just have a few more but things to say what I don't need chat I Can wait if you've got another question. All right, we'll go on to all them in boring Thank You mayor. I voted for in in salary and grievance. I voted for the one-part time Building inspection clerk And I would like to support this But I want I'm not going to support document 7.7 as a whole Is it a possible to separate out this position and vote on that separately? That's my first question and my second question is for Chad I know the part-time building inspection clerk is going to be How do I say it a group one as far as salary grade we're a grade one We're with where would this person be that all our person Lissard is Talking about I would say this person would probably be in the grade one or two era and Okay, I understand what that range is then my other that's all I have for Chad But could we vote on the position separately or do we have to take it as a total of document 7.7? Well, it's an amendment So we will be voting on the amendment separately and then the main motion after that So we're going to vote on the position separately. Yeah, the Alderman Lissard made an amendment to the motion And so we'll vote on that as an amendment separately. Thank you Alderman Hammond, thank you, mr. Mayor and maybe more procedural than anything, but and I too don't necessarily have a problem I think it's probably well needed given the amount of new construction going on in the community However, if we're going to increase in expense, you know We need there needs to be a corresponding revenue increase in order for the budget to be balanced And so I'm just trying to figure out again, which line item in here From a revenue standpoint is going to increase to cover this expense Unless we're reducing expenses in a different area to cover this We could either make an amendment to the amendment that's on the floor We could pass it and then come up with it after that in a separate amendment Alderman Carlson Thank you, mayor. There's two reasons why I can't support this one is financial I'm sure we may be up in revenue this year and we may be up again next year There's a lot of building projects going on and that's a great thing We don't know if that's going to continue and at the level that we're at the projects that are going on right now are big So there's big finance financial impact of the city. We can't care and guarantee that going forward I can't support creating a new position just to eliminate it in two years due to another budget crisis The second reason why I can't support it is I believe Chad said there was over 600 citations 650 maybe That's a pretty big number. I personally have spoken to a lot of people that have received citations Everyone's in a big mess right now a lot of people do not have the financial resources to make these corrections to their houses As much as they want to I've been filing extensions on behalf of someone because just for whatever reason financial They just don't have the time to do it So I I think we could actually possibly even go backwards in terms of if we get More another building inspector out there and write more tickets. It doesn't necessarily mean it anything's going to get fixed Or if we're going to see any revenue from it It may just create more problems for our residents and I just can't support that I think the system we have right now is working. It's not as fast as anybody wants it to be going and Once these projects are over these big ones that are taking up so much time They're gonna have more time to dedicate to the residential areas, and that's just my two cents there. Thank you very much Hold them in the side Thank you I did spend a great deal of time talking to judge Delahunt in the municipal court system and do have the printouts and the majority of the citations that were written Run approximately as I said in my report about six hundred and thirty dollars And then they're negotiated down to the two hundred usually and it's getting people's attention and and according to these figures The majority of these items have been paid the ones that have not been paid are are some of these that have been outstanding and Generating interest per day fees. I Believe that this part-time position though it be to be reviewed in two years is Ness necessity to our city I'm sure you've all driven around and taken a look at what we have and I can only assume it's gonna get worse We've been blessed with the new construction and and our workers are working very diligently in getting Building permits etc being done And I don't think that the rest of our city should fall by the wayside because we're short-handed We don't have to pay benefits. I Feel that we are going to make more than enough in revenue to cover the twenty five thousand dollars Which includes the social security that this employee would would be required and we can review this again in two years perhaps when Our new construction has dwindled down some and do away with this position or this person could Fill in for some retirement. So I'm really urging you all to support this I care a great deal about the curb appeal of the city We're trying to get new businesses to come here and stay here, and I think this is just gonna Enhance what we have now. So I encourage your support. Thank you Is there any additional discussion Yes, I would think the follow-up on Alderman Hammond's comment about balanced budget I think there needs to be some offsetting revenue either either it goes Towards additional tax levy or it it's an expense or excuse me additional revenue in the department or whatever But I think that really needs to be part and parcel of the request to to spend more money is to Indicate also where that money is going to be coming Hold them in the side I'm not certain what department receives all the funds for the municipal court But that would be the department. I would like to increase the revenue to twenty five thousand dollars Additional and then offset it with the part-time code enforcement officer. So I would I'm gonna turn to You want to make that in addition to your amendment I thought I had said that initially, but perhaps I didn't bring clarity to it. Yes, I want to add twenty five thousand dollars and then hire a part-time I Need some assistance as to what department that would be Who is the person that seconded on the rematted check did you want to accept that? Next I'd like to ask Administrator immorio to come up here and and tell us if that's the proper way to do this the special assessments would come through the municipal court, so The the revenue of the municipal court would have to be raised by twenty five thousand dollars And we take that as a transfer in to the general fund from Unicor less their expenses for processing and That would offset or balance the Additional twenty five thousand of expense Helping alderman Lussard out with her amendment Alderman Boren Thank you. I Know for a fact that the municipal court also uses the trips program Similar to what the Fiery what our billing service for the ambulance service uses to Collect the counts. So those accounts if they're not paid willingly you may say For the for the citations that are written If they're not paid voluntarily then the municipal court will also put that through the trips program Which is the tax intercept program? So I think there's a good chance that if some of these fines are not being paid voluntarily They'll be coming out of income tax refunds and I would find it hard to believe that with that many more Tickets being written through the entire process of just collecting them Voluntarily by the municipal court and if not that the trips program I would find it hard to believe that that wouldn't generate at least twenty five thousand dollars for the year. Thank you Thank you for those comments alderman Carlson Thank you mayor Once again just creating this position doesn't guarantee revenue coming back to the city I think we'd be better served as a city to continue working with these neighborhood Associations and working with the residents because there are people out there that can simply not afford to make these Corrections to their houses. It's just not possible on their incomes. So keep in mind. This all sounds good on paper But until you're actually affected by this citation It's it I personally don't think it's gonna be a good thing. So just keep that in mind Law of unintended consequences Is there any other discussion on the amendment? See now none will the clerk, please With a clerk, please call Just to chime in on the twenty five thousand dollar part of our thirty five million dollar budget And First of all, there's a presumption that all of the citations will go to municipal court And that all of those citations will be collected upon in order to balance and so my question is if that doesn't happen If in fact people, you know pay up or whatever If there is a deficit would we be taking that from the municipal court budget? I think we need to speak to alderman Hammond's concern about presenting a balanced budget and so I Typically we would like to get rid, you know deal with these things in committee so that we aren't squabbling about twenty five thousand dollars But I am a little confused not not all of these citations are going to go to municipal court and the plain fact of the matter is that That there are people who just don't have the money to make these repairs Thank you, is there any other comments Now will the court please call the roll for passage on the amendment that's before us Okay, the motion is to amend to add twenty five thousand dollars for I'm sorry code enforcement officer part-time and add twenty five thousand dollars revenue to the municipal court Five eyes ten nose Motions defeated item seven point seven is before us without the amendment. Is there any discussion? See none will occur to call the roll for passage and resolution 65 Motion passes next we'll go on to item seven point eight resolution number sixty four of fourteen fifteen By Alderman Hammond Bellinger Carlson and Donahue ordering the 2015 budget appropriations and the 2014 tax levy for use during calendar year 2015 Alderman Hammond. Thank You mr. Mayor move to put the resolution upon its passage second Thank you for that motion in support and under discussion Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage Levin eyes for nose Motion passes Next we'll go on to other matters city attorney Eight point one is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2014 December 31 2015 and June 30 That will be referred to law and licensing 8.2 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from NEMAC Requesting encroachments for directional signage on the property located at forty two forty three gateway drive Referred to the city planning Commission 8.3 is an ordinance granting NEMAC at successors and assigns the privilege of encroaching upon described portions gateway drive located 42-43 gateway drive in the city for the purpose of installing and maintaining Directional signage that also be referred to the city planning Commission Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor and move to adjourn back it all those in favor, please singify by saying aye Opposed we stand adjourned. Thank you very much for your attendance


Generally, most people of voting age in the United States show loyalty or at least a preference toward candidates and political viewpoints of one political party. Typically, they agree with the party's stance on a few major issues and give little weight to its position on issues they consider minor. This is called party identification. Several factors seem to influence party identification. One is a person's race. Since the New Deal policies of the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, many African Americans have identified with the ideals of the Democratic Party. Mexican Americans also tend to align with Democrats. Conversely, Cuban Americans tend to favor the family values platforms of the Republican Party. Gender can also influence party identification, especially in areas concerning abortion, equal pay, the military, and affirmative action. Women who consider these issues a priority tend to support the Democratic Party for its liberal positions on these and other issues. Religious beliefs are also a great influence on political party affiliation. Catholics often align with the Republican Party based on two issues important to their faith, abortion and birth control, on which Republicans typically take a conservative stance. American Christians also favor the Republican Party for its stance on family values, homosexuality, and abortion. American Jews, however, tend to identify with the Democratic platform. Education and income can also be a dividing line for party loyalties. Highly educated people tend to make up the white-collar workforce and have better economic status. This group more often aligns with Republicans. Blue-collar, union, and working-class people tend to be Democrats. This factor tends to supersede race, with high-earning minorities aligning with Republican ideals and low-income minorities aligning with the Democrats. Education can have a liberalizing effect, though, as well. The college environment typically encourages young people to begin questioning assumptions and the status quo. It is very common for the intelligentsia class, highly intellectual people, to align with the more liberal platform of the Democrats. Age can also influence a person's party identification, but typically to a lesser degree than other factors. Prior to the 1960s, voters tended to align with one party and vote across the board for that party's candidates. This trend has changed, however, since the 1960s, now that people have access to television, radio, and the Internet and no longer rely on political parties to provide decision-making information. Another reason voters have moved away from strict party loyalty is that more information is available today about each candidate's personal image. Now, rather than his or her stance on issues, the candidate's personal character and background has a great influence on voters' opinions. Personal image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. Walter Mondale, 1991. For most of this nation's first two centuries, the political landscape was dominated by one party at a time. Eras of dominance occurred where the majority party dominated not only the policy agenda, but also the policy-making institutions, the presidency, legislative bodies, and courts.  But as societal changes moved faster than the political party's ideals, each era ended with party realignment or de-alignment. Party realignment occurs when the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party. This usually occurs when a minority party candidate wins a critical election at a volatile time in history. It can also happen when large groups of people change party affiliation, such as when the Southern Democrats aligned with the Republican Party in the last half of the 20th century. I do believe the Democratic Party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. Reverend L. Sharpton, 2004. Party de-alignment occurs when no single political party is dominant. This can occur when neither Republicans nor Democrats hold a majority of seats in Congress. It can also come about with voters moving from the major parties to the ranks of the independents or non-aligned voter. This type of shift happened during the 1980s and 90s, when many voters found the Democrats and Republicans to be too moderate and not having enough differentiation. The first political era in the U.S. was the Federalist Era, which began with the formation and dominance of the Federalist Party with John Adams as president. However, realignment was soon to occur. The Democratic Republican Party began to gain political might. And in 1828, when Andrew Jackson won the presidential election, it ushered in a new era known as the Jacksonian Era. The era marked an important change in the process used to nominate presidential candidates. The caucus system, where members of Congress nominated a party's presidential candidate, was replaced by party conventions to give voters more influence. As the nation faced a critical time in its history, the election of 1860 saw another realignment and ushered in the Republican Era. Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election and led the U.S. through the Civil War. During the war, the Republican Party retained the support of businesses, industrialists, farmers and former slaves to dominate the political landscape for close to 60 years. The Great Depression brought on another realignment, and Americans turned to Franklin Roosevelt and his Democratic Party to solve the economic crisis with their New Deal policies. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944. The New Deal era saw the Democrats retain power until the late 60s when voters disapproved of Lyndon Johnson's handling of the Vietnam War. But this era ended with de-alignment. Since Richard Nixon replaced Johnson, neither political party has gained a long-term monopoly on politics. The U.S. is now in an era of divided government. This is partly due to the fact that party loyalty is far less intense than it was 50 years ago. This may be an indication that either the voting public is highly informed and issue-oriented, or that they tend to move away from forming coalitions. This era of divided government and weakened political parties has allowed several third parties to rise up. Democratic Party candidates have yet to win a presidential election, but they are having a larger and larger impact, as more voters become independents rather than aligning with Democrats or Republicans.


Let's get over to our man, Mr. Tim Ord, as we do each and every Thursday at 20 past the hour, and you can reach Tim folks every trading day at odd.noord-oracle.com. That's odd-oracle.com. Tim Ord, what's happening, brother? Well, thanks for having me on again. So, did you get my charts? I have your charts, man. We're grinding higher. I got them. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to keep going. So, no hurry here. But I put this chart out there, the bottom, the chart number one, the bottom window, this is just a, this is a weekly chart, and it goes back to, I don't know, 2018, whatever it is. Okay. But it goes back several years. And what I want to point out is it really works good at finding where the tops are. It works so well on a daily, but it does work really well on a weekly. What happens, what you've got to look for is the markets going up, making higher highs on the SPX on the weekly time frame. The SPX-VIX ratio will make lower highs. And that's your key that some sort of a high is being approached. And the pink areas are the times where the SP's made higher highs and the SPX-VIX ratio made lower highs. I see. And right now, if you go over to the right window here, we're pretty much not showing any divergence at all. That's that blue area I got outlined. Yes, right. The market kind of went down over the last couple of weeks. And so did the SPX-VIX ratio. What's important here, say over the next week or two, whatever, the SP's go up, makes new highs. And that ratio doesn't. Now that'd be your warning that some sort of a high is being approached. That's pretty cool, man. Yeah. I do a little bit of study of seasonality. I'm not great at it. Okay. But anyhow, starting, I think July 27th to October 27th is a time of all the seasonal periods during the year. That's the weakest period. I see. Okay. Three months period. So say we do rally into end of September. And you're noticing that the SP's are hitting new highs and the SPX-VIX ratio is not. And plus you got seasonality at the top of that. Then you're probably heading for trouble. How big of trouble? You really don't know. It could be just the sideways move. I think this market will end a lot higher than it is right now by year end. But there's a three month period we're heading right into here. It's about a month away or thereabouts that could cause some trouble. But I really don't see any, since this is a weekly chart, I really don't see any trouble right now because there's really no divergence going on with the VIX. Right. So, you know, I'm thinking we're okay there. Flip next to the chart. Yeah. Well, I can tell you too, Tim, you know, I feel like we've had gifts from the trading gods. You know, I mean, I do a lot of intraday trading. And this morning, you know, before what I'm talking about specifically is I think I told you they have these options now that expire in one day and I trade them every day. And so I was so happy when the futures went down before the 930 bell hit because I says, oh, here we go. Thank you, trading gods.   I know how that works. So yeah, that's pretty good. So we go to the next chart, right? Right. Next chart. This is so you got the bigger picture. It looks okay. It's like nothing super divergence going on. So that doesn't say the market has to go up or down, but it does give you a kind of clear view of that. Like there's no big divergence going on. So you look at the smaller picture. This is a daily chart of the SPYs. And what it did over the last couple of weeks, all those blue numbers there are basically the trend closes. And I'll get a couple of tick closes in there. Yes. Also panic is actually fuel for the market. And the more panic you can find, the more fuel the market has to rally higher. So ideally, you want a lot of panic in the market to really get a rally going. And so I made your panic with the trend. You know, the trend, anything but 1.2 on a close was considered a panic reading. And the higher that number is, the more panic there is in the market. And the more days of panic reading you get, the more energy that market has or fuel it has to rally. So I listed all those days going back over the last couple of weeks.  I guess we really haven't busted out of here, but over the last probably 10 days, we have basically seven days or thereabouts, or maybe six days of panic reading on the close. No, I can see that. That's particularly last week, Tim, right? That was a big rebus, man. 1.6, 1.2, 1.2, 1.6, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, yesterday we had 1.24, and we had a 487 down tick reading. You know, that's an update. Yeah, right. You know, people were selling into it. Now folks, Tim, can you just say, listen to this folks, can you just say that one more time? Because this is really cool. Just the part that you're talking about, the 1.2. Well, yeah, yesterday when the market was up and we had a trend close of 1.24 showing panic, we had 487 down tick reading. Right. You know, that's an update. Right. So they were selling into the rally. You know, that was true. We were going into a July 4th holiday and people probably worried, you know, trying to get out of market before, you know, the holiday, I guess, I don't know, it doesn't really matter. But there's panic in the market. You know, the bottom window there is a five-day average, and we hit right on the money. You know, 1.4 here, I think, let's say Thursday, so it'd be like Monday or Friday of last week, and the two-day has been up around that 1.5 for a couple of different ticks there. So we got quite a bit of energy. My point is we got quite a bit of energy to drive this market higher. Right. So we're already having panic on an extremely modest decline. You know, if you do a Fibonacci relationship, which I forgot to do on this chart, you know, we're probably at 31.82 or less. Retracement of that rally started back in May. Yeah. So we had a very shallow retracement. Panic came right in, right off that top. So the market really can't go down. You know, it may go sideways here, but you know, we already got enough energy to drive this market higher.  I'm telling you, man, because for some reason, man, they love driving the market on July 4th. They're just, you know what I mean? It's like, okay, you know, let's... Well, actually, there's a statistic on that. This year, I forgot how that statistic went, but there's an 87% chance, I think it is July 4th, it will be, or the day before July 4th will be an update. I know we've got a commercial coming here. Yeah, just stay right there for a second. We're going to come right back. Stay right there, folks. Tim and I come right back. Welcome back, folks. I doubt. That was up 246 Nasdaq's down 19. S&Ps are up 13. We're talking about our man, Mr. Tim Ord. We are talking markets. You can always get hold of Tim too, folks, at odd-oracle.com. So I have the second shot up here, Tim. All right. Let me go back to it. Oh, do you want me to go to the third? No, we couldn't have... I guess we're pretty much done with this. I just wanted to show, point out the panic and I wrote down the trim closes and some tick closes and... Okay, cool. So we got everything. Normally, if you're coming down, you don't get panic until you get near low. I know. And we didn't really get down much and we already got panic. So this is some sort of a minor wave here, and this minor wave is done. So maybe the bombs are in. I also have a note there that says, up six days in a row, go into that. We could go last Thursday, and that predicted market will be higher within five days, eight, three percent of the time. It's been over probably five, six days now, and we're still not higher. But once you go up five, six days in a row, market shows a lot of momentum. And momentum, along with panic, kind of rules what the market does. Yes. There's nothing that I can see that's bearish on the market, plus a big to stay in real low, way below minus 17. So there's nothing wrong at the market right now. That may change in a month, but I think we're pretty clear until we start heading into that seasonal week period, end of July, and that October, November, or not October, but August, September, and maybe part of October could be kind of... Yeah, right. Less than desirable up for the title week. Yeah. Good trading, though. Yeah. Okay. So something I'm talking for, because everybody's kind of looking for a top here, at least the people I'm talking to, I'm thinking, I don't see it, at least not yet. Right. I don't know. No, they listen to the chart number three. The bottom line is, is that if you just look at between the Fed raising rates, between the amount of action upside already, we both know you can go higher than a lot longer than people actually think. If I learned anything, man, that's the reality. Right. Now, the next one, let's get our heads wrapped around this, because this has been... There was an ABC structure down to him in the gold contract. It was 1902, and we hit 1900 today. So it's kind of intriguing here. Now we're going to be talking gold, folks. All right. I think I showed this chart last week. I can't remember if any of the bottom window is what's doing the signal, and the bottom window is a 50-day average. So that's what? Two and a half months of trading. Yes. 50, you know, we got about 21 days. So about two and a half months of trading is a 50-day average. And so I took the 50-day average up, down volume, advanced client indicator percent, and I did a chart and went back far as I could go, which is about 1910 or 2010 there. Right. And every time this one got below minus 20, you were setting that a low or close to a low. And the thing didn't really go up. It just went sideways, and we hit that minus 20. We're actually still pretty close to it. Today, we're at 1975 or 1975, wherever that number is. And but over the last week or so, we've been pretty much below minus 20. And GDX so far hasn't done a squat.  So that's what that chart says. It could go up, but it doesn't necessarily. What I'm watching is on the next page. So the 50-day average hit a low, so you're in the vicinity of some sort of a low. Okay, when does the rally come? Well, this is the bottom window of the 18-day average. So it's not the 50-day average. It's a lot shorter. It's about a week and a half or 18 days. No, that's a little less than a month. But I did a bunch of different time-moving averages, and anyhow, the 18-day seems to work the best. And the next, you know, the bottom window is the advanced line 18-day average. The next window up from the bottom is the 18-day average up down volume. When both of those are above minus 10, which is in the blue area, you've got a rally. When both of them are below minus 10, which is the pink area, you're in decline, right? So if you notice, the up down volume, which is the second window up from the bottom, went below minus 10 back in April, and kind of just flipped sideways. It didn't really go down with the market. It just went sideways. And the advanced decline, which is the bottom window, never fell below minus 10 until late May. And right now, both of them are below minus 10. Well, the rally will start when both those indicators close above minus 10. And we're setting around about minus 15, 18 area right now. But what's kind of unusual, both these indicators are going sideways, and they've been going instead of going down with the market. They've pretty much flipped sideways here, which is kind of rare. So to me, that's kind of underlying strength. So I'm thinking with the 50-day average telling the market's at a low, the rally hasn't started yet, but I think it could be a decent rally, because I think there's some energy in the market here, because these are kind of not really drifting down with the market. They're kind of holding steady right below minus 10 on both of them. You know, it's interesting, Tim, when we look at the GDX there, yeah, I'll put this chart just over here for a second so the folks can see it. Because so the GDX right now, right, we got down to a price point of 28.76 today. Now that's coming right into the March 13th sign of strength as we came off that last bottom, which is really cool. And that at 56 million shares traded. And we rejected that lower price today with 14 million. Now you're up 30 cents. So okay, you're going back to first part of March off that bottom. I am. And it literally went right into it. It went into this bar. There was two different bars off that bottom that had big strength. And the bar that it's into today that it rejected had, you know, they had 56 million shares. Never mind. I said, yeah, 56 million shares versus 14 today. And you can see the way this is set up, you know, bottom line is that even though the gold contract was down big, this ended up rejecting everything. So it's intriguing, you know, in the south. Right. Yeah. There's another thing, too, about GDX and gold. The markets seasonally wise is going to enter a week period end of July. Gold, on the other hand, is ending a strong seasonal period of mid-July all the way in this October. So what kind of be interesting, the market may take a rest. The equity market may take a rest and the gold market may perform, you know, in that time. Okay. Yeah. So we'll have to wait and see. I had some other indicators that gave a target, you know, in the August, September of high around 44. I'm thinking that still could be on the table at the waiting field. Yeah. Hey, we'll just wait right there. We'll do another segment. Stay right there, folks. Tim and I are coming right back. We have the Dow industrials right now. One second, yeah. Dow industrials trading up to 218 Nasdaq. Dow and 18 S&Ps are up 11. Don't forget about the target all sale, folks. It's right on the front page of TF&N. It's the 4th of July target sale. Stay right there. Tim and I are coming right back, folks. Welcome back, folks. The Dow is up 224 Nasdaq is down 21. S&Ps are up 11. We're talking with our man, Mr. Tim Ord. And we are talking gold. You know what's amazing, Tim, is that they always make gold a hard buy, don't they? I mean, it's great when you get it, but it always seems to be a hard buy. Yeah, that's the way it is. To me, when I go into trading stuff, I'm not really worried about something that can turn out ugly. Usually, the best trades I've made when I was just scaring a poop out of me to put that trade in. Exactly. It takes practice to really buy in when everybody's screaming and yelling and stuff hitting the fan. A lot of times, those turn out to be the best trading. Nothing like we had that last flow. Right. The money we're coming off of. Yes. I actually bought the day before the low and the market gapped down. I held through that gap and then the gap down and the market rallied back, and that was pretty much the low. And I sold two days later. I don't know.  Then I had to buy back about, I don't know, it seemed like a point or a percent and a half higher.  But anyhow, that's how life works. And that's how gold works, folks. You don't have panic, you don't have a low. That's right. Because those gold equities, folks, which Tim is talking about, we almost went up 100%, just to, if you're, you know, the folks in the gold market know that.  I mean, an eco, Anglo gold, that thing went from, $17 up to $28 with non-stop, just boom. And then, of course, when I went down to $21 again, but that's how they trade, man. That's how they trade. Yeah, it's pretty wicked. But remember back in the 2000s, when we were talking about it or we were actually doing it, the market just went straight up and went straight up for years. It did. That market didn't peak out in what, 2012, I think it was. And those stocks, folks, started at $0.30 and $0.40. That was a trip. That was a real trip. But what was a BGO, right? Yeah, BGO. I think it started out as a quarter. Yep. And yeah, 15 bucks or something. Yeah, exactly. That's what they're about. Yeah, at one point, I had 60,000 shares of that. Yeah. No, listen, Jim, do you remember how many calls we used to get, man? Oh my God. That was unbelievable. It really was. So when we're looking at this, OK, so the chart that I have, one second, let me make sure I have, this is the fourth chart, right? Yeah, the fourth chart is that this is a short-term view of GDX. Right, right. OK, cool. Right, right, right. So I took the GDX up-down volume and I took the GDX advanced decline, both on an 18-day average. So this has a good, what do you call it? It has a good, it shows all the energy necessary to read what this stock will do for GDX's concern. So as right now, it's on a short-term basis. It's still in the bearish camp, not real bearish, but the 50-day average is on a bicycle. Or, you know, so it said it's top. So I'm just waiting for this short-term stuff to kick in. And I'm thinking that's going to kick in probably in July, probably first part of July, I think. And that could rally possibly in the October time frame. So we'll see how it goes. But if you look at, go back to chart three, OK, which is the bigger picture again. Yes. See those signals when they come. You get about one a year over the last three years you got. So you're not looking for a one or two-month rally here. You're probably looking for a multi-month lease rally, because last time we got one was mid-2022. You know, if you look where that last signal was. Yes. And that signal lasted, I don't know what, a good year. Yep, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, or close to a year. And so this next one, so I'm thinking on a bigger time scale, this, we could ride this signal for a while, I'll put it that way. There'll be some corrections along the way, but the major part of the low is probably making right in this vicinity. And what does happen, folks, is that all this time goes quicker than you think.  And I'm looking, I'm saying, I've got to wait two or three months, man? What are you talking about here, man? Do you know what I mean? And I get it now, of course. Okay. But you know, it's always intriguing that patience is the name of the game. I mean, it absolutely is, right? Yeah. Yeah, you've got to kind of wait it out. You've got to trust your signals. And the hard part of this game is, is trying to find the right, I guess, technical analysis that you can rely on, that you can stick your neck out and not get your neck chopped off. Right. You know, and over the years, I kind of got lucky back in what we first met. You know, I was kind of doing that tick thing on the clothes or in the day. I was kind of mastering that. Right. And so I just started going off to everybody else. When everybody else was panicking, I was buying that stuff. And I kind of hone that down and kind of expanded from there. Yeah. But pretty cool, man. It's been a learning experience. I'm still learning, you know. And that's what, hey, that's what keeps us all young, man. That's what's so cool about the market. That is what's so cool about the market, no doubt. So, hey, where are you off to on July 4th? What are you doing? Well, actually, going back to the in-laws in Colorado. So, Don and I are leaving Saturday morning and coming back actually 4th July. So, that's where I'm going. Where are you going? Well, actually, right out my window, we have the vanoy. So, it's, you know, you haven't seen this office yet. But we're literally, I'm literally looking at the water right now. So, there's a beautiful hotel there. We're all hanging down the hotel for the weekend. So, that day, the fireworks are there. You know, I got a couple boats down there. So, we'll have some fun. I got Tommy coming in with the grandchildren. So, you know, we're going to have some fun here. And of course, we have four days off, which makes it like insane. Do you know what I mean? So, yeah, yeah. We'll have to come down there and seeing you pretty. You're going to have to, man. We're going to have some fun. Let's do that. Let's definitely do that, man. No doubt. Gotta love it. So, listen, what is the weather like where you are right now? It's not too bad. It's probably 85. Nice. Okay. Yeah, it's nice that usually July gets sultry and gets sticky. Yeah, like everywhere. Yeah, right. Yeah, it gets, but right now it's 85, but it's not really humidity here yet. So, that runs through July, August, September starts cooling down again. Okay. It's pretty nice, 85 again, but humidity's gone. Larry, so Larry lives in Tucson. And folks, this is an update for you for Larry too. Larry took a plane out of there today. It was 115 degrees and his allergies are killing him. So, he's going up to the White Mountains and he's going to be in New Hampshire, visiting all you folks in New Hampshire. He's going to the White Mountains for the, right now until July 4th, so he can get rid of it. Can you imagine 115 degrees? Oh my God. No, I can't. I can't. Tam, you have a great 4th of July. It's safe when I look forward to speaking to you next week. All right, thank you. Thanks. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back.


life you have to be willing to make choices and sacrifices one of the choices and sacrifices I made was this vehicle right here I had this vehicle for three and a half one on four years we got like 170,000 miles on it no AC I got a sacrifice now to get what I want later a few years later 2017 Corvette Grand Sport LT2 all-white with a red hash with a red interior for those of you who may know me you already know I've been saying I'm gonna get this car since 2017 what are you willing to sacrifice


and I teach Islamic art. I teach geometric art and arabesque art. Arabesque art, also known as bimorphic patterns or islami, is an art form that is, unlike geometric art, it is very organic, has a lot of flowy shapes and it has abstracted floral and vegetal shapes. And I'm gonna be teaching you how to draw some patterns today. So I'm gonna start off with describing the three main elements of arabesque art. The three main elements of arabesque art are the spiral. The spiral is behind sort of every arabesque motif and it acts as sort of the background in patterns where other motifs sprout out from. The next element is symmetry and structure. Most arabesque patterns are symmetrical. And lastly, rhythm and balance. All arabesque patterns flow with this sort of rhythm and they're balanced in the way that they are spread out. So let's start off with a few drawing exercises. What I have in front of me is graphing paper and this is just gonna help me draw symmetrical motifs. If you do not have graphing paper, regular paper will work just fine. This is just so that we can measure out and make sure that our motifs are symmetrical. Next I have a ruler and some pencils. We are going to use a softer pencil. So one thing when drawing arabesque patterns, they're very curvy and spirally. You need to make sure that you have a nice area where you have a lot of space to move your hands. You don't wanna be restricted because that will show in your drawing. You wanna draw in a way that's comfortable and natural with your hand movement. So this part of your hand sort of acts like a pivotal point. You don't wanna be drawing sort of away from that. You wanna be using that as a natural way to draw circles and spirals. So I'm gonna start off with a simple motif. It's called a rumi motif. So the word rumi comes from the word room in Turkish, which refers to Byzantium. So the rumi motif, I like to break it down into two simple shapes. There is the C shape and then there's the S shape. The C shape has one curve whereas the S shape has two curves going in the opposite direction. Another way that you can look at it is two circles inside a larger circle that creates that sort of ying and yang like this. So this is our S curve. So let's draw our rumi motif. So the rumi motif starts off with a C curve like this and then you have that S curve that comes like this. That's a basic rumi motif. You see how over here you have one circle and you have the other circle just like that ying and yang. Let's draw that again. You have the C shape and you have the S shape. Kinda looks like a leaf or a paisley shape. C shape and an S shape. Now from that same motif, you have the C shape, the S shape, we're gonna draw out the circle here and from that we're gonna draw another motif like that. Let's try that again. You have the C shape, the S shape. From there you have another one spread out. Let's do that again. I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger like that. Another rumi motif. We're gonna start off with a slight S shape. This is sort of a backwards S shape. And then we're gonna do the C shape. Let's do that again. Now similar to this one, we're gonna draw it again. If it helps, you can draw the circle first and then connect from here, comes out and connects like this. This motif here is called the pivotal point motif and this one here is called the bird's wing. Let's draw it again. A lot of these motifs just take a lot of practice and as you continue to draw them, it's gonna become a part of your motor memory. So a lot of it is just practice. You wanna draw as much as you can. Don't focus. If you make a mistake, don't go back and start erasing it and trying to fix it up, just do it over again. This is all just practice. This is so that we can warm up our hands and get used to this movement. The next motif is called the tupelec motif. So the tupelec motif for this one, we want them to be perfectly symmetrical. So I'm gonna take my ruler. I'm gonna take a red pen and I'm just drawing down a dashed line and this is gonna be our line of symmetry. So the first tupelec motif, we're gonna start off by drawing a bit of a structure. We're gonna draw three circles like this and one, make it nice and round and symmetrical. I'm gonna do that for all three of them. So this is gonna be your structure here. Now, using this circle at the top, we're gonna draw this sort of like pointed dome shape. I'm gonna try to make it symmetrical and then this part is easy. I'm just gonna outline circles and connect it. That's one of the tupelec shapes. The other one starts off the same way as that pointed dome shape. It comes down this way on the circle. So you're drawing about one quarter of the circle and you're gonna bring it down here. We're gonna draw a C shape like that, so one curve. You're gonna do that on the other side.  At the bottom, we're gonna add a little circle like that. The last shape, again, the same top part, gonna come out like this, quarter of the way, just as this one, and then you're gonna connect it down within us. The next motif we're gonna draw is the Kapali motif. Now, Kapali in Turkish means closed. This motif acts as a structural motif when drawing patterns. So the Kapali motif is a bit more difficult. So for this one, we're gonna draw a bit more of the structure beforehand. So I'm gonna draw two lines of symmetry for this one. We have a vertical line of symmetry and we're gonna draw a horizontal line of symmetry as well. So just like the tupelec motifs, this one has that pointed dome shape. I'm actually gonna draw in two more lines of symmetry or let's call these structural lines like that. And this is where it really helps to have graphing paper. If you don't have graphing paper, you can just sort of eyeball this a little bit.  So at the top part, you're gonna draw the pointed dome shape and it's gonna stop at the blue line.   Now you can count up one, two, three, four units. So one, two, three, four, starting here and I'm gonna draw an upside down pointed dome shape on these two sides. I'm gonna sort of draw in, it's not quite a circle, it's more like an oval. That is a capale shape. Let's draw that one more time. But these are our two capale shapes. It can be difficult drawing symmetrical shapes like this, especially when the lines of symmetry are different where this part isn't exactly the same as this part. So there's a few techniques that we can use to make our drawings perfectly symmetrical. So this was just our sort of warm-up exercises. The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take a piece of tracing paper. We are going to fold this in half. If you don't have tracing paper, you can always use parchment paper. And parchment paper will do just about the same thing. It might be a little bit less translucent as tracing paper. We're gonna fold this in half like this and then we're gonna fold it again and we're gonna match the corners and try to keep it really neat, nice sharp edge. You can use your nail to run it down the edges. Now, I folded my tracing paper two times, which means that we have four sections here. One, two, three, four. And what we're gonna do is what I like to call the snowflake method. It's kind of like in the winter when you make snowflakes to decorate your house where you fold the paper multiple times and you do a cutout on one side and then you open it up and it becomes beautifully symmetrical all the way around. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna keep our tracing paper folded like this and we're gonna draw our own arabesque pattern on one side of the tracing paper. And this is gonna be the center of our pattern. Make sure that you use, the center is on this fold so that when you fold it out, it's actually the center and not one of these edges.  We're gonna draw a combination of these three motifs on this piece of tracing paper, keeping in mind that these are edges and this is the center. And then we are going to open it up and draw it on all four sides and I'll show you how in just a minute.  You have our pointed dome, the oval shape and the pointed dome at the bottom. I'm gonna bring it to the center like that. I'm gonna draw another capali shape. We have our pointed dome. We have the oval shape but this time I'm gonna join it here like that. And in the center I'm gonna draw a tuppeliq motif. I'm gonna draw this one. On this side I'm gonna draw another tuppeliq motif. I'm drawing it this way because this is where the fold is, this one. I'm gonna add a spiral. Let's do it so that our spiral starts over here. Touches the tuppeliq motif. Goes through, touches the other one. Comes around like that. The end of our spiral I'm gonna add and at the top over here I'm gonna add a tuppeliq motif. So this is a half tuppeliq motif. I'm only drawing half of it because I'm drawing it on the curved line. I'm gonna add a few little embellishments here like that. So I have my pattern here and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open it up this way and I'm gonna draw on this side. So make sure that you are drawing on the same side of the tracing paper. You don't wanna have half the drawing on this side and half the drawing on the back. So open it up. You have this fold here and then you're gonna trace it once you have it traced. You open it up. Look how perfectly symmetrical that is. So you have your tuppeliq shape over here. You have your tuppeliq shape over here. You have your roomy shape and some other embellishments. Over here you have your other two tuppeliq motifs and when we fold it this way we can turn it around and draw the rest of the pattern. We're just gonna trace it right on here. Once you're done tracing you'll have something that looks like this. Perfectly symmetrical. Now, we made sure that all of our drawing is on one side. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna transfer this to watercolor paper and the way that works is you take the side that you draw on and you put it against your watercolor paper.  I had already transferred my pattern to the paper earlier. Looks something like this. So once it's fully transferred you have something that is ready to paint. So I hope you get a chance to make your very own beautiful arabesque pattern. My name is Amina and I hope you have a great day.


But the great work done by all the senior cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and all the good doctors of this country, heart care has attained lot of… it has got lot of confidence from the people. It's very interesting, Sadhguru. When I started my career twenty-five years ago, I left England twenty-five years ago. I started in Calcutta. If I told a patient then… Lot of heartbreak there. If I told a patient then that he needed an operation, it required more than an hour of convincing him for an operation. But today I face a different problem. He is standing in a line. Today, Sadhguru, when I tell a patient, after seeing all the reports that you do not need an operation, I have to spend one hour to convince him why he doesn't need operation. Everyone wants heart operation, Sadhguru. Is it for romantic reasons or… How do we convince people that fixing the heart is not like, you know, something wrong with your house, you get a plumber, he will fix it or, you know, something wrong with the car, you change the parts, it is something different. There are… We are not the magicians or we are not the gods and the nature is the best healer and cardiac surgery is only a fifty-year-old phenomenon. People have lived for… I think they have also realized it's a dumb part. It's a big dilemma for all of us, Sadhguru.  If not heart, many other parts of the body. Yes. As I said, probably in another fifty years, fifty percent of the population will be going through these surgeries, which is not health, which is medical industry, but not health. If health has to happen, a culture of health has to come in. Not healthcare systems, not hospitals, not more doctors, not more surgeries, but a culture of health has to evolve. Right now, world is in a way of imitating everything that America does.  It's sinking the country, okay? It's sinking the whole nation, healthcare. We want to follow the same things. We want to dress like them, we want to eat like them, we want to live like them and we want to get unhealthy like them. But our country cannot spend three million, three-trillion dollars on you for sure. We will let you die. Yes. We're not going to reach out to everybody and do surgery for 1.25 billion people. That's not going to happen in near future. And if it doesn't happen, it's a disaster. If it happens, it's a bigger disaster. That people do not know how to live well is a disastrous way that I would say seventy percent of the ailments on this planet can be just handled with better sense of living, eating, atmosphere, if you manage seventy percent will be gone. You can achieve this in twelve to fifteen years of time on the planet if a determined effort is made by the people, by the policy and by everybody concerned, particularly the hospitals, they can do a lot. Because when they're sick, they'll listen, you know? Otherwise they don't. When they're well, they don't listen. When they're sick, they will listen. They have years, more years than two when they're sick. That's the time to talk to them as to how to live better. These things are not new to us. These are very strongly rooted in our cultural value. But we're throwing it away for something which will bring a lot of trouble. For immediate attention, for immediate intervention, of course medical intervention is primary and it's most vital, there's no question about that. But long-term health will not happen because of medical sciences as we know it. Long-term health of a society or a nation or the planet will not happen that way. We have to bring a culture of health. What is the way to live? What is the way to eat? How to keep our body? How to keep our mind? How to keep our breath? How to keep the atmosphere around us? If this culture is not brought into us from our childhood, I would say it must be brought into the school curriculum itself. It must be brought in healthful ways of living because if you do not build healthy people, you're going to have educated and sick people and you're going to build a nation or a world out of it. With sick people, you're not going to build a great nation.  The major nations are suffering enormous amount of illnesses. The most affluent countries who have no nutritional problems, okay, India's half the problem are nutritional problems, right from their childhood they've not eaten properly. Affluent nations who have a choice of nourishment, look at the level of health issues they have. That should not exist at all. When they have choice of nourishment, they should not have, I would say, eighty percent of the people should not have any health issues till they die. Then twenty percent, twenty-five percent will get something, infections will come because of close proximity, those are different, but these are all unself-help. People are unself-help to create ailments for themselves. This can be one hundred percent taken away if we establish a culture of health for which I think not just medical professionals, people from various other areas have to work together to make this happen. I don't see any major synergy like that right now, small efforts are happening here and there, but that's not enough. It's good, but it's not enough.


Hi, beautiful people, welcome back. If you suddenly find yourself nervous, scared, really worried, and have no clue why you're feeling so, you may be part of a growing number of people suffering from anxiety. A person experiencing an anxiety attack usually feels an overwhelming sense of terror or impeding doom. Unlike fear in response to danger, anxiety is an expression of generalized undefined fear. This is not something to be ashamed of, nor it's something that demands a large amount of medication to treat. Of course, there are people who only find relief from anxiety in prescription drugs. Many others find more natural solutions like home remedies that are extremely effective. Working to find the best solution for you can be rather trying an experience. In this video, let's check out some of the home remedies that can be very effective to treat anxiety. I am Bhavnan and you're watching Upscale Health. First one, reduced alcohol intake. It is largely reported by people suffering from anxiety that they feel more anxious often when they have consumed a large amount of alcohol. Therefore, reducing the intake of alcohol is a most effective treatment for reducing your anxiety levels. Reducing alcohol intake is only effective for people who drink moderately or excessively. Second one is to get enough sleep. A lack of sleep has been attributed to increasing the occurrence of anxiety attacks. Therefore, you must ensure that you're getting enough sleep to ensure that you rested well. In addition to getting enough sleep, you should also take vitamin B supplements as they help to relieve anxiety. Third one is reduced intake of sweeteners. Many people have reduction in the anxiety level by reducing the intake of sweeteners. This includes natural sugar as well as artificial sweeteners. You should watch your reaction to certain sweeteners as there are some that can make symptoms worse while others may not bother you at all. If there is a sweetener that can safely use, you should stick to it while avoiding the others that aggravate your anxiety. Fourth one is reduced caffeine intake. Due to the increase in nervousness, it is also recommended to avoid any products that are high in caffeine. A caescafine is extremely likely to spike anxiety. Many people who are anxious tend to suffer more than necessary. Reducing anxiety intake often provides rapid improvement. If you are habit of drinking coffee every morning, you can simply switch to decafinated in order to reduce your caffeine intake while still enjoying your morning cup of coffee. Fifth one is start walking. This is an essential suggested home remedy that has provided great benefits as getting up and starting to walk around or exercise whenever you feel extremely anxious. By getting up and moving around, you take your mind off the anxiety and that you are feeling and allow yourself to slowly calm down at your own pace. This is extremely effective for most people since it allows you to refocus your attention on the activity you are doing rather than actual anxiety that you are presently feeling. Aromatherapy is a practice of inhaling the scent of essential oils to improve your well-being. They work by stimulating the small receptors in your nose which will in turn send messages to your nervous system. It also has a subtle effect on body's chemical and energy levels so it is often used as a national remedy to relieve anxiety and stress. essential oils can be used to relieve symptoms of anxiety, include Valorine. It contains a compound that promotes sleep and calms nerves so it is said to be a mild sedative effect on the body. Add few drops of valorine oil can be added to an aromatherapy diffuser. B. Lavender. This reduces anxiety due to its effect on the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls emotions. Enjoy a relaxing lavender bath by combining several drops of lavender oil with a teaspoon of carot oil or unscented bath gel. Stare the mixture in a warm bath water just before entering. C. Jasmine. This relieves anxiety without causing sleepiness. It can be inhaled directly from the bottle or added to a diffuser in order to allow the scent to fill the room. D. Rose. The most essential oil is extracted from rose petals and has floral scent known to relax the senses. A rose aromatherapy foot bath can be reduced anxiety in pregnant women during labor. Simply soak your feet in a bowl filled with warm water and diffuse rose essential oil in it. You can also add rose oil to your favorite non-scented moisturizer and mix it and massage it to your skin. Like this video and don't forget to subscribe to our channel. This will encourage us to make more such amazing content. Thanks for watching.